Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social Because "Reality has a well‑known liberal bias" -
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist!
And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social I like to study ancient toilets, privies, and fecal deposits. You can't lie in your poops! I also study textiles & pottery.
Not interested in romance, because straight men killed it for me. (Archeologist, Retired Farmer, Political/Economic Risk Analyst)
Sasha Vermel @sashavermel.bsky.social Building community in Missoula, MT, helping people reach the goal of home ownership, making weird art.
Always Clarity @clarisaclarity.bsky.social Cook, Writer, Veteran, Traveler, Ex-Pat, living in the GWN. Musings and Perspectives on Substack, @clarisaclarity
Annikakes @annikakes.bsky.social Cute Evil. Craft beer junkie. Turophile. Amerikiwi. Just a Kansas City, MO girl living in a Kiwi world. Mouthpiece of Yeastie Boys. I'd be a much better unicorn. Trying to figure out which social media platform to use. 🤷🏻♀️
Miss Anne Thrope @missannethrope.bsky.social Lover of dogs. People, meh.
She/Her
Sister Mable Syrup @sistermable.bsky.social Goofy-ass Mama, Ama, Nun
Grass Valley - Las Vegas - San Francisco - Malta
Endless Dysania
Cheese, Red Wine, Coffee, Bourbon
Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social Alessandra Kelley - I make art. TTRPGs. She/her. Cis. White as Wonder Bread with mayo. Sophipygian. Postmodern Pre-Raphaelite.
Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. I only repost images with ALT text. I won't knowingly repost AI.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com — ER doc in SF
— @Offcall.com co-founder (Solving physician burnout through transparency!)
— MDCalc.com creator
— Physicians' Charter for Responsible AI physicianscharter.ai/
(posts are my own and nothing to do with employers)
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social Physician Scientist MDPhD
Infectious Diseases
Academic Medicine
Global Health
Science Communicator
Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice
I bet on myself and double down
https://substack.com/@bktitanji
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
Escape the algorithm
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
Alison Smaalders @vividwings.bsky.social Archaeology major, currently working in P&C insurance. Gamer, LARPer, general nerd, cat lover. Occasionally known as Fun Fact. She/her. 
James Carrington @jscarrington.bsky.social 
Buck AE Down @buckdown.bsky.social Professional writer, visual, and recording artist.
Amateur comedian and smart person.
Starter pack ringer.
Ally to the chicken sandwich eating community.
www.buckdown.net
Lisa Joseph Koi Dreams Photo (She/her) @ljoseph-koidreams.bsky.social Amateur historian with a camera based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A little digital, a little film, a little luck, no AI ever.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall.bsky.social TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social Thriller and fantasy author 📚
Lifetime nerd & enthusiastic roller of dice 🎲
Of Serpents and Sorrow out NOW 🩷 🐍
she/her 🌈 bi & grey ace | 🍉 | 🚫AI
https://linktr.ee/katherineshawwrites
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
• https://linktr.ee/jsearles
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Esther Tseng @estarla.bsky.social Food, drinks & culture writer
estarla.com
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Pamela Toler (she/her) @pdtoler.bsky.social Writing unexpected history for smart adults and curious kids - and vice-versa. Author of Women Warriors and the forthcoming The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. Kickass cook. www.pameladtoler.com
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social I like to write about terrible men, horrible things, and unlikeable women. Somehow my book is a bestseller. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary.
Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty.
https://linktr.ee/megelison
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Heather Havrilesky @heatherhav.bsky.social Author of Ask Polly + Ask Molly on Substack + four books, most recently Foreverland.
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
Jessica Hische @jessicahische.bsky.social Lettering Artist, Professional Logo Zhuzher, & NYT Best-selling Author. Co-founder of Studioworks—shaping the future of creative business!
studioworks.app
linktr.ee/jessicahische
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/by/apoorva-mandavilli
Signal: amnyt.91
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. LA Podcast co-host, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social Purveyor of Dismissed Cinema | PanCan Survivor | Author | Fat Lesbian Wife | Fangoria & /Film | Co-Host of This Ends at Prom Podcast | Mouthy Midwest Broad in L.A.
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Meagan Navarro @hauntedmeg.bsky.social Horror fanatic, journalist, and critic.
Jimin Han @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social Writer
DREAMT I FOUND YOU
THE APOLOGY
A SMALL REVOLUTION
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.
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social Novelist. Museum worker. Garden variety weirdo.
Books: We Lived On the Horizon, Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social My first short story collection, Black Arts, comes out on September 8th. Yes, I do live in Minneapolis. Boss, I'm tired.
www.megangiddings.com
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
MariNaomi (they/them) @marinaomi.bsky.social Artsy and fartsy, not necessarily in that order
名古屋 and California
MariNaomi.com
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025).
www.michelefilgate.com
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya @kaylakumari.bsky.social gay
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |