Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer. Musician.
Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈
Join my sci-fi book club:
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social Author (#1 Amazon Best Seller in Film & TV, "The Protagonist's Journey"), Screenwriter (K-9, Alaska, Trojan War), Host (http://GoIntoTheStory.com, official Black List screenwriting blog), Associate Professor of screenwriting (DePaul University film school)
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Teddy Dief ► PAX @teddydief.com Director/Designer of Videogames
◆ Hyper Light Drifter
◆ We Are OFK
◆ Glitch City LA
◆ prev: Square Enix, XBox, Disney
⟡ IGF & Peabody Winner
⇒ https://linktr.ee/teddydief
Karrie Shao @karriebear.bsky.social ✏ Writing Warren Spector’s next game
✏️ BAFTA & Nebula-nominated writer & narrative designer of Pacific Drive
🏆 BAFTA Breakthrough 2024
⭐ Marketing: SCMedia
🎤 Host: IGF 2026, League of Legends Season One
✉ shao.karrie@gmail.com
🧐 karries.carrd.co
Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social Screw it, let's do it.
Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14
Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social Former DOJ and FinCEN attorney
Jarvs | Indie Insights 🎮♿🏳️🌈 @jarvdusa.bsky.social 💡Founder & Director of Jarvs' Indie Insights
♿ Award Winning Accessibility Advocate & Marketing Hero
🖖 @TrekCentral.net Host & Writer
♀️@WiGJ Ambassador
🏳️🌈LGBTQ+
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Liana Ruppert @dirtyeffinhippy.lianaruppert.com Community, VA, Creators, Marketing, Accessibility in games, books & TV. Owlchemy Labs Sr Comm Manager. TV-side:
✨Fallout
✨Vox Machina/M9
✨The Mighty Nein
✨Secret Level
Prev➡️Multi-award winning D2 CM/Accessibility Co-Lead at @Bungie, Game Informer,+more
Eveline Albers @aerisnoir.evelinealbers.com Indie gamedev /w AAA bg. Past games: Thief, Tomb Raider 9/10/11/LC1+2, Deus Ex MD, Marvel's Avengers, HZD, Spider-man. Illustr/Colorist. Transformers/robots fan. Opinions = own
Discordia Dystopia 🔜 Lickython, TwitchCon @discordiadystopia.bsky.social COO at Akupara Games, Studio Head at Kallisti Games
Founder at PublisherPathfinder.com
Cyberpunk, apocalyptica, dystopia, medieval re-enactment, games, immersive entertainment.
www.twitch.tv/discordiadystopia
Any/all pronouns
M.A. Zavala 💖💜💙 @megzavala.bsky.social senior concept artist on Disney Magic Match 3D |
former riot games (R&D) | she/her
Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social Pop Culture Lives Here!
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social Michigander, Environmental Health Educator especially climate change adaptation, PhD community food systems. Side gig: suburban flower farming, growing native plants, & troubling suburbia at https://www.blooming-burbs.com/. She/her. Growing in zone 6A.
Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social UK freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Wales
Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State.
Son, father, partner, scientist, teacher, student, human, Earthling.
Mostly posting astronomy. Mostly.
Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social Host of Courtside with Kristy Greenberg on YouTube. Former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief. NY sports + Detroit Lions. Wife and Mom.
YouTube.com/@courtsidewithkg
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org She/her. Book person. An Old. Founder of Bookstore Romance Day.
David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social Habitual doodler and street artist, wrangling ephemerality and finding uplift underfoot.
Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social Never’s just the echo of forever
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social Health Policy & Health Econ
Professor, WashU, School Public Health
Co-Director Center for Advancing Health Services Policy&Economics Research).
https://source.washu.edu/experts/timothy-mcbride/
Substack: https://timothymcbride.substack.com/
Views my own.
CindyMAB @cindymab.bsky.social Retired Michigan educator. 🌈🏳️🌈mom and ally.
Pro-choice. Ratify the ERA. Pro DEI. Defender of empathy, democracy and due process. Small and local business supporter. Team Pete. Listen to us! Listen to women!
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social ProPublica reporter covering voting, elections and democracy. Phoenix native. Mom of two. Send tips: In chat or on Signal: jenafifield.01
Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: charles.ornstein@propublica.org. Posts are my own.
Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social Liberal talking head (co-host of The Five on Fox News) and excellent mom if I do say so myself. Democracy enthusiast. Perusing the blue skies. 
Kinetic Publishing @kineticpub.bsky.social The official account of Kinetic Publishing, helping developers bring their best ideas to life.
By Kinetic Games.
Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social Fmr. Nuclear & Missile Operations Officer USAF
YouTuber ~ 700,000+ Subscribers
Keep Defending the Truth
Keep Defending Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/@JakeBroe
https://www.patreon.com/c/JakeBroe
https://buymeacoffee.com/jakebroe
Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social Hey there Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you
House guy. DCoS @beyer.house.gov
Priors: Kamala Harris, Jennifer Wexton, et al.
