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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.
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social Supplying all the book needs of Beverly Farms, MA, since 1968. Co-owned by @sampfeifle.bsky.social and @hhharlow.bsky.social. Come see us sometime (or go to www.realbookshop.com).
Also, home of the "Four Books a Fortnight" pod: https://pod.link/159468689
Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.social Breakfast Sandwiches guy
Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall thecarryall.org
Cultural criticism, culturerover.net
The Republic of Rock (OUP, 2013), republicofrock.net
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net
Union, uupinfo.org
More, michaeljkramer.net
weeder @weeder.bsky.social When the going gets tough, the tough get growing
Annabelle Walsh @sartorialpsychic.bsky.social Mostly here to discuss fashion history and theory, fan studies, material culture, and the Grateful Dead
https://www.deadheadstylearchive.com
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
IDIC
CJ Strauss @cjstrauss.bsky.social Director of The Clemente Museum.- M Mark Smither @msmither.bsky.social
The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, living in NYC / “It’s really hard not to mention, llamas.”
QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social can't stop the rawk
"Every movie is a documentary of the times and places where it was filmed."
https://letterboxd.com/queencityjamz/
Queen City of the Pains, CO
#marqueespotting
Forrest Moss @forrestmoss.bsky.social 
Ian Denning @ian-denning.com Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him
aburtch @aburtch.bsky.social Find me on Mastodon: @aburtch@shakedown.social
Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social Husband. Golden retriever’s human. Novelist. Critic. Ally. Grognard. Yunker. Philly sports fan. Adjunct educator. No DMs please.
Adalena Kavanagh @mamiyaroid.bsky.social Writer, Photographer, Librarian, Red Panda Enthusiast
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social Fiction writer, English professor, founding editor of American Buffalo Books, Rock and Roll Reading curator at #AWP, poisonous blue frog, Novel-in-posts: @spitfirespoutrain.bsky.social
Brian A. Anderson @thebanderson.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Pulitzer-winning editor. LOUD AND CLEAR, my book on the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), out now in hardcover and paperback.
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social Exec ed, features & special projects, PCMag ❤️🔥 adjunct, Columbia Journalism School ❤️🔥 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ❤️🔥 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ❤️🔥 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 ❤️🔥 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social Boone, Smitty, Tech Exec #3 (deleted scene)
https://open.substack.com/pub/hotdogcode
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social Neutral good hedge wizard. Orzhov with a Golgari chaser. I write about writing and games: https://matthewjsimmons.substack.com
https://troublednecromancer.bandcamp.com/album/rushes
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social
I can explain
https://howardmittelmark.com/about
David Gans @dgans.bsky.social Musician, author, radio host living in Oakland CA
https://perfectible.net
I play a live set online at 4pm PT almost every day, at
https://facebook.com/dgansmusic
https://youtube.com/user/dgans
Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social A nuanced melange of viking and capybara.
Hallucinophonics @hallucinophonics.com Hallucinophonics exist at the nexus of consciousness and sound—crafting immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries between reality and reverie. http://hallucinophonics.com
The Mockingbird Foundation @mbird.org Run entirely by volunteers, Mbird.org raises funds for music education programs for children and young adults. The Foundation has issued more than $2.2 million in grants since its founding in October 1996. 
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Court Carney @courtcarney.bsky.social historian | writer | professor | author of RECKONING WITH THE DEVIL @LSUPress
Currently writing on music, memory, and place.
www.courtcarney.com
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online Appalachian in Queens • Writer, editor, union member • My cathedral is built for a god to see so even secret places have ornament • They
Mark Walters @markwalters.bsky.social Librarian living in Michigan
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
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
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
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.
maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/
Solidarity Social @solidarity.social Sign up at
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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him. 
Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social researcher writer walker of forests swimmer of oceans here for the funny and the interesting
Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social Book editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books).
Posts inane & my own. Here now.
www.peterkispert.com
University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social Pronounced "BYOO-muss". He/They. adambumas.01 on Signal.
Head of Research and Assistant Editor, @garbageday.email. Researcher, @panicworld.com. Other research and journalism elsewhere.
The perfect level of online.
Jay Jennings @jayjenni.bsky.social Writer: CARRY THE ROCK / Editor: CHARLES PORTIS: COLLECTED WORKS / Screenwriter: A TREACHEROUS COUNTRY and DOG OF THE SOUTH jayjennings.net
Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social Writer of Fluxblog for 20+ years... I heard codes in the melody and heeded the call, so I'm sharing things I know and love with those of my kind http://linktr.ee/fluxblog
Crown Inn Reading Series @crowninnreadings.bsky.social Readings in backyard of Crown Heights bar The Crown Inn, First & Third Mondays. Emerging Writers series + Poets Nights. Affiliate of Franklin Park Reading Series. Email: crowninnreadingseries@gmail.com.
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Carly Gay Stepson @amcnal.bsky.social Writer for @allstonpudding.bsky.social, socialist, dog dad, lover of classy art & trashy wrestling, town dunce. often discussing Boston stuff. He/him. Bisexual. Free Palestine. Mask up 😷 ✝️
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/
Editor and reviews at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
mixedmetaphors.net
tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social Write a work that intersperses love with landlords.
- Bernadette Meyer
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 @borgerville.com “beautiful but not very bright” - vogue magazine
she/her ⚘
Silvia Killingsworth @silviakillings.bsky.social No
Spacemen Pod @spacemenp.bsky.social An occasional Spacemen 3 podcast where a couple of long time fans chat about their favourite band. This is also the personal account of host Ian Edmond, so don't blame Mark for the non-Spacemen content.
https://spacemen3.co.uk/pod/
Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social writer
co-owner of Thank You Books in Birmingham, AL
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Matthew Shaer @matthewshaer.bsky.social Contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, Emerson Fellow at New America, host of the Origin Stories podcast. Red Sox fan. Please God don't ask me about the "progress" on my "book"
Blair @blairpub.bsky.social A nonprofit, independent press that publishes diverse books, including literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction about the American South and beyond.
🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social Host of Guys, a podcast about guys https://sites.libsyn.com/458346 the PODKast and the Sunday night stream! CEO of guys
Twitch.tv/NotEvenAShow
Patreon.com/GuysPodcast
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Passages North @passagesnorth.bsky.social A national literary magazine based at Northern Michigan University.
Site: passagesnorth.com
Submissions open in September 💫
Julie Buntin @juliebuntin.bsky.social author of Marlena and Famous Men (forthcoming July '26), co-editor of Notes to New Mothers (forthcoming August '26), assistant prof at the Helen Zell Writers' Program
Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social aspiring cineaste, bitter southerner, non-native new yorker // experience designer/strategist & product designer/manager & user researcher
also, abolish 🧊, thank you.
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
Adrian Nathan West @anathanwest.bsky.social 
John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social Public HS English Teacher in NYC.
Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social english & the center for the book, uiowa / ed, ui press / author, *the pilgrim & the bee* (penn, 2007) and *the novel & the blank* (jhup, 2025) / opinions about drink are, in a certain sense, from my employer
https://english.uiowa.edu/people/matthew-brown
jam @socialistboat.dad I'm the socialist boat dad
donald @boringstein.bsky.social look upon my works, ye mighty.... c'mon.... look upon my works why don't ya
views/posts my own
Pool Party @poolpartymag.com Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
Josh Landon @joshlandon.bsky.social Wide-ranging interests that stretch all the way from 1970 to 1974. Education + Publishing + Nonprofits + MSU 🟢⚪️ + all things Detroit
artnau @artnau.bsky.social art
https://www.instagram.com/artnau/
turkey meatball @spookymeatball.bsky.social a playful but mysterious little dish
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social Semi-educated guesser. Unknown genre. LANDLINE: jaybabcock.substack.com Past: Arthur Magazine co-founder/editor. babcock dot jay at gmail dot com
Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively
Trey Anastasio @trey.com Phish, TAB, Oysterhead and Ghosts of the Forest
Scott Marks @bizarchive.bsky.social That guy with the notebook. Phish content, live posting from shows, @phish.net and @allthings.umphreys.com setlist updates. @mbird.org board member.