Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'
l just might tell you the truth
- Bob Dylan
Indiana wants me
Lord, I can't go back there
- R. Dean Taylor
'I am a pilgrim and a stranger,
Passing through this wearisome land'
- Traditional
Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social your fuel prices, explained honestly.
data over politics, no tolerance for political BS.
thousands of interviews | trusted by every White House administration.
Integrity matters.
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social Journalist turned comic book writer. Puts words in the mouths of heroes for Marvel, Image, Dark Horse. No Kings comms volunteer. Comix Action co-founder. Past bylines in NY Daily News & NBC News. (He/Him)
Newsletter: https://sacks-exchange.beehiiv.com/
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
George Wiman @georgewiman.bsky.social Retired tech guy learning to draw. Love comics and animation. Mostly get around on a bike. Anti-fascist. 
Michelle Hackman @mhackman.bsky.social Covering immigration for the Wall Street Journal. Please be in touch! Michelle.hackman@wsj.com or DM for signal. Same handle on Twitter
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
S @vidiot.bsky.social Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident.
"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.
Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social Bred in San Diego, led to Kansas City. Brand strategist, Arsenal, drummer, cyclist, malcontent and aspiring bon vivant.
Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social Good news for a change
Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social Humorist, satirist, and political commentator, www.unchartedblue.com
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / computer scientist / other things
I write about tech, law, speech, and suicide
Jmiers@uakron.edu
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com Public health + national security • Johns Hopkins alum • Tracking mysterious weaponized pigeons and FIMI
Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social Journalist.
jonathanlarsen.substack.com and thefuckingnews.substack.com
Ex-MSNBC (Up, Countdown), ex-CNN (AC 360), ex-ABCNews
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
Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social Dad, husband, journalist at 9News Denver. Helping the community raise $18M via 300+ weekly microgiving campaigns. Next with Kyle Clark 6p weeknights + 9NEWS at 9/10p on-air/streaming on 9NEWS+. Signal tips: 303-871-1841.
Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social Chief Market Strategist, Corpay by day. Nerd by night.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team If a box on a curb with "Free Meyer Lemons" written on it were a guy
(personal account, obviously)
Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Hindu Pandit, magic the gathering enthusiast. Super passionate about games, gods, and good stories. he/him.Indo-American
email- shbhatt at gmail
podcasts- Casual Magic, Shivam and Wheeler Love Magic, and Chronicles of Dragonlance
Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social Twin Cities MN
@farfromgruntled.bsky.social @farfromgruntled.bsky.social 
chris. @azedand2knots.bsky.social Horrors and hot dogs.
she/they
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wu ming @wu-ming.bsky.social 名可名，非常名。
Drew Hayes @drewhayesnovels.bsky.social Author of series including Super Powereds, Villians' Code, Fred the Vampire Accountant, NPCs, and 5-Minute Sherlock.
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social Does this look infected?
Just My Nonsense:
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social Hi
I'm a musician
Dark souls is fun
They them
Buy me a coffee - https://ko-fi.com/aslanjazzlan
https://linktr.ee/LordAslanTheFirst
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social Nat'l Reporter @19thnews.org
Author YOU MUST STAND UP https://tinyurl.com/4cvxyvwz on abortion-rights fight w/o Roe
Nieman Nation. Ohioan. WV Mtn (Cat) Mama. Nat'l Parks lover.
Journalism adjunct prof.
OH-IN-NY-CA-DC-MA-DC-WV/OH
Signal: AmandaBecker.41
Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Taller than your dad
Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social Immigration lawyer & cat dad
Facts care about my feelings.
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
lighthouse prince @historiancole.bsky.social here on the cusp between fish and tetrapods
Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social Podcasting about education policy and politics at haveyouheardpodcast.com | Latest book: The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual www.educationwarsbook.com. Follow my work at: http://educationwars.substack.com
Linda Bessin @lindabessin.bsky.social Lifelong pot stirrer.
We can have a respectful discussion about all this or
you can be an asshole = I will immediately block you
A scientist from the future @sandalphon.bsky.social As I am
Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social Geek at law.
Shapeless Ink @shapelessink.bsky.social Queer ΘΔ thing in its 30's.
Artist / Comic and Zine creator / Author. 🔞
Part of the MFBC - https://monsterfuckerbook.club/
Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social Angry, yelly, soccer fan and socialist living in Downtown PDX. My apartment looks like a frat house that is very into fiber arts.
