Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by August 4th!
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social Mirror of https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973
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Jacqui @heajacq.bsky.social Elder millennial. // Former classically trained ballerina getting back to the barre. // Theatre kid forever. // Probably watching too much TV for my own good.
Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
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Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
@freshoutmag.bsky.social @freshoutmag.bsky.social 
Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
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. 🦃
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
The New Yorkerest @newyorkerest.com Finding the best article in each @newyorker.com so you don't have to. 5,000+ issues. 100+ years. newyorkerest.com
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com Genetically overexposed. Human-human hybrid. Firecracker factory in a blender.
Huge, cold, and covered in corpses.
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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social @x1ngwu on X. I collect, translate and write about ancient Chinese folklore, mythology, and history. Love books and cats.
Mythology | Yaoguai(妖怪) | Ghost(鬼) | Art | Myth | Fantasy | History
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for our daily poem newsletter --> bit.ly/3AWdEMl
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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social Idaho fish/wildlife biologist. Lover of nature, photography, books, family. Politically active & outraged, just not posting that on Bluesky. Views my own.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social I´m sharing my photos of forest nearby, my cats will show and good to know, please do and wow! links. 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇬🇧 😺
I´m a Vegan maid of two rescued Cats, Luna and Sunny
#environment #climatechange #photography #nature #wildlife #cptsd #astronomy #animalrights
Call of The Page @callofthepage.bsky.social We run international online courses, workshops & events with an emphasis on the Japanese forms haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun. We also offer one-to-one tutorials/mentorship with Alan Summers and publish The Pan Haiku Review. www.callofthepage
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social Teacher Librarian | Disabled |Social Democrat | Prokopton of Stoic Phil. | Poet | Ditmar Winner | Living on Narungga Land | Born on Yolgnu country|He/Him | https://ko-fi.com/sbwright|@sbwright linktr.ee/sbwright
Heather Kelly @heatherkelly.bsky.social Tech editor at The San Francisco Standard. Former Washington Post, CNN. hkelly@sfstandard.com. Signal: @hkelly.11
Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social Poet, playwright, songwriter, ally, dog mom🐕
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.
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social I share beautiful words from beautiful books. Mostly poetry. Some prose. Always attributed, always pro-author, and generative AI is theft.
(All photos original. All rights reserved by original authors.)
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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social Artist, writer, crow friend, hugger of trees, saver of spiders. Encouraging dreamers and believing in fairies. https://bio.site/thehermitofeverything Also hosts @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms
🔥 🏡 Ex: Fire Aside
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
🖖 Friend of DeSoto
😎 Nice dude
🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA
📥 cyrus@farivar.media
📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review
https://www.callofthepage.org
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social Mother, wife, Nana, activist, Sunday School teacher, sister. Bird by Bird, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. Old quotes compiled by Dean Dauphinais.
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
$15,000 for a single poem: rattle.com
Tanja @joypops.bsky.social Where there's a princess, there'll be a story. — Jingzhi Zou ✨️
The Mindfulness Bell @mindfulnessbell.bsky.social A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.
News, articles, practice resources, sangha directory, subscriptions and more: mindfulnessbell.org
R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social an online literary magazine publishing new poetry and fiction every Tuesday:
https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social Tea and poetry.
Based in Cumbria UK.
More poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
The Way of Tea:
https://theherbfarm.co.uk/page/the-way-of-tea
ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social Contemporary haiku since 1994. antantantantant.com
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
@tlxenoch.bsky.social @tlxenoch.bsky.social 
Feral:A Journal of Poetry and Art @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social 
Beth Gordon @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social She/Her. Poet. Mom. Grandma. Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art. Here for the poets and other writers.
feralpoetryandart.bsky.social
Amanda McLeod Writes @amandamwrites.bsky.social ✒️🎨 Writing and art across genres, loves coffee, loathes noise.
https://linktr.ee/AmandaMcLeod
Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social Poet, humanist. Former librarian, writing center director, also taught college. We Know Each Other By Our Wounds (Animal Heart Press, 2020) and Pushcart nominated.
Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social I have never heard of punk music.
Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, Feb, 2025)
Spells for Success (Simon and Schuster, Jan, 2025)
laureneparker.com
C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social Nonbinary. Latinx. Mississippi. Author of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022). Director of University Archives. Organize Mississippi.
https://forms.gle/PGtesyZR2wCaxtV58
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) @buddhistdoor.bsky.social Posts from the international Buddhist journal Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) buddhistdoor.net : offerings of news, insights, and commentary on Buddhist practice, thought, history, and culture. Welcome!
Latest posts: https://bio.site/buddhistdoor
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
Woodland Forager @karhunaiti.bsky.social Ex-pat Minnesotan, army vet, & retired civil servant, finding sanctuary in forests, curiously exploring free wild food. All photos by me. I block bots. #woodlandforaging, #foraging #wildplants #medicinalplants #fungi #fungifriends #wildedibleplants
Short Poem of the Day @shortpoems.bsky.social Daily short poems from the past and present. 🙂
SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty 
Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social Dublin-based poet, educator and mentor who also likes to sing & travel. My sixth collection of poetry is ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (Alba Publishing, Nov 2024). Haiku nerd / ninja. Website URL (incl. current book info & sales): www.maeveosullivan.com
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social 🐺 Wolf Twin Author 📖
Author of VANISHED ROADS
104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention.
Available now:
https://www.wolftwin.com/product-page/vanished-roads
Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social Just a pedestrian walking along the double yellow line.
The Alchemista @thealchemista.bsky.social Immensely curious about unlocking human potential & opening pathways to peace, freedom, & creative agency. 🧬🧿🤟
Inspired poet.
Teacher of Primal Spirituality.
Weaver of the Mystery.
Sharing gifts of the heart.
Seeding codes for the new earth.
Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Poems.com
Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social To cross an ocean
You must love the ocean
Before you love the far shore.
— Suzanne Buffam
All photos I’ve taken with my iPhone unless I’m reposting others’ lovely work.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com No one you need to worry about. Born at CO2 327ppm.
Visit me at https://xxyxxy.com
Betsy Mason @betsymason.bsky.social 
Fred Vogelstein @fvogelstein.bsky.social Biztech/biotech journo. Coedit CrazyStupidTech.com w/ @Om.co. ex @Wired, @NYTMag, @FortuneMagazine, @USNews, @WSJ. Author: "Dogfight:How Apple and Google went to war .....", Board: @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social, @columjournreview.bsky.social Epidiolex fan.
Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111 • https://www.corememory.com/p/kylie-robison
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
completeTheHaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social Weekly Haiga Prompt with art from Josiah (@lessethereal)
https://www.completethehaiga.org
Hannah Flynn @hannahflynn-poetry.bsky.social 🩷💜💙 Poet | 🧬 Science Editor
Liminal bodies
Political as personal
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Shakti Bhakti @shaktibhakti.bsky.social Shakti, the divine feminine, is a metaphor for the dynamic, creative energy of existence. Bhakti is devotion & love for the divine.
Meriel Rattue @alljourney.bsky.social Artist
Shawn McNulty Abstract Artist @shawnmcnulty.bsky.social Visual Artist Modern Abstract Paintings from Minneapolis. Collections: Bill Clinton, Peyton Manning, General Mills, Emerson, US Bank Stadium, Bellagio https://shawnmcnulty.com https://instagram.com/shawnmcnulty 🐿️
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
haikuformykids @haikuformykids.bsky.social haiku for my kids /
seventeen syllables to /
tell them everything /
all poems and photos by @WriterNatSwift.bsky.social (and his kids)
Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
Deborah Karl-Brandt @dkarlbrandt.bsky.social Haijin. Writes different kinds of short poetry, haiku, haiga, haibun, tanka and fanfiction.
John Looker @johnlooker.bsky.social Poems highly commended in competitions by Daljit Nagra and Cilla McQueen and included in the anthology of the Austin Poetry Festival. Journals incl Magma, Poetry Salzburg, Artemis USA. Books by Bennison Books.
Lives in SE England. johnlooker.wordpress.com/
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Shadow Snacks @shadowsnacks.bsky.social Photographer in North Carolina Triad.
Father. Husband. "Elder Emo". I'll make a hobby out of just about anything.
All photos posted are my own.
I shoot both film and digital.
Scott Rosenberg @wordyard.com Webbin' so long. Past: Axios editor, Wired/Backchannel contributor, Grist editor, Salon co-founder. Author of some tech books. Up next: Our Web (https://ourweb.is/).
The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social Amateur photographer and general ne'er-do-well.
All photos are my own, no sense in blaming someone else.
Reid Hepworth @reidhepworth.bsky.social Poet + Author
the improbability of sea monkeys (2025)
loss is a river (2024)
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Lee Zanello @lima-zulu.bsky.social Dad, writer, reader, traveller. 🇨🇦
#vss365 enthusiast
My writing: leezanello.com
Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social 🇬🇧 ♠️ An oft' anxious yet optimistic nihilist, eclectic dyscalculic and ND nerd
🍊🐲
Poetry Dabbler: 3Lines/Tanka/Ekphrasis
🖋️📖🍿🎮🎧🎭
Ailuro-Biblio-Historio-Logo-Melo and Mythophile
✨💀
My posts: https://tinyurl.com/4xhe3r4x
☕ https://ko-fi.com/kumquat90 ☕
Harriet Weber @harri.bsky.social Journalist covering Data Centers Breaking Things, Electrification, Oil Demand Destruction, and more for Investors.com.
Hear something interesting? Tip me on Signal: hew.04 or email harri@harri.fm