Laura Nash @laurajnash.bsky.social co-host of The Short Game https://shortgame.fm/
also ux/design but I mostly talk about museums, tv, and video games here
Eric Karkovack @karks.com 30+ years as a web developer, WordPress aficionado, writer @speckyboy.bsky.social, podcast host at @thewpminute.com, teller of terrible puns. Passionate #Orioles and #Saints fan. Find me all over the web: https://karks.com/links/
Sam Stokes @five-eights.com Immigrant, mixologist, engineer. Interested in feedback loops, abstractions, nuance. ex LaunchDarkly, Honeycomb, LinkedIn.
https://five-eights.com
https://five-eights.com/garden/
@simonegiertz.bsky.social @simonegiertz.bsky.social 
Matt Ribel @mattribel.bsky.social longform in @wired.com, @washingtonian.com, @defector.com.
matthewribel.com
Joel Chan @joelchan86.bsky.social (Associately??) Professing #hci #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD INFO and HCIL
#immigrant (🇲🇾 ➡️ 🇺🇸 ) #firstgen academic
Building @discoursegraphs.bsky.social #atproto 🤝 #openscience
https://joelchan.me
Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social HCI PhD @ Northwestern. I design human-centered AI tool to support science communication + study how AI tools might reshape people’s values, practices, relationships. she/her.
nishalsach.github.io
Alhambot @alhambot.bsky.social Procedurally-generated mosaics inspired by the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Made with Python and a lot of math. By @samplereality.bsky.social.
malorie @malorienilson.com Editor, writer, cellist, lover of dinosaurs, chaotic energy, poltergeist in a human disguise. Just like any modern ghoul trying to have it all—I only wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.
they/she
Barb, Red State Blue Neck @barbb.bsky.social I'm post menopausal and done with your crap.
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social SFFH and film fan. Former scientist. Dad. He/him.
https://letterboxd.com/MBryandroid/
Part Bear, part Fish, all Pie @bearfishpie.bsky.social Scientist/aspiring board game designer/author/maker of bleepy bloops*
*delete as appropriate
Pronouns: he/him
John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social History professor, transit and active transportation, housing, climate justice, baseball fan. 🚫🧊
Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social The Movement Motivator. Political consultant, trainer, and democracy coach. Abolition accomplice. Multi-modal transit and community-building enthusiast.(She/her/hers) 🌈🖤 🌹🌻 🕊✊🏼🚲🚉
🖇🌊AntiIgnoramiAnya🌊 @aungard.bsky.social 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
#paperclip
Mid left coaster. Pro-humanity, Pro-planet, BLM & 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally, Coast Guard Vet, ret SW, crone. Been in the fight for decades. F consumerism. F the patriarchy.
🚫DMs 🚫Porn🚫Crypto
🚫MAGAlomaniacs🚫NatCs
Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social Lawyer. Not your lawyer. Mother. Not your mother.
By day (and frankly nights and weekends), a civil rights lawyer for people who are incarcerated. Other times, just exhausted.
Washington DC based.
wendy knox everette @wendyck.bsky.social Startup CISO. BSidesLV Lockpick. Hacker lawyer. Amzn & Google alum, USCG wife, Wellesley, GMU Law. IAAL but IANYL.
S @vidiot.bsky.social Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident.
"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social Burgeoning network engineer (look out, I'm burgeoning!)(new grad).
Nous sommes Palestinian.
Going to war with Iran is moronic and immoral.
#RipCity
Not a law professor with a Twitter account. @jonruttenberg.bsky.social My Signal number is 1-800-MERITOCRACY.
Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc Civil-rights lawyer
Executive Director of @pubaccountability.org
https://pubaccountability.org/athul-k-acharya
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Chris Petersen @cpetersen-cs.bsky.social My pronouns are nerd/geek. I hope I'm an ally to many and an enemy to few. I can't believe bsky ran out of more interesting people to invite.
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
https://instagram.com/luckytran
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
Not great, Bob! @sometoast.bsky.social Product designer for streaming TV, music aficionado, tall geek. I own a 1989 Radio Shack plasma ball, but I don’t let it define me. A box of Q-tips on 🥑
Playing music at toast.radio ad-free and talk-free
Upcoming artists hourly @upcoming.toast.radio
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social She/they. Sometimes I do conceptual art. Sometimes I don't. Gangster pastor, allegedly.
"The only way that we, the small and the ordinary, might survive in any decent way, is if we learn to take care of each other."
Louise Wille @louisewille.bsky.social Danish sustainability consultant and engineer living in England. Knitter, occasional cyclist, socialist, pacifist, feminist, tree hugger, auntie
Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social Scottish-Canadian with a wonderful, supportive, dorky family, a love of many things, especially coding, linguistics, biology, cosmology, truth, and justice. Have been to many interesting places. Have a pretty unique experience of transitioning. ❤
@diana180.bsky.social @diana180.bsky.social Editor of complicated things. Dr of languagey things. Previously: HY, TaY, UoS (UCS), QMUL, UoR, Bloomberg, Dublin Worldcon press. I make you smarter. Myös suomeksi.