She/her/dude, gender: queer, old enough to be your parent. Views are mine and not those of my employer, parent, or cat.
Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
Solo Game Developer
Pixel Artist
Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day
Male presenting NB
Pronouns: Any if you must
Avatar alt: Pixel art of a male presenting Black person with pink hair in Kente Kufi and Robes
🌿M.T.Botany @mtbotany.bsky.social Botanizer. I'm not mad, just irresponsible. Also not a person made of plants or a killer robot pretending to be human, honest.
Wikipedia editor that writes about plants. Normally I post lots about plants, but also expect travel insanity thru September.
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social Scientific Director, #MEAction
Affiliations: Stanford Genome, Université de Montréal
TIME100 Health
#ME, #EDS, #POTS, #LongCOVID
Views my own
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
Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too. @brynstone.bsky.social Maybe a cybersecurity girl
Writing a book, due out 2096
Future congressional candidate. Will decide what community I've lived my whole life in later.
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social No.
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social NYT & USA Today-bestseller, Stoker Award Winner, writer of horror, fantasy, YA, MG, romance, and Star Wars. Cowriter of the Tales of Pell. Also comics. Olympic lifter. She/her. aka Lila Bowen & Isla Jewell.
Links: https://linktr.ee/delilahsdawson
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social Kinda ok pediatrician
Adjunct Professor
Defend Public Health - Ohio
Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social I ask a lot of questions. Lead Independent Director of Finance Bluesky. Portfolio Mangler. Take each post with a grain of sea salt. Not opinions of Bridgewater LLC.
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social I write.
jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social extremely alive cartoonist. I won an award once • http://amultiverse.com • http://goats.com • http://patreon.com/jonrosenberg • http://linktr.ee/mrjonrosenberg • he/him
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Oil Change International @oilchange.org Working to expose the true costs of fossil fuels & facilitate the transition to clean energy with research, communications, and advocacy. oilchange.org
Tim De Chant @dechant.bsky.social Climate reporter at TechCrunch, lecturer at MIT. Previously at KSJ@MIT, NOVA, and Chicago Tribune. https://de-chant.com/tim
eke @eke.bsky.social 
Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social I like riding the bus. Opinions vary but always my own. In DC and sometimes abroad. 🇺🇦
Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social i'm cliffy
🏳️⚧️ he/him, rodent liker, dinosaur appreciator, eggbug forever in our hearts
avatar by @dochackenbush.bsky.social
Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social SFF Author (she/her) of NY Times best-selling book Dreadful, The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, and Startup Hell. AKA Catherine Beck, author of Leah's Perfect Christmas.
https://www.caitlinrozakis.com/
https://linktr.ee/caitlinrozakis
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.
Feral Grumpy, 🎃🦝🥔 @feralgrumpy.bsky.social Aging weirdo winging it with mixed results.
I can relate to a hammer in that the hammer is forgotten once the nails are struck. Now with extra irrelevance!
Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on Verminsteel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Batsy Cline (she/her) 🦇📚 @batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social Half chester drawers, half ope. I was told I could bring a book. Opinions are solely my own.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social Through the ruin of a city stalked the ruin of a man. 
Stoo Metz 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social 📸 - Full Time Pro Photographer ➡️ @stoo.ca
They/Them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Radically ProTransgender🏳️⚧️
#Halifax #SoberLife #HaliSky #Mi'kma'ki #Kjipuktuk
https://linktr.ee/stoometzphoto
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
Ariane Tabatabai @atabatabai.bsky.social Vice President of Research for Security & Defense at Chicago Council on Global Affairs • Contributing Editor at Lawfare • Ex Pentagon & State Department • Author of No Conquest, No Defeat (Oxford University Press) & co-author of Triple Axis (Bloomsbury)
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social Not the Greek muse, just a casual fan. I study the Third Reich. The demands to READ THEORY will continue until you have actually read Christopher Browning and Ian Kershaw.
Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social political theory, international relations, running
Kansas, New School, Tufts
https://storrente.com
Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social 
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Enable Chaos: https://amzn.to/4gCqcOD
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social Dissent is patriotic.
Disband the standing army.
Stop using Google.
[Posting from a bunker under siege in war-ravaged Portland. Send beer and prayers, but mostly beer.]
[[No IPAs, thanks.]]
[[[Actually, don't send beer, I don't trust your tastes.]]]
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor, Steam. Repped by Brent Taylor.
https://www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon
Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando