Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
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.
DWeb @getdweb.net DWeb connects people, projects, and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is private, reliable, secure and open.
mai ishikawa sutton @mai.bsky.social senior organizer @getdweb.net
co-founder of @compost.bsky.social + @dwebpress.bsky.social
maisutton.net/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Social Futures Lab @socialfutureslab.bsky.social We are the Social Futures Lab at UW CSE! We are reimagining social and collaborative systems to empower people and improve society.
https://social.cs.washington.edu/
Prosocial Design Network @prosocialdesign.bsky.social Bridging research and practice toward building healthy online spaces. prosocialdesign.org
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Pia Mancini @piamancini.bsky.social CEO @ Open Collective
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com. Podcast: https://centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-democracy/
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Sarah Drinkwater @sarahd.bsky.social Constant learner, infinite game player, investor, community builder, Londoner (for now)🍃🌲
commonmagic.xyz
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.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
Golda Velez @goldavelez.org 60% earnest 10% snark and the rest is random tree pics and stuff
volunteer human rights- RaisetheVoices.org
earned governance startup- LinkedTrust.us - spreading @ Workers.vc
signal: @minty.53
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton @dupatton.bsky.social 31st PIK University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems @kimberlybryant.bsky.social Founder and CEO Black Innovation Lab http://blackinnovationlab.org
Founder Black Girls CODE
🎙️Host: Inner Garden Podcast http://bit.ly/40q9BoS
rootsandresilience.substack.com
Author~Ascending Nov '26 (Penguin RandomHouse)
💗💚💗💚
Memphis raised~BayArea made
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social The myth of white supremacy is not who you are. It is what was done to you. Why not try life beyond the supremacy myth? Author of The Predator's Table.
https://linktr.ee/LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth
julia kamin @juliakamin.bsky.social connecting research to practice @ prosocialdesign.org. supporting social cohesion @ civichealthproject.org. dog mama in NYC.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman @tarensk.bsky.social Founder, AI Impact Lab and Ekō. Pickleball fanatic. Parenting is hard. She/her.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
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
Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co 🎧, Foursquare📱, Dodgeball 📟, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC ⚽️). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to 👧🏼🧒🏼&👶🏼. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs
denniscrowley.com
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Dr. Jay Barchas-Lichtenstein (they/them) @drnycnerd.bsky.social Journalism researcher, linguistic anthropologist, fiction writer. Some things I discuss: language & social meaning, news media, #binders, puns, food.
Now: @cnti.bsky.social
Once: @knology.org
My colleagues & I made: https://www.reportingwithnumbers.com/
Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads.bsky.social nonfiction book reviewer. mfa student. mostly writing and talking about books, media, climate change, politics, and my cats.
morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Scott Heiferman @heif.com meetup
https://lnk.bio/OK4v
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
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.”
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Kevin Simler @kevinsimler.bsky.social 
Mills Baker @mills.bsky.social Head of Design at Substack // thedeadhorses.substack.com // ratsfromrocks.substack.com // mills.land
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Amira Dhalla @amira.bsky.social Focused on tech as it intersects with privacy, security, equity & rights. Always thinking about community care 🌱
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers…
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com Senior Software Engineeer snowflake.com
Co-Founder @graze.social, @cocore.dev
Co-Host of @devtools.fm
Creator of @kich.io, @kikbak.tv, @atstore.fyi, @standard-reader.app
hipstersmoothie.com
Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com Nuisance and shitposter
Head of @graze.social @ @flipboard.com - talk to me about building on ATProto / Bluesky!
Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online I write the Fediverse Report, a news site about what is happening in the fediverse.
This is my personal account, where I share and comment on anything I find interesting.
I care about an ethical internet.
He/him. From the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
J Wortham @jennydeluxe.bsky.social writer, podcaster, author
https://jennydeluxe.substack.com/
Kelly Stonelake (she/her) @kellystonelake.bsky.social Former Meta executive turned whistleblower and advocate for kids' online safety, common sense tech regulations, suicide prevention, healthcare equity, and safer workplaces for those on the margins. AuDHD, MCAS, POTS, EDS
overturned.substack.com
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse 
Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social Author of Future Tense. Fiction, essays and speculative tech anthropology. Also Adam Mackay: Head of AI, QA-Systems; nonfiction writer and researcher. https://azmackay.com
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
spencer chang @spencer.place software you can touch
artist, engineer, toymaker
🌐 spencer.place (home)
🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet)
🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space)
📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol)
🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)
Elan Ullendorff @elan.place Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive"
Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly
💌 Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social professor of technology and peace studies, tech ethics and deliberative technology, social justice activist, animal lover, biker, hiker, painter, mother, gardener, earthling, national park lover, photographer, book lover,
Charley Johnson @charleyjohnson.bsky.social Data & Society; Untangled; Facilitation Leadership Lab.
https://untangled.substack.com/
https://www.charley-johnson.com/
https://www.facilitation-leadership-lab.com/
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Alvin Chang @alv9n.com ● Professor @journalismdesign.bsky.social
● Interactive data journalist pudding.cool
● Moar buttondown.com/charthead // alv9n.com
Gideon Lichfield @glichfield.bsky.social Climber, biker, cocktailer, polyglot, vagabond. Ex EIC WIRED & MIT Technology Review, now writing about the future of democracy at https://futurepolis.substack.com. NYC/SF. He/him/Sir.
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Matt LaFever @mattlafever.bsky.social North Coast Contributing Editor @SFGATE | Publisher @MendoFever | Freelance @KymKemp & @KMUDNews | Digging deep in NorCal’s wildlands—where stories take root.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov 40th Governor of California.
Building a California for All.
Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social Does this look infected?
Just My Nonsense:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cz6x3e7thlqjc5cxa2hnbsn/feed/aaab3yqtmpox2
My Least Worst:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cz6x3e7thlqjc5cxa2hnbsn/feed/aaadpxkw36ag6
Daria Burke @dariaburke.bsky.social Triple Air. Author. Debut memoir from
Hachette Book Group coming 2025.
Rep: Park & Fine Literary and Media
Nate DiMeo @natedimeo.bsky.social Does a podcast called The Memory Palace
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
NFFE-Forest Service Council @nffe-fsc.bsky.social We represent the 20,000+ employees of the US Forest Service
https://www.nffe-fsc.org https://linktr.ee/NFFE_FSC
Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info 📣 Speaking for the trees, and:
🌲 600 million forest acres
💚 193 million acres public land
🥾 164,000 miles of trails
🎣 400,000 miles of streams
🪵 Billions of board feet timber
🚰 Trillions of gallons clean water
🚫Not affiliated with USDA Forest Service
SpikiBoi @redglowv2.bsky.social not my clowns, not my circus
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
@altpbs.altgov.info @altpbs.altgov.info 
😷 it’s only Wednesday 😷 @diplo-drama.bsky.social Make good choices! #swiftie #altgov #nafo #accidentaldiplomat
ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info I’m not new, I’m just new *here*. You know me, I know you. The sun’ll come out tomorrow.
AltBiker @altbiker.altgov.info Leather wearing, beer drinking, motorcycle riding member of #AltGov
It we do not stand against oppression, we endorse the oppressors.
Alt Musician @altmusician.altgov.info Fighting 4 democracy & end corruption on a 🌎 stage
Wrked directly in WhiteHouse w/ Obama Biden Harris since 2012
Wrkd Harris Walz 2024 campaign
US Secret Service Vetted
TS/SCI & Yankee White clearance
Liberty 🗽 & Equality 4 all #AltGov #Resist
Matt Cortez, Esq. @mattcortezlaw.bsky.social A Jabroni in a former life. Civil litigation attorney in this life. I put the “Find Out” in FAFO. Licensed in California.
Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info Award-winning Baltimore based web developer, HCD product lead for federal agencies, mother (humans, dogs, cats, chickens…), democracy enthusiast, nature lover. #civtech #resist #altgov #swiftie 🥄