MacStories Deals @macstoriesdeals.macstories.net A curated collection of deals recommended by the MacStories team.
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Terry Godier @terrygodier.com Thinking about calm software, reading, and attention.
I like bogs, Casio watches, and They Live memes.
I build Current, an rss reader for apple platforms, and write visual essays about our relationship with technology.
Joshua Topolsky @joshuatopolsky.com A man in trouble. Founded The Verge, The Outline, & Input. Rebooted Gawker. Co-created Vox Media. Runs Sherwood. Makes rave music. Likes beautiful things. Hates schedules.
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Aeronaut @aeronautapp.com A Bluesky app designed and built for Mac.
Now available in the Mac App Store.
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Cameron Banga @cameronbanga.com Hi - I created the Skyscraper Bluesky client for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyscraper-for-bluesky/id6754198379 or @getskyscraper.com
I enjoy Chicago, soccer, and bird photography. Not necessarily in that order.
The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social Affordable Housing, Health Care for All. Liberal Texas Yellow Dog Democrat. #BLM #NoKings Slava Ukraine 🌈💙🦋My History Channel https://youtube.com/@thehistorycatalog?si=I7LSHWZYWE_v-RNz
🎸Paul🎹 @paul.bsky.social Network security, Audio production w/ Bitwig & Logic Pro, analog synths, guitars, and Metroidvanias.
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GoodLinks @goodlinks.app Save links effortlessly. View them later, from anywhere.
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@bitchuation.bsky.social @bitchuation.bsky.social “Never panic. Never give up.” Joan of Arc
Josh Fireland @fireland.com the hot pink haze // fireland.com
Jay Peters @jaypeters.net Senior Reporter at @theverge.com. Email tips to jay.peters@theverge.com.
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Phoenix by Tapbots @phoenix.tapbots.com An upcoming Bluesky Client for iOS/iPadOS & Mac from the makers of Tweetbot and Ivory.
Please don't take it personally if we don't respond often with this account. We are extremely busy working on Phoenix.
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Epic Creator Code: KindaFunny
Skeets App @skeetsapp.com ...an accessible 3rd party iOS / iPadOS Bluesky App
Key Features:
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
Square Enix @square-enix-games.com The Official Square Enix Bluesky page. Get the latest updates https://www.square-enix-games.com/
Delivering Unforgettable Experiences
Octopath Traveler 0 out now! | FFVII Remake Intergrade Jan 22 | DQVII Reimagined Feb 5
Phil Spencer - P3 on Xbox @xboxp3.bsky.social Microsoft Gaming
XBOX @xbox.com Gaming since 2001
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ESRB ratings vary from E (Everyone) to M (Mature).
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IGN @ign.com We're all about movies, TV, and video games!
ign.com
itch.io @itch.io Open indie game marketplace and DIY game jam host
Account support? Email support@itch.io
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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social Welcome to the unofficial Nintendo of America Bluesky account, where you'll find the latest Nintendo news! For ESRB ratings go to esrb.org.
[Mirror of @NintendoAmerica on Twitter/X. Not automated—posts may be delayed or omitted. Not endorsed by Nintendo.]
Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com The latest Nintendo Switch news, reviews and videos. We are the most visited #Nintendo site in the world. DMs open. #NintendoSwitch #Switch #3DS
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SteamDB @steamdb.info 👀 Tracking all things Valve and Steam.
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Alex Olney @alexolney.co.uk Senior male video hostess for Nintendo Life.
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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com #DuneAwakening is an Open World Survival game where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Out now on Steam, September 22 for console! Discord: http://discord.gg/duneawakening
BigFriendly.Guides @bigfriendlyguide.bsky.social BigFriendly.Guides is @rygilliam.bsky.social and @ripefly.bsky.social. We used to work at Polygon, and now we're writing guides on a site we run at bigfriendly.guide.
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David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social Crossword maker. Evenings host ABC Vic. Writer, and Wordplay columnist SMH & The Age. Verbaholic. My views only davidastle.com 
Ryan Gilliam @rygilliam.bsky.social Co-founder and owner of @rogue.site. Former Guides Producer at Polygon.
Lifelong KC liver.
Work: Ryan(at)Rogue(dot)site
Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social DC-based editor/writer for hire. ex-Polygon, SB Nation.
I write about action movies and other cool things and talk to the people who make them: https://pvguide.ghost.io/
host: @sportsmoviespod.bsky.social
he/they
contact: petevolk91 @ gmail
Ana D. @pokachee.bsky.social games and internet culture writer at teen vogue, npr, wired, the verge, game informer and lots of other places | 😈🏳️🌈 - looking for work - anadiazwrites@gmail[dot]com
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
d4: D&D Deep Dive @colbypoulson.bsky.social I do character builds for RPGs on my YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@DnDDeepDive, but I’m also a happy husband and father who loves games, books, music, mountains, food, and travel.
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Sofa @sofahq.social iOS app that helps you organize your downtime by keeping lists of books, movies, podcasts, and more.
• Website: https://sofahq.com
• Made by @shawnhickman.me
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!!
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Jim McGuinn @jmcgnn.bsky.social I dig the rock. And my friends and family, who also rock. And playing hockey. DJ at @wxpn guitar @TheNoGoodCrowd and @ThePeopleBetween
DJ Robert Drake @djrobertdrake.bsky.social Peabody Award winning radio host/producer WXPN-FM; retro DJ; life-long fan of my hometown, Philly! Winner Philly Mag Best DJ 🌟Philly A List Best Radio Personality 🎧
Stephen Kallao @kallao.bsky.social Contributing host at World Cafe from NPR. Mostly agreeable lad with only one stint in rehab.
Philadelphia.
instagram.com/kallao
Bruce Warren @somevelvetblog.bsky.social playing the hits, the misses, the B-sides & deep trx. Go Birds.
philly. tweeter deactivator. resister
World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social Bringing music discovery to nearly a million listeners on NPR stations nationwide, World Cafe is hosted by Raina Douris with contributing host Stephen Kallao and produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.
Kimberly Junod @kimberlyjunod.bsky.social Senior Producer at World Cafe (made at WXPN in Philadelphia and heard everywhere thanks to NPR)
raina douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social host & writer of world cafe, heard nationally daily from npr & produced at wxpn // voice on pretty dim wonder & pixar's sodas// formerly cbc // instagram: rahrahraina // friend to all
Amber Miller @shesmyfriend.bsky.social Music, concerts, radio, dogs, Philadelphia
WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social Where music discovery brings us together!
Listen online at wx.pn/listen or tune in:
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Kristen Kurtis @kristenkurtis.bsky.social Host of the @wxpnfm Morning Show!
Also: Assistant Music Director, voiceover artist, singer, Recording Academy member, Emerson College album, rebel scum. 
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Lex Friedman @lexfri.xyz I'm the real Lex Friedman. I make word games at Lex.Games. I host a lot of podcasts. I’m at lexfriedman.com. I’m not that other guy. Follow me on Mastodon: @lexfri@hachyderm.io
Vic Berger IV @vicbergeriv.bsky.social 
Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker @officehourslive.bsky.social Office Hours Live is a call-in show with @timheidecker.bsky.social, @vicbergeriv.bsky.social and DJ Douggpound (aka the holy trinity).
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov Mom. Combat Veteran. Blackhawk pilot. U.S. Senator. Illinoisan.
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Mark Gurman @markgurman.bsky.social Breaking News on Apple and Tech. Bloomberg Managing Editor and Chief Correspondent. Subscribe to Power On. Tips: mark@markgurman.com. Signal: markgurman.01. Telegram: GurmanMark.
Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social Former United States Court of Appeals Judge (1991-2006)
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
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Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
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
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
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