Kristen Baldwin @kristengbaldwin.bsky.social Obsessed dog mom. Formerly: TV Critic, EW; EIC of Yahoo Entertainment. Member of @criticschoice.bsky.social, @tvcritics.org.
@mjgreenland.bsky.social @mjgreenland.bsky.social Just trying to make the world a brighter, more caring place
Steve Mossberg @mossdef.bsky.social Music teacher/crossword maker: WSJ, Times, Independent (Mog), and elsewhere. Cryptics editor at AVCX. he/him
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Lila Goldenberg @lilargoldenberg.bsky.social puzzles found at craftycrosswords.blogspot.com
Michael Lieberman @footnote24.bsky.social antitrust and consumer-protection lawyer (good guys), crossword-puzzle maker
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Sara Goodchild @sarathegood.bsky.social Science, editing, cryptic crosswords!
Joe Pasini @joeadultman.bsky.social tabletop game designer, cryptic crossword constructor, and union steward
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Brian Cimmet @cimmet.bsky.social crosswords, sandwiches, baseball, musicals • he/him- G Glentopher @glentopher.bsky.social Autistic, needlessly defiant software developer, likes Lego, Converse, Cryptic Crosswords and Video and Board Games.
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Rose S, PhD @acommonrose.bsky.social I'm mostly just here to post about crosswords. She/they.
Will @tlmberwolves.bsky.social Wolves (US), Wolves (UK), Loons, Lynx
Lil AVCX leadership
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kateschmate @kateschmate.bsky.social crosswords n stuff
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momes @momes.bsky.social i think i'm mostly here for crossword stuff
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Jess Shulman @jessshulman.bsky.social Freelance editor, crossword constructor, also busy with kids, music, books, paddleboarding, youth baseball, TV, cats/dogs... she/her
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
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norah sharpe @norahsharpe.bsky.social 2023 acpt e division champion, 2024 westwords beach champion, 2025 lollapuzzoola pairs co-champion, 2026 acpt pairs 2nd place, 2026 westwords pairs 1st place, 2026 lollapalooza 2nd pairs, that's enough dont we think
Ben Zimmer @benzimmer.bsky.social Linguist, lexicographer, language commentator, all-around word nut.
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bewilderingly @bewilderingly.bsky.social Crossword constructor, he/him. Indie puzzles at http://blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/, and others at the New Yorker, Vox, Maclean's Magazine, Crossword Club, and more
Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social Professional puzzle creator and editor. Into immersive theater, the Oscars, Eurovision, and Scrabble. Expect lots of pimping of my Sporcle quizzes.
M & M Crosswords @mandmcrosswords.bsky.social I create Euro-flavored American-style crosswords. Find them on my blog at https://crosswordsmm.wordpress.com. New grids every Sun & Thurs, weather permitting.
Regular (exclusive) minis also at https://crosshare.org/martinawaluk.
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MattJPuzzleGuy @mattjpuzzleguy.bsky.social I write Jonesin' Crosswords (alt. newsweeklies across US) Trivia, puzzles, TV, music... I'm tryin' to have fun here.
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Sid Sivakumar @sidsivakumar.bsky.social crossword puzzles and such | (just refer to me by my name, it’s 3 letters and easy)
teevoz @teevoz.bsky.social Twitter since '07—now a refugee with multiple citizenship—teevoz everywhere. Zero tolerance for bullshit. NYT Crossword/Spelling Bee solve every day, comments some days on Twitter, here too. #NYTXW #NYTSpellingBee #CrosswordSky #GridSky #WearADamnMask
Greg Pliska @gregpliska.bsky.social Husband, father, composer, puzzler. World traveler, culture hound, book lover.
Coming soon, THE PUZZLER PODCAST on iHeart.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
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instagram @billcorbett
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
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Emily V Gordon @emilyvgordon.bsky.social Current writer. Former comedy booker. Former therapist. Co-writer of The Big Sick et al. She/her. Adamantly from NC. @wintercoatfilms.bsky.social
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Timothy Simons @timothycsimons.bsky.social Actor. Golfer. Doesn't like cocaine but likes songs about cocaine.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
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Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
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Amrita Khalid 🎧 @askhalid.bsky.social Tech and business journalist. Bylines at The Verge, Engadget, Quartz, and more.
Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
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.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Dave Foley @davesfoley.bsky.social A comedian that you or your parents or maybe your grandparents may have enjoyed occasionally since the late 80s. A member of the skit comedy ensemble The Kids In The Hall for 40 years and counting because none of us can find the exit.
Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. General social media dabbler.
Most of my content/writing/word-spewing can be found here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/the-fien-print/
Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
B.J. Novak @bjnovak.bsky.social Avid blue sky guy (quick q: what is bluesky)
Stephen Colbert @stephencolbert.bsky.social Evie’s husband 
Megan Amram @meganamram.bsky.social it's this weird, sexual, anti-comedy comedy that's 'in' right now. - my mom
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social Emmy-losing Writer/Director (#Shrinking, @nbcSNL, @Netflix, @Hulu, @Dreamworks, @JimmyKimmelLive, #StrangePlanet, @NewYorker)
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
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Podcast: The Three Questions
Call In Show on Sirius XM
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social Host of the Savage Lovecast, author of Savage Love. "A deviant of the highest order!" — The Daily Caller
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Sean O’Connor @seanoconnz.bsky.social Comedian. Writer - Strip Law on Netflix. Solar Opposites. Mets fan. 
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social (VERY SERIOUS) USA TODAY humor(ish) columnist. May or may not be notable. Hypocrisy enthusiast. WOKE MOB, CO-FOUNDER. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (2017 to present).
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Olivier Knox @oknox.bsky.social Senior national political correspondent, US News & World Report. Not “Oliver.” Something retweets something something. Views here are my own, not my employer's. Duh.
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional