Mark Sample
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at a small liberal arts college.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Reposted by Mark Sample
I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...
GitHub - samplereality/bsky-deleter: Python tool to selectively delete old Bluesky posts based on age and engagement
Python tool to selectively delete old Bluesky posts based on age and engagement - samplereality/bsky-deleter
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...
Ordered some material for a physical computing project. Received a follow-up email saying I'll have to pay a 45% import duty upon arrival. Fuck yeah, this economic policy is working just perfectly.
January 13, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Ordered some material for a physical computing project. Received a follow-up email saying I'll have to pay a 45% import duty upon arrival. Fuck yeah, this economic policy is working just perfectly.
I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...
GitHub - samplereality/bsky-deleter: Python tool to selectively delete old Bluesky posts based on age and engagement
Python tool to selectively delete old Bluesky posts based on age and engagement - samplereality/bsky-deleter
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...
Reposted by Mark Sample
IMINT #14696 from NROL-82 (EXPERIMENTAL)
1. Quantum Kink Commissary
2. Erotic Astronauts
3. Radioactive Content
1. Quantum Kink Commissary
2. Erotic Astronauts
3. Radioactive Content
January 7, 2026 at 11:51 AM
IMINT #14696 from NROL-82 (EXPERIMENTAL)
1. Quantum Kink Commissary
2. Erotic Astronauts
3. Radioactive Content
1. Quantum Kink Commissary
2. Erotic Astronauts
3. Radioactive Content
Today I updated my procedurally-generated million-stanza ode to the daily news fugitivetexts.net/acts/
![A series of short pieces of flash fiction. From top left: "The librarian secretly kept copies as fictional characters were exiled." - "This evening a person came up to Yamileth and haded a letter to her. The air was thick with anticipation." - "Sculpture" - "Rory was let go from the National Endowment for the Humanities. By a 22-year-old intern." - "Kaylani didn't see herself as a poet but she tried writing a poem about war anyway." - "The blue light of Noemi's phone bathed her face. Could the news be any worse?" - "Ring camera footage shows ICE arresting Blanca Camacho Navarro, a union organizer and legal immigrant with an American spouse." - "portrait" - "The shell casing dropped to the asphalt, the word 'delay' scribbled on it with a red sharpie." - "Fight." - "7 professors and students executed in Oklahoma with a Sig Sauer p226. RFK Jr. says the victims should have learned CPT." - "With bitter fury Taylor read poetry in allews where cameras couldn't see." - "More files were released today. Including photos of [name redacted] and [name redacted] in a hot tub." - "Simone wrote poetry that remained when monuments fell. Her poems filled Danielle's heart with a mixture of resignation and hope." - "Just after midnight you came across the message 'POWER TO THE PEOPLE' chaled on the street sign." - "See that salt water, and paper and gasoline, causing a fire"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpmpz7xi4k5efyma3cfuxen3/bafkreiea3qopz3lhcwgoyvd3jzqf2w2ir6w54ovze5tiqlhs3ofuekom2i@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Today I updated my procedurally-generated million-stanza ode to the daily news fugitivetexts.net/acts/
Pre-ordered!
I wrote a book with my friend. It's about making video games.
@adamledoux.net wrote the forward and @brkeogh.bsky.social blurbed it.
It's like thirty dollarydoos. Buy it, won't you?
Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers www.amazon.com/dp/3031893344
@adamledoux.net wrote the forward and @brkeogh.bsky.social blurbed it.
It's like thirty dollarydoos. Buy it, won't you?
Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers www.amazon.com/dp/3031893344
Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers
Amazon.com: Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers: 9783031893346: Condis, Megan, Schweizer, Bobby: Books
www.amazon.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Pre-ordered!
Creepy things at my in-laws' that give my kids nightmares 🧵
1 - a porcelain cat next to an old fruit press
1 - a porcelain cat next to an old fruit press
January 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Creepy things at my in-laws' that give my kids nightmares 🧵
1 - a porcelain cat next to an old fruit press
1 - a porcelain cat next to an old fruit press
While I wish good riddance to 2025, it wasn't exactly a bad year professionally and creatively. A roundup of my last 12 months: samplereality.com/2025/12/31/m...
