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Jake @gogobonobo.net Poking around to see how this thing works. Computer engineer in PDX. Dad, dog-haver.
Former Twitter: @montag2k
I am also on Mastodon at @gogobobobo@hachyderm.io
Metafilter is the other place I hang out: https://www.metafilter.com/user/144720
JDP @not-on-display.bsky.social • making a racket since 1969™
• friendly to humans!
• do you smell something?
• I smell something.
• hold on ok?
https://mltshp.com/user/not_on_display
https://www.metafilter.com/user/61170
Watership Dame @watershipdame.bsky.social More of a follower than a poster.
Julie Bestry, CPO® @proforganizer.bsky.social https://juliebestry.com
I help overwhelmed individuals save time & money, reduce stress, and increase productivity through organizing skills/systems. I used to work in TV but they still let me watch. I believe in equity, empathy, & the power of cheese.
Prepaid Africa @prepaid-africa.bsky.social A 60 year old student in Helsinki.
rod staff wand @rodlymight.bsky.social This rod has a flanged head. The rod has properties controlled by six buttons set in a row on the shaft. It also has three other properties.
SPeacock_GC @peacockgc.bsky.social willing to share 30+ yrs of opinions on prenatal genetics and lab logistics. Also will share anything else that catches my eye.
Anna @actionpopulated.bsky.social Shouting into the void, dick jokes, cats, harm reduction, and fiber crafts in varying proportions.
@maurreen.bsky.social @maurreen.bsky.social - T taz @taztaz.bsky.social
interrobang @jralston.bsky.social Banjo champion, color crosshatcher, #mefi. Any art posted is by me unless otherwise noted, unless it's obviously from a comic book or something
Christian Ray @jcjray.bsky.social Conceptual biology. Multiomics, information, and manifold learning. Ex-academic. Also here for LOLs, pols, and geometric varietals. DAW jockey and 1.5/10 guitarist. I like trains. I obviously do not speak for or on behalf of my employer.
Carolyn Cee @supermedusa.bsky.social Angry artist, aspiring writer, passionate cat mother, snake goddess, lover of waffles.
Marjorie Chan @magicalmudge.bsky.social Theatre & Opera creator | Stroke Survivor | ADHD undiagnosed but pretty sure | Bi | Morkie mom | she/her | 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Sue Gyford @suegyford.bsky.social Escaped hack. Now of Edinburgh, previously of Essex, Estonia & Falkland Islands.
Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social Mostly trivia. As it turns out, also mostly PWHL.
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamu’kwati’jk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Ben @harrbeng.bsky.social Cats, running and orienteering, strings
Joakim Ziegler @joakimz.bsky.social Norwegian living in Mexico City. Post supervisor/DI producer, mostly on feature films. IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0956113/ General film nerd. Radicalized. Tired of being tired. 💊🏳️🌈🍉🌻
Amy T. @empressamian.bsky.social SED on MeFi
Frannyo @frannyo.bsky.social ....and so it goes 
@snsranch.bsky.social @snsranch.bsky.social 
The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social She/Her. Law book editor, mom of 2 college students and 1 dog. Reader of history of medicine & forensic sciences, writer of nothing. Trans rights are human rights. #Humanist #GuilCo #Mefite- L Russ Thomas @liberalcrank.bsky.social Curious, tall, old, friend, 35 years sober, bleeding heart liberal, feminist, builder, grower, tinkerer, skeptic, feckless, homebody, curmudgeon, forgetful, reader, solitary. Ice cream lover.
The Great Big Mulp @thegreatbigmulp.bsky.social musician, mefite, anxietist (anxieneer?), star trek, video games, they/them
a few videos: https://youtube.com/@observationteam
a bandcamp, in progress: https://observationteam.bandcamp.com
Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social Writer, editor, crafter, internet addict. Sometimes I blog. She/her/the knitting lady. 
Dinesh Rao @dinrao.bsky.social Spider behaviour; predator prey interactions, colouration, webs. Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.
Raospiderlab.org
#mefite
Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social Lover of gorgonzola. Playwright. Producer. Photographer. Defrocked programmer. Occasional adjunct. Cat person.
https://rosspnelson.wixsite.com/playwright
Marshall Bluethers @emelenjr.bsky.social RVA musician and blatherer
Leslie @leslie-eco-artist.bsky.social artist, left, all things eco/climate/water, cats, baking, reading - esp SF, native plant gardener, mefite, she/her, parent. Trans rights are human rights.
Jenn Gruden @zenwarriorqueen.bsky.social Insatiably curious. Passionate storyteller. Martial artist. All opinions solely my own.
Matt @noteseer.bsky.social 
Charles Gimon @gimonca.bsky.social 
Cynthia Barnes @cynthiabarnes.bsky.social Journalist for hire. Will travel for tacos. Repatriated ex-pat. Now: Denver. Past lives: Chicago, Memphis, #Mizzou, NOLA, NYC, Bangkok, Baghdad #binder
Monkeytime @tmorman.bsky.social queer, easily distracted
Baltimore, MD, earth
the anti-trans folks are coming for you next
Emma the Librarian @negemma.bsky.social Book and art lover, museum haunter, coffee drinker and sea glass collector. Massachusetts resident who spends a lot of time exploring New England. Cat person and cardigan wearer; pretty much every librarian stereotype in a single person. 
Devin Singer @devinsinger.bsky.social Community and Social Media Management, SF writing, extremely queer. she/her, more or less
Corie Weaver @mythandmew.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and slave to the cats. Interested in comparative mythology and historical heists, and a disturbing number of random rabbit holes. Currently in Timisoara, Romania, previously Tbilisi, Georgia and Northern New Mexico.
Stańczyk, in the wilderness, making sandwiches @foolishstanczyk.bsky.social I taught myself to make baguettes and I typically turn them into sandwiches. I'll take what's for dinner, or takeout, and adapt it into a sandwich. Sometimes I try to turn a classic dish into a sandwich. Here are some of them.
Jenn @bigredkittypurr.bsky.social A spouse, a kid, and an allergy away from being your neighborhood crazy cat lady. she / her.
@nickyskye.bsky.social @nickyskye.bsky.social former art dealer, watch/jewelry biz
now elder/hospice caregiver interested in neuroscience and psychology, social science, ufos,
loves movies, buddhist 
Szandor Mittenston @mittenston.bsky.social yr forgotten pal
Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social New Yorker in Paris. I run, I dad, I won reasonably big on Jeopardy & Millionaire (and Cash Cab) in a previous life. Serious @joannascutts.bsky.social stan. He/him.
Pengween @pengween.bsky.social I make art
https://vgen.co/pengween
Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400
Ellie @ellieboa.bsky.social Queer chronic illness life 🏳️🌈 🌈 English girl in Paris 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🖤 *back in England for a while*
https://www.instagram.com/ellieboa_/
mush @goblinbox.com ex-sysadmin, former R&B vocalist, currently an ACS CCP® cheesemonger working in an artisan creamery and living in the high desert of rural oregon without a yeti
goblinbox.com
𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 @davebelling.bsky.social Music, typography, comics, design, art, vintage things. Opinions/rants/japes my own. Living on Boonwurrung land, never ceded. He/him, dad, lapsed MeFite. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social MeFi 1161
Sam M. @essasinsam.bsky.social Life isn't about waiting for the cars to pass. It's about learning how to play in traffic.
Sarah Periwinkle @sarahperiwinkle.bsky.social Formerly of that other blue site, tumblr (lookatthislittlething), mlkshk, and Metafilter. DFW area, via SF Bay Area, via Maryland 🦀. She/her. Also found at @sarahnade@mefi.social
Cathy Young @bentbacktulips.co.uk UK-based software engineer (DevSecOps) she/her | Interested in tech, politics, programming, infosec, photography, #metafilter | Hobbyist photographer, gamer, occasional singer in a band | Beholden to two furry monsters of the feline persuasion
Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space Transplant to the Sonoran desert. Perpetually underbiked. he/they.
Resident Stan whisperer for the Tampa Bay Rays. Formerly: U of A Mathematics and iSchool.
@atinybell.bsky.social @atinybell.bsky.social Toronto record dealer. International pet sitter. Sometimes writer. Dobbs on MetaFilter.
Karie @taichiofthedamned.bsky.social Animal-loving, KCRW-listening, MetaFilter-adoring francophile aspie. Pofite.
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
Too sarcastic for my own good.
penultimate credenza @twicketface.bsky.social antisocialite / Wisconsinite / excessive height
Ali @alaskaali.bsky.social Teacher, hiker, Alaskan.
@mollweide.bsky.social @mollweide.bsky.social Birder, birder, birder. Also, MeFite.
Paul Bartel @paulrb.bsky.social Random thinker of random thoughts. Dog person. Nonprofits.
My lurking should not be construed as support, though it probably is.
Go Forth. Fight Evil. Do Good. @tinydream.bsky.social I ❤️ travel that crosses comfort zones. Unapologetically Queer. Wife/Mom/Nerd/Hiker. MeFite. राम राम NO KINGS
Joe Isham @gridlockjoe.com (He/they) Former traffic reporter now analyzing data. Traveler, nerd, honorary 🇨🇦, MeFite. Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
maryr✨ @merveille.bsky.social I'm doing science? and I'm still alive. She/her/femme af.
Shannon Ellery Hubbell @brundlefly.bsky.social Torpor tornado. Dinosaur enthusiast. New Orleanian and Oaklander. he/him. https://shannonhubbell.com/
Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth.
Alignment: Quixotic-Good
https://binary-ape.org
DrLith @drlith.bsky.social Translator, dog and pony show empresario, grass farmer, PoFite, MeFite, Midwestern by birth, rurl murlander by choice
endora bullshit @endora-bullshit.bsky.social Dirtbag Professional Outrage And Swear Machine
they/them
Bianca Walser @biancawalser.bsky.social I like safe streets, infill housing and trees. Find more ways to say yes. YIMBY, MeFite, Smithie.
(ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
Annie M @tyropsimath.bsky.social Content developer/writer, musician, audio nerd, citizen naturalist, all-around late bloomer. Vermont transplant living in Ireland. Portmanteau aficionado (portmanficionado). [ MeFite ] | she/her
Rachel Rosenthal @rrosenthal.bsky.social Yes, I'm the rrosenthal you know and love on Twitter. IU alum, Alpha Phi Omega, JCI, MeFite, Welsh Terrier owner, Bears/Cubs/Bulls/Blackhawks/Hoosiers fan, 83 Nation, occasional writer, fluent in sarcasm.
Em Grand @settlesome.bsky.social therapist; she/her; #mefite; descriptive, not prescriptive
Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social Cat minion, collector of Lego / old calculators / cake moulds. Baker, middle-aged weightlifter and convert to gardening. Has a growing assortment of Master's degrees including electronics, law and forensics.
human bean @humanbean.net I'm laughing with you. I write. I live in a fifth wheel traveling the dystopian US. Ask me anything about RV life except where i am.
I like painting and trees and writing and dogs and photography and human rights
She/her.
stef @crickwooder.bsky.social phily sprots 5-ever. frequent capslock poster. atheist. disney parks fan. toastie twitter. trump voters are nazis. terfs can fuck off. Abolish ICE. not sorry about any of it.
John Harris @rodneylives.bsky.social Metafilter member (JHarris), @Play writer, roguelike person, oldweb enthusiast, Loadstar for C64 preserver
Wrote Exploring Roguelike Games & We Love Mystery Dungeon
Mastodon: @rodneylives@mefi.social
rodneylives.itch.io
setsideb.com
BLM! Trans rights!
Rory @speedysnail.bsky.social Beachcomber.
Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social Intensely interested in everything. He/Him.
Rodrigo Culagovski @culagovski.net Author, architect, researcher, and developer from the Galactic South.
Published in Escape Pod, Nature Futures, Flash Fiction Online, LeVar Burton Reads, khōréō, among others.
SFWA, Codex.
https://culagovski.net- Y y2karl @y2karl.bsky.social Former wearer of the triple-tiered bonnet of an Ultimate Pantologist, now orbiting between Attention Look -- Something Shiny! Disorder & Short Term Whatchacallit Loss, I now grow hollyhocks, heirloom sweetpeas and night scented stock. Among other things.
Brianna Privett @russetpomme.bsky.social Indie web maker, suburban gardener, avid reader, cheerful podcast guest & slow emailer.
Gucky @gucky.bsky.social A creature of constantly shifting interests, orbiting around cartoons, cult movies, and tarot cards. Manic lumpy log lady. She/her
moonbird 𓅇 ☾your dreams matter☽ @moonbird.us 🕯️Counselor, author, #dream scholar, cosmopsychist
🔎APA Div 32 Consciousness Studies Taskforce
🏴Lefty Loosy 🏳️🌈#Queer AF 🍄 he/him
🧿 #HighStrangeness #Wyrd & #Folklore
🪶 Curiosity > Fear🪐Vivas In Incerto
🚫AI 🍉حماية غزة 🏳️⚧️ Safety for All
❤️🔥ko-fi.com/moonbird
Chris 🇨🇦 @perdiz.bsky.social Frequently lost. Unintentionally hilarious. He/Him. Treaty 7. You may know me under this handle from the other place. Vive Le Canada. Elbows up.
K @nomikim.bsky.social Dork for history and art. She/her. Professional chaos engine. Profile pic by @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
coriolisdave @coriolisdave.bsky.social catdad. cellist. bitwrangler. dm.
defender of arachnid virtue.
i believe in you. he/him.
Chris @cmcmahon.bsky.social I watch a lot of TV and build websites.
Mick on MeFi, friend of Andre
I also collect auto immune diseases like myasthenia gravis, Hashimoto’s disease, cancer related to Hashimoto’s, and I’m sure a few I just haven’t unboxed yet
He/Him
S @vidiot.bsky.social Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident.
"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.
It Just Donged On Me @wetcasements.bsky.social 
K. Suppertime @kingsuppertime.bsky.social I’m for the people 
VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social mock me with praise/Chicago/fully krausened naturally carbonated/🏳️🌈
Likes: Doctor Who, soaps, Kylie Minogue, karaoke, mysteries, trains, defunding police, being queer, puzzles, sacred flame, sacred fire
Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social Writer, artist, thinker. Roaming paused, currently in Portland OR. Trans rights are human rights. signal: lyn.101 she/her/whatever, and I love you however.
Anne Hedonia @elephantsaxophone.bsky.social Companion to two ridiculous rabbits. Dabbler in music, knitting, and drawing
chicago
(formerly baniak on bird site)
Patti @pattinichols.bsky.social minneapolitan/foul-mouthed hooligan/leave me alone i’m trying to read
daryl "wet aged chick(en)" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social CG/VFX Artist. I love art/vfx/mograph/photos/bodies. ML yes, "AI" no.
(she/her) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
work: vimeo.com/hypercubexl youtube.com/@darylbartley5824
support:
https://ko-fi.com/hypercubexl
https://paypal.me/darylbartley
https://venmo.com/hypercubexl
#nobridge
Deke is 📚back in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social God's perfect idiot & abomination unto Nuggan. Also a space pirate. Flexible on pronouns. Collecting every appearance of Power Pack. Not http://weregeek.com.
Jaybeans (or Stephen) @jaybeans.bsky.social Pardon me I was born to speak all mirth & no matter. I'm into comics, period dramas, TV, and baseball. Enspousened to @mostlymartha. Queer. Them/they/he
Specklet @specklet.bsky.social Heart full of honey, head full of bees.
Punk rock Hindu pixie Earth Mother. Mohawk girl bee witch musician. She/her. 🏳️🌈 Banner is of a bumblebee sleeping on my finger. Profile pic is mohawked me in a biker jacket with a sky blue background. #mefite
Jack on Fire @jackonfire.bsky.social Sailormom from mefi and mltshp
https://mltshp.com/user/Sailormom
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/784776022667005807