Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social The game designer behind Star Crossed, For the Queen, Precious Little Animal, POP!, Hero Dog Saves Town, Our Time on Earth, Rat Trash Party, and more. helloalexroberts.carrd.co please send inquiries to helloalexroberts at gmail
Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net Tech, urbanism, politics, metal machining geek on my spare time. He/they.
Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social Award winning game designer - Downfall, Fedora Noir, One Missed Call. My cat is very handsome. She/her
https://lessthanthreegames.com/
austin @aparker.io the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
director of ai strategy @honeycomb.io
av by @extinctinks.net
Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social Lead Writer at Maverick Games. Podcasts with Crate and Crowbar. Lapsed tv writer. Traditional roguelikes, free jazz, weird fiction, yacht rock, neurodiversity, figuring it out. he/him.
blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social I do a lot of stuff because my brain has too many chemicals. 1994 ⚧ it/its
I have 12 birthdays a year because of a medical mishap: https://youtu.be/OEirbqQjynU
https://suricrasia.online/
Chad @chadtmiller.com software engineer, building @grain.social, hacking on atproto
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Professor at University of Chicago.
https://hoytlong.github.io
gozala @gozala.io Tinkerer on a mission to shift control from servers to users
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social Iteration & expansion of our mediaforms.
Embodying ourselves amid the digital.
Singing life to the new bodies electric.
To properly become connected together we must devise better forms to commune with the machine & connect w ourselves.
#BetOnTheWeb.
Ada 🐙 @adarel.bsky.social Writer/designer. I study narrative theory and make games. Classics PhD. She/her.
I post about games, history, cats, stories, and octopodes.
http://adaplays.com
Firaxis | UChicago
Irene Pasquetto @irenepasquetto.bsky.social I'm a social scientist studying open science practices and public participation in science. "People participate to the degree they understand, and they understand to the degree they participate." https://irenepasquetto.github.io/
Erin Robinson @erinmr.bsky.social CEO, Metadata Game Changers | Ph.D. from CU Boulder in Information Science. Nerd out about infrastructure, field stations, and metadata. https://erinrobinson.info
Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social
@modalfoundation.bsky.social and @freeourfeeds.com, also information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social Australian in Brussels. Info architect, innovation, knowledge, community & content strategist.
Stuff I Like, Think & Do: https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry
AAAA (About? Add "/About" , Above)
Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social Best of the Web. Minnesotan New Yorker in Oakland, CA. Game Designer. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social Serial pursuer of insurmountable hardware and software problems, armed primarily with unwarranted optimism.
https://github.com/solderlocks
Agent IO @agent.io Fetching and serving by @timburks.me.
Application superpowers on the Envoy proxy.
@noelwelsh.bsky.social @noelwelsh.bsky.social I'm writing a book, online at https://functionalprogrammingstrategies.com/
My personal site is https://noelwelsh.com/
Rogue Wave Design @roguewave.design UX / UI / Graphic Design • Open for collab
David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social Software and game designer (Six Ages, King of Dragon Pass, Opal). My new game, Thousand Hells: the Underworld Heists https://store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/Thousand_Hells_The_Underworld_Heists/ is out on 8 September!
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Joe Basser @joebasser.com Anti-tech-bro tech-bro.
@atmosphere.money
@sprk.so
nyc
Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social Indie game developer, procedural generation enthusiast, Dane in Finland. I made Eye of the Temple, now working on The Big Forest.
📍 Turku, Finland
🔗 https://runevision.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/runevision
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision
Stefan Nordborg Eriksen @grailas.bsky.social Chairman, Coding Pirates Aalborg.
MSc in Medialogy with specialization in Computer Graphics.
Digital creativity at the heart of it all.
Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social good wizard
@dimetrodone.bsky.social @dimetrodone.bsky.social Worm woman
Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com she/her • Writer, Designer, Dev Editor • Upcoming host of Dice Exploder • trans queer woman of color • Judge for the 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards and The Awards 2026 • blog at https://seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog
@zoelogical.bsky.social @zoelogical.bsky.social 
Enric Granzotto Llagostera @marxistpokemon.bsky.social [he/il/ele] 👁️ Educator, researcher and game maker. 🎮🔨 PhD on alternative controllers, experimental and critical games. 🌐 https://enric.llagostera.com.br
arlo elm @aeelm.bsky.social arlo elm, 30s. i make text-based games every once in a while — aeelm.neocities.org
Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安 @kwananntan.bsky.social 🇲🇾 in London | she/her
adam le doux @adamledoux.net videogames, game engines, odds & ends | i make https://bitsy.org | he/him
https://adamledoux.net
sōm ⁂ @hyl.st another weekend warrior trying to save the world
shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Karl Toby Rosenberg @karltrosenberg.bsky.social Ph.D. Holder from NYU - Human-Computer Interaction Researcher & Prototyper - Creator of DrawTalking: https://ktrosenberg.github.io/drawtalking/
Looking for collaborations and opportunities (short-term projects, postdocs, industry, teaching, professorship)
Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social CS @ Berkeley sophiawliu.com
/ Can music save your mortal soul?
Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social Wild bird rehab + emu antics + the occasional yak
Mostly birds, but anything can happen (and usually does)
Art‑funded wildlife rescue • Building our region’s first wildlife hospital one weird day at a time - MN
Foxloft.com - Vultureconservancy.org
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Arcade W. @arcades.agency https://arcades.agency
they/them “software engineer”
> I want smaller computers with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less
andrea dworkin for the weekend @andreadworkin.bsky.social i run a small startup that wants to make the production of rare earth metals cheaper and better for the environment.
jared @awarm.space Working on @leaflet.pub in specific and tools for learners and education in general
celine @cozylittle.house design at leaflet.pub!
(she/her)
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca researcher+designer. tech coops, local, infrastructure, community and alternative network/s/ing
In another place: @dcwalk@post.lurk.org
max @notplants.net
experiments in online gardening
permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry
they/them
https://lichen.page
@schoemannator.bsky.social @schoemannator.bsky.social 
Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Rhetoric prof, social movement scholar & author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com State Capacity AI + gpo.delivery + Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich. Anti-manipulation eng, critical design, platformisation, digital public infra. 18F alum.
Host of the Sound Bulletin 90.3 FM Portland. Built mallo.fi / oregontennis.org
J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk.bsky.social Spatial web technologies by day, digitally-embodied cognition enthusiast by night https://linktr.ee/zachernuk
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Britt Selvitelle @brittspace.bsky.social R sock on the L foot. Game design and music. Be kind please rewind– earthspecies.org, Twitter :(, userscripts.org.
nate @zzstoatzz.io oss dev tools + atproto
‣ plyr.fm
◦ waow.tech
◦ blento.zzstoatzz.io
◦ tangled.org/zzstoatzz.io
yooper → umich → chicago
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com Building: www.journalismatlas.com
Formers: WaPo, NPR, NYTimes, Factcheck.org
incognitothief @whereditgo.diamonds https://whereditgo.diamonds/
Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk Content lead for Chrome Web Developer Relations. Opinions (and cats) my own.
Jesse Karmani @jesseplusplus.com here for the interop social future
building https://frequency.app
Comail @comail.at Cooperative email on atproto: comail.at
Looking for a personal inbox based on your atproto account? Join the waitlist! comail.at/inbox
docs: comail.at/docs
DM for support!
Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social Personal account. #socialwork, PhD student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social. Read & think about tech ethics, digital literacy, innovation, inequality, & social change. Find refuge & inspiration in #humanities & #openscience.
leotrs @leotrs.bsky.social Builder, scientist, data architect, mathematician - https://leotrs.com/
Director of the Aris Program - https://aris.pub/
Leipzig, Boston, Lima
he/him/él
Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
Oliver Ash @oliverjash.me Front-end at GitButler, previously Unsplash
Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social Former Head of AI for Take Two Interactive. Doctor of Game AI (from before the techbros moved in I swear). Dog dad, pitmaster, D&D-holic. 🏴 in 🇺🇸
J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at Carnegie Mellon. Indie game designer -- Indie RPG Award (2006), IndieCade Night Games (2015), Ennie Judge's Spotlight (2026). Comments my own.
meson press @mesonpress.bsky.social meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media. Our publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities of today.
Dedicated to #openaccess since 2015.
anna 🍉☀️⛵ @anna.germnetwork.com she/her
founding engineer and community lead @germnetwork.com
Bobby™ @schwbby.bsky.social 🕹️ Spent 10 years as game design and media professor; now making games for novel hardware
🎢 Theme park scholar
📘 Co-author of Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers
👑 CLT resident
Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social Oakland's All-Playable Video Game Museum! Community powered. - 921 Washington St., Oakland, CA 94612. - https://www.themade.org
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
upvote.at @upvote.at ⬆️ upvote a link by mentioning this account
atmospheric upvotes and link aggregation
upvote.at - issues? ping @bnb.im
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social https://forresto.com/ (projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
Ethan Graf @eagraf.dev
📍 BOS
Robin Rendle @robinrendle.bsky.social robinrendle.com
The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social “A great contrast to the usual magazine.”
—Virginia Woolf
Join a conversation 200 years in the making.
https://yalereview.org/
Anisota @anisota.net A peaceful social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky & the Atmosphere. Made by @dame.is in Appalachia.
Enter the forest: anisota.net
Waxing Crescent, 30% Lit 🌒
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social hack·er: a builder and friend of the computer
https://progrium.xyz
angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science; phd Cornell ORIE.
data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity
bureaucratic justice warrior
angelamzhou.github.io
Zicklag @zicklag.dev I strive to make great things that people can use and enjoy, all to the glory of God.
Links & Bio Page: https://zicklag.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/zicklag
Making @roomy.space
Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness.
https://erlend.sh – about me
@roomy.space – make space
Katharina Meyer @kthrnmyr.bsky.social Historian of Technology & Science delving into the intricacies of practices, knowledge, infrastructures and protocols in digital infrastructure & commons.
Director Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (infrastructureinsights.fund)
dietrich @burrito.space peeking into the post-browser web
~ https://metafluff.com
~ https://webtransitions.org
~ https://userandagents.org
~ @intenttoship.dev
past lives: Mozilla, Protocol Labs, Sub Pop Records
polytoken dot dev @polytoken.dev A coding harness by somebody who is kind of obsessive about nice coding harnesses. That somebody is @ed3d.net.
https://polytoken.dev
https://docs.polytoken.dev/changelog
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns enthusiast, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener, amateur baker
wirfs-brock.com/rebecca
Sean Voisen @seanvoisen.com Trying to make computers better for human thinking and creativity. Currently leading design engineering at Adobe. Opinions own.
Interwebs: seanvoisen.com
Pronouns: he/him
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Waxy.org @waxy.org Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andy.baio.net.
WWW: https://waxy.org/
RSS: https://waxy.org/feed/
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Asia Hoe @asiahoe.com UX Designer armed with curiosity, tenacity, and a serious case of dev envy. I design products for people and speak about societal and ethical impacts of technology. I'm also an avid gamer, and dabble in art, words, and code. (She/Her)
https://asiahoe.com
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social