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Performative Bafflement has 2,219 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #26 on Substack's Science Rising board. 19 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days.

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Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
2,219
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
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Recommended by
19
+2 in 30 days
Recommends
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Rising #26, Science

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

2,1502,1752,2002,2252,2502,275 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 2,219
2,1502,1752,2002,2252,2502,275 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 2,219
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Performative Bafflement on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 20262,219

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Science Rising#26#264 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Science Rising76676726▲50

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

19 publications recommend Performative Bafflement; 2 started in the last 30 days. Lists read Oct 31.

Recommend Performative Baffleme… Moore for President 2028not trackeddeathdrivingnot trackedChaotic Neutralnot trackedThe Intellectual Investornot trackedThe Pyramidnot trackedPhilly Ninjanot trackedWrong on Purposenot trackedRaising Dragon Slayersnot trackedThomas’s Substacknot tracked Performative Bafflement 2.2k followers
Recommend them Moore for Presi…not trackeddeathdrivingnot trackedChaotic Neutralnot trackedThe Intellectua…not trackedThe Pyramidnot trackedPhilly Ninjanot tracked Performative … 2.2k followers
The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Oct 24Jan 25AprJulOctJan 26AprJulOct
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2024-101
2024-111
2025-022
2025-032
2025-042
2025-062
2025-071
2025-121
2026-022
2026-071
2026-081
2026-091
2026-102

Recommended by

  • Moore for President 2028started Oct 28, 2026new
  • deathdrivingstarted Oct 16, 2026new
  • Chaotic Neutralstarted Sep 2, 2026
  • The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 25, 2026
  • The Pyramidstarted Jul 18, 2026
  • Philly Ninjastarted Feb 10, 2026
  • Wrong on Purposestarted Feb 7, 2026
  • Raising Dragon Slayersstarted Dec 25, 2025
  • Thomas’s Substackstarted Jul 2025
  • Outrageous Fortunestarted Jun 2025
  • THE NUANCE PILLstarted Jun 2025
  • thehalfhogstarted Apr 2025
  • Lamprey/Hippopotamusstarted Apr 2025
  • ASensibleManstarted Mar 2025
  • Sol Handostarted Mar 2025
  • Enonstarted Feb 2025
  • The Calipersstarted Feb 2025
  • Random’s Substackstarted Nov 2024
  • PublicIntellectualsforCharity’s Newsletterstarted Oct 2024

Recommends

Performative Bafflement doesn't recommend anyone.

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

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