Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY. 
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Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social Tokyo based Game Critic - NPR Contributor
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Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Out of Context Magazines @oocmags.bsky.social Context-free screenshots from @josie.zone's massive archive of old magazines.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
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Onur Ayaz @onuraayaz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Mercer County Community College | CUNY English PhD | Walker in South Jersey | Interested in higher education, teaching, travel, and poetry.
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alisha mughal @alishamgl.bsky.social journalist and film critic in Toronto; words in Film Daze, RogerEbert[dot]com, Catapult, Exclaim!, The Asian Cut; book on The Crow out via ECW
Gerry Hart @poorconrad.bsky.social Co-editor at Red Pepper magazine. Socialism, black metal and sad vibes.
Emma Kostopolus @glassethound.bsky.social Long time Uatu the Watcher, first time Uatu the Caller.
Art, Words, and Cats. All opinions are an inescapable palimpsest of everyone and everything I have ever encountered.
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Joseph Boisvere @jboisvere.bsky.social Science fiction lit., film, and games scholar. PhD CUNY Graduate Center CompLit, teaching at NYU Liberal Studies. Ecocriticism, (New) Materialism, Narratology, Affect Theory.
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Rob "Wear A Mask" Rich @robsteinone.bsky.social (he/him) Designer, amateur toy art critic, goofball. Columnist and Exploits Games Editor at Unwinnable.
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ben rueter @benrueter.com words in @unwinnable.com, tpt.org, minnlawyer.com, @finance-commerce.bsky.social, leadertelegram.com, wiscnews.com/news/community/bdc, sknr.net, + others
Levi @rubeck.bsky.social he/him // managing ed + Funeral Rites ed at Unwinnable, writer there and others // poet // http://linktr.ee/levirubeck ; http://dice.camp/@leaves
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Co-founder, Darker Times. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
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Sam O'Hana @samohana.com Poetry, demography and economics at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com "All powerful brain-in-a-jar" | Publisher at @unwinnable.com | TTRPG history at VintageRPG.com | New book with @strangeattractor.bsky.social Dec 2026 | Links: https://linktr.ee/vintagerpg
James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social flaming bankruptcy lawyer, occasional shitposter / uses bio like an AIM away message / when we play, we tend to leave a trail a mile wide / he/they
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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com Orrin Grey uses hypnosis to turn his victims into those rubber monster finger puppets. He also writes spooky books.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
David Cole @coledone.com A writer on a mission that he just doesn't understand yet.
chilton 👁 @chiltonm.bsky.social Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist, Exploits books editor. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
Shannon O'Connor @shannonoconnor.bsky.social Senior social editor at The New Yorker. Formerly The Daily Beast, The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Times. I tend to talk about movies, tv, and video games quite a bit. they/she 🏳️🌈
Sara Clemens @saraclemens.com ✍️😱🤡 • Games People Play with Sara and Stu @wfmu.bsky.social • Vice Publisher @unwinnable.com • Editor @videoda.me • any/all
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
Jamie @jayelharris.bsky.social Film, television and video games writer in LA!
Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social Personal account. #socialwork, PhD student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social. Read & think about tech ethics, digital literacy, innovation, inequality, & social change. Find refuge & inspiration in #humanities & #openscience.
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com Posts by @itshannahflynn.bluesky.com, communications director. Mandrake is a narrative rural life sim, coming to Steam Early Access. Also Fallen London, Sunless Sea, etc. Press: press at failbettergames.com
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
NYC for Abortion Rights @nycforabortion.bsky.social an intersectional collective of socialist feminist abolitionists fighting for free abortion on demand and reproductive justice. 💚 FTP 💚
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Caroline Siede @carolinesiede.bsky.social Film & TV critic. Writing at The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, and Girl Culture. CFCA member. Expert grocery shopper. She/her http://girlculture.substack.com
New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx.bsky.social NYC weather forecasts without the hype, supported by our own community.
Left Voice @leftvoice.bsky.social Left Voice is a socialist publication that fights for internationalist, revolutionary politics | leftvoice.org
kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social Erstwhile sissy sophisticate and pasta enthusiast. words in GQ, W Magazine, and the New York Times, and also The Queer Film Guide.
Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature
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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social indiewire film critic. 
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social Yahoo Sports guy, area bird enthusiast
Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.
autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com 🧑💻 freelance culture writer, copy editor
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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social EIC of Unwinnable, views own.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
popular science robinson @saraiya.bsky.social used to write for the internet but that got stressful // FL & NYC & now in #yyc // 🇺🇸/🇨🇦
Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. General social media dabbler.
Most of my content/writing/word-spewing can be found here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/the-fien-print/
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social Write stuff, mostly movies and food. Podcasting - FilmDrunk, the Frotcast, Pod Yourself A Gun/The Wire. Love 2 have fun. vincemancini.substack.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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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.
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social dominatrix in nyc • writing a book on sex work & surveillance @ucpress.bsky.social
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
harron walker @harronwawker.bsky.social writer, woman, etc. // aggregated discontent (2025), veronica place (forthcoming 2026) // harronwawker at gmail dot com
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social Digital Editor
PhD in Medieval lit📚
Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻
Books Editor @ Exploits
Words @ Polygon, Post45, Digital Trends, Edge, etc.✏️
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inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social Senior writer at Vulture and New York Magazine.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
zoe hu @zzoehhu.bsky.social here from twitter @ z_hu__
Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social She/her; rhet/comp; socialist; CUNY; 💙💜💗