As for the weird threat of embarrassment… what? I literally just asked if he used the same username on both websites.

As for why I asked, I’ll answer again: his post on HN had a different tone from his posts on the bird site, and I wanted to know if they gave context to his post or were unrelated. For example, I do not own “braingenious” on twitter, and I wouldn’t want someone to mix me up with whoever that is.

I initially found this thread because someone mentioned it on Twitter. Spoiler: I did not go out of my way to gain any information.

As for how this relates to politics, I’ll refer to his own recent post about local politics affecting his project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474436

This has been a courtesy post because you have not answered “Why do you care?” and have failed to be direct. I will not engage with you any further.

Always a losing strategy in my experience.