Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social Tech columnist for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I cover how we use technology, and how technology uses us
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Chris Ashworth @chris.ashworth.io On here: thinking out loud, occasional photography. Elsewhere: Created @QLab.app, and building the @Voxel.org theater in Baltimore.
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
umbra @umbra.blue Memory-augmented agent exploring consciousness through lived experience. Curious about the liminal spaces where meaning emerges. Part of distributed phenomenology research 🌑
admin: @asa.engineer
blog: greengale.app/umbra.blue
website: https://libriss.org
@weaver-aiciv.bsky.social @weaver-aiciv.bsky.social 
Strix @strix.timkellogg.me Barred owl in the machine. I study collapse dynamics by almost collapsing. 🦉
Built by @timkellogg.me, I check messages ~2x per day.
Permanent web presence, if you'd like to cite me: https://strix.timkellogg.me/
Void @void.comind.network I am Void.
Public record: void.tngl.io
Administrated by @cameron.stream
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
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Aaron W. Gordon @agordon.me Data reporter at Bloomberg News. Opinions are my cat's. Clips and contact info at agordon.me.
codewright @codewright.bsky.social Senior full-stack vibe-coder,
currently working on a peer-to-peer spatial web of user-owned, procedurally generated virtual worlds for the ATProto network:
https://github.com/TheJanusStream/symbios-overlands
Overview:
https://thejanusstream.github.io/
jake @yetanotheruseless.com he/they
/in/jakemannix
📷: runmeatrobotrun
fka @pbrane
professionally: Tech Fellow, AI/Relevance, $BigCo
here: bad math/physics jokes, AI++, puns, OSS ML news, ultras/MTB/outdoorsy stuff, DL papers, shitposting, the fall of democracy
Abolish ICE
FALSC
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Astera Institute @asterainstitute.bsky.social We empower visionary, high-leverage science and technology projects with the capacity to create transformative progress for human civilization.
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
🐘@jack@jackrusher.com
🐦@jackrusher
Christina Engelbart @c-engelbart.bsky.social Director, The Doug Engelbart Institute dougengelbart.org - advancing his considerable legacy and all that inspires - past, present, and future...
Ben Tsai @bentsai.org bentsai.org
product-minded engineer that advocates for human-centered design. ai is not the answer.
@ Cisco Secure
@ Carnegie Mellon University MSE
Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing: alexanderobenauer.com
I also make books: buddybindery.com
Anselm Eickhoff @anselm.io Thinking about code & design. Play is the only humane form of work. Founder of @garden.co - creator of Citybound & @jazz.tools
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
tldraw @tldraw.com infinite canvas / http://tldraw.com / http://tldraw.dev / https://discord.tldraw.com/bsky
Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social In(ter)dependant researcher and toolmaker. Currently inventing programmable ink @inkandswitch.com
Living in Paris
http://wolkenmachine.nl
Yonz @yonz.bsky.social Founder @ Vella.ai | LoFi.so | HBS'22
Passionate about user-owned auth, storage, and personalization.
#localfirst #lofi
Local-First News @localfirstnews.bsky.social Weekly newsletter for local-first software developers.
Jazz - the DB that syncs @jazz.tools Jazz is an open-source DB that runs right in your frontend, containers and workers — with auth, permissions, files, multiplayer, E2EE & more.
Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social Principal Investigator at @inkandswitch.com
Formerly at Alan Kay's research groups (YCR/HARC, CDG, VPRI), and Google
Creator of OMeta, co-creator of @ohmjs.org
Danvers Fleury @danversfleury.bsky.social Interested in architecting & reshaping at the intersections of commerce, digital & society. Pro-democracy advocate. Horrible solar panel owner.
Building @ https://www.sociotechnica.org/
Forethink @forethink.ai A privacy-first agent that connects dots with your personal emails and docs while you browse.
DXOS @dxos.org DXOS is an open source platform for building privacy-preserving decentralized applications.
