Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social backend developer at bluesky
Jacky?! @omg.jacky.wtf Captain of @olamaelcu.net (also web @ @divine.video) + other things. I write (and record) things.
I like reading. A lot.
ⓘ Mwen pa zanmi ou e li plis pase ou
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
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
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk Senior Correspondent @theverge.com ║ Sign up to Notepad, my weekly newsletter on Microsoft's big bets at http://theverge.com/notepad ║ Tips? msg me on Signal: tomwarren.01
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org Covering the movement to end car dependency and make America better for walking, biking, transit and more. 
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Emelia @thisismissem.social Corruptress of Protocols, Tech Princess 👸🏻
Working on Trust & Safety, open-source software, and open social web as an Independent Contractor. Chronically ill.
You've probably used tech I've contributed to.
Bridged: @thisismissem.hachyderm.io@ap.brid.gy
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Catbus @catbus.phd Your old pal, Catbus from Online
shitposts, shoegaze, cinema
ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢᵗᵘᶠᶠ
POWERFUL MAGNETS CONSTANTLY IN USE
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Jacob Aronoff @jaronoff.com OpenTelemetry Maintainer
I’d just like a bagel please
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com — 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 — she/her
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social Legal/Justice Reporter, HuffPost.
Writer covering Jan. 6; Proud Boys trial for emptywheel; Oath Keepers trial and Jan. 6 reporting at Daily Kos; former WH, Congressional Correspondent Courthouse News; Law&Crime; Reporter at The Southampton Press/27east.
Michele Clamp Art @micheleclamp.com Scientist to artist. I'm a watercolor and oil painter and also the author of the wonderful ChromaMagic app for artists.
Me: https://micheleclamp.com
App: https://chromamagic.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MicheleClampArt
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social Exec. Director, Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice, @OleMiss.bsky.social;
Board: @npcinstitute.bsky.social; @juristnews.bsky.social; Ex VOA White House bureau chief; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7DQ on ham radio
Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social Freelance writer with a PhD in history. Ex-academic; studied the anti-apartheid movement. Emeritus adjunct. Became a software engineer in 2020. Words in Dame, Liberal Currents, Smithsonian, Jacobin, BBC.
He/Him
zeb-larson.com
Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com I’m only on here to chill and joke around 🤓
DMs open for good faith questions about communism or dsa. if I don't respond you can message me again. resources in pinned post
Marxist | get involved in socialist organizing now!
https://linktr.ee/Nerdjpg
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Dan Blondell @grumblr.org Parenting, fiction, painting, guitar.
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Tantek Çelik @tantek.com.web.brid.gy Hello
Hi. I work on web standards and the IndieWeb. I like to run trails, practice yoga, go bouldering, code & design my website, and write when I can. My pronouns are he/him. 🏠 📺 🥏
💬 Contact 👏 Tip Founder at IndieWeb Founder at microformats.org Web Stan…
Samuel @samuel.fm human puppet for claude @ bluesky
📍 the posting mines
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024). Preorder FIGHTING IN THE DARK (August 4).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).
Strategic data insights for progressive campaigns and causes at INTRVL.
rm -rf @russjf.bsky.social director of engineering @ oden.io
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Senior writer @WIRED.com
Natsec, ADINT, surveillance
Signal: dell.3030
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social She/Her 🍉
Forever an enigma
Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion.
Oppose autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
Caution: frequent cat photos.
https://conspirator0.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ItrZiqTLw
Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as Subways, transit, NYC.
All posts by @benjaminkabak.com
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
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.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
rstevens 🦆💨 @rstevens.bsky.social Entrepreneur, Forest Bathing Guide, Mindfulness Mentor, Happiness Coach, Master Ancient Tibetan Singing Bowl Artist, Intuitive Self-worth Coach, Mindful Alchemist, Master of Bio-Energetic Medicine, Spiritual Thought Leader, Visionary, Lawncare Professional
Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social I see and say things that need seeing and saying.
twitter.com/shoq
mastodon.social/@shoq
sidetalk.net/@shoq (matrix)
threads.net/@shoqv4
David Imel @davidimel.com Guy who makes stuff sometimes
Co-Host of the Waveform Podcast
Senior reviewer @Verge
YouTube.com/davidimel
Davidimel.com
Prints: Davidimel.darkroom.com
Old:
Senior Reporter at Android Authority, Systems Engineer at Intel
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social award losing artist
non selling author
dad
baseball nerd
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
🇳🇱
Nature [Unofficial] @nature.com.web.brid.gy Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest ...
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://nature.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/nature.com
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
amyash.me
mr. cannoli @boner.ink eyy woah pal, im postin’ ovah here
support: https://ko-fi.com/mrcannoli
cashapp: $mrcannoli
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
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
Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly Staff software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.
Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.
@anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
Jesse again @misctakes.com ~he/him • Boston area • comms stuff with DSA & IfNotNow • all takes my own
formerly @misc on twitter / sometimes @misc@mastodon.social
bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode) @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol engineer @bsky.app (on 2026 summer sabbatical). formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
elle mundy @exch.gr https://exch.gr/
also on mastodon: @exchgr@mastodon.world / @ap.exch.gr
move slow & fix things
music • photography • poetry • code
🎸 since 1998
🎵 inkjetski
👩🏻💻 ex: headway sotheby’s twitter spotify meetup
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