✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social harm reductionist & counselor, advocate, member of young widow club - once featured in Bon Appétit magazine. views are my own; smarter + funnier than you.
📍MPLS | 40ish | she/they
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
Dillin Apelyan - EGOT hopeful Actual Play creator @superdillin.bsky.social Host of the One Shot podcast, 1/2 of Dorkspawn. As heard on The Atomless, Unprepared Casters, My First Dungeon, Critter Hug, Adventuring Academy, Party of One, and more. #ttrpg Game designer, #ActualPlay performer, werewolf enthusiast.
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
Dan Olson 🔜 PAX West @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social youtube.com/bigjoel
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social doodler, demi, USA Today, Sunday Times, and NYT #1 bestselling author of LITTLE THIEVES, THE MERCIFUL CROW, ROOTBOUND & more ✨ She/her. Rep: Victoria Marini
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.
Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social sff novels & weird seagull noises 👽 🌈
sidewise winner, locus & astounding finalist
books: SARGASSA & BLOODTIDE
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social HF trader and manager. Former sell side and NYSE. Views are mine and not my employers or investment advice. NFL owner. #girldad
Teresa Nielsen Hayden @tnh.nielsenhayden.com Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @tnh@wandering.shop.
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Leah Reich @leahreich.com Writer, researcher, tech industry survivor, tennis obsessive 🎾, and fortunate to live with Lumpy, the greatest cat in the universe
You should go read my newsletter at www.leahreich.com
paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social I’m fabulous. I’m an incredible dresser, I’ve got buckets of money, I’m a hoot-and-a-half and I’ve got a killer rack.
@machwerx.bsky.social @machwerx.bsky.social 
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social culture writer. contributing @defector.bsky.social. in my humble opinion: my so-called life (ecw, 2016). new book in the works (liveright/norton). sorayaroberts.com
Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social UMBC political scientist, NYT bestselling co-author of White Rural Rage, diehard Washington Caps fan, peripatetic. Longtime DC denizen, Albany, NY, native.
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social 📻 Broadcaster
🖊️ Reporter at PoliticsHome
🎭 Actor, represented by RED Talent Mgmt
✍️ Send me stories🕵🏽 #BCFC 💙 ASOIAF & LOTR enthusiast ✨
Singer-songwriter 🎵 Views my own 💭
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
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
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
Jimmy Lonetti @djgloverepair.bsky.social Expert baseball glove repair and quality used gloves (gallons of style)
https://www.djgloverepair.com/
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Kidlit author & illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, ATmosphere, book blog etc: https://debbieohi.com/links/
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY (w/ Michael Ian Black)
DebbieOhi.com
Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social Independent voter cutting through the political noise. Fueled by sarcasm, chai, and a deep belief in humanity.
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahongwi.bsky.social State Representative. Single mom. Restaurant worker. Fighter for the working class. Candidate for WI Governor.
franhong.com/gotv
Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social MIDNIGHT DOORWAYS (Hachette India, 2022)
A DARK & NARROW HOUSE (Putnam/Penguin RH USA & Titan Books UK-2027)
Writer I Runner I Rheumatologist
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queries @rhaliterary
Insta: usmantanveermalik
www.usmanmalik.org
Lucas Bean @lucasbean.bsky.social Author, Scientist, podcaster, exTech bro. Rational optimist.
support my work here: https://lucasbean.substack.com
Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social Songs, book chapters, and journalistic pieces. Nature, 2nd-generation Irishness, melancholy & joy! Survived the great All About Eve miming disaster.
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Tyler King @tyleraking.com General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower
tyleraking.com
She/her 🇨🇴
Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com Creator of Real Life Comics way back in 1999, and occasionally since then. Old™ of some repute. Involuntary Delightful.🏳️⚧️ she/her.
Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida specializing in American elections
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/utcountydems
Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social Words at DailyKos, Public Notice, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.
Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social Passionate connector who believes biz can be a force for good. Author, "The Lost Art of Connecting." Sustainability and Impact Leader. Founder. CEO. Philanthropist. Angel Investor. Pup Lover. Substack: https://susanmcpherson.substack.com/
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social "First they came for the journalists, we don't know what happened next."
Kalaallit Nunaat Kalaallit Pigaat!
Emotional Support Human - Artist - Hater of Fascism
I make funny sometimes.
I use humor as a coping tactic. And I use coping as a life strategy.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social Video games & deals. I post deals which may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Epic Creator Code: Wario64
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, NBC News and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
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
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social Writer. Queer. Irish. Bald. 🏳️🌈
Reformed politico turned theatre performer and Drag Queen. Socialist.
Based in Belfast 💚
Free Palestine 🇵🇸.
Protect the Dolls 🏳️⚧️
https://medium.com/@s-d-d
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social Eldest Sister. Childless Cat Lady. Italian Jew. Witchy Woman.
I’m from N-E-W Jerz
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social 3D Artist @ Sunset Visitor
Previously 3D Environment Artist @: Giant Squid (Sword of the Sea) & Iridium Studios (People of Note)
Indie Game dev 🎮 | hEDS 🦓| Farming sim enjoyer 👩🌾🐮
Portfolio: https://nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com/
Ten | "Hold On, Let Me Save" @theletterten.gay She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Reviews for @thecosmiccircus.com
Co-Host of @holdonpod.omg.lol
YouTuber
email: tensky @ thecosmiccircus-dot-com
Indie & Retro Games Are My Jam
Portland, OR
https://theletterten.carrd.co/
Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social Parent, husky-mom, doomsayer, aviator, general PITA. Views are my own.
Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com Journalist: abortion and politics. Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, MSNOW, Jezebel. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
http://linktr.ee/susanrinkunas
susanrinkunaswrites @gmail
Signal susanrinkunas.73
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Ashley Spinelli 🎈10/04 @lilbootyjudi.blacksky.app 30 something | MKE ✈️ ATL | I’m usually a lurker | I guess I can use this to talk into the void and see what happens
Peter Clines @peterclines.com NYT bestselling maker-upper of things. Still making things up. Still getting paid for it. No, it doesn't make sense to me, either. Former film guy. Toy enthusiast. he/him. Try to be a better person than you were yesterday.
Bryon Quertermous @bryonquertermous.com NYT Bestselling Author. Detroit(ish). He/Him. ADHD Survivor.
http://bryonquertermous.com/links
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social ICE OUT
Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com Nashville-based Chinese-American author of speculative fiction for teens and adults.
Next:
1/5/27: DREAD CHASER
4/6/27: THE NIGHT THAT WASN'T
🐾 Pet your dog for me
🌱 Find me in my garden
🚫🧊
https://www.laurenthomanwrites.com/links
Rep’d by Holly Root
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Getty Images @gettyimages.com Move the world.
Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social Award-winning editor of short sf/f/h. I live & die by the Oxford comma & I skeet about my passions, take it or leave it. I block mooks-don't be one. she/her
Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net Husband. Lawyer. Hunter. Fisherman. Swordsman. Warrior poet. Philosopher king. Legend.
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social Political writer. Covering Congress. Vincit Omnia Veritas.
Diversity is our strength. Unity is our power. 🩵
"Freedom is not just an absence of evil, but a presence of good."
-Timothy Snyder
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Enable Chaos: https://amzn.to/4gCqcOD
Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
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
max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social professionally nosy. reporter at @minnesotareformer.com
Jenny In Exile @jennyinexile.bsky.social She/her. Reader, writer, films and music. Fuck Trump, MAGA, and ICE. Cali sober. Former Brooklynite living in Detroit. No FB without substantive profile/posts. No unsolicited DMs. Ask on my timeline if you want to send me a message.
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Kristin Louise Raught Photography 🌀 @kristinlraught.bsky.social Witchy mermaid living on an island in the middle of the Salish Sea.
Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️⚧️ @mistymotors.net Senior Writer at The Autopian! A lifelong fan of all things that move, with a soft spot for the Smart Fortwo, the Suzuki RE-5, and aviation. Trans and proud! 🏳️⚧️
You're awesome and beautiful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 🩷 mercedes@theautopian.com
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social Lawyer | Advocate | Activist
Advisory Board, DemCast
PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social Immigrant. Citizen. Mouthy advocate. NYT bestseller of A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE. Official account💙
https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl
Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social https://valeriesplace.com/
Cecil Castellucci @misscecil.bsky.social Author Comics, Novels and Librettos. Currently in Canada.
Loves Comets.
she/her/they
https://linktr.ee/Seaskull
Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker.
📺 Creator + host of LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
🔗 https://arielwaldman.com
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Washington state | Senate Appropriations Vice Chair | Working every day to help people and solve problems