Kate "Platypus Warlock" Deibel, PhD @metageeky.bsky.social Trans autistic disabled librarian now in Philly who dabbles in comics, accessibility, education, cooking, caffeine and talks too much about her cat. #a11y #comics #medlibs #libtech #code4lib
Ready to be the first against the wall... proudly.
Research Elements @reselements.bsky.social Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social Resilience, independent of industry. www.criticalinternet.org
Global Witness @globalwitness.org We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back.
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social RIF’d 18F ACQStacker
Aaron Walker @aaron-gamedev.bsky.social Person you might know, game dev, serial hobbyist, and tool fetishist.
Death Valley Girls @deathvalleygirls.bsky.social ☺︎☻☺︎ 𝖶𝖾 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖾𝗅 𝗆𝗎𝗌𝗂𝖼 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝖼𝗈𝗌𝗆𝗂𝖼 𝖻𝖾𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌 ☺︎☻☺︎
Margo Price @missmargoprice.bsky.social 
Liz Miele @lizmiele.bsky.social NYC comedian. Newest special “Space Camp” out now on http://YouTube.com/lizmiele • All tour info at lizmiele.com
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Ray Knickmeyer @rknickme.bsky.social Designer-Turned-Leadership-Consultant. Currently trying to start a business that aligns with my values. Lover of cats, bird watching and photography.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
@julieta-bis.bsky.social @julieta-bis.bsky.social 
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
@kristina.snailshellthicket.org @kristina.snailshellthicket.org Feral gay autistic library/archive/museum data dev she/her/m/it living with cats, guineafowl, Nigerian dwarf goats, cultivating native plants and learning wild basketry while still coviding and screaming into the void while listening to scifi audiobooks
Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social ✨ Lit Entertainment Group
✨ Watch "AMY'S DEADEND DREAMHOUSE" July 13 on Nebula
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
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.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
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
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
JOI Division @theecoreyg.bsky.social Musician and world’s ok-est corgi dad
Andy @mxamarie.bsky.social the curtains are never just blue
Daren Young @darenyoungsr.bsky.social Democratic Socialist by night, data monkey by day, former educator (rhetoric), amateur student of history and philosophy, endlessly curious and easily distracted. Also, proud Pan-romantic Asexual. 
Evil Mad Scientist @emsl.bsky.social Makers and makers of writing machines and retro-technological curiosities. Now part of Bantam Tools @bantamtools.bsky.social
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
qdot @buttplug.engineer Teledildonticist, Arctic Fox, Cube
🍑🔌 @buttplug.io
🌐 @good.as.hell.domains
💼 nonpolynomial.com
💵 patreon.com/qdot | ko-fi.com/qdot76367
🐘 buttplug.engineer/@qdot
👾 twitch.tv/qdotfm
💻 github.com/qdot
🎶 last.fm/user/qdot
he/him
art by @gavbat.bsky.social
Cornelia Lambert @drcclambert.bsky.social historian of sci / med in the ATL
acquisitions editor @NursingClio.bsky.social = please reach out to write for us!
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop. 
@wordnik.com @wordnik.com 
Dave Ng @davidng.bsky.social Explorer navigating through life's moments | Coffee lover ☕ | Avid reader 📚 | Lifelong learner 👨💻 | Sharing thoughts and experiences. Let's connect and chat!
Aspiration @aspirationtech.bsky.social We help NGOs, foundations, and activists apply strategic digital leadership in justice efforts. Our manifesto: https://aspirationtech.org/publications/manifesto
Chad Patten @jynnantonnyx42.bsky.social You can find my verified account @jynnantonnyx.com
Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https://cosocial.info […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://cosocial.ca/@timbray, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Dale Archer @dalearcher.bsky.social Helping Founders and Execs grow better, act faster, lead smarter 👉🏻
Follow + Book a consult + DM for more info #DoWhatWeValue
Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social artist and corvid enthusiast
https://www.jessicaferris.art/
Erin @erindneophyte.bsky.social Pages and pages
Peer 2 Peer University @p2pu.org Advocating for peer learning to help make education more equitable www.p2pu.org
Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden @okczoo.bsky.social Conservation organization, leaders in animal care and wellbeing. Connecting YOU to wildlife & wild places!
This American Life @thisamericanlife.org Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. A weekly public radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass.
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
webchick @webchick.bsky.social Nerd. Mom. Gamer. #AuDHD. Gendermeh. Chief Cat Herder @temporal.io. You may also know me from #MongoDB and #Drupal. Views my own.
Blag: https://webchick.tech/
Kam Stocks @kamstocks.bsky.social film producer, editor, creative director 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇱🇧✌🏽
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
Dan Cederholm @simplebits.com Danmade type & goods at SimpleBits® since 2002. Designer, author, speaker, and licensed boat captain. Previously co-founder of Dribbble.
https://simplebits.com
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Scott Berkun @berkun.bsky.social Author and speaker. Books include: How Design Makes The World, The Myths of Innovation, Making Things Happen & The Year Without Pants.
Seattle, WA
scottberkun.com/about/
Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk Content lead for Chrome Web Developer Relations. Opinions (and cats) my own.
Jeremy Keith @adactio.com Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.
I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
https://adactio.com
Neil Patrick Harris @nphstuff.bsky.social Actor, director, author, magician, juggler, husband, father, fixer, flirt, lover of circus, escape rooms, animatronics, mixology, and figuring out how things work. I seem to keep adding fun projects to my list, but rarely completing them.
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Kevin Arthur @kevinarthur.bsky.social Books, technology & society, UX, journalism, ethics, progress, privacy, cats, vegan food, synthesizers. UX researcher, CS PhD, ex-Google and others. Pic: Austin farm sanctuary. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Roy T. Fielding @royfielding.bsky.social Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, co-founder of The ASF, author of REST architectural style and IETF standards (HTTP, URI, and URI Templates). Also found @fielding@c.im
Amanda Palmer @amandapalmer.bsky.social On tour through 2026. Best-selling memoirist and artist. My band = The Dresden Dolls. My TED talk = “The Art of Asking”. Everything: amandapalmer.net
Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social Traveler, movie-lover, theater-goer, film festival enthusiast, foodie, amateur photographer.
Content Strategy Hall of Fame (Confab 2023)
She/Her
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
LibraryThing @librarything.com LibraryThing is the number one app and website for cataloging your books, getting book recommendations and socializing with fellow book lovers.
Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less. 
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Eric Meyer @meyerweb.com Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Scribble scribble scribble
Latest novel: Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social WebKit Engineering Manager at Apple. Ex-Google Chrome, ex-NPM. OOCSS, CSSLint. CSSConf founder, speaker. Climber 🧗, knitter, disabled zebra. Probably riding the hobby carousel 🎠. 🏳️🌈 she/her @stubbornella on Twitter
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person 👋 🏳️🌈 she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio 📓 @notetoself.studio
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org technical writer - #browser expert - aspiring #css nerd - #cssday and #perfnow conference organiser - #history geek - former Later Roman Empire specialist - native of #Amsterdam - https://quirksmode.org
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social Product design leader, ex-Shopify (taxes and payments and fraud, oh my!) Finally back in Scotland ❤️🏴 Cats. Books. Writing. Renewable energy tech. Skeptical optimist.
subgirl @inkygeek.com Not submissive. Submarines.
inkygeek.com (inkvent blog)
Also - fountain pens, art, ink, etc.
Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
Brad Frost @bradfrost.com I make things and help people. Web designer & developer, teacher, consultant, speaker, writer, musician, & artist. Host of Wake Up Excited! Author of Atomic Design. Enthusiasm enthusiast.
Adam Savage @asavage.bsky.social Maker. Science Communicator. Connector. 
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
John Resig @johnresig.com Creator of jQuery, Chief Software Architect at Khan Academy, Japanese print nerd. https://johnresig.com/ https://ukiyo-e.org/ (bot: @ukiyo-e.org)
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
apjanke @apjanke.bsky.social I FIGHT FOR THE USERS.
He/him.
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Tasneem Raja @tasneemraja.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of The Oaklandside, Chief of Strategy at Cityside, happy to be here.
Charlie Loyd 🌯🛰️ @vruba.bsky.social A pixel/geography/other person. Salish Sea → Oakland. Also @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. He/him.
Trends DataNews @datanews.knack.be https://datanews.knack.be
Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.
John Keefe @jkeefe.bsky.social ⛈🌀☀️ at NYT
Texas Tribune @texastribune.org Independent news. Trusted by Texans. We pursue the truth so Texans can shape our future. Sign up for our daily email: http://trib.it/signup
Low-Tech Magazine @lowtechmagazine.bsky.social 
Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social Award-winning Los Angeles-based writer of video games, science articles, weird pop songs and books (in no particular order).
See also @blippo.plus & @teamyacht.com!
Website: https://clairelevans.com
Newsletter: https://clairelevans.substack.com/