Brian S @briansemerick.bsky.social Father, gamer, atheist, feminist, 🏳️🌈ally, liberal. I like Twin Peaks a lot.
cganz @mehpatrol.bsky.social A pal and a confidant 
The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
an online journal of unexpected music + culture → thetonearm.com
Andrea Feldman @visaforviolet.bsky.social Curmudgeon. Lapsed zine publisher. Cat person. Armchair traveler. https://warpedrealitymagazine.com
Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social Atlanta baseball fan. Music lover. American Jew.
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social 
captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social (enlarged to show texture)
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores
Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com Music fan. Words at Creem, Treble, Metal Hammer, Grunge, Us Weekly, New Noise, Bandcamp Daily, People, HL | newsletter openupandread.com
Matt Wardlaw @mwardlaw.bsky.social Host of Ultimate Classic Rock Nights and the UCR Podcast. Music nerd and co-host of The Record Player. Subscribe to my Big Nerd Substack! https://substack.com/@mattwardlaw
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social Exec ed, features & special projects, PCMag ❤️🔥 adjunct, Columbia Journalism School ❤️🔥 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ❤️🔥 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ❤️🔥 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 ❤️🔥 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
Grant Sharples @grantsharpies.bsky.social Music critic at Paste Magazine • bylines in interview mag, stereogum, uproxx, pitchfork, ringer, nme, etc • grant dot sharples at gmail • he/him • free Palestine 🇵🇸 • KCMO • I’m writing a novel bc it’s never been done before • kingdom hearts apologist
Ryan Schreiber @ryanschreiberfm.bsky.social The artist formerly known as @ryanpitchfork
Author of WEIRD ERA (Dec 1 via @fsgbooks)
Resident DJ @thelotradio
Writing at ethernet.fm
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Minneapolis. Joncollinsjournalism.com
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
Kara Rota @karalearota.bsky.social Senior literary agent at TLA (nonfiction) / book editor / writing sometimes / reading always
♏️☀️♒️🌑♍️⬆️
https://www.thompsonliterary.com
https://querymanager.com/query/KaraRota
https://kararota.substack.com/
https://reedsy.com/kara-rota
ilana kaplan @lanikaps.bsky.social USA Today Best-Selling Author & writer/music editor @ people magazine ✨former senior editor @ alternative press ✍️ @ rolling stone, new york times, gq, npr, vanity fair, etc. ✨ my book nora ephron at the movies is out now via abrams!
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Alma Campos @almacampos.bsky.social Immigration reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
almacampos.com email: acampos@chicagopublicmedia.org
Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
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
Ian Gerbrandt @iangerbrandt.bsky.social Executive Director of a social purpose organization serving older adults and care partners. Making time for kayaking, sports & gritty fiction. Kelowna B.C.
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education @maynardinstitute.bsky.social Furthering Diversity, Equity, and Belonging in the news since 1977. mije.org
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@blucollargrunt.bsky.social @blucollargrunt.bsky.social 
Joanna Klonsky @joannaklonsky.bsky.social Chicagoan
Media strategist
Allergic to the bullshit
Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social www.stephendeusner.com
Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social #k12StudentMentalHealth #MTSS #SuicidePrevention
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allentien/
#GeneralSemantics #EnergyNetworkScience #HelicalEconomics #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
地球 #OnePlanet
#WillieKohler
https://www.mdlogix.com
https://bsky-users.theo.io/
Matt Frampton @mattframpton.bsky.social 
Michael Hudson @michaelwhudson.bsky.social Pulitzer-sharing journo + author
current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS
prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times
linktr.ee/michaelwhudson
Shawn Campbell @thursinjune.bsky.social Media mogul.
Jamie Coletta @jamiecoletta.bsky.social mom, wife, music obsessive, writer, wwe fan, human.
I made noearbuds.com ✨
Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, author. Kentuckian.
rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com / Signal rstauff.20
www.rainesfordstauffer.com
Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social Writer, teacher, occasional knitter.
Team Playbill, author of “GEMIGNANI: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond”. Currently writing “Elvis Presley and the American Musical”.
Big fan of vampire dramas, 1970s aesthetics, and golden age overtures. 
MotormouthmediaPR @motormouthmediapr.bsky.social Official news & promo musings from your friends at Motormouthmedia. Publicity for Bands, Brands, Events and more.
Erik Stein @erikmstein.bsky.social Publicist. Pescetarian. Cynic. If we are living in a simulation, someone out there please Ctrl+Alt+Delete or Command+Option+Esc or whatever it is that resets this iteration. 
Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social Advocacy Director, Climate Rights International
http://cri.org
Jurist. Int'l Humanitarian, Human Rights & Criminal Law
Int'l Justice
Boards: ECCHR (Chair), Dignity, 
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Finch Walker @finchwalker.bsky.social Pittsburgh Connect reporter at USA TODAY • Most active on Instagram @ finchwalker_
Dan Haugen @danhaugen.bsky.social Deputy editor at MinnPost, Minnesotan 🏕️ music lover 🎸, Twins fan ⚾️, bread maker 🍞, slow reader 📚 and slow runner 🏃🏻, emoji enthusiast 👍🏻. Opinions are my own. Signal dhaugen612.59
Kelsey L. Hayes @kelseylh.bsky.social Chief subeditor, New Scientist. Ex-POLITICO. Kansan and Londoner. Traveler and reader, powered by coffee and sassmouth.
Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social Diet Coke, political comms, docs, frenchies, Steelers, and whatever my kids are into. Not in that order.
Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social on Signal: reece_rogers.01
Christopher Howell @chrishowell.com Independent Public Radio/Audio Producer. Ex-public radio news reporter. Check out my new podcast - Sonic Wheel. https://www.howlmediagroup.com/ -- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-wheel-with-christopher-howell/id1896763510
John Sorensen @johncsorensen.bsky.social Doc filmmaker, I make podcasts and nonfiction stuff, usually about #policy, #history, #defense, #natsec, #cocktails, #movies. Snark is my own. Dog is my copilot.
Stefani Jones @stefanijones.bsky.social Dir of Cyber Programs, @aspendigital.bsky.social. Past lives: CISA, Microsoft, White House. Personal account.
Jayne Solinger @mplsjayne.bsky.social Retired jounalist. Interests: my dogs, women's sports, my city, climate. Kindness is everything. 🏳️🌈
Michael Hewlett @blackmuse.bsky.social Reporter for The Assembly NC, covering criminal justice issues, movie enthusiast, music obsessor, pop culture consumer and poetry lover.
Susan Gardner @susangardner.bsky.social Former Executive Editor, Daily Kos. Ecstatically retired. Swiftie through and through.
Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social Data and Graphics Editor at the Guardian US, used to be words and sounds on In The Dark, Sent Away, APM Reports, and your local public radio station.
Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social Infectious disease news.
Sharing reports on outbreaks, from bird flu to Ebola.
Now on Substack :)
https://outbreakanalyst.substack.com/
Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social Opinions @WSJ.com & @Science.org. Author of Life Without Genes @harpercollins.bsky.social & On The Future of Species bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social (12 Feb 2026) & @MITpress.bsky.social (28 April 2026). www.adrianwoolfson.com. Co-founder & CEO Genyro.com
Tulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social Lawyer committed to ending health disparities. Housing is healthcare. Passionate about Tulsa, parks and animals. Traveler, food & wine fan, lover of rivers and time in our canoe. A shiny blue dot in America’s reddest state. #Angret #BlueWave 🌊
1woman1nation 🔮 @nataliestitesmeans.bsky.social Juris Doctor. UCLA Alumna. Lakota woman 🦬 growing our power in 🔴 South Dakota. Advice after the election: WE FIGHT. Trump Inc. is a criminal syndicate.Tired of wimpy Democrats.❤️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☮️🍞🌹🌻🍉⚖️ ✊🏽 Ancestors got me. ✨ ☄️ ☀️ 🔥
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
Kevin McGrath @kevonhissoapbox.bsky.social Writer/Wales Arts Review, author of Pop Hack & curator of Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas volumes 1-4 (all money to Crisis).
'A magnum opus of Alt. Xmas music'-Christmas Underground, 'A big deal'- John Harris
https://v4velindre.bandcamp.com/music
Matt Ortega @mattortega.com Compelling creative, E23 Digital: https://e23digital.com
ሉካ + ኒኮ
★ ★ ★ —
Martin @sonicmooks.bsky.social Waiting for the great leap forwards...
(Music Industry Refugee - art, music, film, progressive politics, reading/writing, but please, no arithmetic - thank you!)
he/him/his
https://music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/
Shawn G. Chittle @shawnchittle.bsky.social Senior Director at the Executive Office of The President
@whitehouse Views mine. Non-partisan civil servant. Previously at
@nasa
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Liz Bustamante @liznoise.bsky.social Previously Chicago, currently Portland
Technical writer, audio nerd, drum fiend, friend to all cats.
I can take a sad song and make it better.
