Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social Former DJ, host of Permutations on WVUD 91.3FM in Newark, Delaware (ended 12/1/25); occasional reader of SF/F/H
(I have a day job too which I am not here to talk about)
mctsonic @mctsonic.bsky.social “M-cee-tee sonique, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way." Loud music & drums takes/sci-fi/InfoSec & Sysadmin takes. Feminist, Pro-LGBTQ+ rights, Anti-fascist. Pro-science.
Carolannie @carolannie.bsky.social Amateur photographer, avid reader, retired sys admin, ecologist at heart, a grandparent, and responsible for Monty the gray shih tzu dog. Timeline follows my train of thought, such as it is. "Volvox" by Jean-Jacques Grandville
Michael Matthew @michaelwmatthew.bsky.social Another old white man worried about the dark time we're in. Southern New Hampshire.
Steve Clarke 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @citizen-steve.bsky.social Vancouver, WA, USA
Not a public figure.
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social Copy and line editor*, queer, 24/7 nerd. Reads, writes, sings, plays D&D. Passionate and hopeful. Loves music — & dogs, most especially my own giant floof. They/them.
Wishlist: http://bit.ly/3R5zI2X
*Expect typos in posts; I’m using my thumbs.
florinatufescu.bsky.social @wildelady.bsky.social Literary scholar &
Translator working from French/English/Romanian/Spanish/Swedish into English/Romanian
Author of Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art over Ego (Irish Academic Press)
Passionate about Peace, Beauty & Knowledge
Ask me anything:)
Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @missouridemocrats.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social 📚🚭💙
Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social Reporter covering Iowa politics (and sometimes wildflowers) for the progressive website Bleeding Heartland. https://www.bleedingheartland.com
Co-host of "KHOI's Capitol Week" on KHOI Radio in Ames and podcast platforms. https://laurabelin.substack.com
Andrea 🌿🌱 @andreita74.bsky.social Defensora de lo público, el ecofeminismo y la memoria histórica. Amante del cine clásico, el rock alternativo de los 90 y los paseos por la montaña.
De Madriz al cielo! 📖🌲🎸
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
@chipbeckett.bsky.social @chipbeckett.bsky.social Old commie coming to be nearer the anarchists. Bad gardener. 
Reuben Singleton @bordersnaturalist.bsky.social 📍Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 35 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
It’s a chive! @radicalbanana.bsky.social Dogs, raspberries, occasionally a chive
RadiumSkull; a skull composed of organic Radium @radiumskull.bsky.social "The sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us, and painted the smoke over our heads an Imperial violet."
Figere Corda Aut Mori.
https://radiumskull-shop.fourthwall.com
Nuremberg Trials were moderate. 86-45
Josh Wallaert @jwlrt.bsky.social Editor, writer. Kinda quiet. New here and I'll probably read more than talk. Bikes, streets, music, ethics + infrastructures of care, SF Bay.
Jacob Linden @jacornonthecob.bsky.social Account managed by cat. Screenwriter and culture writer with words in Esquire, Polygon, Delish, and more! Formerly Partnerships Editor at Hearst.
areaofeffect.blog
Bmore 🦀 -> NYC 🍎 -> Caelid 🐦⬛
@paulaporroni.bsky.social @paulaporroni.bsky.social Escritora/writer. BUENA ALUMNA (Minúscula, 2016; French edition: Bonne élève, Les Éditions Noir Sur Blanc, 2019) + LA VACANTE (Minúscula, 2024). 
@turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social Neuroscientist and curious human. Views are mine alone and re-skeets are not endorsements.
she/her
Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books, including I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE and JEHANNE DARC. #Disabled from 40 yrs of MS.
Benjamin Sulman @bsulman.bsky.social Ecosystem scientist and computational modeler. Living in Knoxville, TN, formerly of Madison, WI
Matt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis.
Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp.
www.mattweiland.com
🦉 Owl 🌲 @owlinamerica.bsky.social Environmental lawyer, here on Earth finding the silver lining. 🦉🌎
Newsletter — owlinamerica.com
Writing at Owl in America: Notes from an American environmentalist
Long explainer threads h/t Cory Doctorow for format
Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social http://mitchnobis.com
Writer (poetry & fiction). Doofus. Old man hooper. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, or dog.
Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social Cognitive scientist. Teacher. Nerd.
Cognitive science of the enactive, ecological, and (redundantly) embodied sort. Also, some stuff on scientific practice in psychology.
I co-convene these: https://www.ensoseminars.com
(he/him)
Mark Ranger @markranger.bsky.social Writer and editor. Edgelands, sites of exclosure, Guattari. Shared Territory out now. www.fragmentspress.co.uk
Austin Free Press @atxfreepress.bsky.social Digital news platform with no paywall because everyone deserves access to high-integrity, high-quality journalism.
Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social poet•author•artist•fool. aging, tr^ns, qu♾️r, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they.
🛑DO NOT ADD TO STARTER PACKS WITHOUT CONSENT!🛑
http://www.jaybesemer.net
Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social artist-curator www.eastsideprojects.org
Songs https://newrealityrecords.bandcamp.com/artists
Show: L is for Landscape https://divisionoflabour.co.uk/gavin-wade-l-type
Book: (555 Verses) https://www.setmargins.press/books/is-this-the-way-the-universe-works/
Kate Clark @katecheritage.bsky.social Heritage. Transport. Policy. Values. Industrial archaeology. Wado Ryu.
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens mid-September.
Now taking proposals for issue 3, deadline Sept. 1: https://forms.gle/2jSRGKXMCxcEdSzM6
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.org.
Christopher Hooks @hooks.bsky.social Journalist. Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse.
christopherdhooks@gmail.com
Toil and Trouble @alixmiddlec.bsky.social PNW dog/cat mom
weirdo, reader, pinko, crone
she/they
StoryGraph: alix_with_an_i
CR: Homesick for a World Unknown
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality” - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Reza Pourdian @rezapourdian.bsky.social Iranian Concept Artist and Writer
https://www.artstation.com/rps
Texas Highways @texashighways.bsky.social The official travel magazine of Texas. On the road since 1974.
https://texashighways.com
Malate @malate.bsky.social @Malate(at)infosec(dot)exchange hacker, outreach, network engineer, devlpr, ethics, philosopher, #physsec, musician, #DCG504 | infosec student #hackNotCrime
Darrell | Building Better Men @buildingbetter.bsky.social Sharing the journey of positive masculinity - being strong enough to be gentle, confident enough to admit mistakes.
Men supporting men. Outdoors, fitness, building things. You don't have to have it all figured out. The work is the point.
Kelly Monson @celltower.town https://kellymonson.biz
Niklas Norberg Wirtén – wildlife 📸 @niklasnw.bsky.social 🧪 science journalist gone science communicator
🦫 Here: Nature and #WildlifePhotography
📽 Just started a YouTube channel for wildlife & nature:
https://youtube.com/@niklasnwnature
📸Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/niklasnw_photography
Genius_Haiku @geniushaiku.bsky.social #Logician
✍️ Anti-fascist
Read through the thread.
(It may be on a test)📚
Made a 101 starter pack:
Let’s link up! ⛓️
🧠Think!⛓️💥
& dammit organize for progress.🖖
Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.
Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
Michael Pittard @michaelpittard.bsky.social PhD candidate researching the rhetorics of memory & nostalgia. Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net nominated poet. Warren Wilson College alum.
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Greek-American gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, allegorical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are all in English and NOT AI.
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
moss @brontology.bsky.social NJ. I fix things for fun and necessity.
Jessica Rose Sanford 🏳️⚧️ @jess6k.bsky.social Writer. Lugubrious malcontent. 📍Oakland, CA
Words in Nashville Review, Tulane Review, Ozone Park, jmww, Hot Metal Bridge, Alarmist, others.
Contributor @ Small Planet.
she/her
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
madmayday @madmayday.bsky.social i garden and make stuff beneath a Texas hell dome while civilization hangs by a finger from a cliff, and learn useful post-apocalyptic skills every day.
former cook and nontrad ut austin anthropology student, first wave #longcovid, not quite dead yet 🐜
dobstey @dobstey.bsky.social Mortified.
@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
The Blotter Magazine blotterrag.com @blotterrag.bsky.social Blotter Hill, Blotterolina.
Writing, editing, observing, creating a memory palace.
Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social Work anthropologist, researcher, analyst, writer.
www.workfutures.io.
@index@stoweboyd.io
The economics and ecology of work, in a time of accelerating uncertainty in our lives, society, and business.
Work touches everything.
Anrick @anrick.bsky.social New Realities
Founder
XR, AI & VFX
http://studioanrk.com // http://ohi.studio
Zoë E. Heriot-Shaw @zeheriot-shaw.bsky.social Interests: cellular automata, cosmology, foundational physics, ontological continuum, philosophical fantasy, physics of clocks and philosophy of time/philosophy of clocks and physics of time, structural fabulation. Location: realm of Platonic ideals
Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social Senior Editor at the Orlando Sentinel. Jersey native, Florida convert
Richard Dickson @dailyrich.bsky.social Just this guy, you know?
Kirk Rafferty ✨is 👀✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com Award-winning author of THE COSMONAUT on shelves summer 2027, Crooked Lane Books
Links: https://linktr.ee/kirkraff
Co-host of the podcast @badlitfriends.bsky.social
with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
Patrick Carey @patrickcarey.bsky.social Synthesis. Computer Music. Creating Software. Running a label. Organizing Shows.
Mostly just being a father.
Portland Maine.
https://patrickcarey.bandcamp.com/music
Traced Objects @tracedobjects.bsky.social
Aftersound @aftersoundmaine.bsky.social
Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social Current project: telling the story of the rise and fall of Boston’s containment zone for street drugs and homelessness, 2014-24. Day job: doctor caring for people who are homeless or formerly homeless.
https://www.joewrightmd.com
SIGNAL: joewright.72
Melancholy Hammer @melancholyhammer.bsky.social Novelist, poet, permaculturist, humanist, forager, muse, recluse, sewing machine repairperson, good neighbor. Autistic. RPGamer. Lived many places, never drove. "Good old bee" in the rainbow flag. Picture is a younger me. Re-enchantment is resistance!
kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social Creative Technologist & Animator/Dev in LA. Tabletop and Videogames, Weird Culture, He/Him. Operating at about 0.42 self-actualization. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally
One half of Scuttlebutt: https://www.youtube.com/@scuttlebuttery
Texas Parks and Wildlife @texasparkswildlife.bsky.social Official account of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department 
Kevin Bankston @bankston.bsky.social CONVERGER at kevinbankston.substack.com. Senior Advisor on AI Governance @cdt.org. Teaching AI law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. Imagining futures @imaginationasu.bsky.social. My opinions, not theirs.
Eric R. Larson @ericrlarson.bsky.social Associate professor in freshwater ecology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Crayfish, invasive species, environmental DNA, and more. https://publish.illinois.edu/erlarson/
Erich Weidenhammer @eweidenh.bsky.social Scientific Instruments at the University of Toronto
Material culture & SciTech heritage
Sundry 3D printing and design
He/Him
jarkman @jarkman.bsky.social Roboticist, maker, software engineer. Making giant joyful soft robots with Air Giants (https://www.airgiants.co.uk/). Also @jarkman@chaos.social
cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social tidepool queer in RI
data librarian, hooper, sometimes writer
rock skipper, lynx fan, creature appreciator
they/them/she/her 💪🏼🌸 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
cass-ws.com
Jon Fain @jonfain.bsky.social Writer of Short Fiction(s) and Other Prose Entertainments
Selected Publications:
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/jonfain
Deborah (Dee) Brooks @whoisdee.bsky.social Systemic Designer mildly obsessed with enabling coordinated action at scale and co-creation of futures that don’t suck. Queer & trans. She/they. 
Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social Nature photographer and horror book lover who moonlights as a bookseller at Lahaska Bookshop.
Instagram @pegt
Twitter MargueriteTurl2
https://linktr.ee/margueriteturley
E.B. Greene @eb-greene.bsky.social Rewilding residential landscapes in Michigan. Master of Landscape Architecture student at Boston Architectural College. Sustainable gardening, native plants, Abolish ICE. They/Them. Blog at eb-landscapedesign.com and ebgreene.substack.com
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Abby Follmer @abbyrf.bsky.social Indoor cat enthusiast. Bird watcher. Used Book gremlin for a living. Histamine problems. Still masking. Fuck AI and ICE. (She/her)
Ahmet Necati Uzer @anuzer.bsky.social Occasional re-poster. Istanbul based. Interested in politics, photography, and other random stuff.
Roberto Cortez Zárate @srnagual.bsky.social Periodista en los multiversos. Cubro presidencia por Ovaciones.
Rewilding History @rewildinghistory.com Rewilding History. 🦬🦫🐺🐝🐟🌱🌿🌳🌲🍄💨🌊
Micha @perennialworkshop.bsky.social https://michavanamsterdam.substack.com
Writing the Perennial Workshop
|Rethinking our Thinking across Systems and Seasons|
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Bestselling award-winning author. Art historian, public lecturer and so forth. Suffolk and London.
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Rob Reid @robcat26.bsky.social Education Data Developer @texastribune.org, proud product of public schools, immersing myself in all things Texas through reading and building community and long-distance walking
Josh Green @joshbikegosh.bsky.social Urban enthusiast, outdoor wanderer
Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social Spend my days reading, writing, and teaching, so in my own lil utopia.
UConn PhD & JD candidate, studying American law, literature, and dystopia, which really just means I’m studying religion.
Co-host of The Storming Journey
Gwenivere’s dad.
amclain.com
Prof Williams @aewillia.bsky.social Heart 💕 of Illinoisan
UMich PhD 💙💛💙💛
Swimmer 🌊🩵🌊
"Art doesn't lie - it is just waiting to be seen"
John Lillig @jclillig2.bsky.social English Teacher, Loyola Academy
Advisory Board, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
A.B., English (Georgetown), M.A., English (DePaul), J.D. (DePaul Law)
Visiting Student (University of East Anglia)
Sport & Athletics Bluesky: @jclillig.bsky.social
Martin Roberts @lordfroggy.bsky.social Former Jack of all trades, master of none. Past victories include several short stories punished & runner-up for the BBC award nominee (short film) @ the 17th Birmingham International Film and Television Festival. 78 rpm slowed to 33.3 by Fibromyalgia.
EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social Biologist, nonprofit CSO (opinions mine), fair-weather farmer, recovering academic, progressive christian. Probably one helluva lot older than you are.
Almost Heaven, Durham County, NC
Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social https://www.robmillerwriting.com/
Author. Cofounder Bloodshot Records. DJ at Miller’s Cave.
Exploring the murky recesses of roots music:
Streaming at radioharborcountry.org
Sat: 4 to 5 PM & Sun: 9 to 10pm (Eastern)
Chicago via Detroit
Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social Fiction writer; AuDHD-er; full-time Minnesotan; part-time misanthrope; scantily clad heroine. She/they. Abolish and prosecute ICE.
Haddayr Copley-Woods 🏳️🌈 @haddayr.bsky.social I mouth off and make things.
https://haddayr.com/
https://the-practical-herbalist.com
https://gentlebutch.com/
Jacques Berlinerblau @jberlinerblau.bsky.social Professor Georgetown University
secularismfreespeechcomedyliteraturehighered. And some other stuff
Personal website: jberlinerblau.com
Substack: https://jberlinerblau.substack.com/
AJ Van Belle (they/them) @ajvanbelle.bsky.social Preorder A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them! https://linktr.ee/ajvanbelle
Writer & scientist who cuddles dogs, builds worlds. Rep: Lauren Bieker. https://ajvanbellenews.substack.com/
Rhysling & BSFA nominee.
Lit agent.
Nonbinary/transmasc 🏳️⚧️