Julie the Cranky Crone @juliethecranky.bsky.social Brooch Warfare, Story Time, and the occasional designer overview and so forth. Writer, knitter, trying-to-be artist. I run on art supplies and yarn.
#CRPS late stage. I had a support group I'd love to replicate.
Do no harm, take no shit.
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Joy Aliza @denebeim.bsky.social Huge #SciFi fan, into #science, #cooking, and #fashion Best known for moderating the #babylon5 newsgroup on #usenet a gazillion years ago. I've been messing around with #computers including #programming and #devops for since the late 70s
🏳️⚧️ (she/her)
Josh Petri (he/him) @joshpetri.bsky.team Head of Communications, Bluesky Social.
former journalist and outdoor industry person. always an organic life form.
Cheryl M. @desertdragon42.bsky.social Just a typical Black, bi, polyam, disabled, gamer, sff fan geek. Plays with rocks and strings.
James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social Reviewer, Essayist, Hugo, Aurora, and Darwin Award finalist.
My hydronyms: turbid/opaque
Almost Too Online @almost2online.bsky.social One-sentence explainers of what people are talking about. Probably won't be the most timely information, but it will be here. If you don't find the answer here, please DM if you go down the rabbit hole yourself.
Rufus T. Firefly @flying-wombat.bsky.social what if a much of a which of a wombat?
SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social Artist. Writer. ND mum to Doombringer. Art, feminism, geoguessr, health, writing, photos, Bluey obsessed. She/they.
📌 pinned post: https://bsky.app/profile/pixelfish.bsky.social/post/3l3o2h42tsj2i
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Ima Being @quiltomancy.bsky.social Artist & mother. Breast cancer survivor. Graduate student (again)! Immigrant to Ireland 🇮🇪 Check out my work at www.quiltomancy.com
@ricevermicelli.bsky.social @ricevermicelli.bsky.social Posting about Other Stuff, not because I don't care, but so it's not all doom all the time.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social @thebiologistisn on various other systems. PhD Genetics, UMN.
I do bioinformatics/genomics with a university lab.
I work unofficially to make new interesting varieties of food plants. I've made distinctly blue colored dry beans.
I make/sell art, too.
Laramie Sasseville @lsasseville.bsky.social Human who reads a lot, loves music, art, stories, her communities of caring people and furred and feathered friends. Wellesley alum, Twin Cities-based, published author, artist, and filk singer.
Minicon @minicon-mnstf.bsky.social The longest running midwest Science Fiction & Fantasy convention. Minicon 60 will be held Easter - March 25-28, 2027 in Bloomington, MN.
https://mnstf.org/minicon60/
Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social Makes science TV shows for a living and still cant believe it's a real job. Draws pinup, mixes cocktails and mucks about on bikes for fun. He/Him
https://MayhemSkateCo.threadless.com
Babies are born worshiping unknown gods.
Andrew Willett @awillett.bsky.social Sometime spec-fic writer. Not supposed to have opinions in public for job reasons, will generally not post about the News. He/him.
Tessa Dare @tessadare.bsky.social Occasional author of historical romance novels. Baby goat enthusiast.
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A unique voice known for inventive, thought-provoking narrative, philosophical depth, and fun!
Be excellent to each other.
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
fidelioscabinet @fidelioscabinet.bsky.social Extremely cranky individual with more books than the structure of my dwelling can support.
Why the hell are you following me?
(At BalloonJuice sometimes)
Snails. Snails is good. @kalmn.bsky.social 🏳️🌈, mom, infosec nerd, disabled, new to Toronto, middle aged, overwhelmed, trying to meet people.
Tim E. o’Danaos & Don A. Ferentis (Structural Woodworkers) Ltd. @cadburymoose.bsky.social Alces alces chocolatus
Thanks to @cavyherd for the avatar.
Background image from IWM Duxford.
Tsundoku brown belt.
If you can ping the SecUnit it's way too late
In the beginning was the word, and the word was: Aardvark.
No DMs/Chat.
Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.
Indivisible news & politics posts now have free substack: doctorscience.substack.com
Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social She/her. Everything is more complicated than that. I volunteer with Carl Brandon Society, Clarion West, Otherwise. I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago. I read a lot. I sew a lot. I garden a little. My grandchildren are old enough to vote. I digress.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Geri Sullivan @gerisullivan.bsky.social Minneapolis fan living at Toad Woods in Wales, MA USA (greater Minneapolis area). 
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social 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
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org Author, libertine, virago. Amateur shepherdess. 🌈 She/her. HWA.
Dark fantasy novella MOONCHASER coming in 2027!
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov Your U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Product safety info, data, and recalls. Standing for safety since 1972. Official account of the USCPSC. HQ: Bethesda, MD.
Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov.
Report unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov
Popehat Name Change Tracker @popehatnamechanges.bsky.social We track Popehat's once again frequent name changes.
As always, residing rent free in Michael Avennati's head.
SpeakerToManagers @speakertomanagers.bsky.social Retired software engineer, hard lefty (trending anarchosyndicalist), interested in (inter alia) art, visual mathematics esp. geometry, photography, theoretical biology, complex adaptive systems, SFF.
Physically disabled, mildly neurodivergent (ADD + OCD)
Vicki Rosenzweig @rosvicl.bsky.social Born and raised in New York City, living in Boston, disabled. Bi, polyamorous, she/her. Masking, because covid is not over. Tea, cats.
@donnan.bsky.social @donnan.bsky.social I’m a chemist, love cats and dogs and most animals, play Pokémon Go far too much, and watch MST3K pretty much all the time. In middle NC- R Rich McAllister @richmcallister.bsky.social SF reader/fan
Joann Zimmerman @sophielandone.bsky.social Eppur si muove. Venice freak, sff reader/writer, owned by a sort-of Korat cat
Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social Tolkienist, librarian, cat lover, Granny Weatherwax wannabe, quilter, and occasional Deadhead.
Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher. #SFWA
https://www.joycereynolds-ward.com
Victor Raymond @badger2305.bsky.social Writer, game designer, social scientist, activist. More than the sum of the parts I've played.
Bisexual/Two Spirit, Multi-racial Native American.
Pronouns: he/him/his or they/them/theirs
Fiona / Cheno 🏳️🌈 @chenowolf.bsky.social They/Them
Incredibly Queer
Scottish + American re-pat based in Dundee-ish
Artist, crafter, creature from the depths, often dubbed a goblin
Tania @taniahc.bsky.social Reader, grumbler, baker, eater of cheese, cruncher of crackers.
Actively working to make the world suck less and that's challenging.
Also, your beloved revolutionary sweetheart.
Abbaetha: Large Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social Quilter, crafter, baker. Sff/romance/history reader. Boosting books. Amateur victorianist. Posts and follows re: books, crafts, and food. LGBTQ+ ally. D. Dunnett cultist. No politics, no automatic follow-backs. E pur si muove. Banner: Marat cake.
Hilary Tamar @hilarytamar.bsky.social dyke. Jew. lapsed academic philosopher. far, far too fond of epistolary novels.
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.
jon singer @jonsinger.bsky.social ADHD; food, cooking, calligraphy (fountain pens & ink), ceramics (porcelain & glazes), making and fixing things, etc.
Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, Hugo finalist. I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.
For more info, see my website alpennia.com
Pendrift @pendrift.com Polyglot, gadabout, catalyst, bullet dodger. Et puis voilà. She/her.
Emma @emmagrahame.bsky.social Editor, knitter, quilter, reader. Do your fellow humans often disappoint you? Making things helps. In Canberra, Australia, mostly. She/her.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.
Stephanie @stfg.bsky.social 
dotless ı @dotless-i.bsky.social 
Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social Married, SF fan, cat lover, canine compatible, serial crafter, oft-time repeater of others' bon mots & borrowed wisdom.
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either: not everyone's cup of tea
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social Post-employed/Self-employed. Generation Jones. TTRPG author, maker, rocketeer, tech geek, political volunteer.
@StefanEJones@dice.camp
#MakeGoodTrouble
Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com Translator, code monkey, aspiring roboticist, coffee grower, roof builder (emeritus), AI archaeologist, machete wielder, lapsed Quaker, vecino Adjunteño desde 2017 pq Ponce es Ponce y tiene el Sams Club pero el campo es el campo
Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social Inspiring slogan on colourful background. An average guy who complains constantly about politics. Not a journal. Probably part of a whale. I eschew stichomythia in favour of a serendipity of sorts. Mostly organized water. Made in Turkey/Hindiden Üretilmiş.
troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social Troy Lissoway. Graphic Designer. Ape seeking understanding. Albertan. He/Him. Product of Canada*
(*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social Retired. Widower. Formerly "that FC with the voice." One of the most ancient shitposters on the internet.
John Woodford @jbwoodford.bsky.social He/him. Old safety/QA person at quaint US Federal Laboratory. Emigre from the Bird Site.
Kevin J. Maroney, he/him @womzilla.bsky.social A dilettante in the old sense.
"We are all us."-Greg Stafford
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com Fan Writer.
@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social Editor (HUGO WINNER)
@skiffyandfanty.com
& much more!
Part of @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid.
I was AH #Photography at @laworldcon.bsky.social
Podcaster. #ttrpg I'm just this guy, you know? He/him
Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social Retired SFF editor and horsewoman. Lives in Arizona. Anti-Fascist since 1951.
Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social Science fiction writer, poet, essayist, Minnesota. She/her. A DUBIOUS CLAMOR from Horned Lark Press 15 SEPTEMBER 2026! THAT FATAL DISCONTENT from Union Square Books Summer 2027! Repped by Kurestin Armada.
www.marissalingen.com
tinyletter.com/MarissaLingen
Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social Books, origami, interpreting, circus, baking, and whatever new hyperfocus grabs my attention this week
she/her
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Lucy Kemnitzer @lucykemnitzer.bsky.social Kind of tired of making profiles.
Me: she/they, old, sometime writer: babushka to a promising goblin. If we'd done as I said we'd not be in such a fucking mess.
Avatar alt text: white babushka in a purple babushka. Banner: cement ship, Aptos
@specolations.bsky.social @specolations.bsky.social Br Guy CONSOLMAGNO, Specola director 
CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/they
I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
https://linktr.ee/czedwards
discord: czedwards or https://czedwards.dreamwidth.org/
Tumblr: https://galantier.blog/
Lenora Rose @lenorarose.bsky.social Writer, potter, clerk. Canuck. She/her. Cis but knows trans women are women.
Where there is tea, there is hope.
Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him. 
Teresa Nielsen Hayden @tnh.nielsenhayden.com Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @tnh@wandering.shop.
Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social Opinionated heterochromic homosexual hemiglossic. He/him. Cis. Soyboy. Views my own. Tolerance is a social contract; if you're intolerant I don't have to tolerate you. No LGB without the TQ+. Sine homines gaudere rebus. #BLM No hands but ours 👍👎.
Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social Minneapolis resident, polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 blogger, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, AuDHD, grey-ace, 💔 widow, COVID cautious. (she/her)
Ways to contact me or help me: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn ❤️🩹
sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social Forensic scientist, fangirl, & trivia magnet. Spouse of rahaeli. Baltimore has two syllables. She/her.
JoCo Cruise @jococruise.bsky.social A cruise full of music, comedy, gaming & general nerdery | Sails Feb 20-27, 2027 from Ft Lauderdale to Antigua, St Thomas & Half Moon Cay. Visit jococruise.com for more info #jococruise
Tracey C @tanac.bsky.social Librarian living in the mountains of WNC w/partner and 4 cats. Into SF/F, quilting, confectioneering, and leaving the world a better place.
(PipingLibrarian in the Bad Place)
Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social Not a mere Device. She/her.
Weather alerts 🌩️👀 HhqZvrGS7B6G
Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social Geek at law.
Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social Natee Himmapaan (Puttapipat). Illustrator. Londoner.
Art, literature, history, natural history, food, handwriting.
Depression, anxiety, & all that jazz.
Fatigued by and bitter about social media.
Non-binary (they/them). 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/himmapaan
eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Tech writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
(She/her)
Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com NYT Best selling cartoonist, salamander enthusiast and aquarium nerd. He/him
Patreon.com/blackmudpuppy
Portfolio: ethankocak.com
Shop: blackmudpuppy.myshopify.com
Blog: mossyunderlog.blog
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/blackmudpuppy
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Sandy B. @nebulousmenace.bsky.social Rarely shuts up about sustainable energy. (Also likes TTRPGs, art, history, weird science, own voice; anti-AI)
Chris Wright, Sec of Energy, says those things because he has $60 million of his money in his fossil company.
Nazi Punks Fuck Off. he/him
Devin Singer @devinsinger.bsky.social Community and Social Media Management, SF writing, extremely queer. she/her, more or less
Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social Pixel-stained technopeasant wretch. Also, ideologically opposed to closing browser tabs.
Time and kebabs.
he/him
Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social Physicist at large. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist.
Spaceflight, astronomy, history of science, science fiction, & jokes thereof.
Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio.
Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
OtterB @otterb.bsky.social Longtime SFF reader. Retired Higher Ed data cruncher. Barbershop singer. Married, parent to one adult launched & one with intellectual disabilities semi-launched. Catholic. In favor of wonder and kindness. She/her. Avatar thanks to cavyherd@wandering.shop
Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social Old. "Atlanta." He/Him.
Cats, SF/Fandom, Women's Soccer, Cats, ME/CFS, Politics, Cats
I Wear a Kitten Now. Kittens Are Cool.
Mary Aileen @patchworkmouse.bsky.social Retired librarian, crafter, glass-wearing reading geek.
She/her, mostly ace.
Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.