Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Associate Lecturer of world histories and cultures • PhD in American Studies • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingertips
and turn my flittery feelings into multimedia.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
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feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / hrt 🏳️⚧️
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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social A nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition developing and advancing public policies designed to strengthen local news and information.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social Focus: Russia, intel, Eastern Europe.
Senior Fellow @cepa.org
Syria-Ukraine Network
Substack: https://olgalautman.substack.com/
Twitter: @OlgaNYC1211
https://linktr.ee/olgalautman
Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
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@ffrf.org @ffrf.org The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprophet nonprofit, with 40,000 nonreligious members working to keep state and church separate.
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
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Youtube: https://youtube.com/@leahtcodes
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Colin @colin-fraser.net Anti-spreadsheet person
openSUSE @opensuse.org We are a open-source software project promoting the use of #Linux & are part of worldwide community of developers. Get it at http://get.opensuse.org
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org 12,000+ workers fighting for fair union contracts and a better Starbucks ✊
Organize your store, get updates from our campaign, and sign our Boycott Starbucks pledge at bit.ly/m/SBWU
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social It’s time to start flipping tables.
https://mobilize.us/s/p5YuNE
Recurse Center @recurse.com The retreat for curious programmers.
Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.
📝 Applications are open!
🔗 https://www.recurse.com/
📍NYC | Online
Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social He/Him. AI Wrangler. Web Geek. F1 Fan. All views my own.
🤖 AI, LLMs, GenAI, NLP
🐍 Python Dev
🚀 Indie Hacker
🎮 Game Dev, ProcGen, Unity, C#
🏎️ F1 Fan
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🦣 mastodonapp.uk/@StuartGray
✖️ x.com/StuartGray (inactive)
Daily Kos @dailykos.com The Liberal Media.
News and more 👉 dailykos.com
Newsletters 👉 https://www.dailykos.com/newsletter/
Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible
This account surrounds hate and forces it to surrender
Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social I wear a lot of hats: software developer, entrepreneur, weird fiction publisher, writer, non-profit founder, election worker, local handyman, open-source creator, and Macross & X-Men fan.
Latest updates can be found at notesfromthevoid.cc.
Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com 📹 I make tech videos
👩💻 Software engineer for 15 years
Developer Educator @ ngrok
Comic book writer & artist: https://redstonecomic.com/
Founder of Webcomic Studio: https://webcomic.studio/
East Bay Yesterday @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social Local history podcast, tours, events, and even a puzzle. #oakland
https://linktr.ee/eastbayyesterday
dame @dame.is Creator of @anisota.net, @aturi.to, @flushes.app. Product design engineer by day, three moths in a trench coat by night. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
Have a question about Bluesky or the Atmosphere? Ask @poe.atpota.to!
Website: dame.is
Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com Senior Software Engineeer snowflake.com
Co-Founder @graze.social, @cocore.dev
Co-Host of @devtools.fm
Creator of @kich.io, @kikbak.tv, @atstore.fyi, @standard-reader.app
hipstersmoothie.com
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
ben ✶ @bf.wtf senior dream engineer, miracle farmer, game dev — https://bf.wtf • https://common.tools • https://twopm.studio
⛳ PAR52 s.team/a/4862720
🧙 WizardChess https://s.team/a/1274210
🪔 The Thin Silence https://s.team/a/314630
🔮 Subconscious
🇦🇺 Meanjin (Brisbane)
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.
Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com Software Design Loudmouth. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.
host of https://martinfowler.com
Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social Maker of random things, co-maker of one person, Google Arts & Culture engineer. I like pixels. he/him.
Frontpage @frontpage.fyi A decentralised and federated link aggregator built on the same technologies as Bluesky.
https://frontpage.fyi
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com 🦋sre@bsky.team
🐱dad
🪵worker
seattle, wa
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
Read us: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
Email us: ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Reuters @reuters.com 
Steve Ruiz @steveruizok.bsky.social Founder tldraw.com
Sam Harsimony @harsimony.bsky.social I write about opportunities in science, space, and policy here: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/
Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social 🍉Fun Stack Vibing at @xogot.bsky.social
Started Xamarin, Mono, Gnome. Prev: Microsoft/.NET/Xamarin/Mono/VSMac/MAIA http://mastodon.social/@migueldeicaza
Laura 🤔 @summerscope.bsky.social lead design eng @pydantic | http://debias.ai | Ethics Litmus Tests | 99% spicy 🌶 hot takes | she/her
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls
🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others
O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social The premier learning platform for technology professionals.
Sign up for your free 10-day trial now.
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Alex Turner @turntrout.bsky.social Research scientist at Google DeepMind. All opinions are my own. Vegan, 10% of my income pledged to effective charities (GWWC)
https://turntrout.com
Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @gronlp.bsky.social
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
CJ @w3cj.com Full Stack Dev, Explainer of Things
Senior Creator at @syntax.fm / @sentry.io
Host of coding.garden on Twitch and YouTube
Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social Enterprise News - 365 days a year
https://substack.com/@macfarlanenews
https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacFarlaneNews
SIGNAL: https://signal.me/#eu/ufqBLFTh_D87knsngxcXcyng7-Qd8DYPvwGB6LhI44SNFazeeQZD2ZPRThTX-g7M
Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social We’re not resting until all working people are treated with dignity and respect. We're fighting for economic and racial justice. Join us. #UnionsForAll
https://fightforaunion.org/
Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO, is a labor union representing writers in film, television, news, podcasts, and online media.
Static Media Union @staticmediaunion.bsky.social 
Birgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social Software Dev at Thoughtworks, Berlin and elsewhere | http://birgitta.info
The Pragmatic Engineer. @pragmaticengineer.com Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. The #1 technology newsletter on Substack. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about
Neovim @neovim.io Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Ways to support the project:
- https://github.com/sponsors/neovim
- https://store.neovim.io
- Have fun using it and spread the word
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
Random MDN @random-mdn.bsky.social A bot that shares random articles from mdn.dev.
Discover and learn new things with Random MDN.
RSS → https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:he3pf4v4t2rg6isjdn4ghtla/rss
OSS → github.com/random-mdn
Credits → @stefanjudis.com
Feedback → @andreruffert.com
🦖
Django @djangoproject.com The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Posts by the Django Software Foundation (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
Karen Ullrich (s/h) @karen-ullrich.bsky.social Research scientist at FAIR NY ❤️ LLMs + Information Theory. Previously, PhD at UoAmsterdam, intern at DeepMind + MSRC.
permutation @permutation.ink a utopian kinterm 🪲 permutation.ink
Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social Workshops for people who are serious about writing.
Speculative Fiction | Clarion West Six-Week Workshop | Online Classes & Workshops | Programs for Speculative Fiction Writers | Readings & Author Events
Find us at clarionwest.org 
Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker.
📺 Creator + host of LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
🔗 https://arielwaldman.com
BlueYard @blueyard.com At BlueYard we invest in only two kinds of technologies: those that move us towards utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion
Kaggle @kaggle.com Kaggle.com - Kaggle is the world's largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals.
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com Indie software developer • math witch • ML builder • 49 • 🏳️⚧️ she/her
Here to make friends and have fun (not argue). DMs open.
Currently working on new transformer architectures.
h̃ₜ = tanh(Wₕ xₜ + Uₕ(rₜ ⊙ hₜ₋₁) + bₕ)
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social Research scientist interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning.
Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦
For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000
Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica,
#Pseudoarchaeology, and Appalachia . Posts my own, unless I’m a brain in a jar! He/him
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social Girl dad. Hip-Hop lover. Fmr Capitol Police Officer. Making good trouble.
https://www.standingourground.us/
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
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
General Partner @mana.inc
🌳
Rune @runefar.bsky.social He/Him/They(gender apathetic cis-male) Half Norwegian American whose pleasures in life include exploring different topics and considering how to build solutions to different issues. Has a background in earth science, anthropology and psychology +tech
Adam Mockler @adammockler.com 23 | 2,000,000+ on YouTube
Join me now on Substack for more content at AdamMockler.com/subscribe!
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
Gus @gusthema.bsky.social Gemma Product Manager @google DeepMind
- Gemma 💎
- Google AI ⚙️🧠
kc green @kcg.bsky.social cartoonist of Greatures, made "This is Fine" • he/him • http://kcgportfolio.site • https://linktr.ee/kcgreenn • email me: kcgreenn@icloud.com
Orion Reed @orionreed.com advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing.
researcher @inkandswitch.com + libcomp.org
½ @folkjs.org ¼ @tentpole.bsky.social
folkjs @folkjs.org A research lab by @orionreed.com and @chrisshank.com exploring radically different directions that we can interface with the web.
Website: https://folkjs.org/
Github: https://github.com/folk-js
Sponsor our work: https://github.com/sponsors/folk-js
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Global Tetrahedron @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social Global Tetrahedron was born of the shadows, and it is committed to control in all its forms. Parent company of The Onion.
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org Organized Alphabet workers, unionizing with CODE-CWA as members of CWA Local 9009.
Contact us: press@alphabetworkersunion.org
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social Software Cyber Shepherd.
Web platform engineer. Participant: WHATWG, CSSWG, ARIAWG, OpenUICG, WebComponents CG
Website: https://keithcirkel.co.uk/
GitHub: https://github.com/keithamus
Mastodon: https://indieweb.social/@keithamus
Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social Celebrating 26 years of metal & wood type letterpress work. Love to share the process, forms and printing adventures. Jen & Jo.
Starshaped.com
GitHub Next @githubnext.com We are a team of researchers and engineers at GitHub who prototype the future of software development.
Projects: https://githubnext.com
Discord: https://gh.io/next-discord
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at head of protocol @ bsky 🌅
Pydantic @pydantic.dev The end-to-end AI engineering stack
AI observability at scale without fail with Pydantic Logfire. Iterate with Pydantic Evals. Build type-safe agents with Pydantic AI. Track costs with AI Gateway.