granny stitch is legos @fredamohr.bsky.social a fucking delight • either silly or earnest • writing & performing music as they bang bang • makes stuff with mostly yarn • care taker/dialysis giver • they/them/cutie pie
Susie @bassoosie.bsky.social Bassoonist, cat wrangler, a bit of a mess. Also into genealogy, boats, knitting.
Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social Urbanist/teacher/writer/community advocate
Founding Director, Smart Cities Research Lab
Author, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social Host/producer of REARRANGED, an Osiris Media documentary podcast about music arrangers. Author, THE LINES BETWEEN US: TWO FAMILIES AND A QUEST TO CROSS BALTIMORE'S RACIAL DIVIDE. Reporter, radio producer, adjunct, researcher. www.lawrencelanahan.com/music
Lara St John @larastjohn.bsky.social Violinist, Filmmaker, Iguanamama, Survivor, advocate for sexual assault survivors, member of the Order of Canada
🏳️🌈 Megan McShea 🏳️🌈 @meganmcshea.bsky.social Lead Archivist, https://www.afrocharities.org/
Sunday poet
Baltimorean
she/her
Shea rhymes with day
https://megan-mcshea.github.io
ELMIEME @elmiene01.bsky.social I was born in 2001
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
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.
No one, Really @noonereally2.bsky.social Mom in solidarity with all moms. #NoBloodForOil since the first gulf war. Prayers for the peaceful people, may we raise them, may we be them. Defense > Attack
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
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Charm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social On a Bluesky break. Baltimore creature. Obsessed with film, music, and poetry. Public transit/urbanism advocate. Dry barfly. Socialist. O's fan. He/him or they/them. Posts delete daily. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/5xOCV
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone Authoress. Books: RINGMASTER (NYT bestseller); TRUE BELIEVER (Hugo finalist); and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net.
"Bad John Cage is Real John Cage!" --Nam June Paik
Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social 2025-26 Pulliam Fellow exploring intersection of sports, transportation and environmental justice
eyeblack newsletter (readeyeblack.com)
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Kayla Pekkala @kaylapekkala.com Owner/Artist of TinyWerewolves.com (@TinyWerewolves.com) · Past toy designer · Wife @parkermolloy.com · Probably near coffee & food ·
Newsletter: tinywerewolves.substack.com/
Chicago
She/Her
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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.
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.
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.”
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Jerry Brewer @jerrybrewer.bsky.social Senior columnist for The Athletic. 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary. Bluegrass native. Kentucky Journalism Hall of Famer.
In an alternate universe, I’m a 1990s R&B icon.
@flightfreeusa.bsky.social @flightfreeusa.bsky.social One flight, One seat, One Ton of CO2. Flying fries the planet and pollutes the air, and yet there are about 125,000 daily commercial flights in the world and growing. Pledge to fly less in 2025 for the climate and community! www.flightfree.org
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
De La Soul @wearedelasoul.com The official account of De La Soul
Follow Posdnuos @posplugwon.bsky.social
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#ThankYouDave 🕊️
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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social Dad, but probably not your dad.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Stereogum @stereogum.com 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉’𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out now from Repeater Books / shipley.al@gmail.com / https://repeaterbooks.com/product/tough-breaks-the-story-of-baltimore-club-music/ /
http://westernblot.bandcamp.com
JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social Pprofessor. Black environmental literature, war, and 19th century Black life. Former President of C19: The Society for 19th Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. New book: Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery (Duke UP). D.C.
Andy Kostka @afkostka.bsky.social Orioles beat reporter for the Baltimore Banner | I post about music and Football Manager as much as baseball
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social Composer, harpsichordist, music theorist. He, him, his. 
Big Ayo @ayoirl.bsky.social Baltimore Girl. Expert chaos disruptor. Thinking big at Joia Event Group, your one stop boutique event consulting firm. 🙂↔️
@baltipink.bsky.social @baltipink.bsky.social 
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social Teacher of hospitalized kids. Civic. Curious. Cranky. Baltimore, baby.
Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social The union of the The Washington Post.
Resistance Studies Series @resistanceschool.bsky.social Register for Race, Media and International Affairs 101!
https://www.resistancestudiesseries.com/courses
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Kiese @kiese.bsky.social 
ACappellaVGM @acappellavgm.bsky.social A cappella performer and video game music cover artist on YouTube and TikTok. Choral composer. Big fan of D&D and running. he/him
http://linktr.ee/acappellavgm
Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social Canadian singer/songwriter. 3 time Juno winner
Former kid detective. Idiot savant without the savant part. Dad. Lawn mower
@d--wool.bsky.social @d--wool.bsky.social 
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social A dynamic public history initiative to research, reexamine, and share the history of Johns Hopkins University with the community in meaningful ways!
https://retrospective.jhu.edu/
Michael Hall - Viola @michaelhallviola.bsky.social • Viola • Performer • New Music • Chicago
• Artistic Director: Bandung Phil, Indonesia
• Viola Instructor: Carthage College
• Curator: NewMusic Shelf Viola Anthology
Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social Ethnographer, tinkerer, earthling | Baltimore | Johns Hopkins University | Ecological Design Collective
Find me at https://anand.studio/
Urban Reads Bookstore @urbanreadsbooks.bsky.social "THE CITY THAT READS" 📚
BANNED BOOKS SOLD HERE
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Chris Fisher-Lochhead @cfisherlochhead.bsky.social composer/improviser; lover of 90s hip-hop, 60s country music, wobbly songs, just intonation, and mycology.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
@francoisfurst.bsky.social @francoisfurst.bsky.social 
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social ⬛️⬜️🟥 Here we go again. Art director & designer for hire. Former: The Baffler, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Forum, etc. Rooting for a proletariat revolution or an O's world series win, whichever comes first. lindsayballant.com
Alison Wahl @alisonwahl.bsky.social I want a warm heart
I want a song to sing
I want to move slow
I want to fix things
Soprano, composer, songwriter, teacher. I love being outside, video games, vegan options.
www.alisonwahl.com
https://youtube.com/@alisonwahlsoprano
George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social Droppin' mics then bringin' them to be fixed 'cause I'm nice and whatnot. Look for "Clean Slate" on Prime Video February 6th.
Dr. cory ryan kasprzyk @crkasprzyk.bsky.social musician, professor, vegan (he/him)
@justinekoontz.bsky.social @justinekoontz.bsky.social 
Infinity Knives @infinityknives.bsky.social Lover of humanity, especially little fat babies. Also love animals.
Robert Lopez @bobbylopez.bsky.social Brooklyn based husband, father, songwriter
Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social Writer | editor | more-than-decent cook. Where: The Strad (London), WRTI (Philadelphia). Music | architecture | art + design + photography | theater + film | journalism | science | pro-public transit
Photo: Luis Barragán, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico
Leah Inger @leahinger.bsky.social 
Trauma Code on WBAI @traumacode.bsky.social Trauma surgeon and co-host of Trauma Code radio show on WBAI.
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social My new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, is out now on Nonesuch Records!
The Lancet @thelancet.com Welcome to The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, published weekly since 1823.
🌐 thelancet.com
Tom Philpott @tomphilpott.bsky.social Research associate at the Center for a Liveable Future at JHU in Baltimore. Author of Perilous Bounty. Former food politics writer for Mother Jones (2011-2022) and Grist (2006-2011) 
mfbass.bsky.social @mfbass.bsky.social Not much to say. Everything is in time.
Curtis @curtiscomposer.bsky.social Composer, musical adventurer, and concert-going fanatic.
www.curtiskhughes.com
@saxtoltl.bsky.social @saxtoltl.bsky.social 
Nancy Steinberg @ndsteinberg.bsky.social Director of Communications and Marketing, @osuceoas.bsky.social
Science writer, mountain biker, dog lover, tree hugger, reader
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Camilla They/Them @camillawickman.bsky.social i musician
Tom Moore @tommemory.bsky.social Pianist of new music (Cage, Feldman and the like), Director of Arts and Culture at UMBC. Hiker, mycologist, nemophilist and seeker of Waldeinsamkeit.
Hart Linker @hartlinker.bsky.social 
Baltimore Courtwatch @bmorecourtwatch.bsky.social Shining a light in the dark corners of Baltimore City’s courts #FreeThemAll
Stephen Edwards @tweed-handpress.bsky.social It's an anagram.
Jenny Turner @jennyturner.bsky.social Historian, photographer, school board member through the COVID and DEI freakouts. Exhausted husk of a person with long covid who loves cats, sheep, yarn, mountains, flowers, science, community, and justice. Also sometimes huge regrettable red-hots binges.
Melanie McCabe @melaniemccabe.bsky.social Writer. Poet.
Author of four books of poetry, most recently All The Signs Were There from Longleaf Press; a memoir; and in June 2026, a debut novel, Road Longer Than Memory, from Oceanview Publishing.
@trevorbabbguitar.bsky.social @trevorbabbguitar.bsky.social Guitar, books, movies, coffee
Andrew A @andrewjalbin.bsky.social English prof, sound studier, medievalist, choral baritone, occasional dramatist, paperfolder, amateur gittern player. We have a cat, his name is Patrick, he is the smartest boy. 🏳️🌈🇸🇰🇵🇱☦️🕎
Micah E. Wood 📸 @micahewood.bsky.social Photographer 📷 | Musician🕺🏼 | Professor 👨🏼🏫
Micah 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 Wood
Baltimore 📌
Micahewood.com- A Aimee in Baltimore @aimeealice.bsky.social
Alicia Kosack @aliciakosack.bsky.social 
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social MS NOW 10PM
Author of 2 books: Deadly Force & Playing With Fire
Former Executive Producer & Writer of NBC’s drama series The West Wing
ms.now/Lawrence
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
@elliecello.bsky.social @elliecello.bsky.social 
Rachael Smith @rachael-composer.bsky.social ✨ Composer, librettist, violist, and music theory and composition teacher at UDel ✨
Haley Olson @theritenotes.bsky.social composer, pianist, vocalist, educator, new music fan at large // DMA candidate at UMich 💙💛
David Vickerman @dvickerman.bsky.social I contain multitudes: husband, father, conductor, professor, video game enthusiast, horrible golfer, plant and dog dad, Lego builder
Sahffi Lynne, they/them @sahffi.bsky.social Music Medicine to Illuminate Your Connection. https://www.sahffi.com
Sean Doyle @seandoylemusic.bsky.social Composer
www.seandoylemusic.com
@seanyboymusic.bsky.social @seanyboymusic.bsky.social Musician and composer.
Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz Studies: The Peabody Conservatory of Music and Dance at Johns Hopkins University.
Spiritualist
Community activist
Father, husband, son, brother, friend, mentor, mentee.
Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social composer 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈 ✊🏾
Natalie Draper @ndrapercomposer.bsky.social 
Audrey Babcock @laaudrala.bsky.social Artist, Professor, Advocate, Mentor, Director, Cantor, 4 and 2 legged Mother, hiker, 🎭fighter🎭 🏳️🌈💃🏽🧹🕍🗡️🔪