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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social Author, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
low vision (#nystagmus), bus lover, bike rider
annazivarts.com
#WeekWithoutDriving weekwithoutdriving.org
Nondrivers Alliance nondrivers.org (c3)
Nondriver Action ndaction.org (c4)
Miiriya @miiriya.com Miiriya is an App where you can shop Black Owned Businesses conveniently on one app. I Hate AI. Nice to meet you Blacksky!
https://linktr.ee/miiriya
Smedley Hunkerbunker @joaquindead.bsky.social Word nerd and teacher of hooligans. Atheist, antifa, sober, semi-spectrumy. Leftist liberal; not in your club. DMs only with those I know IRL. ACAB means Assholes Catch A Block. Post AI, you’re gone. Mayonnaise is worse than murder.
Chris G @cgodby.bsky.social Music👍
Vinyl👍
Food👍
Cooking👍
Books👍
Writing👍
Poetry👍
Sports👍
Politics🚫
ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social I have dogs. More accurately my dogs have a human valet, if you do not want 40 million pictures of dogs this is not a feed for you.
I also like wandering around looking at trees.
I’m not here to argue, debate club clowns get blocks.
She/her
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.
Dan Lyke (he/him) @danlyke.bsky.social Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social Rabbi/Teacher/Secondary Elite. Anarcho-Kotzker. Perpetually learning. Good Torah is Good Torah.
Everything you need to know about me is in "The Writing of the God" by Borges.
Misfittorah.substack.com
Beast of Bourbon 🥃 @jenleepa.bsky.social Hot philosopher diplomat
JD @realdealjd.bsky.social women's sports fan, political misanthrope, heart of a hater
@alicefongyiliu.bsky.social @alicefongyiliu.bsky.social 
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Steve Bogart @nowthis-sb.bsky.social Software guy, musician, once and future blogger.
Maker of tools like sankeymatic.com
Copy McPasty, Writer @kashannkilson.bsky.social No one is more insufferable than a middle-aged man rediscovering his mid-range game. Ask me how I know.
Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me she/her. Slippy-夫人 if you’re nasty.
https://www.slippy.me/
a.k.a. gremlincrimes or damnslippyplanet. usually thinking about Thai BL, SKZ, cdramas, or cats, w/ an occasional hard shift into yinzer-posting or Terrible Stories of Unethical Science of Yore.
Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social Time Out New York theater editor and critic, Drama Critics' Circle president, recalcitrant humanist, wiseacre. Be gentle.
Catherine Lucey @catherinelucey.bsky.social White House correspondent for Bloomberg News
Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social NBC News reporter covering the LGBTQ+ community.
DMs open; email Jo.Yurcaba@nbcuni.com; Signal @joyurcaba.91
Pronouns: they/them
Michael A. Farrington @mikefromco.bsky.social All views mine.
Candidate stuff: MichaelforRTD.com
JD '26 BA Gov '22. Politics, land use, housing, TABOR, and local government. Fourth generation Coloradan, Fifth generation American. ✟
Anon accounts blocked.
Snarky Spice @postapocalipstick.bsky.social Nor-Cal rooted. Trying to get back into being more active politically and artistically. Will never pass up a good movie, book, drink or time. Semi-luddite, fully tired of all this BS.
Sarah Drummond @sarahdrummond.bsky.social 
Kate Wolfe @drkwolfe24.bsky.social She/Her| Ph.D. Social Psychology | Professor Hostos CC, Bronx, NY| Married| catmom to Maura Mabel Maitri and George Harrison| Progressive Dem| Feminist 💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️NO DMs, dating, selling, or PORN!! No Only Fans accounts 🚫🚫 All views are my own.
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
@gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social 
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)
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
David Farrier @davidfarrier.com WEBWORM / FLIGHTLESS BIRD / DARK TOURIST / TICKLED / MISTER ORGAN
davidfarrier@protonmail.com | www.webworm.co
@shamfeldt.bsky.social @shamfeldt.bsky.social 
Zoe Melisa @feminizzzm.bsky.social 📖ζωή μέλισσα
🦋 extrovert, librarian, advocate
⚠Views mine, no one else's
Blooming Heads @bloomingheads.bsky.social emo sadcore indie pop from Sacramento, CA. on hiatus.
Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social Senior Correspondent, Vox. The Supreme Court is bad, y'all.
