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.
Sarah Teasley @londontsubaki.bsky.social Professor of Design, RMIT University Born Digital Cultural Heritage Lab. She/her. #AusEaaSI + #DESIAP + Proteins & Fibers Working Group @MPIWG-Berlin
Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social Webby Award-winning Actor/Comedian/Podcaster • Dead Eyes • The George Lucas Talk Show • CONNOR RATLIFF presents THE ACTING CLASS • "Deputy Kent" on WIDOW'S BAY • ALSO: Disney's Stitch & DuckTales comics written w/James III!
https://linktr.ee/connorratliff
CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
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Kaylee’s Apps @kaylees.site I make apps for humans. Wipr, Tatami, Blabby, Agency, and Catch.
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meli-pennington.bsky.social @meli-pennington.bsky.social Love and light with a side of wiseass. I like cool stuff.
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@sarahslade3123.bsky.social @sarahslade3123.bsky.social
10F Consortium @10fconsortium.bsky.social Independent foresight collective. 20+ practitioners from 15 countries mapping how global systems are being intentionally rewired. Open-source forecasts on trade, tech, climate, migration, finance. CC-BY licensed.
https://10fconsortium.org
@sofiawidmann.bsky.social @sofiawidmann.bsky.social
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
dyLAB @dylab.bsky.social A maker of acid infused música.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social iPRES 2025 is in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 3-7 November 2025
Follow us for news and updates on the premiere international digital preservation conference.
All the details are at ipres2025.nz
Edward Hurcombe @eddyhurc.bsky.social Academic @ RMIT. Researches: digi journalism, digi cultures, platforms, mis/disinfo. (he/him)
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Matt @mattmesq.bsky.social Curatorial at ACMI
Louie Roots @louieroots.bsky.social
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I make video games and art. Or something.
Made Celeste with friends, working on City of None and Jumper at EXOK.
www.noelberry.ca
Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social Irrepressible MS-DOS Game Archaeologist
(Silly Aussie DOS Freak)
https://czecha.boo 🦘
Shoot me an email if you need a quick response!
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social maker of video game documentaries @noclip, alternative game coverage @noclip_2, selling out with style @SecretTape and F1 chat @shiftf1podcast. Irishman inside an American.
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
cécile @haraiva.bsky.social 🌞 working on DAWN CHORUS, writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au, editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
Holly Herndon @hollyherndon.bsky.social ❤️🔥
Mat Dryhurst @afterlife.bsky.social 🤷♂️
Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living and working on unceded Bunurong and Wadawurrung Country.
http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
Elliott Bledsoe @elliottbledsoe.bsky.social I am the grumpy cat of arts marketing! 😼
ATM doing stuff w/ BlakDance + others.
President of @wmau.bsky.social and Co-lead of @creativecommonsau.bsky.social.
@elliottbledsoe on most things.
#ArtsMarketing #Copyright #Tech
On Turrbal/Jagera land.
He/him.
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social “No, not that one”- Politico | Creator of Video Games Industry Memo | MD, Half-Space Consulting | Author of Power Play (June 2026) | Pun Appreciator
Order my book 👉 https://linktr.ee/Power_play_book
Maria Elena Colombo @melenabig.bsky.social Professional museologist
josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es my body is a machine that takes THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS and turns them into HEADACHES AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE VIDEO ESSAYS
youtube.com/@joshwithparentheses
contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com
Silvio Lorusso @silviolorusso.bsky.social Hi! I'm a designer witouth qualities, an artst without a gallery and a writer without spell cheker.
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/
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
ArtsHub @artshub.bsky.social Australia's largest and most trusted arts network. Providing the latest word on the arts sector.
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl Futures explorations via weekly newsletter iskandr.nl -
Research, experiment, co-design human-intelligent technology partnerships in Citiesofthings.org -
Curating, organising responsible tech and beyond - ThingsCon https://bsky.app/profile/thingscon.org
Fred Giannelli @fdg2.bsky.social X-Psychic TV : telepathic.recordings
The Kooky Scientist
instigating thee Velvet Orange 🍊 Revolution !!!
