Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social staff writer at @newyorker.com // editor-at-large @thedialmag.bsky.social, @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social // jes’ grew carrier
https://www.julianlucas.com
Hillary Busis @busis.bsky.social I work at Vanity Fair!
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man- P Paul Monticone @pmonticone.bsky.social
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Christian Jessup @christianjessup.bsky.social Award-Winning Film Composer | Former Hans Zimmer Intern | Governing Board for the North Carolina Film Critics Association
🎵 www.christianjessup.com
🎥 www.cloudypicture.com
Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social I teach and I write about movies and other things. Host of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever and The Complete Catalog podcasts.
Writing: https://medium.com/@trettleman
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3gXF3
Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social Ambivalent YouTuber and PhD Candidate in Communications/Media Anthropology at UIUC. Cohost of Once More With Feeling, a podcast about movies and their remakes.
Lokke Heiss @lokkeheiss.bsky.social Writer, physician, film historian, Dracula Scholar. I love silent films, pre-Codes & Film Noir. Other areas of interest include Victorian Lit, in particular the writings of Emily Gerard, author of Land Beyond the Forest.
My website is lokkeheiss.com
NC State University Libraries @ncsulibraries.bsky.social Think. Do. Ask. Make.
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🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social Dad, husband, maker of food, rider of bike, Brooklynite, movie watcher, reader, music listener, person who looks at his iPhone too much, literary agent at UTA
Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social Truth Teller
North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social We are an association of all AAUP members in North Carolina #highered. Join us as we advocate for all faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! https://www.aaupnc.org/
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social writer and culture editor at @indyweek.bsky.social | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | sedwards@indyweek.com | eddysarah.substack.com
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Joan Ellison @joanellison.bsky.social Singer of the Great American Songbook & loving restorer of Judy Garland's orchestral arrangements, living in Shaker Heights, Ohio 🌈
#KeeperOfTheFlame #RetroMusic #Symphony #OldHollywood #CleanAir
http://instagram.com/joanellison39/
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Hey Japan! @hey-japan.com Explore the best of Japan with us! Follow for event updates, travel guides, and insider tips. Hokkaido to Okinawa, we've got it all. https://hey-japan.com
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
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Mostly drawings ✍️
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Carlos Lorenzo @carlos-lorenzo-bcn.bsky.social 📍 Sharing my city @ https://www.barcelonaphotoblog.com 📸
Luxury hospitality pro & tech enthusiast. AI and Streetphoto blogger. Former clinical data manager. English philologist.
Ex-X. I believe in democracy, hate haters 😜, dictators and billionaires.
Martin Fackler @martinfackler.bsky.social Reporter & Editor @ New York Times
Author of forthcoming book on the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social Podcasting the more obscure nooks & crannies of Japanese culture - Uncanny Japan. She/her. Crows. Fountain pens. Nature. Horror w/ a wry sense of humor. 🚫Fascism✊
✨New Book✨ - Legends of Japanese Mythology (mid-grade)
--> https://geni.us/JapaneseMythology
Deryk Cameron Bliss @dcbliss.bsky.social Vernacular Built Heritage Conservation. Architecture enthusiast. Minka Society Board of Directors. Long-term (somewhat reluctant) Tokyo resident.
https://www.minkasociety.com/ 
Sharla @heyitssharla.bsky.social 📍living in tokyo
japan travel ideas + daily life 🇯🇵✨
🚃 my japan vlogs: youtube.com/sharlainjapan
💌 my stationery shop: nekonekopost.com/shop
🏡 my tokyo airbnb: https://www.nekonekostays.com/en/neko-neko-home
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙻 𝙰𝙳𝙰𝙼𝚂 ~ @va-liminal.bsky.social #LIMINAL -|~|+ INTIMATIONS
•stream of consciousness•
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my personal account👇 (🚫AI)
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other topics I explore👇
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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com Graz 🇦🇹 -> RT/TÜ 🇩🇪 -> 東京都・板橋区 🇯🇵
📍Photographer (Film & Digital)
📍Data Architect
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📍Classic Movie Buff
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📍Kickboxing Novice
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My 🌀Leaflet Photography Website:
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Bill Adler @billadler.bsky.social I'm an American writer living in Japan. I publish short stories on Substack at billadler.substack.com. I'm a pilot, ramen lover, watch collector, coffee drinker, voracious reader, bicycler, and cat person.
