Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Karl Zylinski @zylinski.se Wrote the eBook "Understanding the Odin Programming Language". Made the game "CAT & ONION". Check out what I'm up to these days: https://zylinski.se
gingerBill @gingerbill.org I'm a Ginger thus I have no soul.
Creator of the Odin Programming Language https://odin-lang.org
Working with JangaFX on EmberGen/GeoGen/LiquiGen
alissa m. @alissadmc.bsky.social she/her | freelance writer | 🏳️🌈 | my partner everywhere @lilyslabo.bsky.social
our richard stark's parker site: https://toughbusiness.neocities.org/
shay dennis @lilyslabo.bsky.social one half of tough business, a richard stark’s parker site
she/her 🏳️🌈 | my partner everywhere @alissadmc.bsky.social
toughbusiness.neocities.org
Redowan Delowar @rednafi.com Roving amateur fumbling through software, systems, & sundry.
Engineering @Doordash/Wolt
Writing rednafi.com
Currently in Berlin, Germany
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social Reviews Editor & Features: @ThisWeekInVideoGames.com
Personal Blog: https://jameswould.pika.page/
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/omgmorejames
He/him 🏳️🌈
Avery Edison @averyedison.com elegantly withstanding the vast brunt of it
bea @frogappreciator.bsky.social there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy
games @claymorerpgs.bsky.social
blog mbgowatbmf.bearblog.dev
lets plays https://www.youtube.com/@JoyPitLP/
newgrounds https://frogappreciator.newgrounds.com/
Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social the answer to your question is someone thought it would be cheaper to do it that way
Geir Ove Alnes @geirovealnes.bsky.social Senior Game Designer;
Formerly @ Ubisoft Singapore / Mighty Bear / Funcom;
https://geirovealnes.carrd.co/
Game Designers 101-103 (Starter Packs)
https://go.bsky.app/KFBJn7C
https://go.bsky.app/BoEMZY8
https://go.bsky.app/HN7KHXa
Opinions are my own.
Kevin Snyder @guns.bsky.social Chairman of the Poster-Farmer Party
Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com Experienced software developer & IC in SK, Canada. Dual MS MVP. FOSS creator, maintainer, & contributor. Loves C#, .NET, PowerShell, AutoHotkey, DevOps. Automate Everything!
Shares tech-related posts & memes. Blog & socials at https://blog.danskingdom.com
James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com Jack of all Trades, Master of PowerShell.
Prolific Programmer
Microsoft MVP in Azure / PowerShell
https://mrpowershell.com/
https://github.com/StartAutomating
https://github.com/PowerShellWeb
NB, Neurodivergent, Nerdy, Newsjunkie.
Ask me anything.
open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social and then there's this
https://linktr.ee/openmikeeagle
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social we're all worms
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
joannes @playthroughline.com • "Experimental DM" of https://neurocracy.site
• I've peaked and I'm kidding myself
• https://playthroughline.com
• he/they
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
No kings @amydentata.bsky.social Possibly getting back into videogame stuff. Friend of eggbug. An amorphous blob devoid of politics or identity. Unable to play the banjo. Virtue is—get this—a virtue.
The bots will continue until economics improves
CJ @joscelinfrost.bsky.social Ex-Question Games | Senior Environment/ Technical Artist | Blacksmith
Currently looking for a new game art position!
Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com Political. Creative. Portlander. Northern Arapaho. Husband. Dad.
Hype man for humanity and cage free futures.
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Mark (reluctant scrivener) @markmadsen.bsky.social Decision support, design, decades of data, architecture, augmenting human analysis, systems, cybernetics, safety, resilience, GOFAI, engineering management, urban planning, botany, history, art, dada.
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
ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi technical designer @sleightofhand.game ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa
fuck AI
https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Caryl Shaw 🚫👑 @handle.invalid Game Dev (ret.)
Bourbon, pets, family (not in that order)
Oakland, CA
adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org A review of religion, politics, and culture since 1924, edited by lay Catholics. Subscribe here: http://commonwealmagazine.org/subscribe
Kill The Computer @killthecomputer.com Kill The Computer is a show by Caleb and June about how the internet spills into the real world
killthecomputer.com
find all our links at linktr.ee/killthecomputer
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
@nwsnws.com @nwsnws.com Join us.
http://nwsnws.com
Ed @notdred.bsky.social Did not meet our criteria for publication
Boston, MA
Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
🇮🇷#NoWar
🇻🇪#HandsOffVenezuela
🇨🇺#EndTheBlockade
🇵🇸#FreePalestine
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
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Mark Jarrell @markjarrellart.bsky.social Archaic Dark Fantasy
Pen & ink illustration from the realm of Cosmataeon
~ Commissions Available ~
Servant of the Eroded Temple 🗡🌙🦇
Vosus Sohm
@mark-radio.bsky.social
www.markjarrellart.com
Jucika @jucikacomics.bsky.social Daily Jucika Strips, enable notification bell to see posts
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com Bird art and @pigeonpost.shop 🔡🐦
https://links.alex.gd
El bago bleepin @bagofbleeps.bsky.social An object at rest cannot be stopped!
lawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social teacher/occasional artist | she/her (elle/la) | texas | owner of the Disc Horse bot: @horsedisc.bsky.social
Kevin Klein @kevinkleinpdx.bsky.social Jon Ossoff/Tom Steyer 2028
@erik-pbg.bsky.social @erik-pbg.bsky.social
Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social Bayou Billy fan account.
