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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social Author, Substack newsletter “To the Contrary.” Host, "To the Contrary" podcast. Dog owner, grandfather. Still Never Trump. No regrets. Website: https://charliesykes.substack.com/
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Renato Mariotti @renatomariotti.bsky.social Former federal prosecutor. Legal analyst for TV and print. Host, #ItsComplicated podcast. Contributor, Politico Magazine. Instagram: renato.mariotti Twitter: renato_mariotti
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, the Seven Kennings, and more. Into nature photography, metal, and beard maintenance. https://kevinhearne.com Newsletter: https://wordsandbirds.ink
Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social Instructional technologist.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social They/She.
Wrote some books.
Then didn't.
Love animals, horror, and weird stuff.
Run a cool jewelry store for queer artists.
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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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.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
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they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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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.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
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sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social Writer &c.
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
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.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
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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
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social national security adviser at popeyes louisiana kitchen | aka revrrlewis | he/him/🏳️🌈 |📍nyc
lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social I’m not here to post my THOUGHTS. I’m not here to share IDEAS. I’m here to post PICTURES OF MUSHROOMS and BE AN IDIOT
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
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bijan @bijan.bsky.social
writer. music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social, making @dearannagame.bsky.social | prev. @compulsiongames.bsky.social @valvesoftware.com
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social Columnist, novelist, j-prof.
NYT bestselling novel, The Daughters of Erietown. Next novel: Because You Asked. On Substack at Hopefully Yours. I’m with Sherrod.
https://connieschultz.substack.com/
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social @Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
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WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com A sane, once-a-day update helping normal people make sense of the news. Since 2017.
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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am am: Web Experience Lead @slack.dev. International Speaker. Design Systems Advocate. Chaotic Good.
was: HFA (1st dev hired). IBM Design.
always: 🖖🏾. Whovian. Beyoncé.
♿️ AuDHD. CPTSD. INFP. ABCDEFG.
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
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Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social Engineering Manager @ Spotify💚
Black Code Collective co-founder ✊🏾
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Whiskey expert — IG: womanwithwhiskey
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Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY 🏳️🌈
Aniyia ❤️ @operaqueenie.social serial entrepreneur. systems thinker. world builder. learner. lover. human. ✨ views and opinions = mine.
Kamilah Taylor @kamilah.dev 🇯🇲 Engineering Leader at Gusto
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Jocelyn Harper @gitcute.com Staff Software Witch
Content Creator
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duretti (🗣️ dret-tea) hirpa @duretti.bsky.social the snack that smiles back 
Cat Posey / catpoetry @catposey.bsky.social Social entrepreneur, technology executive.
Asia Hoe @asiahoe.com UX Designer armed with curiosity, tenacity, and a serious case of dev envy. I design products for people and speak about societal and ethical impacts of technology. I'm also an avid gamer, and dabble in art, words, and code. (She/Her)
https://asiahoe.com
Ire Aderinokun @ire.bsky.social 🇳🇬 in 🇬🇧
UI Engineer
Maia @maiadayne.bsky.social Creative Technologist. Artist. Web Engineer. Reluctant entrepreneur. Former indie bookseller. Fan of the habitual 'be'. 
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.
ceora ✨ @ceeoreo.dev ✨ tech, education, history
✨ let's learn together :)
✨ philly🦅
✨ she/they
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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social my professional account. BK based. web designer. UX & product design. she/they.
www.stephcl.com
Deirra F. @deirradecoded.bsky.social Network Security Leader. Systems Thinker.
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💻 https://beacons.ai/deirradecoded
Sia, Munira's friend ❤️ @siawayforward.com Love small happies like lemon ginger tea or seeing Black women live 🥰 Learning x engineering data. Watching WBB or some other sport
Tracy Chapman's niece
The Big Stronga Donga and Mackie fan clubs president
Naya @naya.bsky.social 💻 Newsletter: nayamoss.com/newsletter
👩🏾🍳 Fun: Homecook + Writing + Coding
🔑 Main work: I help startups scale IT + #InfoSec
🧠Me: Creative Technologist + Polymath + #AuADHD
💼 Also: @NamosInfoSec @frauvis @namoslabs @namosstudio
Natalie Davis is a giant now @codefreedomritr.bsky.social Sometimes I do stuff