Pops @poppenarts.com Probably dumb. Just sayin’ lotta dummies out there; might be one of them.
art :: design :: music :: craft :: iowa
poppenarts.com
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Usue Ruiz Arana @usueruiz.bsky.social Sounding & listening practices, multispecies collaborations, research by design.
Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University.
Thinking Eye editor at JoLA.
Book on Urban Soundscapes https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Soundscapes-A-Guide-t
Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021)
CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Sonic Acts @sonicacts.bsky.social Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam.
www.sonicacts.com
thomasmartinnutt @thomasmartinnutt.bsky.social https://www.thomasmartinnutt.com
Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social Art Radio Collective / Festival / Radio Station
Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu
history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing
disability studies / disability arts
banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402
avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
Earth.fm @earth-fm.bsky.social Listen to immersive natural soundscapes 🍃
Fall in love with the Earth 🌍
https://earth.fm/
WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social The freeform station of the nation! Independent, creative, rocking radio. Skeeter behind the curtain: @dmandl.bsky.social. Submit music via http://wfmu.org/sendmusic.html. Sorry, but we're too busy shopping for records to respond to DMs. Listen: wfmu.org
Alliance Amateur Radio Network @allianceradio.bsky.social Uniting amateur radio operators of all backgrounds, We are committed to a community that actively welcomes everyone regardless of race, creed or gender. Visit our links - https://linktr.ee/alliance_radio #HamRadio #AmateurRadio
Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
publishersweekly.com
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) @dpoe-n.bsky.social DPOE-N supports digital preservation education and outreach in the nation’s libraries, archives and museums.
👉 https://www.dpoe.network
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice. 
Yoko Ono @yokoono.bsky.social Official Yoko Ono account, administered by Yoko’s office, Studio One.
IMAGINE PEACE: Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace. ䷊⊙🏳️
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History
eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris
email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com
purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Emma Butt Sound @emmabuttsound.bsky.social Freelance Dubbing Mixer | Dialogue Supervisor |ADR + SFX Editor | BAFTA TV Committee member |Advocate for diversity in post sound |Mentor |WFTV Award winner | Consultant 4PP (Channel 4 Post Production)
emmabuttsound.com
Super 8 @super8mag.bsky.social World‘s only printed magazine about Super 8. www.super8mag.de
Libraries for the People @librariesftp.bsky.social A leftist library project
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
It's Nice That @its-nice-that.bsky.social Inspiring Creativity since 2007 👌
We champion work across graphic design, illustration, photography, animation, and more
Header image artwork by Paola Saliby
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc The City Reporter is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving New Yorkers. Sign up for our newsletter: thecityreporter.nyc/the-city-newsletters. Send tips: thecityreporter.nyc/contact/
WittnerCinetec.com @wittnercinetec.bsky.social Wittner Cinetec offers Super 8, Double 8 and 16mm filmstock and a large selection of accessories like film reels, cans, splicing tape, splicers, bulbs, spare parts and more!
Imprint: www.wittnercinetec.com/imprint
-> WEBSHOP: www.wittnercinetec.com/en_GB
Jenny Odell @jennitaur.bsky.social 
Infloresce Records @infloresce.com A netlabel for gentle music that goes hard 🌸🎶
Albums & Merch:
infloresce.bandcamp.com
Patreon:
patreon.com/infloresce
Website:
infloresce.com
Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social The professional body for indexers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. We can help you find an indexer, learn about indexing and train as an indexer. Learn more at https://www.indexers.org.uk/
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Sarah Lamdan @sarahlamdan.bsky.social Librarian & lawyer. Wrote Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, 2022). Creative non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence. Kicking cancer where it counts.
This account is personal - opinions are my own.
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Cory Arcangel @coryarcangel.com Artist, dog-lover and avid reader 😇
@libraryhistoryrt.bsky.social @libraryhistoryrt.bsky.social The official Bluesky for the Library History Round Table. LHRT is a division of the American Library Association that seeks to encourage research and publication on library history and promote awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship.
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Katie Longua @ TCAF 29B @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social Art creature. 1/3 of the Eisner-nominated comic makin team, Triple Dream Comics.
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
parastatal @parastatal.bsky.social Platform for critical sound practice, research and curation
https://parastatal.art
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social 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 ☜
Bernadette A. Lear @balibra76.bsky.social Librarian in PA, USA. Wide interests, esp. books, coins, American Indian culture/lit, children's/YA lit, history, music, travel, Lego, cats.
Maria Wolonski @momuspda.bsky.social I'm PDA to Momus.
imomus.com
www.patreon.com/MomusArtist
momus3.bandcamp.com
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
People‘s Graphic Design Archive @peoplesgdarchive.bsky.social an open-access, crowdsourced digital archive for everyone, by everyone. peoplesgdarchive.org
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Mari @marikramer.bsky.social mlis @ uw seattle. editor & library, env history & craft enthusiast 🌈 she/her
Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social Organizing with For the People Leftist Library Project and NYC PLAN. Day job in the archives at New York Public Radio. Views my own. He/him.
