Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social ᚛ᚐᚔᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔ᚜
Explorations of Etymology / Historical Linguistics. Usually on Fridays.
Made by a human for humans with no AI
Professor of Secret Histories
www.aidanem.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/aidanem
Subscription: https://www.patreon.com/aidanem
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Bluesky日本語（公式） @jp.bsky.app Bluesky日本語公式アカウントです（ユーザー名をチェック👆）。
バグのご報告、機能リクエスト、フィードバックはこちらへ → support@bsky.app
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social Will (he/him) on Zoom
Bassist for HR Lady and the Smoothgroins
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Modern Money Lab U.S. @mmlusa.bsky.social Educating the People about what is possible with modern public money systems. https://t.co/ycmaRJJmRD
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
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social CEng, MSc Econ & Finance, PhD candidate IIPP_UCL. Co-host of The MMT Podcast. Founder of MMTUK Policy Research Group
Substack steadystate.patriciapino.com
Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com Meteorologist for REBUILD.US based in Minneapolis. Contributing climate journalist for The Guardian. Author of The Future Earth. Optimistic to a fault.
DM to contact me securely on Signal
Reading the Pictures | Michael Shaw | Substack [Unofficial] @readingthepictures.media.web.brid.gy The non-profit Reading the Pictures is dedicated to the analysis of news photography and media images. Click to read Reading the Pictures, by […]
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://readingthepictures.media/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/readingthepictures.media
The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social Cartoonist and creator of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens https://linktr.ee/theoatmeal
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social A temporary arrangement of cosmic particles
The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan.
JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp
Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters
Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social I experiment with altered states of monetary consciousness https://www.asomo.co
Cathexis Zero @cathexiszero.bsky.social 40-something lawyer, sci-fi geek, and ShiPoo daddy. I write things for Tabletopbattles.com too.
Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com Author of USELESS ETYMOLOGY, WORDS FROM HELL, ONCE UPON A WORD, INTO THE WORDS. Podcaster, Words Unravelled. Adjunct prof at Emerson and UFL. Speaker, content director, social pro, ad world wordsmith. https://linktr.ee/JessZafarris
Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social 🧢 CEO: Dropout
🎤 Host: Game Changer, Make Some Noise
🌸 he / him
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
Languages Direct @languages-direct.com HQ for Languages Direct Ltd's posts on anything and everything to do with learning foreign languages.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://buff.ly/3MEPZXw
Bristol, UK, New York, U.S.A
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Author of Global South Perspectives on Substack
https://globalsouthperspectives.substack.com
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Locutus Tips @locutustips.bsky.social Why do you resist us? We only wish to raise quality of life.
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
📰 Sign up for the newsletter at LinguisticDiscovery.Substack.com or LinguisticDiscovery.com!
Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social /'dʑowɪn/
• taalkundige | linguist
• schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord' | author
• all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk
• Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk
• photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social Iowa House Rep for Council Bluffs and Carter Lake. 4x Paralympian, 2x Gold Medalist in wheelchair basketball. Disability advocate.
Ready to be Iowa's next U.S. Senator.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
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.”
Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. I like financial crisis hindsight, spurious correlation and puppies. London ➡️New York ➡️Abu Dhabi ➡️Hong Kong ➡️New York
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Nathan Becker @netbacker.bsky.social Why do we accept shortages in healthcare, education, and childcare, but never seem to run out of money for tax cuts, unending wars or big corp bailouts?
The way we talk about public money shapes the world we live in.
Notice the disconnect.
Notes on the Crises @crisesnotes.bsky.social Currently: Coverage of the ongoing Impoundment and Unitary Executive Constitutional Crisis
www.crisesnotes.com
https://www.instagram.com/crisesnotes
https://www.youtube.com/@crisesnotes
President:
@nathantankus.bsky.social
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Views my own. https://marshallsteinbaum.org/
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
Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social Here for some skeets!
I rarely see @s because Bluesky notifications are broken!
If you'd like to support my art — http://patreon.com/elivalley
Thanks!
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis @stlouisfed.bsky.social We are committed to a strong and resilient economy for all.
Open access to the U.S. economy through economic analysis, scholarly research, educational explainers, and data storytelling with FRED®.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/
Thomas Cummins @thoscummins.bsky.social Soil Science at University College Dublin, archaeology and environmental resource management, urban and anthropogenic soils. Committee member @sssireland.bsky.social
Repost means I've read it
And a little budburst survey (since 1994) #phenology
Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social Aussie into money & finance, technology, political economy, culture, public governance, pedagogy etc.
ALAB Series @alabseries.bsky.social an infrequent podcast about the law
Iain (一言) Dooley @iaindooley.com 
warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social 
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Sam Levey @slevey.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at Illinois College. Modern Monetary Theory and other heterodox approaches.
YOURE ON YOUR OWN @yoyopodcast.bsky.social you're on your own ... with andy and tarik
Modern Money Lab @modernmoneylab.bsky.social Economics for a new era
Pavlina R Tcherneva @ptcherneva.bsky.social President, Levy Economics Institute
Professor, Bard College
Author, The Case for a Job Guarantee https://a.co/d/gAoulSA
https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/pavlina-r-tcherneva
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social College professor; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram
https://linktr.ee/neilshyminsky
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.
dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social im rich traditions
☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social ☀️ Pro-Naked Mole Rat, anti-everything else ☀️
Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast | columnist @nplusonemag.com
~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
Nima Shirazi @nimashirazi.bsky.social 
Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social co-host Citations Needed podcast.
order my new book ‘How to Sell a Genocide’ here https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide or https://a.co/d/0hl4hmFi
columnblog.com
Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social A podcast on media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Dan Buettner @capncavedan.bsky.social Software developer, lefty, progressive, cyclist, some other nouns. He/him.
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
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
Warren Mosler @wbmosler.bsky.social www.moslereconomics.com
William Mitchell @billmitchell.org Professor of Economics, one of founders of MMT, professional musician. https://www.billmitchell.org
Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social Author of the NYT bestseller The Deficit Myth. Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University. Writer of newsletter https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app