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Followers
5.2K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 27latest
7
Avg engagement / post
3–6
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
60/100
Consistent reach
Jul 2023
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 6 likes + reposts (median 5) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: I love the term "folk forensics"—and indeed, many cloying tells · 23 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
7.5 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5.1×
Follows 1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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This too shall pass.
Did some maintenance and updates on my old Sestetle project, which creates 6-line poems that could have been a Wordle board. sestetle.fugitivetexts.net
Sestetle #2077
BASIC
TENET
BASIC
TENET
NEVER
ENTER
sestetle.fugitivetexts.net
samplereality.github.io/sestetle/
Ridicule as praxis might work when you're ridiculing people you'd never want on your side ever. Like Nazis. But why ridicule people who you hope to bring over to your side?
Tomorrow is the final day to register your intention of entering this year's @ifcomp.org. Which I think I'm doing?
I've complained in the past about how poorly designed and maintained Google Books is. But, credit where credit is due: at least Google Books has a full run of the Weekly World News.
If you have to preface your online comment with "Not to be a dick, but..." you are indeed being a dick and nobody owes it to you to read any further than that.
Typical Microsoft to bleed money into jamming Copilot into every conceivable Office orifice while continuing its multi-year delay of AppleScript integration with Outlook
That "perfect album from the 90s" thing that was viral a few days ago? There is only one answer.
i feel seen
🦋 Handle & authenticity
Bluesky handle
@samplereality.bsky.social
A default .bsky.social handle — genuine, but not domain-verified. Confirm identity before a high-value deal.
On Bluesky since
Jul 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 7.5× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ 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 and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
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