The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com North America’s Trusted Source Of News
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social Expert in weighing medical evidence, cancer, COVID forecasting & mitigation, health disparities, financial analytics. 120 publications. PhD program director. Cancer center program leader.
pmc19.com/data
psychmike.com
Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social Eisner-nominated comic artist with a science communication MSc. Posting about HUMAN ART / comics / illustration / science / nature / history. www.jordancollver.com
Books:
PETS TELL TALES - https://shorturl.at/Ydbqk
HOCUS POCUS - https://shorturl.at/nYyXd
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Interests: origins and control of infectious diseases and conspiracy theories; diversity in science; scientific publishing
https://www.normalesup.org/~fdebarre/
EN & FR
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️
she // chicago🔜nyc
josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world america's finest
1/3 of @worstpossible.world
1/2 of @illconceivedpodcast.com
theatre director and more: joshboerman.com
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Angry Scooter @angryscooter77.bsky.social 32/ Atomic enthusiast,
Train manager against will
All of my views and posting are my own
Eme Flores @emeflores.bsky.social Queer stuff, Mexican politics, host de @frezapatistas.bsky.social
Streams los domingos en twitch.tv/devotedpupa
Ellx/them
Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social Latest special Late Bloomer is on Netflix (not UK & IRE) & Channel4.com (UK & IRE) now.
Also part of the Standard Issue podcast team
Replies ending TSM are by my team.
https://linktr.ee/thesarahmillican
Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. Publicist. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor. Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.🖖- T TheOneGoodMedic 🌠🔭 @theonegoodmedic.bsky.social Deactivated account
Astronomy 🔴 Gallery @astronomy-gallery.bsky.social A curated collection of astronomical images from NASA, ESA, ESO, James Webb and Hubble, plus amateur astrophotographers and astronomical image processors.
Posts always include full attribution and a link to the source.
Managed by 🔴 @redshift.pics
Will Overgard 🔥#1 Wanted: Dead Fan @willovergard.bsky.social Broadcasting as Viking Blonde by day and the games industry's moss covered shaman by night 🔥 [He/Him] BAFTA Games member and indie game fanatic 🔥 DM's Open for business, bisdev and tepigs
Best found at https://www.twitch.tv/Viking_Blonde
Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social 31 - Illustrator - a delicate soufflé - they/them or he/him
O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist
Local 210
Ksamkcab yub
Ofcieri.com
Kelinmiriel (Cync) @kelinmiriel.bsky.social Interests: Filk, dogs, Broadway musicals, parodies and comedy, reading, making the world better a tiny bit at a time. Everyone matters.
Alex T Bear @alextbear.bsky.social He/Him
Trans man, Dad friend, Nerd, Gamer, Artist, DnD obsessive, filk fan, reader.
Pin badge artist.
Thoroughly enjoying unleashing my authentic self on the world and watching it look slightly scared of my ridiculousness.
AKA TheTransdruidBlogger,
Drake Oranwood @ericnjb.bsky.social (He/him) Neurodivergent (ADHD). Anti fascist. Leader-in-Training in the Mankind Project, which promotes healthy masculinity.
drakethebard.com/about
Filkwiki @filkwiki.bsky.social The Filk Discography Wiki filk.fandom.com
esbielle @esbielle.bsky.social They/she, 20+
Podficcer when time is kind, occasional filk writer.
#podfic #filk #yoi #mdzs #cql #tgcf
Puck @theleakypen.bsky.social sea monster, polyamorist, multifandom, multishipper, writer of fic and filk
pronouns: ve/ver/vis/verself or they (example sentences at https://theleakypen.neocities.org/pronouns)
header art by https://yutaan.tumblr.com
OVFF @ohiovalleyfilkfest.bsky.social Ohio Valley Filk Festival - OVFF is the world's largest fan-run filk convention, for all fen with a song in their heart. Join us for OVFF 42: October 30 - November 1, 2026 at the Columbus Airport Marriott. More details at OVFF.org
Daniel Kelly @danielkellymusic.bsky.social Filk singer/songwriter/poet from Australia. Interests include pagan music, sea shanties, social justice songs, Irish folk music.
www.folklounge.org
GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social yt settler cis grandmother/Co2 315/born in Mi'kma'ki, living now on W̱SÁNEĆ / Lekwungen land (YYJ) due to family prosperity on Treaty 6 land / love of beauty and hatred of fascism / grief and joy / block and roll
Pat Var aka Ptdev @ptdevvar.bsky.social Unapologetic Dem, filker, geek, retired Asst Director for DragonCon Filk, occasional writer, dilettante amateur musician & photographer, armchair philosopher, animal lover, SF&F fan. I vet & f/b but it may take me a few days.🚫DMs,🚫OF ,🚫Porn, 💙🇺🇦🖖🇨🇦
AquatiCat.heather @aquaticat.bsky.social Filk. Astronomy. Irish trad. SF & F. Book narration. Fulldome video.
FenCon @fencon.bsky.social FenCon is a science fiction/fantasy/general interest literary & filk convention in Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX.
FenCon XVIII is Sept 16-18. Doubletree by Hilton Dallas Near the Galleria.
FenCon.Org
ferventemily @ferventemily.bsky.social Making it up as I go along. She/her. Filk singer and fanfic writer. Knitter of stuff. Co-host of https://bsky.app/profile/mindthetagspod.bsky.social. Gritty stan 🧡
This account is for OFMD and mutual aid!
jmcdaid @jmcdaid.bsky.social science fiction writer, folk/filk singer-songwriter, theatre critic, adjunct professor of media ecology. SFWA, ATCA. he/him johnmcdaid.bandcamp.com Opinions mine. 
The Faithful Sidekicks @faithfulsidekicks.bsky.social Nerdy Comedic Folk/Filk Pop duo. Come for the catchy geeky songs about Fandom, stay for board game and cat content. https://www.youtube.com/@Thefaithfulsidekicks
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
david malki ! @davidmalki.com 🎩 hi there! it's malki from wondermark
🖋️cartoonist, designer, game maker
🔗 my various links: linkpop.com/malki
🦋 comics posted at: @wondermark.com
🔩 card game: Bolted! wondermark.com/bolted
Liam @wtyppod.com Podcast guy and social worker. He/Him.
The Thread Derailer @tompain.bsky.social He/him. Co-host of Ten Thousand Losses. Lefty educator and Philly native in exile. History, beer, language, and transit nerd. Go birds.
Courtney Blazon @courtneyblazon.bsky.social Artist in Missoula MT.
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History @ummnh.bsky.social 🦣 ummnh.org
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–4pm 
PBS Eons @pbseons.bsky.social Join us on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs-- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.
Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social Radical Left Scum
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Old enough to have seen some of the foreshadowing for what's going on now.
Impeach or assassinate.
Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org We're fighting to address the retirement income crisis by protecting and expanding our Social Security system.
stopthedemolition.org
socialsecurityworks.org
protectourchecks.com
En Español: @segurosocial.bsky.social
Rantasmo @rantasmo.bsky.social Important Homosexual. Host of Needs More Gay. He/Him
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rantasmo
My interactive novel: https://www.choiceofgames.com/hearts-choice/eternal-affairs/
CaseyMcDang @caseymcdang.bsky.social Hello folks. Not always kid friendly, so follow at your own discretion (BLG host/artist) 30-ish y/o. any pronouns.
I never allow reposts.
💖⭐🖌COMMISSIONS⭐OPEN🖌⭐💖
https://ko-fi.com/caseymcdang
Kris Overstreet @krisoverstreet.bsky.social Owner/publisher/proprietor of White Lightning Productions; convention vendor, sometime writer, former third-party activist, free-enterprise socialist. https://wlpcomics.com https://www.youtube.com/@redneckgaijin
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
@lexitecture.bsky.social @lexitecture.bsky.social 
Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social Aspiring poet, growing problem. My books POYUMS, and POYUMS ANNAW are available to order now. https://buythebook.online/poyums-annaw
🏴💙
Leaf It To Us Podcast @leafittouspod.bsky.social Hosted by Nora and Aly. Bringing plants out of the background and into the spotlight!
https://linktr.ee/leafittouspod
A descendant of @commondescentpod.bsky.social
hannah @hjhaverkamp.bsky.social Costume designer, illustrator, college professor.
michael wave @michaelwave.bsky.social creature enthusiast.
Worm From Home where all good podcasts are sold 🪱
https://linktr.ee/wormfromhome
Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Sharing info on COVID since the start of the pandemic.
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social Ham radio. Science fiction. Life. Politics. Un peu le français. Auch ein bisschen Deutsch. Un poquito español.
MAGAts, trolls, and Musk fanboys will be blocked. Fuck off back to your swamp.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Unapologetically Jewish.
He/him
Gwen (Enchanted) Knighton @gwenzilla.bsky.social I am a mercurial faerie queen with a heart of gold, no respect for capitalism, a good eye for colour, and a large vocabulary. I write, sing, write songs, play the wire strung harp, knit, read, and do my best. Sometimes I like to paint stuff on my face.
Autographedcat @autographedcat.bsky.social Chair of the Georgia Filkcon; musician, songwriter, essayist & dilettante-at-large. Almost certainly not what you expect. (they/them or she/her)
Wyld Dandelyon @wylddandelyon.bsky.social Writer, artist, and musician. Filker. Gardener. Also chronic spoonie, so as my health ebbs and flows, so does my creativity. Cat lover. (P.S. I hate housework!)
You can find songs, fiction, haiku, and other stuff over here: www.patreon.com/Wyld_Dandelyon
Lizzie @lizziedanger.bsky.social Cyberbutch extraordinaire. She/her, trans/lesbian, married dad, engineer, car girl, builder of things. Working on intersectionality whether or not it's comfortable. HRT 5/2/2022
Sooshe ಸುಶೀ @sooshebot.bsky.social Indolent flâneur. Procrastinating joiner. Hobby collector.
Anna D @languageisafence.bsky.social "Language is a fence across the landscape of the mind. The more languages you know, the more aware you become of these fences, and the better you become at building stiles to cross over them."
Deaf Trans Migrant Polyglot - EN DE ASL FR DGS
Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, Tyrant Lizard Queen (out October 27), and Megatooth. 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. rileyblack.net
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
Vys (of Limsa) @vysgaming.bsky.social He/Him 🖖
Golden Retriever wearing a magical top hat
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Forever DM 👾
1/4th of @mttmpodcast.bsky.social
AI = Insta-block
Be Strong Enough To Be Gentle
Trump-sucking filth cordially invited to fuck off and die in a fire
#resist, #handsoff, #nokings
Confidently Paranoid @niblick-iii.bsky.social She/Her. Migrating from the bad website. Software Engineer. Geek. Fangirl. Black Lives Matter. Trans rights are human rights. Enough of this nonsense. Profile pic by @lauriepink.
Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social Award-winning Writer. Freelance Editor. Introvert with an Attitude. Nominal head of a multi-species household. Olam Chesed Yibaneh, but Han shot first.
New Book: UNCANNY LIES coming 2026
and yes, it's Laura Anne, please and thank you.
Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com Copy editor @propublica.org. Author of FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (2026), a biography, and MIND GAME (2024), about elite athlete mental health. Nonbinary ace. They/them.
www.juliekliegman.com
A.B. Koga @abkoga.bsky.social Biblical scholar and SFF author on submission / Rep’d by Rebecca Angus at Howland Literary / Haunted Railroad Horromance WIP
Apocrypals @apocrypals.bsky.social The podcast where Chris Sims and Benito Cereno read Bible and Bible-adjacent literature and try not to be ding-dangs about it
https://apocrypals.libsyn.com/
https://apocrypals.dashery.com/
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social I run a sober space in ABQ. I teach people how to cook and grow food. I write stories and film them. I help people political causes grow. I do other stuff too.
Anti-Zionist Jew. Friend of Dorothy. Luddite. They/Them.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social Ask not for whom the point is missed. It is missed for thee.
Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social ⚖️ Courts, law firms and more at Reuters in D.C. ||| Signal: @mikescarcella.43 ||| 📧 mike.scarcella@tr.com ||| Read more: https://www.reuters.com/authors/mike-scarcella/
"Emotional support shitposter" Fella @stealthbadger.net Pro-choice Clinic Escort. Small-a atheist. Dirty #NAFO scum. @Stealthbadger
on That Site and http://counter.social and @StealthBadger@sfba.social on Mastodon
Probably not your friend.
@ehjaydubs.bsky.social @ehjaydubs.bsky.social 
PushingUpRoses 🦇 @pushinguproses.bsky.social I talk about Murder, She Wrote and other pop culture thingies on YouTube. Artist, writer, podcaster, dark type. Mental health advocate. Behold, my stuff: https://linktr.ee/pushinguproses
Glue Factory @gluefactorypod.bsky.social Comedy podcast from Milo Edwards, Pierre Novellie, Olga Koch and Riley - new episodes every Wednesday!
https://linktr.ee/gluefactorypod
@pondsidemusic.bsky.social @pondsidemusic.bsky.social 
Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. billiesweeney.com
Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social Editor, writer, generalist, logophile, paronomasiac, ludophile. Bi, poly. He/him. Most of my posts here are abbreviated copies of things I’ve posted elsewhere.
victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social photographer & writer
host @trangirlismo.bsky.social
author, WE DESERVE THIS (2024), POLLINATION (preorders open)
my opinions aren't my employers'
she/her ⚧️ | 🏡: SEA
pfp: @sula-nef.bsky.social
vantimevictoria.com
holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social Noah | 28 | LA resident, community organizer, socialist, revolting peasant 🇵🇷🌹
Cults Cryptids and Conspiracies @c3podcast.bsky.social A podcast about all the weird stuff from history to today to things that might possibly happen in the future!
Find us at cultscryptidsconspiracies.com
Rebecca Marie Wilks @rebeccamarie.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering housing, devolution and the criminal justice system. 🏳️🌈 (She/They)
Get in touch! rmwilks@protonmail.com
𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @devononearth.bsky.social Themme Fatale. they/them.
Host of Kill James Bond Podcast/ Streams at https://scren.ch every monday and thursday!
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Mia Moore @miamoore.bsky.social Filmmaker 🔸️ Again Again 🔸 NSFW 🔞 (minors DNI)
https://linktr.ee/miamooretree
FULL FOP MODE 🦋🪭🫦 @momebie.bsky.social Get up and create, darling! 🍃 // 80s baby // they/them // 💖💜💙
✨️ archivist ✨️ writer/poet ✨️ collage artist ✨️ too many hobbies enthusiast ✨️ the "they" in "that's what they said" ✨️