niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net herein you will find: a plexiglass 4th wall, whining, cats, fannishness, occasional intersectional social commentary. she/they. blocks for bad vibes and fuckshittery. 0.00000015% of a Hugo Award Winner.
Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Playable and Participatory Media in Creative Technologies and Performance, Play & Design:Games @ UCSC. Award winning Game Designer/Artist. Afrofuturist. Opinions are my own.
jonayakemper.com
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights @theyoungcenter.bsky.social We are a champion for kids in an immigration system not designed to treat them as children, by helping ensure that their best interests come first.
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
KWOnley, Writer Person @kwonleyiswriting.bsky.social Writer, nonprofit leader, editor, crafter. Former bookseller at the Silver Unicorn.
GrubStreet Short Story Incubator 2021, Viable Paradise 2022, Clarion West 2025. Stories in Many Worlds, FIYAH Magazine, & Strange Horizons.
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Jesse the K @jesse-the-k.bsky.social • actively avoiding current political news, thus visiting almost never
• she/her (they is fine)
• disability doula
• assistive tech #a11y - civic infrastructures - #clouds - #graphicmedicine - language
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social She/Her
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The Gauntlet @gauntletrpg.bsky.social We publish games, produce podcasts, and host a community focused on playing & discussing tabletop RPGs!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
VoteRiders @voteriders.bsky.social Eliminating barriers to the ballot box caused by ID laws. Get FREE help and get involved at VoteRiders.org
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aim_coalition_nyc
Felix "Wildsea" Isaacs (is launching Sourdown soon) @felixisaacs.bsky.social ENnie-Winning Writer of the Wildsea and PICO, weird fiction enthusiast. Writes in the rain. Available for interviews, because my community is urging me to socialize more. He/Him.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythworks/pico-tiny-bugs-big-world
Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social We are the members of Dark Horse Comics, forming a union—Dark Horse Workers United! Represented by @CWAunion.bsky.social #DHWU
Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
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TTRPG Fanatics @ttrpgfanatics.bsky.social We are TTRPG Fanatics, your source for the latest news and reviews from the world of Tabletop Role Playing Games. https://ttrpgfans.com/ #ttrpg #rpg
Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you in July 2026. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha more info @ romancingthevote.com
DeFlock Atlanta @deflockatlanta.org One camera is a tool. Over 100k AI Cameras are a Mass Surveillance Network. Metro Atlanta is tracked, mapped, and monitored, and most people don't know it - yet. 4th Amendment advocacy | public records | accountability | deflockatlanta.org
Capital B Atlanta @capitalbatl.bsky.social News we need. The first local newsroom of @capitalb.bsky.social
50501 Georgia @50501ga.bsky.social Defending democracy, rights & institutions. Join the movement.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social he/him. Writer and game designer. Silverworld, V:TM—Night Road, Pon Para. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is out now! https://www.choiceofgames.com/werewolf-the-apocalypse/book-of-hungry-names/
Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social Pink-haired professional bisexual witch. Contingent sociologist & bath bomb artist—order at witchqueen.net! She/her. “Cabell” rhymes with “Scrabble.”
Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social Podcast production company and network
My First Dungeon, Talk of the Table, Project ECCO, and Bitcherton
Affiliates: Dice Exploder, Tales Yet Told, Dorkspawn, Maia’s Game Room, Mage Hand High Fige
https://linktr.ee/manysidedmedia
emily sunshine @threnody.northsky.social fiction writer • roommate to 3 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social State Rep | Running for SD 7 and building a movement for a Georgia we can afford 🍑 | Early Voting: October 13 - 30 | Election Day: November 3
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Necessary Trouble GA @necessarytroublega.bsky.social 🌱 Grassroots political group taking ACTION to strengthen and protect democracy in GA 🍑
💙 ATL-based Indivisible Group 💙
"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." -John Lewis
www.necessarytroublega.com
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social Turning your kids into rock stars, chasing the northern lights and exploring Minnesota. I dig music, guitars, ukulele and stargazing.
📸🎸🔭
St. Paul/Minneapolis/North Shore
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
Justin Feinstein @justinfeinstein.bsky.social Writer, advertising lifer.
Debut novel @TachyonPub 4/2026
Words @Salon @VICE @AP @Vol1Brooklyn
Instructor @SackettStreet
justinfeinstein.com
THE KID MERO🇩🇴 @thekidmero.bsky.social EL HIJO DE TITO Y FIFA!! COMEDIAN/WRITER/PRODUCER👹 #VICTORYLIGHT IS THE FUTURE!! PPP! MLBG! EAST TREMONT TIL THE SUN DIE JUHUUURRDDD!!! 👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/kidmero?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=7e4b8197-5ddc-41a5-9cd2-bd93948246ae
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Mijente @conmijente.bsky.social Mijente = Gente + Justice. A political home for Latinx &
Chicanx organizing.
MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future.
Sustain our work in 2026:
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
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
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Fishbone @fishboneband.bsky.social We the guys y’all heard about… now it’s time to learn about… ask around.
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
National Day Laborer Organizing Network @ndlon.bsky.social Building power with immigrant workers from the bottom up. ✊🏽🍞🌹
One Simple Wish @onesimplewish.bsky.social We make wishes come true! Join us in spreading love, hope, and joy to kids and young adults impacted by foster care at onesimplewish.org
ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social Scrivener for macOS, Windows and iOS. The best-selling writing app containing everything you need to craft your first draft.
Discover Scrivener and Writing Resources here: https://bit.ly/ScrivenerApp_ResourceHub
Freedmen and Southern Society Project @fssp.bsky.social The Freedmen & Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of the profound social revolution of emancipation in the United States.
sher3metev @sher3metev.bsky.social Student printmaker and artist. Flinders University. Adelaide.
Pat Cadigan @patcadigan.bsky.social SF/fantasy/horror/whatever writer living in London, defying the odds & kicking the sh!t out of terminal cancer. ‘Heaven doesn’t want me & Hell’s afraid I’ll take over.’ 
Stopthedatacenter @stopthedata.bsky.social We are fighting the UM-Los Alamos Data Center planned for Ypsilanti Michigan and you're invited 💖
The Fabulist Words & Art @fabulistmag.bsky.social SUBSCRIBE to The Fabulist Magazine: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror & Beyond. Bimonthly, full color and in glorious PRINT! https://fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-subscription/
Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social UXer + Educator + Author + Photographer. Australian + American.
UX: thisistechnique.com. Teach: SVA. Author: Design for Privacy (Rosenfeld Media). Interests: UX, digital/human rights, immigration, journalism, misinformation, privacy by design. Brooklyn.
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Rhetoric prof, social movement scholar & author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi developer / CRM architect. public speaker. author of a niche software book.
skeets do not represent my employer.
Roy @royscholten.bsky.social Printmaking artist based in The Netherlands.
Make image, make sense.
Links to things: https://www.royscholten.com
ZLibrarian @zolam.bsky.social Librarian, history researcher, writer, OER, gardening, arts, collaboration, communities, speculative fiction, dancing. Reader. ALA, ACRL. She/her. No DMs.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social World's first feminist science fiction convention! Fostering conversations about feminism, gender, race, class, disability.
http://wiscon.net/about/history/
https://linktr.ee/WisCon
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app Harvard PhD candidate. Studying work, technology, and identity. #GodsPlan ☀️
Research: annagifty.com/research
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
were-duck @were-duck.bsky.social Queer poly nerd fannish bookish parent. Co-owner of my favorite bookstore. Madisonian for lyfe. they/them.
Rep. Lucy McBath @mcbath.house.gov Mother. Fighter. Congresswoman. If you need help with a federal agency, please call my office at (470) 773-6330 or visit McBath.House.Gov/Help.
ribbonknight @ribbonknight.bsky.social Politics, video games, comics/manga, chronic health bullshit, & feminist SF. I live in Wisconsin and I have a dog named Stella.
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Black Hat keynote. S/her.
Bio: about.me/violetblue
More: linktr.ee/viblue
News: patreon.com/violetblue
Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org The workers of Kickstarter. Affiliated with @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
contact@kickstarterunited.org
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
Mia Tsai is on hiatus @itsamia.bsky.social Author, editor, Dalcrozian, angry Asian. BITTER MEDICINE | THE MEMORY HUNTERS. Rep: Anne Tibbets. Hugo finalist and Hugoish winner. @concurrentseattle.bsky.social creator. From the North but I stay in the South.
Links: miatsai.carrd.co
Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social 🇨🇳🇨🇦 | she/her | Changle -> Toronto | Ignyte, Bram Stoker, Nebula Winner | Hugo, Astounding, Locus nominee | Odyssey ‘23 | BA,MSc | rep: UTA & Mushens Entertainment | A RIVER FROM THE SKY (Titan Books ‘26)
https://aijiang.carrd.co/
Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social assoc agent, kt literary
co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine
Senior Editor, Locus Magazine
Do stuff @ Lightspeed/Nightmare, Clarkesworld, F&SF
2014 Odyssey Workshop Grad
He/Him or She/Her in queer contexts
Opinions my own
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Chris Spivey (Author) @darkerhue.bsky.social Multi-award-winning writer and game designer. Veteran, part-time historian, podcaster, SFWA, and WWA member. Harlem Unbound, Haunted West, Genreless Podcast. Arc Dream Publishing Director (He/Him) #BlackLivesMatter
WastewaterSCAN @wastewaterscan.bsky.social WastewaterSCAN monitors infectious diseases through municipal wastewater systems across the U.S. to inform local & national public health responses. https://www.wastewaterscan.org/en
Mythworks is making the Myth Work @mythworks.bsky.social Original Worlds. 🌎 Original Stories. 📖
Award-winning TTRPG and Indie Comics publisher. 🏆
Find your next adventure at myth.works! 🗡️
Linktree 🌲: https://linktr.ee/mythworks
thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social I currently don't have a dog but I would like to get a dog.
KG Hutchins @songsforhorses.com Cultural anthropologist from NC Blue Ridge. Music and Animals in Mongolia. Монголоор ярьна. He/Him.
On the web at songsforhorses.com
Book out now! https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-for-the-horses
New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org Working to achieve liberation and justice for all disabled people in the South.
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
🌐 notechforapartheid.com
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi […]
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