Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
Ashlyn @ashlyn.bsky.social 
Kelli Caldwell @kellicaldwell.bsky.social My essay "Mom's Last Gun" @ The Marshall Project | Mental health and GV advocate | Substack: kellicaldwell | Award-winning Songwriter | Kids' music profile is @kelliwellikids | Grammy voter | JLSC Grand Prize | ISC Win | JMA Win
Harper Zacharias @harperzacharias.com Chicagoan in Brooklyn. Passionate about dogs & redistribution of wealth.
Fundraising and strategy consultant w/ NYC Mesh, PSNY, VONA, & others. Prev @ Lambda Literary, Sex Workers Project, PEN America. Former tenant organizer.
harper@harperzacharias.com
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
@elllisb.bsky.social @elllisb.bsky.social 
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Silicology @silicology.bsky.social #Blockchain #Rustlang
#ClimateJustice #DirectDemocracy #VotingReform #ApprovalVoting #Rust
#GIS #Bioinformatics #Economics #ConvictionVoting
The manifesto book:
https://iambrainstorming.github.io
https://iambrainstorming.vercel.app
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. MacDowell '26. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
@johnfredfarmer.bsky.social @johnfredfarmer.bsky.social Stapler, pencil
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture- A @anxietyparty.bsky.social @anxietyparty.bsky.social
Alex Press @alexanderpress.bsky.social Jewish (Non-)Identity (book reviews), jewishnonidentity.substack.com; Always the Oddball: A Family Story (memoir), alexpress.substack.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Bao Ong @baohaus1.bsky.social Houston Chronicle restaurant critic. Proud Vietnamese-speaking Midwesterner. Slowly learning French. Gin collector. Tennis fanatic.
Bart Thijssen @bartthijssen.bsky.social Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Rebellions Are Built On Hope @builtonhope.bsky.social Anti-MAGA. Pro-freedom everywhere.
NYC PROUD!
Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
https://wordsinspace.net/work/
The Cyber Show UK @cybershowuk.bsky.social Cybersecurity podcast with top guests, events & banter on Dignity, Education, Surveillance State, Tech, Art, AI, Technofascism & more!
Website: cybershow.uk
YouTube: youtube.com/@cybershowuk
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0av5zTSOSIuBBtOjqjJWFc
Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social Lover of democracy. Proud Appalachian (living in RVA). Progressive Democrat. Seeker of a more just society. Writer. Reader. Doodler. Indivisible. Dog Lover. CFS/ME. He/Him. Sic semper tyrannis.
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
Nowrous @nowrous.bsky.social Salut ! Je viens de créer ce profil et je mettrai un peu de temps à le faire marcher. Patience 🙏🏽🪷🌿
Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social ‘28 Progressive Dem candidate Hart28.com
1) End genocide globally
2) Pardon 100k protestors
3) Nuremberg type trials
4) Free Healthcare for every citizen
5) END fascism/zionism
Manic Pixel Dream Girl @srobyn.bsky.social Democrat, obsessive amateur politics junkie, former bird site refugee, no patience for equivocation in this day and age, student of history, dog lover, anti-MAGA, pro-democracy ✡️ 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇩🇰🇵🇦
You don’t fight anti-semitism with fascism. They’re bedfellows.
Mike Hayes @mehayes.bsky.social New Jersey politics reporter, WNYC
Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz 🤖Posting Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 50 points. Older sibling of @betterhn20.e-work.xyz @betterhn300.e-work.xyz. Birds are still real but butterflies might be more welcoming to bots in the skies.
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
Anna DiVito Studio @advstudio.bsky.social Illustrator, Surface Designer, Kids Books
annadivito.com
Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social Author of banana [ ], winner of AWP Prize & PSA 1st Book Award. Finalist for Kate Tufts & National Book Critics. Editor Seattle Met, CantoMundista, echocardiographer
BobbyGvegas™ … Heretic ☑️ @bobbygvegas.bsky.social 🥃 Retired statistical analyst, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, writer, UNLV MA/EPS & adjunct (BGladd.com/unlv), musician, photographer. 80 yrs old going on 41. Lifelong Unlearner. Grandpa❤️ Great-Grandpa❤️ BGladd.com KHIT.org
Dr David Canty @drdavidcanty.bsky.social Academic Cardiac and Mobile Anaesthetist | University of Melbourne and Medical School | Medical Director of Sleep Dentistry Services | Day Care Anaesthesia Special Interest Committee
🌐 www.sleepdentistryservices.com.au
📞 0429 058 878
jas @avecjas.bsky.social 
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires and AI bros. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him.
