John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social Game designer and graphic artist in Seattle, WA. Blades in the Dark, AGON, Lasers & Feelings, Lady Blackbird. johnharper.itch.io
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.
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.”
Danny Hughes @dannyanddragons.bsky.social Here to talk about improv, roleplaying games, and improv in roleplaying games!
Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy Internet nerd from way way back. Currently: writing. Mostly jokes.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net Table games, murder acrobatics, emotional rhythms, water magicks
Play, magick, coins and graps
Solidarity, creativity, love and hope
Queer, trans, autistic, ADHD, fatigued
campsite.bio/avafoxfort
No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com Proudly independent board game reviewers.
https://youtube.com/nopunincluded
Playing Bridge on the sidewalk
conner fawcett @badbucket.bsky.social i make things and rarely fall out of trees
he/they
https://linktr.ee/badbucket?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=6ead957e-7831-4811-86f9-b9c354f76544
Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social 15 years in video games, 37 in TTRPGs. 15 Ennie awards. 3 Origins awards. Creator of (or for): Delta Green, The Black Company RPG, GODLIKE. Magic: The Gathering. PROTOTYPE. 🇨🇦 Stop assuming I live in your shit-hole. Thanks.
https://delta-green.com
jenn martin is not trying so hard @tenpenjenn.com Chicago-adjacent ttrpg designer (Dead After Dinner) & editor (Apocalypse Keys, The Zone & more), SFWA member and AFT/IFT 604 union member, people>profit | she/her
tenpenjenn.com/links
Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social TTRPG YouTube person // (he/him) // Nazis, TERFs and AI Bros can jog on, preferably off a cliff // Free 🇵🇸
YouTube.com/@thebadspot
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Soren Johnson @sorenjohnson.bsky.social Founder of MohawkGames. Designer of Civ 3, Civ 4, Dragon Age Legends, Offworld Trading Company, and Old World. Still a Mouth Breather.
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social (Any pronouns) Brindlewood Bae
Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social Writer, @thebulwark.com. Email: saletan@thebulwark.com. You can also find me at https://www.threads.net/@wsaletan and http://substack.com/@saletan
Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,☪️,🌈, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
BILL OAKLEY @thatbilloakley.bsky.social Culinary Event Producer, Food Enthusiast & Former Showrunner of “The Simpsons”
BILLOAKLEY.com
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social Filmmaker: Hyperobject Industries/Yellow Dot Studios
Climate & societal collapse with some sports and movie talk. And yes, the mixture is disorienting.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 @mst3kofficial.bsky.social Visit our site to find all the places you can stream and own Mystery Science Theater 3000: www.mst3k.com
Trace Beaulieu @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social Human with a side of cat and dog.
Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social Creator/co-host @flophousepodcast.com, a comedy podcast about bad movies. Wrote for The Daily Show for a decade. Drawings on Instagram at danmccoydraws.
Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social Co-host of Retronauts and Talking Simpsons, acclaimed author of Skeleton Car Wash
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
rrdgames.com
Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social “Hilarious” — Eric Idle
“Amazing” — Patton Oswalt
“Absolutely killed” — Rolling Stone (Carnegie Hall review)
2026 thru 2079 tour schedule: www.emophilips.com/events
Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
Host/creator: Depresh Mode, Sleeping with Celebrities, The Hilarious World of Depression.
Host/co-creator/head writer: Wits.
Author: The Hilarious World of Depression.
Lead singer: Math Emergency.
Dogs owned: 2
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social 
Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social “northeast guitar”; he/him/any; useful promo stuff is @realtedleo on insta*ram, tedleo.bandcamp.com
Haunted Table @hauntedtable.games Independent tabletop game design studio. Creators of award-winning TTRPG Triangle Agency. Pick up our stuff at shop.hauntedtable.games! Account run by @calebzane.bsky.social
Mythworks is making the Myth Work @mythworks.bsky.social Original Worlds. 🌎 Original Stories. 📖
Award-winning TTRPG and Indie Comics publisher. 🏆
Find your next adventure at myth.works! 🗡️
Linktree 🌲: https://linktr.ee/mythworks
Ryan Lynch @outridercreative.bsky.social
👑 Creator of Perils & Princesses TTRPG
🎨 Vintage Illustration & Design
Fairy Tale Role Playing: Perilsandprincesses.com
Portfolio: Outridercreative.com
The Gauntlet @gauntletrpg.bsky.social We publish games, produce podcasts, and host a community focused on playing & discussing tabletop RPGs!
http://gauntlet-rpg.com
https://discord.gg/ScVrPDgfeg
Darrington Press @darringtonpress.bsky.social Tabletop publishing company of Critical Role.
From our table to yours, creating games and art books to inspire and empower storytellers everywhere!
Bastionland Press @bastionland.bsky.social Chris McDowall
Tabletop Game Designer at Bastionland Press
www.bastionland.com
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com TTRPG designer, podcaster, screenwriter. Be your own algorithm.
https://www.diceexploder.com/
https://sdunnewold.itch.io/
will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social interactive biofreak. ½ of @goodluckpress.co. award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher. going to make one of each game.
pgh
(they/them)
😷
goodluckpress.co
willjobst.itch.io
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social We are an innovative tabletop gaming publisher. We make Fiasco, Star Crossed, Ghost Court, The Warren, Night Witches, Desperation, Zhenya's Wonder Tales, and Nine Space Games!
Clipping @clppng.bsky.social Diggs /// Hutson /// Snipes
DEAD CHANNEL SKY /// 03-14-2025 on @subpop.bsky.social
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). she/her. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social Recovering politician. Afghanistan Veteran. Bestselling Author. Podcaster. Founder of Let America Vote & American Rescue Project. Baseball player. Advisor, Veterans Community Project. Diana’s dude. True & Bella’s driver. JasonKander.com
Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com ❤️ heartofthedeernicorn.com 🦌
❤️ https://linktr.ee/deernicorn
Maker & Distributor of Fine Games
🌧️ in downtown Olympia since 2015 🌧️
#ttrpg #boardgames #rpg #beggartok
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Who? Weekly @whoweekly.bsky.social we’re a podcast!!!!!!!!
thesixler @thesixler.bsky.social Spencer Crittenden. Solid guest choice for all manner of content. check out @thathappenspod and my patreon. https://linktr.ee/thesixler
Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
Zach Wahls @zachwahls.bsky.social Husband. Father. State Senator. Sixth-Generation Iowan.
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Adam Hay @unusualcadence.co.uk BAFTA winning musician and audio designer | Finji / Hangar 13 / Media Molecule / Chinese Room / Wish / Rare / Frontier / TT Games | Arpeggios through dusty electronics.
Emily J @emilyinthesea.bsky.social If I'm not in the sea then I wanna be
Paul Murphy -> 🦖🦖🦖 @paulmurphyetc.bsky.social Writer, Game Designer, Loud Annoying Old Guy Shouting at Fascists - Creator of fictional atrocities. By God I will outlive that massive orange cancer.
Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social https://www.valerialoves.com/
Best Debut Blog Winner 2026
Up and comer in the “trans women who review indie TTRPGs while taking baths” scene.
Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com adventurer
Rosemary Orchard @rosemaryorchard.com Professional nerd, developer, podcaster, geek!
Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Brian Flaherty @brianflaherty.bsky.social 🎲 Co-owner of Many Sided Media
Award-winning Sound Designer
My First Dungeon, Bitcherton, Talk of the Table
jay Dragon is sleepy @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Matt Oswalt @mattoswaltva.bsky.social remember me? We met on Twitter and would get together every Tuesday afternoon at the Motel 6 outside Fresno.
John Mulaney @mulaney.bsky.social MISTER WHATEVER
Tickets at johnmulaney.com
Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast 
Seung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social White House reporter for the Associated Press + CNN political analyst. Proud alum of the Washington Post and Politico.
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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Jon Favreau @jonfavs.bsky.social The Other One. Crooked Media, Pod Save America, Obama alum. 
Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Jenny Nicholson @jennynicholson.bsky.social 
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Chuck D @chuckdpe.bsky.social RapARTivist GET OUR Culture APPS at RsTVapp.com RapCentralStation.net
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social Writer, editor, and journalist.
https://charliehallwriter.com/
Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social Comic Book, Stage & TV Writer. https://linktr.ee/kellysued Rep: Jim Ehrich of RBEL #wgastrong #pdx #visiblewomen Married to mattfraction.bsky.social
open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social and then there's this
https://linktr.ee/openmikeeagle
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social Editor in Chief, No Jitter; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of a Beehiiv newsletter (https://notes-from-economy-class.beehiiv.com/) parent/partner/community volunteer/aspiring long distance swimmer.
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
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.
Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski.bsky.social Senior NHL Writer at ESPN, ex-Puck Daddy and NJ native. Did I mention I love people? Email: greg.wyshynski@espn dot com. http://patreon.com/pucksoup