Michael Aufreiter @michaelaufreiter.com On a mission to make the internet editable.
Building https://editable.website and https://svedit.dev.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
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
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Travis Wagner (they/them) @drtlwagner.bsky.social Cyborg academic in a world of robot academics. Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Preserving queer history and obsolete technology one VHS tape at a time.
http://travislwagner.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Subscribe to my newsletter: gillianbrockell.com
One-time tip: https://gillianbrockell.com/#/portal/support
Signal: gbrockell.44
Dylan Blaha @dylanthomasblaha.bsky.social Former Congressional Candidate. Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/dylanthomasblaha
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com Experienced user
Australian in Amsterdam
I talk about product design
Words: https://fasterandworse.com
Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse
Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social "The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
www.propublicaguild.org
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI’s impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
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
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov Representing #IL14. Nurse, health enthusiast, advocate for the working families of Illinois.
max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social professionally nosy. reporter at @minnesotareformer.com
Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social Director of Nuclear Power Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC.
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan / The Flashbulb
••Recording artist | YouTuber | Researcher••
https://linktr.ee/BennJordan
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Richard Rutter @clagnut.com Cofounder of Clearleft, author of Web Typography, rider of bicycles, listener to vinyl, father of two, husband. Not necessarily in that order.
Blog: https://clagnut.com/
Book: https://book.webtypography.net/
Also: https://mastodon.social/@Richr
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
IDPH | Illinois Department of Public Health @idph.bsky.social Protecting health, improving lives.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Piers Kelly @pierskelly.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, and the Australian Museum, Sydney
Graphic codes in Australia, Southeast Asia, West Africa
Book: The Last Language on Earth
Research project:
https://messagesticks.com.au/
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • Sun Tzu • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://www.youtube.com/@DialecticalHouseParty • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com Unionizing the games industry one person at a time. Cofounder of @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com.
Game worker, rock climber, cat hugger based in Glasgow, Scotland.
https://www.austinkelmore.com
Bee @retroition.bsky.social Human woman.
Class consciousness/mutual aid/food/art/history/poetry.
Jane Elgee apologist.
Rabid girls' girl.
Retired political messaging strategist.
SME white nationalist movements on social media.
Poet/historian.
Kitchen witch.
Montana/Minnesota.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Acornloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social I struggle, I am alive
Recovering Salesforce Admin & Business Analyst
Chicago | Politics | Food | Music | Cities| Tech | Movies | Being Obnoxious
Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co Working class solidarity. We can do things ourselves.
Independent IT is important. Shop local counts for us, too.
AI is for huge dorks. The Luddites did nothing wrong.
Montana and Minnesota with @retroition.bsky.social
https://goreckis.co
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance. 
Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social UNIXy Guy. He/him. Prone to shouting "PUPPY" in public.
I frequently (almost every day, in fact) give away Kindle genre books using #KindleBookGiveaway hashtag, and wrote a feed named "Kindle Book Giveaway" -- but remember bsky has hashtags now!
The Lever @levernews.com Award-winning, reader-supported media outlet holding power accountable. LeverNews.com
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Do not train AI off my work. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Writes for WSJ about tech, energy, transportation and things of that nature. Author of two books, both of which are excellent and worth looking up.
Joshua Thorp @stigmergic.net 
Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social Scholar, Speaker, Educator
Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future
Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu
anitachan.org
Dan @dster.bsky.social former antagonist, currently a big sweetheart
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usually for @CambridgeDay.
MIT; public recs; data; legal news
Lately: immigration.
jhawk@alum.mit.edu
617.797.0250
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org yes, really the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in cleveland, ohio. Customer Relations: 216.881.8247
https://www.neorsd.org/social
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre shortstop
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
have a tip? DM me for signal
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
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
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Craftsmanship Magazine @craftsmanshipmag.bsky.social Highlighting the master artisans, makers, and innovators who are creating a world built to last.
Substack: https://craftsmanship.substack.com/
Website: https://craftsmanship.net/
@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social @ratlimit
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net J-prof at Northeastern University. Co-leader, with Ellen Clegg, of @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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.”
Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com Artist, Fabricator, Offsec Engineer
Minneapolis suburbs
He/Him
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
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
@emilym.bsky.social @emilym.bsky.social 
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social Entomologist. Assistant Prof. University of Illinois C-U. Bioinspired Design is my jam, parasitoids my love. #Insect #SciPol #SciCom #Bioinspiration Dutch too.
Paul Bartlett @paulbartlett.bsky.social 
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
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.
SASSI South @sassisouth.bsky.social We are Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure. sassisouth.org sassisouth@proton.me
Smile Politely @smilepolitely.com Champaign-Urbana’s Culture Magazine
Jason Thorpe @thorpej.bsky.social Nerd. Aspiring Unix grey-beard. Bicycle nut. E46 enthusiast. Obsolete technology aficionado. Proud lib snowflake. I like to make stuff, especially Manhattans. he/him.
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Kasia @kasiabrenna.bsky.social