Petraflint @petraflint.bsky.social I stand alone, not because I need no one, but because I have learned to become my own strength
The Pretenders @thepretenders.com ‘Pretenders Live: Kick ‘Em Where It Hurts!’ and 'The Singles' 2LP and CD reissue are out now. https://linktr.ee/pretendersHQ
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social Filmmaker: Hyperobject Industries/Yellow Dot Studios
Climate & societal collapse with some sports and movie talk. And yes, the mixture is disorienting.
Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social We save wildlife and inspire everyone to make conservation a priority in their lives. We really, really love telling you about animals.
Blumineck @blumineck.bsky.social David the Arrow Bard, aka Blumineck.
I do pole dance, archery, and nerdery.
Linktr.ee/blumineck
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
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.
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Matt Henderson @matthen.com Maths animations, dialogue systems research
Research @ PolyAI, previously Google, Apple, Reka. PhD Cambridge
Edinburgh, UK
Christian List @clist.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Decision Theory, LMU Munich. Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Account used for academic purposes. Further info at: https://christianlist.net/
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social ‘a net whose fibres pass imperceptibly beneath the world’ // lawyer, writer, third worldist // views my own
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social Reporter in Ukraine 🇺🇦
https://caolan.report/
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social Math
5 11
Liberal apologia
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social Sociologist | MPI for Political and Social Science, Göttingen https://www.ips.mpg.de | HU Berlin https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/Prof_Mau l social change, inequality, conflict, borders (pic Gesine Born), personal views
Bill Browder @billbrowder.bsky.social Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice and Freezing Order
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Ed Gibney @edgibney.bsky.social Writer of fiction and philosophy. I explore how evolutionary views can lead to a more cooperative culture that robustly survives and thrives over the long term. evphil.com.
US-Brit now in Vienna 🇦🇹. Ex-FBI and Secret Service. Peace Corps 🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!
Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social Songwriter, writer writer, director of MusicAlaska / AKIMI, probably owes you an email.
Still rockin on Bandcamp, Twitch, and Patreon.
Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net IT professional for 30 years. Former local elected official. Education and technology policy, former grad student working on Information Systems for untrained responders in big disasters. Happily married with adult kids.
Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Film Critic (Film Comment, Reverse Shot, Criterion). GALECA.
Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
Currently writing a book about TWIN PEAKS
Johnny Why @inthepocketradio.bsky.social Cruelty-free vegan DJ. Music, truth, justice.
Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now Absolutely done listening to old white men. Here to remind you of your power. Amplify women's voices. Abolish gender norms. Protect the vulnerable. Build an equitable world. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #MatriarchyNow • #AskTheAunties • https://matriarchy.now
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Hard Reset @hardresetmedia.com https://hardresetmedia.com/
Hard Reset is a media publication for people who want to understand how technology really works — not just the products, but the people and power shaping it.
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol Life is weird - let’s laugh at it before it eats us. Not waving but drowning.
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.
Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay Anti-capitalist elder millesbian 💜 the only way to save ourselves is to save each other
✨i am 40 now✨
“Deranged Online Leftist”
💕🍍 @acab4cutie.top
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social Helping organize information about the Jan 6 Capitol attack and those who planned it. They are still with us.
also: @capitolhunters@mastodon.social
email: capitol.hunters@gmail.com
see bit.ly/Jan6Analysis
Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social RiffTrax & MST3K Writer / Producer
Los Angeles (born and raised in Appalachia)
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Interested in the academic workplace and what it's like to live and work as a faculty member. Tell me about it: DM, Signal mzahneis.09, or email megan dot zahneis at chronicle dot com.
alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, founder at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, "in this horrible age of abuse and decay / its good to know somebody's looking ok"
CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social High impact easy listening!
Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social Radio astronomy observatory, research centre, UNESCO World Heritage site, beautiful visitor galleries, free parking, and great coffee 😀📡🌟
🔗 https://www.jodrellbank.net/
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social CHNOPS in ferruginous saline. Multicellular aerobic chemoheterotroph; symbiont of photosynthetic autotrophs. Descendant of stardust; aspiring good ancestor. Senior Editor, Scientific American. Signal: @lee_billings.81
josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world america's finest
1/3 of @worstpossible.world
1/2 of @illconceivedpodcast.com
theatre director and more: joshboerman.com
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe
Job Polak @jobpolak.eurosky.social anarchist of sorts, antifascist, heavy music & similar opinions, skeets in dutch & english.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social Ancient webcomic dark arts by Nick G, often written with friends
pbfcomics.com/links
Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at UCSB and Harvard (she/her)
My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net
Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub
PhD in Clinical Psychology
"Colette is brass knuckles...w/ spikes tipped in poison"
“Delusional broad”
"Lady Switchblade"
“Ditsy socialist liberal”
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social still confused lobster
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social 💛💜❤️. IYKYK
Also like things like Ted Lasso, metal, & pokemon. Likely to make questionable decisions. NJ/PA. Not looking for your anti-Dem hot takes, especially from outside the country. I don’t respect slopulists. 🫶 A little bit of stick-it-to-em.
Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social Commissions: https://ko-fi.com/guilhernunes he/him
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Fun @funkelly.bsky.social All Netflix, No Chill | Genderless | Ex-Fall Risk Covid Informed | Golden Knights 🏒
Ghostbusters ATC | They/Them | 🐣| ♿️ | 🏳️⚧️
pfp alt text: selfie of a white person with short, brown hair and a fancy mustache
header alt text: Ghostbuster ecto 1
Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social Writer; voice of the baby T. rex from the lost world jurassic park | https://linktr.ee/audipenny | https://audipenny.substack.com
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au Intern at Dark Heart of Gradual Reform Pty. Ltd. All punked up on jupiter oil, rolling fifty deep.
Mostly at http://aus.social/@liamvhogan
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. billiesweeney.com
Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social Minnesotan trapped in PA. God of Cookies (Biscuits for Izzard fans)
Sociologist, historian and jigsaw puzzle addict.
ManCity and Oranje.
Cooking, eating, and laughing are important.
My dog is cuter than yours and my cats are smarter.
Buttons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social She/They
Here for OFMD.
I make gifs about gay pirates.
Biologist specializing in harmful algal blooms, drinking water treatment, and source water management IRL.
@Seven_Sugars on Twitter
The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Under The Desk News @underthedesknews.bsky.social The Nice Side of News 🤓
Explainers and a look at the days events
Co-Host of American Fever Dream Pod
L Train Brass Band @ltrainbrassband.com NYC’s #1 Nonprofit Community Brass Band
Home of over 100 brass, reed, and percussion musicians 🎶
📍Brooklyn, New York
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FogoAzul NYC Drums @fogoazulny.bsky.social Gothams Heartbeat! 🥁🗽
Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com Somewhere in Chicago, working near the intersection of immigration law, data, and technology. Not an attorney!
287(g) Program Tracker: tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-101/287g-program
buymeacoffee.com/andrewtitus
Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in cortical dynamics.
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social ⚒️Aotearoa
Uppity disabled poor person
Political commentator
Knowledgeable but always learning
AuDHD
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Consider supporting me and my projects/survival
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midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org Author of Naval Fiction, Freelance Defence Journalist – Naval & Aeronautical History
MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
Grey ships, black boats
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social average against the machine
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Lydia @coyoteprince.bsky.social Full time pro artist & death worker of over a decade! they/them, disabled/autistic/queer 💀⚰️🏳️⚧️♿ contains adult subjects. contact: lydia@coyoteprince.com / coyoteprince.com
Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social A dino paleontologist who loves to research & share all things sauropod (🦕) related. Curator of Vert. Paleo. at Frost Science in Miami, FL USA.
Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social Does this look infected?
Just My Nonsense:
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My Least Worst:
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Terje Helland @terjehelland.bsky.social Geopolitics. Generous with compliments. Dedicated to helping others. Consultant. Communication. Rhetoric. Politics. Media.
https://buymeacoffee.com/terjehelland
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/TerjeHelland
ENcouncil.org
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Cam @drcampatterson.bsky.social Husband, father, doctor, music freak, fly fisher, member of acclaimed indie band Fox Green, in approximately that order.
Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social Evolution of neurons and nervous systems / choanoflagellates & ctenophores. Deputy Director & Group leader at the Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen. Webpage: https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/pawel.burkhardt
Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social Art enthusiast. Passionate about fantasy, fairy tales and folklore. Purveyor of escapism.
Location: Norway
Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social Leslie Levings makes art, writes, runs a creative retreat, and has a few cats. https://linktr.ee/leslielevings
Mike Levin @mikelevin.org Proud husband and dad. Serving California's 49th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Environmental attorney, clean energy advocate, and SoCal native.
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA