North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social Canadian Video Game Developers
Murder, Mayhem and Maple Syrup
Cinematic R.P.G. makers.
xBioWare, xMicrosoft, xActivision
https://www.patreon.com/cw/NorthMistStudios
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social 13-year game journalist. Senior writer at GamesRadar+. Previously: PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer. Email: austin(dot)wood(at)futurenet(dot)com
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
The Official Tamora Pierce @tamorapierce.bsky.social She/Her, YA Fantasy author with too much to do, and too many creatures that want to help. Support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/tamorapierce for more ;)
Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social 🌏 Community initiative to fight the billionaire economy in favour of smaller & more ethical businesses
🤖 Starting with Big Tech
🔥 Join the movement!
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
mads!! @madsengland.bsky.social metaphor enthusiast making a vn called MEMORALYSIS
doodles etc: @daintyprotag.bsky.social
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
devoted homo 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social Asd, queer af, writes games, comics, and interactive fiction.
Patreon and publishing info: https://www.patreon.com/c/malinryden/about
Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social He/him
Books:
THE WITCH BOY series 🔮🕯️
THE GIRL FROM THE SEA 🦭🌊
THE DEEP DARK 🐉🏜️
The DUNGEON CLUB series 🎲⚔️
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST 🦸💪
WATSON’S SKETCHBOOK 🕵🏼♂️📚
TV:
THE OWL HOUSE & more
www.ostertag.substack.com
www.leeknoxostertag.com
🚫AI
🎸🎙️✍️Annie Mok 🔎4 work ❤️🔥 @heyanniemok.bsky.social multimedia artist
Constellation Women w/ @moirafates.bsky.social
🎸🎙️ the Knight Dreams
opinions mine
Philly
white/mixed disabled intersex trans woman
sober
18+
https://ko-fi.com/heyanniemok
https://heyanniemok.itch.io/
https://theknightdreams.bandcamp.com/
Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social Activist. Political content creator. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions Substack.
Linktree 👇
beacons.ai/jesscraven101
Vincent Acovino @vincentacovino.bsky.social producer / games journalist at NPR
readfanservice.substack.com
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
📩 linktr.ee/scottsantens
AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social Interim Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku
Contact: ethan.gach@kotaku.com / ethangach on Discord
Secure email: ethangach@protonmail.com / 2673263042 for Signal
Newsletter at https://deadgame.substack.com/
jade, whose voice is the Deluge @goblinmode.com The hell with it all, I just can't think of a thing other than those words of his—HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!
* * *
🇵🇷 ⚧️
they/them
📍 seattle sprawl
1/2 of @codexentries.com
🖼️: @sofasofia.bsky.social
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Framework @frame.work Remaking consumer electronics to respect people and the planet. 💻🪛
For support visit http://support.frame.work
Ron Gilbert @grumpygamer.com Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.
Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social MS-DOS gaming enthusiast, YouTuber, admirer of cats, RU in NY.
Ask me about DOS games! Tell me your DOS game memories!
I repost and swear a lot.
(He/Him)
YouTube: youtube.com/dosnostalgic
Web: dosnostalgia.com
Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic
amanda kelly @impkay.bsky.social Senior Game Writer currently working on Expeditions: Samurai, previously Frostpunk 2. She/her.
Sarah Audsley @saudsley.bsky.social author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press)
sarahaudsley.com
Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social reading books, writing books, defending books
https://linktr.ee/maiakobabe
pronouns: e/em/eir
Kelly Kane @k-a-kane.bsky.social Social psychology professor specializing in media psychology effects, especially on judgment and decision-making.
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - IAFA @iafa.bsky.social The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts.
Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com Queer Entertainer and Podcaster
Streaming only the coolest games
@twloha.bsky.social Streamer Ambassador
Host of @whatchadoingpod.bsky.social podcast
🔗 https://mattcaulder.carrd.co/
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
⚔️ Founder of Limit Break Mentorship
🎖️ Forbes Under 30, and GI biz Top 100 Influential Women in Games
🏆 BAFTA member, jury chair, award winner
🇲🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 Malaysian based in the UK
James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social Freelance Writer and Editor │Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️
Aysha 🔜 Gen Con @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Bafta-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
ZeldaSpeedRuns @zeldaspeedruns.bsky.social Zelda speedrunning.
Family.
Discord: http://discord.gg/zsr || Business Inquiries: business@zeldaspeedruns.com
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Senator Peter Welch @welch.senate.gov U.S. Senator proudly serving all Vermonters. ⛰️ Husband to Margaret. Hiking and skiing when I can.
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
The Darkside Detective @darksidedetective.bsky.social Dt. McQueen investigates the paranormal underbelly of Twin Lakes City.
Created by @spookydoorway.bsky.social
Discord - http://discord.gg/spookydoorwaygames
Steam - http://bit.ly/373oamB
George Park @georgeparkart.bsky.social Vis Dev Aritst at Aligned Pictures
Character Design&Visual Development/ georgepark102@gmail.com
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Proton @proton.me Choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Start protecting your personal information online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, Proton Wallet, and Lumo: https://proton.me/
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
Elijah Beahm Ver. 3.1 @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social My book Make Us Whole: The History of Dead Space is available now: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/makeuswhole
Author, Affirming Protestant, occasional Consultant & QA Tester
Opinions are mine
Avatar by OctoberKeegan, Banner by Lamantia
Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social Deputy News Lead @ TheGamer. Fable 3's biggest fan. She/her. 👩❤️💋👩
Words/voice/face also appeared on: TechRadar, TechRaptor, BBC, Giant Bomb
Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social The Midwest's largest comics publisher!
Scrappy up-n-coming animation producer!
Itty bitty baby video game makers!
And award-winning, critically-acclaimed den of iniquity and ill-repute!
We specialize in the Strange and Amazing!
Felassan @felassan.bsky.social undead dragon age gay (they/them) | adult
➡️ Dragon Age: The Last Court archive link: https://t.co/fdWSGzWQYT
icon & banner art by thecopperkidd of tumblr
Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay Senior Technical Producer
Previously: Asgard’s Wrath 2, Gears of War, Unity, God of War, God of War: Ragnarok | Forbes 30u30 2020 | 🏳️🌈✡️ https://ko-fi.com/qorquiq
Mark Darrah @markdarrah.bsky.social BioWare 1997-2021
Triage Games 2022- https://triagegames.com/
YouTuber (apparently) https://www.youtube.com/@MarkDarrah/videos
Gavin Craig @craiggav.bsky.social Weird, thoughtful, and quiet. Not necessarily in that order.
Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com
Black in a Flash! @blackinaflash.bsky.social Black in a Flash is a @gamesdonequick.com community for Black runners of all levels to meet in their speedrunning journey while showcasing and raising money for charity!
Join us at https://gdq.gg/baf
Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com Video game marathons featuring high-level play by speedrunners raising money for charity. #AGDQ2027 January 3-10
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!!
🚨Next Up: 7/17 Good Troubles Lives On
Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org He/Him. Tech and Privacy Attorney. Former 25A. Expect baseball nonsense, hockey nonsense, tech/games nonsense, military nonsense, politics nonsense. https://kaseykagawa.smugmug.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social Journalist. Runner. Always looking for my next coffee/tattoo. Founder of the CNN Business Nightcap newsletter. Former WSJ.
Cyan Worlds @cyan.com We're a game development studio creating places that become your world: Myst, Obduction, Firmament, and now... Riven. 📖✨
🔗 http://www.cyan.com/games
Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social • 51st President of the United States
• Time Traveler
Keithdecent.com
brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social hello
Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social i’m thinking about cars
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
merritt @merrittk.com Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social, merritt+ patreon.com/merrittk
Brock Wilbur @brockwilbur.bsky.social editor-in-chief @thepitch.bsky.social
Ken Baumann @kenlikescarbs.bsky.social Ken Baumann is a writer who lives in New Mexico. https://kenbaumann.com
Darius Kazemi @tinysubversions.bsky.social It's a-me, Darius
I don't spend much time here, you can find me at https://friend.camp/@darius
Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT NOW!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com Creators of narrative-led, character-driven games. Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. 🎶 MALYS OUT NOW!🕯️
http://bit.ly/playmalys 🕯️
http://bit.ly/getstraygods 🎮
Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Game Informer @gameinformer.com Over 30 years celebrating the best of games in print and online.
Follow our work: GameInformer.com
Kim Snyder @ksnydley.bsky.social Helping nonprofits and people I care about to be cyber secure and protect their personal privacy.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Spooky Doorway @spookydoorway.com Multi award winning indie game developers. Makers of darksidedetective.bsky.social and @BlakeManorGame.bsky.social, tellers of spooky tales 👻 Discord - http://discord.gg/spookydoorwaygames
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Algorithmic Justice League @ajlunited.bsky.social Join the Algorithmic Justice League in the movement towards equitable and accountable AI.
Support our work at http://ajl.org/take-action 🚀
linktr.ee/ajlunited
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Vermont Studio Center @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions to their Johnson, Vermont campus along the Gihon river.