Mark Doyle

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Account age

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7 views Look what casually appeared on the doorstep! It'll be out Feb 6. #music #musichistory #johncale

This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it. #music #musichistory #thekinks #london
The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets https://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/2024/10/19/mark-doyle/

4 views This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it. #music #musichistory #thekinks #london The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets https://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/2024/10/19/mark-doyle/

#NowPlaying - It's a buzzy, fuzzy 90s indie rock kind of day. Wasps circling the tall grass in the yard, tar sizzling in the asphalt, air conditioners growling all over the neighborhood, trying their best...

1 views #NowPlaying - It's a buzzy, fuzzy 90s indie rock kind of day. Wasps circling the tall grass in the yard, tar sizzling in the asphalt, air conditioners growling all over the neighborhood, trying their best...

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.9%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Very proud of the last sentence of this book I'm writing. A litt · 9 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.14 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.2×

Follows 463 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Very proud of the last sentence of this book I'm writing. A little reward for making it through all the other sentences. #amwriting #writingcommunity ★ 9

Such a thrill to be published in the Saturday Evening Post. This is inspired by a true story from in occupied Paris that I happened upon while researching material for my Resisting Fascism class last semester. https://www.saturdayeveningpo…

Look what casually appeared on the doorstep! It'll be out Feb 6. #music #musichistory #johncale ★ 7

This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it. #music #musichistory #thekinks #london The Consolations of Waterlo… ★ 4 New article by me about the three visits the Fisk Jubilee Singers made to Ireland in the 1870s. #music #musichistory #ireland #fiskjubileesingers https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/irish-historical-studies/article/black-spirituals-fo… ★ 1 I'm designing an intro undergrad course called Global History through Music (emphasis on the historical contexts out of which styles/scenes/rhythms/etc arise, mostly 20th c). I'll post the reading list & playlist when it's done. In the mea… ★ 8

#NowPlaying - I've been exploring Toumani Diabaté's discography since he died last month, and this is a real standout. This notice in Aquarium Drunkard will give you the general idea: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/11/19/taj-mahal-and-… Disturbing but vital meditation on Austria's (and the world's) failure to come to terms with the Nazi past. #histodons #holocaust #austria #nazis https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis ★ 3 I keep reading excellent writing that makes me excited to do some writing of my own and I need it to stop. I don't have time to do both things. #writingcommunity #amwriting #amreading Was on a real writing roll this morning and then, stupidly, I stopped for lunch. Never stop for lunch. Eat a hearty breakfast and plow on through until dinner. Hell, skip dinner, too. #amwriting #writingcommunity

#NowPlaying - It's a buzzy, fuzzy 90s indie rock kind of day. Wasps circling the tall grass in the yard, tar sizzling in the asphalt, air conditioners growling all over the neighborhood, trying their best... ★ 1 I've decided to do something totally out of character and read a novel published this century. Weird feeling!

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Home server

zirk.us

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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 5 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

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Estimated

66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

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Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

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About

Historian of Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Author of two books on religion, empire, and violence, and one book on the Kinks. Now working on a book about John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3 books, plus a DH project on African-descended people in Irish history, among other things. Here because I want to spend more time with my phone.