Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large.
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social Royal Navy veteran.
Fixed helicopters and drinks.
John T. @johntocradio.bsky.social Supporting the multinational defence. Living in the present, anticipating the future. Allies & partners matter! Personal account; previous editions are obsolete.
Sam @iconoclast88.bsky.social We can keep striving to better America.
Every day seems more demanding.
We have a lot of great examples of resilience, courage, integrity and fortitude. Hang in there!
New Dad 👍
Kristyn J @sciencekristyn.bsky.social High school science teacher, toddler mom, loves dogs, Dayton Flyer, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, lover of little treats.
KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social Proud progressive. Virginian. DC sports fan.
James Marconi @jamesmarconi.bsky.social Big fan of the written (and especially the printed) word. Here mostly to listen and learn -- anything posted represents my views only.
NotchbackFiero @notchbackfiero.bsky.social Traded my guns for a minivan. Bouncing around Africa looking inside Dash-8s. Lefty. My views are my own. Kane Lives In Death.
Burn Osea to the ground.
Disco Elysium. Ace Combat. The Expanse. Star Trek. Deus Ex. Anything Sci-Fi
Adam Music @musicadamt.bsky.social Geek dad. Husband. Godmother. Gardener. Situational humorist. Dad joke purveyor. Legal content pro. He/him. Opinions and snark are my own.
Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social Out West somewhere with my dogs.
Eagle Scout
Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006
Captain Subaru Baja blast: the falafel lobbyist @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social Keynesian basic left liberal,gender fluid, she/ her labor unions are vital
Slightly horny on main sometimes
Chiarra Sue @chiarra.bsky.social Data Engineer. #AI Smart Policies. Dev. Digital Artist. Writing about the future.
Good Ethical AI believer.
https://medium.com/@chiarrasue
https://taxtheshorties.substack.com
Vesperlynd24 @mws4.bsky.social Global Studies, NatSec, Sports, Languages nerd
Opinions my own. Oak Table LLC he/him
Joe Haydu @joehaydu.bsky.social Engineer, miscreant, clean source of renewable snark. he/him
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
OSRJuan @osrjuan.bsky.social Alfalfa Male. Marine, Democratic Socialist, Rogue, Raconteur, Cad, Lover, Bon Vivant, Gadabout, Master of Dungeons, Destroyer of Silence. Where are we going!? PLANET 10! When are we going!? REAL SOON! ¡Seguimos aquí!
ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social child educator plus head amputator
Once a Marine
Pat Donahoe @patdonahoearmy.bsky.social Retired Army guy. Owner of a small dog.
Lance Malibu @fulfillthedream.bsky.social “No North, No South, the Union Forever.”
Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.
📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra
our lady of the cow parsley @ladycowparsley.bsky.social 85% herding dog
Not who you think you're blocking
"There is a crack in everything, and that's how the light gets in."
-Leonard Cohen
Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
pfp by Daniel Mackie
Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social M.A. in Nat Sec, Floridian, Latino American 🇧🇷, just here for the bad IR takes, will probably contribute a few of my own
Transitioned from the old bird account, @tacticalchancla
Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social Former future astronaut | Xitter refugee, same handle | bio pinned | opinions my own | science, politics, stray thoughts, some swearing | no porn, crypto, scams, plz | he/him | pathologically unable to do things that make no fucking sense | YMMV, LLAP 🖖✌️
The Ace Tomato Company @acetomatocompany.bsky.social A left-wing mob of cybernetically enhanced coyotes into all manner of ill shit managed by a retired (emphasis on tired) squid and permanent resident of the LAMPS Mk III Penalty Box.
Posts involve ASW helicopters, naval history, ukuleles, and profanity.
Rose Grimm @rgrimmturner.bsky.social Reading, or writing, or exploring. A vet, the other kind. Or both, actually. Trained in Pathology, OTJ Prev Med. Rabies is not your friend. panta rei
DumpTruck 🍑 Decider Alice @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online Sov Cits (Derogatory). Dumptruckassery🍑. Medium Man. Gritty. LFC. Philly. GO BIRDS. Rage of a pissed off Badger; physical leverage of an origami goose.
