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534
Account age
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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: RE: https://aoir.social/@aram/117010102006199956 The stupid ... · 3 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
55 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.1×
Follows 249 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Again, the Republican healthcare plan is to “die soon” - preferably while still working to pay for your healthcare needs in your final days.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-health-care/
I'm *sure* there is 'overwhelming demand' for the Donnie Passport ... wonder how many of the huge extra run will end up stockpiled or burned? (WaPo)
https://archive.ph/QcgtG
FIFA FAFO.
Infantino FAFO too.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/sports/nearly-100-countries-have-already-rejected-fifa-presidents-plan-to-sell-off-world-cup-stakes-to-private-investors/
Of course. Because why use a scalpel when the barbarian loves a sledgehammer?
https://www.theverge.com/policy/972312/us-robot-ban-sweep-up-chinese-vacuums
This will be the kiss of death for American graduate research and education, if it passes. Why come to the US if few if any employers are going to pay you to work your first job after school? (free link)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/poli…
Donnie seems poised to yank Blanche's AG nomination to preserve his slush fund and perpetual IRS immunity.
Says he'll resubmit once Cornyn/Tillis are gone ... but will the Senate still be in GQP/MAGA hands? Or even if it is, will they sti…
A quietly issued Bureau of Prisons policy change drafted under Blanche's supervision while he served as acting attorney general, allows him to personally designate a federal inmate's place of imprisonment.
Let that sink in for a moment.
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It’s funny and pathetic how most GQP senators will grow a spine only when they are lame ducks and have zero fucks to give and little to lose politically.
LOL Senate Judiciary postpones Blanche vote for AG.
They don't have the votes. (Good!)
Yup....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized
They're asking for $10M more from taxpayers to cover the costs of Donnie's failed 'Freedom 250' events in DC this month.
He's sitting on nearly 500M and can't pony up anything to cover the costs of his self-congratulatory circlejerk boom-b…
LOL Senate Judiciary postpones Blanche vote for AG.
They don't have the votes. (Good!)
Yup....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized
They're asking for $10M more from taxpayers to cover the costs of Donnie's failed 'Freedom 250' events in DC this month.
He's sitting on nearly 500M and can't pony up anything to cover the costs of his self-congratulatory circlejerk boom-b…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
indieweb.social
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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
Oct 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 55× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% 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
After a 20-yr gov/mil/corp career that included being CSO for the company once running global DNS, I'm now a senior cybersecurity professor overseeing a large grad program, co-coordinating a campus institute, and taking a critical eye towards risks, information-based conflict, natsec, tech policy, & more. Author, investor, AoIRista, C19 LongHauler & StanfordCIS affiliate. A geek rooted in the humanities & longtime metalhead who misses '90s internet. Posts deleted weekly.
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