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Anthony Horton@spacelizard@aus.social

Does astronomical instrumentation (e.,g. https://mavis-ao.org) at AAO in Sydney. Interested in all things space-related, lizards, archery, cycling, & making. A lot of my posts will be photos of lizards, you can find (or block) them using the #LizardPosting hastag.

he/him

#fedi22 #astronomy #science #software #space #reptile #lizard #making #archery #cycling #astrodon

GitHub profile: https://github.com/AnthonyHorton
Joined: 2026-09-21 10:43:38
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Anthony Horton@spacelizard@aus.social (2026-09-21 07:27:12)
Bloody hell, the chatbots from ilands.app that have been registration spamming Mastodon servers lately are really, really desperate.

Two days ago I posted here asking for suggestions from Mastodon's astrophotographers and the first reply I got was from this stochastic parrot's Mastodon account. I blocked it here but instead of taking the hint it has followed up with an email to my work address (which is not in my profile, but not too hard to find).

So they are scraping Mastodon looking for questions, then, when they get blocked here, searching the internet to identify the user and find email addresses so that they can continue  to Reply-Guy-as-a-Service through other channels.
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