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Followers
26.1K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$146 – $238 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 29latest
4
Avg engagement / post
2–4
Typical post (engagement)
0%
Engagement vs followers
73/100
Consistent reach
May 2023
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 4 likes + reposts (median 3) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Another day, another accolade for Ben Lerner. Earlier this year, · 9 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
45.2 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
256×
Follows 102 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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“First, let’s get something straight: our apartment does not have bedbugs. Which is strange, since it’s hosted every other kind of vermin.”
After being put on unpaid leave from her job as a school teacher for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine, Rachel Maniscalco helped found the “reinstate and compensate” movement. Leina Gabra reports on their fight for “medical freedom.”
Foot traffic in the restaurants might be down, but against all odds, people are still eating Sweetgreen—poopy parasites be damned. A few years ago, Aaron Timms went long on the tyranny of the salad chain.
“If you love a chewy, bloody skirt or a stewed bottom round, I don’t think you would like Wagyu. It can’t be cooked for too long, or it will melt away to nothing. It can’t be cooked for too short a time, or the fat running through it will …
With cyclospora on our minds, these aren’t lettuce’s salad days—far from it. But back in 2023, Aaron Timms wrote about Sweetgreen, Chopt, and their ilk, purveyors of what we might now call the “slop bowl.”
“You want to think the future is going to be great. But here, on the far south edge of Texas, you can glimpse what our overlords actually have in mind for us by way of a future.”
Across the country, activists and their legal teams are fighting to loosen public health regulations and mandates around school vaccine requirements. Leina Gabra writes on medical autonomy and mutual obligation.
In Trump’s America, the pestilence du jour is cyclosporiasis, but let us not forget the other horrors that plague the nation. In 2012, Will Boisvert wrote on the humble bedbug and the scorched-earth militance it inspires.
In a recent issue, Noah McCormack wrote on our new age of orality—one where we apparently aren’t talking all that much.
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Sure, the threat of parasite-borne cyclosporiasis hangs heavy over the country—but what about cimex lectularius? Have you thought of them? From the Archives: Will Boisvert writes on the humble bed bug.
The number of beef farms in Japan has fallen off in recent years, but as Dylan Levi King points out, cattle were already an unlikely source of red meat for the country.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@thebaffler.com
The handle is the domain thebaffler.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real thebaffler.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
May 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 45.2× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
🔀 Audience overlap
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