Aaron Straup Cope @thisisaaronland.bsky.social maps and museums and airports / I have come to see these spaces as the absolute worst for anything resembling "conversation" / but I like you all so here I am for now / likely lurking for a while as I figure out how to think about this place
Light in the Attic @lightintheattic.bsky.social Reissue label with a bluesky account
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
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
Andrew Sempere @feralresearch.org Municipal Technologist. Computational queer. Arts, culture, design. Riding the global frequency of weird and working on a better future. Sometimes I academic, less so lately.
http://andrewsempere.org
Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
Keith Fullerton Whitman @kfw.bsky.social Composer-Performer of "Live" Electronic Music BASED in NYC; LPs for Nakid (JP), Editions Mego (AT), PAN (DE), kranky (US), Planet μ (UK).
keithfullertonwhitman.com
keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com
alphastate.nyc
discogs.com/user/AlphaStateMusic
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
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
Michael John Gorman @michaeljohngorman.bsky.social Director, MIT Museum
Professor of the Practice of Science, Technology and Society MIT
Science | Technology | Art | Design
Michal Čudrnák @michalcudrnak.bsky.social Museums, architecture, digital, music, politics (in no particular order)
@elizabethmerritt.bsky.social @elizabethmerritt.bsky.social
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Buttondown @buttondown.com Newsletter software for people like you.
https://buttondown.com
s. @sew.bsky.social maker of things, designer of experiences, science and tech researcher, collaborator. working on increasing collective survivability. (tinkerkid in other spaces)
Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Hillegonda @hillegondar.bsky.social Professor Em. Sonic Culture
Dr Lynda Kelly @lyndakelly61.bsky.social Research Expert. Audience Advocate. Digital Specialist. Social media tragic.
Blog about #GLAM #museums #digital #musetech #museumed #museumeval
👉 https://musdigi.wordpress.com/
🧄 Garlic grower
🚜 Farmer
🍀 Irish and Gundungurra land
Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.
My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@wragge, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
vidyarrrr @vidyarajan.bsky.social screenwriter/comedian/ performance art goblin based in aust 🌈
often at the intersection of art and tech but like non yuck version 💀
insta: @vidyarrrr
Simon Killen @killens.bsky.social Goes out far too much, really should settle down and relax. Seriously - you have ants in your pants?
Micah Walter @micahwalter.com I'm an AWS Solutions Architect who likes to build things in his basement when the kids are asleep.
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
@timh01.bsky.social @timh01.bsky.social
Kate Jinx @katejinx.bsky.social ◠ words/films, mostly | Features & Talks Programmer at Melbourne International Film Festival | SEE ALSO podcast co–host ⤹
Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social Partner at Changeist.com
Futures adjacent
Project Lead: https://www.10fconsortium.org/
Contributing Editor: “How to Future” (2020)
Author: “Future Cultures” (2023)
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Jessica Balanzategui @jkbalanzategui.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media and Cinema
@RMIT University
Editor, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures @amsterdamupress
Australian Research Council Industry Fellow
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Bronwyn C @bronb79.bsky.social Interested in art stuff, sporting stuff, crafting, my family and anything that helps me stretch my brain in good ways. Kindness, empathy and a solid dose of feminism + allyship.
Tathra Street @tathra.bsky.social Leadership Futurist, hope monger, change maker, community builder.
🏳️🌈ND🧠💡🔋🔮 🌱🪷
Australian born, raised in Canada. Now in Naarm aka Melbourne. TathraStreet.com
Simon Loffler @sighmon.com Writes software for ACMI and New Internationalist. Enjoys equity, film, and space.
https://sighmon.com
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Northern Institute @ni-cdu.bsky.social Independent Social & Public Policy research & training for northern Australia at Charles Darwin University.
✊🏿Indigenous Knowledge & Governance 👪Population 🖊️Policy & Program Analysis 📘Education & Health 🌿Sustainable Economy, Environment & Climate
Metalabel @metalabel.bsky.social A new operating system for creative people
https://www.metalabel.com
Diana Bossio @dbossio.bsky.social Associate Professor, Digital Communication at RMIT University.
Research about journalism, social media and older people’s digital participation.
She/her
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Vanessa Berry @vanessaberry.bsky.social Writing, drawing, thinking; living and working on Gadigal land.
Undermanager @undermanager.bsky.social As disappointed as you are
Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
@oconnorjustin13.bsky.social @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social
Gail P @gailpriestess.bsky.social sound artist writer procrasticrafter
Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social founder@metaLABharvard, co-director@BKCHarvard, CVO@P_F_F, cultural historian, curator, knowledge designer, biker & scooterologist - https://jeffreyschnapp.com/
Paul Orselli @paulpow.bsky.social Museum Exhibit Developer
Chief Instigator at POW!
(Paul Orselli Workshop, Inc.)
www.orselli.net
Clint Mansell @iamclintmansell.bsky.social Love Now More Than Ever
Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com
James O’Connor @jickle.net Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.
Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social An online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.
📢 Issue 118 Out Now
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue-118/
Support Independent Film Criticism: https://linktr.ee/SensesofCinema
Indigo Holcombe-James @indigohj.bsky.social Strategic Research Lead @ACMI, previously Research Fellow @ARC CoE For Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
@lukesnarl.bsky.social @lukesnarl.bsky.social