Susan Matthews @warytulip.bsky.social Reading, walking, dragon boating, gardens...
Elaine @uselaine.bsky.social I’m here because you went here, I love you, and I want to see you. 💛
Most of my attention goes to mastodon because it is what I think the internet is supposed to be. I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly.
Profile pic is... old. Long time ago.
Cristina @sracristina.bsky.social Senyora que escriu a canvi de diners.
Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social Nobody special. Just a lawyer with a family. Oxford comma advocate. SFF fan. Hobby woodworker, baker, and gardener. He/Him.
Gavin Edwards @mrgavinedwards.bsky.social Author (sometimes co-) of 14 books, most recently the NYT bestseller MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS with Joanna Robinson and Dave Gonzales. Writer of articles, player of games, walker of dog. He/him.
Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social Public health, reproductive justice, big nerd about tv as health education. Fighting depression and anxiety with cats, bunnies, and raccoons. And being clever never got me very far. she/her
Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca I am a father, consulting IT Architect, former runner, chief cook/bottlewasher, and Cape Bretoner. I work at IBM in Toronto. More here: berniemichalik.ca and smartpeopleiknow.com
Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com 🗣️ People, Not Platforms
🌐 Building: @anew.social, @disperse.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
👥 Organizing: @seattle.atprotocol.community
Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/ DM for Signal 🔐
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social ✨I'm a former local TV news exec, reporter & producer with a few opinions about the news✨
⚡️Past: @KING5Seattle @WGNMorningNews @WGNNews @WCIA3 @NBC5Chicago @ABC7Chicago
🔥Now: Indistinct Chatter https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/
Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social more fun on depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Jenna Scherer @secondhusk.bsky.social Writer-editor based in Brooklyn with bylines in The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, your heart. Formerly senior copy editor at Backstage Magazine. The moon is my wife. Hire me! She/her, #T1D
https://linktr.ee/jennascherer
@pixelmoss.bsky.social @pixelmoss.bsky.social 
Shelley at the Library @cardcataloggirl.bsky.social Children's librarian. Proud Marquette grad. Luv books, facts, my Os and baseball, Maryland, soccer, history, and other stuff...
jenn schiffer 🍦 @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social Front End Developer doing UI and accessibility work on open source library software. Previously: MLIS @ UW iSchool; tag wrangling; wrote some tech books a while back. Pretty young for an Old Internet Person.
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social Boston-based robotics nerd whose opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the cringe. It’s pronounced “Michael”.
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Baja Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social macguffin afficionado
Andrew Hazlett @andrewhazlett.bsky.social Writing & Teaching | Creative Nonfiction | Neoclassical Liberal | Baltimoron in Seattle | he/him | Proverbs 26:11 | Слава Україні! | https://andrewhazlett.com
Lea Teagarden aka @tencentdress @leateagarden.bsky.social union carpenter/civil engineer/dog lover/bird lover/gardener/
anti-fascist to the core...hence the cussing.
appalachian living in south cackalacka
salting the vibes while fighting severe phenotype of long covid since 3/2020
Mona Smitte @monalisazelf.bsky.social Let's find out what happens next
omgponies @shitcrime.com Award winning celebrity pet psychic.
Part time freelance test pilot.
Juanisa McCoy @nisajaie.bsky.social Lead UI/UX designer & VR/AR/AI/Tech enthusiast who is trying to enhance the world one experience at a time. Software Engineer at NASA. 1 Cor 13:4. (She/Her) #ux #design #climate #tech
@richms @richms.bsky.social General nerd
Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social Random links & shenanigans. Writer/filmmaker. Citizen.
Really tired of living in interesting times.
Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social 30 trillion cells in a trench coat
Chris Silverman @csilverman.bsky.social Designer, artist, iPhone Notes limit pusher. I know the difference between a "font" and a "typeface", but I'm not obnoxious about it.
🌈 https://notes.art
🏠 https://csilverman.com
✍️ https://shortform.csilverman.com
Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Modern Landscape Painter
JimMusil.com
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Linnéa Gyllingberg @gyllingberg.bsky.social Fulbright scholar and Wallenberg Postdoctoral fellow @uclamath | PhD in applied math from @uppsalauni | Interested in mathematical biology, collective behaviour and complex systems | linneagyllingberg.github.io
Judith Donath @judithmedia.bsky.social deception | AI | design
https://vivatropolis.com
Ryan Farley @ryanfarley.co Running and writing, usually slowly, in Thailand for 13 years.
Author of the Such Bad Tech Ads newsletter: buttondown.com/suchbadtechads
Co-founder of Pith & Pip: pithandpip.com
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
Signal: jeaton.04
Abolish ICE 🐦⬛ @schuyler.info ICE is 👏 not law enforcement 👏 if it is not 👏 accountable to the law. 👏
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Matthew 25:37-40 ∙ CPE 1704 TKS
buttondown.com/erle ∙ gale8.net ∙ atgeo.org
Jordy Gold @jordygold.bsky.social Digital strategist, green enthusiast, Climate Drift Fellow, lover of food & year-round cyclist. Tweets are my own.
