Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social cinema | Los Angeles | democracy, solidarity, climate & environmental justice | quick-read horror newsletter drops every Tuesday | subscribe here: www.deadofnightletter.com
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
Sean Gilman @theendofcinema.bsky.social I live in Tacoma and I write about movies.
thechinesecinema.com
Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social I like poetry, photography, languages (esp Japanese), and religion (esp Japanese). And movies (esp Japanese). And Bob Dylan. Epilepsy parent.
Scott Nye @railoftomorrow.bsky.social Come on down to the mermaid cafe and I will buy you a bottle of wine
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
Jingtong 景桐 @zogzhu.bsky.social BD in games investments, mostly posts about games, culture, China things and personal stuff. Prev: publishing producer at tinyBuild & XD.
Chinese immigrant in the Netherlands. She/Her. Opinions are my own!
Blog: https://jingtong.bearblog.dev/
🦆mɐtʇhǝw🦆 @matthewofkansas.bsky.social inside of you there are two matthews.
‘reality itself is a parable’ -ratzinger
betsy fan account. 
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social The Asian Cinema
Im Kino 📽️
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social festive seasonal homosexual, tinned fish enthusiast, citrus enjoyer, los angeles evangelist, he/him
made @fionaapplebot.bsky.social
🗡️🦐✨
Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social Linguist @ Kyushu University
Linguistics (Creoles, Australia, Asia-Pacific, morphosyntax, policy, endangerment), politics (Syria, Taiwan, Australia in particular ig), history and other ramblings
Anarchist at heart
@tobbinatorscw in most places
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong.
Fuck GovHK!
Fuck the CCP!
Fuck billionaires!
Fuck MAGAs!
Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social Cheugy. I host a podcast called "Culturally Determined" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culturally-determined/id981282353
John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop 
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own.
Book learnin' –– OSU, GU, KCL
Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social Director, Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University // *The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural* (CUA Press)
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. The Stakhanov of dad jokes. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social Dad, teacher, and translator from south Louisiana.
CatholicGeekery @catholicgeekery.bsky.social Mechanical engineer of allegedly papistical views. Interested in theology, politics, and roleplaying games. Citizen of the UK, for my sins ("but our commonwealth is in heaven"). He/Him.
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social Professor at SLU | Balthasar, Blondel, Péguy, Lonergan | théologienne, monstre | pensées sont en rapport avec la vie de l'âme
Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social Philosophy PhD | Toronto
Organizing in churches against imperialism. Teaching at the Institute for Christian Studies (www.icscanada.edu). Author of Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, & Liberation Theology w @mattbernico.bsky.social
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Alex Stern @alexwstern.bsky.social Features Editor @commonweal.bsky.social. Writing: @aeon.co, Hedgehog Review, @nytimes.com, LARB, etc. Book: Fall of Language (Harvard UP). Pitches: astern at commonwealmagazine dot org. Website: alexwstern.com
Nota bene @notatebene.bsky.social Catholic | German | Lawful good |Part-Time Nerd | Studiosus Theologiae | Omnibus prodesse, obesse nemini | Слава Україні
Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.
Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social Left-Lib w/ White Guelph characteristics || Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Film, and Politics. 
Theresa Ganz @theresaganz.bsky.social Professor of Visual Art, Brown University
I think about the Roman Empire on the reg.
Www.theresaganz.com
globe moment @pacifismenjoyer.bsky.social Globalist 🌐. Immigration maximalist 🦋. Pacifist ✌️. Techbro 🦀. Trans-inclusionary liberal feminist ♀️. YIMBY 🏘️. Consistent Life Ethic pro-lifer 🧬.
If I can think of any other applicable red flags, I'll be sure to add them.
Aimee Murphy @consistentlyaimee.bsky.social Embryo Adoption Mama 🤱🏻❄️❄️❄️
Founder, Rehumanize International
Disaster bisexual 🌈 AuDHD ♾️
☦️💜🏳️🌈🐝💜🇲🇽💜♿
Author of *Rehumanize*, *Marvelous You*, and *Family for a Snowflake*
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social Research scholar, 17th-19th C. Chinese literature (especially caizi jiaren xiaoshuo 小說). Global history of the novel. Rereading the Stone: https://bsky.app/profile/rereadingstone.bsky.social
research & updates https://www.patreon.com/kmichaelwilson
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Mike Tatarski @miketatarski.bsky.social Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly: https://thevietnamweekly.substack.com/2025
HR @ Weyland-Yutani @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Joel @storywonker.bsky.social A serious person who does big things
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
T.W. Simpson @simpsontw.bsky.social Now building @skysquare.app, Semiological Guerrilla Warrior doing Industrial Semiotics @symbolscape.com. Find me somewhere between California & Taiwan. Exploring narrative, culture, and the architecture of the public discourse. Protocols, not platforms.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Adjunct associate professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics, should be GM of the Quebec Nordiques. Usual disclaimers. Posts in English, curses in French.
gregorian rants @gregorianrants.bsky.social no longer ranting about liturgy
please wait - political realignment loading
RIP catholic twitter
Fr. Stephen Vrazel @keytarcatholic.bsky.social Roman Catholic priest who plays the keytar (tweets do not represent my parishes nor my archdiocese)
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social A longform editor at The Economist. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s 
Han Yang 杨涵 @hanyangsydney.bsky.social Tsinghua/UNSW alumni. Formerly in MFA China/architecture. “Chinese speaking bad-faith actor” according to Global Times. Calling Down Under home.
https://www.youtube.com/@DevilsAdvocate-Aus
https://hanyangsydney.substack.com/
David Bowman @dlbowman76.com Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Anthony Garrett @anthonygarrett.bsky.social novelist, editor @atmosphericquarterly.com
Libby Morse @libbyr.bsky.social “Pragmatic and somewhat buzzy”— The New York Times
kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social Erstwhile sissy sophisticate and pasta enthusiast. words in GQ, W Magazine, and the New York Times, and also The Queer Film Guide.
YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social I really f**king love Hong Kong, and Funassyi!
Bluesky user #55,617 -- joined in May 2023! -- but am also "over there" too. Yes, I'm still straddling between Twitter and here (because there still are not enough Hongkongers and Funassyi fans here!).
Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Views my own.
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social Host and producer of the Junk Filter podcast. Toronto born and raised.
patreon.com/junkfilter
Isaac 🌹🏳️🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social he/him | bi | vietnamese | democratic socialist 🌹| perspective about and from vietnam | currently studying in italy | (aspiring) economist
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social Lead Counsel, In Re Ea-Nasir MDL. Promote Frederick Douglass Thought
Obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social A website, a newsletter, a record label. All posts by Phil Freeman, co-founder/co-owner. BUY PHYSICAL MUSIC.
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
Adam Jentleson @adamjentleson.bsky.social Author, Kill Switch from W.W. Norton + a new 📕 coming soon, “Democrats are good” guy, ex-Fetterman COS and Harry Reid Deputy COS
Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Chasing wealth and income, present and past, onshore and offshore.
https://gabriel-zucman.eu
https://www.taxobservatory.eu
E.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social Prof. McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, New York Times opinion writer. Passionate Celtics fan. Opinions here are my own.
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
Nikolaj Bill @nikolajbill.bsky.social Catholic without a home, Recovering ex-Trad, Social Democrat, Linguist, and Hockey Fan. I mistype a lot.
Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo.bsky.social Formerly a columnist at New York Times, Slate. generally wonderful person.