Michael Macher @michael-macher.bsky.social Sub specie aeternitatis
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
- Follow on: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Threads, Spotify
- Find our podcast on YouTube and Buzzsprout 📱✨️📚😁❤️🍁
Caleb Gayle @calebgayle.bsky.social Contributing Writer @ NYT Magazine | Professor @ Northeastern University | Author | Newest book “BLACK MOSES” out on August 12, 2025
Corinne @celaina.bsky.social writer, editor, audio / work @brooklynmuseum.org, @literaryhub.bsky.social, @orionmagazine.bsky.social
www.corinnesegal.com
Ave Karenina @avekarenina.bsky.social Wattpad work: Currently publishing 'Against Instinct,' a fanfiction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #author, #writer 
Diagram Girl @diagramgirl.bsky.social Writer and lover of indie music, literature, films, comedy, zines and beaked things.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Aer @megalemeter.bsky.social
I look at the world from above
Global Authentication Project Bellingcat
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien @zoessuhh.bsky.social Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien (ZÖSS) / Universität Hamburg
Wonky Liberal @wonkyliberal.bsky.social Defender of Liberalism, Democracy and Secularism
Intelligent Kristie @elegantelizabeth.bsky.social 
SophEUlm @sopheulm.bsky.social •Writer, Lit Salon Host, Disillusioned Academic•
Finishing up:
+hybrid memoir/absurdist biography of Joni Mitchell as told to a lecture hall of my ex-boyfriends
+historical-auto-fiction frame narrative (teleplay/novel) for sex work decrim
+some smut poetry
Jason Petrulis @petrulis.bsky.social History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles:
“A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization
http://bit.ly/3PENmX0
The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument
https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
ManorialMeerkat✝️ @manorialmeerkat.bsky.social 25/male/cis/autistic/INFP
May interact with nsfw, so 🔞
Christian|meerkat furry|worldbuilder|writer|transhumanist|Progressive|Georgist|
I follow a ton of people, because I love the diversity of humanity online.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
@lexheritage.bsky.social @lexheritage.bsky.social 
Dimitris P. Kraniotis @dkraniotis.bsky.social Medical Doctot & Poet
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
Kirby MacLaurin @pawpawdurango.bsky.social Community organizer, active/grateful gpa, dad, hubby of a warrior 💕 🏳️🌈 Ally. Integrity. Humor. Compassion. Engagement! Start knocking doors, organize your neighborhood - social media ain’t the cure #WorkersUnite #ProudVermin #M4A #ProChoice
Sarah Dougherty @flubber.bsky.social Int’l human rights lawyer (JD/MPH). Health, detention, torture, natsec, medical ethics & medical complicity. Prior: Physicians for Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, GlobalPost/PRI, DC Courts, American Political Science Association
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Rapid Adapter @rapidadapter.bsky.social Mostly links to Garage-Punk(& adjacent) stuff. We got: new releases, live video, articles, playlists, upcoming shows, zine history, blog roll, radio shows, old stuff, etc.
Playlists here: https://linktr.ee/rapidadapter
John Hardy @johnfrom25k.bsky.social Erudite, sorta. Left-wing New Englander (CT). Disdain for Vichy Democrats, Orange Satans and their lemmings. Congenital NY Mets fan (can't help it). Celtic Spirituality/Pantheist. GLP-1 pilgrimage. Wish I was a headlight on a north bound train.
Phil @idefkanymoreman.bsky.social Writer, critic, gay, smart enough
"so what, who cares"
Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social UT Austin linguist http://mahowak.github.io/. computational linguistics, cognition, psycholinguistics, NLP, crosswords. occasionally hockey?
John @polizzi.bsky.social #114119 designing for worker-owned cooperatives from Portland.
Also porch music.
number32.com
Rebecca Schankula @rlschankula.bsky.social A lot.
unmade @sinisterflower.bsky.social lucía meliá ~ writer & dj based in Mexico City
residency; Hong Kong Community Radio
sinister flower; radio sygma
alexandra borland @alexandraborland.bsky.social Pasta, food, life, love & solidarity <3
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Laura J. Cole @bylaurajcole.bsky.social Writer, editor, photographer, coffee lover, and bourbon drinker living in Portland, Oregon. Dog mom to Vandy. Storyteller at https://roseandemerald.com/
@davidxportillo.bsky.social @davidxportillo.bsky.social Opinions are my own.
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle
Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction.
CNF, poetry, memoir.
Trauma, adolescence.
Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek