Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
The Maybe @themaybe.org The Maybe is a media studio, collective, and consultancy challenging the power and politics of tech.
Home to the Computer Says Maybe podcast.
Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social civic transparency for a better tomorrow. founder, MuckRock. also caretaker of DocumentCloud, FOIA Machine, and many other internet friends.
Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law, based in Jamaica Plain, Boston. He/him
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Against the Grain @radioagainst.bsky.social A Podcast and Radio Program About Politics, Society, and Ideas Originating from KPFA Radio
http://www.againstthegrain.org
The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social Not for profit organization founded by the R Core Team to provide support for the R project. A reference point for interaction with the R development community.
Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social SWer Rights • Harm Reduction • Repro Justice • Thanatology • Anarchist • Fiber Art • Hacker Groupie • MaggieMayhem.Com
Nico Perrino @nicoperrino.bsky.social Executive Vice President @thefireorg. Father, husband, civil libertarian, filmmaker (Mighty Ira), podcaster (So to Speak). Opinions my own.
So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast @freespeechtalk.bsky.social Take an uncensored look at the world of free expression through personal stories and candid conversations. Created by @TheFIREorg. Hosted by @nicoperrino.
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons @firewalldragons.bsky.social Podcast host, author, blogger, educator, advocate for computer #security & #privacy, software engineer (retired).
fdsd.me/blog
fdsd.me/book
fdsd.me/podcast
crw @maybe.fail tech @ eff
community organizing & environmental justice in bayview, sf
vana’diel denizen
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, brad.heath@tr.com
Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law Real-time updates on the latest filings in major cases in U.S. courts. Created by @bradheath.bsky.social. Run by @free.law. Monthly sponsorships available: https://bots.law/big-cases/sponsors/
Mike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com Executive director and co-founder of @free.law. Occasional long distance athlete. Woodworker. Adroitful dodger of questions.
Signal: mlissner.06
shira mitchell @shiraamitchell.bsky.social survey statistician at blue rose research 🏕
Resonant Computing @resonantcomputing.org resonantcomputing.org
Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
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🤓 Fellow at Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🗞️ Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
🆕 Anchor on Medlines
San Francisco Foundation @sanfranciscofdn.bsky.social We are a community foundation committed to advancing racial equity and economic inclusion in the Bay Area.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation @sfaidsfound.bsky.social SFAF promotes health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by HIV, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships. // https://www.sfaf.org/ // linktr.ee/sfaidsfound
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social Senior reporter @theintercept.com
Words: @nytimes.com @harpers.bsky.social @latimes.com @rollingstone.com @yahoonews.com @teenvogue.com @vicenews.bsky.social
Leak documents to me at: nick.turse@theintercept.com
Or on Signal: nickturse.01
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) @fsfe.org Bluesky account of the Free Software Foundation Europe. Our main account is on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@fsfe)
fsfe.org
Beatrice Murch @blmurch.com Program Manager of @internetarchive.eu – opinions strictly my own. Photographer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cat Servant, Coffee Lover, Immigrant, Traveler, Geek, Participant & Hope Junkie. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧 🥰💍🇦🇷&🇪🇸 🏠 🇳🇱- C @corynneff.bsky.social @corynneff.bsky.social
Nicole Ozer @nicoleozer.bsky.social EFF Executive Director | All about rights, technology & democracy | Trailblazer in public interest tech law | 2025 Technology & Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School | Former ACLU |
Josh Levinger @jlev.online Coder who cares about the why of technology
Gif connoisseur, itinerant shitposter
Built OpenSourceActivism.tech, Spacedog.xyz
VT born, 2x MIT.edu, Calif 12 yrs, now Mass again
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info Research project & community about privacy in Web3 industry
#privacy #decentralization #freesoftware | web3privacy.info
Mario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social sex, speech, tech, justice, parenting, politics, & panic ✨ senior editor @reason.com, journalism instructor at University of Cincinnati, Midwestern mom
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Kevin Gosztola @kgosztola.bsky.social Journalist. Editor of The Dissenter Newsletter which covers press freedom, whistleblowing, and government secrecy (https://thedissenter.org)
Brian Knappenberger @brianknappenberger.bsky.social Filmmaker/Director. 'We Are Legion' 'The Internet's Own Boy' and recently a lot of series for Netflix including the TURNING POINT series and Generation 9/11.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0460534/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
www.luminantmedia.com- J Jan ✌️ @jls.bsky.social Director @darcdataresearch.bsky.social
hakan @hatr.bsky.social reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi, Signal: hakan.25
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social CNET Editor, here for tracking decentralized media, primarily Bsky/AtProto and Mastodon/Fediverse ... and for disc golf! #DiscGolf
he/him/they/them
Berkeley, CA
Other AT presences
Books: https://bookhive.buzz/profile/peter-butler.bsky.social
Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Black Hat keynote. S/her.
Bio: about.me/violetblue
More: linktr.ee/viblue
News: patreon.com/violetblue
Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social Chair Mad Dog Pac. We do billboards. I do Room Rater.
