daniel holmgren ๐ซ @dholms.at head of protocol @ bsky ๐
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social Designer and strategist mostly working in civic tech. Currently Nava PBC, previously 18F, HC.gov... ๐s = gratitude for your post, not agreement with topic. www.edmullen.com
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Krista Canellakis @kristallakis.bsky.social Serving public servants. Currently at U.S. Digital Response. Former Deputy Secretary in CA Govt Operations Agency & City of SF Chief Innovation Officer. Firm believer the world would be better with more pink. ๐
Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social LA / ๅฐๅ
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls ๐). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
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
Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Aaron Ogle @atogle.com Just trying to leave this place better than I found it.
Working for social impact with tech at Google.org. The outdoors are my happy place.
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
๐NYC
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary ๐ they/he
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
Itโs time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Gordon Ross ๐จ๐ฆ @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. ๐จ๐ฆ Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope. 
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine. Now in SF!
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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.
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesnโt like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
alex benzer @alexbenzer.com head of product @bsky.app
JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team Head of Trust and Safety @blackskyweb.xyz
Non-binary (they/them)
Always community minded, still think Magneto was right.
You can read about all things in T&S for Blacksky on my monthly blog: whatshappeningonmyfeed.leaflet.pub
Eli Mallon @iame.li (it spells "i am eli")
Trying to solve video for everybody forever at @stream.place, I livestream dev almost every day
Seattle via Minnesota, he/him
Our Wild Puget Sound @ourwildpugetsound.com We use art + education + storytelling to highlight the magic of the Puget Sound watershed. ๐
Our website is full of guides + info to help you make the most of the Salish Sea + handcrafted items to help you celebrate it.
www.ourwildpugetsound.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and your fav auntie. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Serious about Protecting Black girls and RJ.
๐ Kalyncoghill.com
Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM ๐
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com ๐ฑ san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
proponent of life on earth ๐
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, ๐ช๐บ.
โข tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
โข DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
โข ex W3C, NYT
โข Signal robin.77
Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content.
Previous handle @atprotocol.dev, now actually dev focused!
#AtmosphereConf is a wrap! See https://atmosphereconf.org for talks & videos
Evelyn @kandake.africa ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป Building open tech for orgs with @eskahlay.com
๐ต๐พ In tech since before the cloud
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ Part of NorthSky Social
https://chipnick.com
๐ฉ๐ช๐ธ๐ฉ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social Co-Lead @eurosky.social | Creator of the 3rd party Bluesky apps Flashes @flashes.blue, Skeets @skeetsapp.com & Bluescreen @bluescreen.blue
Juliet Shen @julietshen.online product @roost.tools. just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. long time Trust & Safety person full of personal opinions like the skeets below
https://julietshen.online/
Ricardo J. Mรฉndez @ricardo.bsky.social Privacy, decentralization, freedom, the odd crypto post.
Career CTO working on strategy and investments.
ATProto is weird and I love it.
https://numergent.com/
Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com ๐ฃ๏ธ People, Not Platforms
๐ Building: @anew.social, @disperse.social
โ๐ผ Writing: augment.ink
๐ฅ Organizing: @seattle.atprotocol.community
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
dietrich @burrito.space peeking into the post-browser web
~ https://metafluff.com
~ https://webtransitions.org
~ https://userandagents.org
~ @intenttoship.dev
past lives: Mozilla, Protocol Labs, Sub Pop Records
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz Blacksky Algorithms | virtual 3rd places run by users [ blacksky.community ]
@moderation.blacksky.app - moderation
move.blacksky.community - migration
@status.blacksky.community - outages
docs.blacksky.community - for support & info
[ blackskyweb.xyz ]
Trezy @trezy.codes Maintainer @happyview.dev
Founder @cartridge.dev & @birb.house
Maintainer of HappyView, the Game Dev feeds, and @ozone.birb.house.
Oxford comma defender. He/him.
