I’m trying to use my blog here as a kind of time capsule of the work I’ve been doing to fight DOGE and Trump since I went public with it on February 14, so just for the record, I want to capture here the original Mastodon and LinkedIn postings that got people to start paying attention to me and gave me the platform to reach people and tell them what’s happening and why they should care.
My Mastodon posting the night of February 14 got 1,045 boosts and 737 favorites, which is enough action to be kind of like going viral in the fediverse. 😉 I’m not going to embed the whole thread here, but here’s the first message in the thread:
My LinkedIn posting the next morning ended up the top post linked to from the top story in LinkedIn’s “Top stories” home page sidebar for about 12 hours. It ended up getting over 153,000 impressions, over 1,300 reactions, over 200 reposts, and over 150 comments. This really was “viral”, and this is what led me to having the platform that I have, at least for now (I don’t expect it to last long!), to speak out about what’s happening in a way that people can understand and relate to.
