Josh Specht @joshspecht.bsky.social Historian at the University of Notre Dame, author of Red Meat Republic, a book about 🍖. Almost done with another book, still not sure what it's about.
crack the code, solve the crime @deputydale.bsky.social Your doppelgänger! Probably.
Also an enthusiastic participant in the Bird-Based Omens Extended Universe.
Donut aficionado.
It’s my job to figure out what it all means. 
Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social Mostly watching films.
Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social Mammal.
New📘The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything
LA Times Book Prize Finalist. "Hugely compelling" -NYTimes "History on a heroic scale" -Times (UK) "Brilliant and epic" -Kate Marvel
Old📘 The Ends of the World
Peterbrannen.com
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Quelle Movies, Out of the Past and #CineHistorians. Passionate about cinema.
www.raquelstecher.com
Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty-dollar-by-brendan-greeley/
Michael Lee Nirenberg @nirenberg.bsky.social The Great Pretender.
Cinematic Immunity (Fall 2025 @feralhouse)
IATSE829
Vince Keenan @vpkeenan.bsky.social Half of classic Hollywood mystery writer Renee Patrick @rpatrickbooks.bsky.social. A HELL OF A DRINK with Chris Elford coming 2027. Staff, NOIR CITY magazine. Cocktail enthusiast. Mets fan. Newsletter: Cocktails and Crime. https://vincekeenan.substack.com/
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Beth Gardiner @bethgardiner.bsky.social Journalist, author of PLASTIC INC. Buy US http://bit.ly/4hTHGFh Buy UK http://bit.ly/3LTjHdi And CHOKED #airpollution book. Bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, NatGeo, Scientific American, & more. AP alum. bethgardiner.com
@arjunjayadev.bsky.social @arjunjayadev.bsky.social 
Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social Has views on banking and finance for Bloomberg Opinion.
Just because you “like” something doesn’t mean you *like* something…
Money. Music. Books and Bad like really atrocious Jokes. Also #COYS
Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective.
Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
greig @greigforbes.bsky.social Books. Movies. Books about movies. Movies about anything. He/him. Seem to be drawn mostly to crime (film noir, Krimi, all kinds of capers) and classic comedy. Developing a bit of a James Mason fixation.
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
https://bookshop.org/a/5522/9798888903667
"Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social The world’s little magazine: www.thedial.world
Sign up for our free, weekly newsletter: https://world.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fa0db972b23592ba13703c3a8&id=bee50569eb
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Paul Abramson MD @paulabramsonmd.mydoctorsf.com Private physician in SF @mydoctorsf.com, MedEd at UCSF, concierge medicine, #addictionmed, infectious diseases, hospital med, gerontology, fmr EE, armchair ethicist. Bunny dad. #medsky
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com @postoctobrist.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, and @raaleh.bsky.social cover every mayor, in order. nogodsnomayors.com
Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social Canadian small press publisher of film + pop culture books, developer/producer/distributor of independent film. Owned by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social
www.spectacularoptical.com
Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social Chief TV Critic: @theindependent
Podcaster in Chief: @podotpods
Other "chief" roles: tbc
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social socializationproject.de
cominsitu.wordpress.com
AM Gittlitz @gittlitz.bsky.social writer, @thiswreckage.bsky.social podcaster
author of the green book:
https://redemmas.org/titles/34691-i-want-to-believe-posadism-and-leftwing-ufology/
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social 1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer.
Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019).
Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
David Neto 🇨🇦 @dneto.dev WebGPU and Vulkan shader language standards and tooling.
I work at Google, on the Chrome team.
I'm also on Mastodon.
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place
Canadian, eh
He/him
alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, founder at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, "in this horrible age of abuse and decay / its good to know somebody's looking ok"
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos. 
Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars and activists working primarily on the political ecologies of the far right.
@melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social 
Semafor @semafor.com Building a new global news company. Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.semafor.com/newsletters
Anthony Taylor @goanthonytaylor.bsky.social Writer, Rondo Hatton Awards Hall of Fame recipient, HWA. Author of The Art of George Wilson and Classic Monsters, Modern Art. Co-chair of MonsteramaCon.com. GoAnthonyTaylor.com
Buy Me A Coffee! - https://ko-fi.com/goanthonytaylor
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
alternate ending @jamiroqueer.bsky.social Cis gay Jewish atheist weirdo who stays home every Saturday night pretending he’s at a drive-in. I work in post. I like disco. “Makes the Internet suck" -Seth Abramson
Lebbertoxd: https://boxd.it/Wehd
Nate O. @sanildefanso.bsky.social Official Board Game Tastemaker and Co-host of Cult of the Old with @giantbrain.co.uk and @mattthr.bsky.social. Christian pacifist, TV snob, coffee addict.
Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social probably watching movies
https://letterboxd.com/JedidiahAyres/
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
CMYK @cmyk.games The game studio behind Wavelength, Monikers, Hot Streak, Magical Athlete, and more!