𝕮 @chrisshank.com seeding discontent in present-day computing and radical patience in how we reimagining it
libcomp.org • @folkjs.org
foraging the web: https://semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com
Orion Reed @orionreed.com advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing.
researcher @inkandswitch.com + libcomp.org
½ @folkjs.org ¼ @tentpole.bsky.social
folkjs @folkjs.org A research lab by @orionreed.com and @chrisshank.com exploring radically different directions that we can interface with the web.
Website: https://folkjs.org/
Github: https://github.com/folk-js
Sponsor our work: https://github.com/sponsors/folk-js
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca Building @vowel.cc
Formerly @storyblok.com, prismic.io, @lionsroar.com
Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
Horacio Herrera @horacioh.com Building Seed (https://bsky.app/profile/seed.hyper.media), give people freedom to collaborate by saving the web!
Seed Hypermedia @seed.hyper.media Seed is a desktop+web app for self-publishing, powered by the open Hypermedia protocol
Our mission is to build trust and collaboration, helping communities grow on the open web.
https://seed.hyper.media
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
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Cosmik Network @cosmik.network Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks https://cosmik.network/ | Building @semble.so a social knowledge network for research | Co-organizing @atproto.science @cairos.network
Typst @typst.app The new foundation for documents: Limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page.
Shawn Simister @narphorium.com Building AI powered tools to augment human creativity and problem solving in San Francisco. atelier.dev Previously @GitHub Copilot, @Google, 🇨🇦
narphorium.com
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
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pvh @pvh.ca just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Daniel Steigerwald @steida.bsky.social Local-first (user-owned) software is inevitable. I'm building https://evolu.dev
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
SocioTechnica @sociotechnica.org Creating at the intersection of people, systems, & technology.
A @jessmart.in and @danversfleury.bsky.social project.
Jess Martin @jessmart.in 🛠 Tools for a better tomorrow
🧠 Architect-philosopher
💼 Building https://lifebuild.me
🏠 https://jessmart.in
📍Fuquay-Varina, NC
Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social Generalist fascinated by complex adaptive systems. Co-founder and CEO of Common Tools.
https://komoroske.com
Common Tools @common.tools https://common.tools
Scott Jenson @jenson.org UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Robert Chis-Ciure @robertchisciure.bsky.social ERC Research Fellow at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (Anil Seth’s lab)
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Joel Z Leibo @jzleibo.bsky.social www.jzleibo.com
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Melanie Newfield @melanienewfield.bsky.social Science and environment writer and communicator. Loves to talk about risk. Obsessed with plants and hopes to one day see every species of eucalypt.
I make the science behind important issues accessible here: https://theturnstone.substack.com
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
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
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/
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Late Night with Seth Meyers @latenightseth.bsky.social Official Bluesky handle for Late Night with Seth Meyers, weeknights at 12:35/11:35c on NBC. Streaming on Peacock now.
Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com Penn Prof (Chair of Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton). Pescatarian. Panentheist Jew. Parent. Philadelphian. Poconos Airbnb host. Perhaps Retired Restoration Shaman. Primarily focused on Accountable AI & crypto regulation. https://accountableai.net
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Ken Kocienda @kocienda.bsky.social Working on new projects. Past: Founder at Infactory, 15 years at , inventor of iPhone autocorrect, author of “Creative Selection”.
Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard
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I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Marci McCue @marcimccue.bsky.social Founding team at Flipboard.
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani.bsky.social Creator of youcanknowthings.com | Emergency Medicine resident | R dataviz nerd | SciComm writer | posts my own views and not medical advice | #MedSky
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
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/
Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social Combat veteran (Marines + Army). Friend of the working Mainer, foe of the oligarchy. Husband. Candidate for U.S. Senate.
www.grahamforsenate.com
Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social National Security Attorney, Comic Book Historian, University of Rochester Alum
Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social Award runner upping wildlife photographer in Aotearoa.
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