Mei Dean Francis @gamefrau.bsky.social Girl Scout.
Manic pixie electrician with prosopagnosia.
Recovering game developer and publicist.
Pokémon Trainer.
12 years sober.
Tea geek.
INTJ.
Disgusting little beast, really.
Poverty Bay, WA 🌲
Emelia @thisismissem.social Corruptress of Protocols, Tech Princess 👸🏻
Working on Trust & Safety, open-source software, and open social web as an Independent Contractor. Chronically ill.
You've probably used tech I've contributed to.
Bridged: @thisismissem.hachyderm.io@ap.brid.gy
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
cje @cje.io founder @bugcrowd && co-founder @disclose_io || hacker, entrepreneur, executive, advisor || عصا موسى || #w00w00
Judah @glutelord.bsky.social political science himbo and dummy thicc internet clown
glutelord is the handle for the spicier stuff too btw
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz ☆ Cybersecurity reporter
★ Newsletters at Risky Business
#infosec #cybersecurity
https://risky.biz
James Wilson @jameswilson.io Reformed CTO turned Podcaster @ https://risky.biz/
metlstorm @metlstorm.risky.biz Unix berserker, retired hacker-con organiser (Kiwicon!) and now technology-editor-slash-sysadmin-janitor at Risky.biz.
Was @metlstorm on Twitter, am metlstorm@infosec.exchange on Masto. 
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
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org he / him. Living with Type 1 Bipolar Depression and PTSD #StigmaFree. Minneapolis resident. The U.S. Constitution is a living document, and it lives in all of us.
Writing → czbi.org/writing
Schedule a call → czbi.org/call
Meet for coffee → czbi.org/coffee
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Dr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social Ecologist and Herpetologist. Urban Birds Program Coordinator (BirdLife AUS), Ass. Researcher, People For Wildlife. Co-owner, AUS Reptile Academy. Fulbright alumna. Inspiring Australia Ambassador (Qld). #PalmCockatooProject. Ex UofCaliforniaIrvine / ANU
Paul Alan Levy @paulalanlevy.bsky.social Litigator, soccer nut. I litigated union democracy, free speech and IP issues at Public Citizen from 1977 to 2026. The views expressed here are my own.
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social Colorado Lawyer. Gamer. Dad. He/Him/His. Grammarchist. Inventor of the Temu tostada at Taco Bell.
Law: personal injury, insurance, video games, appeals, litigation.
Games: tabletop, war, video, minis.
My job is cooler than yours.
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club Chicanx. Agender/Genderless. ND. Bird Nerd. Queer.
Carnivorous plants
BSc in Nat Resources & Conservation. Masters in Fire Ecology. I'm an Ecologist in Public Health bc birds
Bay Area
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Patrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz https://risky.biz/
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
Tom Uren @tom.risky.biz Author of the Seriously Risky Business cyber security newsletter
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
TProphet @tprophet.org Founder of @queercon @telechallenge @flyawardcat. Writer @2600, @tribeofhackers.
Every day, my life continues to amaze me.
我是同性恋# 🏳️🌈
Opinions are my own.
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
+
🤓 Fellow at Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🗞️ Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
🆕 Anchor on Medlines
Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)
Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social Resilience, independent of industry. www.criticalinternet.org
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social Working at the intersection of cybersecurity, B2B tech, and media/comms | ATL based, WI accent, Danish heritage | Dog enthusiast | Above the clouds is my happy place | It’s the guns
Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social Professional Dominatrix and erotic hypnotic Mistress
Making the world a little better, one orgasm at a time
She/Her
https://cash.app/$MistressEmma
NiteFlirt.com/Trance
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Seasonally Affected Lizzy 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @thebadending.bsky.social | compsci/music/photography
| non-binary trans woman 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
| she/they
| can’t make up my mind can’t figure it out
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Maria Bamford @mariabamford.bsky.social ✈️ I'M COMING TO SEE YOU! Want to come to a show but no $? Email me ➡️ Ariamaamfordba@gmail.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Thomas Böttiger 🏳️🌈 @macinthemiddle.bsky.social Technical Writer, Cultural Anthropologist, Blogger, Cyclist, Father, Husband / „A thoughtful activist navigating the online chaos with both insight and humor“ / Hope is just bad planning ;) / https://readit-DTP.de
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT outgoing president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
Katie Nickels @likethecoins.bsky.social 
Emily Bloom @emilybloom.bsky.social Model, actress, streamer (twitch / mfc)
Aerialist, marathoner and tri athlete 🤭
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh).
The Original Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
50501 South Dakota ❌️👑 @50501southdakota.bsky.social The official account for the 50501 Movement in South Dakota. An all-volunteer grassroots movement.
50 Protests | 50 States | 1 Movement
50501 South Dakota links: https://linktr.ee/50501sd
Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/southdakota50501
Lara Gerassi @laragerassi.bsky.social (She/her/elle). Associate professor at UW-Madison. Research focuses on sex trade(s), trafficking, exploitation, sex work, anti-oppressive practices.
CASW • LOCAL 304 @casw304.bsky.social Coalition of American S3w Workers
DECRIM SW • #freechrystulkizer
CASW304.org • casw304@proton.me
Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social Cautiously pessimistic, esp. about cyber things.
The owls are not what they seem. 🗻🗻🦉🌲🪵 🍒🥧☕️🍩 🕵🏼♀️ 👍🏻
Also: 🔐🔑🔒
And of course: hacklore.org
Other account: @hacklore.bsky.social
Joe Gray aka JOSINT @c3pjoe.bsky.social Threat Intel; Author: @nostarch; 5x Black Badge; Views: my own; https://nostarch.com/practical-social-engineering- X @xprotectszn.bsky.social @xprotectszn.bsky.social Researcher of “Computer Things”
Milwaukee DSA @mkedsa.bsky.social We are democratic socialists fighting for a better world for all. Contact us at mke@dsawi.org 🌹
linktr.ee/mkedsa
Renee Faust @renofaust.bsky.social 
Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social devoted to the study & understanding of biodiversity, and public sharing of biodiversity knowledge and beauty. a "curator" of biological collections, and of the planet. Dad, Univ Prof
𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍄𐌰 @delicate-prey.bsky.social eyeliner, teeth, and blood; catnip for evil women
normie passing freak
Also found at; https://linktr.ee/monocled_falcon
be adult or be gone
if you mass like my pics you're going to get blocked
v: @dilly-darling
c: $DilettaS
mana 🦄 @manabrownies.bsky.social mental illness, hockey, books, and video games.
actually three raccoons in a trench coat.
♏️ ☀️ ♍️ ⬆️ ♌️ 🌕
🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social Writer & nature photographer, especially macro photography of arthropods. Board member, Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee (conservation nonprofit). Fan of California, Montana, the rest of the planet. Photo website: https://www.tomastlephotography.com/
🌱 Bailey Rayne 🌱 @bairay92.bsky.social LA - Dog Mom 🐶 - Plant Enthusiast 🪴 - Occasional Twitch Streamer 👾 - Aerial Hammock 💪 - FDT
Main Account: @baileyrayne.bskyverified.social
💜 Foxe @qtfoxe.art 🦊🌿 They/Them 𖹭 AuDHD 𖹭 Adult 𖹭 Queer 🌸🏳️🌈
💜 I'm an artist and amateur photographer who loves nature, arthropods, fantasy, anthro art, & more.
💜 Spread love wherever you go. The world needs it. ✨
🚫 Aī | Cryptø | Ñft
🌹 Tags: #art #photography #oc #sketch
Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. Man't. They/Them (she/her even, if you're not creepy about it)
IG: @apsciencebylyn
Discord: evelyndroid
Tumblr: apsciencebylyn
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com UK based in 🏴 Entomologist 🇵🇷
Former ITAP.gov Invert chair
Former US Labor Union Leader
Film Ent: imdb.com/name/nm13959020/
Editorial admin at: https://www.sswento.org/
Board Member: circulodepr.org
Views are personal.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org Do you remember when the social internet wasn't owned by the same five companies? So do we. Independent, ad-free, user-supported social media, 15 years and counting, no billionaires involved. Code fork of LiveJournal. www.dreamwidth.org
Layer 8 Conference and Podcast @layer8conference.com June 14th, Boston
5th Layer 8 Conference
#OSINT #SocialEngineering
https://layer8conference.com 
cactuscon @cactuscon.com Arizona's hacker con. CactusCon 14: Feb 6-7, 2026 in beautiful Mesa, AZ. https://cactuscon.com + LinkedIn, X, Mastodon
Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61
Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Associate professor. Author of CRISIS AVERTED (Viking). Outbreak newsletter at forceofinfection.com
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Aphreditto 🔆 Diary of a Trans Girl @aphreditto.bsky.social 🏳️⚧ The sculpture is already complete within the marble block before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material
Pat O'Connell @pdoconnell.com Flipping tables and dropping unicode everywhere
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺̺ͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩͩ
Beau Woods @beauwoods.com hack all the cybers
Bitwarden @bitwarden.bsky.social Bitwarden equips enterprises and individuals with trusted security solutions for passwords, secrets, and passkey management.
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
Eugenia Lostri @eugenia.bsky.social 
Bailey Rayne @baileyrayne.bskyverified.social (18+) LA - MFC - Penthouse Pet - Playboy Cybergirl - Hustler Honey & Covergirl - 2019 AVNAwards co-Host - **FDT**
linktr.ee/bairay92
Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / computer scientist / other things
I write about tech, law, speech, and suicide
Jmiers@uakron.edu
Celestia @junipermoonlight.bsky.social Bug girl. Game dev. She/her. Trans. 30s. Nsfw 18+ only. Cash app: $cactusgr
Destiny Spire out now on Steam!:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3369150/Destiny_Spire/
Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social ugh, who invited this guy 
Kurt Opsahl @kurtopsahl.bsky.social Counsel at RCJ Law, former Deputy ED and GC of EFF, now EFF Special Counsel, president SRLDF, board emeritus USENIX, advisor Open Archive, former Technical Advisory Council CISA. Skeets are my own.
Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.bsky.social thedarktangent@defcon.social
Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
Rachel Tobac @racheltobac.bsky.social Hacker & CEO @SocialProofSec security awareness/social engineering training, videos, talks | 3X @DEFCON🥈 | Ex Chair @WISPorg | Ex @CISAgov Technical Advisory Council under Director Jen Easterly
DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993.
Defcon.org
Forum.defcon.org
Defcon.social