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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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susan ⚔︎ @sondering.art ✵ a hobby is a side hustle with bad roi ✵ stained glass art, showing at giant robot. touch sea grass, owned by shiba inu. in socal.
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖
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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Jools Walker @ladyvelo.bsky.social Writer & Presenter • Author of Back In The Frame (Little, Brown) • Substack: Just Jools.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Sara Wong @saraarielwong.bsky.social Illustrator. Art director. Currently recovering from bangs.
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The Saddest Factory Of All @saddestfactory.bsky.social A fan Account for the game Satisfactory by Coffee Stain Studios and other Automation and Factory games!
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social World’s tallest living artist ✨
baltimore, md ✨
Natasha Tara Petrović @ NYCC @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social Illustrator + Comic Artist
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Arkestar @arkestar.bsky.social artist
LUKA 🐎 @nousanti.bsky.social Luka ⭐ 28 ⭐ He/they ⭐ i moved here from twitter 2 years ago then promptly forgot to post anything at all 
bleeptrack @bleeptrack.de Creative Technologist and award-winning Artist
Speaker
Randomness Sommelier
~from generative dreams to tangible art~
~doing sidequests for a living~
#generativeart #creativecoding #opensource #maker #electronics #penplotter #solarpunk #tinyhouse 
Cobysoft Joe @cobysoftco.bsky.social Cobysoft Co. Developing Dome-King Cabbage, a visual novel set in a monster-collecting RPG. He/they. Attribution: https://bit.ly/32498gH ✉️ cobysoftco@gmail.com
Brad Neuberg @bradneuberg.bsky.social Machine Learning engineer @planet. Mentor with Frontier Development Lab. Previously at Dropbox & Google. Started coworking. Interests: Machine Learning, space, Earth Observation, VR.
http://codinginparadise.org
Twitter: @bradneuberg
Kero @keroart.bsky.social Hi! I might post my own drawings here sometime, but for now, I'll just be reposting artwork. :)
CodeMiko @realcodemiko.bsky.social Content Creator ⚡ https://twitch.tv/codemiko | https://youtube.com/codemiko ⚡ Owner @mikoverse.bky.social ✉️ Business: codemiko@underscoretalent.com
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Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social Comic artist/illustrator
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Read my webcomic here!: https://kingfishercomic.com/
Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social illustrator | Baltimore | repped by sari@levycreative.com | email evangelinemgallagher@gmail.com for work, I don’t check DMs!⭐️ they/them
https://linktr.ee/evangelinegallagher
Nextlander @nextlander.com Vinny, Brad, and Alex play games, talk shop, and have fun. Check out the Nextlander Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and support us on Patreon!
nextlander.com
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Benji Nate @benjinate.bsky.social cartoonist girl
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A Cellarful of Noise @acellarfulofnoise.co.uk New punky fuzz and old bouncy junk
Radio show every fourth Saturday on RTM.fm
& occasional gig promoter in London, UK
acellarfulofnoise@gmail.com
https://acellarfulofnoise.co.uk
Kenza Tazi @kenzatazi.bsky.social 
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Ladee Danger @ladeedanger.com SHE / HER // ART DIRECTOR for Magic the Gathering #WotCStaff // Opinions are my own
📚Join my book club @VelvetQuillSociety Bookclub Discord: https://bit.ly/VQS_Bookclub
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Velvet @velvetcaveat.bsky.social SlayStation girly ❤️🔥 I’m heeeeere 🩵
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
ZMainCharacter @zmaincharacter.bsky.social Your Lovely Card Slinging Enby
they/them
MTG Cosplayer
Lover of Video Games
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Lua Stardust at HOME @luastardust.com 📍PHL• Model • Cosplay • Horror• She/They ⚔️ TCG & TTRPG • Commander Format Panel• @scrybabies.bsky.social co-host
🎙️ Final Girl Next Door Podcast
📧: bookluastardust@gmail.com Luastardust.com
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future! 
Mike Minotti @tolkoto.com Co-owner of Giant Bomb. I podcast! Game Mess Decides, Last of the Nintendogs, 90s Disney. I like Arby's and Mega Man. giantbomb.com/join profile pic by @mleelunsford.com
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast @morecivilized.bsky.social Join Rob, Natalie, Ali, and Austin as they dive headfirst into the fall (and aftermath) of the Galactic Republic. Art by XEECEE.
amorecivilizedage.net
patreon.com/civilized
ali west @aliwest.bsky.social 
Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social A river to my people.
𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 @hexorcismos.bsky.social ⚫️ Artist, technologist and musician ⚫️
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⚫️ AI music engineer http://semilla.ai ⚫️
@ashfunction @ashfunction.bsky.social meditation, embeddings, latent spaces, agent based modeling, self-organizing systems, space, AI, Earth, TPOT-lurker-tanha
Bailey Meyers @baileymeyers.bsky.social professional nerd. producer/host @ good time society. prev: head writer @ honest game trailers, spelling bee champion @ giant bomb | http://twitch.tv/bailienvspredator | she/her
Noah Kasmanoff @noahpunintended.bsky.social 
Marc Rußwurm @marccoru.bsky.social Incoming Jun. Prof and Emmy Noether Group Leader (Sept 26) at the University of Bonn
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
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Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
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