Bennett @bennettmcintosh.com Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci & Tech || How do data & scientific communities make each other? Current projects on: social genomics; environmental regulation
Ludolio - The platform helping libraries lend games @ludolio.com 🚀 Games belong in libraries.
🎮 We support digital game lending for university and school libraries.
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✨ Building the future of game access
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social Philosophy Professor studying 17th C. Pro TTRPG designer. Into sci-fi & fantasy, D&D, punk, coffee. Transgender asexual lesbian. Mom of 2 boys. Sober. (She/her) No AI!
https://drgwenmarshall.carrd.co
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Erick M. Corimanya-Yucra @erickcorimanya.bsky.social PhD researcher, Sustainability Program @ University of São Paulo 🇧🇷 | Water reuse, sanitation policy, water-agriculture nexus | Peruvian in Brazil
Reverie @reveriestage.com A stage for GMs who run theater of the mind. Scenes, cast and audio on your players' screens.
Raluca Fratiloiu @raluca.bsky.social College Prof. || Media Studies teacher || Experimental game designer
Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social Your new fav fag.
Professional dilettante
Art — RPGs — Design — Sex
magnolienne.carrd.co
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social Researcher, author & erstwhile prof
New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Media activism, tech-facilitated gender-based violence & memory
McGill & UAlberta
Lauren Taylor @laurenmt1.bsky.social Co-Founder of Snappy Gurus.
Supporting entry level talent moving into games and relevent roles!
My email: lauren@snappygurus.com
Enric Granzotto Llagostera @marxistpokemon.bsky.social [he/il/ele] 👁️ Educator, researcher and game maker. 🎮🔨 PhD on alternative controllers, experimental and critical games. 🌐 https://enric.llagostera.com.br
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
MrAlexBethke @mralexbethke.bsky.social I make games for fun. I make games for profit. I've made 130+ games over the last 20 years. When I'm not making games I'm living that sweet parent life.
@blakaligula.bsky.social @blakaligula.bsky.social 
Keyang Zheng @albsun.bsky.social VAP for Data Science @ Gettysburg College | PhD | HCI | I love playing games and studying how people play games. | SciFi Fan
Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com Founder + EIC: non-trivial.games
YouTube: TheCrossoverAppeal.
thecrossoverappeal.com for recs + essays
Games writing, music writing. Formerly games studies.
Bylines: Pixelbyte Gaming, JetsonPlaysGames, Exploits, Uppercut, Barely Textual.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Corey Wesley @coreyforyourloss.bsky.social 
GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social GAMERella is the world’s longest running annual game jam and workshop series focusing on supporting marginalized game creators and aspiring game makers.
https://linktr.ee/GAMERella
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📚🎮✍🏻
Madison, WI
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Krista Elliott @kristaelliott.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Not famous, just opinionated. Serial dabbler in hobbies and music genres. Will eat all your potato chips. Carried a Nobel Peace Prize medallion in my purse for a month. Writes about quantum. Personal account, not at ALL representative of my employer.
Jared McFarland @jaredonline.bsky.social http://rollforinsight.blog
D&D, Draw Steel, Daggerheart. Tryin my best to be the best GM and storyteller I can
Portland, OR <-> Tucson, AZ
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Reginald T. Gardner, back in NYC @higheredgaming.bsky.social Independent academic in and around Game Studies, digital culture & media. Researcher, educator, and player writing about games, communities, and the cultures we build around play.
Now Playing: ZZZ, NTE, Big Walk, Tokon, Palworld, Forza6 & Valheim
Seth Polansky @sethpolansky.bsky.social Gamer, Filmmaker, Attorney
Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social City planner. Reconstruction Democrat. Housing is good and fascism is bad.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social Game scholar, professor, & director of Interactive Games and Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Sr. Advisor @econliberties.bsky.social. Co-host @thefairfightpod.bsky.social.
The Breach @breachmedia.ca Journalism to map a just future.
Award-winning outlet launched in May, 2021.
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Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
💀Elaine Lich-glow💀 @elainelithgow.bsky.social Scottish TTRPG Producer at Rowan Rook & Decard. Usurper to the throne of Spire and Heart. Designer, Writer, and RRD Workers Union Rep. She/her 🏳️🌈
We're all just telling each other stories as the lights go out.
https://linktr.ee/elainelithgow
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social We publish critical writing on roleplaying games, in a quarterly magazine with a new guest editor every issue.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social - Activist, artist, gamer ♡
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Beverly Bambury @beverlybambury.com Book publicist since 2012 (horror, SFF, and more) Astronomy/astrophotography. Member RASC Mississauga. 🇺🇲+🇨🇦 She/Her
Animated Corpse 🇨🇦 @deartogod.bsky.social Yo I make music: http://deartogod.bandcamp.com
Also here: https://youtube.com/@deartogod
Will eventually have some games here: https://deartogod.itch.io
Trans rights are human rights.
Finger on the eject button.
Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
www.jenreadsromance.com
Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you in July 2026. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha more info @ romancingthevote.com
Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm in Boring, Oregon.
No dooming in my replies. There's already enough doom in the world.
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
gril @funambulism.com Stories, games, philosophy. Jew.
Currently: Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius
Previously: PUBG: Black Budget, Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing THE AGE OF IMMERSION (2027).
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Phillip Picardi @pfpicardi.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, Playboy. 🐰
🔙 CCO Teen Vogue, founder of Them, EIC Out
Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social A podcast that digs deep into analog role-playing games and their cultures. Coming in Fall 2026!
Part of Ludology podcast group.
Hosted by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @czamboni.bsky.social
Logo by @feralcharlie.bsky.social
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). she/her. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
Watch➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3fwy6f3j | https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
More 🎥 🌐 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
matildastahl.bsky.social @matildastahl.bsky.social University Lecturer in Education at Åbo Akademi University, also affiliated with the Game Research Lab, Tampere University.
The banner is for the SURVIVE-project (by Ludwig Sandbacka) where we explore intersections between survival games and survivalism.
The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social Artist, anxious person
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
twitch.tv/dreamwispjen
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Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
The Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org We are a collective of platform workers and researchers challenging conditions in self-employed and gig work.
🗺️ Edinburgh, Scotland
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social She/her. Erstwhile entertainment reporter (as Mala B.). Ribald romance writer (also writing as Kali Decker). Copy editor/Reviewer at Booklist. Occasionally serious person. https://linktr.ee/suleikhasnyder
https://ko-fi.com/suleikhasnyder
Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.social (🔞minors DNI)
No hat, all Rabbit.
She/They/Bun.
I ask about films, music, gaming.
Marxist.
https://throne.com/sophia_nyx
Wonderkarin @wonderkarin.bsky.social I’m one of those damn Swedish larpers. I even blog. My main goal is to rediscover joy and pleasure.
Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social Online May 22-23, 2026! A new game industry event by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed.- J jendales.bsky.social @jendales.bsky.social
Jeff Yang @originalsp.in TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin
Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America
Pic: thx @gregpak!
Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. Watch the videos on TikTok: https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social An independent, subscriber-supported publication of reporting, criticism, and more—all by, for, and about fandom. 🎉 fansplaining.com
(Plus 9 years as a podcast: 250+ episodes in our back catalog!)
Lew @lewsos.bsky.social Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social •accustomed to disgust
•trying out amusement 👠👠
FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social First in Fright since 1979, FANGORIA is a collectible magazine, a podcast network, and an entertainment studio.
FANGORIA.com
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
The ArQuives @arquives.ca Canada’s largest independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archives
Telling your stories to help preserve history 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
www.arquives.ca
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
Organizing: [ wethepeople.nyc ] @pactcollective.xyz @lexicon.community
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
Ross 💙🎲 MoreGamesPlease @moregamesplease.com Works in #BoardGames #Tabletop | Marketing | Community | Photography
Next - Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game
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🎨 BG Artists Interviews -> https://linktr.ee/moregamesplease
Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social Flora 🪴 she/her📍Newcastle, UK
🏺Ancient Mediterranean art🏺
💌Contact: flora@flarohillustration.com
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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social Writer and filmmaker. Author of five books, most recently IN BETWEEN DAYS. She/her.
https://www.booksaremagic.net/item/k9JCycuDevqU8Ufpha6EHQ
Cadence Weapon @cadenceweapon.bsky.social 📩 grant@midnightagency.com (booking)
📨 helen@sixshooterrecords.com (mgmt)
https://sixshooterrecords.lnk.to/Forager
cadenceweapon.substack.com
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
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.
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social Writes stuff, edits things, looks at rocks
https://jackiefraser.co.uk/
#DailyMegalith #MDANT #RNA
JR McCormick @oldcinnamon.bsky.social Director at Felbryn Studios 🗡️
Showrunner at The Bad Articles 🗞️
Eejit with Belly Belly Improv 🎭
🪑 Improviser
🎙️ Voice Actor
🥬 Foley Artist
✍️ Silly Writer
🎹 Composer
🎲 TTRPG Player
(he/him)
No DMs
contact: JR@felbrynstudios.com
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Very Ok Vinyl @veryokvinyl.com Niche Music Label (VGM + vtubers + other)
Canadian eh 🍁🍁
what are we calling bluesky posts
Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Game Studies at ICCIT, U Toronto Mississauga. Researches games, systems, AI/ML, and digital media. www.samuelpizelo.com
Markus Elvig @vongnome.bsky.social They/them. PhD Student, cooking enjoyer, haunted by affordance theory and generally interested in the history of game studies, queer theory and other chthonic topics.