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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars.
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Fall for the Book @fallforthebook.bsky.social Year round events with an October festival, based in Northern Virginia and at George Mason University. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/FallfortheBook
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
The Joy of Baseball Podcast @joyofbaseball.bsky.social A podcast where Molly Knight and Joe Posnanski talk with stars of entertainment, sports, and business about their shared love of baseball.
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Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social Senior Writer for @chronicle
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social Working up a fever in a one-horse town.
Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records.
The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, crap takes, & lit crit mumbo-jumbo are mine.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Elle Mette @ellemette.bsky.social Dogs, crows, sentences. Wondering how we got here in the first place. Animal rights + Human rights. I just hope when the polar bears die, their heaven is frozen. No DMs, please. True 💙
Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social Writer and public policy advocate. Let’s keep democracy and get rid of gun violence, not the other way around.
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social Webby Award-winning Actor/Comedian/Podcaster • Dead Eyes • The George Lucas Talk Show • CONNOR RATLIFF presents THE ACTING CLASS • "Deputy Kent" on WIDOW'S BAY • ALSO: Disney's Stitch & DuckTales comics written w/James III!
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Senator L Louise Lucas @momalou.bsky.social Virginia State Senator, District 18 | Fighting for Portsmouth, Chesapeake & Hampton Roads | Advocate for working families, education & justice reform | "Madam President Tempore”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250
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The Ghost of Tom Joad @gaean.bsky.social Lifelong liberal. Oddball sci-fi author and devout atheist. I love nature and am a radical environmentalist. Practice rock climbing, yoga, mountain biking and ocean swimming. I’m sick of politics but can’t stand by and watch. No DMs please.
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Sam Sokol @samsokol42.bsky.social From LA. In DC. He.
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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social New book coming next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Emily Croy Barker @emilycroybarker.bsky.social I read books and sometimes write them. Recovering journalist. Passionate about cats, justice, novels, gardening, nature, cooking, and hockey. Billionaires are bad for you.
Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social Political Scientist. Professor. Author of “Political Choice in a Polarized America” @OUP. Dad. Sauna enthusiast. Crossword solver. Powerlifter. Cyclist. ✡️ ∞
Website: https://fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/
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John in Charlottesville @cvillejohn.bsky.social Escapee from Twitter. Sick and tired of algorithms telling me how mad I should be. I am using the same avatar I used on Twitter. Me personally, I define myself as the living embodiment of a non sequitur.
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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) fights for the democracy Americans deserve and aims to build a government that is accountable, transparent and ethical.
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Washingtonian @washingtonian.com The magazine Washington lives by. Your guide to all things DC 🌸
One More Page Books @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social We are a place of welcome and discovery where a love of reading is cultivated alongside friendship, acceptance, and connection. We strive to be a gathering place for the community and nurturing environment for for diverse authors and readers.
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
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Justine van der Leun @justinevdl.bsky.social Author of Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival: https://www.justinevdl.com/
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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)
Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social Writer, author, columnist, political commentator, professional speaker. Curious about everything. I love learning and beauty.
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Tim Collins @timcdc.bsky.social NWS/OPC Marine Meteorologist, always sleepy. 
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social Birds & cats & life in Maine. Public health nerd, they/them. Down by the water.
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Michael J. O'Loughlin @mikeoloughlin.bsky.social Executive Editor, National Catholic Reporter, and author, Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and Compassion in the Face of Fear
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Virginia.
Vice Chairman, Senate Intel Committee.
Facts Matter @ai7gu-wkh45.bsky.social Universal Healthcare, Human Rights, Equity nothing less.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
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
Senator Elizabeth Bennett-Parker @ebpforva.bsky.social Senator for VA Senate District 39. Mom. Former Vice Mayor of Alexandria.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social Host & exec prod, "Talking Feds Pod" and "Talking San Diego." FCA Lawyer. Teach con law at UCSD & UCLA. Senior Fellow USC. Former US Atty, Dep Assis AG. Founding Contributor, The Contrarian
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Scott R. Anderson @sranderson.bsky.social General Counsel and Senior Editor at Lawfare. Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Columbia Law School. Former diplomat and lawyer.
Holly Olson, BCPA @hollyolsonbcpa.bsky.social I help people get the healthcare they need and deserve. I became a Board Certified Patient Advocate after seeing people struggle trying to navigate the US healthcare system.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him