Laurie Penny ✓

@PennyRed · London, England · joined 26 Jan 2009

Author, journalist, narrative designer, screenwriter. Geek, gender goblin, feminist killjoy, force of culture. Writer for hire, weirdo for free. They/them.

143 875Followers

4 675Following

60 262Posts total

277.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed26 Aug

First Dolly, now Tim Curry. This is horrendous. All we can do is keep the memory of these icons alive. Who would we be otherwise? What kind of world would we be leaving for Keith Richards? 4.2K views · 97 likes · 8 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed24 Aug

Only one type of person has ever questioned my ADHD, and that’s adults who have spent their lives wrestling with very similar traits. They’ve worked very very hard to convince everyone that they’re normal. > 6.6K views · 58 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed24 Aug

The 2020s are a disabling place to live. Modern life makes it harder for people with certain traits to function. This does not sit comfortably with the Protestant Work Ethic. I wrote about the ‘The Great ADHD Myth’, here- https://t.co/1fg1ft7eNo 6K views · 53 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed19 Aug

I know some ‘gender critical’ feminists have been perseverating for years over what to do about fascist entryism. Some have been privately torn about it for a long time- but drawing attention to it felt like self-sabotage. The question is- what will those of conscience do now? 9.1K views · 42 likes · 5 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed10 Nov 2024

@PennyRed You may find this useful. https://t.co/LSlkk3YrTx

2.8K views · 288 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed10 Nov 2024

@PennyRed Did you discuss the actual oppression of women in Muslim nations? I bet I know the answer. 2.3K views · 170 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed9 Nov 2024

@PennyRed Does it tell us how to get men pretending to be women out of our spaces and sports? 2.4K views · 219 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Laurie Penny ✓@PennyRed8 Nov 2024

So. I wrote a book about modern fascism as a backlash to LGBTQ rights and women’s liberation. It breaks down why this happened, how we fight the new misogyny, and how we win. You might find it useful. https://t.co/Mwj5UjgC8D 243.9K views · 294 likes · 51 reposts · 260 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views6 311this account5 424median for 100K–1M

Reach, %4.39%this account1.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.05%this account1.21%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	6 311	5 424	1.16×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.39%	1.81%	2.42×
Engagement rate	1.05%	1.21%	0.86×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

243.9K8 Nov

2.4K9 Nov

2.3K10 Nov

2.8K

9.1K19 Aug

6K24 Aug

6.6K

4.2K26 Aug

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%8 Nov

9.30%9 Nov

7.49%10 Nov

10.52%

0.71%19 Aug

1.06%24 Aug

1.03%

2.79%26 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.21%.

What the audience does

Likes69.9%1 221 in total

Reposts4.7%82 in total

Replies17.3%302 in total

Bookmarks8.1%141 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.