Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social 2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com (@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.
John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Pulitzer x 2. Granddad.
OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social Setting my hair on fire for fun and profit. Disabled in a particularly shitty way. I know everything about everything, plus some other stuff.
They/them.
Also, I'm a duck.
David A. Smith @davidasmithphotos.bsky.social David A. Smith | Photographer | Lover of movies | Birmingham, Alabama + Nationwide | Weddings + Portraits - https://dsmithimages.com | Concerts + Places + Events - https://www.dasmithphotos.com | Prints - https://dsmithimages.pixieset.com/printstore/
profbbq @bbq.university he/him
professor, applied smoked meat studies.
Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social Mainer in DC. Host “State of the States” on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social
Husband of @carlosonhousing.bsky.social. Dog dad to Oliver
Wannabe wildlifer
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Gajenx @gajenx.bsky.social teacher, slight bit geeky, TTRPG lover, works to aide & promote educational, emotional, and social growth in and with people. pronouns are he/him.
Squirmin Melville @rhetorusrex.bsky.social southern degenerate
Chris Mitchell @ditchell.bsky.social Film photographer in Birmingham, Alabama. I am somehow still an Auburn fan and I like it when it rains on F1 races.
MrRJNKNS @mrrjnkns.bsky.social Former at-risk youth. Current at-risk adult.
Ashley Patriarca @aspatriarca.bsky.social Associate prof. Obsessed with dogs, teaching, perfume, romance novels, comics, & risk & crisis communication, not necessarily in that order. AL-NC-VA-PA. She/her. Opinions mine, all mine.
Kristen Bolden @kboldens.bsky.social she/her. very tired. i have to think the alliance is gonna frown on this. 🩷💜💙
TW @twesq.bsky.social Roll Tide/Wave, Who Dat. Donate money to your local food bank. Expect typos. “Always well-meaning, occasionally boneheaded, but does accept feedback”
Matthew A. Bailey @mindchangeframe.bsky.social Alabamian. Criminal defense law-yer. Fan of penguins and dogs. He/him. Constantly anxious. Bama fan but not that kind.
Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social former bama higher ed faculty / current mn higher ed comms / former egan’s dj / current cool dad / former bad poet-athlete / current bad poet-athlete
Luke Lucas @lukelucas.bsky.social photo/video at MA. Skywalker. Ravenclaw. EG4. can do my own laundry.
Shoal Bear @shoalbear.bsky.social Just me.
Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social Alabama lawyer doing criminal defense appeals and post-conviction work. Coffee hater and tea drinker who loves a good book.
tara 🪻 @magnolia2010.bsky.social armed with will and determination, and grace, too. 40something encouragement auntie of conscience. mobilian. lawyer. doing my best. joy in the face of horrors. you can do this.
"we are concern, we are hope despite the times." - R.E.M.- M @mehtajr.bsky.social @mehtajr.bsky.social
Matt Reed @mattdreed.bsky.social Spouse, parent, UMC Elder, Hospice Chaplain, Bama boy
PennLive @pennlive.com A hub mixing what’s trending around the nation/world with Pennsylvania life and culture. Tips: newstips@pennlive.com. Read: www.pennlive.com
Megan Lavey-Heaton @savvyliterate.com Meg • she/her/they • social media lead and Sunday supervisor for @pennlive.com • co-creator Namesake and other works with @secondlina.com • fangirl & crafty • owned by 2 cats
Photography: Nikon Z8/Z7II/Z50ii - Ricoh GRIII
@GBDinExile @gbdawkins.bsky.social 20 years a proud Bama public defender, now I wrangle them for fun and profit in NOLA. Imperfect Ally. Bourbon enthusiast, F word proponent. Saints, Tide, Cubs. #MakeGoodTrouble
Manda Collins 🐈📚🔎💕 @mandacollins.bsky.social She/her - Romance/mystery author; Too Nora Roberts™; Bama native #disabled Join my mailing list https://t.co/v60MSLiklr @hroot @rootliterary MA, MLIS, *CCH
*C(overed in) C(at) (H)air
Ashley Rains @ashleyhrains.bsky.social I ❤️ Stephen. 251, RTR.
Still bad at gravity.
Bless your heart and mine.
Sr. PR & Comms @ Visit Mobile
baulding lang syne 🎉✨ @whduncan.bsky.social On days like these, it’s a Bummer Heights High
The Oregonian @oregonian.com News updates from the #1 news source in the Pacific NW. See it all at www.OregonLive.com. 
Nathan Deal @nathandeal.bsky.social Christian | Grand Junction Daily Sentinel news/politics reporter | Auburn alum | Former writer for the AU Plainsman and Auburn Undercover | COYS and Go Braves | big movie guy
Dave Allen Grady @dave.allengrady.com Learner, traveler, dreamer | proclaimer of hope, seeker of justice | Spouse, Parent, Clergy, United Methodist . 🥾👣
allengrady.com
📍Atlanta, GA
The Alabama Take @thealabamatake.com Essays and podcasts on movies, music, books, television, and more from a few of Alabama’s best and worst miscreants.
https://www.TheAlabamaTake.com- K Kevin Hamrick @krhamrick.bsky.social
Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
Whit Miller @whitthewhit.bsky.social 
Mary Helene Hall @mary-helene.com 📍 birmingham, al
breaking content producer at bham now. mercer center for collaborative journalism alum. coastal alabama native. fast talker. chronic crafter. bird watcher. too much to say.
