Vermont Council on Rural Development @vtrural.bsky.social The Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of the locally-defined progress of Vermont’s rural communities. VCRD is a dynamic partnership of federal, state, local, nonprofit and private partners.
Mark Ensley @markensley.bsky.social Weird librarian
Emily Guerrero @gossippractice.bsky.social Librarian, parent, tired femme.
Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com Copyright lawyer at Jaszi Butler PLLC, Exec Director @recreatecoalition.bsky.social, dad. Press inquiries: press@recreatecoalition.com.
Justin Hensley @ebmgonewild.bsky.social Retrieval Doctor in my spare time.
Wilderness Doctor stuck in the ED.
þetta reddast
Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com Trans, non-binary, Minnesotan. Working to make the DFL more trans-inclusive because being a trans refuge state does not mean we are actually doing the work. South Minneapolis, Stonewall DFL, and Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules.
linktr.ee/dexanderson
Free People Read Freely @librarymode.bsky.social Library mode. All day. Every day. Occasionally craft mode. Always resistance mode. 💪🏻🇺🇦🧶 🪡 Audiobooks=reading.
Ethan Slayton @ethanart.bsky.social Comics artist, creator, Comics Editor. Doomsbury at Seven Days. Art. Cats. Rebellion. Comics.
Daniel @dsransom.bsky.social Librarian.
Eric Casey @ericcasey.bsky.social Writer/Media
Managing Editor | Worcester Business Journal (@wbjournal.bsky.social)
Covering real estate and other business-y things across Central Massachusetts.
Worcester, MA via Marlboro, with some time at URI.
https://linktr.ee/ericcasey
ldthomps @ldthomps.bsky.social 
Heather Hill @rollin-academic.bsky.social Sitting at the nexus of disability, critical disability justice, accessibility, and libraries. Punk ass book jockey and associate professor, UWO. She/her
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
Yan Basque @yanbasque.com Writer, artist and musician. Queer. Critic of technology. Grad student (Information Studies at McGill). Typos in every post. Reposts/links are often bookmarks for me to return to later. (He/they)
https://linktr.ee/yanbasque
Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com Writing machine, librarian, Kirkus reviewer, public speaker, accredited personal finance instructor, he/him, opinions mine
https://thomasmaluck.carrd.com
Katelyn @katiebug.bsky.social Ghost Gatherer. Hibernation enthusiast. French fry connoisseur. Eclectic reader.
Substack: https://substack.com/@kvarley
jeighdbee.bsky.social @jeighdbee.bsky.social Librarian and therapist, trying to find ways to do both. I read a lot. Hike a lot. Dabble in everything else.
Vermont Department of Health @healthvermont.bsky.social We are Vermont's public health agency – working every day for your health!
Natalie Dee @nataliedee.bsky.social ♏️♒️♏️ VT. Design/illustration, ceramics, tarot. Co-host at GBU + The Great Mistake. Sexton. Come see me at nataliedee.com
Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, swamp pink, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com
{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social librarian @msulibrary, professor, hacker, author, footballer, skateboarder, fly-fisher, dogwalker, coffee brewer - still trying to make fetch happen. www.jasonclark.info
Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social Poet, dancer, textile artist ✨ they/them disabled trans queer
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
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
Liz Gotauco @cosbrarian.bsky.social Author, Librarian, & storyteller. READ MY DEBUT BOOK F*cked Up Fairy Tales from WW Norton! Recovering TikTokker. Rhode Islander. Filipina. Headshot by Brittanny Taylor.
Apex Adjacent @apexadjacent.com An automotive enthusiast podcast where everyone is welcome. We love you! https://linktr.ee/apexadjacent
Heather B @hbrarian.bsky.social Librarian | ISTJ | Relator | Includer | Restorative | Harmony | Empathy
Posts are my own
Anita Coleman @infophilia.bsky.social Lover of libraries and information sciences prof. How does infophilia — our love of information and connections — shape us, our technologies, knowledge cultures, our society, and the world? Forthcoming Book: Infophilia Unbound infophilia.substack.com
average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social Posting about near-ancient pop culture & petromusicology. Opinions are mine alone. He/Him.
https://ko-fi.com/killedbyzines
Jo Shlanghoff @joshlanghoff.bsky.social Wrigley Field and Episcopal Church organist; fan of the Cubs, libraries, music writers, public transit, reading while walking
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
John Heyderman @johnheyderman.bsky.social Living in East Dulwich, working in a research library, wondering about philosophy and Judaism.
https://philosophicalbibliotherapy.wordpress.com/
eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org Director of your Ann Arbor District Library!
