Ann Arbor Observer @a2observer.bsky.social All things Ann Arbor—culture, community, news, and events—in this monthly magazine and every day
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Techmeme @techmeme.com Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social Liberal talking head (co-host of The Five on Fox News) and excellent mom if I do say so myself. Democracy enthusiast. Perusing the blue skies. 
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Xor @xordev.com Building FragCoord.xyz
xordev.com
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
InsideEVs @insideevs.com Leading the charge since 2012. The world’s top authority on electric vehicles, new car technology and the future of how we’ll get around.
www.insideevs.com
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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social Random initial conditions: M between 0.1 & 150 solar masses | Speed less than 10 km/s | Positions in a 50x50 AU box | code and more info at https://github.com/kirklong/ThreeBodyBot
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org We stand for secure, abundant homes for everyone in Ann Arbor.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Rank MI Vote @rankmivote.bsky.social Bringing Ranked Choice Voting to Michigan!
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Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social Year Progress Bot. Maintained by @haider.bsky.social
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Doug Tribou @radiodoug.bsky.social I host Morning Edition on Michigan Public. Alum of Syracuse Univ.'s Newhouse School and Boston Univ., and a past Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the Univ. of Michigan. Also worked at WBUR Boston. https://www.michiganpublic.org/people/doug-tribou
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
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
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social Economist & author, specializing in the economics of Eastern Europe, especially Russia & Ukraine.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida specializing in American elections
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social Ann Arbor. AADL Board of Trustees. CTO Listings Project. Lorcana dad. Bollard fan. he/him
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social Managing director of the Institute for Energy Solutions and the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM) @ UMich. Still also posting about tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, & cats.
John Siracusa @siracusa.social Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not. https://hypercritical.co
Marco Arment @marcoarment.bsky.social Overcast, Accidental Tech Podcast, and… the internet, I guess
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Ann Arbor Pitchbot @a2pitchbot.bsky.social Grumpy townie since 1983. Sometimes parody is indistinguishable from reality. DM your pitches to pitchbot AT theinternetemail DOT com. they/them
@midwestmodern.bsky.social @midwestmodern.bsky.social Architecture, Art, and Design from the Midwest | Prints: shopmidwestmodern.com | Patreon: http://patreon.com/midwestmodern | Contact: josh.lipnik@gmail.com
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Real Python @realpython.com Online #Python Training & Expert Community: Tutorials, Video Courses, Books, Quizzes...and More! Join 1M+ Pythonistas at http://realpython.com
Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social James Webb - Everything That's Hot 🔥
jwstfeed.com
Python4DataScience @python4data.science Teaching materials for the cusy training courses on a Python-based data science workflow: https://cusy.io/seminars
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
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
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social forbes' 7.4 billion under 7.4 billion.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Andrew Mortensen @moretension.bsky.social