Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social Trained journalist, Editor, documentary maker and sports commentator.
Ukraine expert. Numbers nerd.
Almost famous on Xitter!
Coffee donations accepted!
https://ko-fi.com/twmcltd
Andre Torrez @andre.torrez.org I was a software developer for a long time and then all of a sudden I wasn’t.
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social Antieukalyptustische Aktion
I want to ride a horse to the middle of the desert and take peyote and scream at god.
valorously setting a dumpster fire.
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota.
🔗 Our website: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/
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🎧 Latest podcast episode: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/osterholm-update
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky, partner @trueventures.com, more at toni.org
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social Smallholder in the North, Rebel Among Hipsters, former Goth Babe of the Week. Somewhat original.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Fairlyclueless @fairlyclueless.bsky.social I work in fraud prevention and fraud prevention accessories. I am here trying to clear my name with Arlen Video.
Trees To Know @treestoknow.bsky.social Small illustrations from the older edition of “Trees to Know in Oregon” — not too frequent, hopefully not too infrequent.
Not a bot, lovingly hand-run by https://bsky.app/profile/jonahedwards.com
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social not exactly the voice of reason. scaffolding @eff. filosofía zen-troamericana. escribiendo en cartasalabismo.com
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social Cargo bike doctrinaire
Zach Lowe @zachlowenba.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvIa7IOHJ9/
Ceez @ceez.bsky.social Environmental scientist specializing in stream and wetland restoration. Everton fan who loves spoiling her cat, having a good cocktail, and travel.
13sparrows @13sparrows.bsky.social from Chicago.
http://13sparrows.com/link-in-bio
caylen @caylen.bsky.social official Bluesky account of Cowboy.
director of marketing for @gardens.dev 🌳
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social Responsible for covid data + analytics that touched 200+ million American lives. Husband. Dad. Doctor. Longtime techie. Lifelong learner. Twitter + Threads expat (@DataDrivenMD)
lea @leeps.bsky.social reposting art, research
https://www.leandra.dev/
D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social Member-funded cycling media, brought to you by you.
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
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 for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social anti-hype. i paint and do computer vision research for satellite image datasets
https://zhanpeifang.com/
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Gray Area @grayarea.org Gray Area is a nonprofit applying creativity for positive social impact.
🔗 grayarea.org
Sarah Badr @sarahbadr.bsky.social technical artist, composer; ixdm hgk @fhnw.ch
rīga · basel · القاهرة · london 🪼 sarahbadr.com- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
neither wise nor unwise but a secret 3rd thing (otherwise) @lunarbaedeker.bsky.social rachel 鄭希汶 • duke lit phd student • interested in attention (studies) but not in that way • she/her
Doug Eacho @dougeacho.bsky.social asst prof of theatre and performance studies at the national university of singapore. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦.
writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along.
Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social
thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social thomson & craighead: www.thomson-craighead.net / Making art in someone else's world. also @jonandali on IG and @jonandali@mastodon.scot
Mitch Therieau @mitchtherieau.bsky.social East
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
Yvette Granata @yvettegranata.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Uni of Michigan. Media Art. VR Art. Cyberfeminist Machines. New Animation. Witch Anarchy. I never update my website.. www.yvettegranata.com
Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
Paul Kim @mediapk.bsky.social phd candidate @ ucsb film+media studies | working on race, recommendation + the subject
Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social Media theory, art history professor
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
Grace Han @ghahahan.bsky.social Stanford PhD candy thinking abt CG & AI through animation aesthetics; film critic on asian/diaspora cinema; GALECA secretary; 🍅 & 🍉
https://art.stanford.edu/people/grace-han
📍SF Bay Area
Rachel Plotnick @rachelplotnick.bsky.social Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
Mez Breeze @mezbreeze.bsky.social An OG digital artist/writer: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
James 서 @lossless.bsky.social Leo’s 아빠. Making things with computation. Interested in augmented reality. Posting about projects, movies, music. He/him.
XR works: https://lossless.mmm.page
Mastodon: @lossless@mastodon.social
Jessica Wranosky @jessicawranosky.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of DH & History-
All sorts of history.
Auntie Maime, “Life is a banquet. Most poor suckers are starving to death.Live!Live!Live!”
Posts are my own 1st Amendment.
www.jessicabrannonwranosky.com
Patrick Fiorilli @patfio.bsky.social writer, critic, & theorist; games & literature; bylines in the LA Review of Books, Gamers with Glasses, Bright Wall/Dark Room; he/him; read my newsletter, "Critical Theorycraft," at www.patf.io
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social fix your hearts or die 💕
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Casey Boyle @caseyboyle.fail assoc prof of rhetoric
caseyboyle.fail
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. Chaotic Good.
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
Rosa Menkman @menkman.bsky.social Resolution theorist, licensed by the i.R.D.
Professional Cycl👁ps researcher & 🌈 Rainbow hunter
Thinking through resolutions, im/possible images, glitch… (she)
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Julian Netzer @netzerjulian.bsky.social Media artist working on machine learning and pattern recognition
teaching at berlin kunsthochschule weißensee
https://juliannetzer.de/
Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social Artist/Roboticist/Animal. I build robots for animals and the landscapes and systems they live within. I also lead the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. www.ianingram.org
Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)
Jonny Scholes @jonnyscholes.com Making artwork about politics, abstraction, activism and futurism with equal parts code, paint, electronics and found objects.
📍 Nipaluna, Lutruwita, 'Australia'
jonnyscholes.com
Tintin Cooper @tintincooper.bsky.social Artist working in ceramics, media, painting. Dissecting Memes+sport images. Currently making a shrine to football.
Recent: Walker Art Center, Carnegie Art Museum, West Space Melbourne/Creative Australia Recipient
Paul Sutherland @pualsuth.bsky.social PhD candidate at Curtin University // visual culture, online extremism and post-truth
Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com Exhibiting digital interactive artist for hire (scrollytelling + more)
New digital stories - old tech.
Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie.
Into> misusing tools, narratives, what is human, digital witchcraft
http://www.carolinebeavon.com
Mark Klink @markaklink.bsky.social digital artist, 3d glitch, experimental cinema
Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto