John Berry @ulfmagnetics.bsky.social Your friend in PGH. DIY electronics hobbyist, music idiot, probably about to go for a run. Staff SWE by day
Banner: Two large grey speakers, brightly lit against a black background at Devon Turnbull’s "HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 2" at SF MOMA.
Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social Seismologist, investigates the Andes and subduction zones, currently complexly affiliated with St. Louis University and looking for new projects.
Replies to my geoscience posts that include LLM content get your account blocked.
Sweaty Cyborg @sweatycyborg.bsky.social Your local librarian and infrequent podcaster (Screaming at Clouds and Empathy at the Apocalypse).
Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social Pamphleteer (he/him) | serial & short fiction
Current Issue: No.62 thedreadfulpoint.com/2026/04/21/62/
Home: thedreadfulpoint.com
Henrock @bchenrock.bsky.social Internet Old Man, Veteran of the Forum Wars, shitpost Huginn, beard and dog enthusiast. He/Him. “Let there be light” sure sounds like a prompt to me.
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
snakefeet @snakefeet.bsky.social
s’more of babylon @smoreofbabylon.bsky.social goddamned sputnik
Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social No one of consequence. Maybe listen if I'm talking about structural engineering but you can safely ignore anything else.
PratticusFinch @pratticusfinch.bsky.social militant urbanist
Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social Old-growth timber enjoyer
Embarrassing All Involved @postschlock.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Jack Handey Institute. Director of Seppuku, Democratic National Committee. Mike Teutul look-alike contest runner-up.
Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social Goat Gland Specialist. George Brent Detractor. Crate Digger. Retired Cigarette Lender.
Also on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/75eTt
Andy Wheeler @gbhhornswoggler.bsky.social No, not the oil-company-stooge Andy Wheeler. No, not the actor, either. The other one, the comics-and-SF one. No, wait, not the one you're thinking of. The OTHER one. The ex-minor-SF-editor dude. Yeah, yeah, I know. Generic WASPy names for the win!
Emily Lieb @emlieb.bsky.social Historian, writer, killjoy. Tried nothing; all out of ideas.
Read ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo255390347.html
she/her
emilylieb.com
Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social Hoping to protect the integrity of my gag post
Matt Cramer @mattcramer.bsky.social You are who you choose to be. He/him
Paul Jensen @jaulpensen.bsky.social Cheese and smoked meat enthusiast
Seattle, WA
Flazlo @fleezlow.bsky.social A lesser character with common equipment, but useful for early missions, or for carrying extra items
Thorn @coelliptic.bsky.social mission control, flight instruction, human factors, electronics/avionics, software
all opinions expressed here are the official position of aerospace medicine
she/they
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social Computer programmer and composer in San Francisco
vancemaverick.com
Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz Artist, Artisan, A Man Of Stately Reserve. Watching A Billion Suns Ignite. First guy on here to ever catch a block for posting about dishwashers.
randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social Okie journo + editor; Hromadske, New Yorker, AJE, Baffler, et al
Tulsa / Baltimore / mieszkam w Warszawie
he/him for str8s
Signal: thephatic.39
Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com Sometime poet, historian, software engineer, novelist, union man. https://www.benjaminharnett.com https://thehappyvalleynovel.com
mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social day shift nurse. recovering CVICU. go 🍁. staunchly anti-kidney. former Poster. war thunder forum leaker (arrested). stroke haver. he/him
KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social a giddy little thrill
at a reasonable price
🇵🇸
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social Writer. Author of THE PRESIDENT’S VAMPIRE, KILLFILE, FLASHMOB. Books, journalism, screenplays, comics. Married to @goldenpurl.bsky.social. ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT out now.
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social Spouse • UAW member/IBEW Bk3 • Pell Grant winner • 1stGen • Controls engineer [Fanuc, Siemens, Rockwell] • Master electrician • Often found in the Great Lakes Basin
Avi: illustration of an imaginary creature's head
Header: photo of myself on a picket line
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social Violence prevention advocate, specializing in groin strikes.
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social please don't yell at me while i'm on the phone
Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer NO HOMEWORK PODCAST - @nohomework.website // http://veryimportant.lawyer // http://bigsleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/tonal-rotors
And we tried so hard. And we looked so good
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
JP Stormcrow @jpstormcrow.bsky.social https://ftfnyt.ghost.io/
bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social Metal dude in a metal mood
I code, I lift, I make small shrubs in small pots
Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social
trash panzer @panzertron.bsky.social 1980. He/him. NoVA/DC area.
I read a lot. I play videogames. I collect Transformers & Diaclone Reboot. I love trying new & interesting foods. I will be posting about all of these, at one time or another.
https://linktr.ee/panzertron
John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social Author of The Night That Finds Us All, A Lush and Seething Hell, Murder Ballads
Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy Award Finalist
CLOSED TO BLURB REQUESTS, for now at least
website: http://www.johnhornor.com
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
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.
Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social before you get mad at me and reply to my posts, please bear in mind that I don't live in America. I am part of @trashfuture.bsky.social @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social and I am 1/2 of secondhomesband.com
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist, cat haver, bicycle centaur
Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Spring Thing, Xyzzys
versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid still exists
nazis are bad
he/him
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social Dull old woman; now Dutch
Larry @larryskorke.bsky.social Just Some Guy (he/him) in the USA. Engineer in food plant construction. Probably too Online. Medium-left politics.
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social Words at DailyKos, Public Notice, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.
Tulpa King (aka Admiral Snackbar) @elliotghoul.bsky.social Sensory Overlord. Beer maker. Disc golfer. Friend to dogs. Vibe curator. Flippant and uncouth. BFA from a University that no longer exists. MKE. He/him
Brian Cook @bcook1132.bsky.social Still on Earth, still no cure for that.
Joe Dragovich @joedragovich.bsky.social History writer, digital archive nerd. Words in @nytimes.com, @historytoday.com and @sdtimes.bsky.social.
Associate Fellow, Royal Historical Society.
📚 https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Runs @historyclippings.bsky.social
Dan Bongjoonho @danbongjoonho.bsky.social Pedro, it’s absolutely clear you need a small hit of meth to get through this week
Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social Nobody trusts anybody now… and we’re all very tired
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social naarm (melbourne aus). lefty nerd/gay villain/whisky robot. pfp by @thxnywy.art
I'm a WIZARD and I have a GUN @durfkludge.bsky.social Mach 10 at sudden speed, flying into the wind now
nick @ratioclub.bsky.social Radical leftist disgruntled former academic. A thin-ice-walker and a freelance writer.
The Living Man Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social I write things and make training courses. Chapel Hill-adjacent.
FIERCE GRAPE @fiercegrape.bsky.social dumb guy, reach constantly exceeding grasp
@mollweide.bsky.social @mollweide.bsky.social Birder, birder, birder. Also, MeFite.
I've got a dad back @dadback.bsky.social It's just jokes
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vukmt5ibip7vl3a3ll4d37hb/feed/aaakqjbhan7bm
Ben Robertson @benrobertson.bsky.social
My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (6) and Boogie (3). Wife guy.
He/him
It is ok to want special and delicious things
💖💜💙
Allison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social Platts senior energy finance reporter in the DC area covering power and renewables. Opinions mine.
🐈: Tipitina
Tips? Message me on Signal at allison.823
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
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
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social Reporter, @coloradonewsline.com
Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social Chief of da autism police and boss of the Irish Mob at the same time. Cousin, I’m a union man.
Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social In 1994 I bought a Corel Gallery CD-ROM with 10,000 clipart images. Thirty years later those images haunt this ghost story bot. Posts autodelete.
Credits: clipart from Corel; conversion, curation, code, and alt text by @samplereality.bsky.social
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
J. Creep @josephinecreepy.bsky.social ONE TIME THE BLOOD GOT A KID AND A DOG.
sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social get a load of this guy
🚬🗿 @ekstasis.bsky.social Birth Control Tester at ACME
Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social KS>IA>NE>BC>UT>NC>MD>FL>SC Appalachian Southerner combined with Kansas pioneer stock. I value both literature and sports. Be sensible, be kind and don’t forget to give the dog treats. Don’t get me started about [INSERT LITERARY FIGURE HERE]
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social Author of The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne and other novels. Father, trail runner, late-night cereal eater. Good at cooking risotto, bad at keeping the house clean.
Typing Gloves @typinggloves.bsky.social Bookselling and yelling
She/her/hers
ROC
Dr. Bort @brettakulon.bsky.social Former biophysicist; current biotech consultant. Grew up in a library, but also in the woods.
New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @esedia.bsky.social The only communist cat rescue in NJ
Professor of biology
Writer
World Fantasy Award-winning editor
Permanently broken
he/him; they/them (but only if you must) 🏳️🌈
LDNI 🚫🫏
MDNI 🔞
(This account is one big TW for self-harm, gender dysphoria, and mental illness)
Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social Senior editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Books, menswear, parenting, politics, religion. Post the posts you want to see in the world.
lo @loamysand.bsky.social lo, 30, she/her/hers. i hope you like pictures of my cat.
Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk Working on tech
He/Him
London, UK
Left non-statist
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social I was a funny man, then I went away.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/89348454?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
Claire (<- that's her, Claire) @eclaire.bsky.social You have to like me because I am holding my cat and they'll get scared if they sense hostility
atomic bog @jessicapancakes.bsky.social I like to imagine
a dog meditating
Glarg @glarg.bsky.social Forever a rando.