Hello MCDM @hellomcdm.bsky.social Our goal is to turn you from someone who wants to play TRPGs into someone who wants to run them.
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Kenney @kenney.nl โจ Creating public domain game assets for over 10 years!
www.kenney.nl
Kari Byron @karibyron.bsky.social Mythbuster, CrashTest Girl, National STEM Festival, EXPLR
JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER. 30 y/o music composer, performer, educator, and CEO of SKA ๐// They/Them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Debut Record โBothered / Unbothered - JERโ out now via Bad Time Records
Lordyan(Commissions Open) @lordyanyu.bsky.social I draw robot!
comm/adopt info: https://discord.gg/fvaVec8Vff
Laser 'Lizard' Lluis @lluisabadias.bsky.social
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
The Onion @theonion.com Americaโs Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Alberta Tech @albertatech.bsky.social ๐ฉโ๐ป Software eng
๐คช Creator of cringe tech videos
๐ฅบ The funniest girl in us-east-1
beacons.ai/albertatech
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Ryan Satterfeal @ryansatterfeal.bsky.social SAG-AFTRA
Chicago based Actor and Writer. Credits include Chicago Med, award-winning films such as Life Unexpected, Clown Shoes, and Poser.
Managed by Nesian Management, LA.
www.linktr.ee/ryansatterfeal
Kyle Hill @khill.bsky.social Dr.* Award-winning science educator. Nuclear comms expert. BASILISK Head of education and outreach.
CFF Dogs of Chernobyl charity ambassador.
โA legend.โ - Post Malone.
youtube.com/@kylehill
Cassidy @cassidoo.co Making memes, dreams, & software!
Sr. Director of Dev Advocacy at GitHub. Married to a dweeb and mom to a nerdy toddler + baby combo. She/Her โ๏ธ CHI ๐
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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social Writer, Game Designer. contact: hello@mcdmproductions.com
Steam @steampowered.com Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform.
For support: http://help.steampowered.com/en/
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
Gregor Samosa @watwa.re putting the yikes in Dijkstra
building floma.io & mietencheck.de
Before: MDN & commonvoice.mozilla.org
Blog: https://watwa.re
I'm on Germ DM ๐
https://ger.mx/A7-MU0u2kNOoKLoRUO1PH_m7V0EVTamQmquKWtsrlh7W#did:plc:c764uyv2vgzswy5gpc4jgknf
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
๐ฏ๐ต๐บ๐ธ
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
๐@jack@jackrusher.com
๐ฆ@jackrusher
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
๐ London
๐ฑ maggieappleton.com
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingers and
turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion ฮ masto
@inkandswitch.com ฮ research
feelingof.com ฮ podcast
ivy.boo ฮ myself
she / hrt ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name Programmer building programs that are useful, easy to install, easy to run, easy to modify, easy to share. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social Dissident computer scientist
Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org ๐ง๐ฝโ๐ป Co-founder of Gloodata & Instadeq
๐ Co-author of https://wasmfromthegroundup.com/
๐ฐ Feeling of Computing Newsletter: https://newsletter.futureofcoding.org/join/
๐ Public Projects: https://marianoguerra.github.io/
๐๐๐ @mrogalski.eu Working towards a user-friendly computer interface. https://automat.org/
I'm streaming my work so feel free to come and hang out at https://twitch.tv/maf_pl or https://www.youtube.com/@MarekRogalski!
Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com Programmer & researcher, co-creator of https://ohmjs.org. ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ช๐บ
Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com โ learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.
Prev: CDG/HARC, Google, BumpTop
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator. Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD Computational Media).
University of San Francisco lecturer (incoming).
Projects: jazztap.github.io
Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social https://mkremins.github.io
Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social Compiler engineer and co-host of the feeling of computing podcast
https://jimmyhmiller.com
https://feelingof.com/episodes/
andrew blinn @disconcision.com https://andrewblinn.com
abstractJuiceFactory
Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com CEO feenk.com
We modernize legacy systems.
Through Moldable Development.
Stefan Lesser @stefanlesser.bsky.social stefanlesser.substack.com
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics
He/Him
Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social https://forresto.com/ (projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com
J. Ryan Stinnett @jryans.bsky.social Exploring how to make programs more malleable and computing more humane | My communities: Malleable Systems, Matrix, Mozilla | He/him
Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social In(ter)dependant researcher and toolmaker. Currently inventing programmable ink @inkandswitch.com
Living in Paris
http://wolkenmachine.nl
Philippa Markovics @unkai.bsky.social work: clerk.vision
site: trimmings.wtf
trace: the final frontier
tent: poled
Szymon Kaliski @szymonkaliski.com independent consultant, designing and developing computational interfaces; currently prototyping at Google Research and Google Creative Lab
https://szymonkaliski.com
Martin Kavalar @mkvlr.bsky.social Making science reproducible
@usenextjournal, starting over with https://clerk.vision. Dealing cards
@sauspiel + @boldpoker. he/him
Mary Rose Cook @maryrosecook.bsky.social Staff-level engineer at Notion. Previously at the Recurse Center, Airtable and Ableton.
Paul Biggar ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ช @paulbiggar.com Founder Tech For Palestine, Darklang, and CircleCI. Currently running Tech for Palestine https://techforpalestine.org
๐ฎ @chrisshank.com seeding discontent in present-day computing and radical patience in how we reimagining it
libcomp.org โข @folkjs.org
foraging the web: https://semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com
Internet Hedgehog ๐ฆโฉ @ezhik.jp A hedgehog in Tokyo.
๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆโฉ
End-user programming believer. โฉ
ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK
https://ezhik.jp
https://mastodon.social/@Ezhik
iamwil @interjectedfuture.com Tech Zine Issue 1: LLM System Eval https://forestfriends.tech
Local-first/Reactive Programming โ LLM system evals โ Startup lessons โ Game design quips.
Longform: https://interjectedfuture.com
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@techniumpod
Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net Researcher at CNRS (France). Computational science, in particular computational biophysics. Metascience, in particular the evolution of science in the digital era.
More active in the Fediverse: https://scholar.social/@khinsen
Maikel van de Lisdonk @devhelpr.bsky.social Freelance software developer and in spare time working on https://codeflowcanvas.io
Nilesh Trivedi @nilesh.trivedi.link Building AIs at snowmountain.ai
I love machines, mathematics and music.
Earlier: Meta, Foresight Institute, Clear, Gupshup, IIML, IITKGP
โค๏ธ http://isfixable.com
https://nilesh.trivedi.link/
https://x.com/nileshtrivedi
https://fosstodon.org/@nilesh
schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social The revolution will not be computed. Lead curator, Gallery 404. Researcher, Beyond the Frame. Born: 335แตแตแต CO2. Find out more: `finger schmudde@tilde.club`.
Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me ๐ป Pursuing the Future of Computing
๐ฌ PhD Student @ University of Michigan (Future of Programming Lab)
๐ช Building Hazel: Live Functional Programming & Malleable Systems
๐พ Dog Parent
๐ ๏ธ Ex-Software Engineer
๐ Computing Maximalist
Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com Anglican Christian. Software engineer, composer, theologian, writer, runner, photographer. Platform engineering at Vanta. Co-author of the Rust book. Previously front-end platform at LinkedIn; Ember TS & Framework teams alum.
โ chriskrycho.com
mayven @maya.computer ๐ฌ๐ง๐ต๐ญ ~ dx engineer, community @vercel.com
crafting in svelte โ๏ธ mayven.computer
โธ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฅ๐
taylor.town @taylor.town ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ taylor.town ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social Computers and decentralization.
Cole Lawrence @colelawrence.com End user programming & AI tool designer.
๐ ๏ธ CTO at https://phosphor.co & @forethink.ai
๐ฆ Rust NYC / https://RustEastCoast.com organizer ๐๐ปโโ๏ธhe/him
Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social I wish I could but I would prefer not to.
(Morally) good negotiator.
Probably thinking about RPGs.
Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social UXer + Educator + Author + Photographer. Australian + American.
UX: thisistechnique.com. Teach: SVA. Author: Design for Privacy (Rosenfeld Media). Interests: UX, digital/human rights, immigration, journalism, misinformation, privacy by design. Brooklyn.
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social Welp, this again. Ex-Google product leader in privacy, product strategy, & UX design.
Early Internet human who keeps on internet-ing about burnout, propaganda, politics, and sci-fi jokes.
See also:
Covert stuttering, exertion interfaces, & Land Rovers
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
FPF.org
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play ๐ท in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employersโ
I did a TED talk once
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
National Security Counselors ๐ต @nationalsecuritylaw.org Public interest 501(c)(3) law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. Website https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome; details on website front page. Media email Media@ NationalSecurityLaw.org, others email Kel there
Tech Transparency Project @ttp-updates.bsky.social The Tech Transparency Project is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability that investigates the power, influence, & impact of Big Tech. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org
Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social We fight for human rights in the digital age.
www.digitalrightswatch.org.au
Jaap-Henk Hoepman ๐ฅ โฌ๏ธ ๐ฉ โฌ๏ธ @xotoxot.eurosky.social Visiting Professor Karlstad University. Associate professor Radboud University Nijmegen. Privacy Engineering Boffin.
Author of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design", MIT Press, 2021.
Posts in English and Dutch
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
columbia privacy lab @columbiaprivacylab.bsky.social Columbia Privacy Lab (โc/privacy labโ or โcplโ) helps communities collectively advocate for privacy.
Block Party @blockpartyapp.com Deep clean your social media, notifications, settings and more in just one click. The Washington Postโs tech columnist calls Block Party โone of the most useful tech tools Iโve come across in yearsโ.
www.blockpartyapp.com
Amelia Vance @ameliaivance.bsky.social Child & student privacy geek, founder of @pipcprivacy.bsky.social, teach privacy and data protection at William & Mary Law School. Mostly sharing news on privacy, tech, civil rights, & things that make me smile.
Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Free Link! #PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Philosopher of technology. Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Nick Proferes @profprof.bsky.social Studies tech, discourse, and how sometimes things mean other things. Opinions are my own. Grading while listening to death metal enthusiast.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social Philosopher (Yale/Bologna), digital ethics, AI ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology,
http://tinyurl.com/ywku22yr
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Pam Mack @pammack.bsky.social Just moved from St. Louis to Portland ME! Widow, weaver, United Church of Christ, COVID cautious, fountain pens. Was a history professor: science, technology and society; digital history; gender. She/hers at present--historically a butch straight cis woman
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social โ๐ฝ โข RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code โข VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want โข IMAGINATION: A Manifesto ๐www.ruhabenjamin.com
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter ใฐ๏ธ writer ใฐ๏ธ sculptor ใฐ @coyotemedia.org calendar guy ใฐ๏ธ they/them ใฐ https://reveleth.com/
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social Professor, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, 4e Cognition and Artificial Intelligence; Science Fiction Fan, Cyborgologist, Retired Knitter, Comic Book Reader, 4ad records fanatic. Wanna see me nerd out about music stuff? @musicephemera.bsky.social
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
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
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus