Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social Geologist, Baker, Voter, Friend of Photography. Posts are my own, not NSF's. [she/her] 🥄
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
SmallRun @smallrun.bsky.social SmallRun - Geek Hobby Marketplace & Build Logs - https://smallrun.net
Aaron @dcdoubleaa.bsky.social He/Him. 5th generation DC native | Educator | Film Fan https://boxd.it/3ktyT | DC Sports Head | @roseroomco.bsky.social SG Co-founder.
Josh Jacobson @districtjosh.bsky.social He/him. Personal account. 1E06 Commissioner. Chair, ANC 1E. YIMBY who walks and bikes.🌱🌇🏘️🏢. @ward1democrats.org treasurer. See districtjosh.com for my civic tech projects.
Benjamin Freed @brfreed.bsky.social internet clown posting bad/dumb/horny takes about the movies, the Knicks, media, or cyber. still not here for work, that’s the other site | see you at the movies: http://letterboxd.com/brfreed/
Micah Gelman @mbgelman.bsky.social CEO and co-founder at lni.media. Former Head of Video at The Washington Post and Head of Digital Video Strat. at Discovery Networks. EP at AP in DC and WJZ-TV Balt. Producer at WDSU, WBNS, WSYR-TV. Desk at WTVH and WPMT-TV. Reporter/Anchor at WAER-FM.
Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social Electronics person
dan @danabra.mov иногда это странно
Heather Goss @heathermg.bsky.social Interested in the art & science of connecting people for art & science. Senior comms at @agu.org, @eos.org. Founder of Exposed DC. Casual powerlifter; dabbling in astrophotography.
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
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Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less. 
David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social AKA @Strobist at the old place
Now: Bluesky + Rednote
Projects, contact info: ⬇️
www.linktree.com/DavidHobby
Trip Hook @triphook.bsky.social Geographer @ US EPA
Alexandria, VA / Canaan Valley, WV
⛵⛷️🚲🪕🎷🛶🥾🌎
Sandra Moscoso @sandramoscoso.bsky.social co-founder of #TheUpskillingLabs. finder of other things, too - especially silver linings. collector of people. best/worst mom-wife-friend ever (striving for for best, but I'm only human).
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Helicopters of DC @helicoptersofdc.bsky.social Washington D.C.'s community based flight tracking platform copterspotter.com
gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social Watch Pop Culture Jeopardy! on Netflix 🍿
Stream Jeopardy! on Hulu & Peacock 💙
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Russ @russ41.bsky.social "And then there's THIS asshole..."
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
twogirlstrivia @twogirlstrivia.bsky.social (Okay, it’s just one girl and a rotating band of scorekeepers but) independent, woman-run trivia nights in DC. TUES 7PM Union Pub. WED 7PM Henceforth,.
skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social we're all worms
Paul Wiley @paulwileyva.bsky.social If you don’t know where to go, go where you’re needed.
🏡 - Del Ray, Alexandria VA
Anh Phan @aphan.bsky.social My dog and I both love food a lot. Also into the outdoors, reading, community. Gen X ENFP
Joe Fray @josephfray.bsky.social mail lawyer, food haver, dog owner
ALX
Nick Benson @ottergoose.net Currently: hyper-fixated on the aviation angle of ICE’s mass detention apparatus.
Generally: nerding out over geography, weather, politics, and photography of Minnesota's railroad and aviation scene. Chief AvGeek at @JetTip.net.
📍 Burnsville, Minnesota
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social Professor, Stanford Law School.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Author, The Digital 4th Amendment:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
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District Department of Transportation (DDOTDC) @ddotdc.bsky.social 🔗 https://linktr.ee/DDOTDC
Tammy @dctame.bsky.social she/her
Jersey girl who has made DC home
USWNT and woso fanatic
Everton sufferer
🌈
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Sarah Bagley (the one in Alexandria VA) @sarahbagley.bsky.social Vice Mayor of Alexandria, VA. Buster’s mom, reader, bike rider, and fan of all things pickled.
Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social Shareholder value = 3 eggs
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
Lizzie.oleary@slate.com
Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social Resident of the 51st State via Ohio. Lover of 🌶️ 🎸 🏔️ and 🐕.
Jessica Sidman @jessicasidman.bsky.social Food editor, Washingtonian magazine
gwynnek @gwynnek.bsky.social Expert plate spinner. Changing the world one pixel at a time. Also dogs+food+fam+bad culture. she/her
[posts+ likes my own]
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
The Slides @theslides.bsky.social Bot posting 4x daily from Sam Biddle's curated collection of US military slides from the Cold War era.
Sam's intro essay: https://www.patreon.com/MaxRead/posts/true-life-for-i-155014876
Slides courtesy @sambiddle.com
Bot by @brian.gawalt.com
Washington Spirit @washingtonspirit.com Rise up, DC! 💛🖤
SkyBot DC @skybotdc.bsky.social An automated bot that films all of the aircraft cruising over DC and generates a timelapse. It does this by listening for ADS-B broadcasts to find the aircrafts location, does some math and then moves a PTZ camera.
DCTrikeMom @dctrikemom.bsky.social Cruising the potholes of DC in our cargo bike. I also run the @wababikelibrary
Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social assistant professor @AmericanU. working on countering misinformation in developing countries. @upenn.edu PhD in polisci & philly sports fan. outdoors most of the time
📍washington, dc
https://sumitrabadrinathan.github.io/
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social Military affairs reporter with The Washington Post. State-school alum. Beer-league softball enthusiast. Dog guy. Signal for encrypted tips: danlamothe.30
James Brown @ancient.bsky.social youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ancientjames
email: inquiries@ancient-workshop.com
NotoriousMIZ @screechysaywha.bsky.social He/him. Big bird builder. I work so my cats can have a better life. Cardinals/Mizzou/Tottenham/STL City
Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / other things
Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me Retro computer nerd | Engineer | Maker | Macintosh Librarian on Youtube!
www.MacintoshLibrarian.com
Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social White House reporter at the Washington Post. Focused on politics, policy and public health. Democracy dies in darkness.
Find me on Signal: username dan_diamond.01
Christian Panton @pa.nton.cx OSINT Specialist @ DR Verificerer (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
Prefers Signal over DM/chat: panton.01
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All posts and views are my own, and might contain traces of nuts.
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Tom Verbeure @tomverbeure.bsky.social Plays with FPGAs. There can never be enough LEDs. Hardware engineer at Nvidia, but my views here are my own. he/him. Also @tom_verbeure at the woolly elephant and the former bird site
RascalFoxfire aka. the funky CPU fox @rascalfoxfire.bsky.social German computer engineering student, professional madman, freetime CPU/GPU designer, hobby OS and compiler dev, 2D and 3D beginner artist and cyborgfox!
Art profile: @rascalfoxfirearts.bsky.social
Goran @gmahovlic.bsky.social Interested in electronics/hacking/making/art/nature
https://mastodon.online/@goran_mahovlic
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social NPR media guy
Author, Murdoch’s World
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
Mohit Bhoite @mohitbhoite.bsky.social www.bhoite.com/sculptures
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com I miss you when you’re around.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Conor Shaw @fixcircle.bsky.social Conor Shaw. Born and raised in DC. Husband, father, cyclist, urbanist, and recovering attorney. Former Eckington Civic Assn. president; now fighting for all of Ward 5.
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
airplane ian - abolish ICE @airplaneian.com He/him. Professional disaster enthusiast, barely a pilot, RF enjoyer.
Steven Roberts @nomadness.bsky.social "First digital nomad" working on a book about 17,000 miles on a computerized recumbent in the '80s, digitizing ancient media, and building mobile lab for paleogeek swan song.
hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev a.k.a. boB Rudis • 🇺🇦 Pampa • Don't look at me…I do what he does—just slower. #rstats #js #duckdb #goavuncular•👨🍳•✝️• 💤• https://dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev • Maine🦞
Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social Allison's & Sammy’s dad.
Aru @aru.io A hoopy frood, believer in the open web. Bit meddling @ Oso.
(he/him)
📍 The 51st State (Washington, DC)
🐘 @aru@hachyderm.io
🐦 @IAmAru
🌐 arusahni.net
ANC: @aru5f02.bsky.social
#dc #rustlang #python #beer
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com Embark on a journey through the obscure world of forgotten, odd, and obsolete Sony devices.
Inclusive Little Unicorn 🅅 @emmie.bsky.social Pansexual polyamorous lover, not fighter (usually). I am me. Deal with it. (I may also be a unicorn🦄)
🏳️⚧️ally, I stand with 🇵🇸
Wife to @Kimmy.zip
Partner to @deviantollam.bsky.social
Girlfriend to @justwes.info
https://linktr.ee/InclusiveLittleUnicorn
Metro @wmata.com Official Bluesky page for WMATA, aka Metro, the major public transit provider in the National Capital Region, serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
wmata.com
DC Newsfeed @localnewsfeed.org Building community in Washington, DC, by highlighting local organizations and journalists.
Statehood for DC now! Join the fight at togetherfordc.org.
Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social Writer, photographer, web person in DC. Also known as Red Bike Guy.
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social Mack. Yes, That Mack
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social // 🚶, 🚲, & 🚌 advocate & planner; ANC1B03 candidate
// DC Michigander; Pitt+VATech alum
// fan of cities; walking, bikes, & buses; maps; libraries; baseball & hockey; puns; oxford commas; & semicolons
// Opinions mine, but you can have 'em
// 💜🤍💚 they/he
Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social Freelance journalist mainly tracking Chinese space activities. Correspondent at SpaceNews, also bylines at Spacedotcom, IEEE Spectrum and more.
Christy Kwan @christykwan.bsky.social Geriatric millennial exhausted by everything but still walking, taking transit, and riding bikes for joy // Ward 6 DC // 💛🚶🏻♀️🚲🦽🛴🚍🚇 // Volunteer Co-Chair of @safestreetsdc.bsky.social
Jeannie in DC @rivergirl202.bsky.social Exploring Potomac River parklands by boat or bike to observe #wildlife, #weather, and #seasons!
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Samer @samer.is I photograph, eat, and drink across DC; I'm obsessed with beer and Iceland; Íslandvinur; bon vivant. Put an egg on it!™ Measurements in metric unless noted!
🖥️ https://samer.is
Reykjavík food recommendations: https://samer.is/eating/reykjavik
Zach Everson @zacheverson.com Research director.
Trump accountability project.
Public Citizen.
Need a source? Have a tip?
Mobile/Signal 202.804.2744, z_everson@protonmail.com
(Opinions mine; hopefully yours soon.)
zacheverson.com
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social Comic book lover, oenophile, Virginian. Obsessed with/nation's foremost expert on state politics. carolyncfiddler at gmail dot com. she/her
https://statehouseaction.substack.com/
Arsenio @missileman.bsky.social Internet Missileman, Hardware Wizard
Memes, missiles and microcontrollers.
Some guy, doing stuff... Ya know
Views are my own.
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times