Missing the Middle @missingthemiddle.bsky.social A project exploring the systemic challenges facing mid-career academic librarians and convening a forum to help disrupt them. Account managed by @hedgielib and @sappnelson. IMLS Grant #RE-260525-OLS-26. Opinions only of the investigators.
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social Pre-order Bogland at https://wwnorton.com/books/bogland
Author, scientist, mom. Bog adventurer. Permafrost detective. Learn more at merrittraeturetsky.com
Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY. Host of First America podcast. Out June 22. Subscribe now! firstamerica.info
Alex Hudson @blacksandpaper.bsky.social 
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social jonmooallem.com
Writer
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam @bonniejostuffle.bsky.social Nebula finalist w/90+ pubs. ND for mobile game. "Glorious Fiends" novella & "Where You Linger" short story collection. She/her.
I'm not really here--or anywhere! Email me instead bonnie.stufflebeam@gmail.com
Sean Keeley @seankeeley.bsky.social Managing Editor at @awfulannouncing.bsky.social. Bagel snob in Seattle. http://itsashanda.com
@jillwebb.bsky.social @jillwebb.bsky.social Reader, writer, nerd, horseperson.
Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social I share about walking, biking, great cities, & progressive politics.
I work for @streetsalliance.bsky.social (Seattle's walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit), but these are my personal opinions.
John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop 
Adirondack Nature @adirondacknature.bsky.social Exploring the habitats, wildlife, and plants of the Adirondacks. https://wildadirondacks.org/
Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social Reader, knitter, scribbler, hopeful idealist. Largely owned by cats. Clay and magic words. (Words my own, no-one else's.) She/her. Sometime delightful hooligan.
Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social Environmental psychologist, geographer, and a gregarious good time about all things queer trans dyke
https://queergeographies.com
https://linktr.ee/ourdykehistories
British Hedgehog Preservation Society @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social British Hedgehog Preservation Society (Charity)
www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk
'The hedgehog conservation charity'
If you have a hedgehog in need of help, please call us on 01584 890 801 - this channel is not constantly monitored.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@cljskis.bsky.social @cljskis.bsky.social 
Christie Robertson @xiebob.bsky.social 
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social Seattle urbanista, interested in education, safe streets, and housing. Grew up in Baltimore. Hampshire College grad. GIS graduate student and bike mom. Former wetland biologist. I follow Seattle School Board meetings and yell at cars.
Kris Gates @krismgates.bsky.social Scientist, atheist, educator. Proud PNW liberal; Oregon.
Striving to be a part of our more perfect union. Lover of birds, cats, baking & preserving. Facts Matter.
#Bird photos are mine unless noted otherwise.
Joined 4/24 Missing Post News!
She/her/pissed
Dave @policywank.com Photography at @flowstateneworleans and this is for other things. Former Latin American historian. Opinionated. Hates Nazis and not just the Illinois ones.
#nolasky
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Ryn @rynrichmond.bsky.social Editor, writer, poet, science communicator, former teacher. Passionate about language retention and revitalization, space, seahorses, dragonflies, disability, reproductive health. 🇺🇸 to 🇳🇿. 🏳🌈. Board game geek. Fibro+endo. https://ko-fi.com/rynrwrites
Alex Mayer @alexmayer34.bsky.social • Affinity 4 Oddities @ Seattle Mariners
• #TheMayerGWS = Game Winning Stat!
• Can also be found at x.com/alexmayer34
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social Data governance weirdo trying to normalize my life.
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
-Herman Melville
Wordorigins.org @wordorigins.bsky.social Focusing on the origins of words and phrases and their cultural context since 1997, plus astrophotography and dog pics/videos. Run by Dave Wilton (he/him).
Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social i draw comics for the New Yorker and candy hearts and extremely accurate birds and you can buy my books and calendars and things over on my webstore, xoxo
www.tommysiegel.net
Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social Doctor of Birds at SUNY Oswego. Opinions = mine, not representative of NY state government. I run a banding station: @rcbobirds on IG.
Reclusion @reclusionofficial.bsky.social ✧ ex Umbris ad Lucem ✦
Creating a historical fantasy, narrative-driven roguelike deckbuilder
https://linktr.ee/reclusionofficial / www.reclusionthegame.com
Nillu Z Nasser @nillunasser.bsky.social Writer, tea drinker, book hoarder, always curious. Love languages, travel, Europe. Tired of liars and interested in detail over soundbites http://linktr.ee/NZNasser
TrishEM @pematson.bsky.social Award-winning journalism editor and writer, speculative fiction reviewer and podcaster, lover of games, music, audiodramas, wordplay and more. (She/her)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciamatson
Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social Adventure Cartoonist. Emphatically not a raccoon.
Previously: BAGGYWRINKLES, 100 DEMON DIALOGUES. Next: SEACRITTERS!, a swashbuckling animal caper w/ Kate Milford - March ’27.
Heck the feed, send me mail: PO Box 734, Ojai CA 93024
lucybellwood.com
Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social Retired by disability but still grooving. Primarily at sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network
Rowan Ellis @heyrowanellis.bsky.social Author (HERE AND QUEER). Video essays on YouTube.
Queer Movie Podcast co-host. Food+D&D nerd. http://patreon.com/rowanellis
Business enquiries: rowanellis@zigguratxyz.com
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Reader of Entrails @haruspex.bsky.social Zoo pathologist 🧪💀🧑🏻⚕️ She/her 🏳️🌈
Unsettling animal facts, inadvisable humor, & ridiculous cat pics.
Posts are my own and do not represent current, past, or future employers.
My day job: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/zoo-animal-deaths
Seattle Public Library @spl.org Meet Me at the Library! 📚✨ You visited us 3.4 million times last year 🚶
We bring people, information and ideas together to enrich lives and build community 📚
rcloenenruiz @rcloenenruiz.bsky.social Dreamer, artist, writer, activist, alive.
rcloenenruiz.com
Dr. Andrew Chesnut @drdeathanddivinity.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Religious Studies at VCU https://vcu.academia.edu/AndrewChesnut |Santa Muerte| Film, TV & News Consultant| Expert Witness| My Books https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001KHTDGE
The History Chicks Podcast @thehistorychicks.bsky.social Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. Join us on an award-winning podcast journey through herstory! Both Beckett and Susan are the voices of this account.
Evan J Peterson, Haute Monster @evanjpeterson.bsky.social Writer: games/humor/horror. POSTHUMAN & Drag Star! #rpg, Better Living Through Alchemy (SmallSpecAward, best fantasy novel!) Too queer to tolerate injustice. All pronouns. linktr.ee/evanjpeterson
This Podcast Will Kill You @tpwky.bsky.social Disease + podcast = so much good dinner party conversation. Hosted by @erinwelsh.bsky.social and Erin Allmann Updyke.
YouTube Premiere of Pregnancy Act One on March 11, 5pm PT:
https://youtu.be/Dx0ewmmMjnQ
Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com Author, Otherwise Award Honor List, rep: Russ Galen. Writing non-human romantic fantasy. 🐙
she/her, autistic, queer, D&D player, dog mom. Pfp: @starace.bsky.social. Banner: @8thcreation.bsky.social
🚫Anti-genAI🚫
https://jaekoyanagi.carrd.co
Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE IS AN IGNYTE FINALIST! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Iranian Chicagoan author: THE BRUISING OF QILWA (adult queernorm Persian fantasy; Crawford, Locus, World Fantasy finalist) & THE GLADE (🏳️🌈🍄MG horror, Ignyte finalist). Worker-owner at Sword & Kettle Press. Newsletter, teaching, & more: lnk.bio/jamsternazzy
Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
signal: simbler.88
Lulu Miller @lutimestwo.bsky.social Host of Radiolab and Terrestrials. Author of Why Fish Don’t Exist and Trucky Roads. Cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia. Science nerd. Mom. Queer. Lover of trees. Maker of bad puns.
Drew Emery @drewstories.bsky.social X-refugee (@InlawsOutlaws). Writer, storyteller. A cabin in Washington. Rome #SPQR #PNW #UVa #WmandMary
were-duck @were-duck.bsky.social Queer poly nerd fannish bookish parent. Co-owner of my favorite bookstore. Madisonian for lyfe. they/them.
Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com Writer. He/him. Too boring for social media. Incandescently angry. #RCTID #BAON #YNWA Trans rights are human rights. There is no going back.
The Forged is back in May! Batwoman monthly!
Newsletter: https://front-towards-enemy.ghost.io
Jason Porath @jasonporath.bsky.social I dunno, I just got here
Sirens @sirensconference.org Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us July 28-August 1, 2027: sirensconference.org
Cheesivore @cheesivore.bsky.social 
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Explore the remarkable diversity of birds with Birds of the World, the world's leading collection of avian life histories published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with a global editorial team of avian experts. birdsoftheworld.org.
Denny Atkin @dennya.bsky.social Writer/content designer/improviser/dad/cat guy/Trek nerd/more.
You might remember me from CGW, Omni, Computer Games Magazine, Insider Moves on Xbox Live, The Next Generation Gap, or that one party at the Peabody in Memphis back in college.
Marcus McCann @mmccnn.bsky.social Employment & human rights lawyer 📚Writer of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path (Anansi) 📚 He/him 🌈 EN/ES
Eleanor Medhurst (she/her) @eleanormedhurst.bsky.social Lesbian fashion historian, writer, lecturer 💖☀️ http://dressingdykes.com 📚 ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’ out now!
📍Brighton, UK.
