Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social Committed teacher, midnight believer, solo soul. Still a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Here for all things Donny Hathaway, Deep Space Nine, Patrice Rushen and Futurama. And for general smart stuff, foolishness and irreverence.
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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social (she/her)
amateur & professional bookworm
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social Habitual CS line-stepper.
Bull City, Gen X, and unserious as hell.
"I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of."-Rapsody
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
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Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Wilmari Jamil Richardson (She/They) @decolonialblack.com PhD Candidate @ Northwestern studying urban settler colonialism, spatial claims, and Black-Native solidarity. Also writing decolonial sci-fi and fantasy novels. Autistic/Girlie Pop/Disabled/Long Covider
Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com Climate, energy, and security at: https://delphizero.substack.com/about
Previously:
📊 Bootstrapped and sold Perengo Inc. (programmatic ad platform)
⚡️ Energy Law @TU Berlin (research focus on EU electricity markets & energy storage) #energysky
Jill Watts @jillwatts.bsky.social Historian. Professor. Author of The Black Cabinet and biographies of Hattie McDaniel, Mae West, and Father Divine. Working on a biography of Mary McLeod Bethune. https://jill-watts.com
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own. https://sarah.dev
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Formerly Vue Core •
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O'Reilly Author •
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https://github.com/sdras
Dr Evelyn Polacek Kery @evelynpk.bsky.social Researcher of social media, YouTube, youth, critical thinking and media literacy
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Carrie Goldberg @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social Lawyer for families destroyed by big tech. Cagoldberglaw.com NYT Editor's Choice: Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos Stalkers Pervs and Trolls.
Mel Smith @iammelsmith.bsky.social A man of many talents, jobs, and takes. Grammy-nominated, Billboard chart-topping, BMI award-winning Songwriter. Producer. Journalist. SOUL MAN. #Blacksky
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
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Kevin De Liban @kevindeliban.bsky.social founder @techtonicjustice.bsky.social | defeated Medicaid care-cutting algorithm | legal aid lawyer | rapper | economic + racial + AI justice | sci-fi + fantasy | Warriors | he/him
Learn more of how AI harms low-income people: techtonicjustice.org
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
People's Tech @peoplestechproject.bsky.social Arming movements for liberation with the tools to fight the tech that oppresses us.
peoplestechproject.org
Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social We're a movement lawyering org working with grassroot organizers to dismantle the deportation machine with innovative legal and policy strategies. Learn more: www.justfutureslaw.org
MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Ava DuVernay @duvernay.bsky.social 
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
BJ Knisley @brookeknisley.bsky.social Writer. Comedy. Tech Bro(oke). Disabled.
Bylines in HuffPost, Paste Magazine, Vulture, McSweeney's, Weekly Humorist, Shouts & Murmurs, etc. she/they
🩸If you DM me, I'll probably throw up blood.
Alex Hoffman @alexthoffman.bsky.social 🎨I’m a cartoonist with a comic strip called Tales of Absurdity. I’m also playing with animation. Let’s tell some jokes and discuss obscure pop songs! Links to stuff: alexthoffman.com/links
Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social Satire is my business. NY Times bestselling author of 19 novels, including Lamb, Fool, Noir, Razzmatazz, and Anima Rising (released May 2025).
Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social Host SiriusXM radio's The Dean Obeidallah show, writer, lawyer and comedian. Saving America one fact and punchline at a time--not necessarily in that order! Please sign up for my newsletter https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Lilith Treah 🏳️⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social 19 blk 🏳️⚧️queen 🖤pots autism disabled tired of just existing to lay in tears.
BLM ✊🏿 Black Beauty 🖤
Jay Kat @jaynandu.bsky.social I’m Jay —
I operate at the intersection of structure and imagination, combining analytical rigor with creative vision to solve problems, build systems, and push ideas further than convention allows.
