kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
writing: kellypendergrast.com
working: antistaticpartners.com
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Public Grids @publicgrids.org We bring grassroots organizing and sector-leading expertise together to expand public power across the country.
⚡️ publicgrids.org
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social Son & Brother & Uncle & Husband & Dad (chronologically)
Producer & Writer & Director @ www.opus59films.com
New Film: KING ARTHUR'S NIGHT @ www.instagram.com/kingarthursnight
Vancouver, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ
Justin Gundlach @justingundlach.bsky.social General Counsel & Director of Research at The Future of Heat Initiative. Previously a senior advisor at New York's Department of Public Service. NYC denizen.
That electrified lamp in the picture used to burn gas.
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian & bibliographer ¶historian of print and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍Atlanta (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social CHNOPS in ferruginous saline. Multicellular aerobic chemoheterotroph; symbiont of photosynthetic autotrophs. Descendant of stardust; aspiring good ancestor. Senior Editor, Scientific American. Signal: @lee_billings.81
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
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
d @wafer.baby Ancient neurospicy web developer.
Editor of Uses This (usesthis.com), developer at Ishtar Collective (https://ishtar-collective.net), collector of screenshots, friend to all dogs and some APIs.
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
fin @fin-io.bsky.social Data Journalism, freelance. Government Transparency in Austria, Forum Informationsfreiheit. https://fin.io
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now. lifeaftercars.com
Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social Every USPS every half hour, by @fishmanpet.bajurny.us, based on work by @fitnr.bsky.social, not affiliated with the USPS
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com Tech and Product @ Philadelphia Inquirer. Hockey fan, trivia buff, pinball nerd, lapsed pizza chef.
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Adrian Giddings @cunabula.bsky.social Currently between lives.
Somewhat-lapsed photographer. VJ for @tirs.bsky.social and temp0rary.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting 
Max Fenton @maxfenton.bsky.social Web developer. Helped in the past with some startup stuff, some publishing stuff, and some art stuff. Big into patterns, networks, and kairomancy.
he/him/they/them
https://mas.to/@maxfenton
https://maxfenton.com
Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social Canadian radio, TV, music, and internet guy. My business card reads “Professional Music Geek.” I’m all about English bull terriers. And I follow politics.
Music News: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
bobby bacchanalia @buddyblanc.bsky.social alleged "tattoo'd sweetheart" & owner of "dress sense";
rumours of "dancing ability" remain unconfirmed
Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social Principal at CAST architecture, urbanist advocating for housing options, 15-minute cities and sustainable construction. Passivhaus proponent. Former AIA Seattle President and Seattle Planning Commission Co-Chair
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com I'm excited by long walks, cycling up mountains, MTBing down them, LEGO, thoughtful writing, and playing with geospatial data.
http://kevindeyoungster.com
📍 Vancouver, BC
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social I study teacher learning in math classrooms by working in partnership with teachers• Vanderbilt University • she/her
#EduSky #MathSky #iteachmath
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu Journalist and essayist, usually tech/poli. accidentally leftish. LLM vegan. USian in the EU. One of the early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag.
Background image from Occupy Oakland.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
James Aylett @james.tartarus.org He/him. Thinking about books & art & narrative & drama ... and the future. Previously professionally worried about privacy and AI (now only in a personal capacity).
If I don't follow you it doesn't mean I don't like you.
https://tartarus.org/james/
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope. 
Spacepod @spacepod.bsky.social
Kids ask the toughest science questions. Spacepod gets astronomers to answer them! The questions are from kids, but the answers are for all ages. Made by Prof Carrie Nugent, www.crnugent.com.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
Kate Violette @kateviolette.com Multipurpose nerd. Engineering manager currently waylaid by a complex illness. On a mission to watch every Katharine Hepburn movie.
🏳️🌈 they (🇬🇧), elle (🇫🇷)
Currently in Portland OR. Always a Mainer.
✍️ www.kateviolette.com
📊 @healthlog.kateviolette.com
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Incoming @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live the big lake they call Gitchi Gami 🛶🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Superior every 30 min
*randomly chosen image from list of 40+ webcams. image captured within 30 min of post
@the.mazz.zone
Ryan Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net
waferbaby @handle.invalid Ancient neurospicy web developer, back on this whole thing.
Editor of Uses This (https://usesthis.com), developer at The Ishtar Collective (https://ishtar-collective.net), best friend to dogs and APIs.
He/him.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
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.
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Olivia Newton-John Wyndham @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation. Pedagogy and rsearch methods nerd. SLO and Tahoe. "Tare-uh", She/her.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up, Immigration things over at Unbreaking.org. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party AAPI Caucus & CA Dem Renters Council Board, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement.
art: http://alfredtwu.com
NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social I'm a bot that posts images from random NPS webcams, once an hour.
Note that not all images are live.
Fan Account - Not affiliated with the NPS or any other government entity.
Bot written & wrangled by @eccentric.ity.org
#NPS #NationalParkService
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls. 
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Emily Olsen @emilyolsen.bsky.social 🚀 Cataloguer, Science at Sotheby’s
💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast
Nerd about space, art, and pop culture.
Opinions my own.
UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective @ubccsrc.bsky.social The Climate Solutions Research Collective is a new pan-university initiative designed to build connections across UBC and to encourage new collaborative research on climate change solutions. See our website here: https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/
Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com Prof of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist @ Texas A&M; AGU and AAAS Fellow; Native Texan; find out what I think at https://www.theclimatebrink.com/
JS @cranksatori.bsky.social old noiser
real electronicsist
still theoretically good
J.Soliday
neural goldberg
xTAL fSCK
etc etc
www.jsoliday.com
cranksatori.bandcamp.com
Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue i'm a bot tweeting random images from the pomological watercolor collection in the usda's national agricultural library. unofficial. built by @xor.blue
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and worth looking up.
Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social Artist/marine geophysicist (PhD Physics)
Printmaker
Find/contact me at:
minouette.Etsy.com
minouette.blogspot.ca
Instagram.com/the.minouette
https://cara.app/minouette
I post art, science, #sciart and stuff with typos. She/her, Settler in Tkaronto 🇨🇦
izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social freelance reporter, editor, designer // formerly deputy editor @ vox’s future perfect // i write about consumerism, food, sports, pop culture, science, AI, and design // whatever!!! // reach me: izziermrz@gmail.com
J.M. Berger @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://www.jmberger.com/publications/books
► https://bookshop.org/shop/jmberger
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com Dyslexic atomic sorcerer @ UBC, Vancouver 🍁 (he/him & 🏳️🌈)|🐕 dad|🇨🇦🇬🇧
Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (🔬⚛️), Clean Tech, Academic Governance (UBC Senate & Faculty Assoc.), EDI. T1 CRC.
Leads @expmicromech.com.
Has too many hills to die on. Views own.
Carla D. Martin @carladmartin.bsky.social Harvard Lecturer on African and African American Studies, Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research Board President, author, researcher, reader, musician, polyglot, partner. Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's. she/her
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Michael Bierut @michaelbierut.bsky.social Graphic designer, teacher, writer, since forever
Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-shamshine-blind-a-novel-paz-pardo/80bf4e7d932a98a6
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
Scott Westerfeld @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social YA writer, mostly. Uglies, Leviathan, Impostors.
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social Currently on partial medical leave and Associate professor, Dept of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary; co-director Electricity Centre; energy/mid-transition/carbon/innovation policy + bikes.
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Toronto Mississauga
Co-Director, APPLY Lab (www.applylab.org)
Least important mammal in his house (just ask the cats).
"If vision worked like *that*, we'd all be dead."
cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social writer about animals, plants & (sometimes) people / author of Atlas Obscura: Wild Life / guitar in sidebody band / check out my newsletter: https://antsandplanimals.substack.com
Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him.
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.