South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social Amplifying authentic narratives of the South End.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
She/her, Latina, Texan
Natalie 🍁 @natalie-a.bsky.social 
Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social Writer, muser, cynic. The man behind WNBAlien, currently seen at @herhoopstats.com and various other portals over the years. Occasionally considered knowledgeable about WNBA CBA and salary matters. Views are my own. He/him.
statsboye @statsboye.bsky.social vroom, swish, ping, clank, doink, crack, whack, grunt, cheers, boos, splash, whistle
Seattle Storm @stormbasketball.bsky.social 4x WNBA Champions 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Bella Valeriano Munson @munson-bella.bsky.social All women’s sports pretty much all the time
University of Washington
Reporter, Editor | The Equalizer
Reporter | The Next
also available for freelance 🤞
@buddhistduelist.bsky.social @buddhistduelist.bsky.social 
@crafty-dragon.bsky.social @crafty-dragon.bsky.social 
@haightashburybaby.bsky.social @haightashburybaby.bsky.social 
Magasin K @magasink.bsky.social Bevakar kultur, bibliotek, museer, arkiv, arkeologi, kommunikation och den kreativa sektorn.
Inger Merete Hobbelstad @ingermerete.bsky.social Kulturkommentator i NRK. Forfatter. Bruker for mye penger på notatbøker og gavepapir.
Aftonbladet Kultur @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social Skandinaviens största kultursida. Förenar kultur med social kritik sedan Wendela Hebbe (1808–1899). Online sedan 1994. http://aftonbladet.se/kultur
JoAnna Redman-Smith @joannaredmansmith.bsky.social Stuff I Love - Animals, Music, Nature, Great stories, Kind people, My family
Stuff I Do - Groom dogs, Play RPGs, Garden
Stuff I Hate - Bigots, Greed, Fibromyalgia
Agitated Spiders for Justice @jane-brooks.bsky.social Tech professional, artist, ukulele player, three manic pixie dreamgirls in a trenchcoat. #Nerdfighter. My opinions do not reflect those of my employers.
Make art. Make progress. Make authoritarianism expensive.
https://youtube.com/@agitatedspiders
Adam Scott Glancy @adamscottglancy.bsky.social Delta Green author, TTRPG designer, history nerd, recovering lawyer, bourbon drinker, Pulp enthusiast, and all around story teller.
Check out my work at https://www.delta-green.com/
Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social The first openly French-Canadian author to be banned in Texas. 🏳️⚧️
Patreon : www.patreon.com/assignedmale
Tipjar : www.ko-fi.com/sophielabelle 
Seth Polansky @sethpolansky.bsky.social Gamer, Filmmaker, Attorney
Judith Underwood @quarknoise.bsky.social Dual citizen, probably won't post much but who knows.
Circling Seattle Sports @circlingseasports.bsky.social Covering 44 total teams in the greater Seattle area.
Championing women’s sports in Seattle
CirclingSeattleSports.com
Kevin Pelton @kpelton.bsky.social Assistant GM for Connecticut Sun (future Houston Comets). Using numbers to learn about the game.
Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social ESPN women’s college basketball, WNBA reporter. Posting on here and, for now, X | IG: alexaphilippou_ESPN
@shanmuffins.bsky.social @shanmuffins.bsky.social
Joseph D. Carriker, Jr. @oakthorne.bsky.social He/Him/His. Queer. Poly. Bear. Geek. Game designer. Author. Shipping trash. Waterdeep Enthusiast. Portland OR
Oneiropolis Project: https://www.patreon.com/c/Oneiropolis
DM's Guild Author: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Joseph%20Carriker
Dr. Marc Schmalz @effrenatus.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of IT Mgmt
Research: Identity Theory w/ Tech & Games
Opinion: Mine
Ed: PhD-InfoSci @UWSeattle; BS-Hist @BallState
Work: WotC, Green Ronin, Game Mechanics, TeachFirst, Real, DoubleDown
He; Masked; Anti-fascist; Ally; BLM; Anti-AI
Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com (he/him) tabletop gamer, game designer, superhero fan, anti-fascist, geek, witch, polyamorous, and queer 🏳️🌈 partners with @christopherpenczak.bsky.social and @adamsartwell.bsky.social 💖 stevekenson.com • patreon.com/stevekenson
Carol is on a list somewhere 😏 @pierrette1789.bsky.social Carol Monahan: 30yr tabletop game-industry veteran. "I worked in the WotC basement!"
Singer of old music: find Conspiratio’s “Wassail!” on Bandcamp.
VP of Crab Fragment & Cheapass Games: https://crabfragmentlabs.com
she/her
Art Smith @artsmithwriter.bsky.social Old guy, writer*, tuba player, gives great hugs-all are welcome!
*Uncommon Counsel, available in the or e-book. Hit me up for deets. Maybe another coming soonish.
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
@jespermyrfors.bsky.social @jespermyrfors.bsky.social 
✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social Award-winning narrative designer & writer🎮
Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games
Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱
Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex
https://brightwhitney.com
Rick D. S. Marshall @anthropoculture.bsky.social He/Him. Beverly, Athena, Hekate, VEN, MDC, philosophy, history, kobudo, karate, Vista, M, science, justice, indigeneity, gardening, Cat School, Foolscap, Latin, gaming, Wizards, VA, Seattle.
H.R. Huflgruf @808delay.bsky.social Mai Tai obsessed socially awkward GenX retired librarian. Distraction powered implausibility nexus, serial procrastinator, and SciFi nerd. Mostly, I just lurk here and observe the performance art. 🏳️🌈
Jai Tanner @jai-tancat.bsky.social Lover of the Divine Luminosity of All Creation, art, words, photographs, people, audio divina, nature and culture. Grandmother, mother, wife, chaplain. Follower of the mystics Hildegard, Julian and Merton. Believer in dignity and respect for all.
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.
@bgoodman7.bsky.social @bgoodman7.bsky.social 
Bishop Kedda @bishopkedda.bsky.social Diocesan Bishop of the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Pacific Northwest.
Veronica (Ruby), Queen of Whimsy @vtcryfordawn.bsky.social Described as, "Born and raised in the 1880s, before falling through a time hole. Hobbies include organizing ALL the things and owning fabulous shoes." Love cats, shiny things, Fluevogs, chocolate, geeky stuff and spookiness. Human rights are non-negotiable
Bill Rockenbeck @bill-rockenbeck.bsky.social I mostly putter around my yard and poke stuff. Sometimes I make pots. Sometimes I make food. Sometimes I make video games.
The IX Sports Podcasts @theixsportspod.bsky.social The IX Sports Podcast, women's soccer by Kathleen Gier, women's hockey by Maya Smith and women's basketball by Howard Megdal and Jackie Powell.
Women's Sports Daily, five-minute weekday women's sports news podcast by Chelsea Leite and Stephanie Kaloi.
ᴀᴍʏ ᴡᴇʙᴇʀ sᴛᴜᴅɪᴏ @amyweberstudio.bsky.social 🌈ᴀʀᴛɪsᴛ 🍄 ᴘᴀɪɴᴛᴇʀ 🎨 ɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ🌲ᴘᴇɴᴄɪʟ ᴄᴏʟʟᴇᴄᴛᴏʀ 🏔️ ғᴏʀᴍᴇʀ ᴘʀᴏғ 🐕 ᴘɴᴡ 🪷 https://linktr.ee/amyweberstudio?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=f338a0f9-6ecd-45e4-b480-d24d01c31ed9
Ladyluck131 (she/they) 🏴☠️🧶🍰🧜♀️ @ladyluck131.bsky.social Late Gen X, knitter, baker, plant geek, ADHD, OFMD, Good Omens, Dr. Who, likes cats, loves dogs, sometimes artist & musician, avid reader of fic & trying to not just lurk.