Jonty @fairless.xyz Service designer for the climate emergency, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift.
📍Edinburgh 🏴
Elventhing @elventhing.bsky.social Rex Tillerson said it best. USA: anti-fascist since 1941.
Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social Basic Prog Brit Woke Remoaner Centrist Dad.
He/Him, Bi, ADHD, the usual.
Former Splash Damage game dev.
Full-Stack Narrative Designer/Game Writer available for hire:
https://www.sternword.co.uk/
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social Writer of video games, books, short stories etc.
A SPELL FOR MIDWINTER'S HEART out now
Rep: Aurora Fernandez @ Trident Media
Games: GW2, Tell Me Why, Halo, Rift, and more
http://www.lockhartwrites.com
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Lily Burana @lilyburana.bsky.social Author. Elder Goth. Veteran's Spouse. Femme. Low-key Liberation Theologian. Sometimes fighting the good fight, sometimes just fighting.
Meg Lemke @meglemke.bsky.social COMING TO SPX COME SEE MY PANEL ON SATURDAYYYY Comics reviews editor at Publishers Weekly / Editor in Chief @muthamagazine.bsky.social / #books #babies #brooklyn
Patrick Pittman @patrickpittman.bsky.social Happiest in the far-away corners. Itinerant writer, filmmaker and editor. Toronto or outport Newfoundland most of the time. https://patrickpittman.com
Sarah K Moir @smore.bsky.social Endlessly curious about docs, music, data, ethics in tech, inclusivity, borders on the web, and so much more. Can be spotted taking the bus to the club. Technical writer in SF. She/her.
HJ Armstrong @hjarmstrong.bsky.social Neuro-misfit. Searcher. Restless. Likely covered in crumbs.
⎯
Fluent: Profanity, Sarcasm, Hyperbole
⎯
Not an "AI Hater" despite the labeler BS.
Avi: 2011 US Navy Birthday Ball
Peter MacLeod @petermacleod.bsky.social Principal, masslbp.com | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | Co-author, democracyssecondact.org
Jules @nodanaonlyjules.bsky.social We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Chris Jones @cjonesny.com Banking/finance, legal, data science, prod dev, tech architecture, and regulatory affairs
Alabama→Texas→NYC (25 years)
horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
DID NOT INTENTIONALLY KILL OPTIMUS PRIME
Renée @reneestephen.bsky.social Free esprit de l'escalier.
Salty posts from a salty island.
AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social Crossword editor, feminist, liberal. She/her
Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com the econ side of everything. @boulderbedrooms.bsky.social, @BoulderProgressives.org, Better Boulder. he/him.
I run Boulder Colorado Election Voter Guide https://bouldercoloradovoterguide.com and @didtherockieslose.com
Megan Frampton 🤷🏻♀️ @meganf.bsky.social Romance author. She/her. Proud Brooklynite. Oxford comma forever. Fujoshi. Danmei reader. Shawol/EXO-L/Stay/Atiny/WayZenNi/NCTzen #NoAI #Romancelandia #CodifyRoe #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AbolishICE
https://www.meganframpton.com/
Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social Musician, mother, arts worker. I play violin with Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, JP Hoe, etc. Made radio/podcasts with The Vinyl Cafe and William Prince. I tend to post about Winnipeg, biking, urbanism, and politics.
https://linktr.ee/JuliePenner
Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com Unemployed and looking for work. Past bylines at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, @comicsjournal.bsky.social, Gizmodo, HITS Magazine.
Kathryn Marinaro @kathrynmarinaro.bsky.social Maker, Artist, Director of UX for humanoid robots, Author of Prototyping for Designers
Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social Used to write for lots of places. Now mostly at Flaming Hydra, a co-op newsletter: https://flaminghydra.com/contributor/colin-mcgowan/
DMs are fine // colinsilasmcgowan at gmail
Octism Queen @snowqueenofhoth.bsky.social Artistic Autistic Angel fanatic. Figuring it out as I go.
Come for the Magic, stay for the Octopus facts. Also sometimes I draw things??
Welcome!
🏳️🌈🖖
she/her
Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Becoming Earth (Random House) ✵ Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Naturalist, wildlife gardener & photographer, baker ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
Genghis @genghis.bsky.social Professional Ultimate coach (MN Strike), tech dork, he/him
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social I make wine in an alpine desert in the South Pacific 🇳🇿.
J&B spotter. 🟡🟢🔵https://boxd.it/3x7HZ
Spice lover. 🍜
Planet and people before profit.
Will block you for gen-AI.
ᓚᘏᗢ
Beatrice Murch @blmurch.com Program Manager of @internetarchive.eu – opinions strictly my own. Photographer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cat Servant, Coffee Lover, Immigrant, Traveler, Geek, Participant & Hope Junkie. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧 🥰💍🇦🇷&🇪🇸 🏠 🇳🇱
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store: Aperiodical.net
Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! They/them or other neutral pronouns are preferred. All my current and previous work is on my site: https://linktr.ee/aerialembroidery
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.