Chris Merkel @chrismerkel.bsky.social cyber leader, teller of cautionary tales, career dev helper
Professional alt, unprofessional posts.
Masto: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
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.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
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
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
amyash.me
Andrew [Hedonism Arc] @athomaskaye.bsky.social You guys want a drink or something. I think I have diet coke and lemonade and maybe some coffee from this morning.
He/him.
Marc Slaughter 🌻 @marc.cryptgenkey.zip CTI | Leathercraft | decent sound guy | Running (poorly) | USMC ret | Cincinnati adjacent
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
couchtobarbell.com
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com Award-winning #cybersecurity keynote speaker, writer, podcaster | Host of multi-award-winning @smashingsecurity.com podcast.
❤️ #DoctorWho, #Beatles, #Chess
He/him
🌐 https://grahamcluley.com
🎙️ https://www.smashingsecurity.com
Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social @0xMatt on Twitter
Rescue, DFIR, Cello and Birds
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Carmen Crincoli @crincoli.org Black Lives Matter | He/Him | F*ck TERFs | Principal PM in Azure Edge+Platform | Adaptive Cloud is my thing.
Mark Morowczynski @markmorow.com Principal Security Researcher @Microsoft. Author, Blogger, Speaker, and Baseball Nerd. Always has an overwhelming backlog of books and video games to get through.
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Infosecsie (ツンデレ) @myraccoonhands.com ⬅️🏳️🌈🏋️♂️💪🎨💻🔒🎮🦝🧠🌶️♾️🐈⬛🐕🦐
(She/They) That one purple raccoon who makes art, enjoys video games and comic books, lifts heavy weights, and sometimes talks about infosec, strategy, and leadership.
https://ko-fi.com/myraccoonhands
Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay Irl: Edutainment & sketch comedy. Here: Shitposts. 18+
There's a species of fish that lives in the buttholes of sea cucumbers. Sea cucumber buttholes developed teeth to keep them out. It didnt work.
Andrew Morris @andrewmorr.is 🔳 founder of @greynoise.io. computers, networks, technology enthusiast. big goober.
Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social Philadelphian in Cascadia. Vociferous champion for Oxford commas, two spaces after a period, and ellipses. I break into buildings. 🔓
"Even if the world were ending tomorrow, I would still plant a tree." 🌲
(he/they)
"fart" @jonhendren.com tall but otherwise normal
sydney
jonhendren.com
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
IrishBAFERD @akiirish.bsky.social MD, MPH, MS, DTMH
Realistic optimist
Always a US Marine
Woke AF
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Alyssa Miller 🦄👩✈️ @alyssam-infosec.com Hacker, CISO, and commercial pilot. Certified Bluesky Elder. Author and International Speaker, Chief advocate of #DoBetterBeBetter
Compassion and empathy are traits in short supply but necessary to make this world a better place.
alyssasec.com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social Host of Some More News, half of The Hot Shapes, space bird.
Iowa City Police Hallucinations @iowacitypolicelog.bsky.social Real past calls from the ICPD's activity log: some amusing, some baffling, some disturbing. Animated by feeding the posted text into an AI video generator.
Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social #NotYourMamasMarthaStewart | Journalism l Politics l Tech + AI | Former Chef |
Connecticut + Massachusetts I 🩶💚
Not aspiring to be humble 🩶💚
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Inclusive Little Unicorn 🅅 @emmie.bsky.social Pansexual polyamorous lover, not fighter (usually). I am me. Deal with it. (I may also be a unicorn🦄)
🏳️⚧️ally, I stand with 🇵🇸
Wife to @Kimmy.zip
Partner to @deviantollam.bsky.social
Girlfriend to @justwes.info
https://linktr.ee/InclusiveLittleUnicorn
Rob Spectre | @dn0t @robspectre.bsky.social Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com Dog butler to Indy, Darby, & Kell. Former USMC 0341. Chicago Tavern style. You may know me from years of MSFT. Or not. Was @nerdpyle before the bad times. Eat shït, nazis
D̒͂̕ᵈăᵃn̕ᶰ Ť̾̾̓͐͒͠ᵗe͗̑́̋̂́͡ᵉn̅ᶰtᵗl̀̓͘ᶫe̓̒̂̚ᵉrʳ @viss.hax.lol Viss from twitter and mastodon.social.
startup founder, hotsauce guy, public speaker
eater of pineapple on pizza, listener of ska, flooper of quads
internet grandpa, former sysadmin turned infosec
https://phobos.io/rtg/
https://ravenholmspices.etsy.com
Ray [REDACTED] @rayredacted.com Past: Host of "Tribe of Hackers"; Assoc. Producer "Darknet Diaries."
Current: Cybersecurity researcher and executive. Also, father of the fastest climber who has ever lived. Seriously.
Warning: I talk about my son ALOT
“Ut scandis, alios subleva.”
LivingInSyn @livinginsyn.com Infosec, Triathlon, Cycling, Dad, Cats, Dogs (not in that order)
https://infosec.exchange/@livinginsyn
Signal: livinginsyn.01
Jenn Takahashi @jenn.bsky.social 👀 chief looker, @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social
🕵🏻♀️ chief lurker, @bestofnextdoor.bsky.social
🗣️ chief talker, @takpr.bsky.social
🙅🏻♀️ def not @myunhingedskeet.bsky.social
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify.
Substack - tristansnell.com
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Lincoln Project and Lincoln Square founder. Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft driver. AgainstAllEnemies.net
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 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
malmoeb.bsky.social @malmoeb.bsky.social Head of Investigations at InfoGuard AG - dfir.ch
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
B1gt1dd13s @bentleyaudrey.bsky.social Tech & Humor 🪬
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social 🇨🇦 We post memes, comics, wholesome stuff & anything we like. We sell original shirts http://wholesomememes.com. 
Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM
Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias.
Nazis need to be punched.
Emmanuel Goldstein 🇺🇦 @goldste.in Editor of 2600 Magazine
Coordinator: Hackers On Planet Earth conferences
Host: Off The Hook & Off The Wall radio shows
etc.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
Marcia Hofmann @marciahofmann.com Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, US-UK Fulbright.
Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social 
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com Tech Dysangelist
cDc/hack.xxx/Veilid
Support Veilid! Badge: 🅅 www.veilid.com
Merch at: @hack.xxx
he/him/"hey buddy"
TJ @senatorjohn.bsky.social i run uncertain.fm 🏴☠️
i write code that makes radio 🤖
i play the music at Boston Bruins games 🐻
he/him📍aquatown/boston
@uncertain.fm / @worbler.bsky.social
Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social VP Security at Google. Co-Chair Cybersafety Review Board, Co-Author Building Secure and Reliable Systems. r00t. Medieval historian.
@halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social 
Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social 
The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com www.cultdeadcow.com
R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Musician/Lyricist, Big DADA You remember MONDO 2000 so do I
https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/ better still 
Adam J O’Donnell @adamjodonnell.bsky.social Deputy CISO @ Stripe. I like art. cDc ❤️🫵
Jun34u @jun34u.bsky.social Alaskan in Los Angeles. Chaotic idealist.
Hacker, Writer, and Game Theorist
cDc Cultist
Forever Script Kiddie
She/They 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Dino A. Dai Zovi @ddz.bsky.social I drink amari and I know things. $ddz
LMDDGTFY: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dino+dai+zovi
NYC/BK
Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social Powered by People
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com Since 1984, 2600 Magazine has published the hacker perspective and documented the development of the hacking community. In addition to the magazine, we have a weekly radio show ("Off The Hook") and a biennial conference (Hackers On Planet Earth - HOPE).
Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social Prof. @notredame.bsky.social. IEEE Computer Society PAMI TC Chair Emeritus. Computer Vision Foundation CTO. Artificial Intelligence + Digital Humanities + History of Technology. wjscheirer.com
Hackers On Planet Earth 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hope.net HOPE Conference
The New Yorker Hotel
August 14-16, 2026
NY, NY
https://hope.net- M Peiter “Mudge” Zatko @mudge.bsky.social DARPA/Google/Stripe/L0pht/Twitter/…/DARPA/[redacted]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
obscure - cDc 🅅 @obscure.bsky.social I am angry, I am ill, and I am as ugly as sin. My irritability keeps me alive and kicking. I know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit.
cDc Cultee
Space Rogue @spacerog.bsky.social I fight for the user. | L0pht Heavy Industries - ATStake - Whacked Mac Archives - Hacker News Network - Cyber Squirrel 1 | Semgrep
Martin Roesch @mroesch.bsky.social 👨💼Head of Cloud @ Vectra AI
⛵️Sailor
🔭Amateur Astronomer
📷(Very) Amateur Photographer
🐷 The Snort Guy
📍 Annapolis
Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp Doomscroller avant la lettre. This account is in English, public replies in other languages will be hidden.
Occasional posts in Dutch on @rop.nl and in German on @deutsch.rop.nl
jcran @cybe.rs knowledge seeker
deb kavaler @debdebdeb.bsky.social Crypto Wallet Recovery Emergency Responder & Old School Hacker Den Mom. All the rumors are true. (usual disclaimers definitely apply) DMs read.
Karen Marcelo @k0re.bsky.social DorkbotSF founder, Survival Research Labs tele-obliterator and robot choreographer 
Kore @kore.bsky.social Legendary Hacker, Security Hero, Coffee aficionado. I love Sci-Fi, even terrible Sci-Fi. We live in the future, from AI to space travel, we've come so far, yet I still find myself telling my cats about your bullshit.
You may also know me from Clubhouse.
snowchyld @snowchyld.org Millionaire
Movie God
Rock Star
Muppet
https://thegreatestpictureintheworld.com
Knarphie @knar.ph That guy you met at Pumpcon that one time. Hangover coach. 'Terrible thought' leader.
Matt Kelly @mattkelly.bsky.social Owner, Cool Beans! Magazine and Records