~ follow the library on bluesky @aadl.org ~
~ call or text 734-327-4200 ~
~ on the world wide web at https://aadl.org ~
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social Tech author/carer, books (sf/f/h), astronomy, beer/homebrew, weirdness, Rush (the band) fan. #RejoinEU #MaskUp. No #AISlop. Banner picture = my book hoard. "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see." Slave to my tsundoko. This account kills fascists.
Meli @mismatched.bsky.social Tea, transness, weirdness, joy. The cat is named Emergency Exit.
Subscribe to my jewsletter: https://buttondown.email/meli (on hiatus)
they/them
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
Peter J Z B @pjb1980.bsky.social The Original Grotesque Parody
Music and books and public libraries and daily static. Weak on crime.
Opinions my own.
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
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
Miles Bruner @mbruner.bsky.social 
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
David Michaels @vwampage.bsky.social Punderdome champion, project manager for the New York Public Library, portrait and wedding photographer. https://DazzleRiot.com
jason kucsma @iamjasonk.bsky.social Midwest in my bones. Family in my heart. Public libraries on my brain. Proud director of a National medal award-winning public library.
miller! @cubsc0ut.bsky.social your typical nerd-artist-poet-designer. tabletop gamer. cook. encourager. creative. gay af. displaced southern californian. informed by a quiz that i "swear like an over-enthusiastic porn star." genXer. anxious. bostonish.
https://linktr.ee/cubscout
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Mary Kidd @shakeypea.bsky.social Tech Lead, Archival Systems at Yale
Adjunct Instructor, Digital Archives, Public Archives and History at NYU
Ron Payne @accipiterf1.bsky.social Birder. Reader. Otter Creek Audubon Society President. Vermont eBird hotspot reviewer. Tsundoku master. He/Him.
Book reviews in 500-characters or less: https://accipiterf1.wordpress.com/
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Research immigrant klezmer musician families, compositions & social organizations, Indonesian left-wing history, etc. History MA UBC 2019. Wikipedia editor. Posts about Cdnpoli/Vanpoli
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal that centers the experience of people with disability in LIS. Book reviews, academic and professional articles, interviews, and more.
CC BY 4.0
Layne @laynev.bsky.social Layne from the other blue website, Ampersand from the other-other Blue website.
Check out @kirbykloseups.bsky.social
Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social Digital Curator, Digital Research Team at the British Library specifically and information enthusiast generally. 
Jay Cuthrell @cuthrell.com Hi. I'm on the #Fediverse over here: 💬 https://cuthrell.com/@jay
Adam Rice @askadam.io Does: Apple consulting
Supports: digital freedom and autonomy
ABOLISH ICE
Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com Writer, historian, cosplayer, Vermonter. Author of Cosplay: A History.
Newsletter: https://www.andrewliptak.com
Jerry Kindall @kindall.bsky.social Husband, dogfather, writer, coder, nerd, geek.
Breeder of Glen of Imaal terriers with wife Amy.
Yet Another Rob Ryan @darkroomblue.bsky.social Syracuse > Bellingham > Seattle > Adamant (Vermont USA). Affiliated with @baseballpajamas.bsky.social, not to mention a whole lot of Canadians. Handle aside, I don’t use film, much less a darkroom.
Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social Librarian, privacy stan- T @tarabrady.bsky.social @tarabrady.bsky.social
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Cajunscooter62 @cajunscooter62.bsky.social I am a long term Survivor of HIV-AIDS 40 plus years. I am also a Army Veteran. South Louisiana Born and Bred! Cajun to say the least! I am also a Widow of 31 years and 6 months together.
Matthew Burgess @matthewpburgess.bsky.social Lead Digital Archivist at the State Library of NSW.
Also posting on matthewpburgess@digipres.club
All views, posts and opinions shared are my own. He/Him.
https://blog.matthewburgess.net
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Thomas Padilla @thomaspadilla.bsky.social Librarian and Community Builder
https://www.thomaspadilla.org/
Jay Furr @jayfurr.bsky.social IT consultant, resident of Vermont, and alleged coiner of the term "spam".
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com Angry old woman. Aspiring RIPTA board member, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
Don Yarman @yarmando.com Basic old, white, gay, bald guy who knits obsessively and hopes for a progressive future.
he/him/his
we/us/our
Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social Middle-aged, middle-class cishet white dude. Sorry.
OG MeFite, recovering blogger, lifelong Trekkie, lover and occasional maker of good food.
See also
@briank@mefi.social on Mastodon
BMK on MLTSHP
https://metafilter.com/user/1951
Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com Author. Activist. Disabled. Queer. Defective manic pixie dream girl.
Jim - Mass Library Project @masslibraryproject.bsky.social We are visiting every town library in Massachusetts. Choosing libraries as our waypoints came out of my deep love of libraries, books, and reading and of wanting a theme to our weekend wanderings. 
Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social Transportation librarian, academic worker, unionist, bike person. 
The Untalented Mr Rapley @sturap.bsky.social A stay at home astronaut, former Chef turned Archaeologist with sensible shoes and a working mans tan
The Other Rob Ryan 🇨🇦 / 🇺🇸 @baseballpajamas.bsky.social Veteran of the Great Seattle Diaspora of 2000. Also the Great Toronto Diaspora of 1954 (genetically speaking). Syracuse > Bellingham > Seattle > Adamant (VT). Getting kinda old, but apparently never retiring. Lake America does not exist.
TheAutistech @theautistech.bsky.social AKA Buckybits
Information Technology Being, working in Libraries. Autistic, Dyspraxic, Alexithymic, Allergies. They/Them.
Also model-building, Tabletop/video gaming, etc. I'm a Geek.
I once got a bunch of award nominations for a bad game I wrote.
Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social Amateur apple maven and blogger
adamapples.blogspot.com
Sarah: Librarian and Forest Witch @sarahfaery.bsky.social Libraries, privacy, censorship, social justice, disability and chronic illness patient advocacy, goth everything, gardening, Irish and Scottish stuff, faeries, Redwoods, pebbles, sea glass, and of course cats.
Rita Meade @screwydecimal.bsky.social https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Edward-Gets-Messy/Rita-Meade/9781481437776
(She/her. My posts, even the good ones, do not represent my employer.)
Dave Provost @daveprovo.st He/Him. Veterinary librarian. From Boston, now in Raleigh.
John Bergeron @dinbot.bsky.social We're all gonna make it
Lucy Santos Green @lucysantosgreen.bsky.social 🇧🇷 Director of the University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science. ALISE Past President. Co-PI of IMLS-funded Online Ready and READCON. Thoughts are mine, not my employer's. Learn more at: www.lucysantosgreen.
Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social Data Librarian. Co-Host of Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast. Editor of Two-Fisted Library Stories. Spooky Librarian. Goth. Comics. Manga. Zines. Games. ScholComm. OA. RDM. Social Justice. He/They.
"A known human friend" - Graham Stark
Peter coyote @pcoyote41.bsky.social A founder of San Francisco Diggers, chaired & served state agency for Gov.Jerry Brown 8 yrs.Made 160 movies, Ken Burns narrator for 28 years, wrote and published five books. Two kids, loving wife, 2 dogs 1 grandaughter. Zen priest & ‘transmitted’ teacher.
⌨ @plutor.org A little bit Doug, a little bit Tim
Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social Music, movies, microcode (software), and high-speed pizza delivery.
Time Magazine 2006 Person of the Year and 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage Award winner
I can also be found on Mastodon https://teh.entar.net/@ckape
Matthew Bogart @matthewbogart.bsky.social Cartoonist of the comic series "Incredible Doom", named one of the best of the year by Vanity Fair. It's about teens in the 90s getting their lives turned upside down by the early internet. (He/him)
Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social mrzarquon in most places, internet person.
PDX -> BFS, freshly minted 🇮🇪
Jesse Tarter-Holden 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 @churl.bsky.social Co-creator of “Best of the Year” (Vanity Fair) graphic novel series INCREDIBLE DOOM and just starting to build mechanical art 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏴
@lbvermont.bsky.social @lbvermont.bsky.social 
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Allison @readaway.bsky.social Comics and critcat. Coordinator comics & fiction NACO/SACO funnel 
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.
Jim Neal @jimneal.bsky.social University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University. All things: libraries, technology, copyright, intellectual freedom, leadership, music, theater, museums, nature. Citizen of the world.