Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Jay Gabler @jaygabler.com The Local: Twin Cities newsletter co-host at The New York Times. Formerly associated with Duluth News Tribune, The Current, City Pages. Views expressed are mine alone.
Shadi Bushra @shadib.bsky.social Reporter, photographer, data wrangler. Cohost of The NYT newsletter The Local: Twin Cities
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social antifascist | newsroom veteran, fledgling cellist, former emt, budding bird enthusiast | he/they | ally 🏳️🌈 | RT ≠ endorsement | ex CNBC, WWD, TODAY show, NBCNews, Associated Press, Arizona Republic etc
🌸ayana🌸 @ayanajsk.bsky.social • Legislative Assistant
• Minneapolis DFL Chair
• Communications Director
https://linktr.ee/ayanajsk
📍Minneapolis
she/her | my views do not reflect those of my employer
"People don't live their lives through statistics." - Zohran Mamdani
Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social Gustav Klimt was a 19th century Austrian symbolist painter. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
🔗 linktr.ee/klimt_artbot 
Ben Holmen @benholmen.com Big tall anti-entropy machine
Software engineer + general maker
Always curious about everything
Eau Claire, WI, USA | benholmen.com
...let's go exploring!
Jeb 🏳️⚧️ @jebdarsh.bsky.social J.D. Bath: Writer of idiots, drawer of same
Elder emo | Skate rat who can't | Professionally tired.
Pronouns? Call me Jeb.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
I deleted my gender to make room for more ADHD, so you might want to wear a hat.
https://ko-fi.com/jebdarsh
#TPDox | #SooN
ash 🏳️⚧️ @rollingfor20.bsky.social loud and annoying on the internet. little guy leftist. he/him. minneapolis.
posts are my own and are not representative of my employer!
venmo: rollingfor20
Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social Pod Save the World. NYT opinion. MSNBC. Author: After the Fall and The World As It Is
Eric @ericandredion.bsky.social he/him
Minneapolis, MN. This is my home, I’m a local
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social Organist for Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park. I also do a bunch of other music stuff.
Flan @flanknits.bsky.social she/her. South Minneapolis
Community organizer. Fiber Artist. Political news junkie. Quaker.
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/
Semafor @semafor.com Building a new global news company. Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.semafor.com/newsletters
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social media reporter @semafor
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
Please use ALT text :-)
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social Investigative Reporting Fellow for The Appeal. Words in: Truthout, The Appeal, The Nation, NY Focus. Founder of The Carceral Report. www.thecarceralreport.com
Free Palestine. Abolish ICE. Anti-Zionist Jew. she/her
Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social Antifascist. Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social writer and editor (lol)
plz subscribe to my blog --> https://type-click-type.ghost.io/
Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.
PFP alt text: a pale woman with red hair sips from a straw in a cup. Her hair is in a high side pony, and she’s wearing goldy gopher sunglasses.
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social The myth of white supremacy is not who you are. It is what was done to you. Why not try life beyond the supremacy myth? Author of The Predator's Table.
https://linktr.ee/LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth
Thorpe Langton @mspdawg.bsky.social 
Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com Editor in chief of @allrisenews.com. Fearless journalism about the law, your rights, and your powers to effect change during the Trump era. www.allrisenews.com/
Jam @jamfish728.blacksky.app Blerd That Does the Most. Tech/Security OG in transition. They/Them. Neurodivergent. MN (KY Born and Raised). Duckie enthusiast.
Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social AssocProf and UPD at Northeastern Poli Sci: immigration, representation, parties, Europe (esp. NL), pedagogy, SoTL.
Ass't. Ed.: PS Educator. Intro Comparative Politics textbook w/Cengage. Chaotic Neutral. J! non-champion. Bad jokes. Erstwhile Oregonian.
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Joe Davis @doeyjavis.bsky.social Politics, campaigns, psychology, sportsball, root beer floats. The Great State of Minnesota. The Lynx were robbed. I'll try and do less stream of consciousness here, but no promises. 
The Smitten Kitten @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social a s*x shop for EVERY body
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊🏾❤️👉👌😏
education, liberation, and good s*x
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
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.
Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social Not affiliated with the Greeneville Pet Cemetery
Redville Zoo @redvillezoo.bsky.social Definitely not a haunted zoo
Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net Cripple. Writer of Stuff and Things. A dream of Cold Albion. I write and talk about disability, ableism, magic, myth and story. 🥟 Some sort of wizard. Words in NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY #8 (forthcoming)
Website: http://cold-albion.net/fyi/
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Ask a Manager @askamanager.org Creator of Ask a Manager – home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
Anatomy For Sculptors @anatomy4sculptors.bsky.social Publishers of anatomy books for artists - Understanding the Human Figure, Anatomy of Facial Expression, and Form of the Head and Neck.
https://anatomy4sculptors.com/
Amy Grech @amygrech.bsky.social NYC-based prolific crime/horror author/poet. Active HWA Member. Alien Buddha Press published my poetry chapbook, A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. SEO is my bread and butter. 🔪🩸
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/amygrech
💻 crimsonscreams.com
The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social Hey I’m Neil kohney the other end comics boy
he/him
ALizardInCrimson @lizardincrimson.bsky.social Cranky artist. Watercolors, miniatures, cats, teeth and caffeine she/they
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jesse Mortenson @jk9.bsky.social back to start a podcast - subscribe at millcityhall.com - middle aged queer white guy in minneapolis. no presidents, no borders, no clout (ok maybe some clout?).
ward 9 baddie @naomi111.bsky.social mom, organizer, abolitionist, problem
EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social South Minneapolis resident, tax policy wonk, and winter enthusiast. Commissioner on the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation. Unofficial account.
https://linktr.ee/ehbforbet
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
Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social Writer, comedian, illustrator, blogger and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat. Writer of jokes in The Beaverton and Cracked. 🇨🇦
luna stargays 🏳️⚧️ @stargays.bsky.social 30, transsexual woman (she/her), minneapolis, disabled, occasionally nsfw
venmo @glsases
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. Also a boatload of occasionally award winning/losing short fiction. coined the term "omelas hole."
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Tom McH will be at Table A5 at SPX @tommchenry.bsky.social I draw comics you can read here: https://www.noncanon.com/
You can buy the physical issues here: https://yourmchenries.bigcartel.com/
I also made HORSE MASTER: THE GAME OF HORSE MASTERY and some other games back when: https://tommchenry.itch.io/
Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social Macro photographer, cat slave, dedicated to flood your feed with cool spiders, insects, snakes, or anything small that moves.
Stephen Colbert @stephencolbert.bsky.social Evie’s husband 
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social Award-winning author, analog game designer, filmmaker, graphic designer, and video game developer. Anarchist. Unapologetically radical.
Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social They/She 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Minnesotan 💙🩵
Shared 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Recipient with all my Twin Cities friends and neighbors
Coffee, Hugs, Equality.
All views are my own.
Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social Journalist and CEO of TransLash Media. Time100 Honoree. Holding up the light so we can face what’s ahead.
Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time (sparetherock.com). Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only.
St. Paul.
LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com The Greatest Trivia League in All the Land
Walker Orenstein @walkerorenstein.bsky.social Reporter for the Star Tribune covering energy. From St. Paul, but a Washington Husky. Email: walker.orenstein@startribune.com
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Ana Shioshita @shioshita-ceramics.bsky.social I try make things that interest me out of clay.
Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING
Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Cookie Monster @mecookiemonster.bsky.social Me unofficial. Me love cookies! Me officially love cookies!
Blumineck @blumineck.bsky.social David the Arrow Bard, aka Blumineck.
I do pole dance, archery, and nerdery.
Linktr.ee/blumineck
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Aaron J. Brown @minnesotabrown.bsky.social Minnesota author, MN Star Tribune columnist & historian from the Mesabi Iron Range. Read and subscribe for free at http://www.minnesotabrown.com
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jamey Perry @jameyjean.bsky.social Writer // Athlete // Actor
Ahmed Zidan @zidan.bsky.social Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism
Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine.
Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us.
@zidanism on that other site.
Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم @fadahjassem.bsky.social Head of Data Visualisation 📊@TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi
#Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists)
(Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me Journalist/technologist, @financialtimes.com Visual Investigations
📍London
✉️ peter.andringa@ft.com
🔏 Signal: @peterandringa.01
ft.com/news-tips
weezer @weezer.bsky.social The Blue Album 30th Anniversary Edition is out now! beacons.ai/weezer
Dropkick Murphys @dropkickmurphys.com EST. 1996 • Boston, Mass.
https://linktr.ee/dropkickmurphys
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Melanie Brethour @melaniebrethour.bsky.social Founder Decoding Dyslexia QUEBEC. SOAR WITH DYSLEXIA #CERI Structured Literacy Teacher. #OG Mother to a #dyslexic. Spreading awareness #SOR #Dyslexia Speaker 🔊
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Gina @perilinpink.bsky.social Whenwolf
Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Candidate for Governor.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Karen Vaites @karenvaites.bsky.social I want excellent schools for all kids, and I write about literacy, math, curriculum, & trends in K-12 Ed. Founder, Curriculum Insight Project. Words at karenvaites.org.
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+