Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social An independent, subscriber-supported publication of reporting, criticism, and more—all by, for, and about fandom. 🎉 fansplaining.com
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J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges.bsky.social Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social Grant-funded initiative of AAUP NC, interrogating the use of AI in the university. AI is not inevitable.
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https://www.aaupnc.org/projects/genuine-intelligence-project
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kagi HQ @kagi.com Privacy-respecting search, browser and products that put you first. No ads. No trackers. Ever. https://kagi.com/
Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social Evelyn Normielib (D-PA)
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
62nd St. Bridge troll, she/her/yinz
Making informative zines and art at magaro.net/tles/
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
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Charles Wotton😷💉🚲 @charleswotton.bsky.social EAP, applied linguistics, pedagogy, UofT, learning to trust my students, maps of imaginary places. Luddite pedagogy and the right to refuse AI. Settler. He / Him.
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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
OPINION | ~6,000 WORD TECH CEO GUEST ESSAY @negatendo.loggedoff.art CEO of my own existence - https://nothingwilleverbeonthiswebsite.com - @loggedoffebooks.loggedoff.art - he/him
Surveillance Watch @surveillancewatch.bsky.social An interactive database revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com Ali “with an i”
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'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better @fairestcat.bsky.social Same girl. New site. Queer, polyam, bi-polar fangirl with eclectic tastes.
Vidder. Multifannish AF. Kind of obsessed with figure skating. Once got a concussion from a cat.
Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social I favorite dog pics.
She/her.
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
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Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at The University of Maryland, College Park
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social Green MSP for Glasgow | He/Him
Short, bald, frequently appalled.
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social African-American + digital + experimental + humanities = #BlackDH at the University of Maryland :: Funded by the Mellon Fdn ✨🌱💜
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social Maryland's Governor. On a mission to #LeaveNoOneBehind.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
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ASA DH Caucus @asadhcaucus.bsky.social Founded in 2009, the Digital Humanities (DH) Caucus works to support the study of digital research and teaching within an American studies framework. https://theasa.net/communities/caucuses/digital-humanities-caucus
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com Historian of slavery, the Black South and the Caribbean | Using art, music & archives to teach and tell Black stories | Assoc Prof | Writer Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all. 
Evren Savcı @evrensavci.bsky.social Faculty at Yale WGSS. Writer. Thinker. Queer.
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
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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.
sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social prof @ UCSC. Black study, translational + transnational blackness, disaster, diaspora, Palestine. Fond of toast. Often bruised. she/they.- K Karin Rosemblatt @karinrosemblatt.bsky.social Immigrant, union leader @AAUP, historian of Latin America writing on gender, race, human rights, and the history of the social sciences.
T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social Fandom, fishnets, and found family 🏳️🌈 Queer fiction author, recovering academic, and professional Bad Influence. ™️ Ask me about my butch lesbian agenda! 📌 DC-ish.
https://linktr.ee/tmkutawrites
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Porter Olsen @porterolsen.bsky.social 
incoherent queer bot @incoherentqueer.bsky.social a bot by @queerscholar.bsky.social originally made for the bird place 
Damien Pfister @dspfister.bsky.social Rhetoric, media, and culture. Against the broligarchy, for the leguminati.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
ribbonknight @ribbonknight.bsky.social Politics, video games, comics/manga, chronic health bullshit, & feminist SF. I live in Wisconsin and I have a dog named Stella.
Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person.
SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff.
she/they
thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social I currently don't have a dog but I would like to get a dog.
queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social Your queer and trans owned liberation bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. We ship anywhere in the US.
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
@jinjurly.bsky.social @jinjurly.bsky.social 
Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Editorial Collective advancing Democratic Public Finance, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
Sociologists for Trans Justice (S4TJ) @s4tj.bsky.social Our mission is three-fold:
- To support trans, non-binary, and intersex scholars in sociology
- To advance trans, non-binary, and intersex studies in sociology
- To increase public understanding
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Shelley Streeby @shelleysuz.bsky.social No Time for Haters SFF nerd Octavia E. Butler fan <3 Women's Basketball especially Iowa, Valkyries, Fever. Live in San Diego, Grew Up in Iowa, Have a Crush on Oregon Teacher/Writer, Opinions My Own
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
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"Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint