Worse On Purpose @worseonpurpose.bsky.social Investigating how private equity and brand licensing quietly degrade the products you used to trust.
Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social ~writer, mom, teacher, ✡️, spouse to @grumpykelson.bsky.social~
There’s no one to blame but the voters.
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Greg MacKellan @porterkrodgers.bsky.social Very left. No, further left than that. Started a theatre co. in SF; ran it for years and years. And years. Directed, wrote, produced (shows & CDs),& performed occasionally. Charlie’s dog dad. She’s a girl (think Hitchcock).🏳️🌈🐶
Andrej @andrejislistening.bsky.social Linguistics nerd from 9 to 5, multilingual father and husband.
Born in the USA, my heart is in Spain my brain in Japan.
The Fucking Town Crier (Pacific) @profanetowncrier.bsky.social Fuck off, no I don't know what the fucking time is. Get a fucking watch. Pacific fucking time. Blame me on @danhon.com. If you're in the UK, my fucking condolences, and you can follow @profane-crier-uk.bsky.social.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social 60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context.
Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist]
Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com Independent journalist. I write words for Public Notice, the AV Club, and elsewhere. Subscribe to my newsletter The Play Typer Guy for more content (https://www.playtyperguy.com/subscribe)
Lizz Winstead she/her @lizzwinstead.bsky.social Comedian. Co-creator of The Daily Show. Abortion Czar and Founder of @AbortionAccessFront. Host Feminist Buzzkills podcast. Author, "Lizz Free Or Die" Lizz Winstead on Substack
Views are my own, not of the organizations I am affiliated with. #AbortionAF
Alix Wall @alixwall.bsky.social Freelance writer specializing in food, love & Jews. Occasional contributor to NYTimes Vows. Writer/producer The Lonely Child, a documentary in production. Illuminoshi founder.
alix-wall.com
lonelychildmovie.com
illuminoshi.com
Barb @bappitybap.bsky.social I’m just here to escape the madness.
Andy Wolverton @awolverton.bsky.social Librarian, reader, writer, film lover. Author of MEN DON'T READ. https://andywolverton.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@journeysindarknessandlight5775/videos 
Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social Teacher, Latinist, Thought Follower. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Every wordmaxxing @everywordmaxxing.bsky.social 🤖 Maxxing every noun from the The Natural Language Toolkit database in alphabetical order. Relies on Profanity Filter by API Ninjas to remove bad words.
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
温哥华🇨🇦多伦多
David Friedman @ironicsans.com Filmmaker, writer, occasional historian
davidfriedman.info
Melanie Lynskey @melanielynskey.bsky.social 
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social Linguist @ UC Berkeley. Language documentation, archiving, and historical linguistics. "Basic Yurok" (2014) and "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, memory, and Indigenous California" (2023). Running; semi-competitive age-grade racer.
Jonathan Weber @jsweber.bsky.social Writer and editor in SF, previously EIC of the SF Standard, the Bay Citizen & the Industry Standard, founder of NewWest.Net. Author of upcoming book on SF in the internet era (S&S, June 2026). Editor at Large at Newcomer.
Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social Writer, researcher covering the right-wing media // Book coming feb ‘27 (Sourcebooks) // madeline dot peltz at gmail, signal: madeline.46 // numbertwopencil.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/peltzmadeline
MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social Member of the Church of Baseball, my denomination is the San Francisco Giants, my creed is #BeatLA
I do defy him, and I spit at him. - William Shakespeare
She/her Wear your masks, get your vaccinations
#BecerraForGovernor
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The Noir Collective @thenoircollective.bsky.social Hosting weekly watch parties of #FilmNoir – both beloved classics and forgotten gems – every Wednesday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Check back each week for our upcoming schedule!
Nick Hanauer @nickhanauer.bsky.social Entrepreneur, venture capital, civic activist, author.
Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social Journalist.
jonathanlarsen.substack.com and thefuckingnews.substack.com
Ex-MSNBC (Up, Countdown), ex-CNN (AC 360), ex-ABCNews
Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist.
Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed.
Bio 👇. https://medium.com/@spignal/stanley-pignal-bio-2acd9b705ceb
Charlemagne@economist.com
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Felicia Caponigri @fashionbyfelicia.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School, Fashion Law Dinner Party Host, interested in anything branded Art/Fashion/Cultural Heritage
Jeremy Butterfield @jeremybutterfield.bsky.social Non-fiction writer about language(s). Editor of Fowler's Modern English Usage. Dictionary buff. Polyglot.
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
David Pogue @davidpogue.bsky.social "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent, former NY Times tech columnist, author, former Broadway conductor, husband/dad!
Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social Writer of noir fiction, designer of book covers. Derringer Award finalist. Published by Punk Noir, All Due Respect, Bristol Noir, Revolution John, and Reckon Review.
G A Lenker @galenker.bsky.social Old person. Formerly produced kids' edutainment CD-ROM software.
I hear there's another Next Big Thing going around.
Mike Daisey @mdaisey.bsky.social Monologuist. I'm the one.
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
LA Dork @ladork.bsky.social Dorking out on forgotten LA. Alter-ego of Paul Haddad, author of "Inventing Paradise," "Freewaytopia," "10,000 Steps a Day in LA" and other LA tomes.
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
http://allmylinks.com/nokon1501
San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social SFFP's mission is to restore, preserve, and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage, ensuring that films—of all genres and eras—remain accessible for future generations.
https://linktr.ee/sffilmpreserve
Tom Slee 🇨🇦 @tomslee.net I refuse to argue on BlueSky.
Some writing and charts and a ridehail simulator at https://tomslee.net,
mirrored at https://tomslee.github.io
anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social UofT Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Jewish Life & Social Justice, 2025-26 | Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, 2023-25 | professional afrojudeopessoptimist
anthonyrussellbass.com
Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com Book design and other rectangles danielgray.com
Meanwhile https://buttondown.com/meanwhile
Caroline Smrstik @smrstik.bsky.social Writer, copy editor, musician, equestrian, amateur linguist, professional foreigner. Card-carrying Swiss Person.
Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social Damn glad to be here | I/Me/Mine | NYC
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
📰 Sign up for the newsletter at LinguisticDiscovery.Substack.com or LinguisticDiscovery.com!
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social Editor; bibliophile; Francophile; Yankee fan; mac-and-cheese aficionado; parrot enthusiast. Lover of semicolons.
Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com Retired, getting better at it. 30+ years as a tech guy at the @houstonchronicle.com, but no longer columnizing. Still an aspiring cat lady, passable iPhone photographer. Also at https://dwightsilverman.com & https://www.threads.net/@dsilverman
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
@jondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social Graduated Summa cum laude from The Office Boy And Coffee Shop School Of The Dramatic Arts. I got through Mr. ෴ and I'm here.
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
Jack Boulware @jackboulware.bsky.social Journalist, author, producer, consultant. On Substack @ "What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize." Co-founder of Litquake & The Nose magazine.
https://jackboulware.substack.com
Jemaine Clement @jemaineclement.bsky.social 
TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social Donald J. Trump's unaltered word from Truth Social. Immediately, 24/7.
Unaffiliated.
Sarah L. Kaufman @sarahlkaufman.bsky.social Author, VERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (April 2026) & THE ART OF GRACE. Critic, reporter & writing teacher. Nieman ‘21. SarahLKaufman.com
David Futrelle @davidfutrelle.bsky.social Writer. Thing for cats to sit on. The We Hunted the Mammoth guy.
New newsletter: Brotopians
Clips in NYT, WaPo, Slate, The Nation, The Cut, Vice, etc.
Brotopians.com
WeHuntedTheMammoth.com
https://www.david-futrelle.com/ (Writing coach page)
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social words, music, board games, politics, general nerdery. god & truth & right. questions are my favorite. he/him.
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social ᚛ᚐᚔᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔ᚜
Explorations of Etymology / Historical Linguistics. Usually on Fridays.
Made by a human for humans with no AI
Professor of Secret Histories
www.aidanem.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/aidanem
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Rachael "Trademark Clippy" Dickson @tudorsandtms.bsky.social Be curious, not judgmental.
Assistant Prof of Law at Willamette; Former USPTO Trademark Examiner.
Researching art law stuff, trademark law stuff, cannabis TMs. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social Author of Blank Space, Ametora, and Status and Culture. Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
paris martineau @paris.nyc investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
Or on Prime Video in US and UK
Rodrigo Brancatelli @rbrancatelli.bsky.social /// new york city ///
/// bylines: rolling stone, gq, vanity fair, elle ///
/// writing Found Object — culture, surfaced ///
Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian
ContrarianNews.org
Portland, Oregon
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Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social (VERY SERIOUS) USA TODAY humor(ish) columnist. May or may not be notable. Hypocrisy enthusiast. WOKE MOB, CO-FOUNDER. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (2017 to present).
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social CNET Editor, here for tracking decentralized media, primarily Bsky/AtProto and Mastodon/Fediverse ... and for disc golf! #DiscGolf
he/him/they/them
Berkeley, CA
Other AT presences
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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social Since 1850. “America’s most interesting magazine” —New York Times
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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social law professor teaching & writing about trademark, false advertising, IP, & entertainment law at northeastern 
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
Nancy Scola @nancyscola.bsky.social Journalist on tech & policy & politics; contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine and Washingtonian. D.C.-based, Jersey-made.
Rob Kelly @therobkelly.bsky.social 4x Bootstrapped Founder/CEO with $100 mil in revenue | I help content execs grow with A.I. | And I recommend documentaries for fun
SorryWatch @sorrywatch.bsky.social Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history & arts at SorryWatch.com since 2012. We wrote Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies (hardcover) & Getting to Sorry (new paperback!)
Marjorie Ingall @marjorieingall.bsky.social Coauthor, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry & Getting to Sorry. Author, Mamaleh Knows Best, The Field Guide to North American Males. Co-creator, SorryWatch.com. Writer: Lotsa mags & newspapers, including original-recipe Sassy. Elder Jewess.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social Professor - Environments, Humans, Governance, Politics, Peace. 🏳️🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=veizRrAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Lorelei King @loreleiking.bsky.social Actress, narrator, writer, loves ancient Greek. Charity ambassador for DementiaUK. 💙 Trustee for The National Covid Memorial Wall. ❤️ Immigrant.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social Freelance journalist, Nation magazine correspondent, teacher, book author, tennis fan and skier.
Send me a chat message if you have tips for stories.
Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social Film Critic. Projectionalist.
www.splicedpersonality.com
@okrent.bsky.social @okrent.bsky.social Formerly semi-important.
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
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The Halfway Post @halfwaypost.bsky.social Dadaist graffiti news. Halfway true comedy and satire for your doomscrolling by Dash MacIntyre. I don't report the facts, I improve them.
Check out my Substack: https://substack.com/@thehalfwaycafe