Fmr WH staff.
https://www.voraciousbooks.com/titles/claude-taylor/how-to-zoom-your-room/9780316428125/
https://maddogpac.com/products/quick-donate-2
Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Matt Stoller @matthewstoller.bsky.social 
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ Deputy Local Editor, East Bay Times
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
🖖 Friend of DeSoto
😎 Nice dude
🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA
📥 cfarivar@bayareanewsgroup.com
📥 cyrus@farivar.media
📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
Katharine Trendacosta @ktrendacosta.bsky.social Activist at EFF, journalist, nerd. All posts mine and do not represent EFF.
WITNESS @witnessorg.bsky.social We fight to make sure that video and technology work for, and not against, human rights ✊🏽🤳🏾 Learn more: witness.org
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org Reaffirming free expression as the bedrock of free and thriving societies through actionable research, empowering tools, and principled advocacy. We are an independent, non-partisan think tank located at Vanderbilt University. https://futurefreespeech.org
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law We are the non-profit host of RECAP, CourtListener, and the Big Cases bots. We use technology and advocacy to make the legal sector better.
https://free.law | https://free.law/recap/ | https://courtlistener.com | https://bots.law
Sina Khanifar @sinak.bsky.social CEO @WaveformHQ, Special Advisor @EFF, board member http://Repair.org, co-founder @OpenSignal, maintainer of http://Democracy.io
Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today Organizer, activist, privacy advocate, strategist, software engineer ... psytrance, tarot and more. Also @thenexusofprivacy.net , @jdp23@neuromatch.social, https://thenexusofprivacy.net
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov Your U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Product safety info, data, and recalls. Standing for safety since 1972. Official account of the USCPSC. HQ: Bethesda, MD.
Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov.
Report unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov
Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social Your favorite nonprofit indie publisher of radical nonfiction since 1854.
beacon.org
Maria Gargiulo @thegargiulian.bsky.social human rights researcher at LSHTM & HRDAG | trying to make things suck a little less | she/ella
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Defending Rights & Dissent @rightsdissent.bsky.social Defending your right to know and freedom to act. Learn more at RightsandDissent.org
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression @thefireorg.bsky.social We defend and promote free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture.
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social Working to change public policy, rollback corporate power, rebuild local communities. Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Portland, Maine.
Jeff Landale @jefflandale.bsky.social Portland, OR nonprofit org development. Putting the "organized" into social justice organizing.
[bill] nye @wavwitch.bsky.social producer+engineer of various noises, including @ouropinions.bsky.social and the Rhythm 2 Revolt Compilation from Hood Rave 🎛️🎚️ available for podcast producing, mixing, and mastering! 🇸🇩🇨🇩🇵🇸 Book: fiverr.com/nye_wav/produce-and-edit-your-podcast
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
David C. Murphy @davidcmurphy.bsky.social Convening programs for Silicon Valley's premier institution, the Computer History Museum. (Views my own, not my employer's)
davidcmurphy.me
David C. Brock @dcbrock.bsky.social Works at the Computer History Museum, but everything here is solely my fault.
Matt McConnell @mattcconnell.bsky.social economic justice and rights researcher for @hrw.org focusing on global health inequalities
Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 207K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
Me: brown NA,Oregonian,veteran,globetrotter,critical thinker,linguist,teacher,reader,atheist,constructive,ANTI-TRUMPIST
SecureDrop @securedrop.org An open-source whistleblower submission system (https://securedrop.org/) — a project of @freedom.press
dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs. A @freedomofpress project.
[bridged from https://social.freedom.press/@dangerzone on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Kirstin McCudden @kamccudden.bsky.social Chief of Editorial for @freedom.press, Managing Editor for @pressfreedomtracker.us, documenting aggressions against journalists in the US. Also a journalist: frmrly St. Pete, ATX, KC, Geneva, now NYC. J-School: Mizzou x2. Puppers: That's Aoife_the_pomapoo
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us The US Press Freedom Tracker is a database that tracks and catalogs press freedom violations in the United States.
A project of @freedom.press.
DM or email tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
Subscribe: freedom.press/newsletters/
Abigail LP @abigail-lp.bsky.social Program Manager, Digital Security Team at @freedom.press ; opinions are my own.
Seth Stern @seth-stern.bsky.social Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
Davis A. @davisa.bsky.social digital security trainer by day, french horn player by night. mostly reposting my colleagues at @freedom.press :-)
John Halpin @bronxitenyc.bsky.social Director of development @freedom.press
Erik Moeller @eloquence.bsky.social Also https://social.coop/@eloquence
Personal: https://lib.reviews and other open source projects.
Professional: Programs @ Sovereign Tech Agency, Berlin. Previous: Wikimedia, Freedom of the Press. Opinions mine.
Azmat Khan @azmatzahra.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social Security therapist. Deputy director of digital security @freedom.press.
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton
Digisec newsletter: https://freedom.press/newsletters
Ahmed Zidan @zidan.bsky.social Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism
Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine.
Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us.
@zidanism on that other site.