A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social Film, music and book reviews. Proudly based in Portland, OR!
www.spectrumculture.com
the vardaman ensemble @vardamanens.bsky.social post-no faux soundtracks of psych fusion-y noise stuff. actors’ actors. battiato, boredoms, boris, b-52s. band, pdx https://vardlinks.carrd.co/
morecords aka keywax @morecords.bsky.social morecords:
private diggin hotspot
jazzfunk vamp inc.
label
berlinale soundtrack support since 1998
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social The official podcast account. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
https://500songs.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey
Merch: https://500-songs.teemill.com
James Felix Black @tft.io A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline.
Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social Elementary music teacher, Ph.D. candidate at CMER at University of South Florida. Public schools (& teachers’ unions) forever & ever. Eldest millennial raising & teaching Gen Alpha.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com F'uncle of six. CEO @PlanetArgon.com. Host @maintainable.fm. Creator of @ohmyz.sh. Guitarist @mightymissoula.com. Host of On Rails podcast.
https://robbyonrails.com/links/
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
Tex Clark @texclark.bsky.social Know Your Rights Oregonfederaldefense.com
Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD
jeffnicholshistory.com
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org Public interest 501(c)(3) law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. Website https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome; details on website front page. Media email Media@ NationalSecurityLaw.org, others email Kel there
cowsarejustfood @cowsarejustfood.bsky.social stupid name mostly vegan. scottish. will (re)post lou reed, dogs on album covers, and jazz bagpipe.
http://letterboxd.com/cowsarejustfood
http://cowsarejustfood.bandcamp.com
Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
artnau @artnau.bsky.social art
https://www.instagram.com/artnau/
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Felix van der Goot @guidodumez.bsky.social It was dark as i drove the point home
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social The Minnesota chapter of the greater @50501movement.bsky.social movement!
https://mn50501.org
Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social Here to inspire ✨️
Art + Music + Design + Positivity
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
Become a member: https://longreads.com/join/
Submit to us: https://longreads.com/submissions
The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
an online journal of unexpected music + culture → thetonearm.com
JS @cranksatori.bsky.social old noiser
real electronicsist
still theoretically good
J.Soliday
neural goldberg
xTAL fSCK
etc etc
www.jsoliday.com
cranksatori.bandcamp.com
Christopher Bahn @chrisbahn.bsky.social Editor and writer from Minnesota. 16 books in the Living in the Future, Enduring Mysteries and Amazing Animals series from Creative Company out now! https://christopherbahn.com/
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
#OneHitWondered @onehitwondered.bsky.social Celebrating American One-Hit Wonders from the Billboard Hot 100 era... A US #OneHitWonder is a group/performer with just 1 hit single, as measured against the industry-standard US Billboard Top 40, which is #1 through #40 on their Hot 100 chart. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls. 
Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social Energetic & colorful landscape paintings for those building a contemporary collection capturing all the best feelings of travel.
Purchase originals here: Chrislongpainter.com
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com Parent & safe streets advocate 🚲🚶🏻🚌
Founder of the @mcbl.bike
League Certified Cycling Instructor
Minneapolis, MN
lauragmitchell.com
Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live The Wedge's News Leader | Tips: newsroom@wedgelive.com | signal: wedgelive.33
Support hyperlocal news: patreon.com/wedgelive
Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social I write things. Pitchfork. Stereogum. SPIN. Vice Chair of Florida Film Critics Circle.
Space and light and dreams
That's what people need.
Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social Minnesota ephemerist. History, music, visual arts, a bit of baseball. Work = PR. Posts = else. Also the westerly half of Trademark Issues 🎸
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Jeff Giles @jefito.com Director of Curation and Editorial for @harmonic.fm. Proprietor of Jefitoblog. Writer, editor, author of several books. Podcast host. More info here: https://linktr.ee/jeffgiles
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social this is a Star Trek opinions account 
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/acatwithnews
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews
Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: SeanCarmitchel@protonmail.com
Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-beta/cosmic-music/9780306836169/
daviss @daviss.org minneapolis photographer, photojournalist. paying attention. local history nerd. @daviss.mn on ig
https://chaddavis.photography/
https://buymeacoffee.com/daviss.mn
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social A celebration of the quirks of South Minneapolis direct from the boost mobile store.
Transit enthusiast, shitty graphic design fan, militant pedestrian
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org he / him. Living with Type 1 Bipolar Depression and PTSD #StigmaFree. Minneapolis resident. The U.S. Constitution is a living document, and it lives in all of us.
Writing → czbi.org/writing
Schedule a call → czbi.org/call
Meet for coffee → czbi.org/coffee
max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social professionally nosy. reporter at @minnesotareformer.com
solace @solace.music Simple design with a modern crypto touch
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Robbie Rist @robbierist.bsky.social Cultural Icon. Entertainment guy. Fly in the ointment of those who would try to oppress us (you know who I’m talking about…..). Oh…..NO DMs!!!!
www.robbierist.net
www.thespoonradio.com
https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/
Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com Trans, non-binary, Minnesotan. Working to make the DFL more trans-inclusive because being a trans refuge state does not mean we are actually doing the work. South Minneapolis, Stonewall DFL, and Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules.
linktr.ee/dexanderson
madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social reporter @ minnesota reformer covering immigration and more. posting about sports sometimes too. texan in st. paul. eng/esp
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
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social Portland Mercury news editor. 🗞️ Got a tip? cvaughn @ portlandmercury.com
David Brauer @dbrauer.net Former journalist, long-time Minneapolitan, curator of Uptown’s borders and chief rememberer, Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Amplifier & participant in the Minnesota Resistance.
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com Meteorologist for REBUILD.US based in Minneapolis. Contributing climate journalist for The Guardian. Author of The Future Earth. Optimistic to a fault.
DM to contact me securely on Signal
Leela Corman @leelacorman.bsky.social Painter/comics-maker/noise-rock person. GNs: Victory Parade, You Are Not A Guest, Unterzakhn. Teaching: RISD, founding instructor at http://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org. Art: http://www.leelacorman.com
Making noise with insomnies.bandcamp.com
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
MPR News @mprnews.org Minnesota news. Independent + nonprofit. Free thanks to members. Listen on air, read online or follow here ❤️
📷: The Minnesota Capitol building just after sunset on a spring evening, by Brian Bakst | MPR News.
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Peter Steward Scholtes @petescholtes.bsky.social I’ve written and taught. Profile photos from Sapsucker Farms Yellow Belly Cidery, Mora, Minnesota, USA, 2022. He/him.
Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social • National investigative correspondent at The New York Times
• Author of zero books
• NYT stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker
📍 Cascadia
Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social Cynical Canadian bibliophile/writer guy into music, sports (lifelong Caps/Jays fan), contemporary literature and poetry, foreign film and used bookstores and booksales. Not much else.
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Minneapolis. Joncollinsjournalism.com
Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social Words & Music | gabrielkahane.substack.com |
Magnificent Bird out now on Nonesuch | gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com | Creative Chair, Oregon Symphony | Portland, OR
Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social Milwaukee’s live music archivist.
I’d rather be taping.
Download my high quality, artist-authorized audio recordings featuring some of your (current and future) favorite musicians for free —
http://www.milwaukeetaper.com/?m=1
@musicdocumentaries.bsky.social @musicdocumentaries.bsky.social Posting links to music documentaries online whenever the hell I feel like it.
Operated by @purelava.bsky.social
Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social host of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. weekends 10AM ET on @ms.now. author of NYT bestsellers Firestorm and Separated.
jacobsoboroff.com
Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social Home grown & hand sewn, folk-pop art. A happy idiot, struggling for the legal tender.
Shop: heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com
Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social Devo predicted all of this
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
https://www.jasondashbailey.com/
YIPPEE KI-YAY Book: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/yippee-ki-yay_9781419783753/
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC podcast: pod.link/1274489817
Letterboxd @jasondashbailey
jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.
Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social “When you begin a note, it comes from somewhere and keeps going forever…Part of it does, anyway…Nothing is lost. Everything keeps going around.” —W.A. Mathieu
Writer, podcaster, musician.
Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social Seattle-adjacent forest witch 🌲🐳
Femme-punk rock royalty 🤘👸🏼
Lezzzzbeeeeeannnnn 🌈
guitar/sing—TRASH PANDA GO KART
w/ ❤️ Zinnia Su 🥁
on the Island Of Misfit Toys
bass—BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! 🐳
improv rock w/ Endino & Lenon
http://trashpandagokart.com
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.' 
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
Unpresidented Brass Band @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social If you feel motivated to donate to the band, you now can! We are looking to get more bananas and marching uniforms such that we all look similar enough that officers can easily tell who is in the band for safety.
https://www.patreon.com/Unpresidented
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Ana @motherslug.bsky.social Detroit writer. Books, jazz, records, eclectic music, bleak sci-fi, depressing and upsetting fiction and films, the works.
Read me in print media (Uncut Magazine & Maggot Brain), plus motherslug.substack.com and some other places when they will have me!
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/