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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
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Michelle Swope @redheadfrommars.bsky.social Film critic/journalist for hire. Contributing writer: Bloody Disgusting. Bylines: Elements of Madness, Second Sight, Arrow Video, & more. 🍅-approved. Member: SEFCA, NCFCA
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app A guy who writes for a few places, currently writing at io9, formerly at SyFy Wire, IGN, Polygon, and Game Developer. He/him.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social Husband. Golden retriever’s human. Novelist. Critic. Ally. Grognard. Yunker. Philly sports fan. Adjunct educator. No DMs please.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty.
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Kosoko Jackson @kosokojackson.bsky.social USA TODAY Bestseller • 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner & Fellow • THE MACABRE, EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WITCHCRAFT (@harpervoyagerus, 2025 & 2026) • WME Repped Screenwriter • Film/TV: Mary Pender, WME #scriptsky, 🍉
angelina mazza @angejmazza.bsky.social culture writer & romance scholar. brooklyn by way of montreal 🌈
Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social He/him. Extremism researcher in Canada. Affiliate cifrs.org. Used to blog & do journalism. Words for gnet-research.org, antihate.ca, insightthreatintel.com, Vice.com, etc. Posts about the Horrors.
Don Martin @bydonmartin.bsky.social 🐈⬛ NYT/USA Today Bestselling Author of YA Fantasy, Non-Fiction, & Poetry
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Anna Betts @annabetts.bsky.social reporter @GuardianUS • formerly @nytimes @buzzfeednews • writing also in @washingtonpost @verge @ellemagazine etc. •
Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social Writer and filmmaker. Author of five books, most recently IN BETWEEN DAYS. She/her.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social VP at CREW https://www.citizensforethics.org/
Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social editor/writer. games, travel, theme parks, music, movies, etc. recently at Kotaku. writing the Moon College Football Weekends guide (2028), and writing about theme parks at https://easily-amused.beehiiv.com. ex-Paste, ex-AV Club, could be ex-your site too.
Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app writer, film + culture critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨
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Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com EIC, @thetriibe.com
2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow
nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com writer, thinker, amateur cheesemonger. host of @pilotprincesstrash.bsky.social | senior producer for ministry of ideas | former npr, gbh, wbur, wxyc, dth. https://nicktheandersen.com
Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social TV critic & union woman @ TIME. Writer & catastrophist @ Brooklyn. Exhausted & bored @ Twitter. Guess I'm here now, too.
giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social CHANGEOVER, my book about Alcaraz & Sinner, is out now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Changeover/Giri-Nathan/9781668076248
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Laura Zornosa @laurnosa.bsky.social culture writer • formerly TIME Magazine, @nytimes.com & @latimes.com • she/ella • 🇨🇴🇮🇪
Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com Journalist: abortion and politics. Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, MSNOW, Jezebel. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social Founder & Editor of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social
Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social Senior correspondent at Vox
Author of Invisible Countries
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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social Writer and journalist in FT, Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Prospect etc. First novel, DEEP DOWN, came out in 2023. I also write video games with Motvind Studios.
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Bryan Lowder @jbryanlowder.bsky.social Slate senior editor
shasha @shashaleonard.com singular IT person and resident goth @Slate.com
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Chase @felkerch.bsky.social 
Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social Slate senior writer / host of Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs
Cleo Levin @cllevin.bsky.social mfa in nonfiction @ The New School, formerly @ Slate.com
Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.
Fred Kaplan @fredmkaplan.bsky.social Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
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
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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social Fighting for a better industry for our colleagues at Vox Media and beyond.
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New York Mag Union @nymagunion.bsky.social Another reason to love New York.
Sarah Rutledge @rutledgendary.bsky.social copy chief at Slate, formerly TexasMonthly. Note my casual disregard for end punctuation, which signals that I’m a chill know-it-all who can hang
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
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Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social fan of weird role playing games (ask me about the Brooklyn OSR Discord), cities, and the New York Mets. I live in Brooklyn
Seth Stevenson @sethstevenson.bsky.social writer/editor/podcaster
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Jim Newell @jim-newell.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Slate.
Slate Union @slateunion.bsky.social Official account for @slate.com's editorial union with @wgaeast.bsky.social.
Fe Fi Fo Film! @fionaunderhill.bsky.social British. Recently back in UK (Manchester) after 10 years in LA.
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Former EIC of JUMPCUT ONLINE
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
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David Dennis Jr @daviddennisjr.bsky.social Writer. TV person. The Movement Made Us. 
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social Features Editor, New York Magazine
Meeple Mountain 🔜 Gen Con @meeplemountain.com The peak of board game reviews, lists, articles, humor, and more. Your source for everything board games.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
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DrClawMD @drclawmd.bsky.social davetrumbore.com | Author: "Knucklebones" series and "The Science of Breaking Bad"
Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me Investigative health and sometimes business journalist.
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Northwestern epidemiology student.
ex-marketplace, ex-spotify.
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emmab_videos @emmabvideos.bsky.social Video editor, TV nerd, frequent fangirl, kdrama ruined my life!
Steve Reddicliffe @steveredd13.bsky.social Editor, new NYT Essential Book of Cocktails. Prev: NYT (Intl Edition, Travel, Media), TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly.
Mads Ducharme @madelineducharme.bsky.social Producer for @Slate's What Next (past: One Year / Slow Burn) • writing on culture + LGBTQ life • Slate Union, baby! • they/she #bikedc
Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social Journalist for hire. EIC The Film Maven. Bylines @latimes @goldenglobes @variety Author BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ROMANCE EDITION. Upcoming: WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS (2027). ♿️ Repped by Falkin Literary.
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Shirin Ali @shirinali.bsky.social Jurisprudence @ Slate.com, author of the Executive Dysfunction newsletter: https://slate.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
vic whitley-berry (they/them) @vwhitb.bsky.social audio one-person band with work in slate, wsj, gimlet, and npr. currently producer of icymi: slate’s podcast about internet culture
gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social editorial director, new york magazine
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Alex Harrison @akharrison98.bsky.social Senior Movies Editor & Film Critic @ScreenRant, formerly film critic @WhatsUpNewp, Masters @edinburghuni ‘21, @brownuniversity ‘20
William E. Ketchum III @weketchum.bsky.social Writer + Editor (Vulture, NYT, VIBE, BET, The Root, Newsweek, XXL, etc.). “My journalistic range is a catalyst for change.” © Black Thought
Loves: Hip-hop, basketball, sneakers, like three Nintendo Switch games
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social I write about films for various places (Curzon Journal, Little White Lies, Paste Magazine, Polyester etc)
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