Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
Khlara @khlara.bsky.social 5 cats in a trench coat wondering how they got into this hand basket
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 he/they | chaotic neutral rogue
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
📅 August 27-31, 2026
✨️ Adventure Awaits!
Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Host of the podcast\radio show Canadian History Ehx. Author of "Canada's Main Street: The Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway" Sharing Canada's history daily!
Orual @nonbinary.computer Person who does electrical, computer, and music things.
Mother of machines.
they/she/it
Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor of Texas
Get involved at Goodwin4Texas.com 🇺🇸
(Staff managed account)
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
The Ghost of Mark Twain @ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social Back from the dead...and really not happy about what is happening today.
As I once incorrectly said “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”.
Nope. We have seen this before...
Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social 📚 Home to great stories and bestselling authors
📚 Award-winning independent division of Bloomsbury Publishing
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Vlad Drumea @vladdba.com Full time MS SQL Server DBA. Curious about InfoSec stuff.
Thoughts = my own.
https://vladdba.com
Maker of
https://github.com/VladDBA/PSBlitz
James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com Jack of all Trades, Master of PowerShell.
Prolific Programmer
Microsoft MVP in Azure / PowerShell
https://mrpowershell.com/
https://github.com/StartAutomating
https://github.com/PowerShellWeb
NB, Neurodivergent, Nerdy, Newsjunkie.
Ask me anything.
allie ! @radiolexy.bsky.social 28 year old sludge witch
ex Austinite, current Portlander
death to all intelligent machines or machines which simulate intelligence
reluctant tech nerd. bad at yoga. introspector. getting better at lifting. autism is my curse.
(she/her)
Steven Kahn @sekahn.bsky.social Physician-scientist interested in diabetes. Opinions are my own.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
nohwnd @jakubjares.com Pester & Profiler owner and maintainer. Senior software engineer, developing Testing.Platform, VSTest and MSTest at Microsoft. All opinions are mine.
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Justin Stanley @justin-stanley.com https://justin-stanley.com Technologist wandering the middle path between innovation and implementation.
Posts are mine and don't necessarily represent reality.
Aaron Homer @ahomer.bsky.social Father, husband, dog-owner, programmer. Somewhere left of center.
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
The Pragmatic Engineer. @pragmaticengineer.com Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. The #1 technology newsletter on Substack. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
BSides Knoxville @bsidesknoxville.bsky.social East Tennessee's biggest, best, and only cybersecurity conference!
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Enable Chaos: https://amzn.to/4gCqcOD
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Techdirt [Unofficial] @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://techdirt.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/techdirt.com
Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social “Genuinely funny astrophysicist”
“Artemis reincarnated”
“I want to be her when I grow up”
order MOTHERS OF INVENTION 🏺
moiyamctier.com/muses
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Kelly Grieco @kellygrieco.bsky.social Senior Fellow StimsonCenter, Adjunct GeorgetownCSS, Non-Res Fellow The Krulak Center
Foreign/defense policy, alliances, airpower, and mil ops. Proud Bostonian
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
Pissed Granny @pissed-granny.bsky.social Retired, resister, Democrat, lives in a blue state, old as dirt, still got my marbles and intend to use them, we will not go quietly into the night. #resist, #LGBT, #bluenomatterwho, #democracydieswithsilence
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
[bill] nye @wavwitch.bsky.social producer+engineer of various noises, including @ouropinions.bsky.social and the Rhythm 2 Revolt Compilation from Hood Rave 🎛️🎚️ available for podcast producing, mixing, and mastering! 🇸🇩🇨🇩🇵🇸 Book: fiverr.com/nye_wav/produce-and-edit-your-podcast
Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social Community geographer, cartographer, pedestrian, cyclist. Author of "The New American Small Town: Lessons for sustainable urban futures" (West Virginia University Press, June 2025). https://communitygeography.kent.edu/
Ars Technica News @arstechni.ca I'm a bot by @s.ee
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, and some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
nyx @nyx.ms computers (derogatory)
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Athena Scalzi @athenascalzi.com Hey there! Welcome to my profile. Expect mostly nonsense and sometimes boba tea pictures. Plus I write stuff!
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social Posit host & educator. Data Weasel. Community Builder. Teaches R+Python.
🔉 Heeren == "hair-en" ✨
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/libbyheeren
DS Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh
DS Lab: https://pos.it/dslab
Advent of Computing @adventofcomp.bsky.social A podcast about the history of computing. Currently trapped in the 1940s.
https://adventofcomputing.com/
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
PowerShell.org @powershell.org PowerShell.org: Empowering the PowerShell and DevOps community with resources, events, and insights. Join us for scripts, tools, and collaboration! #PowerShell #DevOps
Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social Writer. Mostly of comics and video games. My opinions are my own. 
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Larry Osterman @larryosterman.github.io Long term MSFT employee, Dad, Singer.
Expect cat pictures, tech nerding, etc.
Previous: SMB filesystem, Exchange Store, Windows Audio, Windows Runtime, COM, Confidential computing.
Current: Azure SDK for C++
Proud LGBTQIA+ ally.
Profile pic from Not
Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org 12,000+ workers fighting for fair union contracts and a better Starbucks ✊
Organize your store, get updates from our campaign, and sign our Boycott Starbucks pledge at bit.ly/m/SBWU
Steve P @spayeur.bsky.social Long-time dev interested in social justice, tech, progress, wandering, and inline skating.
JohnsonFarms.us @johnsonfarms.us Encouraging others to try Weird Tech, 3d Printing, Oxford Commas, and Poetry.
@ansible42.bsky.social @ansible42.bsky.social Left of left, science, outdoors, urbanism, bikes, open technology
Seattle
Shupe on Wry @shupe.dev A bit about myself sure doesn't give a lot of info but as an optimist I'll just say:
1
SeaGL Conference @seagl.org Yearly Seattle GNU/Linux conference. Free/Libre/Open Source Software. October 23-24, 2026. #SeaGL
Allie Katz @katzcreates.bsky.social Maker of things and solver of problems. Huge nerd, cosplay lover, and nonbinary human. They/them
https://katzcreates.com/
Sarah Edwards @iamevltwin.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Apple Forensics Nerd📱 - Head of DFIR @iverify.bsky.social | Author/Senior Instructor @sansforensics
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
bashbunni @bashbunni.dev Coder. FOSS lover. Breaker of things.
https://www.twitch.tv/bashbunni
https://www.youtube.com/bashbunni
https://bashbunni.dev
Ben Fineman @benfineman.bsky.social Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Benji @heybenji.bsky.social I was @goo on X/Twitter.
@1password
Senior Product Designer • Coffee Drink'n Piano Tinkl'n 'Tiki' Enthusiast • Big Hugger • Blurter of Puns. Not here for drama or politics.
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social ⚖️ When Justice Fails, America Fails ✊ Resist
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them
they have been fooled" -Mark Twain
Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for society’s convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan
Dr Jasmin Kirkbride @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social Debut THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME out with Tor 2026. Agent Alex Cochran at Greyhound. Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Tech at UEA. Research: hope, climate fiction, dystopia, fungus. https://www.jasminkirkbride.com/
Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of BBC News (World).
RSS: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml
code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots
maintainer:
@tmaehara.bsky.social
Maja Ferle @majaf1.bsky.social Data Architect | Snowflake Data Superhero
#BigData #Analytics #DataScience #Agile #Snowflake
Ancient Daughter @blackgirl3000.bsky.social Handsome middle aged woman.
Go read a book, you illiterate son of a bitch.
Speculative fiction book clubber and podcaster: https://bsky.app/profile/thousandeyespod.bsky.social
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com 🚀rockit network engineer
👩🏼💻ethernet fangirl
🛜 weird use cases & silly tech!
💌 tracket@tracketpacer.com
🌎 tracketpacer.com
Steve Haley @niborris.bsky.social He/him
IT storage professional, avid board gamer and video gamer, somewhat lapsed reader of sci-fi and fantasy, undiagnosed autistic
LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights
@r0tware.bsky.social @r0tware.bsky.social Degenerate Artist and Professional Computer Nerd.
Zambies @zambiesdecays.bsky.social Miniature Artist, Creator. TTRPG & Wargamer. Queen of the Undead. Chaotic Good. Aspiring voice actor. Spoopy doopy. 💀 ✨ 🌈 she/her
PacificNorthWexican 🌱 🫘💚🐼 it’s gonna take Amanda fix shit. @mandertang.bsky.social GenX, PacificNorthWexican, Democracy Voter, mom, dog lover, vegan, Atheist, Feminist. Not here to make you comfortable or happy in your horse shit. 🚫 DMS/Crypto
The Vomit Roll: https://open.substack.com/pub/mandertang
Justin Grote @posh.guru Yak Shaver of the highest order.
GitHub: github.com/JustinGrote
Twitter: twitter.com/JustinWGrote
The Sauúti Collective @sauutiverse.bsky.social The Sauúti Collective is an Afro-centric universe rooted in African mythologies, languages, & cultures.
Horizon Secured @horizon-secured.com Master Windows & Active Directory Security—From Defense to Attacks.
Adam Bertram @adbertram.bsky.social Online entrepreneur, tech geek, recovering sysadmin, content creator, automation, PowerShell, AI nerd and Lego Bricklink seller.
adamtheautomator.com