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.โ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Claire - The Captive Reader @thecaptivereader.bsky.social Reader.
thecaptivereader.com
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her ๐
Montreal en/fr ๐จ๐ฆ
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amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! ๐ they/them ๐ซ currently working on https://vixen.rs and ML/ASR stuff, occasionally making videos about my latest code crimes ๐ฆ rust shill until something better comes up
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rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Eric Wastl @was.tl Created http://adventofcode.com, http://compute-cost.com, http://anoik.is, http://was.tl/projects/; Principal Architect at https://acvauctions.com
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social From the people who brought you Hmm Daily
absolute horses @jcoglan.com this is him here
I write books about programming --> https://shop.jcoglan.com/
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
April Wensel @aprilwensel.com compassionatecoding.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Kathryn Bromwich @kathrynbromwich.bsky.social Journalist + author
https://kathrynbromwich.com
Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk Working on tech
He/Him
London, UK
Left non-statist
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
๐ ft.com/jbm
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Tufnell Park Cycles @tpc2s.bsky.social Cycling to work, school & play should be quick and convenient and not put you in mortal danger. Here will be noise about this healthy transport choice. 
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Rakhi @atbrakhi.bsky.social Servo team @ Igalia: Web and Browsers
Sports and computers.
she/her
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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Marie Lenclos @marielenclos.bsky.social Oil painter based in SE London.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social Author of the โญโญโญโญโญ Erin Callahan thrillers, and some politics nonsense. Wulferhampton interloper. Twat.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2CDCMV8
Jim Vark ๐ @mountain.stoats.boats I ride bikes in nice places and yell about sports. That's it, that's all. 
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
This American Life @thisamericanlife.org Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. A weekly public radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass.
Liz Fong-Jones (ๆน็ฆฎ็) @lizthegrey.com ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฅโ๏ธ๐๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป in ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ฆ working on ๐ฏโฌข๐ญ
she/it
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social Reporter at Vox, author of the novel Bog Queen, forthcoming Oct. 2025. Also author of Outlawed, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, and America Pacifica.
Angela Chen @chengela.bsky.social Journalist, editor, author of Ace. chengela.substack.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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mayven @maya.computer ๐ฌ๐ง๐ต๐ญ ~ dx engineer, community @vercel.com
crafting in svelte โ๏ธ mayven.computer
โธ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฅ๐
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda.ย www.StillersSoda.com
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote โDesigning Data-Intensive Applicationsโ (OโReilly). he/him
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Satnam Singh @satnam6502.bsky.social Punjabi-Scottish-American husband and father of two, Haskell hacker, cook, cyclist, Lost In Music. โ๐ฎ๐ณ โง โ๐ฌ๐ง โง โ๐ช๐บ โง โ๐บ๐ธ #celiac ex-{Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Xilinx, Glasgow} living in Los Altos, California
http://raintown.org
Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
@craigfe.bsky.social @craigfe.bsky.social 
pho @phophophopho.bsky.social 
Neha @xoneha.com mostly wholesome things, a little tech gossip, #LongLondon, and screaming in to the void.
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio ๐ @notetoself.studio
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODYโS DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
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:
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social Words. Ideas. Culture. Shenanigans.
#MusicSermon, CDI @ NYU, BMAC
naima@naimacochrane.com
Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
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Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
https://linkedin.com/in/malwaretech
https://marcushutchins.com
Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg Iโve seen things you people wouldnโt believe. AUD vol on a 40 handle. Crypto basis swaps. BNPL burrito taxis. Cloudwatch bills the size of a phone number. Memories, tears in rain, etc. etc.
Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social Reader | Reporter | Writer
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Writing: https://sukhadatatke.contently.com/
Comms for IPPR Scotland | Views my own
๐ Edinburgh
โค๏ธ Bombay
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Dylan Lewis @dylanslewis.bsky.social iOS engineer at Monzo and amateur photographer
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.
Ana Hevesi @anthrocypher.bsky.social Dev tools as culture accelerators. Collaborative computing shenanigans. โฉPrincipal, Uploop.dev.
Ex Stack Overflow, early Node.js
Here for the deliberate practice of a brighter future.
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff ๐จ๐ฆ. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Anselm Eickhoff @anselm.io Thinking about code & design. Play is the only humane form of work. Founder of @garden.co - creator of Citybound & @jazz.tools
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
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youtube.com/@todepond
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
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
ellenkpao.com
Shantini @shantini.bsky.social she/her
๏ฃฟ Notes software engineer.
www.shantini.co/about
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the worldโs a stage
Citizen Platano ๐ต๐ท @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist.
https://danilocampos.com
advisory: if weโve never talked and youโre weirdly aggressive, Iโm just going to block you.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social Affable podcast guy! Two-sport athlete (softball, pub trivia).
Today: Senior Producer at 99% Invisible.
Previously: Slate, CBC, did work on The Dropout + 30 for 30
ChrisBerube.com
Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com she/her
Author. Not the one from Rent.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/maureenjohnsonbooks/
https://maureenjohnsonbooks.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Henri Helvetica ๐ง๐พโ๐๐ญ๐น @henrihelvetica.bsky.social ๐ ec2-ca-central-1
๐ท๐พโโ๏ธ command-h
๐๐พโโ๏ธ #RunnersInTech
๐ฃ๏ธ pronounced: on-REE
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamรก, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. ๐บ๐ฒ๐จ๐ท
Twitter: @__apf__
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian๐ชก Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle โข waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas โข big fan of being a big fan of things โข go read https://anildash.com
The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social Endurance racing, Formula E, feeder series. Occasionally F1. Doriane Pin fan account. Statistician by day, sometimes it shows up here too.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
jonty @jontyscorner.bsky.social Nerd Stuff. Racing, miniature painting, gaming, books, movies, music.
Neurospicy with anxious sauce.
Staunch Ally.
https://linktr.ee/JontysCorner
Please don't add to starter packs.
Shitty tone for no reason will get you blocked