Find us at cmyk.games
Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social Game designer on UFO 50, Hot Streak, Air Land & Sea, Spots, Scape Goat, Time Barons. Comic author on Let Go. Website at jonperry.com
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social Dignity. Always dignity.
Fun City Editions @funcityeditions.bsky.social Works of cinema and music that exist outside of their time.
funcityeditions.com
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social New York Times-bestselling author of THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD. Also: A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION and THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES. — He/him.
Craig Mazin @clmazin.bsky.social Radiation, fungus, etc. 
John August @johnaugust.bsky.social Screenwriter, mostly. Also Highland and Scriptnotes.
James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social Saved Peter Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Work featured in NY Times, Sight & Sound, New Yorker, LA Times TrembleSighWonder.com my site. Edited & wrote foreword for De Palma, De Souza, Jim McBride, Larry Cohen, Alex Cox, Lizzie Borden. PB book soon
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
David Kerekes @davidkerekes.bsky.social Writer. Publisher. Headpress
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Todd Liebenow - Forgotten Filmcast @forgottenfilmz.bsky.social Producer and host of the Forgotten Filmcast, a podcast about the movies that time forgot.
Tom Ralston @studioralston.bsky.social Key Artist • Stratford, Ontario 🇨🇦
www.tomralston.info
Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social Journalist & Author who celebrates horror, sci-fi & the artists who make the world of cinema so great.
Follow my writing here: https://from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/B2Te6h0Js
The Cannon Film Guide @cannonfilmguide.bsky.social A trilogy of books about the legendary 1980s b-movie studio, The Cannon Group. Tweets actual Chuck Norris facts.
Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
Scott Humphries @scotth-author.bsky.social Author of "The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries"
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-age-of-melodramatic-miniseries/
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social Author, journalist, supporter of the oppressed (& animals on factory farms), detractor of corporate shills posing as "populists."
Latest book: (with Neil Brooks) Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax
Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social I'm a Fifer. I love the following:
FILMS! (Scottish, Irish, documentary, short films, horror, cult movies)
MUSIC! (Everything from traditional folk to electronic weirdness)
THEATRE! (Especially Scottish and Irish)
BOOKS!
HAGGIS!
Letterboxd: GhostOfTheRegal
FAB Press @fabpress.bsky.social Publishing informative and lavishly illustrated popular culture art books for three decades.
www.fabpress.com
Headpress @headpress.com Independent non-fiction publisher since 1991. We publish the stuff you love. Film. Music. Strangeness. Head honcho: @davidkerekes.bsky.social. Press: @harbottlestores.bsky.social. We do not use or publish AI-generated work in any form.
web: headpress.com
Daniel Kremer @thustlebird.bsky.social Filmmaker, author, historian, commentator, video essayist, husband. Adventures in Auteurism (2025), Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films (2015), Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024), Overwhelm the Sky (2019), Now, Irving Rapper (2026)
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Nik 'Ludic' Suresh @mrnikli.bsky.social I'm the CEO at Hermit Tech and aspire to one day be on the news for what I've done to a Microsoft salesperson.
Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social 
Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social It’s not doom if it’s a best case scenario. Author of Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition out 23 Sept 2025 @versobooks | https://linktr.ee/orsomethingworse
Lecturer, University of Essex
Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR 
Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social 
Matteo Pasquinelli @mttpsq.bsky.social Professor in philosophy of science
Ca' Foscari University Venice
matteopasquinelli.com
ERC project → unive.it/aimodels
Book → The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso)
Winner Deutscher Prize 2024
Brian Callaci @briancallaci.bsky.social Economist | Union guy | Personal account | He/him
Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social Author of Currency of Nihilism (Stanford 2026). Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
Allan Watson @allanwatson1.bsky.social Reader in Economic Geography, Loughborough University. Creative industries, music, tech and platforms. Associate Editor, Geoforum.
Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social Independent publisher - now part of Edinburgh University Press
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware.
Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social Prof. Economic Geography, Durham, UK.
Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social
Finance, money, FinTech, and more.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
Every Geddy @everygeddy.bsky.social A random still image from Geddython everyday. Be sure to reskeet the geddy skeet https://bsky.app/profile/geddython.bsky.social
assbutt @nasboat.org i am not paul f. tompkins
Cinema Shame @cinemashame.bsky.social Only the Penitent Moviewatcher Will Pass. Cinephilia for remorseful cinephiliacs by @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social, @houseofglib.bsky.social, and @krismyers.bsky.social. Confess your shame. Podcasting on iTunes/Spotify/etc. 
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast @breakfastruins.bsky.social Michael Moorcock-flavoured podcasting, with a Hull garnish, broadcasting from the Bradford hills. Some other stuff.
www.breakfastintheruins.com
Episodes: https://pod.link/1483375608?view=episodes&sortEp=newest
Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.