Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places:
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Board @pact.blacksky.app
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Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social Author of "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History." Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center.
Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social ⛔️ Pls don't follow with 0️⃣ posts or with no alt-text on posts with images or with no bio/profile🖼 Seriously.
Beware 📌. Posts are impermanent.
Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social Black womanist scholar with a PhD from New Orleans, LA. Bylines in Momentum, Oprah Daily, ZORA, Cultured #WEOC Founder. allisonthedailywriter.com
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Brandon Tensley @brandontensley.bsky.social Now: National Politics Reporter, Capital B, a Black-focused nonprofit newsroom. Before: National Political Writer, CNN. Writing a book about Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight for 33 1/3.
Email: brandon.tensley@capitalbnews.org | Signal: btensley.53
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta:
@capitalbgary.bsky.social & @capitalbatl.bsky.social
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)
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA
Lauren Williams @laurenwilliams.bsky.social CEO + Cofounder, capitalbnews.org
Straight Outta Brooklyn @chriscarrega.bsky.social A veteran criminal justice reporter and adjunct professor turning a new leaf.
Priors: @CapitalB @CNN @ABC 2 top U.S. tabloid newspapers. 🇧🇧🇬🇾 #NABJ #SJUAlumni
Isaiah 54:17
Aallyah Wright @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social Journalist focused on rural Black America 🌎
A daughter of the Mississippi Delta 🌻
https://capitalbnews.org/author/aallyah-wright/
Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com some lady.
she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social Co-founder of Capital B. 
Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social Journalist, CRO @CapitalB previously: The Atlantic. Long suffering Knicks fan
Adam Harris @adamhsays.com writer, southern.
Co-host, Radio Atlantic.
Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America?
More: www.harrisadam.com
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social 2025-26 Pulliam Fellow exploring intersection of sports, transportation and environmental justice
eyeblack newsletter (readeyeblack.com)
bwdsecrets.43 on Signal for secure tips
holler@bwd.nyc for everything else
Victoria St. Martin @victoriastmartin.bsky.social Editor, writer, educator | Mom, storyteller & survivor | past: The Washington Post, Inside Climate News, Capital B News
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social *views are mine only*
Blair Chair Southern Studies & Plsc Prof AMST PhD UTx; Truman Sch; The Long Southern Strategy; 2024 Carnegie Fellow; Data + Cultural Crit; Exhausted mom
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Gentry @ghostwithashell.bsky.social https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/258829
JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social Pprofessor. Black environmental literature, war, and 19th century Black life. President of C19: The Society for 19th Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. Forthcoming book: Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery (Duke UP). D.C.
Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com engineering and infosec · he/him (decaf) · vis tacita
maine bluesky feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:txfqncx66asrjzitxfur3of6/feed/aaap7ldsnvpkw
THE INTERNET IS SCARY: @internetisscary.org
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era.
this is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here.
ngl.link/armageddon1312
don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
Xe @xeiaso.net Some nerd that uses computers | Blogger with 500-ish articles at https://xeiaso.net | @theprincessxena on the bird website | CEO @techaro.lol | Minors DNI
Karan Lyons @karanlyons.bsky.social Just a little person.
Liza @liza.wtf Gremlin putting bugs in your code. She/her
sanketh @sanketh.bsky.social doctoress of cryptography
🏳️⚧️ they/them
✍🏽 https://ciphertext.blog
🖼️ pfp by astrophysician
🧑🏽💼 views=own
Jessica @jessica.wtf Put down the computer and go into the woods 
suburbsec @suburbsec.bsky.social A dangerously mediocre man. Security person on the internet.
Martin Roesch @mroesch.bsky.social 👨💼Head of Cloud @ Vectra AI
⛵️Sailor
🔭Amateur Astronomer
📷(Very) Amateur Photographer
🐷 The Snort Guy
📍 Annapolis
✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social Security "professional" || Shitposting, once more with feeling || Disaster nerd, neurotic mess, fake grown-ass lady || 🚗 🏍️ 🐈⬛ 🐕 📚 || she/her
avi 🐰 @llzes.bsky.social I love rabbits, cheesecake, cute things
✨ saleem ✨ @saleem.bsky.social my job is just beach, but sometimes it’s mountains ✨ he/him
https://twitter.com/saleemrash1d
xtina @normal.bsky.social 🔙🔛🔝
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc Hacker. Enby. Administrative inconvenience. Purveyor of technically sophisticated shitposts.
Suing the UK for more gender, help with my legal bills: https://enby.org.uk/
Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc
Non-binary trans androgynous (they/them)
Graham @grims.bsky.social Former Security Nerd, Leadership & People Nerd now. Socialist. Anti-Fascist. Black Lives Matter. LGBTQA+ friendly. Guns Leftist, you should be too. I am in scenes and hate scenes but am still in them.
https://graham.posthaven.com
Torvos @torvos.bsky.social Cloud Cyber Security Person, I break things but I also help fix them.
Thoughts/Views are my own
shh @worldwise001.bsky.social 🇲🇾/🇨🇦. she/her
csv @csv.bsky.social Funemployed security engineer
MagicBear @magicbear.bsky.social A bear of very little filter
they/them 
vitaly @send9.bsky.social hi!
theron @huh.cool github.com/spieglt
Andrew Dunham @andrewd.bsky.social Canadian, solar/renewable energy enthusiast, security person, software engineer, and general doer-of-things @ @tailscale.com
Also on Mastodon @andrew@ottawa.place (and one of the admins of that server!)
Matt M @mattm.bsky.social 
Peter C @peterc.ollins.me Security Engineer
https://peterc.ollins.me
Matt Moyer @moyer.dev Security engineer in KCMO (he/him)
https://moyer.dev
Mike English @englishm.bsky.social Human person who makes software for video.
Also https://hachyderm.io/@englishm
he/him
zofrex @zofrex.bsky.social alg:none expert
Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social Travel nerd, language nerd, software nerd, systems nerd. Trying to make the world a better place.
Available for hire! Looking for a remote devops, backend dev, or software testing role.
Corry Haines @sharpletters.net Cat wrangler and occasional security engineer, formerly various places, more on my blog.
Patrick O'Doherty @patrickod.com Irishman in San Francisco. Amateur photographer, musician, artist and electronics tinkerer. Professional security computer comrade. Security @tailscale.com Only together can we defeat the computers.
rhw @finderoffail.bsky.social 
Dov @dov.dev new world entrant to the larger software world.
Databasing @materialize.com
str4d @str4d.xyz Cryptography, privacy, zero knowledge, Rust, Zcash dev, gaming, hardware hackery, art appreciation. He/him.
https://str4d.xyz
https://abyssdomain.expert/@str4d
age18f63qx4gk8x7p4lfuwwglqcan7snvp406q5vmk26g9fmpe9c799qqzzr3w
austin @aparker.io the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
director of ai strategy @honeycomb.io
av by @extinctinks.net
Steve @snark.bsky.social “Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social Hopeful.
She/her
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
Professional open source maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Dave Anderson @dave.tf Software developer, maker (3D printers, CNC, electronics), misc nerd (radio, time, space, ...)
remember to salt the fries 🍟☑️ @jasonhz.bsky.social ex-CompUSA, ex-Circuit City
ICE must be destroyed- D @devurandom.bsky.social @devurandom.bsky.social
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
cailin @feralcybersec.com 
Micah Gates @mgates.com 
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team Infosec, climate change, memes, and whatever strikes my fancy on torrho.com blog
Also founder of @slavecodes.org
Maybe one day will get to @jimcrowlaws.org
former handle - @torrho.com
Maker of @tektite.cc