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
SantaCruzMag @santacruzmag.bsky.social 
Joshua Yu Burnett @joshuayuburnett.bsky.social Prof of Multilingual Comp @ AWC. Degrees in Creative Writing & Af Am Lit, Scholarship in Black Speculative Fiction. Ex-expat in Bangladesh & Mexico. Dork/weirdo. Nonbinary, any pronouns fine as long as you don't call me "Mr." or "Sir." From the Bay.
Pedro Morales-Almazan @p3d40.bsky.social Math professor, UC Santa Cruz
Math, poetry, data science, teaching, et al.
I don't get APA.
Bryan Gaensler @scibry.bsky.social Dean of Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Astronomer, sci-fi connoisseur, rugby league devotee, puzzled parent 🇦🇺🇨🇦. Opinions ∉ UCSC.
Santa Cruz CA, USA. He/him. bryangaensler.net
Irma @eckslibris.northsky.social PFP: a white person w/a mask, leading a horse with a young rider. I'm @EcksLibris on Tumblr & Mastodon if Bsky goes south
Black Lives Matter. Support Trans Folks. I’m in Texas but not of it. Fat is an adjective, not an insult. Covid is not over. They/Them
@calehigh.bsky.social @calehigh.bsky.social 
Ryan Ken @ryankenacts.bsky.social Actor. Writer. Incomplete thoughts and shenanigans.
Owen Howlett @owenhowlett.bsky.social Keepin' it pretentious in Midtown Sacto. Dogs, bikes, composting, energy policy, woodworking, reading the whole of the article, California secession, toast done on one side.
@noshu4me.bsky.social @noshu4me.bsky.social 
The Leisure Savant @mickster67.bsky.social Acetaminophen American
East TN.
Hey, you
GenXistentialist
Behavioral Humanism
Cishet male
Divorced
Father of two awesome adults
No DM’s Not Interested
“Every day is its own kind of perfect. Some days are perfectly shitty.”
Flo Cofer @flojaune.bsky.social Public health professional | Spontaneous Dancer | Committed Dreamer | Lover of Sacramento | moreispossible916.com
John Lewis @uneasyrhetoric.net GenX dude addicted to literature, language (semi-francophone), coffee, and fresh air. Politics isn't fun anymore. Opinions are mine and do not represent any affiliation. ✊. He/him
Noah Goodall @noahgoodall.bsky.social Transportation researcher. Pre-prints on personal site. Views are my own, not Commonwealth's. https://profile.virginia.edu/njg2q
The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social The Drain is a podcast covering California politics and culture with hosts Palma (@palma.ltd) and Kempa (@yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social)
Free eps Tuesdays (The Drain), and *premium* eps Fridays (The Plug): patreon.com/thedrain
📍 Sacramento, CA
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Sarah Diaz @itssarah.bsky.social Maternal-child health advocacy and momming (human, cat, dog), mostly.
UC Santa Cruz Science @ucscscience.bsky.social Responsible for instigating some of humanity’s most high-impact discoveries.
Visit us at https://science.ucsc.edu/ 🐋 🔭 🧬
UC Santa Cruz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social Official account of University of California, Santa Cruz. Go Slugs!
ucsc.edu
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently I’m doing this now. 
Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social Fight Like Hell for the Living
https://susiebright.ink
Feather McNamara 😷🐦⬛ @adubiouspronoun.bsky.social They/She 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Book lover, gym rat, world traveler, polyglot, unfortunate Floridian, stroke survivor, @zinniajones.com 's #1 fan.
F everything. I'm just gonna post about books and soccer from now on.
Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social Ace K (he/him) | public defender & movement lawyer | co-founder Ground Game LA / Knock LA / new legal org name TBA
Time to take this shit back, all of it
‘cause it was ours to begin with
Celeste Noelani @celestenoelani.bsky.social Disabled Pacific Islander goddess. Kanaka Maoli + Chamorro. She / They. #neurofibromatosis #schwannomatosis #LandBack
Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie.bsky.social Two-time Lambda-award-winning Author of The Summer We Got Free, Skye Falling, and These Heathens (June 2025). Mama. Visionary. Queer icon.
