Greg Lesnewich @greg-l.bsky.social oh great, now I’m on bluesky
Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social Human. Posting screenshots (sometimes with commentary) from 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 retro commercials/station IDs/interstitials/etc. throughout the day.
Run by @seraphiscain.bsky.social
Alex Rudolph @cyberincontext.ca I research Canadian cyber defence policy, focusing on CAFCYBERCOM.
Carleton University PhD(ABD): State behaviour in Cyber Conflict.
CGAI & NAADSN Fellow. Cyber Yeoman.
I run Canadian Cyber in Context: cyberincontext.ca
Canada Declassified @canadadeclassified.bsky.social Canada Declassified shares government documents released under the Canadian Access to Information Act-WWII, the Cold War & the Global War on Terror. By Prof. Tim Sayle. Substack➡️ canadadeclassified.ca
Full archive➡️ https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/
Bill Robinson @billrobinson.bsky.social Researcher focused on Canadian SIGINT activities past and present. Also FVEY and other countries. Citizen Lab Research Fellow. Occasionally compared to a hedgehog. He/him.
Blog: https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/
Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times. Former U.S. Navy EOD & Iraq vet. Reach me securely via Signal at: johnismay.01 or by email at: john.ismay@nytimes.com
TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com Trusted by maritime insurers, oil producers & traders, finance, governments and top news orgs to track down oil shipments. Vessel pronouns are she/her. Got it?
Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social Wordcel, aspiring prompt engineer & China analyst.
📨 Tips & anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/fergus-ryan
🧧 Read my newsletter: http://redpacket.substack.com
📱 Signal: fergus.99
Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Host of the podcast\radio show Canadian History Ehx. Author of "Canada's Main Street: The Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway" Sharing Canada's history daily!
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy.
Center for Angletonian Thought @blackthr0atedwind.bsky.social Former national security executive, ailing distance runner, and struggling girl dad. Run a private intelligence company that supports public and private sector objectives. Based in Washington D.C.
Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇲🇾🇨🇦 | Information Operations and Transnational Repression Research | formerly at Alliance Canada Hong Kong and Doublethink Lab | she/elle | views are my fault
AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social Reliable & fast news provider, collaborator of @bnonews.com.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
James Mayger @jdmayger.bsky.social Bloomberg’s only reporter in Canberra. Previously in Beijing and Tokyo, reporting on trade, trade wars, policy and other stuff.
彭博新闻社驻堪培拉的记者。以前驻北京和东京。
ブルームバーグの在キャンベラ記者。以前北京と東京で経済と貿易、貿易摩擦等を見てた。
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social Baseball fan. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
NERV IRB Coordinator @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
Esoteric Neolib @esotericneolib.bsky.social Radical Fukuyamist | shitlib enjoyer | natsec YIMBY | Spanberger-Stancilite
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social Not Laconic
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Melbourne. Formerly of other places. Research: war, intelligence, innovation, and normative change in international politics. Cat paparazzo. He/Him 🇨🇦🏳️🌈✡️
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social Defense, Technology, Tabletop Games, and hopefully not being annexed. Electrical Engineer and former Army Jimmy.
Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social Global Editor, Reuters Breakingviews. Usual disclaimers apply. My free weekly newsletter: https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/the-week-in-breakingviews/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
MERICS @merics.bsky.social The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) is a European research and analysis institute established in 2013.
Mikko Huotari @mikkohuotari.bsky.social Executive Director, Mercator Institute for China Studies MERICS | RTs ≠ endorsements | All opinions = my own
Adam @adam35.bsky.social I'm mean because I grew up in New England. Angletonian acolyte spreading the counterintelligence gospel. “There are tigers roaming this world, and we must recognize them or perish.” -Peer de Silva
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
James Griffiths @jamestgriffiths.com 🇨🇦 Asia correspondent, @theglobeandmail.com
📚 Author, ‘The Great Firewall of China’ and ‘Speak Not’
📍 Hong Kong
🔒 jgriffiths.852
Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
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Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social Reporter on the investigations team at the NYT. I always have a China-focused story in the works. Co-author of bestselling “When McKinsey Comes to Town”. Navy veteran. Send tips to Michael.forsythe@nytimes.com. DM for Signal.
Parisa Hafezi @phreuters.bsky.social Iran Chief Correspondent, @Reuters, ex-NTV, @IWMF awardee, French-Iranian, views my own
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati (t.co/uWXN1eLc0u). PhD. 25+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at University of San Francisco.
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Steven Aoki @seminonpro.bsky.social Not a disk jockey. Retired from US State Dept & Dept of Energy after working nuclear nonproliferation and counterterrorism as a senior civil servant. Forgot most of what I learned getting a physics PhD but hopefully retain a scientist’s respect for facts.
Dmitry Stefanovich @dvsteff.bsky.social Nukes, missiles, military, space, tech, music, cats, #STRATDELA and #HYPERHYPE
Emma Smith @ameliairheart.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ she/her
The Slides @theslides.bsky.social Bot posting 4x daily from Sam Biddle's curated collection of US military slides from the Cold War era.
Sam's intro essay: https://www.patreon.com/MaxRead/posts/true-life-for-i-155014876
Slides courtesy @sambiddle.com
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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
Colin Zwirko @colinzwirko.bsky.social Analyst at NK News / NK Pro, investigations and analysis about North Korea and satellite imagery, state media, military, Kim family developments etc.
https://www.nknews.org/content_author/colin-zwirko
Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social Editorial Director at National Security Archive. FOIA enthusiast. Colombia specialist. Bluegrass guitarist. He/Him nsarchive.gwu.edu
Nat @boatpeeper.bsky.social Nat-Sec Pin-up Girl. OSINT-junkie. 🇺🇸 In 🇪🇺 indefinitely. Currently: Pursuing an MA in War Studies at Universität Potsdam. Dem Soc. Слава України 🇺🇦
https://substack.com/@daggeranddresswrites?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wyy02
Joe Slowik @pylos.co Threat Intel / CTI / OT / ICS / Critical Infra stuff along with other things. I genuinely care, and wish others did too.
Website: pylos.co
Training/Consulting: paralus.co
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
signal to noise//rel fvey, nato @signaltonoise.bsky.social Student of literature, law, and the classics. Marine intelligence manager turned attorney, now practicing cyber risk.
Cycles and loops, it’s all cycles and loops.
Russell Johnson @russelljohnson.bsky.social Duplo code enforcement
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
http://www.hisutton.com/
John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.
Dov H. Levin @dovlevin.bsky.social Asso. Professor of IR, HKU. Foreign election interference (& interventions)|Strategic Public Diplomacy| FP preferences| US Foreign Policy| War & Peace. Book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP. Opinions are mine only
Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social "a Washington lawyer whose practice representing people about security clearances is part of an entire legal subspecialty made possible by the current system." - Politico
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent.
William “Balloon Guy” Kim @thekimulation.bsky.social NatSec, memes, and NatSec memes. High-altitude balloon enthusiast and Air Power Metamorphosis enjoyer. Views/memes are my own
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
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
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Rony @r0ny.bsky.social Threat Intelligence Analyst
Alex Pinto @alexcp.bsky.social Cybersecurity data storytelling. DBIR at Verizon Business. Previously serial founder and parallel shitposter. He/him.
Costin G. Raiu @craiu.bsky.social Romanian antihacker from another planet. #threatintel #yara #chess #taekwondo black belt
Motto: "One reboot a day keeps the implant away"
David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social Homesick Newfoundlander. Go Niners
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social Reuters congressional correspondent focused on foreign policy and national security. (Signal: PZReuters.94) Don't ban books. YNWA https://www.reuters.com/authors/patricia-zengerle/
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
UN Environment Programme @unep.org Official account of the United Nations Environment Programme
https://www.unep.org/
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI, member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and former member of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board.
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Daniel Malmer @malmer.com PhD student researching media, political communication, and extremism. Software developer turned computational social scientist. This is a Frieren stan account.