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Followers
11.4K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 24latest
112
Avg engagement / post
21–65
Typical post (engagement)
1%
Engagement vs followers
24/100
Variable reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 21 and 65 likes + reposts (median 35) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: In big news, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist presidential c · 700 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
57×
Follows 199 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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A lot of very smart people are trying to get polling right. Here's why they might still be wrong (read on if you want a deep dive on polling, forecasting, and probability). Plus: I offer my foolhardy prediction for the winner of the US pre…
“Our attention is finite, and the more we divert it to sensationalist lies, the more that we aid and abet actual conspiracies and corruption that warrant harsh public scrutiny. If we aren’t careful, we’ll meme ourselves straight into dysto…
I wrote about Elon Musk’s latest innovation: a revolutionary technology—a perfect disinformation machine—which turns money into lies and lies into money. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/elon-musks-perfect-disinformation
The authoritarian felon who already tried to steal an election by inciting a violent mob to illegally stay in power is now saying he wants to get rid of “vermin” with “bad genes.”
In 2028, a 6’5” narcoleptic scientist with a bushy white beard could resurrect the first woolly mammoth in 4,000 years. That mammoth may soon be lumbering, in all its hairy glory, across the frozen plains of North Dakota. But is de-extinct…
It’s the 20 year anniversary of parkrun, an extraordinary event that now counts nearly 10 million participants. I wrote about parkrun—and how the volunteering ethos of its supercitizens can teach us how to live more fulfilling lives. https…
Jimmy Carter is 100 today. Many people don’t know about some of his most important achievements—the hidden legacy that will save countless lives for decades to come. I wrote about it here: https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/jimmy-carters-hidden…
New artificial intelligence tools can make “griefbots” that are scarily good at mimicking deceased loved ones. In this article, I explore whether they should be allowed to exist: https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/griefbots-and-the-ethics-of-di…
It is clearly plausible that the US state of Missouri may have just executed an innocent man, even after prosecutors tried to stop the execution. I wrote about his case, about capital punishment, and about the last words that inmates say b…
Call me old fashioned but shouldn’t it be a bigger story that the GOP nominee for president took a 9/11 truther conspiracy theorist to a 9/11 event? Or that his guest of honor to remember the victims of 9/11 is a deranged self-proclaimed w…
This essay - about raves, escapism, the drudgery of late capitalism, and the playfulness that makes us human - is one of my favorite pieces I’ve written. “An Anthropologist Goes to Boomtown” https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/an-anthropologist-…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 112 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.4× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated86/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London. The Atlantic. Author of five books, most recently: "FLUKE/ Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters.” Host: Power Corrupts podcast. Writing on Substack: www.forkingpaths.co
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