My 2025 Highlights
A roundup of Mark Sample's creative and published work from 2025, including "No Time to Discourse" and "A Million Random Acts."
samplereality.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
While I wish good riddance to 2025, it wasn't exactly a bad year professionally and creatively. A roundup of my last 12 months: samplereality.com/2025/12/31/m...
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
Pretty funny that the 12-months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection I'm receiving because of a hack of my employer's HR data doesn't have 2FA.
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Pretty funny that the 12-months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection I'm receiving because of a hack of my employer's HR data doesn't have 2FA.
I knew we were cooked as a country the first time I heard "Born in the U.S.A." appropriated as a patriotic, nationalistic song. Approximately 10 minutes after the song was released in 1984.
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I knew we were cooked as a country the first time I heard "Born in the U.S.A." appropriated as a patriotic, nationalistic song. Approximately 10 minutes after the song was released in 1984.
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this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth
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I have questions about the fifa peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I have questions about the fifa peace prize
Maybe some country can return the favor to the U.S.A.
January 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Maybe some country can return the favor to the U.S.A.
I've been to the past few NarraScope narrative games conferences, and they're great. Great size, great talks, great people, great networking!
We are delighted to announce that #NarraScope 2026 will take place this year from June 12th-14th at the University at Albany! We'll be collaborating w/ the @albany.edu #UAlbany Game Center, and its Director @jcorace.bsky.social 🎉
narrascope.org/blog/post/20...
narrascope.org/blog/post/20...
NarraScope 2026 | Blog | Welcome to Albany
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I've been to the past few NarraScope narrative games conferences, and they're great. Great size, great talks, great people, great networking!
Never forget: The Cars’ “Good Times Roll” and “Just What I Needed” are OLDER than Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.”
January 1, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Never forget: The Cars’ “Good Times Roll” and “Just What I Needed” are OLDER than Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.”
I did that thing where I list a lot of things from 2025. A roundup of my work from the past year...
My 2025 Highlights
A roundup of Mark Sample's creative and published work from 2025, including "No Time to Discourse" and "A Million Random Acts."
samplereality.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I did that thing where I list a lot of things from 2025. A roundup of my work from the past year...
Reposted by Mark Sample
I SAW WHAT I SAW
December 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I SAW WHAT I SAW
You know what? Probably worth putting into dialogue the two most high profile pieces of banned media of the past two weeks: the video game Horses and the 60 Minutes report on the U.S.'s use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador.
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
You know what? Probably worth putting into dialogue the two most high profile pieces of banned media of the past two weeks: the video game Horses and the 60 Minutes report on the U.S.'s use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador.
Good torrent link here (from the Internet Archive) archive.org/download/60m...
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Good torrent link here (from the Internet Archive) archive.org/download/60m...
Random shoutout to Tailscale, which creates an encrypted mesh network between your devices. Pretty much changed my workflow for everything, especially after installing on my home router (an Asus router with the aftermarket Merlin firmware).
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Random shoutout to Tailscale, which creates an encrypted mesh network between your devices. Pretty much changed my workflow for everything, especially after installing on my home router (an Asus router with the aftermarket Merlin firmware).
I'm working on something so cool that only a handful of other people will also think it's so cool. Again.
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm working on something so cool that only a handful of other people will also think it's so cool. Again.
Taper #15 is out. Each issue contains tiny computational poems centered around a theme. The complete code must be under 2Kb. One of my pieces in the issue is an interactive erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, in which only half the poem can ever be visible at once.
taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15....
taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15....
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Taper #15 is out. Each issue contains tiny computational poems centered around a theme. The complete code must be under 2Kb. One of my pieces in the issue is an interactive erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, in which only half the poem can ever be visible at once.
taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15....
taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15....