Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social Fine artist of Imaginative Realism. Retired illustrator of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Winner of 15 Hugo Awards. Inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2009.
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
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Erik Larsen @eriklarsen.bsky.social Savage Dragon perpetrator
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov Husband to my college sweetheart. Father to two troublemaking baby boys. U.S. Senator for New Jersey.
Account run by staff. Posts from Senator Kim signed –AK
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/
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
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couchtobarbell.com
LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social researcher @google; serial complexity unpacker
ex @ msft & aerospace
J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS.
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83.com ‘Innocent Runaway’ out now! 🧸 | 80s Retro Synthwave Artist 🎹 | Creator of #blinkwave 🛹 | management@dreamkid83.com | https://linktr.ee/dreamkid83
T H E VV O R S T @milfparade.bsky.social Bullet farmer (from the bullet farm). Law-adjacent. Philly
Matt Ray @mattray.dev Open source geek & breaker/fixer of toys. Co-host of the @SoftwareDefinedTalk.com podcast, living in Australia.
William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social National Book Award-winning author of unrealisms, mostly for young readers. SUNWARD (my first novel for grownups) was a finalist for the 2026 Philip K. Dick Award and is a current finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He/him.
www.willalex.net
Dan Morison @darkmechanic.bsky.social Illustrator, Concepts, Character Designs, Storyboards & Fanart. Creator of HELL-BENT & The Salted Heart
Work inquirers - https://www.danmorison.com/
https://linktr.ee/darkmechanic
Adam J O’Donnell @adamjodonnell.bsky.social Deputy CISO @ Stripe. I like art. cDc ❤️🫵
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social Fighting for working families. Pennsylvania affiliate of @workingfamilies.org.
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Jordan Sissel @whack.bsky.social If a user has a bad time, it’s a bug.
Open source maintainer of many things.
Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social Luthier, writer, musician. Hearing impaired. The whole show at Crowfoot Electric Guitars. Currently writing & recording with Last Valley. Queer. He/him. San Diego, CA. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here are mine alone. crowfootguitars.com
Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social Story artist, illustrator, writer of words.
Crafting comics with these tiny rat hands.
#art
#sketch
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#solivaga
#fanart
http://solivaga.net Read Solivaga
https://www.patreon.com/solivaga Brushes, illustration assets and art
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social Cartoonist. Adult Teenage Dirtbag 🌱 Friend of shrimp 🦐
She/her 🏳️🌈 Ⓥ
Philadelphia
Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026)
💌 Samantha.benc@gmail.com
Rep'd by @draper-claire.bsky.social
R. Talsorian Games @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social Creators of Cyberpunk 2020/RED, The Witcher TRPG, Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, and Teenagers from Outer Space!
https://www.talsorianstore.com
Ben Bleything @bleything.net pacific northwestern computerist. you may know me from such as
he/him
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social Available for personal and commercial work.
Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Greg Burek @gregburek.com Relentlessly burned out
Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi
weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social GenX movie nut; Philly guy; cat fan; horror expert; former film critic; nerdy podcaster
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social I tell lies for fun and profit. Author of the Frontlines and Palladium Wars SF series, Wild Cards writer, contributor to Love Death + Robots.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Sascha Dikiciyan @sonicmayhem.com Composer & Film Nerd: Dystopika, Metal Eden, Quake II, Quake 3 Arena, The Division 2 series, Deus Ex: MD, Tron, Mass Effect 3, The Long Dark, Borderlands, Prototype etc . VHS collector.
Mgmt: www.1eavenuemusic.com
Official site: www.sonicmayhem.com
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
@timothyzillion.bsky.social @timothyzillion.bsky.social 
@primary.every.democrat @primary.every.democrat 
Scotto Moore @scotto.org He/him; author: WILD MASSIVE, BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES, and YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU on Tordotcom - Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/scottomoore - Visit scenic scotto.org 
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Tbocart @tbocart.bsky.social 
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
Sen @dresdencodak.com Alita Senna Diaz (she/her) 🏳️🌈🇨🇺
Professional Cartoonist/Lesbian
Read my cyberpunk comic Dark Science!
http://darksciencecomic.com/
https://dresdencodak.com/
https://patreon.com/dresdencodak
Block AI on sight 🚫
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.
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
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
5 Calls @5calls.org Your issues, scripts and representatives all in one place. Spend 5 minutes, make 5 calls: http://5calls.org
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com You want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Peter Clines @peterclines.com NYT bestselling maker-upper of things. Still making things up. Still getting paid for it. No, it doesn't make sense to me, either. Former film guy. Toy enthusiast. he/him. Try to be a better person than you were yesterday.
Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app Electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems engineer and teacher. ♦️👌 1911. PC gamer, sci-fi, fantasy, Warhammer 40k, watch collecting. Loves history, philosophy, science and thinking about hard problems.
robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social the tallest child in the world!! https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/the-french-drain-i-dug-back-in-2019
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
ellenkpao.com
Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
Dan Peterson @danp.net 🚲📈
https://danp.net, https://hfx.bike, https://github.com/danp
cheese @cheeseplus.biz staff build engineer @Respawn (Apex Legends)
taco officer @polycount
cloud, oss, CI/CD, perf junkie - powerlifting - rucking - scion of the Sixth House - bi/poly
past: UT ITS, SOE, Vigil, Basho, Chef, Epic
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Azeria @azeria-labs.com Founder of Azeria Labs, Trainer, Author of Blue Fox: Arm Assembly Internals & Reverse Engineering
Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Scribble scribble scribble
Latest novel: Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
Space Rogue @spacerog.bsky.social I fight for the user. | L0pht Heavy Industries - ATStake - Whacked Mac Archives - Hacker News Network - Cyber Squirrel 1 | Semgrep
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Window Snyder @windowsnyder.bsky.social 
ℵ₁ @aleph1.underground.org 
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM
Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias.
Nazis need to be punched.
Goblin Punch @goblinpunch.bsky.social I'm going to try to post something every day. Let's see how far I get.
-Arnold K.
goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Aims @ammeep.com Word to who made you. She said go outside, you’ll feel better. Computers are the worst.
ex Fastly Compute, GitHub, GreenButton
Talk to me about scaling your engineering teams. I got you.
ammeep.com
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
not again @leif.vats.run 
Obfu @obfuscurity.bsky.social Oracle Sr EM. Monitorama founder. Monitoring Weekly editor. Graphite Book author.
Previously: Replicated, Fastly, Sensu, Librato, Dyn, GitHub, Heroku and more.
Coda @codahale.com Standing athwart history, yelling Yes Daddy
Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social I like to be called Jeff.
https://www.somethingsimilar.com
San Francisco, CA
@randommood.bsky.social @randommood.bsky.social 
Greg Poirier @grepory.nothanks.io I'm a fancy boy. Based in Atlanta, GA.
Ben Stoltz @benstoltz.com 
Laura Abbott @labbott.name TODO fill in
Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com ✨ Weird CAD and graphics research
⚙️ Embedded software and Rust
🌎 Cambridge, MA
🏠 mattkeeter.com
Liza Dixon @lizadixon.bsky.social PhD Candidate, HMI x Automated Driving. Advocate for human-centered automation. Stop autonowashing. Eat plants 🌱 lizadixon.com
The Register @theregister.com Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Dr. Dabbles @drdabbles.bsky.social Hardware Architect. I like the intersection of ISA and hardware.
Realistic expectations evangelist.
C / Go / Python
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures.
https://www.markhertling.com
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Coté @cote.io https://newsletter.cote.io
Texas Forever!
Lincoln Stoll @lstoll.net @lstoll etc. Computers/Travel/Shitposts/blah blah. Another Australian in Berlin.
https://lds.li
Casey Rosenthal @clr.bsky.social Wrote the book on Chaos Engineering http://amzn.to/3bjsRJ9. Interim CEO of HiBeam. Formerly BOD at Trifork, CEO at Prowler, Verica, management at Netflix, Basho, Port49.