@amirakmakansi.bsky.social @amirakmakansi.bsky.social 
Angie Reed Garner @angiereedgarner.bsky.social painting, Zen-Buddhist-teaching in Open Mind Zen Louisville, organizing (people not stuff), exhibiting art in Louisville KY
also: talking cats and pickleball
angiereedgarner.com
omzlouisville.com
SugarPill Apothecary @sugarpillseattle.bsky.social Your neighborhood herbal apothecary. Now on Whidbey Island. Still Queer.
Jen Strongin @jensseattle.bsky.social Photographer, Naturalist, Nature Nerd- Based in the Beautiful PNW
www.jenstronginphotography.com
@theroskelley.bsky.social @theroskelley.bsky.social 
Lee Zuk (They/Them) @leemazulu.bsky.social Anglophile. Bird nerd. Quilter. Book addict. Dog life. Mountains with a tiny slice of ocean.
Carly J Dubois 🦋 @carlyjdubois.com Words at newspapers and magazines. Prior editing paychecks from CBS, The Athletic, and The New York Times. How people use a language is what the language is. FFS, check voter registration status regularly! She/her. Be kind.
Jeffrey Masters @jeffreymasters.bsky.social excited to be here thank you for having me
Andy Duncan @andyduncansf.bsky.social Writer, teacher, journalist, explorer of Weird Western Maryland. Nebula, Sturgeon, 3 World Fantasy Awards. Latest collection: AN AGENT OF UTOPIA (Small Beer Press).
Amanda (she/her) @apowter.bsky.social trying. some say very trying...
h sofia @hsofia2025.bsky.social Here so I don't have to give out my phone number. Still 😷ing usually.
Pink Martini @pinkmartiniband.bsky.social Mulit-lingual, genre-defying, globe-trotting "little orchestra from Portland Oregon. Celebrating 30 years as the aspirational imaginary United Nations house band circa 1962. On tour now. www.pinkmartini.com
KJ Kabza @kjkabza.bsky.social latest fiction: "The Ecstasy of the White Sea" (in BCS #460) | writing | fitness | I like being outside | 50,000 red foxes in a human-shaped receptacle
Netflix @netflix.com One Last Time
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social Neurodivergent librarian & writer ♐️📚🏳️🌈
they/them 💛🤍💜🖤
All opinions my own, not my employer's
Gene “GD” Demby @geedee215.bsky.social co-host, Code Switch at @npr.org. South Philly forever; Tottenham 'til they kill me. 
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
Robyn Bennis, Gender Criminal @robynbennis.bsky.social https://robynbennis.com/
🌈⚧️
I used to write technical documents before AI ate my job. But I've bounced back and now run a thriving [placeholder] business.
Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
Kosoko Jackson @kosokojackson.bsky.social USA TODAY Bestseller • 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner & Fellow • THE MACABRE, EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WITCHCRAFT (@harpervoyagerus, 2025 & 2026) • WME Repped Screenwriter • Film/TV: Mary Pender, WME #scriptsky, 🍉
Emily Keller @emkeller.bsky.social Political Science and Public Policy Librarian, University of Washington, Seattle
Peter Staley 🇺🇦 @peterstaley.bsky.social AIDS & 🏳️🌈 rights activist; PrEP4All; TAG & ACT UP NY alum; Fall 2016 Harvard IOP fellow; subject in How to Survive a Plague; Author, NEVER SILENT: https://a.co/d/8lPyQjQ
Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social Retired librarian, now "full-time" writer/ reader of fantasy, SF and mystery. TKZ blogger. Author of The Empowered series, Meg Booker librarian mystery series, and various novellas and short stories. Avid stargazer, role-player, board gamer. Fez wearer.
Joy B @odwallafemme.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/shop/readingrecsfromjoy
Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social Neurodivergent & disabled archaeologist, educator, writer & parent. she/they
@bonbonelan.bsky.social @bonbonelan.bsky.social 
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov Congresswoman, lifelong organizer, mom. Proudly serving WA-7. Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Member of Judiciary Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Budget Committee. She/her.
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Elena Postal @elenapostal.bsky.social 
JaniaJania @janiajania.bsky.social Dilettante Sagittarian, still.
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social scientist, coder, public servant, gardener, potter, writer, parent, Canadian
Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov Official site of the Washington Emergency Management Division. Content Guidelines: https://mil.wa.gov/social Not here 24/7 #wawx #EMGchat
Preparedness tips: https://mil.wa.gov/preparedness
Alerts: https://mil.wa.gov/alerts
Seattle Streets Alliance @streetsalliance.bsky.social We organize and mobilize people to make every neighborhood a great place to walk, bike, roll, and live.
Learn more at streetsalliance.org.
Fairwood Press- Patrick Swenson @patrickswenson.bsky.social I'm a poppa, writer, publisher, editor, retreat director, and now retired teacher. Links to websites, socials, & new books:
https://linktr.ee/patrick.swenson