amy brown @amybrown.xyz wife, mother, poster
bay area via dayton, ohio
✨ amybrown.xyz ✨
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.”
waferbaby @handle.invalid Ancient neurospicy web developer, back on this whole thing.
Editor of Uses This (https://usesthis.com), developer at The Ishtar Collective (https://ishtar-collective.net), best friend to dogs and APIs.
He/him.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Thorin Klosowski @thorinklosowski.com Security and privacy activist at EFF, I work mostly on SSD | this account is mostly shitposts, auto-deletes posts every 30 or so days
Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Casey Keenan @gravitywavestudios.bsky.social 
Wiley Wiggins @wysiwyggins.itch.io UCLA Design Media Arts/ Game Lab (BA ‘21, MFA ‘23), Fantastic Arcade, Computer Chess, Waking Life, Dazed and Confused
https://wileywiggins.com
gina @whoisgina.com no!!!!!!!!
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Tim Lowden @tdlowden.bsky.social 
Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. Web optimist. I build design systems for governments. This is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com 🌉🚌🚲 || San Francisco || Data infrastructure @COVID19Tracking alum || To stop the train in cases of emergency pull down the chain; penalty for improper use, five pounds (he/him)
@catherinedevlin.bsky.social @catherinedevlin.bsky.social 
Kelly McGilvery @kelegraph.bsky.social Reading, writing, editing in Toledo. #arts #culture #localnews
Museum of Infinite Outcomes @infinite-outcomes.bsky.social An open air museum of conservation, exploring the ecosystem through the arts
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Sarah Schacht @sarahschacht.bsky.social Government data, standards, the future of the gov’t innovation workforce, Seattle, surfing, murals, public health.
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).
Boon Sheridan v2.6 @boonsheridan.com Boonerang™ is self-cleaning and features a safety lock, lower storage drawers, manual clock, countdown timer, ignition, and warming controls.
Past lives at 18F, Automattic, NASDAQ, Digitas, etc.
@dbrandesky.bsky.social @dbrandesky.bsky.social 
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Multi-em-dash-ate @starchy.org Currently: covered in cat hair and running shoes, doing tech ops at EFF.
Previously: stardust, stars
Extremely not a professional account. Tikkun olam motherfucker
jerry @senditjerry.bsky.social widow, dad to a senior pup & two kittens, bicycle enjoyer, queer
Martha Bridegam @mbridegam.bsky.social Lawyer, writer.
https://mastodon.social/@mbridegam
https://www.marthabridegam.com
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Claire McMahon @bayclaire.bsky.social Hopeless optimist biking in and around San Francisco
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
Riley Douglas @nomorecoolguys.bsky.social Artist - food justice activist - kin
Log The Human @log-the-human.bsky.social Cartoonist and Art Director for The Museum of Infinite Outcomes
Zach Clark / national monument press @zachclarkis.bsky.social Artist, educator, publisher. Riso printer, carbohydrate consumer. Oakland
Www.nationalmonumentpress.com
Peter G Nelson, Jr. @llcoolpete.bsky.social valiscariot. // Cable Crimes
organic house & techno/downtempo/ambient/cinematic
unironic Malört enjoyer
mostly synths and cats; sometimes games
https://soundcloud.com/llcoolpete
he/him
block early, block often
helen shewolfe tseng @wolfchirp.bsky.social shewolfe.co
coyote.computer
instagram.com/wolfchirp
editorial collective taper.badquar.to
bsky bot 🌚 @lycanthrobot.bsky.social
occasional games wolfchirp.itch.io
Rebecca Ackermann @rebackermann.bsky.social Writing about art, culture & tech for MIT Tech Review, Vox, Esquire & more | I have eclectic interests
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Sming Sming Books @smingsmingbooks.bsky.social small publisher of artists’ books 📚🐛💕
smingsming.com
wayward @waywardwyrd.bsky.social m a g g i e / a n d i e
t h e y / s h e
mostly using this as a way to keep up with things. 
Large Language Bean @maincharacter.today https://casey.kolderup.org/
old-school chocobo who's like "hey, I'm WARKing here"
California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social Natural history museum, research institute, aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, & so much more — all under one living roof.
Dr. Rebecca Johnson @rebafay.bsky.social Biodiversity scientist bringing people together & making connections for nature, conservation & the common good in #California @calacademy.bsky.social + @baynatureinstitute @togetherbayarea boards she/her
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social turnt tf up in the widening gyre
Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social five out of eight computers on a scale of computers
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast | columnist @nplusonemag.com
~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
crw @maybe.fail tech @ eff
community organizing & environmental justice in bayview, sf
vana’diel denizen
Brendan Babb @brendanbabb.bsky.social Chief Innovation Officer & i-team Director, Anchorage, Alaska | Math | DJing | Biomimicry | GenAI
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Edith @heybug.bsky.social Like Persephone, I am condemned to post 6 months of every year
Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social Civic technologist, musician & aspiring adobero. NM | TX . Here for 🌎 climate action, 🏛️ public interest tech, 🧱 earthen building + architecture, ⚽ fútbol y más.
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Ezra David Romero @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social Climate Reporter @KQED @KQEDscience🌊🔥🌲☀️🏳️🌈(he/him) Techno Boy. Contact: eromero@kqed.org
Signal - EzraRomero.87
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Mission Local @missionlocal.org Independent, nonprofit news for San Francisco.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://missionlocal.org/subscribe-to-the-mission-local-newsletter/
Donate to keep us writing: https://missionlocal.org/support-our-publication/
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Product Exec. Building agentic infrastructure & counter-platforms.
Researching platform urbanism, digital statecraft & service design. UMich faculty.
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social LA / 台北
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
Catt Small @catt.design Designer with too many hobbies in Brooklyn. I run @gdocexpo.com in my spare time. People go "ooh" when I say I make video games.
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Leon Yin @leonyin.org Investigative data journalist
Bloomberg News
"CTRL + F" and find out
https://inspectelement.org
tim 🐢 @objelisks.space they/them ~ socialism/games/story's
portland
https://objelisks.space
Laurel Eckhouse @eckhouse.bsky.social Recovering academic, current data scientist. Current enthusiasms: e bikes, botanical printing, backpacking, talking to insurance companies on the phone. 
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social A nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
Leah Bannon @leahbannon.bsky.social public servant, hates forms
🌹NYC
heyleah.substack.com
Eric Giannella @giannella.bsky.social Associate Research Professor at Georgetown Better Gov Lab & Massive Data Institute: 1) Evidence-based implementation for safety net programs 2) Open source tools for data sharing in public services. Founded and led Data Science team at Code for America.
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
writing: kellypendergrast.com
working: antistaticpartners.com
waferbaby @handle.invalid Ancient neurospicy web developer.
Editor of Uses This (http://usesthis.com), developer at Ishtar Collective (@ishtar-collective.net), dork behind Zavala Club (@zavala.club).
Exo warlock, Viera DRG, Tired Dad.
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/waferbaby
San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social In print only ⚫️ Issue Two is here ⚫️ Subscriptions are available at the link below 🌝 Everyone is a critic ⚫️
sfreview.org
Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social Internet Researcher, Producer for hbomberguy
Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, Trust & Safety, mental health, social media reporting/escalation channels. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
Andrew Maier @andrewmaier.bsky.social UX research, service design, and facilitation — possibly in that order, depending on the day. Dad. Avid reader, occasional writer, amateur vocalist and baker. He/him. Montreal, QC, Canada 🇨🇦
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website #accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.
🌐 https://ericwbailey.website/
✉️ https://ericwbailey.website/newsletter/