Quilty Mama 🪡🧵 @jannaps.bsky.social New Orleans quilter Gen X mama #nolasky
GrisGris @grisgris4me.bsky.social Reproductive rights activist, Liberal, Attorney, Artist, Dog person💙, Bon Vivant, NOLA native, Globe trotter, Path walker, ⚜️🏳️🌈 🦜🐩🐩*
*(Not currently considered a "Danger to Others")
Zuzu @zuuzuu.bsky.social I am here to celebrate the absurd
N.O., LA
Chris C @chriswideawake.bsky.social If Shane McGowan and Joe Strummer had a crack baby that lifted weights.
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social [redacted]
A black cat who loves horror
Definitely not a witch
Lifts heavy stone
she/her
housewarming:
https://throne.com/itsmorticia
$MorticiaRN
Oaka Instruments @oakainstruments.bsky.social Handmade creations for field recording, sound design and experimental musicians.
Designed and built in Dorset, UK 🌳 🍃
Find out more below ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/oaka_instruments
Kimberley Campbell Thornton @kimthornton.bsky.social I write about dogs, cats, and other animals, and sometimes about cocktails and travel. Love to read, travel, and be outdoors. Tea maven. Collector of shoes and purses. Slave to a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She/her.
P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.
Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social Allies needn’t be perfect. They just need to be in the fight.
Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effect pedals, Antifa Local 242.
Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social "You think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?" / Feuilletonist / Former arts & media editor of Salon and NPR / Words for New York, Slate, sometimes the Times, other places.
not text, but texture
abi @lumperslump.bsky.social 🪷🌳🦝🦩🐓🦃🐈⬛🫏🐎🐦🌳🌾
Jacob Mason @masontransport.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Urban Planner @ITDP_HQ . Petworth DC. Pro-🚶🚲🚌. Tax the rich. Opinions my own. He/him.
Tracy Hadden Loh @lohplaces.bsky.social CRE, placemaking, transit, regionalism
Boards: WMATA, GGWash
Bio: https://www.brookings.edu/people/tracy-hadden-loh/
Hwael Mag @hwaelmag.com Between folk, hauntology and pastoral — an independent magazine of music and culture.
www.hwaelmag.com
ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com professional library enjoyer, union member, former @UVAlibrary n other stuff / all opinions mine pls don’t take em / pfp obviousplant, banner dan flavin
DC if that wasn't clear
art blog: https://202arts.org
miloš hroch @miloshroch.bsky.social sonic nurse • the wire magazine • the quietus • respekt ❘ media studies at charles university ❘ nadšením nájem nezaplatíš
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
DavidWithABanjo @vkratliff.bsky.social I am a salty optimist. Things are going to be OK, but a lot of stuff is really stupid.
Connie @conster3.bsky.social SoCal forever | Free D.C.
Love my pup; Dodgers and Buckeyes fan
I have the best wife @briefslayer.bsky.social
(Personal opinions only)
Eli D @eli.pizza Trans rights are human rights.
@zzorgon.bsky.social @zzorgon.bsky.social Petrichor. Say no more.
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social Trombone player, Kronos Quartet arranger, Flatbush house person
Gurney Halleck and his 9-foot Balliset @wileymacgyver.bsky.social I like stuff and things
America's #1 Popeyes Enjoyer @elephony.bsky.social Who even knows, man.
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/
Morgan St. James @jessica-33095.bsky.social Chanteuse with the band Windlass and the Stained Grass project
Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social Mothra gave me power of attorney.
Outstate MN
Fuck ICE
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social Listening to jazz 🎶. Commentary may or may not be under the influence of 🍷. The old stuff, man. Smack up!
worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social Hi
Julian Booker @booker-julian.bsky.social Likes kindness, music, travel and Philadelphia. Current 📻🙋🏻♂️ at WRTI, WNCW & Culture Caravan / proudly FKA Rising Sun Presents & WXPN person.
josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social not real
boreal
LadyJCMuses @ladyjcmuses.com Gardening, art, photography, food prep, design and nature.
Join me at ladyjcmuses.com 💚🥬🍅🌿
My Designs:
https://giftsforjobs.com
Wearable Art & Photography:
http://onedayartwear.com
"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman @beckbook.com THE UNTOLD STORY OF A POP MESSIAH, FINALLY TOLD BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR @josie.zone
SIMON & SCHUSTER
OCT. 6, 2026
PREORDER TODAY: http://beckbook.com
René Kladzyk @ziembavision.bsky.social Journalist and music-maker 🕸 investigative reporter for
@pogo.org
⛲️ shares music as Ziemba 💌 tips: rene.kladzyk@pogo.org
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Arvo Pärty @theejaykirsch.bsky.social Just some guy in the neighborhood
Ellen Stanley | Mother Banjo @ellensmojo.bsky.social Banjo-playing, cheese-loving, marathon-running DJ, publicist, music promoter & mother (she/her) https://linktr.ee/ellensmojo
bradluen @bradluen.bsky.social https://bradluen.substack.com/
Matt @jm-dc.bsky.social “Have you ever seen a girl play the drums?!”🧱
D.C.📍via TX
Art pilgrim 🖼️ | Pencil hoarder ✏️ | Snail mailer 📬 | Hunt and Pecker ⌨️
Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. @anthonyperillo.bsky.social Forensic Psychology Training Director, Associate Professor @ University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Trying to leave the forensic psych world better than I found it. Perpetually food-motivated. http://hsc.unm.edu/directory/perillo-anthony.html
Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social IR theory / historical IR / Pedagogy / Maine / Dogs. Views=mine. Trying to practice kindness here. Also here to remind everyone that Thucydides never said that. But really mostly photos of the puppo.
https://sites.google.com/view/timrubackme/
Nilo @nilo.bsky.social Mentally I’m on the beach.
Railway Electrification
Bryan Joiner @bryanjoiner.bsky.social Media guy @ beerinsights.com (yes really) and Red Sox writer for Over the Monster, otherwise F1, Patriots, Martha’s Vineyard (regional high school), dogs
Void @drinksthethings.bsky.social I don't endorse anything, not even my own posts. Is this real? Rich people aren't coming to save you.
Elliot C. Williams @ecwilliams.bsky.social Senior reporter @51st.news ✍🏽 | Signal: ecwilliams.30 | 📧elliotwilliams[at]51st[dot]news
Michelle Chappell she/her @michellechap76.bsky.social Co-chair, Congress Working Group @freedcproject.bsky.social
Ward 1 Committeewoman, DC Dems State Committee
Lawyer turned Organizer
All opinions my own; facts are facts
David “schlazor” Lastname @schlazor.bsky.social Important Special Warehouse Boy
whuppy @whuppy.bsky.social Can rotate four ironies in my head. Role models include Hank Hill, Everett True and Thomas Pynchon.
j̠͇̩̳̈͗̃ṩ̐́͛p̾̓́̎̚ @mookieproof.bsky.social Enchanted, the reader follows j̠͇̩̳̈͗̃ṩ̐́͛p̾̓́̎̚ through a midsummer's night in which tales of seduction interweave and oscillate between the sublime, comic, and passion to be seen, for whom life is a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and joy
Phosyne, haunted gothic castle 🌺 @preyfae.bsky.social NSFW 30s submissive fae princess abstract artist (painter/photographer) from Maryland
Fuck ai
She/fae/it
www.instagram.com/zoeyartemisia
Rob Adams @rabjourno.bsky.social Writer (inc UK Jazz News) and agent/PR for saxophonist Tommy Smith, Scottish harper Karen Marshalsay and jazz-classical duo New Focus.
Henceforth, @henceforthdc.com Join us for a drink and settle in for a while—welcome to your new neighborhood "third place"
@pasteandrind cheese all the time.
Justin Sarriot 🌌 @justindavidh.bsky.social Aspiring Hopepunk Liberal City-phile | DC & LA
Now What (of What Now, 97.1 WXOX) @peteljuice.bsky.social I play heavy metal, jazz, experimental, and whatever else on community radio. Antifascist. I study mushrooms and like to do native gardening. Mad cow therapist. Kentucky meat shower. Unself-conscious.
WhatNowWXOX@proton.me
skooks @skookses.bsky.social they told me we'd be finished by now
📍New Orleans
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
Jonathan Williger @jwilliger.bsky.social Day job @ Folkways | shows @ Rhizome DC | freelance writing @ Pitchfork, Bandcamp, NPR, Washington Post, etc | listening @ my couch 
Rhonda Henderson @rhondahenderson.bsky.social Answering Toni Morrison's call to get to to work.
Writer | Facilitator | Oral Historian | Creative Entrepreneur
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Kim Bender @kimpbender.bsky.social DC not Washington | reviving old things
sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe 23, they/them. PhD student in musicology at Pitt. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo, "Gold Chain Punk." pfp: @ardent-knight.bsky.social
Andrew @meredithfailson.bsky.social Socialist and parent and worker. Former cook. Mason City, Iowa. Midwestern but up front about it.
cětské @cetske.bsky.social internet weirdo, cyclist, beer brewer
Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social Author, *The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (UC Press 2018)
Doomscrolling glumly since about 2015
kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social Photographer, author of Texas Textures, dirt road democrat, Spurs fan, & dive bar dweller. Can eat beef ribs without messing up my lipstick.
Stephen Cobb @stephencobb.bsky.social DC. ANC Commissioner, 2021-2025. Lawyer, but not on here. Wahoowa. Fan of abundant housing, transportation choices, sweater weather, and spicy food.
bøşſї @thisisbossi.bsky.social 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧🇺🇳 Plangineer | Former ANC Commish | Travel | Space | Gamer | Spreadsheets | sXe | Tolkien | Cheesesteaks | Chaotic-Neutral | 🐕Stella | 📷🐜🐝🌱🏙️ | Anti-fascist | sic semper tyrannis | he/him
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
ⓘ this user is woke
Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social Democratic nominee for DC Mayor. DC Native. PJs Mom. Ward 4 Councilmember. Proud DCPS & HUSL Alum. People First 💜💖💚. JaneeseforDC.com
Lucy Sante @luxante.bsky.social writer, artist, enigma
norfölkology @norfolkology.bsky.social Sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist | Bikist | Norfolk Virginia bayba | Enjoyer of the sacred and the profane
Mommy Shortlegs 🏆 @coolhandkas.bsky.social she/her
I have to be annoying or I'll die
@earlyenglishbanjo.bsky.social @earlyenglishbanjo.bsky.social Social historian, and banjo player with the Early English Banjo research project. Researching the neglected narratives of early English banjoists, and their social contexts, repertoire and 5, 6 and 7-string instruments c.1843-1930
Southwest Music Archive @ttumusicarchive.bsky.social The Southwest Music Archive (SWMA) is a unit under Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library that seeks to collect recordings and personal memorabilia related to the Southwest region of the United States.
Knut Albert Solem @knutalbert.bsky.social Beer writer, beer traveller.
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing
Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social Music, books, other stuff.
Idiots, the lot of you.
Scott Carpenter @redguzzi750.bsky.social Motorcycle riding, book loving, banjo picking secular humanist also odd bagpipes and odd surf craft. Australian. Likes cake. 
Stone in the Shoes of Power @leftytrucker.bsky.social Long haul trucker, poet, musician, Buddhist, fellow traveler
Xina @ciw.bsky.social Movies, modernism, art, politics, poetry. The usual social media ephemera of architecture, pets, food, flowers, clouds. Bay Area 📍 | Los Angeles ♥️
Matt (The Godzilla Remix) @mrisold.bsky.social I am the cosmos.
Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Research immigrant klezmer musician families, compositions & social organizations, Indonesian left-wing history, etc. History MA UBC 2019. Wikipedia editor. Posts about Cdnpoli/Vanpoli
George Middlebrooks @gmiddleb.bsky.social Forever excited about art. Husband / dad / designer / photo taker / music maker / bicycle rider / baseball watcher. He/him
Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social Music writer, saxophonist, steel guitarist, PhD in American Studies, bylines in Downbeat, Point of Departure, POW Mag, elsewhere. Day gig: Duke University Press.
Mike @professorberry.bsky.social Orchestra teacher, music theorist, bassist
"Listening to Rap" (2e) and "Rap as Antiracist Pedagogy" both coming from Routledge in 2027.
https://www.routledge.com/Rap-as-Antiracist-Pedagogy/Berry/p/book/9781032979670
michaelberrymusic.com
Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev Shopify design-engineer
🎙️ co-host on @whiskey.fm 🥃
prior Google Chrome, Google Cloud, CSSWG, CSS Podcast, Bad @ CSS
Creator of VisBug, open-props.style, prop-for-that, gradient.style, transition.style & more
UI, UX, CSS, HTML, JS
https://nerdy.dev
Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social a guitarist.
https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com
That's Are Dings™ @itsdings.bsky.social Hi, it's me. Dings! My favorite color is huckleberry hound blue. "That's Are Dings" is coming to Apple+ April 1st!
https://dings.beehiiv.com/ click that link!
Nell Greenfieldboyce @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social I’m a science journalist who is drawn to the transient and strange.
The Rouxde Cooking School Podcast @rouxdepodcast.bsky.social 
Dr. Amy Scott @dramys.bsky.social Canadian. From Alberta but live in Toronto. High-anxiety mom to three glorious humans. Non-trad wife. I write about Shakespeare’s history plays and teach writing.
Interests: fossils, crocheting, and baseball. Other random interests: War of 1812
She/her
Loyalty Bookstores @loyaltybooks.bsky.social Black, Asian, queer owned indie bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC with a long term pop up in the Parks at Walter Reed in DC.
@musicdocumentaries.bsky.social @musicdocumentaries.bsky.social Posting links to music documentaries online whenever the hell I feel like it.
Operated by @purelava.bsky.social
NeuroWinter @neurowinter.com Reformed #AI & #MLOps tinkerer turned #SRE, now keeping #opensource databases alive.
Long-time #AppSec enthusiast, accidental sysadmin, and fueled almost entirely by espresso.
Blogging sporadically at NeuroWinter.com