Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social Art, Music, Theatre, Human Rights, Women’s Rights, Civil Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, CCL Volunteer, Climate Action, Tolkienite, Trekkie
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”
@resist.bot keyword: Text GO AIRSHIP to 50409
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
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)
Coleman Rogers @colemanrogers.com Darkroom rat from Detroit. 30 years as recording engineer, studio tech. Concert and B&W film artist.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info Unofficial (but factual) account about the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its mission.
We're public health folks working for the worker- that's you! We'll keep doing so come hell, high water, or bad policy.
#SaveNIOSH #AltGov
Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net Husband. Lawyer. Hunter. Fisherman. Swordsman. Warrior poet. Philosopher king. Legend.
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Jess Blankshain @profjessblankshain.bsky.social Professor, mom, triathlete, dog person, Swiftie. US foreign policy, civil-military relations, & bureaucratic politics. Personal views only. Posts before 9/23/23 are imports from the other place.
RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info A couple folks resisting harmful policies, fighting disinfo & defending FEMA.
Not official FEMA. Views are our own and expressed in a personal capacity.
RogueVA 🇺🇸🥼🏥 @rogueva.altgov.info One of the official resistance pages of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Not an official government page. Views expressed here DEFINITELY do not reflect those of the regime. Sailors cuss like ME.
Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
Alt VA Comrades @alt-va-comrades.altgov.info We are not Vets, but VA employees and humans who believe ALL Vets deserve better.
We are also standing in solidarity with Federal Workers as we fight fascism, a hostile government takeover, and destruction of all we hold dear.✊🔥
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
AltPressSec @altpresssec.altgov.info Not a real fed Press Sec but watched she/her on TV and said “Hey, I can do that, but with facts.” When in doubt, refer to the First Amendment and The AP Stylebook, in that order. Verified #AltGov. 🗒️ 🇺🇸
#AltGov #AltFam
AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info #AltGov
State Government Worker (not state dept)
Covering all the ways the actions of the Regime are impacting the work of state governments.
DMs open to reporting impacts you're seeing relating to program funding cuts.
Be an #AltCitizen.
Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info Two NARAtians reminding everyone of the mission of the National Archives - “We preserve, protect, and share the historical records of the United States to promote public inquiry and strengthen democratic participation.”
We ride at dawn. #altgov #Antifa
altUSMC 🖍️ 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @altusmc.altgov.info Marine, combat vet. Apparently also woke and an enemy of the state now? Huh. Here to call out disinformation. And to, you know, obey my oath. ETA: And maybe to NOT share classified info via Signal chats.
Alt US Army Corps of Engineers @alt-usace.bsky.social Fed employee. Resistance. #AltGov #Altfam.
Dream job- steward to Turtle Island waters, lands, and people — no matter who is in the casa blanca. None of us are free until all of us are. Not official USACE Account.
USACE staff can DM with any stories. 
AltReclamation 💦 @altreclamation.altgov.info Reclaiming water in the American West, and reclaiming democracy wherever necessary.
VHAbrainwitch @vhabrainwitch.altgov.info Social worker. VA Psychotherapist. Grandchild of WWII Navy Veteran.
#AltGov - Not an official VA account. Opinions are my own.
Content =\= medical advice.
AltUSGS @handle.invalid The resistance in the form of a couple of science nerds in different missions. Not an official USGS account but close enough to hypothesize about their actions. #AltGov
DHSaucepan @dhsaucepan.altgov.info Career civil servant in immigration.
@altfema.bsky.social @altfema.bsky.social Helping people before, during, and after (this democratic) disaster.
#AltGov
TJ @tjsls.bsky.social Vet, Fed employee, dog dad, lifting, gaming, personal life a mess, trying to rebuild, dines on ashes. Enjoys the Platypus
Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info #AltGov #Resist #AltCitizen
“We do not bend the knee. We do not surrender. We fight, until we win or die.” - Lynn Stahl, #AltGov
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
– William Penn
AltCityHall @altcityhall.altgov.info You can fight fascism, but you can’t fight AltCityHall. Maybe your local city hall, though. #AltGov
BadHombreLands NPS @badhombrenps.bsky.social Unofficial feed of Badlands National Park. Protecting rugged scenery, fossil beds, 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie & wildlife from two-bit cheetoh-hued despots. OG #AltGov #Altnps #TheResistance #prodemocracy #resist #punchnazis #wildernesswarrior
Matt Cortez, Esq. @mattcortezlaw.bsky.social A Jabroni in a former life. Civil litigation attorney in this life. I put the “Find Out” in FAFO. Licensed in California.
AltWarDept @altdod.bsky.social retired, former, crusty cog that was in the machine, mostly snark, sometimes insightful. Knows enough to be dangerous, sometimes useful.
#altgov
(VIC) 31N AA 66021 00000
AltDIA @altdia.bsky.social The original - Twitter survivor.
