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Account age
3 yrs
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Known for
39 views
Pelicans? Well if you insist.
#BirdsOfAustralia
#WildlifePhotography
#FeatheredFriends
26 views
📷 A pair of cockatoos, feeding each other while scavenging.
#BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
10 views
📚 Spotted in a charity store, the most ambitious book title I can remember. Can anyone beat it?
9 views
Cockatoos? Five sulphur-crested cockatoos, foraging beneath the Norfolk Island pines of Botany Bay? Well, all right, if you insist.
#BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 18latest
10
Avg engagement / post
2–10
Typical post (engagement)
2.5%
Engagement vs followers
47/100
Variable reach
Feb 2023
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 10 likes + reposts (median 6) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: Pelicans? Well if you insist. #BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotogr · 39 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.3 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1×
Follows 398 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Pelicans? Well if you insist.
#BirdsOfAustralia
#WildlifePhotography
#FeatheredFriends
📷 A pair of cockatoos, feeding each other while scavenging.
#BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
The Atlantic suggests that the end of reading is here. It used to be easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But now its easier to imagine the end of literacy than the end of YouTube.
At the End of the World (192…
"Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
– Ursula K. LeGuin"
You might care to check out the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. LeGuin Prize for Fiction. https://li…
Cockatoos? Five sulphur-crested cockatoos, foraging beneath the Norfolk Island pines of Botany Bay? Well, all right, if you insist.
#BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
The ascended Christ of this mural at St. Vitus’s Cathedral in Prague seems so happy I couldn’t help but think of the song by The Postal Service:
"They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they’ll say
But everything loo…
📚 Spotted in a charity store, the most ambitious book title I can remember. Can anyone beat it?
Samuel Johnson, writing on hope.
(More) https://writingslowly.com/2026/06/23/heres-dr-johnson-on-the.html
"💬 ”Roughly speaking, the world is divided into two classes: those who use the Card Index System and those who do not.”
Byles, R. B, 1911. The card index system; its principles, uses, operation, and component parts (London: Sir Isaac Pitm…
"“There’s a great strength in me showing you a chord or a riff or something, and it’s just going from mind to mind, there’s no paper involved. All of what we did in this very studio would be that. It was really an immediate transference of…
Currently reading: Eight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda 📚
Japan is a deeply secular country full of shrines, temples, festivals and ceremonies. This book unpacks the paradox by exploring spiritual life in Japan as it’s actually l…
Some books on writing:
Hidalgo, César A. 2025. Infinite Alphabet: and The Laws Of Knowledge. Allen lane.
Fletcher, Angus. 2022. WonderWorks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories. London: Swift Press.
Smith, Emma. 2023. Portable Ma…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
aus.social
A Australia server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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
Feb 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 10 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~2.5% 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
My name's Richard and I live on Bidjigal land, #Sydney. Writing about #Writing, #Reading and other important things. I'm #WritingSlowly but may one day speed up. Author of Shu Ha Ri: The Japanese Way of Learning, for Artists and Fighters(https://writingslowly.com/shuhari-book/).
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