Raze and Rebuild Studio @razeandrebuild.bsky.social A new indie co-op studio that is rising from the ashes of the games industry. Founded by Tanya DePass, Tarja Porkka-Kontturi, Laura K Buzz, Ian Schreiber & other devs, creatives and leaders in the industry as members and advisors.
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
Shrike Linux Uganda @root1.bsky.social Hello, Am root1 from Uganda, A ShrikeLinux, ArchShrike, Strike Linux and Kampala Linux Maintainer and Developer, A Linux Sys-Admin, Linux And Open Source Enthusiast And Free Software Advocate.
Web
https://shrikelinuxug.org/
https://rootied.net/
ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
Rashad Stark @rashadstark.bsky.social It is, I! The Most Lit!!
Streamer | Artist | Gamer
https://linktr.ee/Rashadstark
Jared Ball @imixwhatilike.bsky.social Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.
https://linktr.ee/jaredball
ÉZÈ @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app 32 | He/Him | AuDHD | Anti-Hierarchy Leftist & Enemy of Conservatism | Battle Rap connoisseur | Aspiring Propagandist | Recovering contrarian.
I’m chronically unserious unless I’m talking politics or my love life, and even that’s not a guarantee.
Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com I'm an indie game developer ゲーム開発者. I try to make fun and unique games that I hope people enjoy. Seeing people having fun playing the games I've made brings me a lot of joy.
https://linktr.ee/aerial_knight
Art of Battletech & Mechwarrior @artofbattletech.bsky.social Preserving, remembering and celebrating the great artistry of the Battletech & Mechwarrior universe. Fan account.
Art archive: https://artofbattletech.tumblr.com/archive 
🜲 @fresh72.bsky.social ✊🏿🗽🔰 Political Non-negotiables
1 Housing First: Right to shelter
2 Civilian Labor Corp: A work guarantee
3 Medicare for All: Healthcare as a human right
4 Election Integrity: Money out of politics
5 Climate Action: Social Security for the planet
JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team Head of Trust and Safety @blackskyweb.xyz
Non-binary (they/them)
Always community minded, still think Magneto was right.
You can read about all things in T&S for Blacksky on my monthly blog: whatshappeningonmyfeed.leaflet.pub
Sean Murray @seanmurray683.bsky.social Writer, lover of 'Mechs, generally terrified.
@sarna.net @sarna.net Sarna.net BattleTech Wiki and News
Chris Perry @perridot.bsky.social He/Him Game developer 😁 #GameDev
Solo Dev working on Oh!Ware
WISHLIST AND PLAY THE DEMO NOW: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4334030/OhWare_Demo/
Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social Director @nuchallenger.com
Fan of Hip Hop & sneakers
Writing, design, production, art, trailers + more
Beatdown City Survivors, Treachery in Beatdown City + more
Ex-Rockstar Games/MLB
25+ years in games
#blackgamedev ✊🏽 they/them 💛🤍💜🖤
beatdowncity.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social 2025-26 Pulliam Fellow exploring intersection of sports, transportation and environmental justice
eyeblack newsletter (readeyeblack.com)
bwdsecrets.43 on Signal for secure tips
holler@bwd.nyc for everything else
Momo 🎨 The Librarian* @artgirl-momo.blacksky.app Call me Momo. Artist. Streamer. Das all folks.
💚 vgen.co/artgirl_momo
🍵 https://ko-fi.com/artgirl_momo
📚 beacons.ai/mediums
📧 artgirlmomo@gmail.com
🇩🇴🏳️🌈🔮
*not an accredited librarian, does not work in a library
Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social Director RISE OF THE GUARDIANS, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE, LOST OLLIE, STAR WARS stuff…
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Jordan Calhoun @jordanmcalhoun.com Editor in Chief, Lifehacker
Author, "Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture"
"Wasn't what i expected. Very heavy" ★☆☆☆☆
hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com “Swing down, sweet chariot! Stop, and let me ride!”
probably thinking about OutKast, Flannery O'Connor, or Steve Ditko.
beloved.
iamdavidbrothers.com for veiled nihilism x arts criticism
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app ✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers (1981-2026) • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app I write speculative fiction short stories, novels, and comics. Don’t take what I say too seriously.
“Annoyingly funny” - A Real Person
“Oh brother” - You, reading my posts
“Godless Commie” - Marco Rubio
Yes, I am neurodivergent.
Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social Knight Professor of Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington&Lee U. Critic at Large, NPR. Blerd. Drummer. Author: Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. Media bloviator.
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social Dad, but probably not your dad.