AltBiker @altbiker.altgov.info Leather wearing, beer drinking, motorcycle riding member of #AltGov
It we do not stand against oppression, we endorse the oppressors.
Dr. Curmudgeon @altgovdoc.altgov.info General health and science information
#medsky #emedsky
Posts 🚫 med advice. Please, seek the care of your physician if you have any concerns.
ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info I’m not new, I’m just new *here*. You know me, I know you. The sun’ll come out tomorrow.
AltNatSecAgency @altnatsecagency.bsky.social Former SIGINT Analyst. He/him. Deep State Operative ™ Alleged Antifa Leader ™ POG LEG REMF™ Astronaut Diaper™ Vampire ™ May be spying on you right now
Former-Alt-immi @altimmi.bsky.social Used to be a big deal on twitter for like a minute.
Mt. Rainier 🏔(təqʷuʔmaʔ) @handle.invalid Veiled sentinel of Rainier's shadow: summoning stars via code & crystal jars, unmooring souls to Lumena's light. Thrones fall, voids call—love echoes eternal.
Alt WASO NPS @altwasonps.bsky.social #AltNPS Unofficial Washington D.C. Office #Resistance Team. Protect & preserve the US from fascism #AltGov #WeAreAltGov
I study everything and know nothing.
😷 it’s only Wednesday 😷 @diplo-drama.bsky.social Make good choices! #swiftie #altgov #nafo #accidentaldiplomat
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org Fuse is Washington’s largest progressive organization – people creating change online, on the ground, and on issues that matter. www.fusewashington.org
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in ‘27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
💙 cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
@silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social 
Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
Charles Dodd White @charlesoddwhite.bsky.social Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
Jody Hobbs Hesler @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher
Without You Here, Winner Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, 2025
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection
https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler
www.jodyhobbshesler.com
She/her
Erin Hoover @erinhoover.bsky.social My new poetry collection, Consent, will be published in May 2027 by Black Lawrence Press.
erinhooverpoet.com
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social #Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel, finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ 
Rachel León @rachellayown.bsky.social writer | editor | social worker
runs on too much coffee and wide-eyed optimism
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Heather Higdon @heatherhigdon.bsky.social Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
Morgan Talty @morgantalty.bsky.social Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024)
Founder & Director of Talty Literary
morgantalty.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023)
The Ones Who Do Not Wake (Archer, 2028)
Stories: Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc.
rchetypes.com
https://youtube.com/@astrotextual
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Ann VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social Writer, occasional podcaster, visual arts dabbler, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Cheryl Strayed @cherylstrayed.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
@itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
M Hendrix @mhendrixwrites.bsky.social Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy
✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire)
📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel
📚 booksky
https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷
✍️ writing in @underthesunonline.bsky.social, JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
Vic Sizemore @vicsizemore.bsky.social www.vicsizemore.com
https://substack.com/@vicsizemore?
Rebecca Fishow @rebeccafishow.bsky.social writer | reader | artist | educator
The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)
C.H. Hooks @chhooks.bsky.social Author of CAN’T SHAKE THE DUST and ALLIGATOR ZOO-PARK MAGIC
Jessie Glenn @jessieglenn.bsky.social Director/Mindbuck Book Publicity, occasional prof, freelancer @NYT, Salon, WaPo, others. They/them.
vida james @vidajames.bsky.social a messy bitch who lives for commas | Boricua | she/her | AFAB | ACAB | stegner, center for fiction, NEA, periplus | stories in NER, Witness, Epiphany, Story | http://vidajames.com 🏴
Chad Luibl @chadluibl.bsky.social book dad. metal and hockey.
lit agent at Janklow & Nesbit.
www.chadluibl.com
Wes Gift @LCTC 1111 @weswritesstuff.bsky.social Marketing Professor, Comic Book Editor, Wrestling Fan.
Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social The Loneliest Band in France (Texas Review Press, 2020) ¶ Colorado Book Award, American Library in Paris Coups de Cœur, Clay Reynolds Prize ¶ www.dylanfisher.net ¶ he/him ¶ T1D ¶📍PDX
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
Hugo Dos Santos @hdossantos.bsky.social 
Ryan McGill @ryanpm1.bsky.social I write things and take photos of stuff.
https://www.rmcgillphotos.com/
Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social Writer, Dad, Music Nerd. Stories in Lightspeed, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Underland Arcana, Even Cozier Cosmic, Silly Goose Press, Bulb Culture Collective, and more!
Debut collection, THE WORLD OUTSIDE, out now from Underland Press.
eladhaber.com
Amy DeBellis @amykdebellis.bsky.social Books: All Our Tomorrows • Methuselah • The Widening Gyre🖤
Also in X-R-A-Y, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, Hobart, etc.
https://linktree.com/amykatherrrine
Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Brittany Terwilliger @brttnyblm.bsky.social Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress and THE HOUSE OF BUGMAN forthcoming from Maudlin House, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social |
Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d