Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Jane Hadley @janehadleywrites.bsky.social Footnotes & Feels: historical romance set in Minnesota
Jane of all trades, master of none
Rather make crappy art than use AI
www.janehadleywrites.com
summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social user experience, safe biking, all the musics, many books. all opinions solely mine. he/they. apprentice romance author. aleewellesfiction.com 🦖 trans rights or i bites
Shark Sketchbook @sharksketchbook.bsky.social Kate. Creative shark writer/illustrator. Loves MerMay, histrom, justice, Halloween, feminism, iced chai. NO AI 🚫
- Website: http://sharksketchbook.com
- Quick view: http://sharksketchbook.com/showcase/
- Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/sharksketchbook
Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social Poet, dancer, textile artist ✨ they/them disabled trans queer
A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social Ugly bird girl.
Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her.
Not anyone of note. Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety.
https://ko-fi.com/shinybluething23640 if you want to help with the cats.
MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social Auntie, hat lover, always looking for the work worth doing.
(Photo credit: Millinery By Anna: www.etsy.com/shop/MillineryByAnna)
Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social Trans Jewish byte array
Open source software developer
Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
https://esther-alter.com
Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich and/or Bury Arc.
(Views mine, not representative of Waterstones)
Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com www.aanpress.com/artworks
Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk gay dandy. white & welsh. he/him. 18+.
check pinned for fantasy fiction, queer romance, and erotica.
cymru am byth.
my website: https://johannestevans.co.uk/
The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social I like biking. I hate inaction on preventing climate change. I think Boston could be the best city in the US, should have over a million residents, and be fully bikeable #CarLiteBoston #AutomateSafeStreetsMass #BikeJoy
"be saintlike on the bike path" GP
Shoshana 🏳️⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon
SWE, I like housing, bikes, transit, and nice communities 👩🏻🦰 ✡️ 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
I play tennis, organize a queer soccer group, and like going to synagogue
Boston
she/her
Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social aka Vanessa Ricci-Thode. Nebula Award-winning trashbag & queer SFF writer. Chiefest and greatest of calamities. Dogs, gardening and Canadian rage. she/they 💙💜🩷
I'm only here for the food
thodestool.ca/links
Cranky Otter @crankyotter.bsky.social Distractible disabled engineer seeks distractions. Reader. Not actually an otter.
#inclusive #diverse #gender #bias
LibraryThing @librarything.com LibraryThing is the number one app and website for cataloging your books, getting book recommendations and socializing with fellow book lovers.
eri (e.m. caro) @authoremcaro.com 📖 author. 🏳️🌈. leftist.
rep: Cheyenne @Handspun Literary
Out now: REARS & VICES, BY ANY MEANS
Soon: AFFAIRS & ASSETS (3.16.27)
emcaro.carrd.co
books2read.com/RearsAndVices
books2read.com/ByAnyMeans
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈
https://eliaseells.com/
Inquiries: elias.eells1@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered
Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865
Some writing and illustration for @thedailytism.com
Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️⚧️
OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. 🪐🗡️🌈
https://patreon.com/othersidespec · https://othersidespec.com
Andrew Akers @akrs.me Dad, Tinkerer, Dish Wrangler.
let’s be honest, we’ve got bike posts and the occasional cat pic here.
Keffy @keffy.bsky.social he/him/they/them
500 tiny scientists in a trenchcoat / apocalyptic trans man.
I write SF/F and have had stories published in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Apex, and others. I also edit(ed) GlitterShip which is on hiatus atm.
M.Phil Genetics
https://ko-fi.com/keffyk
Sylvia Chan-Malik @schanmalik.bsky.social Mom, Professor, Writer. Author of "Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam" (NYU Press, 2018) & "A Part of Islam: A Journey through Muslim America" (Penguin Random House, forthcoming). Views only mine.
Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com We review a curated collection of quality indie fantasy and sci-fi books. Discover unique worlds, hidden gems, and new adventures.
AI 🚫
Visit: https://www.readindiefantasy.com
Posts by @nils.readindiefantasy.com and @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
Galdrasdottir @galdrasdottir.bsky.social Queer & chronically ill in Scotland (she/her). Non-practicing medievalist, practicing textile nerd.
Nat Lawless 🌈🦄 @nat-lawless.bsky.social Queer ND writer, reader, muso, academic, critic. Different hats, different names. Queer fantasy/romantasy/historical romance/sci-fi. Ask my characters about my gender. No DMs. No AI. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nat_Lawless/pseuds/Nat_Lawless
Simon A Corvid @scrow1022.bsky.social Writer, artist, seeker. Bi trans guy. He/they.
Abolish ICE & police.
On Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi land.
Kat @katriddell.bsky.social writer, knitter, cyborg, library wizard, Gentlewoman of Evil. “chaotic but a delight.” “lewd but a gentleman.” cake/coffee life. practice makes better. 🏳️🌈🧃✡️ (any pronouns)
Tell Your Cat I Said... @allmydeadcats.com Empathetic and friendly pet end-of-life advice from @sesmith.lol, author of ALL MY DEAD CATS: PRACTICING GOOD GRIEF IN A CULTURE THAT FEARS MOURNING (July 2026).
Read, subscribe, and order my book at allmydeadcats.com.
Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social Addicted to words. Used to be paid by the column-inch. (You can probably still tell.) Gleeful flipper of all the tropes. Queer, disabled, neurospicy thespian. Indie author of Chai and Cat-tales. (About to commit a trilogy.) https://lynnstrong.com
Alex Pendragon @alexp336.bsky.social m/m fiction/romance/erotica writer. No AI. he/him 🌈 I believe in ALL the letters in #lgbtqia
Generally confused but trying my best
www.alexpendragon.com
metasilk @metasilk.bsky.social Compassion, cuss words, color, coffee. I wear many hats in a small museum, do web sites, & teach a bit of environmental science. I draw some, don't paint enough, and talk back to birds.
Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Now Berlin previously Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, DC, Warsaw, Budapest. Hoya Saxa! YSR! (he/him) Book reviews and oddments at https://thefrumiousconsortium.net
Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social 🖤 Material support & advocacy for unhoused & recently housed people in Washington DC 🖤
Mutual Aid Ⓐ Anarchy Ⓐ Anti-fascism
https://linktr.ee/remorahousedc
E. P. Beaumont @epbeaumont.bsky.social Novelist, playwright, shapeshifter. Greedy reader and occasional reviewer. Multidimensional independent currently haunting the general SFF/H/R neighborhood. Career goal: Good Ordinary Human, Good Kin.
The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social Tweets and opinions mostly regarding Fort Point, Boston. Lover of all things creative, worldly and aspirational. Otherwise bristly.
fortpointer.com Also: fortpoint.org fortpointpier.com
The Smut Report @smutreport.com We are three crones who have been swapping smut since we were maidens and therefore spend a lot of time yelling about romance books.
Primarily managed by Holly.
Blog at smutreport.com
EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social Photos & videos about the changes happening in Paris. SPV means "Sortir de Paris à Vélo" ("Cycle out of Paris"), which is my old website about how to cycle out of Paris on some cycle lanes in the suburbs. http://www.sortirdeparisavelo.fr/blog/
Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social The future is mutual aid. ✨ 💪
Trying to build community at the intersections of art and justice movements, sometimes organizing mutual aid fundraisers and distributing zines. 🕎 for a free 🇵🇸.
Dog auntie, flower lover, tchotchke queen. she/her
Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social i'm cliffy
🏳️⚧️ he/him, rodent liker, dinosaur appreciator, eggbug forever in our hearts
avatar by @dochackenbush.bsky.social
El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social Copy and line editor*, queer, 24/7 nerd. Reads, writes, sings, plays D&D. Passionate and hopeful. Loves music — & dogs, most especially my own giant floof. They/them.
Wishlist: http://bit.ly/3R5zI2X
*Expect typos in posts; I’m using my thumbs.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them
Languages: en, de, fr, sv
Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh
Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com Usually she/they, but I'll take whatever pronouns you've got.
Author & artist fantasy & science fiction!
📚 My books: RebeccaReyesWriting.com
💙 My store: https://ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita/shop
#BookSky #SFF #Scifi
Pixel 🏳️⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social Medievalist, painter, sewist, cook, occasional musician, nerd. Inveterate crafter. Genderqueer/genderfluid. Not quite a crazy cat person, but not for lack of trying. They/them.
Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
Ireland.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb
Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
baby gaga @danieli.cc a cada dia mais perto da morte e mais longe da aposentadoria
15/10 Foundation @15outof10.org @weratedogs.com | making shelter dogs with medical and behavioral needs more adoptable ❤️🩹 https://links.15outof10.org
Boston Archives and Records @archives.boston.gov Official Bluesky account of the City of Boston Archives. We manage, preserve, and provide access to the municipal government records of Boston.
boston.gov/departments/archives-and-records-management
Cindy Shutts @cindysku.bsky.social Teen Librarian, Aunt, Dog Mom, Romancelandia Shadow and Bone Fan,Sports, care bears, Guiding Light, dreamland valley, Pokemon go. Cindy Crushes Programming on Teen librarian toolbox. I read a lot of books. My Posts do not represent my employer
Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social Enthusiast of too many things, especially books, fungi, rainbows, MDZS, people so hyper-focused on their interests they open a whole museum/shop/press about it.
Managing editor at Dancing Star Press. She/her
https://linktr.ee/greeniezona
Al Hess @al-distortion.bsky.social Artist and author of cozy sci-fi 🏳️🌈👁
WORLD RUNNING DOWN
KEY LIME SKY
@angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
Michelle Allison, RD @fatnutritionist.bsky.social a nutritionist (RD) who is fat
www.fatnutritionist.com
American-Canadian, Toronto
I skate better IRL
Krista is at Edm Expo! Booth A1018 (across celebrity autographs) @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
James Read @jamesreadwrites.bsky.social Writer (Of Cabbages and Kimchi), fermenter, founder
of Kim Kong Kimchi, CTO of The Fermenters Guild
My stuff -> https://jamesreadwriter.com/links
UnfamiliarArts @unfamiliararts.bsky.social I’m Beth (she/her) I’m an artist working in polymer clay and ceramics. Inspired by natural history and old New England folk art.
Primary Shop: https://unfamiliarsculptures.etsy.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/unfamiliarsculptures
amg @luxurycar.bsky.social go away
cyborg
transmasc
Renee Dahlia @reneedahlia.bsky.social Queer Romance Author. No gen-AI. All human made and HEA guaranteed.
Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social I'm Kai! They/them. Library worker, writer in progress. Here be books and creatures and brainweirds and queerness.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Lydia San Andres @lydiaallthetime.bsky.social Author of The Return of His Caribbean Heiress and other historical romances set in the Dominican Republic 🌴✨
CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social Community volunteers supporting neighbors + shifting power dynamics in #MApoli #bospoli courts by exposing decisions of judges & prosecutors. #ShutDownSouthBay
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social DouglassDay.org | #DouglassDay
Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. A day of love and collective action for Black history & archives!
Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social Emily
Chicago, IL
she/her
emidly.08 on Signal
Nirali @firewordsparkler.bsky.social giver of gay awards. media monday quarterly. youtuber. phandom/swiffer/etc. firewordsparkler.com (she/her/any)
The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social Drawer of birds, designer of fabric, sewer of gorgeous things you might want to buy from me.
I also really like food, walking and cycling.
www.thesewphist.com
KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ ASC @kikidoodle.bsky.social Professional artist and cornish rex cat owner/breeder. Created Purrmaids (purrmaids.com) and art & illustration(KikiDoodle.com)
Am I a cat lady who draws, or an art lady who cats?
I go by Kiki! She/her
KikiDoodleArt@gmail.com for inquiries
Captain Pooky @captainpooky.bsky.social Gamer, Geek, Cook, and Reader of books. I post a lot about Lego sets I enjoy and the recipes I am making. Probably a witch. She/her
Ellie Saurus @elliesaur.bsky.social She/Her
Adorable little trans girl
Cargo bike dyke
AuDHD
Long-COVID'd and grumpy about it
I dunno I just want to live in a nice society where people are taken care of.
35yo in body, permatoddler at heart.
18+ Zone
Clyde Dlugy-Belmont @clyde.eurosky.social Wannabe scholar. Breton linguistics and history. Old and Middle Breton stuff.
I like very old books.
Fait des enquêtes ethno-linguistiques sur ses enfants.
Professeur des écoles en bilingue par immersion.
#bzhg #MitzvahArBrezhoneg
Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com Knitter, writer, teacher, PhD. Ask me about serial killers, true crime, and Stephen King. https://rebeccafrostwrites.com/links/
/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now.
Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Australian publisher of sapphic specfic
SEPT 4 2026 - "Who Am I? Sapphic Spec Fic of Identity and Purpose" anthology! https://www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami
No AI now or ever.
Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social Cartoonist & author
Prints and comic booklets available here! 👉 http://emilyscartoons.myshopify.com
4Farthings/Kim @4farthings.bsky.social Small farm in the New River Valley with dairy goats, primitive sheep, assorted poultry, and BEES...
Milk shares and eggs currently available!
Eleanor Glewwe @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social SFF author | Linguist at Grinnell College | she/her
eleanorglewwe.com
Just Hebah (she/her) @hebaha.bsky.social Librarian, parent, knitter/spinner/crocheter, gamer, reader (especially romance and fantasy), occasional scribbler.
BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org She/her. Book person. An Old. Founder of Bookstore Romance Day.
Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social hey, we’re QLL — a fully digital library fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ // follow for updates! 💜🪶
https://linktr.ee/queerliblib
E_Baillieul @ebaillieul.bsky.social https://fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6337446 <- fund Yellowhammer, reproductive justice and care in AL, MS, FL
Somerville, MA, USA.
Eats Cheetos, often.
“Good Lord! Is this the road that Jonah went?”
Larisa LaBrant @larisa-labrant.bsky.social She/Her/Hers
Immune Deficient Cat Lady Crone
3rd Gen Coloradoan
I block anyone who supports anti-vaxxers.
If there's a long stream of posts I'm trapped under 1-2-3 cats, and can't move to do anything else (alas, alack, woe)
Parsingphase @parsingphase.dev Polyglot endy Anglo-American geek with a European backstory, now in NE MA.
Posts may contain AI-free wildlife photos & video, native gardening, 3D printing, coding, backyard trailcams and/or democratic ideals.
Alt-text absolutist - make the effort!
Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land. 
Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE IS AN IGNYTE FINALIST! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Iranian Chicagoan author: THE BRUISING OF QILWA (adult queernorm Persian fantasy; Crawford, Locus, World Fantasy finalist) & THE GLADE (🏳️🌈🍄MG horror, Ignyte finalist). Worker-owner at Sword & Kettle Press. Newsletter, teaching, & more: lnk.bio/jamsternazzy
Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader, & developmental editor of TTRPGs, comics, board games, sci-fi, & fantasy. Newbie indexer. Lover of apple cider doughnuts. Knitter. Generative AI sucks. She/her 📚 www.rachellapidow.com
Brainstormer in Chief: #StetChat @stetchat.com
@annicktrent.bsky.social @annicktrent.bsky.social 
Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social Health sciences librarian, Creative Writing/Environment MFA, Canadian in WI. More prairies, fewer police. Too hot for Granbury, TX. she/her 🌈
Keri Garel, MD (she/her) @thekeri.bsky.social "did i just hear you on the radio?"
"yes."
OBGYN in MA. mostly abortion and contraception. snark and views are mine and not my employer's. clearly not medical advice.
Shirlene Obuobi @shirleneobuobi.bsky.social 🇬🇭 🇺🇸 Cardiologist 🫀. Author (Between Friends & Lovers, On Rotation). Artist
N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social Romance writer • delightfully subversive • mental health advocate • spoonie • gen-x • debut ami • fan of: tea, Rush, BTS, kpop, knitting, Vancouver Canucks, Leverage, kindness, HEAs • she/her• 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/nrlines
Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social Boston area geography buff, cat freak, film snob, physical media diehard, Sky Bar afficionado. He/him
Shakira Kurosawa @jamtoday.bsky.social The wages of slatternliness is cats
Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social Hyper local in Somerville, MA. FOIA requests & long threads live-tweeting city meetings. Also @fdmts
Jake Wilson for Somerville @jake4somerville.bsky.social Mayor of Somerville (he/him/él)
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jake4somerville
Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social Dem. Nominee for State Rep, 27th Middlesex (Somerville)
Currently: City Councilor, Somerville - Ward 3. Affordable housing, safe streets, good jobs, public transit, fighting climate change (also, biologist at Harvard Med School) www.benforstaterepMA.com