Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social I'm Rebecca, from Wonkette: 2004-still exists.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social 37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler.
RN@dicknixon.com
Venus's Unruly Child @saturnexalted.bsky.social Bombshell elegantly decomposing into forest hag
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❌TERFs/SWERFs/AI/genocide deniers/anti-astrology trolls
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social Fired by the Trump admin for doing my job. Forever CFPB Union proud: @nteu335.bsky.social
Previously: Candidate for the U.S. House in Maryland’s 6th district @ElectAlexis.bsky.social | ElectAlexis.org
Charlotte Varnes @charlottevarnes.bsky.social covering the phillies for the athletic • northwestern alum • other stops in IND, SF, ATL, TPA • space coast native
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
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
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social musicologist at the University of Delaware, citizen of West Philly.
Current:
•McCarthyism in the Music Industry, 1945-1960
•Performance and History in the Semiquincentennial
Past:
•What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017).
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social Bot highlighting changes to the New York Times "Top Stories" feed.
original by @j-e-d.bsky.social
Bluesky version by @unchi.org
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
Kyra Bee @kyrabee.bsky.social Scientist, community organizer, digital painting, comics, vegan 🌱 . Queer+trans ⚧️🏳️⚧️, opinions are my own. No 🚫AI❌
ICE must be destroyed
She/her 🖖🏻
Ryan Dahn @ryandahn.com Editor at @physicstoday.aip.org. Historian studying Nazi science by night. Passionate about Philadelphia urbanism, sports, and politics. All opinions my own.
https://ryandahn.com
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
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https://theordinalsociety.com
Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Kate Scott @katetscott.bsky.social Sixers PxP announcer and WNBA on USA and NWSL on CBS and NFL on Westwood One and Seahawks preseason and Madden and ... who loves naps, whiskey, rescue pitties, and the SPORTS! Big fan of treating others with kindness and compassion too. #TogetherWeRise
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
Maintenance Phase @maintenancephase.bsky.social Wellness and weight loss, debunked and decoded. A podcast hosted by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social.
maintenancephase.com
patreon.com/maintenancephase
MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social The official account of Major League Baseball ⚾Account run by @beastModeRocco.com
Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social Formerly Lou Reed Blankenship
Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social (She/They)
Cofounder of a bunch of repro orgs, won’t stop talking about abortion later in pregnancy.
www.getlatercare.com
‘Nah’ -Harriet Tubman
Felina510 @felina510.bsky.social First-Round D1 Yapper
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(Formerly GrkGddssofHiphop on AIM)
https://felina510.substack.com
Claude M. Schrader @cschrader.bsky.social Fifth generation Philadelphian, mixed-race black man and Devops Engineer. Currently into GIS, data analysis, urban and environmental issues. He/him. 🏏🎺
#python | #gis | #devops | #linux | #terraform | #philly
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish. typeos.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
The Philadelphia Hall Monitor @hallmonitorwppm.bsky.social Independent reporting on #Philadelphia government, politics and more.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com The Inquirer is your front-row seat to the Philadelphia region. You can support local, impactful journalism at inquirer.com/bsky-subscribe/.
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social Writer living on the road. AI-free. Read THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her.
monicabyrne.substack.com
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Christine Nangle @nanglish.bsky.social Writer, The Simpsons. (prev The President Show, The Break, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show, SNL, UCB) I like pit bulls so much. Phanatic fanatic. 🦅
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.
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
Brian @brian215.bsky.social I am Governor Jerry Brown. My aura smiles and never frowns.
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social A civil courts reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. PACER obsessed docket sleuth. Send me gossip to agutman(at)inquirer.com and Agutman.96 on Signal.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)
Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social public interest law/policy/advocacy always. opinions and idealism all mine. 🔗 https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/leadership-in-government-fellowship
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.”
Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social Archaeologist. Open. Community/ Public. Digital. GIS. LiDAR. Landscape. Small scale + non-hierarchical. Andes, Ecuador, Maine, Pennsylvania. Studying the construction of landscapes of resistance... Maine-iac. Views are my own (not my employers).
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com Editor-in-Chief, Baseball Prospectus | I make the negativity come alive.
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social Veteran, dog mom, criminal. Feet pictures: $reezlie
My book: https://www.spiegelandgrau.com/i-am-not-your-enemy
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Dan Blacksberg @danblacksberg.bsky.social Klezmer and Experimental trombone-based music in Philly, New York and around the world. Creates the Radiant Others Podcast!
Gonna try and run this account for fun and connection like it’s that other site circa 2012.
Julie Felise Dubiner @jfdubiner.bsky.social Once a dramaturg, always a dramaturg. she/her. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Director of Artistic Initiatives
@mccarter
John Foley @2008philz.bsky.social philadelphia sports enthusiast | shopkeeper http://2008philz.substack.com | http://FoleysOnSouth.com
Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org The Institute for Policy Studies has been the research arm of movements challenging inequality, corporate power, polluters, and militarism since 1963. www.ips-dc.org
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social okra eater.
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social A power network of organizers, activists and donors. We're here to upend politics as usual with research, intelligence and strategic action from across the winning diverse Democratic coalition. Listen to our new podcast, Charting the Way Forward!
Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social Judaism, politics, music, basketball, New York City
Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY. Host of First America podcast. Out June 22. Subscribe now! firstamerica.info
PA Youth Vote @payouthvote.bsky.social A nonpartisan collaboration of youth, educators, and organizations working to elevate youth voices, improve civics education, empower youth as civic actors, and change the policy and culture around youth voting in Pennsylvania!
UK Phillies @ukphillies.bsky.social From Broad Street to Britain supporting our Phillies 24/7 from across the pond.
Tim Kelly @timkellysports.bsky.social Managing Editor, OnPattison.com. MLB content, Bleacher Report
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
ActiveCultures @activecultures.bsky.social Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE
IG @activecultures
Also me (w/ others):
@NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC
Representing no one but me
YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social Head @ Keep Beyond
Liberation strategy + Tech justice
ykhong.com/here
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
In These Times @inthesetimes.com A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
https://inthesetimes.com/
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
David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social feminist "law" professor, reproductive rights scholar/activist, avid cyclist, husband, dad, indie rock enthusiast, Vermont lover, Phillies fan, he/him- N Nicole Quenelle @nicolaaahhh.bsky.social artist | writer & comms consultant (clients in tech, science, public sector, higher ed, grant programs, non-profits) | environmental advocate | brunch fan | design enthusiast | nap devotee | weekly rep caller: 202-224-3121 🌊
Mike @85mf.bsky.social you’re my BlueSky, you’re my sunny day
lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social idiot savant
instagram.com/lahlahlindsey
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Rabbi Alissa Wise @alissashira.bsky.social Lead Organizer: Rabbis4ceasefire.com
Co-Author: Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket, 2024) solidaritylovebook.org
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social Columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer (aka jawnalist) covering what makes Philly weird, wild and wonderfully unique. I fight for Philly's honor against its haters. 
Philadelphia Phillies @notphillies.bsky.social Back-to-back National League East Champions
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Unofficial bot that will mirror the Phillies' X feed until @Phillies.com starts posting. Set up by @aceofbens.com.
More info: https://github.com/AceOfBens/notphillies-bsky/blob/main/README.md
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Philly Power Research @researchphilly.bsky.social PPR is a group of volunteer researchers investigating our city's most powerful people, corporations, and organizations.
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional