Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
Vincent Schmalbach @vschmalbach.bsky.social Senior AI-first software engineer for SaaS and business apps. Laravel/Vue is my strongest client stack. Available for freelance work. Founder of Vroni.com.
Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social Head of Product Engineering @ ona.com
John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social 📚 Author
👻 Ghostwriter
Find me at
📺 youtube.com/@JohnGVibes
🔖 johnvibes.substack.com (no paywalls)
📖 raveoutlaw.com
Michelle Venetucci @mvenetucci.bsky.social PhD candidate, anthropology and STS. Quilter, knitter, ex-tech worker. Fyber Collective.
Chris Choi @chrischoi.bsky.social bike lane propagandist, external affairs @verainstitute.bsky.social, and board member of outer seed shadow project
Kevin Keenan @kevinkeenan.bsky.social Executive advisor to philanthropy, nonprofits, and social enterprise. Former COO&GC @ NAACP-LDF, Exec Dir @ ACLU San Diego, and EVP @ Vera Institute. 
Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social Intellectual property, law specialist, and professor of law
Fourth edition of Understanding Patent Law (revised and updated) https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531029135/Understanding-Patent-Law-Fourth-Edition?srsltid=AfmBOorvIJY-erg0chCzus37DsMFh6MLQ5W
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
Laura Moy @moy.bsky.social Georgetown Law
Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. I’ve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :)
Nighat Dad @nighatdad.bsky.social 
Ben @uncleben.bsky.social uncle ben
DirtyHarry @weedmob.bsky.social DM-Block‼️ #Nachtschwester #Legalize #fckafd
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it! –
@neiltyson
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Crypto & Privacy Village @cryptovillage.bsky.social We help bring cryptography & privacy knowledge to the hacker community.- S Stephanie Wylie @stephaniecwylie.bsky.social Staff attorney @EJI. Fmr @BrennanCenter @amprog @ACLU. Justice reform, fair courts, & civil rts advocate. GA native. @nyulaw @EmoryUniversity alum. she/her. View mine
Jenny Ryan @jnny.bsky.social Internet freedom fighter currently @equalitie, cyberanthropologist, bridge-builder, linguistic alchemystic, anarchafeminista. Co-founder @sudomesh @sudoroom @omnicommons in Oakland, CA. Mostly retired from social media; find me @tunabananas elsewhere.
Masayuki Hatta @mhatta.org A hacker wannabe from Japan. This account features my rants mainly in Japanese or English. Signal: mhatta.59
Jason Odoom @odoom.burntheinter.net Human. / Security Engineer / he+him / 68CCAF80768A91A5
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Shit posting account?
DominoTree @spun.io Computers
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
This is the only account . 👈 If I share something it doesn’t necessarily mean I agree
Founding board member
@Freedom.press please follow https://linktr.ee/freedomofpress
@johncusack on twiiter
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Katitza @katitza.bsky.social @EFF Policy Director for Global Privacy
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
BSides Las Vegas @bsideslv.org BSides Las Vegas will take place August 3-5, 2026
Las Vegas · bsideslv.org
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social Author: "Policing White Supremacy,” "Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide," "Thinking Like a Terrorist." Co-writer of "Imperium." Former FBI Special Agent, turned civil rights advocate. Re-posts are not endorsements.
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
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio I'm an artist. 
Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Tech & human rights lawyer @ tekhnoslaw.ca
⚖️ Senior Fellow @citizenlab.ca | fmr @cippic.bsky.social | fmr @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
🎓 LLM @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social | JD @UVicLaw
🤸🏻♀️ Capoeirista
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Brian Hochman @brianhochman.bsky.social Professor @Georgetown // Author, The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States.
Cleeeeeeeeeeeevelaaaaaaaaaaaand. This is for you.
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social Digital communities, books, and fandom. Editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨
elizabethminkel.com // fansplaining.com // https://buttondown.email/the-rec-center- C Chancey Fleet @chanceyfleet.bsky.social library-based accessible tech educator
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
Hack Club @hackclub.com 🚀 a worldwide community of high school hackers by the students, for the students. 🦕 we're a nonprofit & fully open source: http://github.com/hackclub.
