Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
Natasha Singer @natashanyt.bsky.social Tech in schools reporter @nytimes. Only an utterer.
stories here: www.nytimes.com/by/natasha-singer
coming this September, my book: "Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools" wwnorton.com/books/9780393881943
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
@potatobay.bsky.social @potatobay.bsky.social 
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
Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social Food & Water Watch fights for the safe food, clean water, and livable climate we all deserve.
Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social Girl Dad, Public School Teacher, Proud New Yorker, Rabid Unionist, Social Justice Warrior. Rep & Con refugees welcome, but if you’re MAGA you’re getting blocked. 🚫NO DMs🚫 #UnionStrong #TwitterRefugee 🦋🦋🦋🦋
ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social Tracking and documenting ICE flights. Housed @humanrightsfirst.org and based on @tomcartwright.bsky.social’s methodology.
Contact: Info@iceflightmonitor.org
Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social It’s time to start flipping tables.
https://mobilize.us/s/p5YuNE
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
For Tech’s Sake @fortechssakepod.bsky.social The people's tech podcast, from @elaineburke.bsky.social and @earley.bsky.social.
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social Studies rhetoric & writing, autobiography, feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | Currently writing a book about Rachel Held Evans
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
aidan @manykarz.bsky.social Imperfections, limitations, and the hardware of film photography are always fascinating
I love cats and cars and science and music
I oppose authoritarian governments
Lance Eaton @leaton01.bsky.social Educator? Writer? PhD! Learner! Runner! Bi! #OpenAccess #EdTech #OpenPedagogy #AcademicPiracy #AIEducation posts=my own. Follow me at https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social Historian. Authored 40-page journal article on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 12 visits to Westchester County. Led successful campaigns to preserve/protect a historic riding stable and a former train station.
#publichistory
Westchester County, New York
Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation (MRLF) @mplsunions.bsky.social The MRLF represents 175+ affiliated unions and 80,000+ members in our 7-county region. ✊ Economic and social justice for *all* working people! minneapolisunions.org
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Phillip Payne @phillipgpayne.bsky.social Historian, teacher, lives near Buffalo, New York . Opinions are my own.
Author of Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s worked and Dead Last: the Public Memory of Warren G. Harding's Scandalous Legacy. https://www.historyprofessorpayne.com/
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social Teaching; writing about books, book banning, book publishing, music; editing New American Canon series at U of Iowa P. Views mine, not my employer's. 50 Essays 8th ed. out soon. https://samuelscohen.com/
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
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
@m-snail.bsky.social @m-snail.bsky.social 
The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Sara Carter-Easter @sce007.bsky.social Independent researcher focused on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Church Struggle, and the way religion and politics influence each other. Graduate University of Oxford Continuing Education Dept and The University of Cambridge PACE. Loves animals and hates Nazi.
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
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/
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
The Map Center @mapcenter.com Andrew Middleton
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
A 'Peddler of Wheres' and owner of the oldest map store on the East Coast, The Map Center in Pawtucket RI. It's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social 2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com (@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.
Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social writer for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social covering corporate greed and the politics that enable it.
Sam Rebelein @rebelsam94.bsky.social A spoOoky writer😱dog dad🐕Rep’d by Claire Harris, PS Literary🥂HWA NY🌻Hudson Valley critter🍁Stoker Nom’d🩸THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS🩸GALL😶🌫️WAY’S GOSPEL 🐷🦇
Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social Birds and nature in Manhattan. bigmanhattanyear.com
Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social Potty Mouth Anti-Racist, Anti-Child Trafficking Advocate, Nonprofit, BlackLivesMatter, Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social Trial lawyer, criminal defense lawyer, criminal justice reformer, San Diego Padres fan, founding partner at Hecker Fink LLP.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social host of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. weekends 10AM ET on @ms.now. author of NYT bestsellers Firestorm and Separated.
jacobsoboroff.com
Mississippi Youth Media Project @youthmediaproject.bsky.social Found in 2016, YMP provides a platform for high school students to tackle equity-based issues within their communities through multimedia reporting.
https://www.jxnpulse.com/
poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social poorly drawing cats since 2016
✉️ hey@poorlycatdraw.com
https://poorlycatdraw.carrd.co/
Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social We are a GFAS-accredited farm sanctuary & donor supported 501c3 nonprofit located in Charlotte, Vermont. We provide healthy, happy, permanent homes and lifelong care to 100+ rescue farm animals & humane education programs. https://linktr.ee/merrymacfarm
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech.
Disappointing people since 1972.
Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
National Celiac Association @celiacdisease.bsky.social We are the voice of the celiac and gluten-free community.
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/
Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social Views are solely my own.
@marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social I post for fun, mostly photos I take in New Orleans. All photographs © Marco Rasi. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Also on IG: https://www.instagram.com/marcorasi1960/
Owl Daily @owldaily.bsky.social Mission is share daily Owls post 🦉.
Masterpiece Owl Photo.
Website: ohmywild.com
Shop & support animal: ohmywild.com/collections
🚫 There is No AI Image. All credit goes to Photographers.
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Farmer, Democrat running to replace Congresswoman Stefanik in NY’s 21st District.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Rebecca Shieh @repecca.bsky.social Vis dev artist at Netflix Feature, riso hobbyist, beaniature maker | Past: pixar, sony
IG/twitter: @repeccas | tumblr/inprnt: repecca
store: repecca.etsy.com
portfolio: rebeccashieh.com
NEXT EVENTS:
TCAF - 6/7-8
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Pat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social Dad & Husband | Veteran | Proudly Representing NY-18 in Congress
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com 💸 Finding you the best deals on the internet. Official account for Fat Kid Deals.
Amazon Associates member. Skeets contain affiliate links. 💸
Oblong Books @oblongbooks.bsky.social Independent booksellers in the Hudson Valley since 1975. Signed books, staff picks, and more! 📚 Open daily + free shipping on online orders over $30.
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Gladstone (retired) & Genie 😺 @treasurymog.bsky.social Used to live at The Treasury as a mouser. Now retired.
Genie (my own cat) will be sharing the account with her antics.
Unofficial.
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social International #interdisciplinary network of #crime #academics, #researchers and practitioners.
Upcoming events: #CapCrim13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation.
Bamberg, Germany. 25-27 June '26
https://sites.google.com/view/icfa/home
C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14
Theme: UNDERGROUND
c19society.org
Rob Nelson @ailogblog.bsky.social writes at 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠 https://www.ailog.blog
teaches at Penn
speaks at technology and education conferences
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Jessica Ramos @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social Mom. Renter. Straphanger. Queens Kid. Labor Democrat. State Senator. Candidate for Mayor. #VamosRamos 🇨🇴🇺🇸
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Linds @exhaustedcupcake.bsky.social Fat. Artist. Feminist killjoy. In peri-menopause and pissed about it.