Runs @instructionderby.bsky.social
Instruction Derby: A video game manual stream!
Wednesdays at noon Pacific
twitch.tv/nicmcconnell
He/him
Works in games doing Age Ratings
The posts? The opinions? My own
Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social Defense, Technology, Tabletop Games, and hopefully not being annexed. Utilities Enjoyer and former Army Jimmy.
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
★ winnie ★ @winonaparadise.bsky.social solo dev making "Girls With Horns Forever," an adventure game. is a weirdo for old anime. has too many toys. talks into a camera for fun. <3 linktr.ee/winonaparadise
[she/her/hers]
tim rogers @108.bsky.social youtube.com/actionbutton
twitch.tv/actionbutton
discord.gg/actionbutton
Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.
Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
WokandAwe @landlockedtuna.bsky.social Now we’re cookin with gas
Kev 卓能 @thatkevinwong.bsky.social Game Producer. Death of a Wish, Manifold Garden, iam8bit Presents, and now… secrets…? Opinions are my own!!
bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social Here for a good time, not a long time.
Portland policy + politics, (inter)national urban affairs.
Blazers, beer + spirits, support the arts, abolish ice.
[he/they]
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social But doctor, I replied, bursting into tears, I 𝘢𝘮 universally beloved bluesky personality Microplastics Sommelier
Boston area coffee-milk advocate ⚓️ | Astro PhD 🔭 | he/him | Exact Same Politics As You
Reskeets = Endorsing me as a person
Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social
geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social festive seasonal homosexual, tinned fish enthusiast, citrus enjoyer, los angeles evangelist, he/him
made @fionaapplebot.bsky.social
🗡️🦐✨
Luke Eidenschink @lukeink.bsky.social Ink Artist & Illustrator • Comic Creator
Links ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/LukeInk?fbclid=PAAaYcI0jotJoXOy8tu5wlmHw2RBb7fKZYbhhjN9S7v35Srng9v18Hxnp_1Zw
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social 🗃️ Historian, interpreter, educator, reenactor, #Skystorian, etc. born a century or so too late. Random purveyor of wit, wisdom, & waffling. Opinions = mine, R/T ≠ endorsement
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
i am error @iamerror.bsky.social i make videos and write things
evelynn - she/her - phd - https://www.youtube.com/c/iamerror
Fábio Fontes @fontes.bsky.social I make stuff. Sometimes it's drawn, sometimes it's pixellated, sometimes it's playable, and other times it's spat out of a 3D printer.
Projects and art commission info: https://fabiofontes.com/
#gamedev #indiedev #art #illustration #3dprinting #diy
DNC polling expert 🔻 @bigamishdoinks.bsky.social Desert rat, political agent, LCD Soundsystem's #1 fan, tip me to post more or post less whichever you want: https://ko-fi.com/brucefan
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io writer, gamedev, video game consultant, homosexual. don't call me a solo dev. an example of the live mas mentality. Interstate 35, out now. making: UNANNOUNCED (TBD) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/Interstate_35/
Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Always looking for the heat around the corner
Brock Winstead @brockwinstead.bsky.social My laptop is old. I get a different Internet than you.
Rachel Heleva @hlywa.bsky.social games, systems, verse
making stuff @ http://singlab.org
building the future of playable culture @ http://themade.org
scouting games & supporting teams @ https://tophat.studio/
Tim Trautmann @timtrautmann.com Working photographer in Portland, Oregon. Actively building something nice on the AT Protocol.
gifthood.org
gifthood.community
atmowx.net
timtrautmann.com
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
BooDooPerson @boodoo.co my main goal is to blow up & then act like I don't know nobody | He/Him @boodooperson
DRACULA FLOW @draculaflowbot.bsky.social THIS SHIT AIN'T NOTHIN' TO ME, MAN
Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io Game designer at Innersloth on Among Us Story: On Guard.
Previously at Exploding Kittens. Also made HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & more.
🎮 carolmertz.itch.io
🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG
🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com
st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com
Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social Schipperke owner @PNW
Game Systems Designer, one half of Secret Dinosaur and also the other half (previously Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc)
Hire me! https://linktr.ee/djdesign.dev
#GameDev
he/him
Hilltop Studios @playhilltop.bsky.social Toronto-based indie studio making story focused games & cool stuff. Currently making narrative roguelite horror Curse of Resthaven. Creators of the award-winning game Lil' Guardsman. Account run by Scott Christian - studio director, narrative and music guy
Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com