Dan_Lactose_ @danlactose.bsky.social Cardboard accumlulator. Drum machine enthusiast. Bay Native. Linktree.com/danlactose
Lily Janiak @lilyjaniak.bsky.social San Francisco Chronicle theater critic, wheelwoman, How can there be any sin in sincere? https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/lily-janiak/
Nisa Khan @mnisakhan.bsky.social reporter at kqed npr in san francisco
past: michigan public, detroit free press
https://nisa-khan.com/
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
Ben Zotto @bzotto.bsky.social Forensicphile
Megan Steffen @meganas.bsky.social anthropologist with a sell-out vibe // recovering member of the #oakmtg club // El Cerrito mom
https://www.instagram.com/elcerritogadfly
https://www.meganasteffen.com/ec-city-council-2026
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
Alex Navarro @alexnavarro.bsky.social part of the new cruelty / current: exactly one third of nextlander / previously: giant bomb, harmonix, gamespot, screened
John Vochatzer @calamityfair.bsky.social 
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
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social The official account of Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus.
https://sonnyrollins.com/
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
San Francisco Opera @sfopera.bsky.social Thrilling audiences in San Francisco and around the world since 1923. SFOpera.com
Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social Your critic and co-listener // ex-Washington Post // reccos/rants/prayers/curses at thefutureisourstomake.substack.com // contact me: christopherpaulrichards at proton dot me
Nastia Voynovskaya @nastiaaa.bsky.social Writer/editor at KQED Arts & Culture. DJ. 🌈🪆
Caroline von Golum @carolineavenue.bsky.social A little brains, a little talent
📹 cinema-firmament.com 📹
Alan Chazaro @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social Writing things for COYOTE, NPR, GQ, The Guardian, SLAM, L.A. Times, The Believer, SFGATE, etc
Mosi Reeves @humthrush.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account for Humthrush.com, a site run by Mosi Reeves.
@bampfa.bsky.social @bampfa.bsky.social 
Grouper @yellowelectric.bsky.social OnlySpiders
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Olivia Allen-Price @oallenprice.bsky.social Journalist at KQED, Host of Bay Curious
Scott Shafer @scottshafer.bsky.social Buffalo boy who left the cold but still roots for the Bills. Cover politics for KQED (NPR in SF). Pickleball rising.
🐖🐐🐓Merzbow🐄🐏🦃 @merzbow.net Moved to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/merzbowofficial/
Contact: https://merzbow.net/contact/
Vegan for the animals🕊️
Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social San Francisco Chronicle culture critic. Spends too much time in the archive. Total SF co-founder. S.F. 🌁 Oakland 🌳 Alameda ⚓️
Jessalyn Aaland @jessalynaaland.bsky.social 🙂 San Francisco Bay Area visual artist
✨ co-publisher @CurrentEditions.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/jessalynaaland
Julie Johnson @jjreport.bsky.social Reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle covering greater Northern California. Pulitzer Prize in breaking news ‘18. Scripps Howard finalist '24.
Reach me on signal: juliejohnson.84
Pendarvis H @ogpenn.bsky.social Journalist bruh
Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social Classical music and opera journalist. Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
ag @aaashleygraham.bsky.social 
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez @fitzthereporter.bsky.social #SF raised. SF Standard politics journo. Reporting the hell out of my dear, foggy City.
joefitz@sfstandard.com / DM for Signal info
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
Janelle Blarg @janelleblarg.bsky.social Comic artist, writer, punk.
East Bay all day.
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social Go see a movie. Editor @screenslatesf.bsky.social
Superchunk @superchunk.bsky.social Rock band since 1989. NC. Posts by Mac unless otherwise noted!
Threatening Music Notation @threat-notation.bsky.social Cataloguing threatening music notation. DM submissions welcome—please include source whenever possible.
Henry @hanknagle.bsky.social Guitar player and repairer. Chronically appalled.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Kelly Whalen @kellyfilmmaker.bsky.social Boy mom, Filmmaking educator, documentary director and producer
David Ma @davidmadavidma.bsky.social Music journalist/editor: NPR, Wax Poetics, Dust & Grooves, Complex, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Billboard, SF Weekly, Pitchfork, Passion of the Weiss, The Ringer, etc. Needle To The Groove Records + Dad Bod Rap Pod + SJSU
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Momo Chang @momo-chang.bsky.social Freelance Writer & Editor (@npquarterly.bsky.social)
Former senior editor at Civil Eats, Co-Director of Oakland Voices at Maynard Institute, senior editor at Hyphen magazine
photographer and small wave surfer
she/her
www.momochang.com
Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman @azul415.bsky.social Transportation/Features Reporter @ KQED
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social Bay Area Journalist
Sydney Johnson @sydneyfjohnson.bsky.social Reporter at KQED 💫
@sergdun.bsky.social @sergdun.bsky.social 
Suzie Racho @smracho.bsky.social Correspondent-Producer at KQED’s CA Report Magazine. SAG-AFTRA.
Riley Cooke @rrileycooke.bsky.social newscast reporter at kqed 🎤
send me tips/hot goss: rcooke@kqed.org
kqed.org/author/rcooke
Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social pianist, composer, writer
Ethan Toven-Lindsey @ethanlindsey.com A screaming comes across the sky. | Married to @batlinds. | Father. | #gobears | VP, News, KQED | elindsey@kqed.org
Ezra David Romero @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social Climate Reporter @KQED @KQEDscience🌊🔥🌲☀️🏳️🌈(he/him) Techno Boy. Contact: eromero@kqed.org
Signal - EzraRomero.87
chris zaldua @cz-sf.bsky.social music liker, words writer
read my work: certainsound.net
Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social Human Creator: Composer/Musician/Writer
“How Black Music Took Over The World”
Out Now! on Basic Books
@azgreenday.bsky.social @azgreenday.bsky.social Comforter of the afflicted. Afflicter of the comfortable. Guardian of democracy. 4x world champ martial artist. Mediocre hockey player. Wildcat for life.
CalMatters.org
#LocalJournalismMatters #FreePressFreePeople
KQED Arts & Culture @kqedarts.bsky.social Your one-stop shop for the Bay Area’s cultural offerings, from KQED
💃 The Do List: Spice up your plans
📥 Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/arts-and-culture
Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social Daily arthouse/repertory cinema listings around the Bay. First official
@screenslate.bsky.social outpost. Weekly newsletter sign up: http://screenslate.com/newsletter
José Vadi @vadiparty.bsky.social author of CHIPPED: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens & INTER STATE: Essays from California
https://www.josevadi.com
Nina Thorsen @nlthorsen.bsky.social Former Oakland A's fan and bleacher drummer now part-owner of the Oakland Ballers and Oakland Roots, cold brew devotee, book hoarder, public radio lifer, (Sinister) Minnesotan in exile.
Juliana Yamada @julianayamadaphoto.bsky.social @latimes photo fellow & @womenphotograph mentee
IG: @julianayamadaphoto & www.julianayamada.com
By David John Chávez @davidjchavez.bsky.social Brown drama guy. Bay Area theater critic/reporter @SJ Mercury News, SF Chronicle, KQED, American Theatre Mag + others. Chair - American Theatre Critics/Journalists Assn. (22-25), 2X Pulitzer Drama Juror (22-23) GO SJ Sharks! IG: @davidjchavez #hellatheatre
Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social Garden-loving photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a very loud Bengal cat.
📍Oakland, CA
jessicachristianphoto.com
Leilani Clark @leilaniclark.bsky.social Writing about freeways in East L.A, living off the 101 in Northern California. Published at The Guardian, The Rumpus, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED, Coyote Media. Day job: environmental nonprofit comms manager.
Kevin Cooke @kic000.bsky.social I like puppies and kittens and rainbows 
Brian Watt @radiobwatt.bsky.social Morning deliverer of @kqednews.kqed.org RADIO.
Accentuate the positive. Help process the negative.
I live in The Town @cityofoakland.bsky.social. I work in The City
I Can see Th' @emeryville.org from my backyard.
https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt
Luke Tsai @theluketsai.bsky.social Food editor, KQED Arts & Culture
Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social Author, Journalist, Critic, Filmmaker.
Books: “Jazz from Detroit”; “Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.”
Film: “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit.”
Former Detroit Free Press arts reporter/critic, 1995-2016
noz @noz.bsky.social https://sleep.noz.agency
Cole. @ilchymis.bsky.social Flesh prison going through the motions. Staving off the darkness one random hobby at a time, please do not disturb the gravestones.
Dan Brekke @danbrekke.bsky.social Transportation, history, transportation history, water, weather, water and weather, salmon and other interests of all sorts. Photography is pretty cool.
Signal: danbrekke.95
Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social Writing and talking about music. Forever listening.
WRTI, NPR, formerly NYT. Author of a Substack newsletter, The Gig, and a book called 'Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century.' 
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Gerry Stumbaugh @gerrystumbaugh.bsky.social He/him.
Record Store Guy.
Santa Rosa Ca
female gooner @lofibaby.bsky.social friendship with twitter has end bluesky is new best friend
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social Artist and writer, senior editor for kqed.org/arts, "thoughtful reviews" since 2011 (she/her)
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
joshua @joshuabote.com 
Josh Drake @joshyd.bsky.social I make soap and play games. Proud co-owner of Phoenix Pro Wrestling in Petaluma, CA. He/Him
www.twitch.tv/Joshy_d 
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com