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Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
@dad--joke.bsky.social @dad--joke.bsky.social Jokes for people (of all genders) who have changed diapers.
535 News @535news.bsky.social We ask unanimous consent on a motion to reconsider everything we know about how Congress is covered.
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl!
🌈 melodykramer.github.io
Ben Klemens @b-k.bsky.social I've stopped using "Economist" and have switched to "Computational Social Scientist". @b@xoxo.zone on Mastodon. He/him or they/them
Ashlyn Online @ashlynchaps.bsky.social Thoughts on tech policy, machine learning, and how I'm level grinding the arts and crafts. Software engineer. Banjo player. Comedian.
Technologists for the Public Good @publicgood.tech A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good.
https://www.publicgood.tech/
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Signal: brianckeegan.26
Aslan French @jcklpe.bsky.social elderly grad student at UT iSchool.
Board President for Open Austin.
#civictech holdout
Anson Tong @ansonjtong.com she/her • “a glutton for introspection” • photographer, writer, behavioral scientist
Maggie @maggieoconnell.bsky.social Visual Information Specialist
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social Politics @ TPM // Previously @ Teen Vogue
Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social that girl in real life | @famu_1887 alumna | words in: @wsj @refinery29 @thecut etc.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social Senior advisor @americalabs writes the First Branch Forecast. Congressional reform, democracy, civic tech. US History PhD. 3x Wahoo. Back from Japan. Let’s Go Mets. Cavs before LeBron. wants to know the exact dimensions of hell
Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social D.C. reporter, @notus.com Former: @51st.news, WAMU, and DCist.
Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social Dad. Author of the Cosmic Collisions books. Astrophysicist and Participatory Science fanatic @nasa. www.marckuchner.com
James Konrad Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python (PSF Fellow), AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Bayes, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Retro Computing, Space.
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
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DC Mesh @dcmesh.org DC Mesh is a group working to build a solar-powered #meshtastic radio network in Washington DC, allowing anyone with a smartphone to text without power or internet
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DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), @emtrap.bsky.social enthusiast, ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
Liz Landau @lizlandau.bsky.social Editor, writer, astronomy enthusiast. You can find my work at National Geographic, New York Times, Quanta, Smithsonian, and more. Views expressed are my own. Portfolio: lizlandau.com
Sandra Moscoso @sandramoscoso.bsky.social co-founder of #TheUpskillingLabs. finder of other things, too - especially silver linings. collector of people. best/worst mom-wife-friend ever (striving for for best, but I'm only human).
Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com Senior reporter at @CybersecurityDive.bsky.social covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes.bsky.social. | Send me tips: https://ericjgeller.com/contact.html
dade @0xda.de Hacker, Rapper, Developer, dade.
https://0xda.de
hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev a.k.a. boB Rudis • 🇺🇦 Pampa • Don't look at me…I do what he does—just slower. #rstats #js #duckdb #goavuncular•👨🍳•✝️• 💤• https://dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev • Maine🦞
Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social Political writer. Covering Congress. Vincit Omnia Veritas.
Diversity is our strength. Unity is our power. 🩵
"Freedom is not just an absence of evil, but a presence of good."
-Timothy Snyder
Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social editor, migrantinsider.com
Naomi Reeves @animumrege.bsky.social Pretty damn curious about everything, paid to care about the reliability of operating systems.
A MN transplant in SF.
Nick C @necamp.bsky.social Software developer, musician, budding altruist.
Matthew Bradley @machination.org Dad, product-minded tech & mgr, photog. Veteran of DC machinations. I care about climate, civil liberties, pluralism.
Helping on divine.video; Previously: Indymedia/WPFW/FSRN/Accuracy, WPNI, Nader, AARP, Grassroots.com, Edelman, Polaris/NHTRC/NHTH, DBT.
Hannah Marcley (She/her) @hannahmarcley.bsky.social Special Staff for Mayday Movement. Gov’t accountability attorney/advocate, mostly via FOIA/crim defense, YIMBY, host of Revealed podcast, very legal and very cool
predvsem pa slovenija
Will Sullivan @will-sullivan.com Here for the memes.
Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com Senior editor of @propublica.org's data journalism teams. Super gay. Sometimes printmaker.
Kirby @kirbytheawsum.bsky.social Public Health Professional. Vermiculture. Urban Gardening. International politics & law follower. Lit, Art, & music appreciator. Disliker of memes. Baggage mostly religious but not angry, just disappointed. Opinions my own.
@jkeserue.bsky.social @jkeserue.bsky.social 
Anders Pedersen @anpe.bsky.social Renewable energy, grid digitalization and energy data | Current: World Bank | Past: World Resources Institute, Natural Resource Governance Institute, Open Knowledge Foundation.
Jehiah @jehiah.cz Dedicated to Data + Safe Streets + Sustainable Transportation.
🗽 NYC
https://reports.jehiah.cz/
Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social Working on elections and AI. Before: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton / matthodges.com / ATX
Jen Haskell 🐱 @jhaskell.bsky.social Doing data things. Health tech. Former WaPo engineering.
Pennsylvanian at heart 🦅
she/her
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Rahul Streatfeild-Sinha @rahul.str-sin.uk 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 (one way trip)
Ex-civic tech 👾, ex-think tanker ⚖️, ex-int’l dev 🌍, ex-edu policy 📚, now that saddest of all job titles: Aspirant novelist. 🖋️
Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com
jacobian @jacobian.org django, security, eng management, basketball shitposting.
web: jacobian.org
signal: jacobian.01
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Public mechanics, speculative civics, post-HCD, platforms, governance, decision rights. HS 🎾 coach. Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich.
ronbronson.com
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine.
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY 🏳️🌈
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope. 
mediajunkie @xianlandia.com likes making stuff with other people
can leap tall buildings, given a running start
crumlish.me
xoxo.zone/@xian
layersofmeta.com
he/they
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com 
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC, and often DC
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Alberto @albertico.bsky.social Civic technologist transforming US healthcare. Ruby enthusiast. Personal account.
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
jodify @jodify.bsky.social 
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
Whitney Q @whitneyq.bsky.social Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Jorge Valens 🚀 @jorgevalens.com Government Geek 🤓 | Avid Indoorsman | Innovation & AI Manager, Miami-Dade County CITD 🌴☀️ | All about product management, policy development, and gov innovation. | Opinions = Mine (and can be discussed over brunch).
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
Code for Canada @codeforcanada.bsky.social We're a national non-profit that helps governments and non-profits create digital services for the public good.
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Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
LeadDev @leaddev.com Effective software engineering leadership content from leaddev.com
Museum of Political Corruption @corruptmuseum.bsky.social A non-profit, nonpartisan organization committed to engaging, educating, and empowering the public to "make corruption history"
Amy Cesal @amycesal.com Freelance information designer and data viz consultant.
👩🏼🏫 Instructor @ MICA Data Analytics and Visualization grad program
📊 Product Evangelist @everviz
https://www.amycesal.com
Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im Them.
Nonbinary, Trans, Queer, Disabled, Jewish, Socialist, AntiFacsist, Urbainist. Berkeley, CA.
Technologist, Activist, & Product Manager in Privacy, Security, Trust & Safety. Former: Tall Poppy, Brave, CPJ, Tor, Mozilla.
https://tildelowengrimm.com
Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social Lawyer, techie, governance wonk. Also @wseltzer@infosec.exchange
Yosher יושר לב @yosher-koach.bsky.social Person of the books. In my Ramban era.
Holding on to Jewish delight.
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is design at flora.ai
brooklyn