Where In Tokyo @where-in-tokyo.bsky.social Fun things to do in the big city, with an emphasis on contemporary arts, quirky museums, architecture, pop culture, graphic design and stuff for kids. WhereInTokyo.com.
Bento Japan restaurant guide @bento-japan.bsky.social Restaurant guide Bento.com and craft beer bar guide BeerBarsJapan.com. Places to eat and drink in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto and the rest of Japan.
Robb Satterwhite @robb-in-tokyo.bsky.social Editor of BentoJP.com restaurant guide and WhereInTokyo.com. Fan of spice curry, craft beers and quirky museums. Author of What's What in Japanese Restaurants (Kodansha). Software developer. Born in Morningside Heights, NYC; now in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo.
Mark S. Cogan @markscogan.bsky.social - Associate Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies at Kansai Gaidai University
- Senior Associated Research Fellow at @isdp-sweden.bsky.social
- Former #UN in SE Asia, Africa, Middle East
- #Lakers 🏀, #Yankees ⚾️, #ManchesterCity ⚽️
www.markscogan.com
Japonica @japonicapub.bsky.social Daily articles about #Japan: Our diverse writers share their insights on Japanese business, history, travel, and beyond. Follow us on Medium! #JapaneseCulture #JLPT #日本語
Yuko Tamura @yutranslates.bsky.social Cultural journalist. Bylines: The Japan Times, Lonely Planet, CNBC and more. EiC of JaponicaPub. Views my own, not here for arguments. Please be kind or scroll on.
https://t.co/vAYSXQfxal
The Japanese Paper Film Project @kamifirumu.bsky.social The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves 1930s Japanese paper films (紙フィルム or "kami firumu") and promotes research into these rare movies.
kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu
David McNeill @davidamcneill.bsky.social Professor of Communications at Sacred Heart Uni, Tokyo. Ex-correspondent with The Economist, Independent, Chronicle of Higher Ed., Irish Times etc. I post mainly about the media and politics. Hoping to escape Twitter/X.
Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography Full-time pro photographer, creator & educator in Tokyo/Fukushima. Do walks & tours here, too. TV presenter for NHKWorld. Music lover. Antifa. Hasselblad Ambassador, 2015.
No Meta, Twitter or Amazon.
Free Palestine.
https://linktr.ee/alfiejapanorama
Matt Johnson @fotomat.bsky.social American photographer in Japan. Hoping to bring a little light to the darkness.
All photos are my own.
Hokkaido Market @hokkaidomarket.bsky.social Used English Bookshop in Hokkaido Japan. https://hokkaidomarket.net
Mark Thompson @markthompson.japantimes.co.jp Managing editor @ The Japan Times https://japantimes.co.jp
Usual disclaimers
Long-term Tokyoite
Japan On Film (A Film Stories Podcast) @japanonfilm.com Hosted by @percivalconstantine.com, Japan On Film is a podcast devoted to Japanese cinema! Member of @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social. Promo DMs = block/report. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and guest info at: japanonfilm.com
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist.
Writer for hire.
Japanese to English translation & subtitling
I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website:
https://windowsonworlds.com/
한국어도 공부하고 있어요!
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
毎日きもの @mainichikimono.bsky.social 👘 Certified kimono teacher/stylist | 着付け師範 • mixed Japanese American | 日米ミックス • based in Kansai area, Japan • 日本語 / 中文 OK • PROFESSIONAL INQUIRIES: mainichikimonos @ gmail • personal account: @christinedaae
Patrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social Book author, magazine editor, art director. Ex-Netflix & Crunchyroll. Repped by Hill Nadell Literary Agency. Lives in Tokyo. 作家・編集者・アートディレクター。 東京に住んでいます。
Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social Journalist, Unseen Japan. Get my comprehensive guide to Tokyo nightlife - out now!
https://unseen-japan.com/jay/
Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
Nathaniel M. Smith @nathanielmsmith.bsky.social Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
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
AizuYabanjin @aizuyabanjin.bsky.social pottering about, growing stuff, cooking stuff, taking photos of stuff, underachieving, trying not to be a grumpy old man
Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese
Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social Investigative journalist in Japan, paladin, priest, 禅僧, drinker of coffee and donut consumer. One good deed a day is my low-bar motto. 一日一善 Follow me on substack https://tokyopaladin.substack.com
Krewe of Japan Podcast @kreweofjapan.bsky.social 🎌 Audio journeys through Japanese culture ⛩ Pop-Culture | Travel | History | Food | Language | Guest Interviews🎙Sponsored by Japan Society of New Orleans 👇SUBSCRIBE + MORE👇
https://linktr.ee/kojpodcast
Rob Dyer | The Real Japan @therealjapan.bsky.social Need help planning deeper travel, richer experiences in The Real Japan? Get my free Japan Travel Bulletin: http://TheRealJapan.com/subscribe.
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
JJWalsh @jjwalsh.bsky.social 30+ yrs in Hiroshima, Japan: sustainable tourism focus: tours, consulting & seminars | Feature 'good people doing great things in Japan' on the LIVE Seek-Sustainable-Japan talkshow & podcast https://youtube.com/@seeksustainablejapan
Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド @gearoidreidy.bsky.social Bloomberg Opinion columnist on Japan/the Koreas. “Final Boss of the Japan finance bro dungeon.” ｊａｐａｎｉｆｉｃａｔｉｏｎ. Retweets ≠ endorsements, opinions are mine.
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com Editor in Tokyo posting Japan-related stuff, articles, essays, photos, and fiction.
記事やフィクション、気になる映画の解説など投稿しています。
Web: https://www.danielwarriner.com/
Jennifer Vandever @jennifervandever.bsky.social Novelist (The Bronte Project, American Tango), Screenwriter, Educator
Script on BEST OF IWC 2024
Repped by Hill/Nadel
jennifervandever.com
Views my own
michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social media arts curator, block museum of art, northwestern university.
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College
Scholar of feminist/queer screen media
Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum
IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner
Boston-based itinerant cinephile
mariasanfilippo.net
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov U.S. Senator for California. Devoted husband and proud dad. Dodgers diehard. EngiNERD. 
Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him
Raleigh, NC, USA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76790273@N07/
Holley Snaith @holleysnaith.bsky.social 📜 Host of Say It With History Podcast | Historian & Storyteller | Specializing in 20th Century History
🏛️ Formerly with the FDR Library, Eleanor Roosevelt Center, & Nixon Foundation
🖋️ Exploring stories that shaped the modern era
🌐 www.holleysnaith.com
Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social Mostly posts about film and television, architecture and design, music and photography. Professor. Dept. of English, U of Winnipeg. he/him.
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social I make films: Decasia, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Incident
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
North Carolina Film Critics Association @ncfilmcritics.bsky.social The North Carolina Film Critics Association is a group of film journalists who engage in cinematic evaluation and critical analysis.
NCFilmcritics.org
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Representative Deborah Ross @ross.house.gov Proudly serving #NC02. Former civil rights attorney and NC legislator.
Committees: Judiciary and Science, Space, and Technology
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social A place for people who love silent film.
https://silentlondon.co.uk/
Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social Writer and film historian focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.
linktr.ee/vitaphonezone
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Karie Bible @cemeterytourguide.bsky.social Tour guide at Hollywood Forever Cemetery ⚰️, Host of Hollywood Kitchen, Film history 🎞, TCM fan 📽, Vintage clothing collector
Justin Tackett @justin-tackett.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University
justintackett.org
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov Senior U.S. Senator from MN | Snow enthusiast ❄️
Laurie Spivak @lauriespivak.bsky.social 3 a.m. Idea Generator 💡
Democracy Super Fan 💪
Good Trouble 💙
John Dancy-Jones @raleighrambles.bsky.social Small press publisher, papermaker, & author of The Natural History of Raleigh. https://bit.ly/40WYtyQ
The Babylon Kino @babylonkino.bsky.social Columbia, South Carolina's place for underground movies. Available to rent @ www.babylonkino.com
Get our weekly updates @ http://eepurl.com/i7D7aM
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social ✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
Jeremy Arnold @jtarnold.bsky.social Film writer and commentator. Author of TCM’s The Essentials Vols 1 & 2 — and CHRISTMAS IN THE MOVIES, now in a deluxe expanded edition.
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov Proudly working to protect and defend the safety, privacy, consumer rights, civil rights and civil liberties of all Americans. Ranking Member Jamie Raskin ⚖
Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Colln, UGA Libraries @brownmediaarchives.bsky.social Since 1995, the only archives in Georgia devoted solely to the preservation of audiovisual media. Concentrates on Georgia materials, but includes the SE U.S. & Peabody entries from all over. From 28mm to 9.5mm to 16mm, 8mm, Super8, & many other formats!
Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social Assistant professor of moving image archiving at University of Colorado Boulder working on non-institutional approaches to media preservation.