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Followers
215
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: McNooo! https://youtu.be/rQ2hBH4HCXk · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.4×
Follows 485 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Hungary has surprisingly jumped into a leadership position for solar adoption, partly because Viktor Orbán didn't like wind turbines, although he did like the idea of self-sufficient power generation. However, they're hitting grid intercon…
Other American Solar Challenge info here https://www.americansolarchallenge.org/american-solar-challenge/2026-event/
Live tracker site for the solar cars that will start making their way through St. Paul shortly after race start at 9 am today, spaced about a minute apart. They'll head down US-61 to La Crosse
https://tracking.americansolarchallenge.org/
Moved some 401k money from large cap to small/mid cap due to the shenanigans afoot
Alfred Hitchcock's The Geese
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/05/15/rochester-geese-overpopulation-egg-addling
Finally got the urge to convert a system configuration script from bash to ansible yesterday evening, and it's 99% done. It's 40% longer, now over 1,000 lines. Less readable and slower, but actually idempotent / re-runnable with better abi…
I think I'm going to lose access to my Wikipedia account since it's another one I forgot to disassociate from my UMN email address that got deactivated in late 2024 🙁
Rail Passengers Association notes on the proposed rail funding in the BUILD America 250 bill, unfortunately mostly a funding downgrade vs. the IIJA -- worth contacting senators and reps about to bump up funding and prevent the door being s…
Amtrak says the Borealis has carried over 416,000 passengers since opening two years ago https://media.amtrak.com/2026/05/borealis-carries-more-than-416000-at-second-anniversary/
A fun tour around The Ed Sullivan Theater from Architectural Digest https://youtu.be/8S9FD61rM5Y
Remember to raise an eyebrow for Colbert for the final week of The Late Show 🤨
https://youtu.be/C9brKqeopUA
Live tracker site for the solar cars that will start making their way through St. Paul shortly after race start at 9 am today, spaced about a minute apart. They'll head down US-61 to La Crosse
https://tracking.americansolarchallenge.org/
Moved some 401k money from large cap to small/mid cap due to the shenanigans afoot
Alfred Hitchcock's The Geese
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/05/15/rochester-geese-overpopulation-egg-addling
Finally got the urge to convert a system configuration script from bash to ansible yesterday evening, and it's 99% done. It's 40% longer, now over 1,000 lines. Less readable and slower, but actually idempotent / re-runnable with better abi…
I think I'm going to lose access to my Wikipedia account since it's another one I forgot to disassociate from my UMN email address that got deactivated in late 2024 🙁
Rail Passengers Association notes on the proposed rail funding in the BUILD America 250 bill, unfortunately mostly a funding downgrade vs. the IIJA -- worth contacting senators and reps about to bump up funding and prevent the door being s…
Amtrak says the Borealis has carried over 416,000 passengers since opening two years ago https://media.amtrak.com/2026/05/borealis-carries-more-than-416000-at-second-anniversary/
A fun tour around The Ed Sullivan Theater from Architectural Digest https://youtu.be/8S9FD61rM5Y
Remember to raise an eyebrow for Colbert for the final week of The Late Show 🤨
https://youtu.be/C9brKqeopUA
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.sdf.org
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✅ 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
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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Tech guy into transpo and urbanism, politics to push the needle. Once a streets.mn person. A Swiftie to ease my unhappy singleness
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