parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city Visual urbanist. I like trains, buses, cities, and maps.
Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org building a new map of the world at @protomaps.com
cartographic tools, neogeography, systems programming, @recursecenter.bsky.social, https://80s.nyc
https://bdon.org
https://www.are.na/bdon
https://github.com/bdon
📍 NYC
Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social Your friendly local Wired science editor
Edwin 🇵🇷 @edtorr.bsky.social Civic Tech | Puerto Rico | 18F Alumni
https://edtorr.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@edtorr
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl!
🌈 melodykramer.github.io
Julia @juliasolorzano.bsky.social I like rocks, mapping and technology. More nerdy stuff here: https://juliasolorzano.com/
Sarah Milstein @sarahmilstein.com Querying my first novel, outlining my second. Also known for: tech leaderizing (now with @NYC!), dog loving, nap taking, vegetable cooking, needlepoint doing
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
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
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
CJ Trowbridge @cjtrowbridge.com Forest Communism, Self-Hosted AI, Sustainability, ND, NB
https://cjtrowbridge.com/
George Dvorsky @gdvorsky.bsky.social Science Senior Editor at @gizmodo.com, futurist, bioethicist, electronic musician, amateur astronomer.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Krista Canellakis @kristallakis.bsky.social Serving public servants. Currently at U.S. Digital Response. Former Deputy Secretary in CA Govt Operations Agency & City of SF Chief Innovation Officer. Firm believer the world would be better with more pink. 💗
Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social Nerding out and helping governments deliver better. 
Tom MacWright @macwright.com bikes, runs, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Bud Parr @budparr.me Enthusiast
Between the Lens & Me: A journal of photography and it’s literature
https://www.budparr.me/
https://letterboxd.com/budparr
https://glass.photo/budparr
Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz Tech policy and government affairs guy. Ex-Block, Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles / Iowa City
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
Banner text by F.E.D McDowell- E Eileen @eileencodes.bsky.social
Eric Mill @konklone.com What is me? Who are I going?? The answers and more!!
Currently making Wikipedia safer. Been around the block a time or two: https://konklone.com (This is a personal account.)
Phenry Ewing @hoverbird.bsky.social Game designer/developer. Creative Director on Neo Cab (Chance Agency), Design Lead on Cat Burglar (Netflix) and developer/designer on Firewatch (Campo Santo). He/him.
Josh Levinger @jlev.online Coder who cares about the why of tech as much as how
Progressive tech OpenSourceActivism.tech, Spacedog.xyz
Climate tech ElephantEnergy.com, ImpactObservatory.com
VT born, 2x MIT.edu, Calif 12 yrs, now Mass again
Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Community. Decentralized Web. Co-op and Collective action.
Member #CoSocialCa @coop
Vancouver DWeb Node https://dwebyvr.org #DWebYVR @dwebyvr.org
Likes to cook & eat […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://cosocial.ca/@boris, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com The future of computing
- Berlin, October 2024 https://berlin.causalislands.com/
- San Francisco, Tiny Talks, Aug 2024
- LA Community Edition, March 2024
- Toronto, April 2023
“Advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing”
Techno Tim @technotim.bsky.social Engineer. Builder. Creator. | From Code to Cloud
technotim.com
CraftComputing @craftcomputing.bsky.social I make videos and drink beer.
It was DNS.
Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me #civictech #agile #product and #tech wrangler
Recently in the #WhiteHouse #CEQ and now speeding up #Permitting
... while still in the #US #GSA […]
🌉 bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@mogul on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Josh Wills @spite.vc Forward Deployed Angel Investor
https://github.com/jwills
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine.
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Ronan Lyons @ronanlyons.bsky.social Housing, cities, history. Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Data Lead at CEPH. Dad of 3, husband of 1, soccer coach, rugby fan. ronanlyons.com and ronanlyons.substack.com.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Danny Spitzberg @dsp.bsky.social 
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
Amanda Daflos @amandadaflos.bsky.social Deputy Mayor @ City of Los Angeles. Former ED @ Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at JHU. Believer in government and democracy. Lover of family, friends, nature, photography and dogs. 
Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social Data scientist. Former politico, founder, and bureaucrat. Occasional cool professor.
Tom Schenk Jr @tomschenkjr.bsky.social The product of too much SimCity and watching too much West Wing. Managing Director of Analytics
KPMG; former Chicago Chief Data Officer;
former Iowa Dept. of Education
John Verdi @johnverdi.bsky.social SVP of Policy, Future of Privacy Forum
Also https://mastodon.social/@johnverdi and https://twitter.com/johnverdi
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Theo Linnemann @theolinnemann.com Product @ Domino Data Lab
Ex-Senior Data Scientist @newyorkfed.bsky.social, Computer Science & ML
https://www.theolinnemann.com
Mike Sarasti @sarasti.bsky.social Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government.
Half of RAKER - @rakermusic.bsky.social
Becky Sweger @bendystraw.bsky.social Principal skeeball shit talker, data engineer, current research fellow @ UMass biostatistics. Formerly Trello/Atlassian & 18F. Philadelphian turned Masshole. She/her.
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com 
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Public mechanics, speculative civics, post-HCD, platforms, governance, decision rights. HS 🎾 coach. Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich.
ronbronson.com
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC, and often DC
Brendan Babb @brendanbabb.bsky.social Chief Innovation Officer & i-team Director, Anchorage, Alaska | Math | DJing | Biomimicry | GenAI
Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
ellenkpao.com
Jane McGonigal @janemcgonigal.bsky.social Futurist, game designer, author
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Alliance of Civic Technologists @civictechallies.bsky.social A community dedicated to connecting and supporting all #volunteer #civictech efforts across the nation!
🌐 civictechnologists.org
Yue Stella Yu @bystellayu.bsky.social Name’s “Yu-eh Stella Yu.” Politics reporter @calmatters.org | Alum @BridgeMichigan @Tennessean @OpenSecretsDC | Fight lies. | #Mizzou #GoPackGo
Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev CEO @prefect.io. Building FastMCP. Mostly harmless.
Carl Hancock @carlhancock.com CEO and founder of @Gravity.com and @GravityForms.com. #WordPress
Mark Raasveldt @markraasveldt.bsky.social 
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
DuckDB @duckdb.org DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system. "DuckDB" and the DuckDB logo are registered trademarks of the DuckDB Foundation.
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Paul Smith @smith.dev Program the computers. Gov tech founder, dad, and O’s fan in the US Midwest. I enjoy weightlifting. I collect spores, molds, and fungus. Making my mind a sunless place
Co-founder of Ad Hoc
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
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.
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Holly Allen @hollyallen.bsky.social Software Engineering leader and consultant. San Franciscan, mother, reader, ally. Forever partner to @thatmc.bsky.social
Navin Vembar @navinvembar.bsky.social Tech, books, movies, art
Jeremia Kimelman @jeremiak.com Data journalist at CalMatters. Union dude. Sacramento by way of SF and NYC. Where are we eating bagels next?
Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social A small yoz-type object. He/him/oh.
Passive Londoner, active Oaklander.
Only eats kosher planets.
Also @yoz@mastodon.social.
Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com Oakland, Maps, Bikes, etc. Also @migurski@mastodon.social and formerly @migurski on the birdsite. 
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.
Dan Munz @danmunz.bsky.social Homophone. Portmanteau. Iamb. Synecdoche.
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Will Slack @wslack.bsky.social
Decatur GA native, prev USDS/18F & hospital tech around the US. Opinions mine; RTs/likes/follows ≠ endorsements. 🆇: @wslack 🐘: wslack@infosec.exchange
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social VP DevRel at Confluent. Relentless hobbyist. Married to @swimflythrive.bsky.social. Father of three, grandfather of four. Believer in Christ. Opinions should be your own.
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
All Praises To The Most High🙌🏿 @ssekimuli.bsky.social It’s a community outreach based non profitable force on a mission to spread God’s love and mercy- with the needy🙏. DONATE ❤️👉 https://gofund.me/46509abf
Ernie Hsiung @ernieatlyd.bsky.social 
Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California.
I curate the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour — now celebrating its 12th year.
Pronouns: he/him/ও/সে
https://www.chatterjee.net/