I’m not there I’m gone @imnotthereimgone.bsky.social 
Bryson “Boom” Paul @brysonboompaul.bsky.social Journalist
📍 Dallas, TX
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Cajsa Lykke @cajsa-lykke.bsky.social Swedish journalist and editor in London, writing about design and architecture. Deputy editor of Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/author/cajsa-carlson/
Steve Ruinsky @rrsteverr.bsky.social Longtime editor. Newspapers! The Raleigh News & Observer, New York Newsday, LA Herald Examiner. Truth and decency…AmIright?
David Doak @daviddoak.bsky.social Former now retired Democratic Media consultant, lawyer by training, former prosecutor and public defender, started out working for Jimmy Carter. Between lawyering and Media making I managed campaigns. Not in Gitmo yet.....Retired to Scottsdale AZ
Alix Breeden @alixbreeden.bsky.social Reporter at Daily Kos | formerly Al Jazeera America & The NY Post
Based in Los Angeles 📍
Tennessean at ❤️
Tips: Alix.breeden@dailykos.com | Signal: alix.85
https://linktr.ee/alixbreeden
Evan DeSimone @mediaevan.bsky.social Media Writer/Complainer
Previously: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
Currently: https://mediahappyhour.substack.com/
Tyler King @tyleraking.com General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower
tyleraking.com
She/her 🇨🇴
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social Writer, music usually. Substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
michael gallucci @mgallucci.bsky.social music, movie & pop culture writer. now: managing editor ucr
Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social photojournalist in San Francisco. tigerbeat on twitter & instagram (because I’ve been part of PaperTiger TV & couldn’t get my name in 2007 & 2010). Cover photo of choreographer Jo Kreiter after a Flyaway Productions performance of If I Give You My Sorrow 
Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
FlavorFlavMgmt@gmail.com
Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social Professor and Chair of Journalism and Sports Media at Montclair State University. I am a journalism historian, studying press criticism, and literary & alternative journalism.
Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social Mississippi cyberpunk Jewboy covering dystopian horror for @popsci.com
Dread Lord Nyarlathotep Presidential Library curator for @mcsweeneys.net
andrewpaulwrites.com
andrew.paul@popsci.com
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
David Phinney @davidphinney.bsky.social Journalist/writer/producer -- L.A. Times, Politico, Daily Beast, PBS, BBC, AJE, blah blah blah. Cover national and international affairs. Doing a slow-launch on this https://davidphinney.substack.com/
Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social Iraq War vet. Former secret 🐿️ on Russia, counterterrorism issues.
MI —> MT —> WA. Still wanting to Occupy Wall Street.
Opinions, quirks mine.
Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera
♥️🔒♾️: @jokar.bsky.social
Nicole Thompson @nthompson89.bsky.social Senior Product Designer @rollingstone.com
📍Chicago
🐯 Missouri School of Journalism
🐾 pitbull mom
Evan Rytlewski @evanryt.bsky.social Writer. Contributor: Pitchfork. Alum: Radio Milwaukee, WMSE, Shepherd Express. Bylines: NPR, The AV Club, Washington Post, Spin, Stereogum, Paste.
Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), @emtrap.bsky.social enthusiast, ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
Jeremy @jmegraw.bsky.social Washington Hts-based librarian. Joy in crime fiction, cinema, cats, comics, science, funyuns and my job (cataloging theater photographs). And funyuns. And Dark Berry Dr. Pepper. And funyuns.
DJ Alderman @mareralph.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ they/them
Urban planner. Organizer. Writer. Musician.
I probably argued with you at a party.
Chicago over everything.
Opinions are my own.
linktr.ee/mareliam
Tim Appelo @timappelo.bsky.social Film/TV editor/writer, past at: Hollywood Reporter,EW,The Nation, LAT,NYT,got Bezos to buy IMDb, taught him Beatles lore. Amazon's last human homepage editor, launch editor, what's now Prime Video.
Michael Tedder @mtedder.bsky.social (He/Him) Words for Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Ringer, bunch of other places.
Managing Editor: Antics (print is back, baby) https://www.anticsmag.com
Author: Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music is available now.
https://michaeltedder.com/ 
Katy Vine @katyvine.bsky.social Staff writer at Texas Monthly since 1997. 
Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social Fact writer. Biographer of Ernie Pyle, John Bartlow Martin, Richard Tregaskis, Malcolm Browne, and Robert Sherrod, among others. Bio about journalist Wallace H. Terry available October 2026: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826370150/wallace-terry/
Ira Deutchman @nyindieguy.com Indie film producer, director, marketer, distributor (future exhibitor?), Columbia professor and Cubs fan. Not necessarily in that order. Opinions are my own and not my employers or the Cubs.
Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com The latest news and more from Rolling Stone magazine and http://RollingStone.com. Got a tip? Share it here: http://rol.st/tips