Leo McBride
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287
Account age
3 yrs
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I've been hugely busy this weekend so missed the whole Twitter meltdown, but here's me on board the USS Wasp as a guest of the US Embassy in Nassau last night in the meantime.
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Beach day yesterday. #Bahamas
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Recently, The Bahamas has been celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence - all year really, building up to Independence Day itself.
Wearing my day job hat, my crew at the newspaper put a lot of effort into a supplement to mark the occasion (with a great cover by Whiteley McKinney).
The whole supplement is now avaialble to view online - all 72 pages.
It's on our website here: http://www.t
📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
1.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Hey, folks arriving here from a #TwitterMigration - I was in you · 15 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.9×
Follows 324 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Over on the blog, I review issue one of Thunder Child, by Matthew Hardy and his happy crew of Martian enthusiasts.
Full review here: http://www.alteredinstinct.com/2023/08/review-thunder-child-book-one-plus.html
Beach day yesterday. #Bahamas
I'm looking for TV show recommendations - but... slightly specific.
I like sci-fi, fantasy, horror... but what I'm after is a show that can be on in the background without needing to watch tooooo closely for flashy effects and such. More …
Generation gap in full effect in the newsroom today - the younger staff having no idea who Paul Reubens is, the older staff having no idea who Angus Cloud is. RIP, both.
I love my Kindle.
Sadly, so do my kids so my view of it is often as it disappears off into the distance as they skip away to use it to play Minecraft rather than in my hands reading the new @mariahaskins book I want to read.
They're gett…
A columnist for tomorrow's edition wrote about the need for sexuality education, so now I'm boppiing around the office singing Billy Bragg's Sexuality in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xsv9iZPYwE
Some days are fun. Some days are paperwork. So it goes.
Disney is releasing a discless steelbook of Wandavision.
Discless.
And I'm over here like Brad Pitt in Seven shouting "What's in the box?!?!"
I'm told AI will replace us all, but at present...
Facebook is pushing ads at me for services I routinely block.
Twitter is recommending tweets to me about the football club that is my team's main rival.
Amazon is recommending books to m…
Recently, The Bahamas has been celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence - all year really, building up to Independence Day itself.
Wearing my day job hat, my crew at the newspaper put a lot of effort into a supplement to mark the …
I've been hugely busy this weekend so missed the whole Twitter meltdown, but here's me on board the USS Wasp as a guest of the US Embassy in Nassau last night in the meantime.
Beach day yesterday. #Bahamas
I'm looking for TV show recommendations - but... slightly specific.
I like sci-fi, fantasy, horror... but what I'm after is a show that can be on in the background without needing to watch tooooo closely for flashy effects and such. More …
Generation gap in full effect in the newsroom today - the younger staff having no idea who Paul Reubens is, the older staff having no idea who Angus Cloud is. RIP, both.
I love my Kindle.
Sadly, so do my kids so my view of it is often as it disappears off into the distance as they skip away to use it to play Minecraft rather than in my hands reading the new @mariahaskins book I want to read.
They're gett…
A columnist for tomorrow's edition wrote about the need for sexuality education, so now I'm boppiing around the office singing Billy Bragg's Sexuality in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xsv9iZPYwE
Some days are fun. Some days are paperwork. So it goes.
Disney is releasing a discless steelbook of Wandavision.
Discless.
And I'm over here like Brad Pitt in Seven shouting "What's in the box?!?!"
I'm told AI will replace us all, but at present...
Facebook is pushing ads at me for services I routinely block.
Twitter is recommending tweets to me about the football club that is my team's main rival.
Amazon is recommending books to m…
Recently, The Bahamas has been celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence - all year really, building up to Independence Day itself.
Wearing my day job hat, my crew at the newspaper put a lot of effort into a supplement to mark the …
I've been hugely busy this weekend so missed the whole Twitter meltdown, but here's me on board the USS Wasp as a guest of the US Embassy in Nassau last night in the meantime.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
writing.exchange
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.4× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
80/100
Excellent
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
97%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I'm Leo McBride and Altered Instinct is my #fantasy #scifi and #horror blog. Irishman in The Bahamas. Journalist by day. Geek all the time.
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