Gar McVey-Russell @garmcveyrussell.bsky.social Black queer writer dude. Married. Lives in Oakland, CA. Listens to a lot of jazz. Occasionally plays tabla. He/Him
Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social We make Indigo and Croissant, apps for better social experiences.
Aaron Vegh & Ben Rice McCarthy
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
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ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
L.A. Material @lamaterial.com Making Los Angeles legible.
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Thomas Peele @thomas-peele.bsky.social Pulitzer winning investigative reporter. Transparency & press freedom proponent. #IRE #SPJ.@EdSource, #Mets. #Springsteenx253 Profanity Enthusiast Tell me things, leak me records via signal. Journalism matters
Sierra Lopez @sierralopez.bsky.social Richmond/Berkeley reporter for the East Bay Times and Mercury News • Formerly with the San Mateo Daily Journal • She/Her • Send tips to slopez@bayareanewsgroup.com
Skylla Mumana | Bay Area Food Reporter @skyllamumana.bsky.social Sky’s the name, food is the game!!
Find me @Oaklandside, @Berkeleyside & @Richmondside
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lia bulaong @lliiaa.bsky.social @lia on twitter, @lliiaa on instagram/threads
Openvibe @openvibe.social The App for Connecting Open Social Web
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed ✨
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Caron @caroncreighton.bsky.social Journalist & filmmaker in Oakland. I mostly report on homelessness and displacement, & I talk on the radio sometimes. Currently making a movie: https://www.woodstreetmovie.com/
Emily Shugerman @eshugs.bsky.social wealth and power reporter @sfstandard.com // previously @thedailybeast.bsky.social @the-independent.com. email me: eshugerman@sfstandard.com
Ryan Gabrielson @ryangabrielson.bsky.social Investigative editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Past life at ProPublica. Bear down, Arizona.
BART Alert @alerts.bart.gov Automated alerts from @bart.gov.
Download the BART Watch App to report suspicious or criminal activity. For non-emergency needs you can text BART PD at 510-200-0992.
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Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
East Bay Yesterday @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social Local history podcast, tours, events, and even a puzzle. #oakland
https://linktr.ee/eastbayyesterday
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Chuck Todd artist @chucktoddartist.bsky.social Chuck Todd is an award-winning illustrator, artist and visual journalist in the S.F. Bay Area.
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Available works: www.chucktoddartist.com
Email: chucktoddartist@gmail.com
Damin Esper @daminesper.bsky.social Journalist, musician, broadcaster, media critic or red-headed, lumpy and with a loud voice - Hey, I'm Menelaus! Mr. Rogers was on Letterman on my 16th birthday. Ella Black enthusiast.
Jesse James Garrett @jessejamesgarrett.com 
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
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Leslie Kleinberg @lesliekleinberg.bsky.social 
Thomas Peele @thomaspeele61.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @Edsource, Dad, Partner, @Mets, #LFGM Springsteen x253. Pulitzer winner. @IRE-NICAR. #Journalism Tell me things
San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social Nonprofit news and investigative reporting for the San Francisco Bay Area — online and on air at KSFP 102.5 FM, KSFP.FM.
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Newsletter > https://www.sfpublicpress.org/newsletter/
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Dave Hoffer @davehoffer.bsky.social 
@ctuan.bsky.social @ctuan.bsky.social 
Paul Rogers @paulrogerssjm.bsky.social Journalist covering science and environment news for the San Jose Mercury News
Ray Chavez @rayinaction.bsky.social Bilingual Spanish speaker and Staff photographer at Bay Area News Group: East Bay Times and Mercury News.
@nategartrell.bsky.social @nategartrell.bsky.social Reporter for the East Bay Times covering state and federal courts in Northern California. Bearer of bad news with no hobbies or outside interests.
Brian Watt @radiobwatt.bsky.social Morning deliverer of @kqednews.kqed.org RADIO.
Accentuate the positive. Help process the negative.