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
Support us: http://LNI.media/membership
Ted Hanโ
้่ๅฎ @knowtheory.net pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social Software, systems, and society. ๐ @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
Jermayyy @jermayyy.bsky.social Founder @ resilientnet.io
Connector
Music & health nerd
Infinitely curious
natalie ๐ซ @eclecticcapital.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/nataliemarie.eth
Catherine Tait @cjtait.bsky.social Currently Expert-In-Residence at @newpublic.org. Former CEO at CBC/Radio-Canada
Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote โDesigning Data-Intensive Applicationsโ (OโReilly). he/him
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Racket @racketmn.com Your writer-owned, reader-funded source for Twin Cities news, arts, and culture.
Sign up to support our work today: https://racketmn.com/register
Linda @lindalebrun.bsky.team Partnerships Team @ Bluesky
Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Community. Decentralized Web. Co-op and Collective action.
Member #CoSocialCa @coop
Vancouver DWeb Node https://dwebyvr.org #DWebYVR @dwebyvr.org
Likes to cook & eat [โฆ]
๐ bridged from โ https://cosocial.ca/@boris, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Rude1 Haunted Badness. โ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser โ
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow ๐ฆ
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
๐ดโโ ๏ธ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy โถ
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
Technologists for the Public Good @publicgood.tech A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good.
https://www.publicgood.tech/
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
๐ณ๐ฑ
Stephanie Thelwall @sthelwall.bsky.social PhD candidate in Data, Networks and Society @ LSE | culture, democracy and digital public spaces
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
abadesi @abadesi.bsky.social tech inclusion is my jam โ๐ฝโ๐ฟโ๐ผi run the hustle crew community, we turn insight into workshops & i co-host the weekly news podcast: techish 
RightsCon @rightscon.org ๐ซThe worldโs leading summit on human rights in the digital age
๐ Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
Rabble @rabble.nz Hacker, anarchist, troublemaker.
Currently: @divine.video
Previously indymedia.org, odeo, twttr, center for civic media, affinity.works, etcโฆ.
Personal site: https://Evan.Henshaw-Plath.com
(they/them)
Trei Brundrett @clockwerks.bsky.social making things on the internet with people at @newpublic.org
Elan Ullendorff @elan.place Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive"
Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | ๐Philly
๐ Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
Sara Montour Lewis @saramontourlewis.com Seattle via Minneapolis
Photographer + Printmaker + Etc-er
https://linktr.ee/saramontourlewis
I spend most days making stuff that celebrates the Salish Sea + gives back at @ourwildpugetsound.com
I spend most nights talking about basketball ๐บโก๏ธ
Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
She/her, Latina, Texan
jentrification โ @jentrification.com i don't brag enough: detroiter building what's next via m.otherboard.org + ResilientToolkit.jeniferdaniels.com.
#WhatUpDoe #Anishinaabe แแแแฏ lands ๐ฑ #urbanist #BlackWithMS ๐ธ
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social The myth of white supremacy is not who you are. It is what was done to you. Why not try life beyond the supremacy myth? Author of The Predator's Table.
https://linktr.ee/LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems @kimberlybryant.bsky.social Founder and CEO Black Innovation Lab http://blackinnovationlab.org
Founder Black Girls CODE
๐๏ธHost: Inner Garden Podcast http://bit.ly/40q9BoS
rootsandresilience.substack.com
Author~Ascending Nov '26 (Penguin RandomHouse)
๐๐๐๐
Memphis raised~BayArea made
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms ๐ธ
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.laโs 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
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" โ City Journal
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Micah Sifry โ๐ @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com. Podcast: https://centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-democracy/
Pia Mancini @piamancini.bsky.social CEO @ Open Collective
Prosocial Design Network @prosocialdesign.bsky.social Bridging research and practice toward building healthy online spaces. prosocialdesign.org
Social Futures Lab @socialfutureslab.bsky.social We are the Social Futures Lab at UW CSE! We are reimagining social and collaborative systems to empower people and improve society.
https://social.cs.washington.edu/
mai ishikawa sutton @mai.bsky.social senior organizer @getdweb.net
co-founder of @compost.bsky.social + @dwebpress.bsky.social
maisutton.net/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
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.
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc