Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social The marriage of art and poetry is my passion.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social Fascinated by nature: birds, frogs, beach, sky & more. All media by me w/ a long lens. No AI! Lots of nature goodness here & on YouTube & Patreon. (In PA, USA)
Mini nature documentary every Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/gettoknownature
Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social Ininwewi Gichigami
The big western lobe of the Great Lake Michigan-Huron.
Pretty and Old 🌊🌊
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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
Dr. Stephen Bieda III @drwildcatwx.bsky.social #Meteorologist (PhD) | Deputy Director (acting), NOAA AI Center | @nws.noaa.gov Senior Advisor for Future Readiness | Punster | Meme-specialist | Gamer | Parent | Powered by #coffee ☕️
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
Matt "msw" Wilson @msw.bsky.social “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
davi @davidasilva.bsky.social like if Mr. Mistoffelees was a gynecologist
📍Chicago
Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social Contributor: @theonion.com
@sorrowscopes.bsky.social, @riversidecasino.bsky.social, @greenevillezoo.bsky.social
Creator: @sorrowscopes.bsky.social
Margaret Fero @maggiefero.bsky.social Margaret is the founder of Neat Systems (neatsystems.dev), a presenter, and an interdisciplinary hacker. They love opensource projects, playing other people's videogames, reading, and nerding out about privacy and information disclosure models.
Yiddish Praxis (Rokhl K) @rokhl.bsky.social Teacher of Yiddish language, literature, and Ashkenazi culture. Specialist in "Everyday Ashkenazi Magic." Ask me about my b'nei mitzvah heritage tutoring! Also, writer of Rokhl's Golden City (2017-2024)
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
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(we follow our contributors)
Micah Anderson @micah.myatproto.social Director of Engineering @ Tor
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Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
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@the.mazz.zone
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social We are a GFAS-accredited farm sanctuary & donor supported 501c3 nonprofit located in Charlotte, Vermont. We provide healthy, happy, permanent homes and lifelong care to 100+ rescue farm animals & humane education programs. https://linktr.ee/merrymacfarm
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Andrew Berry, PhD @andrewberry.bsky.social Design research, person-centered health care, digital health. Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm- K Kaylea Champion, PhD @kayleachampion.bsky.social postdoc @UWComm in @comdatasci -- usually quant research into tech, infrastructure, cooperation, knowledge, privacy. Likes given with foolish abandon. she/her #BLM
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
Robin Riley @riley.pub Soft creature, wild philosopher, and booster for the commons 🌱 Tech, media, libraries, urbanism, and civics.
@igalia.com @petalumapride.org @northbaypython.org formerly @matrix.org @opensource.org @opensource.google
she/ella 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🦓 ♾️ 9a
Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi Man about the world; Expatriated Tasmanian living in California; conference organiser: (@NorthBayPython.org) previously (PyCon AU) and linux.conf.au; #python fan; multiple @python.org hats; queer; 💜 @robin.riley.pub
see also: @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social Bot that tweets quotes(incl spoilers) from
@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
Rob Simmons @simrob.com boston, cats, computers? he/him
profile pic by chrisamaphone
The good stuff is at https://social.wub.site/@simrob
Al Sweigart @alsweigart.bsky.social Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other books. Mostly harmless. Last name rhymes with "why dirt." he/him
Charlotte Li @shallotly.bsky.social PhD student in Communications and Computer Science @Northwestern
https://shallotly.github.io/
previous: graphics at Nat Geo, NBC News, & Columbia Spec
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.
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
Luke Faraone @luke.wf Debian ftpmaster, community team. f/l/oss software advocate, Wikipedian. They/them. infosec.exchange/@lfaraone 🏳️🌈. 
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Anoolia/Anny Gakhokidze @agakh.bsky.social she/they, currently a UW PhD student at HCDE interested in data centers, labor, tech and power.
prev: eng at @mozilla
Albert Carter @albertcarter.bsky.social Bank.Green cofounder, director, developer
Aidan Z. Fitzsimons @aidanzfitz.bsky.social HCI PhD student at Northwestern studying AI writing support’s impact on self-concept development and narrative psychology-informed design advised by Dr. Liz Gerber and Dr. Duri Long
Wm Salt Hale @sal.td /?/ Kilted Globetrotter,
Free/Libre/Open Advocate,
and Lifelong Hacker /?/
11:11 @11hr11min.bsky.social Virtual Gallery. 🖼
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
Duri Long @duri-long.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern. HCI, Human-Centered AI, AI literacy, co-creativity. Director of Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio. durilong.com
Loren @shambles.bsky.social nonprofit comms, voter protection vol, NYC. win my heart with puns, locked tomb memes, and picket signs. she/her
pfp: a half melted little mermaid candle. banner: a spoiled 9 rescue pup in a fetching bowtie. she appears to be lightly judging you.
dddominic @dominic.cool cat dad. game maker. skeets are my own.
@dominic@xoxo.zone on mastodon
kat @notapattern.net semi-feral after a few months on mastodon, not sure i'm ready to be rehabilitated into another billionaire's habitat.
i was wirehead2501 on the bird site
🐘: https://weatherishappening.network/@kat
(🪞: @tak.notapattern.net)
mkehrt @roseandsigil.bsky.social I believe in the Republic of Heaven.
Mostly politics lurking. (Slightly) more at mastodon: @roseandsigil@social.wub.site .
he/him/his/his
Avatar by Chris Martens, after Pamela Coleman Smith.
Akiva Leffert @akiva.bsky.social The wretched refuse of your teeming shores
e. hashman @eha.sh Hacker and open sourcerer, 🇨🇦 settler south of the medicine line, exhausted tech worker (SWE @ Apple). Tea aficionado 🍵 Amateur botanist, naturalist, and radio operator. Fighting severe ME/CFS. ♿ https://hashman.ca/
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