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Followers
30.3K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
18
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes made by a self-described "absurd · 49 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
85.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.2K×
Follows 25 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey. Some podcast and book recs for after you see Nolan’s film, including books by Madeline Miller, Emily Wilson, Margaret Atwood, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Stephen Fry. https://kottke.org/26/07/w…
The trailer for Behemoth!, a forthcoming film written and directed by Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Andor) and starring Pedro Pascal & Olivia Wilde. Great trailer: it pulls you in without revealing anything about the plot. https://www.yout…
On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this case). “A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.” https://mass-driver.com/article/fr…
“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI. Mission Impossible. The Odyssey. Top Gun: Maverick. Dune. Studios & filmmakers love to tout the use of practical effects in such films — “No CGI”, they say. This video series reveals how CGI-heavy the…
The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. They’ve gotten (some of) the band back together — perhaps this will be a return to form for Marvel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVNGjRFZGk
New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today. “The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now.” http…
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy. “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.” https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streami…
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown. “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.” https://lit…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the 14th amendment, “spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get”. https://deadline.com/2026/07/ava-d…
On Japan’s visible evidence of care. “American service providers, private and public, increasingly run like ghost ships. Japanese technology and design seemed in greater service to humans, their journeys, and enterprises.” https://nobody-w…
Watch the Apollo 11 Moon landing "live", as it was presented on TV by Walter Cronkite 57 years ago today. The landing starts at 4:10pm EDT and the moon walk at 10:51 pm EDT. https://kottke.org/26/07/watch-1969s-apollo-11-moon-landing-live-2
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 18 views per post.
📤Posts about 85.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated53/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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