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Dr. Nicholas Rabb @nickrabb.bsky.social Researching misinformation, AI, ethics, social change. Currently postdoc at Cal State LA studying STEM education and AI in education.
https://linktr.ee/nickrabb
Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social Professor • Author • Director of the BioCritical Studies Lab
Tax the Greedy Billionaires @taxgreed.bsky.social For our economy, our democracy, and our planet — it's time to tax billionaires now.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social The Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) is dedicated to the study of how we think about technology in all its facets. #philtech #histtech
re:verb Podcast @reverb-podcast.bsky.social Rhetoric and cultural studies podcast project from Alex Helberg, Calvin Pollak, Sophie Wodzak, and Ben Williams. Podcasting about politics, culture, and language in action from an academic perspective.
www.reverbcast.com
dirt @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
Global Longevity Federation (GLF-2027) @glf-2026.bsky.social Welcome to GLF 2027, taking place on February 10–12, 2027, in Miami, USA. Join global speakers, researchers, innovators, exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees to advance longevity science and healthy aging
Website: https://longevityfederation.com
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Yeri Martinez-Vallejo @yerivallejo.bsky.social Founder, Realms Media | Psychological thriller & horror filmmaker | Character-driven genre cinema | Bellgrave 2026
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app Black SLP. Married. Mom of 2. Lifelong learner. Leo ♌️ KY girl. I collect degrees...I need to be stopped.
I overuse reaction gifs.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social Sewer Socialism beats climate change and bureaucracy explains the world. Re tootskeets don't endorse, new tootskeets represent nobody.
they/she 🚰🌹🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪 🇮🇷
NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). We believe a better world is possible and we’re building it right here in New York City. Join us: http://socialists.nyc/join
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America is the largest and fastest growing socialist organization in the USA. 🌹 Posts are not official statements.
www.dsausa.org
Join today at dsausa.org/join
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social Hi. Hello. PHX local. Tired af. Antifascist researcher and occasional writer | Make zines dammit | Find some of my BS at LeftCoastRightWatch.org or linktr.ee/az_rww 🏜️🌵
Not John Pork. Not Penis Man. Haley Orion.
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social The Humanist Report is a leftist political news show on YouTube, Facebook & Twitch hosted by Mike Figueredo (he/him) | HumanistReport.com
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app In progress. Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Prism @prismreports.org An independent, nonprofit newsroom that goes where justice requires.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
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.
Candi🪬 @candivine.bsky.social I teach black & brown kids how to read for a living. Conjure, Alchemy, Literature, & Anarchism are my modalities. I write when I receive messages from spirit. 🌙.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
Tiffany Gholar @tiffanygholar.com Chicago-based artist, interior designer, and author. Open for fine art commissions. Available for new interior design clients.
www.tiffanygholar.com
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social Cultural worker/curator/art historian
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
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.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
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.
illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social award losing artist
non selling author
dad
baseball nerd
Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social They’re all bangers in my heart. He/him. 🍉
KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social a giddy little thrill
at a reasonable price
🇵🇸
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
🇳🇱
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Bridget Todd @bridgettodd.bsky.social Author of Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy
🎙Host iheartpodcast’s There Are No Girls on the Internet
Hello@unbossedcreative.com
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
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
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social 
Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com 🗣️ People, Not Platforms
🌐 Building: @anew.social, @disperse.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
👥 Organizing: @seattle.atprotocol.community
Bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in @ecosystemaction.com | @atproto.la | @charcoal.watch | more
Focused on freeing everyone from doing things that don’t bring them joy, and building communal infrastructure that makes it possible.
JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team Head of Trust and Safety @blackskyweb.xyz
Non-binary (they/them)
Always community minded, still think Magneto was right.
You can read about all things in T&S for Blacksky on my monthly blog: whatshappeningonmyfeed.leaflet.pub
kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io meditation facilitator.
software engineer.
eternal student.
pdx metro 📌
she/her
📸: dave hoefler
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social Mom, wife, pastor, and former nurse running to represent the people of Missouri’s 1st District in Congress. St. Louis Strong. ✊🏾 Email: info@coribush.org
➡️ Join us: https://linktr.ee/coriforus
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social Prez & CEO @civilrightsorg. Cat Mom. Former @msnbc. Ran 4 Mayor of NYC; IG @Maya4CivilRights Views & typos are mine. She/Her
Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social Educator. Activist. Former Ohio State Senator & Professor.
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social