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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social Bot account of Henri Matisse, a French painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker.
Peter King @peterking1.bsky.social Have a book about my 40 years covering football coming out in October. Preorder: https://linktr.ee/TheGamebyPeterKing
Had a good run at Cincinnati Enquirer, Newsday, SI, ABC, CNN, HBO, The MMQB and NBC.
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social Dad and ice cream shop owner. Books, cats, baking, punk music, running. Carly Rae Jepsen appreciator. Kottke.org contributor.
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father (all that matters)
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Fred Andersson @homosatanis.bsky.social He/him. Swedish. Queer. Professional researcher. Mystery aficionado. Writer. Film fanatic. Book collector. Sometimes on TV, mostly not.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
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The French Republican Calendar @handle.invalid A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
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.
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@queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social come on
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Count von Count @countvoncount.org 🦇 The Count von Count
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
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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.
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Chelsea Janes @chelseajanes.bsky.social MLB insider, SNY
Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Taller than your dad
Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social Senior Reporter at MotherJones, 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Get in touch: jlurie@cir.org | Proton: julialurie@proton.me | Signal: julialurie.81 | julialurie.com
Reveal @revealnews.org The Reveal podcast is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social National correspondent at Mother Jones. tmurphy@motherjones.com.
Signal: timothypmurphy.41
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social Mother Jones reporter. Covering corruption, foreign influence. Derrick White enthusiast. Signal: danfriedman.67
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Sophie Vershbow @svershbow.bsky.social Writer: NY Mag, Esquire, The Atlantic, Vogue, etc. Head of Social Media @ tech job. Mostly posting about dogs & books. Opinions all mine. vershbowiswriting@gmail.com
https://www.sophievershbow.com/writing
Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social The Comics in the Golden Age Podcast. And sometimes the Platinum Age. Celebrating comics books & comic strips of all genres & their creators (ESPECIALLY THEIR CREATORS) from the 1930s to the 1950s, & other comics history!
Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Becoming Earth (Random House) ✵ Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Naturalist, wildlife gardener & photographer, baker ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Dave Pell @davepell.bsky.social Managing Editor, Internet
NextDraft.com
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston. 
Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social "Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?"
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social Faculty at School of Visual Arts, Painter. Teach Photoshop for Coloring - comics & illustrators. He/him. Likes puns. https://andypearlman.com/paintings.html
Joy of Cooking @joyofcooking.bsky.social The official Joy of Cooking Bluesky feed.
https://joyofcooking.com
Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social Teacher, Latinist, Thought Follower. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (USA Today bestseller) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) lukeepplin.com Contact: lepplin@gmail.com
Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social scots. telly writer/director he/him/his
first show: "the rockford files" 1994
last show: "mobland" 2025
next show: "equi tardi" 2026
i'm against ai owned by billionaires.
i purge my posts but meant what i said.
a: hobo
b: chimp wi' a megaphone (getty)
anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social UofT Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Jewish Life & Social Justice, 2025-26 | Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, 2023-25 | professional afrojudeopessoptimist
anthonyrussellbass.com
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG). HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury), @UGMAN (ITNA). Hero: John Berger. Dog: Berger
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social Kiki and Herb , The Julie Ruin, Our Hit Parade. queer (he/him)
Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social Former director of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre; opinionated cultural commentator; husband of fab novelist Kat Falls. Often posts pet pics to boost followers.
Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net Author of THE THEMIS FILES, THE TEST. TAKE THEM TO THE STARS, NO KINDNESS TOO SOON, THE MANY. www.neuvel.net
Gregory Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social Shakespeare actor/dramaturg; audiobook narrator; 1/2 of Rannygazoo (mongers of tinpandemonium) and Wingback Productions (makers of parlor theater ™️); Premature Anti-Fascist; he/him
Scott Heim @scottheim.bsky.social writer & creator of incredible negronis
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press critic, publisher, head cunt in charge of Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Deborah Hellman @hellmandeborah.bsky.social Professor @ UVA Law School, writing about discrimination law and theory, bribery and corruption.
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Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social Podcast on empires and world history 🌎
A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Kim Wehle @kimwehle.bsky.social Law Prof. Fulbright Scholar. Fmr Asst US Attorney. @abcnews and @Zeteo Legal Contributor. Writer, thinker, speaker. Latest book: PARDON POWER: https://a.co/d/iHpv3Mk; https://kimwehle.substack.com/
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com DC resident and cybersecurity writer, analyst, book author, publisher. https://metacurity.com/ https://cyberriskbook.com/
https://www.csoonline.com/profile/cynthia-brumfield/ https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social Here for some skeets!
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David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social New York Times investigative reporter, writing about the world of nonprofits. CNN political analyst. Please send story tips! daf@nytimes.com