I live in The Town @cityofoakland.bsky.social. I work in The City
I Can see Th' @emeryville.org from my backyard.
https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt
Grace Hase @gracehase.bsky.social Reporter @ The Mercury News covering CA politics | Mizzou J-school alum | 90s sitcom enthusiast | proud union member
tips: ghase@bayareanewsgroup.com
Karl Mondon @mophosf.bsky.social Photojournalist, San Francisco 
Emilie Raguso @emilieraguso.com Public safety reporter. Founder: @berkeleyscanner.com
jbrotherlove @jbrotherlove.bsky.social web developer/designer. lifestreamer. music connoisseur. buddhist. social critic. gourmand. defender of lgbtpoc.
Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social Host, UpFront 7am @kpfaradio | Environment, Politics, Housing, Police, Public Health, CA & SFBay | @CWAUnion | Fmr @JSKStanford | he/him
Flo Ion @ohthatflo.bsky.social Senior writer at @pcmag.com
I pod with @ihnatko.bsky.social and @androidfaithful.com
Anthony Lazarus @srlazarus.bsky.social 
Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social Sumo citrus influencer, bellwether of good music
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Azucena Rasilla @chroniclesofazu.bsky.social ✍🏼👩🏻💻 The Oaklandside’s bilingual arts and community journo
East Oakland gal
DMs are off the record
tips: azucena@oaklandside.org
Ev @evhead.bsky.social Artist
Lynne d Johnson @lynneluvah.bsky.social I write. I speak. I play.
Content Director AdMonsters.com
Race, Class & Gender Adjunct SUNYempire.edu
Co-Founder techandsoul.substack.com/podcast
Katherine Ann Rowlands @katrowlands.bsky.social Journalist. Local news entrepreneur. Owner of Bay City News regional wire in SF Bay Area. Founder of LocalNewsMatters.org. Publisher of MendoVoice.com. Also love travel, art, music, wine and cats.
Patrick Cant @newswhore.bsky.social Ink-stained wretch, raised by copy editors and sheep farmers in the wilds of Sonoma County. Decimate doesn't mean what you think it means. NEVER READ THE ATHLETIC. Don't care that they are unionizing, they danced on the graves of real newspapers. FUCK 'EM.
Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social Doing web, social, comms, this, and that @bart.gov. Erstwhile LAT journalist on the Climate + California teams. Oakland grown. Fiat Lux. Getting around by train, bike and bus! 🌲 🐻 ✨ 🚆🚲 Go Bears!
Momo Chang @momo-chang.bsky.social Freelance Writer & Editor
Former senior editor at Civil Eats, Co-Director of Oakland Voices at Maynard Institute, senior editor at Hyphen magazine
photographer and small wave surfer
she/her
www.momochang.com
Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
Thomas Vander Wal @vanderwal.bsky.social Was on Twitter from 2006 and Mastodon from 2016. Mastodon is my primary short sharing space.
Michael Sippey @sippey.com person of interests
Shomik Mukherjee @shomik.bsky.social reporting on Oakland for the East Bay Times and Mercury News | hoping for a better algorithm here; otherwise, can email news to you: shomik@bayareanewsgroup.com
Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social Associated Press technology reporter
W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social Dad, but probably not your dad.
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night- W Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social
Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social Smallholder in the North, Rebel Among Hipsters, former Goth Babe of the Week. Somewhat original.
@adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social 
Peter Merholz @peterme.com Oakland, CA.
professional: http://petermerholz.com/
personal: http://peterme.com/
Jose Carlos Fajardo @fuzyjoe.bsky.social I’m a photojournalist with 32 years experience. Part of a team of journalist that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for Breaking News Reporting. Adjunct professor teaching photography at Las Positas College.
Matthew Haughey @haughey.com Internet dork from way back
You should probably also follow me here: https://bsky.app/profile/mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy
And my blog too: https://a.wholelottanothing.org
Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms
🔥 🏡 Ex: Fire Aside
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
🖖 Friend of DeSoto
😎 Nice dude
🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA
📥 cyrus@farivar.media
📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Joe Rivano Barros @jrivanob.bsky.social editor @missionlocal.org in San Francisco // he/him
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com Editor in chief of MIT Technology Review. Formerly SF Bureau Chief at Buzzfeed News. Formerly Wired. Formerly @mat on twitter. Discos in Frisco
Nuala Bishari @nuala.bsky.social Oakland-based journalist. Horse girl. Femme. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org
It’s pronounced “noo-lah”
nuala@coyotemedia.org
Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social Bay Area Journalist
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️🌈 ✡️
Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓
Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙
Vote Nov. 3, 2026 🗳️
Get involved ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/scottwiener
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez @fitzthereporter.bsky.social #SF raised. SF Standard politics journo. Reporting the hell out of my dear, foggy City.
joefitz@sfstandard.com / DM for Signal info
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer @newrepublic.com / author A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social Garden-loving photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a very loud Bengal cat.
📍Oakland, CA
jessicachristianphoto.com
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
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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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
Terra Field @rainofterra.gay Jersey Girl in SF, Infra Engineer @ NVIDIA on DGX Cloud, 🏳️⚧️ Trans. Probably playing Balatro or FFXIV. Ex Blizzard, Netflix, Cloudera, Honeycomb. Opinions mine, obvs.
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Dominique Ariel Toney @domtoney.bsky.social That girl from those commercials and those movies. I'm a pastry chef in training and sing for a living. My single UP is out now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da4qDLEjWZk
Simone Lasher @simonelasher.bsky.social News media gal, bass player, cat lady, horror fan, movie nerd. I block meme account follows.
Wellfleet @kegerton.bsky.social Word nerd, textile artist, academic, earthling. Probably biking today. She/her, pro singular they. #UglyDogs
Roman Gokhman @roman.riffmagazine.com Editor: @riffmagazine.com. Editor: Healthline
Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social NYT reporter covering startups & venture capital
Writing a book about startups in the 2010s🦄
Matthias Gafni @mgafni.bsky.social San Francisco Chronicle investigative reporter, embarrassing dad, sourdough/burrito snob
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social “King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. OG web designer/blogger. Automattician. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Wrote “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog studio. Taught MFA IXD at SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).
The Adventures of Luke and Joe @lukeandjoe.com The web series that still counts as new if it's new to you!
sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social vinyl person writing about music you need to hear
4eva wading in the Cosmic slop
byline and opinions:plentiful
https://www.clippings.me/sounddqualities
Tiffany @webinista.com Web dev. California notary public. 🏀 fan. Sparks/Liberty, Knicks/Clippers and NCAAW. Aspiring ⚽️ fan (ACFC & LAFC). I live in LA. Mediocre at a lot of things. Blogging at tiffanybbrown.com. Seeking projects at webinista.com
Ezra David Romero @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social Climate Reporter @KQED @KQEDscience🌊🔥🌲☀️🏳️🌈(he/him) Techno Boy. Contact: eromero@kqed.org
Signal - EzraRomero.87
Dennis Akizuki @dakizuki.bsky.social Retired Mercury News editor, San Jose native, Fremont resident, Cal grad
Tyson Wrensch @tysonwrensch.bsky.social Husband, Cynic, Anti Fascist,🏳️🌈💙 & TrueCrime victim turned vigilante: https://linktr.ee/tysonsf
Check out our #truecrime podcast American Hustlers in the link above! AND coming VERY SOON to DatelineNBC!
People say I like vengeance… but my kink is karma!
Sydney Johnson @sydneyfjohnson.bsky.social Reporter at KQED 💫
Chris Wagnon @wags1680.bsky.social Bay Area resident, semi journalist, semi athlete, husband, girl dad, greyhound dad, 49ers fan, A's refugee, NM native, NMSU grad, grill master, liberal, Gen X and defender of democracy. 🫘
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Eddie Codel @eddie.com Humanoid. Sometimes I wear pants.