Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Harry Ransom Center @ransomcenter.bsky.social Humanities research library and museum at @utaustintx | Opening August 15: The Worlds of Gertrude Stein • Opening August 29: Houdini’s Library
The Nitrate Picture Show @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social Film is cool. Nitrate is hot. 🔥 Join us May 29–June 1, 2025 for the festival of film conservation at George Eastman Museum's Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY.
Reserve your pass: eastman.org/nitrate-picture-show
The Golden Fang @theegoldenfang.bsky.social theegoldenfang.bandcamp.com
Ambient synth from NC
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
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/
Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social Turner Classic Movies presents the greatest classic films of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. tcm.com
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Accident Prone Records @accidentpronerecs.bsky.social Records. Merch. Friendship.
Astoria, OR. Brick-and-mortar opening soon!
Est 1997 in Escondido, CA.
accidentprone.com | mutualaidhub.org | stopice.net
Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/
Best info about me: https://markcousins.cargo.site/
The Mahoning Drive-In Theater @mahoningdit.bsky.social A vintage 35mm drive-in movie theater, running since 1948. Home to the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania.
Ravenous @weareravenous.com 🐦⬛ Food media with teeth
✊ Worker-owned
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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social 
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Libraries for the People @librariesftp.bsky.social A leftist library project
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
All Day Records @alldayrecords.bsky.social New & used records, CDs, tapes, books, movies, stereo gear
112 East Main St, Carrboro, NC
Open 12-6 Mon-Sat, 2-6 Sun
45 West St, Pittsboro, NC
Open 11-5 Thurs-Sat, 12-4 Sun
alldayrecords.com
Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social NC reporter, Inside Climate News. Native Hoosier, fan of lichens, ants, rivers. Ardent upcycler. Lost the state spelling bee on the word “gauche.” Signal: 919-536-2341 
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
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
North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social We are an association of all AAUP members in North Carolina #highered. Join us as we advocate for all faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! https://www.aaupnc.org/
MovieJawn @moviejawn.com Everyone’s favorite PRINT movie zine, movie review website and movie makers.
https://linktr.ee/moviejawn
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
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
Oren Ambarchi_Black Truffle @orenambarchi.bsky.social 
Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social "Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple." The Wire (UK)
David Mittleman
DJ @wfmu.bsky.social
Vinyl collector
Writing @ We Jazz Magazine
https://wfmu.org/playlists/OV
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Clay Pipe Music @claypipemusic.bsky.social ‘An entrancing record label built on a foundation of Arcadian sounds and gorgeous graphic design.’ Shindig.
Website: www.claypipemusic.co.uk
Bandcamp: https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claypipemusic_francescastle/
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Caroline Spencer @cclaytonr.bsky.social NC born & bred. Public education, books, travel, and the Oxford comma. 🙄 expert. Voter. Tar Heel. Here about 1/week.
Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social Historian. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC, 2023); Dollars for Dixie (Cambridge, 2017). In progress books: educational radio on the ground and a history of alternative music in 10 bands.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Jonathan Lee @beetlebump.bsky.social ocean sky stars earth air fire water music movies books writing friends coffee trees clouds skateboarding painting drawing
Giallo Biafra @fulciseyefetish.bsky.social Joe Ferry, movie and gialli lover.
Co-host of the podcasts @filmsatfirstsight.bsky.social and @nofilmleftbehind.bsky.social.
It may be Philly sports, it may be seasonal depression, who's to say?!
Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
https://unc-ch-aaup.org
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Nana's CookBooks @nanascookbooks.bsky.social Recipes and menus from my Nana's Cookbooks and other older cookbooks, sometimes pictures are included.
🌎SW Michigan
📚The Modern Family Cookbook 1943
📚 Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1950
📚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1965
📚Joy of Cooking, 1975
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social Books / records. Research / muttering
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
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
Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social Seasoned extremism reporter at @rawstory.com. Investigations: law enforcement, national security, politics. Contact me at jordan@rawstory.com or jordangreen.03 on Signal. Here for the long haul.
https://www.rawstory.com/u/jordan-green-special-to-raw-story
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
@joshkbrough.bsky.social @joshkbrough.bsky.social Chapel Hill, NC. Coffee / guitar.
SS&D out now
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/slither-soar-disappear
Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
Archives Gig @archivesgig.bsky.social Careers, jobs, and internships in the world of archives & records management. Archivesgig.com
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Richard Youngs @nofansrecords.bsky.social www.nofansrecords.com
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social Musician / Writer
Dada Drummer Almanach https://dadadrummer.substack.com/
Damon & Naomi https://damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/
and yeah I was in Galaxie 500
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
David Jordan @nadrojdivad.bsky.social 
Lindsay Metivier @lindsaymetivier.bsky.social Photographer / Gallerist / Educator / Dog Mom
Brent Tozzer @batozzer.bsky.social I’m still working and must laugh regularly. I play clawhammer banjo with people I like, read books, and secure galleries at Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. "Send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free." Lazarus, Emma
Brian Haran @yahtzeezee-top.bsky.social Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.
Reid @bluereid.bsky.social He/hims/his/whatever
@schoonermusic on the other platforms.
Comms Director.
Schooner dude http://schoonermusic.com
Sun Studies side http://sunstudi.es
Texas Observer @texasobserver.org A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954.
Follow our journos: https://go.bsky.app/EdSL3Co
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Texas Tribune @texastribune.org Independent news. Trusted by Texans. We pursue the truth so Texans can shape our future. Sign up for our daily email: http://trib.it/signup
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
MUNFLA @munfla-archive.bsky.social The Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) was created in 1968 and houses extensive collections of folklore and folklife.
North Carolina Folklife Institute @ncfolk.bsky.social 
dkthompson @dkt-1.bsky.social Photographer working in history, cultural heritage and folklife documentation. Member NPPA. Opinions are my own and not those of my employers.
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social Posting a random frame from King of the Hill every 30 minutes. Bot created by @famousceleb.co
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social Book Artsy
Founder, Book/Print Collective
**DM for commission inquiries**
dvd @dvd.qa data privacy, startups, sound stuff, freeform radio
"short ideas repeated massage the brain"
wxyc @wxyc.org WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial freeform radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
wxyc.org | https://linktr.ee/wxyc
🔊 Livestream: http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wxyc-alt.mp3
requests: @dj.wxyc.org
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dymaxion pad @lucite.bsky.social collage artist of noise, words and visuals. lucite spine. purveyor of fine detritus and delicate laces. professor of critical bimbo studies. mckeesport, pa.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
lilya @lolifer.bsky.social