Brian Hofer @brianhofer.bsky.social Executive Director, Secure Justice (@securejustice.bsky.social) https://secure-justice.org/ fmr. Chair, City of Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission (2016-2025)
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social Boffin, flâneur, ailouroboskos. Kubrick homage self-portraitist. Also cryptography, human rights, and stuff. Founded PGP, Blackphone, others; worked for DEC, Apple, SRI, ACLU, EFF, others. Was ShmooCon program chair for all twenty conferences.
Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv 
Lindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
Svea Windwehr @sveawindwehr.bsky.social Fundamental rights, platform governance and other internet stuff. Policy @Mozilla. Co-Chair @D-64.org. Member of the advisory council of the German DSC. Views all hers.
christoph schmon @tylium.bsky.social international policy director @EFF.org | posts are mine but I share
Multi-em-dash-ate @starchy.org Currently: covered in cat hair and running shoes, doing tech ops at EFF.
Previously: stardust, stars
Extremely not a professional account. Tikkun olam motherfucker
@ajue.bsky.social @ajue.bsky.social It's that EFF guy. Am I really gonna use this? Who knows??
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
The Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social The Wayback Machine is a service of the Internet Archive that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites.
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Sawood Alam @ibnesayeed.bsky.social Research Lead, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive
jonah @jonahedwards.com Formalist, Lacanthrope, anti-architect. He/him. Ambient infrastructure / infrastructure ambiance at archive.org
Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster. Portland Oregon.
Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
Filecoin Foundation @fil.org Filecoin Foundation (FF) facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds research and development projects for decentralized web technologies, and supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community.
Andrea Mills @andreamills.bsky.social Executive Director of Internet Archive Canada 🇨🇦
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social Internet Archive Canada is a non-profit digital library that works with universities, and memory institutions throughout Canada. https://internetarchivecanada.org
https://linktr.ee/internetarchivecanada
Kyle K Courtney @kylekcourtney.bsky.social Lawyer, librarian, @FairUseWeek organizer, @SocialLaw, © savvy, author, armchair philosopher, gentleman farmer, soi disant scholar, @eBookStudyGroup, and bowtie enthusiast.
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online Director at Library Futures, a project of NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. MPA, MLIS. Words at Flaming Hydra and other places sometimes. she/her
Erin Blakemore @erinblakemore.bsky.social Journalist, bookworm, feminist, historian, library school dropout, knitter, Angrian-Gondalian, author of THE HEROINE'S BOOKSHELF. (She/her)
I used to be heroinebook on Twitter
erinblakemore.com
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social Managing Director of IIIF-C: https://iiif.io/ | Exploring Nature: http://inaturalist.org/people/udcmrk | Random thoughts here: http://udc793.org | (he/him)
FairUseWeek @fairuseweek.bsky.social Celebrate 12th Annual #FairUseWeek from Feb. 24-28, 2025! Questions, info? Contact Kyle K. Courtney, Director of Copyright & Info Policy @kylekcourtney.bsky.social & https://www.fairuseweek.org/
NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy @egall.bsky.social 1 of 400 NH State Reps (in my case: Merrimack County District 20; i.e. Concord Ward 6). Read my pinned post. he/him. #NHPolitics
See also @cooljeaniusarchive.bsky.social for previous posts and @cooljeaniusbot.bsky.social for my bot.
linktr.ee/ericgallager
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Love freedom of expression, digital ownership, libraries, and fun.
Avatar by @carmenjohns.bsky.social
maria |at| flaminghydra |dot| com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/), journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: glyn.moody@gmail.com
Jordan Mechner @jmechner.bsky.social I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo, Liberty) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone video game history + preservation + archaeology | bot mom | exhausted computer witch | ⬅️🪽 | pan dyke (she/it) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
JD Shadel @jdshadel.com 💌 Join the only lifestyle newsletter on the internet ;-) www.esckey.co
Chief Editorial Officer at new media outlet ESC KEY .CO — also the only employee
Work in Condé Nast Traveler (ex-Future of Travel columnist), WaPo, Them, BBC, Vice, more
They/etc
rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social 
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu Internet Archive Europe, a Dutch non-profit research library, is building collections and tools to bring them to life. Working with libraries, museums, and archives, we share these tools and collections to further everyone’s services.
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