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.
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Christopher Tayler @mansfieldvonrank.bsky.social Writer and editor. New York Review of Books, Harper's, London Review of Books, Financial Times, Guardian etc. Robert Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism 2025. Paul the Psychic Octopus Memorial Award 2021.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
The Tinseltown Twins @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social A pair of twins (Virginia and Bianca) who always watch classic cinema (the silent era all the way to 1969). Letterboxd: Virginia (MovieBuffGinna), Bianca (TheLadyEve93)
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social Archaeologist🏺📜Writer
Collector of stories, old and new 🏛️
From ancient ruins to historic homes 🗝️🌳 Where history lives.
(Historical) journalist | WWII
Ambassador Global Fund for Women (2012-22)
www.ticiaverveer.com
Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social Prof Boston U. Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes.
5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23
Book: The People’s Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists
http://shugerblog.com
http://ssrn.com/author=625422
Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social Lean left • Tom will do • Far from the West of Ireland now • Fond of cats, Georgia, jazz, old films, poetry, stout, & Sylvia • Quieter here
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tonogenesis @tonogenesis.bsky.social languages and scripts
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
The Weekdy @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Rupak Ghose @ghose.bsky.social Substack author and freelance contributor
Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.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.
Architecture @architecture.bsky.social Shaping spaces, inspiring places - where architecture & design meets innovation ❤️ DM for business inquiries
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Tom Perriello for Congress @tomperriello.bsky.social Proud Democrat for VA-05 | Fighting for working families
Former diplomat / Neighbor / Community Advocate
Let’s build a stronger Virginia together
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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy #Cities, #history, #technology, #biketooter, #conservation #housing #yimby . #Cville Planning Commission member, teacher, all opinions are my own fault. Bi. #cdda […]
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Travis Koshko @traviskoshko.bsky.social Award-winning chief meteorologist @ CBS19 in Charlottesville, Virginia | Penn State Meteorology alumnus | senior cat rescuer | photographer | aurora enjoyer | opinions are my own. This account is a non-AI / secondary source of information.
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
BiblioIranica @biblioiranica.info Bibliographia Iranica is a collective bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies maintained by Shervin Farridnejad, Yazdan Safaee and Arash Zeini (founder).
cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington
Arctic geopolitics / critical remote sensing / infrastructure / satellites / skiing ⛷️
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
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
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social editor @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social
Substudies blog @ https://jamescrane.substack.com/
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social We advocate for policies to build an inclusive Charlottesville area with affordable housing, sustainable transportation & healthy neighborhoods welcoming to all
https://livablecville.org/
Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social Quite thrilling.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Jac Mullen @jacmullen.bsky.social join me: we're trying to understand, process, and resist the transformation of America into a post-literate, hallucinatory, vibes-based tyranny.
also on about: post-literacy | AI | cognitive ecology
substack.jacmullen.com
jacmullen.net
faculty @ SoRA 
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
http://allmylinks.com/nokon1501
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social trying to figure out what's going on here, co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social
Jk @takethecannoli7.bsky.social narm
CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First @cbs19news.bsky.social #CBS19News is your source for Charlottesville News First. Download the free CBS19 News mobile app or visit http://www.cbs19news.com to stay informed.
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
phage @clubmoss.bsky.social 
VPM News @vpm.org News and information from VPM News, Virginia's home for public media 📰
Who we are: vpm.org/newsroom
Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social give me a sword, you cowards | half azn 🇯🇵 smol bean | queen of yap | pennsylvanian turned virginian | news editor @vpm.org
https://linktr.ee/meghin
Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa.
former planning commissioner in charlottesville
Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.
@90for90.bsky.social @90for90.bsky.social 
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Willem Bliekendaal @willembliekendaal.bsky.social Teacher Physical Education|SportsPhilosopher|Metabletica Jan Hendrik van den Berg|Topology Michel Serres|Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben| Philosophy of Movement Thomas Nail| Dutch Network of SportsPhilosophy
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social Personal Account. Chief economist at Stripe. Former Director of Economics, The Budget Lab at Yale University. Former Chief Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov Proud to represent the Ninth Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. 
Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
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.
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social Attorney; Editor-in-Chief, @WMassPI.com; #Spfldpoli when you need it; #MaPoli when you want it. "Retweets" ≠ Seal of Approval. Likes = ??? Fasten your seatbelt, please.
"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." -Samuel Beckett
Always Eccles. 1:9
Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social Co-founder, Survey 160. Loves survey and voter participation. Researcher. Democrat. YIMBY. Husband and Dad. Opinion haver and measurer. Outdoors and cooking enthusiast. He/Him
Jack Smalligan @jsmalligan.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow at the Urban Institute. Analyze disability, retirement and paid leave policy. Served 27 years in the Office of Management and Budget.
Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social Editing politics at Zeteo. Contributing writer at Rolling Stone. Living in Maine. aperez.03 on signal.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
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.
Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social SNAP/WIC/Child Nutrition at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Come for the corgi pictures, stay for the food assistance policy.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Analysis, insight and informed opinion on politics and public policy. https://politicalquarterly.org.uk
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social 
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social 
Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social Cville local. Overeducated carpenter. Fascists eat shit, liberation for the rest. The future's looking rough, but hope is our duty.
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social White House correspondent, @reuters.com. Ex-Washington Post. Bad golfer. Signal: jacobbogage.87. The newsletter: jacobbogage.com.