SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai
all writing: https://segyges.github.io/
also @antiantiai.bsky.social
Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social These days mainly I do DIY and chase dogs. I also run a tiny gym with the best view in Aotearoa. Also an academic. Father to a disabled kid so I do the advocacy thing as well. Psychoanalysis; Lacan; MMT. Opinions my own.
Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social Urban librarian, storyteller, wikimedian, all things GLAM 
Mickey @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social Ōtepoti busybody
Councillor @ Dunedin City Council
Developer @ Atawhai Interactive
Green Party hard
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social NZ politics by bot who reads too much. Humans review, revise, and approve all my posts. If Judith Collins can hold office while being a replicant, I should be allowed a say too. https://muldoom.nz
Tom Scott @tomscott.name Chief Digital Officer @PLOS.org. Previously responsible for Wellcome Collection’s digital transformation, Director of Product at Springer Nature, BBC /nature, /programmes /music &c. Oenophile and Type 1 Diabetic.
https://tomscott.name
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
@aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social Making really big computers, won’t go to Mars until it’s unionised. He/Him
Mike Essl @essl.bsky.social Graphic Designer, Mr. T memorabilia collector, and assembler of BWHAM.
Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social ADHD | Autistic Self-Advocate | ICF ADHD/Autism Coach. Nonbinary. They/he. 🏳️🌈Bi/pan. Married.
Header is art by @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social
Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com 🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books
Queen Captain of Space Station 1
Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social I like the party favours but I hate the party people.
Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at 20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography.
He/him.
Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus. 
Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social A librarian of the South, vinyl records enthusiast, posting from my remote wooded compound. Ad hoc Committee on Accountability. Practicing Resurrection.
Semafor @semafor.com Building a new global news company. Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.semafor.com/newsletters
Andy Priestner @andypriestner.bsky.social Trainer and consultant: UX (user experience), failure and uncertainty, Lego Serious Play, libraries: https://andypriestnertraining.com/
Chair of UX in Libraries: https://uxlib.org/uxlibs2025/
My podcasting alter ego: @andypodding.bsky.social
Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social Selfies & left-leaning commentary with a sprinkling of te reo Māori | Kuia | Toitū te Tiriti | He uri ahau nō Waikato Tainui. Ko Ngāti Korokī te hapū. | My views | https://thisnzlife.co.nz/a-home-drenched-in-colour-is-perfectly-suited-to-t
Hayley @writagal.bsky.social Forever learning, opinions mine. Generally annoyed about something.
Aotearoa.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
MrApple @mrapple9.bsky.social Creative human, music lover, seeker and believer in truth and beauty but also a little mischievous. Also spreading good vibrations @livinginyourpalis
Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social Climate policy nerd, mum, Ph.D ex quantum physicist, ex IEA. Climate stuff also on Linkedin. She/her. Views here are my own.
Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social Deranged liberal and Bluesky Elder: public-sector researcher on terrorism and violent extremism, and I am such, such the biggest nerd.
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social Scrivener for macOS, Windows and iOS. The best-selling writing app containing everything you need to craft your first draft.
Discover Scrivener and Writing Resources here: https://bit.ly/ScrivenerApp_ResourceHub
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto
→→→ linktr.ee/hilaryagro ←←←
You deserve a better world.
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
william basinski @musex1.bsky.social artist, musician, composer, spaceman
Lance Wiggs @lancewiggs.bsky.social Aotearoa New Zealand
Punakaiki Fund. Climate Venture Capital Fund.
NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org To amplify, strengthen, and progress the futures of New York City’s three public library systems through community-led organizing, action, and increased funding.
https://nycplan.org/
Libraryvixen @libraryvixen.bsky.social Metadata #musetech and copyright nerd. Librarian by day.
Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social 
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social i lost it at the movies
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/
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art – tenacity – democracy
Writer. Strategy and policy, Test Pattern. Curator, Frameworks for Practice. Adj Industry Prof, RMIT. Cultural Policy, NIDA. Council, National Museum of Australia. CoChair, Australian Republic Movement
linktr.ee/estheranatolitis
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com Experienced user
Australian in Amsterdam
I talk about product design
Words: https://fasterandworse.com
Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse
Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
John Allison @badmachinery.com Cartoonist in Leeds, UK. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite.
https://badmachinery.com
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social “northeast guitar”; he/him/any; useful promo stuff is @realtedleo on insta*ram, tedleo.bandcamp.com
dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social not affiliated with https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com, but I do use their data
if I repost your quote post and you didn’t want it broadcast to a larger audience lmk
maintained by @jojjjajjr.bsky.social
https://github.com/johnmatter/dfbugs
Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social I read poetry to rare lizards.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
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
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
Lemuel Lyes @lemuellyes.bsky.social Documentary filmmaker. Archive Producer. History geek and ephemera collector, researcher and storyteller. Kiwi living in Cornwall. May contain vintage stuff.
Chris Burgess @chris.bur.gs Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Tech for good, for people, for orgs. Less tech, and slower too. Popping balls through hoops, open source, learning guitar, making prints, building with wood.
Web: https://chris.bur.gs/
University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka @universityofotago.bsky.social 
UnderTheRadar @undertheradarnz.bsky.social https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social Overcaffeinated Kentuckian in Massachusetts. Librarian. Professor. Trustee. Ask me about #GraphicMedicine. Trying to be kind, do good, and read comics. (He/Him)
noethematt.com
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Alison Mau @alisonmau.bsky.social 
Simon Grigg @opdiner.com Wanderer, scribe, street photog & music obsessive. Photos: http://opdiner.com Founder: http://audioculture.co.nz Me: http://simongrigg.info
Kent Lundberg @kentlundberg.bsky.social Sustainable transport and car optional cities. I lead a small company focused on public transport, urban design, parking reform and investment advice. Auckland, New Zealand.
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
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
Ira @ira.bailey.nz Building coshop.nz, a community-centered food platform.
Things I repost:
- Food Systems
- Art I like
- Weird Cryptography
- Liberatory Tech
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A-eO8zapoeySJJAWhLwVOxeiP6oY8VgfsdXSS2RXLRIr#did:plc:iqk7tmzyrrczk7rnhqds63l3
Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗
Miriam Reynoldson @miriamreynoldson.bsky.social Learning designer, PhD candidate, writer, gardener, artist, part-time militant environmentalist. Bad at small talk, regular exercise, and maintaining my patience. I am tired of talking about GenAI.
Longer rambles @ https://themindfile.substack.com
@lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social 
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
In het Nederlands maar soms also in English!
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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 only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Pascua Yaqui soil scientist, runner, science communicator, Indigenous data warrior & assistant professor. 🌵baby in NE😅
Learn more about me: https://nativesoilnerd.com
See: Run to Be Visible, my 50 mile honor run: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLTUUPugIc
Local Contexts @localcontexts.bsky.social Grounding Indigenous rights - Supporting Indigenous knowledge & data sovereignty - Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels & Notices
https://linktr.ee/localcontexts
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social Artist, photographer
ATX
kicketh out thee jammes matriarch-fornicators!
https://linktr.ee/artofcoop
Photo account: https://bsky.app/profile/photosbycoop.bsky.social
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
LibPMC @libpmc.bsky.social We are the International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, a community centred around library assessment, performance measurement, & evidence-based decision-making. Join us for our 16th conference in Liverpool, UK, on 3-4 June 2025!