Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu Journalist and essayist, usually tech/poli. accidentally leftish. LLM vegan. USian in the EU. One of the early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag.
Background image from Occupy Oakland.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi 🫡 Noisy Introvert
🤖 Contrarian Techologist & Ai Ethicist
📝 Writer of Books ➡️ https://trainor.fyi/books/drawn/
📕 Collector on https://comicvault.cc
🔴🔵 CPFC Fan 🦅
➕ Posts about Comics, Ai & Music.
❌ Blocks Trolls
⚡️Don’t do things better, do better things 💫
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Jonny Burch @jonnyburch.com Designer and product-er. Ex founder progression.co (acq Sep24). Working on my skeets
My internets:
jonnyburch.com
foundupnorth.com
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Ji||| Ke|||y @jrkelly.bsky.social "All power corrupts but we need electricity."
"I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I have a heart as big as the moon, as warm as bathwater! We are superheroes, man! We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking!"
Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social They who would not sacrifice their own souls to save the whole world, are, as it seems to me, illogical in all their inferences, collectively. - CS Peirce
sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social The best bons mots fit to ignore
Not your evil stepmom
Utopias Podcast w/ Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan @utopiaspodcast.bsky.social In an age of alarmism we embrace innovation and compassion
Listen Now: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2272465 
Bill @sporb.bsky.social Still working
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Global Affairs Canada @globalaffairs.canada.ca Official account for Global Affairs Canada
Français: @affairesmondiales.canada.ca
Terms: http://international.gc.ca/socialmedia
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
Find me at Dodger Stadium, Disneyland or hiking in the mountains.
Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social Scientist working on Energy Transition and Climate Change. Interim Director at Global Energy Monitor. Opinions my own.
#renewables, #climatechange, and #datascience
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
Daily News Digest: http://democracynow.org/subscribe
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
JBeaty Art @jbeatyart.bsky.social Connecting with the Australian landscape through plein air painting!
Online store: www.jbeatyart.com.au
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@jbeatyart?si=XXr4Yag13vpCT6V5
Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times. Northern California native; San Franciscan for 25 years.
www.nytimes.com/by/heather-knight
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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.
Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social Senior Desk Editor for Life Sciences at Scientific American, covering earth and the environment. (she/her) Posts are entirely my own and not reflective of my employer. Email: andrea.thompson@sciam.com Signal: @AndreaT.95
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently I’m doing this now. 
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Gayla Trail-Risk @yougrowgirl.bsky.social Tend and be tender.
gaylatrail.substack.com
YouGrowGirl.com
Author of 6 books on urban gardening. Writer. Artist. #spoonie
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social Original resistance account for the NOAA. Not official account of NOAA but close enough we can forecast them.
Weather geek. Boat driver. Former airman. Weekend redneck. Coffee: black. Kinda Grumpy. Go Walz! 🌮
Climate.us @climate.us We are an independent, nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Donate: https://www.climate.us/donate
Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social Historian and writer of books incl. ‘Invention of Nature', ‘Magnificent Rebels’ and soon 'The Traveller' … www.andreawulf.com and I'm also on Instagram @aswulf
Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social Writer of Fluxblog for 20+ years... I heard codes in the melody and heeded the call, so I'm sharing things I know and love with those of my kind http://linktr.ee/fluxblog
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
Dan Munz @danmunz.bsky.social Homophone. Portmanteau. Iamb. Synecdoche.
Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social Spark is a science-driven non-profit accelerating progress in emerging, high-impact climate fields.
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social John Stoehr (he/him). The Editorial Board. Subscribe! http://editorialboard.com.
CPAWS-BC @cpawsbc.bsky.social Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – British Columbia Chapter
An environmental non-profit working to protect lands, waters and nature in British Columbia
www.cpawsbc.org
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @hardlystrictly.bsky.social Free annual music festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
October 2-4, 2026
coffeekid @coffeekid.bsky.social Design, Theory, Coffee & Music
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
Darrell Rupe @lastgeneral.bsky.social Liberal old man
Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social This space left intentionally blank.
Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Andy Rosic @andy.social Skeptical founder building products with AI that sometimes work.
hi.andy.social
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Patrick Tanguay @inevernu.bsky.social Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. I write Sentiers, a carefully curated weekly newsletter on the futures of technology, society, and culture. @inevernu@social.coop
📧 https://sentiers.media
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Golden Brown @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social Cosmic guitar music. Guitars and lap steel in Prairiewolf. Releases on Inner Islands, Aural Canyon, and Eiderdown. 🦥🦦
Prairiewolf’s Zone Poems is out now.
https://prairiewolfcf.bandcamp.com/album/zone-poems
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host
Dollars To Donuts podcast
@clairedanby.bsky.social @clairedanby.bsky.social 
Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social fire guy, weather guy, researcher, professor and research chair.
Thompson Rivers University
Canadian 5-10 day fire weather outlook at
https://www.tru.ca/wildfire/research/canada-fire-weather-outlook.html
WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com A sane, once-a-day update helping normal people make sense of the news. Since 2017.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
By @mattkiser.bsky.social
Backup account @wtfjht.bsky.social
Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social Futurist. Writer. Created BANI.
Lead Author, NAVIGATING THE AGE OF CHAOS.
Not as funny as he thinks he is.
Probably won't follow-back unless he knows you. Sorry.
Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social aspiring cineaste, bitter southerner, non-native new yorker // experience designer/strategist & product designer/manager & user researcher
also, abolish 🧊, thank you.
Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm in Boring, Oregon.
No dooming in my replies. There's already enough doom in the world.
Aspiration @aspirationtech.bsky.social We help NGOs, foundations, and activists apply strategic digital leadership in justice efforts. Our manifesto: https://aspirationtech.org/publications/manifesto
Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social Art critic, curator and forever blogger https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
The Phoenix Project @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social Uncover the Bay Area’s astroturf network and dark money trail.
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/phoenixprojectnow
The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org Journalism for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. A nonprofit newsroom part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Tim Maly @picassosparks.bsky.social This is very silly.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
Amir Aziz @amir.photo recovering photojournalist amirazizphoto.com
glenn poppe @pop.pe recalculating…
🌼 pop.pe
🌳 oakland, ca
East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
David Witzel @dwitzel.bsky.social Let's build a regenerative future.
Open Systems. Living Systems. (some bridge)
Sarah Rispin @scrispin.bsky.social Lecturer, Duke University. Teach about ethical implications of big data, social media and AI. Striving to live in a reality-based world. 
Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social Irvine mom & consumer protection attorney. Former Orange County Congresswoman. Running to be California's next governor.
Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.