Evan Sass @frogtaco.bsky.social He / him. Green Ronin's IT Director. Editor of many RPG books and other things. Game designer. Home brewer, food smoker, mediocre miniatures painter. 🦻
K.G. Anderson @kganderson.bsky.social Seattle-based SF author, humor columnist, cat-herder, practitioner of uncommon sense. SFWA, Codex, Viable Paradise, Taos Toolbox, Two Hour Transport, B Cubed Press. Author of Patti 209. kgsea.substack.com
The Woman @canthdecided.bsky.social I am an artist, handicrafter, and writer.
Professional Muse.
Narrow, but extremely deep.
Animals love me and I love animals.
Kathy @kathyr56.bsky.social Grandma, crocheter, profoundly blue.
DMs are disabled.
🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Goblin editor @goblinsquee.bsky.social Jennifer Clarke Wilkes.
Game editor, tabletop player, fledgling adventurer. I was a goblin before it was cool. (She/her)
Brian Stillman @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social 🎥Pop-Culture Documentary Maker
✍️Fmr. Music Journalist at Revolver Magazine
🏴☠️Gamer; Toy & Art & Prop Collector
🖤My Wife & Our Cats & Star Trek
🎵NEGATIVE AGENT - my industrial band
NegativeAgent.bsky.social
NegativeAgent.bandcamp.com
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ BLM
Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social I travel and take photos of beautiful places. Proudly liberal Christian and political progressive. Previous life and career spent navigating the treacherous waters of American Evangelicalism, often as the most liberal person in the boat.
Epiphany Jordan @piffyotter.bsky.social purveyor of fine, artisanal, handcrafted oxytocin.
Heidi Miller 🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 @heidimiller.bsky.social She/her. Content strategist, salsa dancer, cat 🐾 lover, fighter for social justice. I trust #data 📊 and science. 🧬 #cloudmarketing #socialmedia #cronesofanarchy
@rubystarr.bsky.social @rubystarr.bsky.social 
Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social COO and co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. Lifelong book lover, 10+ year Seattle Arts and Lectures volunteer. ❤️ TTRPGs, food, music, travel, and solitude. Anti-racist, neurospicy, intolerant of bigots and bullies.
The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social Sugar, Spice, Smudge and Saja, and occasionally guest animals and humans.
Ari Marmell @mouseferatu.bsky.social Optioned screenwriter. Author of that novel you haven't read. No, the other one. Pinko lefty. Oversharer.
He/him
Storm Chasers @wnbastormchasers.bsky.social I'm an independent journalist that's been covering the WNBA and the Seattle Storm since 2015. I want to be your #1 choice for Seattle Storm coverage.
Jefferson (Prepress DM) @darklament.bsky.social Prepress manager, archivist, 40k fanboy, D&D lifer, all-around geek who loves the shit out of the things I love. Partner is @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social
Rich Redman @richredman.bsky.social Quality Assurance Analyst, TTRPG GM, and player. He/him/his, but welcoming and open-minded. Desert Storm veteran. Dog lover, cat tolerater.
Sabi @nomadicmagic.bsky.social they/them wolfie beast 🐺 🐲
🔮 welcome to a nerd out space made of nature, wackiness, art and magic
📖 a lil inner journey journal
🔞 NSFW art sometimes 🔞
💖 fox kisser / ✨ critter heart cuddler
Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social 💙😷🌏
https://www.didiwood.com/stories
Tura23 @tura23.bsky.social She/Her/Weirdo bisexual
I love Movies, Drag, Horror, Filth, Glamour, Wang Yibo, Xaio Zhan, Decadence, Spectacle and Scarecrow Video. Embracing my inner Grannyhag! 
Cecily Parsley @cecilyfuhr.bsky.social 
Templar @templar462.bsky.social the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled
𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤🌙 @thedarling.bsky.social ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇꜱᴛᴏɴ ɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ, ʙᴏʀɴ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ 1900ꜱ 🌈
ᴅᴇᴍᴜʀᴇ ɪʟʟᴜꜱᴛʀᴀᴛᴏʀ/ᴡʀɪᴛᴇʀ 🎀 (ꜱʜᴇ/ʜᴇʀ)
ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛꜱ ⚡ ᴅᴇꜱᴛʀᴏʏ ᴀɪ
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ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴍᴇᴇᴇ: https://thedarlings.carrd.co/
🌊 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙾𝙽, 𝚂𝙲, 𝚄𝚂𝙰
Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social He/him NG Rogue/Paladin, leftist, support BIPOC/LGBTQ rights, obvs. #NoGOP #NoMAGA
I write and stuff. Fantasy/Scifi/Horror/Superheroes
Check out the Justice/Vengeance series! erikscottdebie.com/bibliography/justice-vengeance/
Winterjaye @winterjaye.bsky.social He, she, they. Artist, musician, writer, gamer, gardener. Orange Tabby cat, and Blue Heeler/Australian Shepherd
soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Soraya Chemaly @sorayachemaly.bsky.social Journalist, activist, and reluctant expert on online harassment and free speech • I write about politics, tech, education, religion, and media. Pick up a copy of All We Want is Everything if you want to think about male supremacy and what we do about it!
Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social OG Black feminist journalist and editor • Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Helping incarcerated journalists with @empowermentave.bsky.social • Forever putting on for Black + queer folks • Next: ✍🏾 NO GIVING IN
Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social 29+ year veteran of writing, developing, and publishing ttRPGs.
Co-Author of Starfinder and Star Wars Saga Edition, worked on D&D, Pathfinder, Fantasy AGE, Everyday Heroes and more.
Freelance writer/consultant
https://www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephens
He/Him
Chris Spivey (Author) @darkerhue.bsky.social Multi-award-winning writer and game designer. Veteran, part-time historian, podcaster, SFWA, and WWA member. Harlem Unbound, Haunted West, Genreless Podcast. Arc Dream Publishing Director (He/Him) #BlackLivesMatter
Deo @amadeo.bsky.social Just liking cat pics in my lil corner of the internet
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social linguist, discourse/pragmatics
podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social
author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com
singer with the Wild Lilacs
https://www.instagram.com/thewildlilacs?igsh=MXJqOXZ6NHpoOXRrYg==
she/they
substantively unserious
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Donna Prior @danicia.bsky.social They/Them. Senior Community Manager @ Catan Studio
Exec. Director @ OrcaCon
Twitch Affiliate. Living on land stolen from Coastal Salish people. #PolyAmBelterFam #BLM #OFMD
https://linktr.ee/Danicia
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social They call you a feminist killjoy because misogyny is fun for them.
Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social co-host of White Homework, co-host of @gohomebible.
former conservative antiracism educator because i like reading. community > everything. exvangelical, 🏳️🌈 | 📍PDX (but probably hiking)
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
brittany packnett cunningham (she/her.) @mspackyetti.bsky.social the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration.
writer. talker. strategist. activist.
Black. loved. grateful. free.
subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social The labor market is a mess. Here to show you why. Highlighting workers conflict with poor management, corporate greed, bad business, and the economy.
Threads.net/@fuckyouiquit
Instagram.com/fuckyouiquit
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Rose Peskova ♀︎♀︎♀︎ Mother of Mountains @rozietoez.bsky.social dykegender transsexual, verbose
befriending you to spend time with your pets
she/her/kallai 🏳️⚧️
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social Parent, husky-mom, doomsayer, aviator, general PITA. Views are my own.
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social Fantasy author, fashion historian, medievalist, Arthurian, gardener 🌺 ADHD, she/they, queer 🏳️🌈 | 👑 THE GAME OF HEARTS OUT JUNE 24 from Solaris Books 👑 | rep: Stacey Graham More at: https://bit.ly/m/nataniabarron
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.