JB Emmons @jbe.bsky.social Just a lawyer, I suppose. He/him.
🇨🇦=BC
🇺🇲=AL/MN
Nothing I do or say on Bluesky is an endorsement of anything, nor is it legal advice.
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
Here is Oregon @hereisoregon.com Join us in celebrating the people, places and experiences that makes this corner of the Pacific Northwest unique. #HereisOregon – powered by
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Matt Novak @mattnovak.bsky.social Just news accounts 
Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social Books: Glass House, The Hospital, The Mayor. http://BrianRAlexander.com.
Past: Atlantic/Wired/Outside/Washington Monthly/MIT Tech Review/Janitor/Gas Station Attendant/Lifeguard.
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Speaking: BrightSight.
Jerry Iannelli @jerryiannelli.bsky.social They/he/any 🏳️⚧️
Mike Clark-Madison @mclarkmadison.bsky.social Working for good in ATX since 1988. Moving to CLE in 2025.
Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Most recently I covered cops and prosecutors for
@theappeal.org. Huge fan of hiking and baking 🍪 megoconnor.com
Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social I write investigative and narrative stories about immigration and criminal justice for Reuters. Please send story tips!
📍San Francisco
kristina.cooke@reuters.com
Signal: kristinacooke.08
Ryan Phillips @journoryan.bsky.social Founder/Field Editor of Tuscaloosa Patch. The Jesco White of local journalism. Email tips to ryan.phillips@patch.com
Boudreaux @conecuhsausage.bsky.social Eerie, Indiana Enthusiast 
Luke William Hunt @lukewilliamhunt.bsky.social Philosophy prof. (Univ. of Alabama) and former FBI special agent. Author of The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing (Oxford), The Police Identity Crisis (Routledge), and, soon, Police Deception and Dishonesty (Oxford)
https://lukewilliamhunt.com
Callie @soaucal.bsky.social New twitter same me 🦖
Maybe she’s BARN with it 🐅🦅
Cade @sir-cade.bsky.social Former part time butcher. Aspiring home cook. Bbq enthusiast. Lifelong diehard Jags fan. Braves lifer. UAB Alum. born & raised in an Auburn household. Friend of Bill. Fuck Parkinson’s
#DTWD #TealSky
#WarDamn #FortheA #Blazers
Tay Landers @erintayland.bsky.social 
Chip Brownlee @bychipbrownlee.com Staff writer @thetrace.org
Protonmail: chip.c.brownlee@protonmail.com
Signal: byChipBrownlee.01
eazyrooster @eazyrooster.bsky.social Movies, tv, music, sneakers, and sports. An Auburn fan that likes Saban and hates Freeze. I’m getting married. There will be pics and stuff here at some point elizabethandezra.com
OEMichael @oemichael.bsky.social 
Christopher Swartout @chrisswartout.bsky.social DGA 1st AD on many movies & TV shows you may have seen, and many you did not. Lifelong Cle Guardians & Ipswich Town fan. I once directed People's Sexiest Man Alive.
Dan Anderson @danandersonphoto.bsky.social Freelance photographer based on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, AL. Specializing in Unit Set Stills, News Photography, and Corporate Work. www.danandersonphoto.com
Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social Gamer wife, higher ed/libraries journalist at AL.com. (She/her)
Antelope @wovenantelope.bsky.social Viking warriors with animal heads
Genocide Hater @daswaggycpa.bsky.social CPA, cool dude sometimes
trip eggert @tripeggert.bsky.social doing it for the bit and a better world.
previously: @vera.org @themarshallproject.org @brennancenter.org, forever proud organizer of @vera-union.bsky.social. they 👈🤠👉 them.
Ch4j @safemode.bsky.social Gen X cloud janitor and front end dev. Security curious. NYC area.
Anna Willoughby @akw.bsky.social 🫠
Streaming weekly on YouTube @hambandana. Currently playing through Fallout 1.
AppVantage and deSalix ui founder, creator of Feedwell.app and OneFrog, writer, shitposter, FE dev, FOSSified, #WiT 🧙♀️
Trent Wooldridge @twooldridge.bsky.social Husband, father, Razorback fan. Condiment afficion--, affici--... condiment lover. Has never seen Goonies. Landlocked and waiting for my ship to come in. 
Stephen Rains @swrains.bsky.social “I broke a promise to myself
Made a couple to a brown eyed girl
Who rode with me through the mean ol' world
Never say die.”
Husband to Ashley. Bama. Red Sox. Pats. Liberal Catholic. Music and politics. @soxstephen at the old place.
Doc Harper @docharper.bsky.social Former Arkansas sports media D-lister. Now living in the NC Triangle and looking for a nice breeze.
Eddie Burkhalter @eddieburkhalter.bsky.social Researcher at Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. Former journalist. Words: The New York Times, The Anniston Star, Alabama Political Reporter.
Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social university of alabama sports reporter @al.com | wku herald alum | used to cover mizzou and horse racing 
Nic Gulas @nic-gulas.bsky.social Recovering broadcast journalist turned Salesforce Admin. Driver seat rock star. Unashamed Swiftie since 2007. Enjoys a good pop-punk song even at 37. Alabama grad (Roll Tide). #RCTID #BAONPDX- C Casey @casey1111.bsky.social Empty.
ty @tydotnet.bsky.social Here for the music
golden 💜 @theonlygolden.bsky.social Well Informed, but still curious.
https://mydramalist.com/profile/13610686
blah blah yaga @jmmc.bsky.social they/she
https://juliacoursey.com/
leilalw 💀 @boddagettuh.bsky.social former smart person. they/she. AU ‘17. KSU ‘26.
Sarah Swetlik @sarahgswetlik.bsky.social Reporting on a hodgepodge of topics for The Greenville News 🌿🌎🦈 Introvert with flair, smaller in person. Likes running and talking about water. She/her. ✉️ → sswetlik@gannett.com
John Hammontree @johnhammontree.bsky.social Head of Podcasting for @aldotcom. Murrow Award winning host & showrunner. Sr Producer of CNN's Downside Up. Mostly eyebrows.
Kelz 🔮 @gratefulkelzz.bsky.social ⚡️💀🌹⭕️🐐🐻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙🧡
She/her & WDE!
Todd Murphy @toddamurphy.bsky.social Teacher. Researcher. Atmospheric Scientist. Occasional administrator.
Rufus J Squirrel 🇵🇸 @death.computer Currently clean on OPSEC.
Abolish ICE.
Ryan Wade @ryanwadewx.bsky.social Research Scientist. Radar, Ground-Based Remote Sensing, Satellites. High-Impact Weather, Wildland Fire, & Water Resources.
Hail State, Saints, & Braves.
Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social Cilantro is the Devil’s lettuce
Deschedule cannabis
Allergic to pollen, tomatoes, a-holes and the willfully ignorant
𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘤 𝘗𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵 @ikepigott.com Birmingham AL — Former broadcaster, amateur pundit, cancer survivor, trying to be more humane every day.
Profile pic: drawn by my amazing daughter.
Trans lives are human lives.
Banner image: downtown B’ham. 🌈ally
Check my pinned “sub-accounts”
Buckwheat @buckwheat.bsky.social What’s a honky gotta do round here to get a little recognition? Teacher. Aka Logan 
Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social I write short SFF stories & drabbles (https://kickin-the-darkness.com) and am a member of Codex and SFWA. Follow me for SF, Alabama (esp Huntsville), and democracy.
BTW, AI slop is gross and "an insult to humanity."
https://nobodywantsyouraislop.com
André Natta @acnatta.bsky.social I've been a journalist, a planner, and a hotel general manager. It's always about buying the ticket and taking the ride. Bronx native. Executive director/Executive editor, @bhamwatch.bsky.social
Matt @thesharkerimage.bsky.social Perusing the wook store
Clickityclack @clickityclack.bsky.social No idea what the hell is going on
Holden Covington @hcov1232.bsky.social 
*Starry-Eyed*JGC @jgcocanada.bsky.social Dual citizen US/Canada, PA01 voter and Bucks County content, Penn State alum
Supporting independent news sites like BucksCountyBeacon.com
Paul Newman, Reply Guy @arctica23.bsky.social Opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of anyone, least of all me
Cambro @cambro.bsky.social Your favorite dad’s favorite dad.
Equine hate, weightlifting, sports, & DIY projects with a hearty dose of AuDHD.
Little Red Fox Cosplay @littleredfoxcos.bsky.social Cosplayer, mermaid, gamer, cat mom, rogue, Red Ajah, Aquarius (explains a lot, really). Probably working too hard on another cosplay. She/her
Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social Historian. Assoc Prof. Author of jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Dharawal - Muscogee - Meanjin.
Julia McNair @juliamac.bsky.social Writer, shopkeeper, mom, reader, bird nerd. Hanging out in Birmingham.
Michael @havanadaydreamin.bsky.social Enjoy every sandwich.
he/him | Roll Tide | YNWA
Zachary Williams @therealpokechop.bsky.social Social worker, Alabama alumni and sports fan. Same handle on Twitter and threads. 
Blair @bbash129.bsky.social I don’t know what I’m doing but at least I’m off that hell site.
Bama fan. Currently and forever obsessed with my nephew and niece. Raging liberal. She/her. 
Lita Waggoner @litawagg.bsky.social Alabamian, Lawyer, Writer
Opcode_ @opcode.bsky.social Has someone told you about the 1993 hit adventure game Myst today? Suit by @hyltstudios.bsky.social
Luce @luce630.bsky.social Extreme sad girl vibes. Aspiring e-girl. I make bad decisions. Roll Tide. she/her
Cody Lunsford @codylunsford.bsky.social the terror and the horror