🩷💜💙
Beomoose @beomoose.bsky.social I'm a Red Sox fan, I write, and I'm opinionated about things. He/Him.
Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org Co-founder at Asana and Good Ventures (a funding partner of Coefficient Giving). Strange looper. You can just build the things you want to see in the world.
“Criminally underliked”
STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social Medically-retired Marine. Biochemist and Mathematician.
Here for the science and the snark, in varying degrees of each.
@tzeddek32.bsky.social @tzeddek32.bsky.social Gay, Veteran, Democrat, Liberal, YIMBY, Internationalist, Michigander, aspiring Jew, Progressive Zionist, Wide Awake. Alt: Tzeddek32Alt #TeamPete #TeamPritzker #TeamOdeh #TeamKariv
@1zachman.bsky.social @1zachman.bsky.social History Student, avid reader, depressive insomniac, humor depends on the mood.
SkyGuy @guycole.bsky.social Buckaroo Bonzai Blue Blaze Irregular. I miss night freight.
Booker Noe Bourbon @bmkimble.bsky.social
Lucas @dbitlefty.bsky.social
Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net all work and no play makes cat a dull girl
Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out & THE DINNER PARTY: A BOOK ABOUT LOVE - OUT NOW
Nerdy G.I. James 🤓🪖📚🧠🍺🥃🗳️ @nerdygi.bsky.social DoD InfoSys Modernization | Beer-Bourbon-Mead Tinkerer | @ncstate.bsky.social AROTC ‘94 & M.Ed. '22 🐺 | Ex-Army Intel @us_sams '08 | @VetTheVote | N.C. Election Official | Veteran Advocate
@shock-and-gnaw.bsky.social @shock-and-gnaw.bsky.social
Nick Peterson @thetecheng.bsky.social Camus' greatest rock pusher. Currently doing design work on high tech labs & manufacturing facilities. Interested in anything and everything.
He/Him
TruthPerceptionReality @truthpr.bsky.social Examining the gap between truth, perception and reality in politics and society
@chaosgrenade4ever.bsky.social @chaosgrenade4ever.bsky.social
Occam’s Spoon @occamsspoon.bsky.social
Aaron Leong @aarondleong.com "Simplify, then add lightness” - Colin Chapman
Wafer God Updog @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social за то, что бог не спас
@horizonframe.bsky.social @horizonframe.bsky.social Veteran, progressive, former corporate peon. Planning the last years before retirement.
Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/
OGBobbyJoshson @jawalker.bsky.social Caretaker/Author
I’m a blast at parties.
My debut novel: The Thirty Day Question https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Day-Question-Joshua-Walker-ebook/dp/B0DTV1K37W/
Command.Control.Coffee @abucole.bsky.social Got enough exp to talk USAF, C2, Ukraine, China, Coffee.
Jordan @slclunk.com Utahn. Temporarily retired podcaster. He/Him pronouns in bio
Happy Monkey @happimonkey.bsky.social A real live human being hiding behind a photo of a monkey
Elsie the Fall Weather Fox @weatherfox64.bsky.social Cartoonist, meteorologist, scotch enthusiast, and model railroader. I work on NOAA weather satellite products 🛰️ Plymouth State Meteorology BS 2010 and MS 2015. Frequently posts grilling and cooking shenanigans. She/her 🏳️⚧️
https://mccalloncallcomic.com
jordan [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social abolish everything. lean so far left had to get a new right hip. highly opinionated nurse, dancing in the pool, binging all the tv.
pfp by @geraldinepiche.bsky.social
me 🎷 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6zgfjzqdhrwwp7btpy5jwzu/feed/aaaf4giwbsd24
Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social Polymer chemist & engineer in industry. Spent some quality time studying bombardier beetles. CWRU Macro & MIT PPSM alumna. Loves science, animals esp insects & cats, photography, computers, cooking, & the outdoors. Trans queer autistic woman. She/her- T Tom Bombadildo @tom-bombadildo.bsky.social
Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.com Husband, father, UMD MBA, recovering political junkie, former 68W, current EMT. @U2 fan. Grateful @Heidijschmidt.bsky.social puts up with me. What's next?
GINASMASH @ginasmash.bsky.social Perpetual SadGirl™️. | Always broke. | ENM/polyam. | Existing during *waves arms around* this. | She/her. | BLM | Meme obsessed, casual Switch gamer, BBW/fatty, cat mom.
Mick Reilly @mickreilly.bsky.social Here again for the first time. Saturdays you will find me fishing and instigating here in FL. Hopefully this is better than the other.
How many more straits can the US block @olenargy.bsky.social Canadian. Alberta-based.
Taxes are the price of civilization
JP Antifa @jasonpaul.bsky.social History
Law
USMC
Miami sports
F1/MotoGP/LaLiga
Eng/Esp
No a la guerra.
C’è sempre una stanza in Piazza Loreto
An anonymous coward @anoncow.bsky.social No
@muskiscis.bsky.social @muskiscis.bsky.social Big fan of the New Deal, I guess
Rarian Rakista @rakista.bsky.social Data Science, Linux, Oregon, Ballet, programming, mathematics
Let's have a 2nd American Constitutional Convention with 50%+ women.
Take a chance on imagining a better world. Human is Human.
Limited Recall @acalmdark.bsky.social
rangecard @rangecard.bsky.social Army vet, Warhammer nerd, hardware/software QA. Central Texan.
Y'all means all. he/him
Rosie @rosie355.bsky.social A bit of a troublemaker. Avid drone flyer. NAFO
Just an fyi, I’m a guy.
James Pirruccello 🌉🇺🇸 @jamespirruccello.com AI slop enjoyer
VF-1 Valkyrie 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @potato2112.bsky.social SJ Sharks 😁
SF firebells 😁
SF giants 🙁
DHS must be dismantled.
Here's to surviving the regressive 20's
Johnny @numb3r-5.bsky.social Computer person
GuardsmanJones ♨️ @guardsmanjones.bsky.social 24. Line cook by day, degen shitposter by night. Aspiring Bushido Lib. Bengals fan.
Mina @minerva1.bsky.social American woman with wide-ranging interests.
Squishy @lostsquishy.bsky.social *not actually a crawdad irl
I try to be kind. I enjoy my own weirdness and I hope you do too.
Robert (2 nibbles & a bit) Lyman @steamrob42.bsky.social #writingcommunity #writer #author #sff #steampunk
software engineer, writer, bagpiper, grognard, gamer, raconteur, Rush fan, and prolific whisky drinker. He/him
My own private Idaho in Virginia
dark_ma773r @darkma773r.bsky.social Former USArmy, USSOCOM, USNavy, Combat Veteran.
Second career in Cybersecurity.
GO DAWGS!! Fighting brain cancer!! OPERATION COUNTERATTACK!! Never Surrender!!
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
AI is a Mimic Monster @suzanherself.bsky.social #lawtwitter refugee. Introvert/shy. Data management expert. Licensed attorney, but not YOUR attorney. Intellectual property is mostly data. AI is search results. GenAI is statistic probability applied to search results. AI is not intelligent.
@infoandartenjoyer.bsky.social @infoandartenjoyer.bsky.social
Cliff W. Gilmore @cliffwgilmore.bsky.social Human, husband, adoptive father of two, grandfather, honorably retired USMC officer (I know my Oath), anti-fascist, COO, PhD of org & mgt w/ leadership spec, reader, writer, board game collector, dog & cat person. occasional actor. (Opinions are my own.)
[Redacted] @pixelsforaface.bsky.social Refugee from the bad place.
Working for Uncle Sam until I can become a free elf.
Booster @b00ster.bsky.social SF
Roxy and Coco @joemama1990.bsky.social Inglourious Basterds vibes. Buckeyes/Cavs/Sustainabilty
Ian @capeoian.bsky.social Watching democracy die with despair, and trying to avert it. he/him
@ikejm.bsky.social @ikejm.bsky.social
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth!
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
John Hultquist @hultquist.bsky.social Mandiant Intelligence at Google. CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON founder. Johns Hopkins professor. Army vet.
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com Senior reporter at @CybersecurityDive.bsky.social covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes.bsky.social. | Send me tips: https://ericjgeller.com/contact.html
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Alex Ward @alexward.bsky.social National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.