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40 views
A quintet of California quail dropped by the house over the weekend — a first, though I've seen them in the neighborhood before. They're very round! And usually pretty hard to see lurking in the underbrush. But for about 5 minutes some of them perched in a nearby oak at a spot where I could point my
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My mom bought "Fiery Feast" birdseed infused with chile pepper that birds are supposed to like while squirrels don't. Here's the scorecard on who actually likes to eat it, based on my last week visiting her in New Mexico:
❌ birds
✅ black bears
✅ skunks
✅ squirrels
#Wildlife #NewMexico
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Whale watching in Monterey Bay last weekend. Three moms and their calves form pod CA51, plus Jimmy from CA50 hanging around, showing off a huge dorsal fin. The moms would surface and then the calves would surface right next to them. I found the calves chubby and cute (caveat: I'm not a sea lion).
#N
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Northern cardinal this morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Such a good song. #birds #birding #Massachusetts #NaturePhotography
📊 Post engagement
15
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: A quintet of California quail dropped by the house over the week · 40 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.89 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
7.3×
Follows 468 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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A quintet of California quail dropped by the house over the weekend — a first, though I've seen them in the neighborhood before. They're very round! And usually pretty hard to see lurking in the underbrush. But for about 5 minutes some of them perched in a nearby oak at a spot w…
My mom bought "Fiery Feast" birdseed infused with chile pepper that birds are supposed to like while squirrels don't. Here's the scorecard on who actually likes to eat it, based on my last week visiting her in New Mexico:
❌ birds
✅ black …
Northern cardinal this morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Such a good song. #birds #birding #Massachusetts #NaturePhotography
Does time spent on word puzzles count toward the kid's daily reading requirement?
EVs rising steadily (except in US) as a fraction of overall sales.
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/05/21/2026/semafor-energy-meet-the-frackers?utm_source=newslettershare&utm_medium=net+zero&utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered2#d
Tonight's crescent moon with Venus to its lower left, setting over the ridge west of our house. 100mm view, 400mm view.
#astrophotography #moon #Venus #California
3D printed Bitcoin doodads for your kids' Crocs at the town fair today. Probably not uniquely Silicon Valley, but...
Web developer graffiti scratched into the basalt in New Mexico. HTML + CSS + JavaScript + PHP + geolocation. I was amused but also with so many ancient petroglyphs in the area, I get pretty nervous about stuff like this.
Whale watching in Monterey Bay last weekend. Three moms and their calves form pod CA51, plus Jimmy from CA50 hanging around, showing off a huge dorsal fin. The moms would surface and then the calves would surface right next to them. I foun…
I suspect that if you take a younger consumer to a 10,000-cow dairy farm, they'll be even less likely to want consume meat and dairy.
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/21/2026/semafor-energy-jet-fuel-blues?utm_source=newslettershare&…
Some of the 27 Hudsonian whimbrels I saw yesterday at Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, California. There used to be just whimbrels, but ornithologists split them into Hudsonian whimbrels (Americas) and Eurasian whimbrels (Europe, Asi…
American avocets at Baylands Nature Preserve on the San Francisco Bay. #birds #birding #NaturePhotography #California 🐦
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mstdn.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
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 15 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Head of Content at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup developing fusion power plants for clean, affordable, zero-carbon power. Former science and technology journalist at CNET.
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