Black Girl Dangerous @blackgirldangerous.bsky.social I post at miamckenzie.bsky.social
Good ol’ what’s his face @robsims.bsky.social All around tech nerd. I torture electrons for fun and profit. Sometimes I make sawdust or maintain the petrol chariot. Mostly I attempt to entertain the furbeasts. Neurospicy. Please spay or neuter your elected reprehensibles & own a radio. he/him/dumbass
Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social COP is stored in the ovaries
pompe à chaleur. recovering local digital news reporter. rural volunteer firefighter. Gideon the Sixth. your favorite deep state climate bureaucrat’s favorite shitposter
she/her/bro 🔌⚡️
JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social She/Her. I do politics. I do public and behavioral health issues. And in 2025, I exist to RESIST Nazis and Fascists 🩷💜💙
Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social Congressman, former Mayor of Long Beach, educator, comic nerd, progressive & proud American 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Official: @robertgarcia.house.gov
Theresa Clift @tclift.bsky.social Senior reporter for @sacbee_news.
Full-time newspaperwoman since 2013.
Fan of local accountability journalism, breakfast sandwiches.
@SacBeeGuild chair.
DMs open.
MWCK @mwck.bsky.social GM at KUTZFM 103.1 in Sacramento, CA. Ted Head, Permaculture Activist, Anti-Capitalist, "Gardener". Just a Monkey With Car Keys.
@meganebryant.bsky.social @meganebryant.bsky.social 
Carrieosity @carrieosity.bsky.social Teen Librarian by trade; unrepentant Fandom Grandma in my downtime.
@haverserena.bsky.social @haverserena.bsky.social 
Wichelhaus @formertwtruser.bsky.social Attorney
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
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
Zelie @pinkparadise.bsky.social 
Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry
And I said to myself: What next big sky?
Heather Shaw @sundew.bsky.social Feminist SF/F writer, editor, sewist, lindy hopper, gardener, mother of fantastic teenager, herder of cats both literal and figurative, fervent believer in social justice, member of the LGBTQIA+ tribe, and so much more.
@cxhale.bsky.social @cxhale.bsky.social 
Lunesse @lunesse.bsky.social glass artist, metalsmith, and rock and roll occasionally. Whales! And Cats. Definitely Cats.
It's ok to do nice things for yourself. You deserve it. Go for it! 
@aletheafitz.bsky.social @aletheafitz.bsky.social 
Judy @notakite.bsky.social possibly a kite
(do I need a real bio? Library paraprofessional, Doctor Who aficionado, connoisseur of labyrinths, yes I want to see pictures of your cats)
probably not a werewolf, but I would say that, wouldn't I?
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. Just an old lady trying to eat a taco. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Eric Spry @espry.bsky.social Theater, coffee, pizza, and sometimes other life things like technology, electrification, walkable cities. Recently former CFPB. Living in Palm Springs CA with my husband 👬🏳️🌈 🚲
@ezkropp.bsky.social @ezkropp.bsky.social 
@epsingel.bsky.social @epsingel.bsky.social 
Vicki @vlcheese.bsky.social 🇬🇧to 🇺🇸
women’s rights, trans rights, Black Lives Matter, 🏳️🌈
🐈 lady
⚽️ COYG
📸
always planning my next trip.
@ansley-yeomans.bsky.social @ansley-yeomans.bsky.social 
2+Tough - Doug @twoplustough.bsky.social I host a YouTube channel about warhammer Age of Sigmar and many other miniatures games! See my channel and other stuff here: https://linktr.ee/TwoPlusTough
Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news network covering schools and education policy across the U.S. Follow our education journalism at chalkbeat.org. Have a news tip? Here's how you can reach us: ckbe.at/contact-chalkbeat or email us at community@chalkbeat.org
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
@misspaty2077.bsky.social @misspaty2077.bsky.social 
@ca-dwr.bsky.social @ca-dwr.bsky.social 
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
Always check the latest posts for updated advice/information.
We reserve the right to remove misinformation, spam, and hate speech under our posts.
Caridad Appleking @charitymp.bsky.social 
Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
🔗 Shop, sign up, find bookshops, & more: www.libro.fm
trancejen @trancejen.bsky.social Spider from mars
Liberal as it gets
Queer
Cat collector
Yarn wrangler
Music is life
Extroverted introvert
Spaz (epilepsy)
Disabled not dead
Fifty and fucking fabulous
BLM
NO MAGAS or fuckboys
Jen @pghqueertherapist.bsky.social Artist, therapist, mom, enby, queerdo, activist