Hendersonville, NC native
SciFi, Rock n Roll, he/him
Posts mine/dumb
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social Research Director at Public Citizen's Access to Medicines program.
Former journalist covering intersection of pharma, health policy & politics.
On Signal at SarahKarlinSmith.34
Views are mine.
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social Retired former US Ambassador, NSC Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, NSC Director for Nuclear Materials Security, and Deputy Exec. Dir. of the International Energy Agency
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.
Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” — Things you won’t see trending on X • L.A./N.Y./London/Rome & NOLA. Energy transition, Silicon Valley technofile, aerospace, filmmaker, writer ✍️, former producer, foreign policy and dolphin hugger. #RESIST
Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social (she/her)
Berlin based writer, Granta Workshop Alum, words in Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Wigleaf & more.
🌿🍄🐌💖✨🏳️🌈
Rep'd: @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
My website! tyndall.earth
Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social Professional writer. Also amateur.
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0748706/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
AN AMERICAN GAME podcast: https://pod.link/1826903443?view=apps&sort=popularity
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kirk-j-rudell
Chris Wright @surprisingchris.bsky.social Founder and MD at narrative indie games label, @fellowtraveller.games, and games marketing agencies, Double Jump Communications and Two Frogs In a Trenchcoat. Board Member, ACMI museum of screen culture.
Martijn Folmer @martijnfolmer.bsky.social Dutch roboticist | indie game dev
I post updates of my video game development, art progress and nerdy hyperfixations
#NoAI, and no crypto
Please check out Broom and Boom : s.team/a/3673790
#GameDev #indiedev #solodev #gamemaker #godot
Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist.
NEW from The MIT Press w/ Tracy Fullerton: “The Well-Read Game” a.co/d/6oAphWV
Steve Isaacs @steveisaacs.bsky.social Senior Manager, Programs and Partnerships, Epic Games. Retired educator - 28 years public Ed. Game design, dad, husband, friend. Passionate about supporting educators in helping students to become content creators Game on! #gbl #games4ed #edusky
Jason Rohrer @jason-rohrer.bsky.social Game Design and AI Research. Project Skydrop. Project December. One Hour One Life, Cordial Minuet, The Castle Doctrine, Diamond Trust, Sleep is Death, Gravitation, Passage.
Learning Games Lab, New Mexico State University @learninggameslab.bsky.social As part of New Mexico's largest Land-Grant University, we serve the Cooperative Extension Service by producing educational media. We have created hundreds of animations, videos, games, apps, interactive modules, and web tools, including Math Snacks.
Brendon Trombley @thebrendo.bsky.social Educational game designer harnessing the power of play for joyful learning
Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times
LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum
Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social Award-winning reporter. News editor at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
Tips: chris.kerr@gamedeveloper.com / chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open / Signal: kerrblimey.43
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop @cooneycenter.bsky.social Advancing Positive Futures for Kids in the Digital World
Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social Independent video game developer from Montreal and makers of the games South of Midnight, We Happy Few, and Contrast. We craft worlds both strange yet provocatively familiar, where gameplay, story and art move as one.
pklwrks llc @pklwrks.bsky.social imagine we were human available on steam now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4260590/Imagine_We_Were_Human/
game consultancy, developer, and micro-publisher by jd calvelli
https://pklwrks.dev
Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social ⚓️ Experimental Psychologist | Navy CAPT (ret) | DARPA alum | Tech innovation in education and behavioral health | Autism parent | Views expressed are my own| 👾 https://russ-shilling.com/ideas
Thi Bui @teabuoy.bsky.social Writer, artist, cartoonist, educator.
thibui.com
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
Signal: jeaton.04
Maya @mayamurphy.com Actor of voice, stage, and screen. Queer chaos gremlin.
SAG-AFTRA.They/She
www.mayamurphy.com
.A.T.H.E.N.A. @imfromthe.net ASCIANS LOVE ME, FISH FEAR ME || Ultros - L’appel Duvide || Formerly IGDA NYC || Blizzard/Nick/SOE/Neopets alumni ☕️
Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social Wife, Mom, UMich Law School Professor from Practice, MSNOW legal analyst, The Contrarian contributor, former U.S. Attorney, EDMI
Dragon Wasabi Potato ドラゴンワサビポテト @dragonwasabipotato.bsky.social writer, streamer | creating TELE @telegame.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/dragonwasabipotato
contributor @warpdoor.com
ambassador @safeinourworld.org
operator at Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β
https://dawn2021.orylab.com
farfama @farfama.bsky.social Based in Japan
Website - https://farfamahar.github.io/
Games - http://farfama.itch.io
Curation - @exhibitplay.com
Wishlist TO:RI - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3215280/TORI/
David Mack @davidmack.pro NY Times bestselling f/sf author, veteran Star Trek writer (including STAR TREK: KHAN), papa to a cat clowder. Politics-free feed: @davidmack.com
Agent: @LucienneDiver.bsky.social Knight Agency. Member WGA & SFWA.
official site: davidmack.pro | he/him
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social NatGeo Explorer, Oceanographer, Climate Scientist; Env. Remote Sensing; Energy & Sustainability; husband, father #FirstGen, Views my own; Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qMBuSe4AAAAJ
Emily Menez @emenez2.bsky.social Just another Filipina-Spanish Comedy Writer from Kansas,
CBS, McSweeney's,The New Yorker
NBC Late Night Writers Workshop, Slackjaw Editor (she/her)
keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social Storytelling strategy 🎥, narrative power, resource mobilization, and program design primarily with displaced and immigrant youth in the US and East Africa. Also ⚽️
Formerly FilmAid, UNICEF, SundanceTV, HRW. Always Barça
@datavandals.bsky.social @datavandals.bsky.social https://datavandals.com
The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.
Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov Representing #IL14. Nurse, health enthusiast, advocate for the working families of Illinois.
Iman Gadalla @imangadalla.bsky.social Character Designer and Concept Artist
SCAD Animation MFA 2025
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Alexia Mohabir 🌸 @woeandgrow.bsky.social Artist ✏️ Designer ✍️ Game Dev 🎲+🎮
Community + Merch Manager @GDoCExpo.com
they/she 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 NYC 🇬🇾🇵🇷 My Mage ❤️ @plausiblemage.bsky.social
Merch Shop https://woeandgrow.storenvy.com/ 🌸 woeandgrow.carrd.com 🌸 alexiamohabir.com 🌸 alexiamohabir@gmail.com
Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz AramZS. he/him. Privacy Engineer. Tech for journalism. Ad Tech. Prev: Fullstack, strategy, econ/game journo, storytelling, altac. Views are only my own. NYCer. https://aramzs.nexus/
danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at GameDeveloper.com, Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, BJJ Purple Belt 🤼♀️, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork, volunteer EMT. She/her.
Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social Illustrator, character designer, kidLit artist & gameDev art director.
Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social @ CMA
Also made the indie puzzle game Puzzle Spy International (out now!) at @agentepsilon.bsky.social
https://mdashow-links.carrd.co/
he / him
Austin Auclair @patientrock.bsky.social Quest and narrative designer. Location-based game expert and geocacher. I have too many hobbies. He/him.
www.PatientRock.com
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Ian Mayor @ianmayor.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Reflections. Game writer. Fancy cooking and monsters.
James Gleick @around.com Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel.
Other work can be found at https://around.com.
My new history of the telephone will appear in November.
On the open social web I'm gleick@mas.to.
Allyson Gray @zophobas.bsky.social 💚 EN/FR translator
💙 Interactive Fiction author
💜 Passionate about art (especially games!), the natural world, and ethics
🎮 https://zophobas-morio.itch.io/ 🤍
Louis Southard - Comic Book Writer @louissouthard.bsky.social 26 | Comic Book Writer & Creator: Valiant Entertainment, Mad Cave, Zoop, Sumerian Comics, MASSIVE Publishing, Scout Comics, Zestworld, Action Lab, etc. | Email: louissouthard@gmail
The Nest @thenest.media The Nest is a worker-owned video game studio committed to crafting human-made experiences that are artistically and interactively innovative, as well as politically and socially conscious.
https://thenest.media/
jenn martin is not trying so hard @tenpenjenn.com Chicago-adjacent ttrpg designer (Dead After Dinner) & editor (Apocalypse Keys, The Zone & more), SFWA member and AFT/IFT 604 union member, people>profit | she/her
tenpenjenn.com/links
Tom W @tewhit.bsky.social 
gg @ggdg.bsky.social writer, artist, storyteller. they/them.
making visual novel "soul of sovereignty" #soulsov
also made "cucumber quest" and lots of other comics.
https://www.im.gigidigi.com/
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
jay Dragon is sleepy @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social Late night TV Writer/Producer. Horror-comedy coming 2027: The Big Kill
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
Bruce Straley @brucestraley.bsky.social CEO & Director at Wildflower Interactive
Nick Herman @nicholasherman.bsky.social Making games.
Co-founder at AdHoc Studio
Ex-Telltale & UbisoftSF
Dave NewBlood @dave.newblood.games The @NewBlood.games guy
Email: Dave@NewBlood.games
David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. Making an isometric shooter called B.U.G.B.I.T.E
http://szymanski.games
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social 13-year game journalist. Senior writer at GamesRadar+. Previously: PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer. Email: austin(dot)wood(at)futurenet(dot)com
Graeme Strachan @gstrachan.bsky.social Writer, Story Design, Dramaturgy, Media Critic | he/him
(Currently available for hire)
BAFTA Member
prev: Writer - Simure Vikings for Bigpoint/Yoozoo Games
https://linktr.ee/reviewist
Tall, Scottish, friendly, occasionally handsome (not actually an Alpaca)