Aljernon @aljernon.bsky.social Just trying to discover more who I am every day. He/Him. Game maker, writer, role player. Trying to learn how to garden and being a real maker (3D Print and one day woodworking)
BattleTech @battletech.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for BattleTech, Alpha Strike, MechWarrior: Destiny, fiction, and more!
https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/battletech
For support, please contact store@catalystgamelabs.com
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Brooke Obie @brookeobie.bsky.social Writer|Producer| DIRECTOR #abanitufilm and #GodIsAFrequency| @bookofaddis author| Highly sought-after dinner guest| Everyones a critic; some get paid
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
XaiaX (💻) @developer.xaiax.net Software development focused sub-account of xaiax.net
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
President Barbie @presidentbarbie.bsky.social (StillNotAnMP on Twitter). Migrating from “the bad place.” Sociology | IT Management | Katseye EyeKon!!!!
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Mizzy @mizzysada.bsky.social She/Her
Pixel Artist
Ace Combat/Kamen Rider/Gundam🩵
🔞I repost a LOT of R-18 art, and sometimes I make my own🔞
genai, minors, techbros, etc. DNI
All depicted characters are 18 or above.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/masadart
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969- L Lua @luaborealis.bsky.social (He/him or She/her) I'm Lua. Professor Flowers is the name of my channel, I'm not a professor. I make video essays that focus on humanizing marginalized people
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Prof_Dapper 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 @prof-dapper.bsky.social He/him | JustinTV Affiliate | Soulsborne enthusiast | Gunpla builder | BA in Psychology | 🏳🌈 🇵🇸 stream email: profdapp3r@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/prof_dapper
Friendly Neighborhood Nerd @bobbofnn.blacksky.app •Writer •Podcaster •Pro Wrestler
Just a friendly neighborhood nerd trying to make it through adulthood. Writing my way through the things I never got to do. #BWS
Gunpla Mom @gunplamom.bsky.social Just a 70-year-old mom (and RISD grad) who got convinced by her son to start building Gunpla at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. And then it swallowed her entire life.
Actual mother of @ryougasaotome.bsky.social and @polarisu.bsky.social.
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
David Evans @forthepoor.bsky.social professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
"Boss" @bhoward.bsky.social Got computers putin since 2012. Gunpla Builder/vinyl collector. Zer0beats-mixcloud, Byr0nX-twitch. Toku enjoyer. "Boss" became a nickname because somehow that's what everyone calls me when I go somewhere new.
CySentinel @cysentinel.bsky.social Gundam streamer, Gunpla builder, Tiktoker (while it's still around...). Come hang out www.twitch.tv/cysentinel
Monarkie @monarkie.blacksky.app My things: https://kielenki.ng
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AI-free Music and Books, Games, Sci-fi, + stuff
Owner/operator at: @hotsalts.blacksky.app
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
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.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app 🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at CUNY| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social writer of books • founder of magazines • soon-to-be professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele @heyitsaugusta.bsky.social Higher ed professional, scholar of contemporary African and diasporic literatures, Nigerian, Ohioan (+ a sprinkle of Masshole)
1/3 of @specsntexts.bsky.social
https://lnk.bio/heyitsaugusta
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
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
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app Somali - khaniis 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯
*supporting trans & queer Somalis in EA on monthly basis*
pfp = the cover of bell hooks' Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
Daphne Penn @daphnempenn.bsky.social Asst. Professor doing academia differently • Deep work disciple democratizing academic knowledge and spaces • Southern girl writing to change the world • Sociologist writing a book about race, immigration, and schooling in the U.S. South
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
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.
Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D. @jervette.bsky.social Visionary leader driving innovation via strategic planning, systems building, and social justice
Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social @University of Oxford, research in Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience & Religion:
memory; imagination; action.
❤️classics, mathematics, & art❤️
https://theology.web.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-buki-fatona
Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social Philosopher of science and race. Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter. He/him
DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social Associate Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
She/her
✊🏾🖖🏾🩷
You can buy my book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social economist | from NJ | he/him
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | accidental historian | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh | views mine, not my employer's
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Ajuan Mance @ajuanmance.bsky.social Artist, Writer, Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus of African American literature at Mills College. Picture book WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? is out now. https://www.ajuanmance.com #comics 🖤🏳️🌈
Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social ObGyn, Medical Educator, Patient Advocate & Activist, Mentor, Sponsor, Servant Leader, Clinician-Researcher and Scientist, she/her/hers, personal account, supporter of climate equity
Brandi Collins-Dexter @brandicd.bsky.social Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡.
https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego