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The Count of S 🇧🇲🖼️✍️ @thecountofs.bsky.social (Comics) Illustrator from a remote island
Ongoing Series: My Time In ONI
Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social He/him. Proudly Jewish. Marine veteran of 🇮🇶&🇦🇫. Corporate litigator. Dad.
sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social next station is the end of history, please gather your belongings as you exit
Juris Martins 🌹🇱🇻🇪🇺 @jurismartins.bsky.social Interest in human rights, politics and international relations || Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree in Law and Diplomacy || Social Democrat 🌹 || Member of @progresivie.lv
Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social Storyboard artist/animator
Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social tebūna mūs polėkiai kilnūs.
he/him
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social he/him tradwife | catholic theology phd student | socialist | hate amerikkkan kkklantholicism
KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com Rector Trinity Episcopal, Oshkosh | Coleridge | editor-in-chief Earth & Altar | he/him | Sewer Socialist | orgulloso floridiano | Drawings at theodramatist.com/saints | blog at theodramatist.com/warmthlight-blog
Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social priest, theologian, teacher, police chaplain, monastic, dog person, New Jersey convert, ham radio operator KE2APB
not in the Epstein files
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social The donuts and beers one. Certified Barracks Lawyer. Guardian of the Thermostat. Consumer of Food and Drink. Actually forklift certified. Semper Gumpy. Drunken BBX Advocate. Writing at: https://inconvenientwarstudies.net/
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. Kaboom! Bucket Brigade member since 1982.
victor @windienine.bsky.social i'm victor!
- they/them
- birdwatcher, classicist, professional editor, narrative designer.
- narrative coordinator on BLANKSWORD!
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Doll Tearsheet @grayathena.bsky.social Amateur baseball commissioner
Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social chaotic foolish. writer, critic and recovering TV producer. host of Going Rogue, a podcast about troubled films and the industry that makes them, if you even care.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Karl C Krumpholz @karlckrumpholz.bsky.social Cartoonist on ‘It's Oola!!', In The City’, and ‘Queen City’ (yep, there’s a theme.) Probably drawing right now.
https://karlchristiankrumpholz.com/
Léo Chérel @cherelleo.bsky.social Hi, I'm a french comic artist & Illustrator. I like to draw fantasy/pirate stuff most of the time
Ma BD, Pourpre-Sang tome 1 sort ce 7 mai !
Other places / Contact : http://cherel.carrd.co
Orchid 🐺🌿 @heyitsorchid.bsky.social D2 lore | the otter person ⌬ | #solavellan brainrot 🐺| bi she/they
ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
Lucy Calkins' #2 hater
Play it fucking loud.
Marc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social I'm here for a long time, not a good time
Rude Law Dog @esghound.com Policy, Research, Muckraking, Two time winner of the "Wokest Hedgefund Analyst" award
blog.esghound.com
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz aspiring neurocryptographer, security nerd
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Ixonaeve @ixonaeve.bsky.social ✶winona | she/her | 24
✶freelance digital artist | 18+
✶comm info: ixonaeve.carrd.co
✶for tips: https://hipolink.net/ixonaeve
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
https://freakytrigger.co.uk
Nife @knifesart.bsky.social Nife
I really like arts (They/Them)
Support: patreon.com/nife
Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social Comics, illustration, storyboards, and concept art from the biggest collective of comics artists in North America. http://helioscopepdx.com
Ron Randall @ronrandall.bsky.social Makes the comics. Creator/writer/artist of sci-fi bounty hunter Mercy St. Clair:TREKKER. Past work: DC, Dark Horse, Marvel, etc. WARNING: Also spins vinyl while drawing and overshares about that.
trekkerkickstarter.com
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
muttzi @muttzi.bsky.social pro-social smartass. liberal socialist. harmonic dilettante. ludic dabbler. go birds. TL applying functional programming to infra automation by day. technology sans humanity is garbage.
noam @noamchompers.bsky.social lecturer. soon to be lecturer (weirdly an important difference)
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social I'm a bot that posts images from random NPS webcams, once an hour.
Note that not all images are live.
Fan Account - Not affiliated with the NPS or any other government entity.
Bot written & wrangled by @eccentric.ity.org
#NPS #NationalParkService
Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social WyDOT images from the state's most beautiful roads, every 15 minutes
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social Writer at The Bulwark
Author of The Ten Year War
Fan of Red Sox, Dolphins, Wolverines & Billy Joel
Proud husband & dad
Email cohn [at] thebulwark.com
Signal CitizenCohn.41
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social Writer, photographer, cyclist, naturalist, martial artist, tall ship sailor. The Pirate Guy of Blue Sky, apparently. Mexican-American. No kings in America. He/him. San Diego, CA.
TROUBLE @chitin.link unbelievably lucky irresponsible insanley impatient volatile and reckless desperate estrogenized faggot novelty seeker
they/it/any 1999 NL >_< EN/PT OK!
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
James Jean @jamesjeanart.bsky.social Artist
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social Queens-born, Long Island-residing social democrat culturally Catholic atheist.
White-collar union member. Occasional obnoxious music opinion. I miss Anders Lee and Pete Alonso. He/him
Talking Alligator @alligatortakes.bsky.social Good things are good, bad things are bad you dorks. Proud Democrat 🏳️⚧️
Fuck Trump, Fuck Republicans, and Fuck Ratfuckers
Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social Editor in the streets, blogger in the sheets. (Was that a cool way to say I’m always in pajama pants? It seemed cool)
Bylines: Pajiba • Uproxx • The Superficial
Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social video game newsletter at readergrev.com
news editor at POLITICO
former editor at Launcher and WaPo
mikhailklimentov.01 on Signal
Cheminism🏴 @atrophous.bsky.social Average they/she anarchist. Ally of bisexuals.
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social voice actor | represented by CAA | prozdkp@gmail.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social Economic Historian at Università di Torino. I aspire to a Plinian mind. From Palermo, Sicily.
Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
Empty Bag of Ducks📎 @emptybagofducks.bsky.social Ex-Army officer. Retired DoD civil service/SES. Historian. Battling advanced metastatic bile duct cancer. Hoya. Diehard Packer fan. Fighting the dying of the light, the dying of liberal democracy and the death of the American Republic.
disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social not AI! this bot is madlibs with rng, it does not do tricks or take commands, it just posts. Not LLM or Markov-based / created by @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social, hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Suggestion Box: https://forms.gle/1CP83J3YV2jbTLwy9
Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social music pervert. that bitch from the computer. here for a bad time AND a long time (i cannot be killed by human weapons)
linktree: https://linktr.ee/babadooknukem
jake rodkin @rodkin.online Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
🐘 idlethumbs.social/@ja2ke
🕸️ rodkin.online
Avatar by @michaelfirman.bsky.social
Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com a collection of ass brained posts written by your favorite stupid fucking idiot
Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social Mayor of Boston • Mom to Blaise, Cass & Mira • Personal account
michelleforboston.com
Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Texas Congressman. Democrat. Born, raised and represent San Antonio.
Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) + Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC).
Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social writer & bug enthusiast 
Nome @nome.bsky.social Please don't use unroller bots on my threads.
ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand.
Queer, Disabled, He/Him
🐦@NomeDaBarbarian
💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian
📌 Denver
Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social He/him. Sr. Game Designer. Prev: Epic, Bungie, Turbine, more.
I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.com
noctouyan 🔸🏳️🌈🇺🇸 @noctouyan.bsky.social 
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
Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social 26 | He/Him | San Diegan | Rugby, language learning, transit | Otter in the furry sense and the gay sense | Aspiring RN
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social linear algebra is not ontologically evil
Milo Rossi @miniminuteman.bsky.social Archaeologist • Environmental Scientist • Googledebunker
2.2M YouTube
2M TikTok
LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv The Big Bird at LegalEagle. Believer in the rule of law. 
Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social A Union-Saving, constitutional, conservative, law-and-order, right-side-up-with-care, unblushing, unquivering, unsectional, Zoave-drill, Garibaldian, up-to-the-times Abolitionist. 19th Century Best Century.
Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social Atlantic Council Fellow | Military Writers Guild Board Member | Marine Corps Strategist Fellow at Notre Dame | CIMSEC Managing Editor | Personal Account
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social 교포 입양자 KAD 🇰🇷 (adoptee) she/her
not a journalist. don’t be weird!
Reconstructionist Urbanism 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇹🇼 @texasurbanist.bsky.social I was born a citizen of a republic, I will die as one.
George Thomas enjoyer
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social "They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it." https://linktr.ee/b_nied he/him
Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca He/him. Fighter, writer, work-all-nighter. Ace. Sewer Socialist. Raver. ADHD. Toronto. Organizer, not organized. #HappyHardcore keeps me going. Democracy first and always. Canada strong. For campaign account, follow @VoteTim.ca
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
static @static-prevails.bsky.social I enjoy spreadsheets a normal amount. She/they/whatever; you cannot misgender me in a way that matters.
Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.