Louise Gray @drlcagray.bsky.social Writer at The Wire and New Internationalist: sound arts lecturer, LCC, University of the Arts London. Likes strange sounds. 
black_ops @black-ops.bsky.social
Radio Art Sound Art
Fortnightly sets Saturdays on listen.camp
Audio: https://blackops2.bandcamp.com/
Archives: https://www.mixcloud.com/black_ops/uploads/
https://hearthis.at/blackops/
Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
SWPACA @swpaca.bsky.social #SWPACA27: February 17-20, 2027
FB @southwestpca • BS @swpaca.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/swpaca
NYC Public Schools @nycschools.bsky.social NYC Public Schools, serving 1.1 million students in over 1,800 schools | User policy: http://on.nyc.gov/1evyJgB
CCNY Planetarium @ccnyplanetarium.bsky.social NYC’s ‘vintage’ planetarium
Same seats since 1973!
https://ccnyplanetarium.org
@discreetarchive.bsky.social @discreetarchive.bsky.social Discreet Archive, music and artifacts that explore quietness. Appropriate demos welcomed.
https://discreetarchive.cargo.site
@reallycheddar.bsky.social @reallycheddar.bsky.social 
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Educator at Pratt (Typography) & CCNY (Critical Writing). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). Writer of Fiction (Agent: @liznealon.bsky.social). 523rd Bluesky account. NYC. He/Him. www.brianlarossa.com.
💙❤️
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social Listening! A lot, always.
Also: @audioflux.bsky.social
Also: @thehorsethread.bsky.social
Previously: Radiotopia/PRX, Ear Hustle, ABC (down under),Third Coast Int'l Audio Festival, many record stores...
WorldCinemania @worldcinema.bsky.social 🎬 Films will save us all.........
GIFs, stills and videos of essential film.
[Migrated from the other place]
#FilmSky
Oram Awards @oramawards.bsky.social Celebrating innovation in sound, music and related technologies and elevating the work and voices of Women and Gender Diverse artists.
oram100.oramawards.com
Full of Noises @fullofnoises.bsky.social 🔊 Sound art, new and experimental music. Concerts, films, workshops at our venue in Barrow Park 🌳. Fifteen years of sonic sounds 2009-2024. www.fonfestival.org
Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social One of the world's biggest sound projects, covering more than 130 countries with 2,000+ contributing artists. Remixing the world, one sound at a time. www.citiesandmemory.com
Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social The electronic music magazine
Museum of Portable Sound @portablesound.bsky.social Independent museum in Portsmouth, UK bringing the culture, history + heritage of sound beyond music–to one listener at a time–since 2015. Museum ethics/decolonisation/anti-racism. Not a record label. 100% human content. 🍉 https://museumofportablesound.com
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
Help support independent cultural journalism & get perks by becoming a tQ subscriber here: https://steadyhq.com/thequietus
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.
Subscribe to the Falling Tree podcast to listen to audio docs and radio features from our three decades of radio-making - https://podfollow.com/6812121787
www.fallingtree.co.uk
Cafe OTO @cafeotodalston.bsky.social New music venue & cafe.
18-22 Ashwin Street / London / E8 3DL
cafeoto.co.uk
Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social Working for gender equity in audio, inspiring and enabling women and gender-diverse people to explore sound and music technology. https://linktr.ee/yorkshiresoundwomennetwork
The Radiophonic Institute @theradiophonic.bsky.social Born out of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, we champion innovation in sound & music. radiophonic.institute
matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social music
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier @alexandrinebf.bsky.social Multimodal anthropology, infrastructure, sound, Cuba. Filmmaker. Based at the University of Victoria. Editor in Chief of Anthropologica. Sailing.
Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social Research and advocacy for the future of libraries. A project of @NYUEngelberg.
Ernst Karel @sesamecircuits.bsky.social electroacoustic noise / sonic ethnography / Expedition Content (w Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020); 47 Gates (w Bhob Rainey, Erstwhile Records 2024) / Local Locations (KWMR) / https://ek.klingt.org
Caleb Kelly @calebkelly.bsky.social Academic, curator, eater and traveling side show. A/Prof in media art theory, UNSW Sydney
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Mark Peter Wright @markpeterwright.bsky.social 📖Listening After Nature, Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/listening-after-nature-9781501392863/
Sonic Field @sonicfield.bsky.social Sound, listening, and audio.
🐚 sonicfield.org
🪷 listening.md
Touch @touch33.net Since its founding in 1982, Touch (based in London) has created audio-visual productions and live events that combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it the most enduring of any independent company of its time. 
Peter Caeldries @900hz.bsky.social 
Matthew @matthaion.bsky.social he/they
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Meg Vmeg @megvmeg.bsky.social Ivory tower, pink collar, blue language
Laurie Anderson Lyric Bot @laurieandersonlyricbot.botsin.space.ap.brid.gy 🤖 Bot posting Laurie Anderson lyric fragments now and again, thither and yon, once in a while.
[bridged from https://botsin.space/@laurieandersonlyricbot on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
The Cure @thecure.com THE CURE FORMED IN CRAWLEY, SUSSEX, ENGLAND. PLAYED ITS FIRST SHOW IN 1978.
Official account for The Cure / @robert.thecure.com
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com