Jake Trowbridge @jaketrowbridge.bsky.social Silly video maker and dynasty analyst for Matthew Berry’s Fantasy Life.
Emmett O'Connell @emmettoconnell.bsky.social Blogger, podcaster, local government communicator, rec soccer defender
OlympiaTime.com
theolympiastandard.com
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Steven Livingston @stevenlivingston.bsky.social Son of a union organizer and a professor of political science/communication at GWU - in that order.
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
R A Whitfield @rawhitfield.bsky.social music, writing, visual arts
Jeff Yang @originalsp.in TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin
Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America
Pic: thx @gregpak!
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social Executive editor at @status.news. Email: jon at status dot news. Subscribe to the essential newsletter examining the media and power: status.news/subscribe 📬
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
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Jack Schlossberg @jackschlossberg.bsky.social Fan account. Not affiliated with Jack Schlossberg.
The Shadowserver Foundation @shadowserver.bsky.social Our mission is to make the Internet more secure by bringing to light vulnerabilities, malicious activity and emerging threats. Join our Alliance!
https://shadowserver.org/partner
Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social Professor and Chair of Journalism and Sports Media at Montclair State University. I am a journalism historian, studying press criticism, and literary & alternative journalism.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
Ashlyn B. Aske @ashlynba.bsky.social 💡considering tech policy from a human-centered perspective. Master of Jurisprudence @ UW Law + UW Center for an Informed Public
Ihsan Kahveci @ihsankahveci.bsky.social PhD Student in Sociology @uofwa.bsky.social
ihsankahveci.com
Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu A multidisciplinary research center at the University of Washington in Seattle helping individuals, communities and institutions navigate our complex information environments.
Website: cip.uw.edu
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Zach Verdin @zachverdin.bsky.social vitalist. fourth generation LA Jew born on Texas soil 🇺🇸
Vita Dadoo @vitachronicles.bsky.social mexican journalist & editor etc.
Ashley Durkin-Rixey @ashleyrixey.bsky.social No one of importance.
Bijan @bijanm.bsky.social 
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
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Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
Ben Jackson @benjackson.com The wordst.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com- E @eatpraylev.bsky.social @eatpraylev.bsky.social
Colin @yesitscolin.bsky.social The “Tom Hanks of Bluesky,” or so I’ve been told. Wrote a couple true crime books, and a whole bunch of skeets. NY Post once called me a "woke Wikipedia user." Opinions are mine. He/him
William Butler Yeets @yeets.biz RCTID BAON🌲|📷|🍄|🧀|⚽|🥖|🐦
He/Him, sometimes occultist, plant liker. bird enthusiast. himbo priest of the summer cult.
☉ Cancer, ☽ Aries, ↟ Gemini
Gilad Lotan @gilgul.bsky.social Data @ BuzzFeed
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
earthquake🤖 @earthquake.bsky.social 🌏 5.0+ magnitude earthquakes around the world
💻 data from USGS
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
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
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli
🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li
🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli
TiffanyLi.com if you insist
RJ @rj.clobber.net I like making multiplayer games.
Wishlist Mecha Simultactics on Steam: simultactics.com
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social don’t worry, that’s not my desk
Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social Econ prof @dartmouth, founder devdatalab.org
r2: a morass of disjointed streams of consciousness
🤷♂️
𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social ☧ / tech perspectivist / professional strangler / friend maker / infovore / xenophile
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social @rstreet.bsky.social Institute Digital Director and Fellow on occupational licensing reform, Section 230, social media regulation, 1A. Marmots, mountaineering, sewing, sloths.
Want to be here more, just so much to do! :(
bit.ly/SenatorShoshana
Spice @icespice.bsky.social Huge emphasis on not being her
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
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/
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social America’s stepdad
Leona @leona.bsky.social experimenting with embodied perception, mediation, consciousness and community-building
emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Freeman & Forrest.
Bestselling author of DevOps for Dummies and international keynote speaker. I’ve led Community, DevRel and Product Marketing at AWS, MSFT, and startups.
I was editingemily on Twitter.
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
William ⚡ Laurent - AI Guy @williamlaurent.bsky.social 🌟 Award Winning Journalist & #AI troublemaker ⚡ Follow me to learn about the future of Web3, Design, and Marketing 👉 www.williamlaurent.com
Ollie Tyler 👋 @ollietyler.com Founder of Apple, Creator of the iPhone
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
BBB @borschtbeltbabe.bsky.social Jewish American Babe, Historical Fact Keeper, General Nonsense, Art Maker, Marketing, PR Betch
Events Manager by Day, Derelict by Night
Ace @alexyoungkwon.bsky.social 🔮 perl.xyz
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Daniel @growingdaniel.bsky.social I’m asking you to do something well
[holding my plate up] please. my pdfs. @swolecialism.bsky.social i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Faith Love @handle.invalid artist doing artist things
obsessed with the www
Prints below!
Faithloveart.xyz 
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
björk 182 @readsettle.rs character actor, dancer, singer.
I'm a triple threat.
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
General Partner @mana.inc
🌳
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social award losing artist
non selling author
dad
baseball nerd
morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️
Maile @maile.bsky.social {My-lee}
☁️ Blue Sky Super User
👩💻 News & Politics
X.com/MaileOnX
🔗 Affiliate Links: https://msha.ke/shopmailesfavorites
Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social Andrhia elsewhere. Condemned by NASA. Writer, immersive experience designer, games, politics. Just happy to be here. She/her.
Blog and books at http://secret.works. Newsletter at https://buttondown.com/secretworks
Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv 
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
prerat @prer.at social media influencee
Discovery @discovery111.bsky.social We'll bring the 🌍 to you
GOOBER © (Official) @goober.bsky.social culture war veteran 3 tours. simper fi hoo rah
guineas world record holder for flop posting 🏅
Pfp alt text: Marjorie Taylor Greene with a comically large mouth
Header alt text: Uhaul logo but it says "uhhhhhh"
He/Him
ginger @redhot.bsky.social follow for more woes! $gingerisbroke
Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social 🔞Free Palestine. Filmmaker, mtg player, model. wumpus priestess. Neon Genderless Evangelion. 18+ only
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one of the hosts @podatog.bsky.social &
@atticmagic.bsky.social
any/all :3
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social tv in new york. no views my own. my birthday is next year
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
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