🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social enby & queer & AuDHD af | non-LLM computerer | too many hobbies | program chair @northbaypython.org | “is usually underestimated. try again. no again. still no.” —@chrisjrn.fyi | they/them | fuck fascists
also occasionally at wandering.shop/skimbrel
Amy Quispe @amyquispe.bsky.social if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s things | NYC technologist & mom (mostly mom rn) | ex-USDS/Medium/Google | CMU/Stuy
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Calle Svensson @zetatwo.bsky.social Security Engineer @ XTX. MSc in eng. physics & CompSci, dev & gamer. ❤️ music & long distance running. Wanna do a PhD sometime. Same U/N on all other sites
LiveOverflow 🔴 @liveoverflow.bsky.social wannabe hacker... he/him
🌱 grow your hacking skills https://hextree.io
Benevolent Bureau of Birds @bbbirds.org https://bbbirds.org/ | Quals: May 22-24, 2026
@rjenish.bsky.social @rjenish.bsky.social 
DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993.
Defcon.org
Forum.defcon.org
Defcon.social
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social Barroom historian. Author of The Comic Book History of the Cocktail, Imbibe, Punch and a mess of other books. Ardent Wet. Brooklynite and part-time Triestino. Intellegentia mechanice generata delenda est.
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️🌈 ✡️
Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓
Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙
Vote Nov. 3, 2026 🗳️
Get involved ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/scottwiener
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Marie Labrousse 🌳 @mariequartz.bsky.social Lectrice et autrice d'imaginaire, libraire, amatrice de hopepunk
📚🪐🌈
Sci-fi/fantasy reader and author, bookseller, hopepunk lover
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Gentry @ghostwithashell.bsky.social https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/258829
@revarson.bsky.social @revarson.bsky.social 
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Colin @colin-fraser.net Anti-spreadsheet person
Max Bélanger @maxbelanger.com Dropbox builder. Bear hunter. Petit Prince.
Alice ✨ @welltypedwit.ch There’s no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying ’til you run out of cake
- GLaDOS
https://welltypedwit.ch
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social 
@oddsalon.bsky.social @oddsalon.bsky.social 
Curiosity Guild @curiosityguild.org Monthly talks on weird history.
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social Tech and textiles. Entropy tamer, word wrangler, culture nerd, artisan, educator, historian, and high-tech 'creative type'. 🥑🏳️🌈🎭👗💻📚🤓
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
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
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
detroitsmash @detroitsmassh.bsky.social Hacker. Security@Eternal
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
supersingular @supersingular.bsky.social Hi! I'm interested in Security, Cryptography, Math, Programming, Algorithms, Rust, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning
he/him
David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social Housing Advocate @prohousingpgh.org. YIMBY. Urbanist. World Traveler.
@marie-blanche.bsky.social @marie-blanche.bsky.social 
Nspace @nspace.bsky.social Computer security by day. In my free time I sometimes play CTF with Organizers (https://ctftime.org/team/42934).
Dazed and confused, but trying to continue.
Fedi: @nspace@infosec.exchange
Languages: it_IT, en_US, de_DE
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Associate professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social Advisor & builder. Formerly security @dropbox, product @instart & @google, authored Surreptitious Software, TL for Caja. I love good food, fine wine & great JS.
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social Militant liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor. Filibuster abolition enjoyer.
Look down the political game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths?
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
https://linkedin.com/in/malwaretech
https://marcushutchins.com
Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social Former governor still on a mission to build a clean energy economy and protect our democracy.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
RPG Crossing @rpgcrossing.bsky.social RPGCrossing.com is a free site where players from all over the world play role-playing games with a vibrant online community. All systems are welcome!
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Erik M. @emats94.bsky.social Growing food, making food, eating food. 🌱
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Taller than your dad
Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
Matt Haney @matthaneysf.bsky.social Personal account
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Grandpoobear @grandpoobear.bsky.social I play games twitch.tv/grandpoobear
Ryan Van Duzer @ryanvanduzer.bsky.social I like bikes, bean burritos, and sleeping under the stars
Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz Tech policy and government affairs guy. Ex-Block, Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles / Iowa City
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Pre-order my book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/build-or-die-how-america-is-suffocating-its-cities-and-what-to-do-about-it-ned-resnikoff/8ae5ebca259e570a?ean=9781642834260
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Kelly Shortridge @shortridge.bsky.social software resilience, cybersecurity, complex systems | chief product officer @fastly.com | nyc
“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
kellyshortridge.com
@swagitda_ on Twitter
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
cts @gf256.bsky.social Hacker and meme enjoyer
Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". http://stuffwithstuff.com/
Gynvael Coldwind @gynvael.bsky.social Security researcher/programmer ⁂ Managing director @ HexArcana ⁂ @DragonSectorCTF founder ⁂ he/him
Jordan Wiens @psifertex.bsky.social Binary Ninja dev, Cuber, EUC rider.
Zardus @zardus.bsky.social Retired DEFCON CTF org.
Shellphish Captain Emeritus.
ASU Prof.
angr hacker.
pwn.college sensei.
Looking for students/interns!
https://yancomm.net
https://github.com/zardus
https://defcon.social/@Zardus
Aleksei Udovenko @affine.group Researcher in Cryptography (symmetric-key, white-box, post-quantum, etc.)
https://affine.group
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Perri Adams @perrib.us Fmr DARPA Program Manager | Fmrly Organizing DEF CON CTF with Nautilus | RPISEC Alumna | Personal account, opinions my own, RT ≠ endorsement
tylerni7 @tylerni7.bsky.social Hacker, scientist, and most things in between.
PPP member for life
he/his
Hacker, scientist, and most things in between.
Plaid Parliament of Pwning member for life.
he/his
Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social Data scientist │ MS in CS, stats, biochemistry │ Current Econ MS student │ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 Policy-centered tweets about tech, bio, urbanism, economics, & politics
leftwick @lefttwick.bsky.social indefatigable and incorrigible. ethereal bisexual. final fantasy and gustave flaubert enjoyer. 🌹🏳️🌈
Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert @geomys.org founder / RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com anarchist warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. don't be a dick.
https://golikehellmachine.com
https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com
Lucy Jones @drlucyjones.bsky.social Seismologist in Southern California. Viol player. Founder of Tempo: Music for Climate Action