Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
Personal account
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social leading library workers against technofascism. more here libraryfreedom.org
Laurie @marbledweaver.bsky.social multimedia artist and entomologist in North Carolina. Thanks! they/she
store: https://marbledweaver.bigcartel.com/
Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social Trans cartoonist, colored pencil artist, hideous woodland creature. Author of As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, Other Ever Afters, The Goblin Throne. Comics Chair at CCA. They/them
http://thegoblinthrone.com
acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social Skullcomms librarian. Poor work-life boundaries. Chronically unprofessional. Maritimer. Worried.
Listifications (w/o blocks) @unsub.blocks.listifications.app Follow me to stop receiving block notifications from @listifications.app and to only receive notifications when you are added to a list (starter pack, mod list, feed list).
Mama E @erlymu.bsky.social A Wind element Pisces dragon with the conversational skills of a broken pencil
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
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
Taggart @taggart-tech.com @mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Displaced Philly boy. Executive Director of @ifin-intel.org. Threat hunter. Educator. Dad. General in the AI Resistance.
taggartinstitute.org
wtfbins.wtf
linktr.ee/mttaggart
K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app Writer. Adoring husband. Aspiring annoying dad. Dungeon Master. Views are my own
OUT NOW: “Like, Comment, Subscribe, DIE: A Fiona Brooks Mystery”
https://books2read.com/u/mVJyOp?store=bookshopdotorg-ebook&format=EBOOK
https://ko-fi.com/kcclyburn
disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social not AI! this bot is madlibs with rng, it does not do tricks or take commands, it just posts. Not LLM or Markov-based / created by @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social, hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Suggestion Box: https://forms.gle/1CP83J3YV2jbTLwy9
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader
big famous microblogger
pet account reactionary
flamboyant wrecker
goddess of uselessness
antisocial influencer
[she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
erin rose glass @glass.bsky.social sorry i'm so late! good to see you all again!
supercyberlicious.substack.com
erinroseglass.com
nina sabak @ninasabak.bsky.social MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)
Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead, Unlicensed, also several books. #1 AI hater.
All you fascists bound to lose
THE AUTOnomous BODY SHOP @theautobodyshop.bsky.social PGH based resource van supporting bodily autonomy & community care. Free info + supplies! 🇵🇸🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
💌 DM us
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
ALJ Dredd @unionsaltbae.bsky.social Be the stuck container ship you wish to see in the world
otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social ignatz award winning cartoonist
otavaheikkila.net
he pronouns
Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social MA-based independent journalist. Wrongful convictions, police misconduct, and public records. And sometimes fun stuff too.
NEWSLETTER: https://massdump.ghost.io/
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/massdump
EMAIL: aquemere0@gmail.com
SIGNAL: andrewqmr.01
Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social educator. spider fan girl 🕷️💕
spider content: https://www.youtube.com/@8leggedbabes
socialist. she/her. acab. blm.
From the river to the sea 🇵🇸
Jay Thurber Show 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jaythurber.bsky.social My opinions only — no one else's.
Raised on hose water by a 21" Zenith TV. 12-3 pm Saturdays WRCT 88.3 FM & Tube City Online Radio. Also W3MCK.
Co-host: www.patreon.com/cw/EngenderPod
Journalist, broadcaster, cartoonist, shit-poster. Union proud.
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social 🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Alayna Frankenberry @13lackbirds.bsky.social Writer, artist, non-profit worker, and life-long yinzer. I pet every dog I see because life is short. 🌈🫥
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Nausicaa Renner @nausicaa.bsky.social Founding editor @dropsitenews Contributing at Parapraxis etc whatever
Chicago xo
Pittsburgh Prison Book Project @pghpbp.bsky.social Pittsburgh Prison Book Project is a volunteer, non-profit org that sends free books and quality reading material to people incarcerated in Pennsylvania
https://pghprisonbookproject.org
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social 👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨
Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com
https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
crimethinc.com
Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
Bread & Water Printshop @breadwaterprints.bsky.social Breadandwaterprintshop.com
One woman printshop.
99% irony 1% painful sincerity
📧info@breadandwaterprintshop.com
PGH, PA
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Justin from librarypunk @smazzie.bsky.social library worker, free rider, wobbly, he/they.
Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social texpat in philly, librarian/archivist working in digital collections and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. she/her 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾 emilyhiggs.github.io
Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) @gasp-pgh.bsky.social GASP improves air quality to ensure human, environmental, & economic health for SW PA & beyond. AQ complaints: https://bit.ly/3ujjxDp
Streetwise, Cville Safety Cat: Interested Female Vocalists Write @averysafecat.bsky.social Bougie, valid. ALA's "Most Inspirational Pinata" 2018. "If you ever go into the UVA library remember to be quiet or this guy will kick yer ass." - antifawatch dot net. He/him. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of UVA.
Dr. Kelsey J. Utne @kelseyutne.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History | Prison Educator | South Asia, Death, Digital Humanities, Heritage, Maps, Medicine | she/her 
Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org Powering grassroots aid movements at scale with open source supply chains & tech.
they/them (or we/us if you're really cool)
https://distributeaid.org
Donate here: https://www.omprakash.org/global/distribute-aid/donate
Swedish charity # 802521-4456
borderless @borderless.bsky.social The future is up for grabs. The world we live in is awful but the one we're building is worth it. Bringing my whole self to the apocalypse.
Director of Development @distributeaid.org
he/they, often a newcomer
views my own
trust + supplychains + tech
🚛💻🏴🖤
pghfashwatch @pghfashwatch.bsky.social Antifascists in the 412
Got tips? DM us or email us at pghfashwatch(at)protonmail(dot)com
pghfashwatch.noblogs.org
Bukit Bail Fund @bukitbailfund.bsky.social Your local abolitionist community bail fund 🌱 Free them all, no exceptions.
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
https://linktr.ee/bukitbailfund
City Deer Distro @citydeerdistro.bsky.social Friends handing out zines in Pgh 🦌
Queer anarchy, solidarity, abolition
Will distro your zine—ask!
citydeerofpgh@protonmail.com
V/CA: $citydeerdistro
spencer chang @spencer.place software you can touch
artist, engineer, toymaker
🌐 spencer.place (home)
🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet)
🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space)
📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol)
🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)
tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com chicken
amanda @beepbeepamanda.bsky.social she/her ☽☾ yinzer in chicago
just a silly lil bitch
Dr. Vangry, D.D.S. (@dr_vangry) @dr-vangry.bsky.social Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Competition finalist (4th runner up) | pgh
Erin Anthony @beautfrombutte.bsky.social Follow me for daily hyena facts. 
BUM LUNG @bumlung.bsky.social God's favorite mistake
Etsy.com/shop/bumlung
patreon.com/bumlung
sofia @sofia.meangirls.online notorious anarcho-Stalinist wrecker
republican Marxist, revolutionary social democrat
20 yards of linen = 1 coat
she/her 🏳️⚧️
wha.tiff (polaroid princess) @iwasbirdmap.bsky.social artist & archivist. photographing and persisting through the horrors. 🏳️🌈💚🇵🇸
(she/they)
Matthew Ussia @mfussia77.bsky.social He/him, professor, author, podcaster, noise maker. www.matthewussia.com
The radical social work chick @labefana.bsky.social Abolitionist who says things about juvenile injustice, family policing, the troubled teen industry, and complex trauma. Reformed party girl. Pittsburgh, music, art.
qwerty @lucidocean.bsky.social 
Mackenzie @mackymoo.bsky.social relaxing lady // DH // libraries
William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social Digital Nomad · Historian · Data Scientist · NLP · Machine Learning
Cultural Heritage Data Scientist at Yale
Former Postdoc in the Smithsonian
Maintainer of Python Tutorials for Digital Humanities
https://linktr.ee/wjbmattingly
Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social History, STS, human rights documentation, deaths in custody, criminal legal system, etc.
New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com
Podcast: https://officialignorance.com
Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social www.blackagendareport.com
https://linktr.ee/margaretkimberley
"Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents"
https://steerforth.com/product/prejudential-9781586422486/
Shtlibs, right wingers, racists, and zionists blocked with a quickness.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social “Dreaming while I’m wide awake” ↞Soul Rebels Brass Band ❧
“Me got fire, can’t put it out” ↞ Professor Longhair ❧
Writing: ghamandi.hcommons.org
Caitlin Pollock @pollock.bsky.social digital scholarship, libraries, pedagogy, shoes, and legend of zelda
ヨコヤマセツコ @setsukoyokoyama.bsky.social study speech-to-text technology x language diversity ::: teach sociopolitical history of tech x speculative design // dh x intersectional feminism 😌🌿💕 https://www.sutd.edu.sg/profile/setsuko-yokoyama/
Lauren Brazeal Garza @lbrazealgarza.bsky.social Poet, Novelist, & Essayist | Rep'd by Charlotte Sunderland at Park, Fine, & Brower | 🏳️🌈♿️
Www.lbrazealgarza.com
petfinder names @petfindernames.bsky.social a place for silly/ridiculous names of animals on Petfinder 🐱🐾 not associated with the X account 🐶🦴 ok to dm submissions 🐀🧀
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social A cooperative of North American political artists and printmakers on the left! Founded in 2007. Bleets by @toosphexy.bluesky.social. Visit Justseeds.org
Tom Horstmann @horstfemme.bsky.social Miserycore illustrator, they/them
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Hanuman Editions @hanumaneditions.bsky.social Launching in the autumn of 2023, Hanuman Editions is a publishing project chasing the specter of a contemporary, planetary avant-garde. hanumaneditions.com
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com only the good shit.
Prem @premlikeframe.bsky.social like frame
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE @undertale.com DELTARUNE Chapter 5 out now!
deltarune.com
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
jonny (leachate composite form) @jo.nny.rip ⌈⌌␥
hydra-pilled, immortal unless killed
␥⌏⌋
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elsewhere:
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny
(bridged): https://bsky.app/profile/jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
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they/them
Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
Theron Gilliland, Jr. @hotgayscientist.bsky.social Biomedical researcher; non-theist Quaker; Leftist, feminist, anti-racist; xenophile, polyglot INFJ-T. (he/him) Green Party and DSA organizer in Pittsburgh.
Yves-Angeline Blondeau @adamantxyves.bsky.social Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them....
WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social The freeform station of the nation! Independent, creative, rocking radio. Skeeter behind the curtain: @dmandl.bsky.social. Submit music via http://wfmu.org/sendmusic.html. Sorry, but we're too busy shopping for records to respond to DMs. Listen: wfmu.org
Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social Law Librarian at Windsor Law.
https://copystar.neocities.org/
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Library Juice Press @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social We specialize in theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science. 
Laurie Allen @lallen.bsky.social Philadelphian. Librarian.
ffuok @ckerich.com it's me, ffuok
Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit @summitpgh.bsky.social The 29th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit be in February, 2026. Follow us to find out about volunteering on the Summit, speaking, or attending!
https://linktr.ee/pittsburghracialjusticesummit
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.