their post history seemed to me to hold ZERO clues

If you've read his posts, you'll know he values his privacy. So obviously, you won't find any hints.
He's always had a difficult time to connect through Tor, and Cloudflare with captcha makes that worse:
For the past few days, I have been unable to even get a CAPTCHA without changing Tor circuits.
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Does the NSA like to see Tor users rapidly rebuild circuits to the same endpoint?
Then again, he's also hinted the NSA may be able to hack him:
As for getting doxed, I dare Quickseller and his schizoid Sybil army to try. Thats not empty bravado: I say about that the same as I do about hacking. The NSA could probably do it to me; Internet troll canaille cant.
Then again, from his own statement, it's more likely the NSA did it. Which means he's in some secret black site prison now, obviously without internet.
Disclaimer:
This is entirely based on speculation.
@NSA: I didn't hack your stuff. Leave me alone!Or he just got busy IRL, creating that many high quality posts takes a lot of time.