As someone who has followed Thomas' writing on HN for a long time... this is the funniest thing I've ever read here! You clearly have no idea about him at all.
Especially coming from you I appreciate that impulse, but I had the experience of running across someone else the Internet (or Bsky, at least) believed I had no business not knowing about, and I did not enjoy it, so I'm now an activist for the cause of "people don't need to know who I am". I should have written more clearly above.
