s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY. Host of First America podcast. Out June 22. Subscribe now! firstamerica.info
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social Senior writer at Wired, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social Chief of da autism police and boss of the Irish Mob at the same time. Cousin, I’m a union man.
New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social The New York Amsterdam News • The New Black View • Founded 1909 • NYC's oldest Black newspaper
Luke Turner @luketurner.com artist // writer // defeated crypto billionaire-funded neo-Nazis in "the free speech trial of our age" // hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨
🔗 luketurner.com
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social just some guy
Sarah Doom @sarahdoom.bsky.social Scientist turned biotech product manager @pacbio.bsky.social, mother of two, wandered a lot and found home on the SF bay peninsula. Views are my own.
Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social Transit advocate. Environmental scientist. Social Democrat. Author of Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social Daddo and married to @jenancona. Consultant of Destiny™️, standing athwart history yelling WTF. Research, persuasion, media, and processes for understanding the Dem-left coalition. A lot of my research etc lives here: chartingthewayforward.substack.com
big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social a dumb and smelly queer deer.
🏳⚧ they/them
🔞NSFW🔞
pfp by @drevin.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Aurora @vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social They/Them, Mostly screams about cartoons but I'm working on something maybe?
Glonzo Ball @groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social not the washed up UCLA men's basketball star slash cavs point guard. semi-retired forums poster and eternal goony fuck (he/him) waiting for elon to go the way of richard lowtax kyanka
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
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
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social Research Facilitator, ASU| Astrobiologist | Trans Lesbian | SFF Writer | Lukewarm Ecosocialist | Union Woman | One Half of @asabpod.bsky.social | She/Her| 🌹
www.tessafisher.com
Words and opinions are my own.
Petti Crocker @aquarianairhead.bsky.social Just some awkward goofball. Queer demigal, Celiac, AuDHD/NVLD, Xennial, chonky, karaoke snob, nerdlesquer, middle-aged band geek, rotisserie chicken connoisseur, multi-dimensional dork. (she/they)
Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social Listen.
Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social Comic book lover, oenophile, Virginian. Obsessed with/nation's foremost expert on state politics. carolyncfiddler at gmail dot com. she/her
https://statehouseaction.substack.com/
@demosthenes1959.bsky.social @demosthenes1959.bsky.social I am an ancient Greek lawyer. No, not HIM. I’m just an old Greek lawyer living in Chicago.
Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social Support small media. Let people vote and read. Give school kids lunch wtf this shouldn't be hard.
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social Michigan Illustrator. Clients: Wizards, Osprey, Rebellion Unplugged, Dragon's Milk, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks.
My favorite author invented Pringles. Married! No A/I or N/F/Ts. Atheist.
Antifascist. Exvangelical.
www.nathanandersonart.com
he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
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
Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social This app, and all social media apps, are toxic and shouldn’t exist.
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
Here Lies Amicus @amicushere.bsky.social A podcast where the complete history of Amicus Productions is dug up and dissected.
Hammer Horrors @hammerhorrors.bsky.social Your Bluesky dose of all things Hammer and vintage/British horror. 🖤
All welcome in these unhallowed halls. 
saxylizbeth @saxylizbeth.bsky.social She / Her
Saxophonist.
I love radio, cricket, cult film and television.
#ThereisnoPlanetB
#TransRightsareHumanRights
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social Advocate, home improvement amateur, and fan of rural places.
Paul Revere was an alarmist.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news Coverin' extremism PODCAST: http://bit.ly/3BGThEI NEWS TIPS: leftcoastrightwatch@Proton.me PATREON: http://patreon.com/lcrw DONATE: http://cash.me/$LCRW
Drew Curtis @drewcurtis.bsky.social Founder/CEO Fark.com. Likely time traveler
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social Writing books/making films on the side
Wandering Agent-lessly
https://ellieleonard.substack.com/
(she/her)
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
These Shells Are Made for Stomping Racists & Antizionists @stayscathed.bsky.social if we don’t fix our racism & antisemitism problem we aren’t fixing anything
zionist ofc lol
🖕DSA
in ♥️ w the Red Sox
sports mom ⚾️🏀🎙️
pets plants palate 🐶🐱🪴🧑🏻🍳
🗳️ https://www.xavierbecerra2026.com
anne @womplestiltskin.bsky.social recovering engineer
born, raised, currently live in Kentucky
she/her
will someone please update my resume
Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social Bostonian. Journalist/Author Past: Mass Appeal/Okayplayer/Boston Magazine. Books: Instead We Became Evil: A Tale Of Survival & Perseverance & On Track: The Kronicles Of DJ Amir
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social Criminal defense, civil rights, and occasionally civil, trial lawyer. Former Emptywheel legal writer, husband, father and generally cranky observateur. Lifetime F1 fan.
Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social Policy/writer. @thenation @TheProspect @slate @DissentMag @monthly @nydailynews @theweek
Teach crim justice/sociology CUNY and other places
Writing at https://nathannewman.substack.com/
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Human Rights; Terrorism; AI; Pop Culture;
'"An aging, angry woman, laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💓💜💙🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social A shitposting plane who knows stuff about polls, drug development, and CFR Part 11 validation.
Midsummer Scream @midsummerscream.bsky.social August 15-17, 2025, Long Beach Convention Center.
midsummerscream.com
Halloween is life.
midsummerscream.start.page
Gothamist @gothamist.com Everything you need to know about New York City. Powered by the WNYC newsroom.
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Crude Marxist and bitter culchie
Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com Video Games, TTRPG, jokes, voice, food, cocktails, disco, brunch. Black, Queer, Brunch PhD | he/they | Twitch Partner | TTRPG Performer and Occasional GM 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖖🏿 | urb@urbanbohemian.com
urbanbohemian.com
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant. Literally OCD (F42.2!). She/her
לפעמים אני כותבת בעברית כי אני לומדת עברית ורוצה להשתפר. תיקונים מדוברי עברית תמיד מוערכים. היא
linktr.ee/lux
Catbus @catbus.phd Your old pal, Catbus from Online
shitposts, shoegaze, cinema
ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢᵗᵘᶠᶠ
the Zone demands respect
or it will punish you
maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social former poster
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social believe in a better future for it is all that you can do - @jael.bsky.social
park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, pushing papers for our public lands. Advanced EMT student, PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack. opinions are mine alone. 🏳️🌈
Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social manipulative, over-emotional bitch
crass @crasspants.bsky.social ESRB Rating TEEN: Crude Humor, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes.
(they/them) profile art by
@boocanan.bsky.social
Banner art by @farfin.bsky.social
chimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social they made my chain even heavier, if you can imagine
he/they
Lorelei Mission @loreleimission.bsky.social Hippie-chick into bondage roleplay, dog rescue, puppets, animation, plantfood, & compassion for the homeless. Life partners (30+ years!): Jon Woods, Eric Holman. - - she/her
Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.social Harper,28,She/Her, AuHD,MDNI
I would never purposely craft and share sentences as a form of self pleasure
Venmo: Harpingonthehaters
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social Managing Director of Single Family Housing Inventory at BlackRock. God forbid a woman collect things.
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley & InterpretAI
Editor of the Artificial Humanities series
www.ninabegus.com
metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social the foundational role of poetry in an age of AI
https://metahaven.net/
Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley
Artificial and biological intelligence and language
Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳
PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️
College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰
https://www.gasperbegus.com
Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, certified AI hater, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told.
he/him
Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social Jerusalemite. Journalist.
Author, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East"
Lecture contact info at http://tinyurl.com/ggersh
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org Women-run nonprofit/nonpartisan newsroom reporting causes, solutions, context since 3/20. Mantra: "Do the right thing and wait."
Give: mfp.ms/donate Props: mfp.ms/impact
Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social Fading youtube starlet
ChickNugs is Rat Bucket now @ratbucket.bsky.social I draw, I'm ok at it, and I'm old as fuck. I have been tired of people my entire life. BLM, ACAB. They/She. Apparently I'm a streamer now so I will be posting about that a lot these days https://www.twitch.tv/yourfriendratbucket
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
#GatorNation #GoBolts #GoBucs #RaysUp
#FLwx
they/them
Opinions mine
https://ko-fi.com/KEBrightbill
🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social 🔵 Blue Navy ⚓ Veteran in Washington State 🌲. I love my Deerest friends! 🦌
Followed by Rachel Maddow
Lavanya Lakshminarayan | INTERGALACTIC FEAST out now! @lavanya.bsky.social Author: INTERGALACTIC FEAST | INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF | THE TEN PERCENT THIEF
Arthur C Clarke Award Finalist | Locus Award Finalist
Game Designer
Rep: Cameron McClure
Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social Cheugy. I host a podcast called "Culturally Determined" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culturally-determined/id981282353
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf Crypto & Frauds | Co-host: @cryptocriticscorner.com | Research: @protos.com | https://youtube.com/@bennettftomlin | Newsletter: @thefudletter.com | bennettftomlin.com
Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. Chaotic Good.
The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social Democracy Drowns In Dankness
Comix Action @comixaction.com NYC comics creatives against authoritarianism and for community action.
comixaction.com
buttondown.com/comixaction
Julio Anta @julioanta.bsky.social 🇨🇴🇨🇺 Eisner-nominated writer of FRONTERA, THIS LAND IS OUR LAND: A Blue Beetle Story, HOME & more • He/Him
Max Socol @socol.bsky.social Community organizer and campaigner. Into socialism and bicycles. Battling the billionaires for housing, healthcare, and climate guarantees - sometimes I win, too. Silver Spring ⛲
Wesley Steedman @earthpigjohnson.bsky.social A Serious Man on Serious Earth.
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls
🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others