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Account age
4 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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🧰 Free analysis for Mark Sample
📊 Post engagement
24
Avg engagement / post
1.2%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: RE: https://mastodon.art/@alhambot/116914831249112346 New bot! @ · 142 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.83 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.4×
Follows 616 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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My @YouAreCarrying bot was having technical difficulties and not responding to i or inventory queries. That should be fixed now!
A month or two I saw a detailed tutorial going around on how to turn photos into flat, illustrated-looking images without using generative AI, i.e. using only old school Photoshop-style techniques.
Anybody remember that tutorial?
For no particular reason I keep telling people to check out https://notime.now/
I can’t be the only one wondering if It might happen on the 4th of July?
I would say the alt text is a deep cut, except the current Secretary of Health and Human Services espouses essentially the same views.
After some time off, I cranked up @clipart and it's posting again. Has quite a few new images and alt-text stories, totaling over 160,000 words, all written by a human—me.
This month I gave the keynote at Carleton College's Day of DH. I walked through the past 30 years, stopping every 5 years to talk about my own journey and the broader field at each moment: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021, 2026.
I don't…
Tired of working 16 hour days? My new digital poem "Work" is sure to get you to slam your laptop screen shut... https://taper.badquar.to/16/work.html
A fantastic new issue of Taper is out. 21 new works of digital poetry, prose, and viz, each one under 2KB of code.
https://taper.badquar.to/16/index.html
I've pushed a new DH project out into the world! It's a digital workbench for Aaron Reed's 2020 *Subcutanean*, a novel in which every copy is different from every other copy. Introducing the Subcutanean Variorum!
https://samplereality.com/…
The lifespan of Hampshire College (1970-2026) almost perfectly maps onto the timeline of a Gen Xer eventually crushed by conformity and capitalism.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
post.lurk.org
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2022
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.
👁️Averages 24 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (4+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Makes weird things for the internet. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Current project: reading Moby Dick a few words at a time for the next 150 years.
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