Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social The civilian harm watchdog.
We also run the Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social
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Nextlander @nextlander.com Vinny, Brad, and Alex play games, talk shop, and have fun. Check out the Nextlander Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and support us on Patreon!
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Haley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social Video Game Lead Attorney at Voyer Law, IP/tech/corporate
@minnmax.com Cohort, Bonus Pod host and Community Manager
@pewpewbang.bsky.social co-host
Email: haley@voyerlaw.com.
PP: @hugop_arts
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
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Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
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Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Sonemic / Rate Your Music @sonemic.com RYM is one of the largest music databases and communities online with endless ways to discover new music. https://rateyourmusic.com/
Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com Video game critic. Final Boss @RPGSite.net & @Respec.net. Ronin writer & consultant. Formerly Editor-at-large for Eurogamer/VG247.
Love: Arcade cabs, Watches, Dogs, Whisky, fighting games, RPGs, NFL (Rams), Lego, Poker & Blackjack
www.donaldson.zone
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social games writer, designer, and critic. co-founder of Crit Build. formerly: kotaku & waypoint.
find my work at critbuild.org
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Wallace @exalclaw.com Wallace Truesdale: Runs exalclaw.com | Seen at Unwinnable, Stop Caring, Mothership, etc. | Weak against soft cookies (and maybe news bloopers) | he/him
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/
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Fobwashed @stevekim.bsky.social Fobwashed elsewhere. Steve everywhere.
Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social ๐ญ๐น He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
De La Soul @wearedelasoul.com The official account of De La Soul
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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com We are a group of game workers, activists, union organisers, and journalists that care about the games industry, Palestine and all people living under the violence of colonialism and imperialism.
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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
Techmeme @techmeme.com Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social Ward 2 City Councilor, Somerville MA. Pronoun ambivalent.
Vinny Caravella @vinnycaravella.bsky.social Find me at https://nextlander.com
Willie Burnley Jr ๐น @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social Community organizer, part-time Empowerment Self-Defense Instructor, and At-Large Somerville City Councilor.
Jake Wilson for Somerville @jake4somerville.bsky.social Mayor of Somerville (he/him/รฉl)
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Jacky! @omg.jacky.wtf Captain of @olamaelcu.net + other things. I write (and sometimes record) things - under duress of myself.
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tru @thetrudz.photo photographer. writer.
film/tv. vinyl records. music. art.
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Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social Bostonian. Journalist/Author Past: Mass Appeal/Okayplayer/Boston Magazine. Books: Instead We Became Evil: A Tale Of Survival & Perseverance & On Track: The Kronicles Of DJ Amir
Aparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social Running for DC Council, Ward 1 โ๐พ Union member, tenant organizer, Democratic Socialist. ๐น
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Jonwayne | Jon Makes Beats @jonwayne.bsky.social Jon Makes Beats is on YouTube
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com ๐ฅ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
๐ GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
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Rami Ismail (ุฑุงู
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Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
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Games And Not Games @gamesandnotgames.com Janet (@gameonysus.bsky.social) and Isaiah (@isaiahsmith.dev) talking games and not games. Listen to The Gangcast on your podcast service of choice. Watch us live at Twitch.tv/GamesAndNotGames
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (ูุงูุฏู ุฎูุงู) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber ๐ช๐ฌ |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social Interim Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku
Contact: ethan.gach@kotaku.com / ethangach on Discord
Secure email: ethangach@protonmail.com / 2673263042 for Signal
Newsletter at https://deadgame.substack.com/
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard. 
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl โ I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc โ A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to โ Avatar by @urnash.comโฌ โ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โ she/her
shanley @shanley.com The forbidden tech critic.
Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto.
Welcome to my studio.
www.vcinfodocs.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
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Caitlin Cooper @caitlinmaycooper.bsky.social Creator of Basketball, She Wrote โ A blog about the basketball played by the Indiana Pacers: patreon.com/basketballshewrote
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
Maddy Myers ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
๐ https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
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.
Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me The Boogie Down's own anarchist and creative โข Kill your idols before I do it for you โข Twitter & Instagram: MoreAndAgain
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor.
Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/
Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Nehaโจ๏ธAvailable for Workโจ๏ธ @nehapolitan.bsky.social Composer/SFX for indie games
Venba๐ (sfx)
All Will Rise (sfx)
Thousand Hells (music)
Eternights โ (sfx)
Six Ages 2 ๐ค
Playdate/Sweet Baby ๐
Speaker du Franglais She/Her
www.nehapatelaudio.com
nehapatelaudio@gmail.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Chi Ossรฉ @chiosse.bsky.social @nyccouncil Member for Brooklynโs Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights (CD 36) @CMChiOsse | Personal Account
FLAVOR FLAV โฐ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. โ๐ฝโ๐ฟโ๐ผโ๐พ Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
Internet Of Bugs @internetofbugs.com 
Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com Failed Media Critic, Washed Up YouTuber, Formally Trained Self-Loather | Professional also-ran | Cringe Elemental | (he/him) | linktr.ee/campster
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
Greg Miller @gameovergreggy.bsky.social I was born to eat chicken wings and play video games. @kindafunnyvids. Epic Creator Code: KindaFunny. He/him. Biz Inquiries: greg at kindafunny dot com
Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com The Yacht Rock of Video Games
giantbomb.com/join
For business inquiries: giantbomb@rightclick.gg
Media: media@giantbomb.com
John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social |General Manager, 20th Century Games |
|VP, Business Dev for Disney/Pixar, Lucas & 20C Games |
|Ex-PlayStation, Ex-Harmonix // Ex-The Main Drag Drummer|
Luckily in the right place/right time for a few big games.
Loves games, music, TV, my wife & kid.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODYโS DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social Painter (instagram.com/pragmagic), editor/writer, founder of Polygon dot com and someone who's consulted on lots of games you liked and more you probably didn't. Tech-fixated, compulsively acquiring 4k physical media.
derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Rich Gallup @richgallup.bsky.social Director of Production at Jackbox Games, cheesemonger of Survey Scramble, Pack Lead of The Jackbox Party Pack 11
Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com video games is two words
Videos: http://guard.bike
Podcast: https://lnk.to/JeffGerstmann
Patreon: https://jeff.zone/
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
Victor Lucas @victorlucas.bsky.social The Electric Playground guy.
EPN.tv
YouTube.com/EPNtv
Twitch.tv/EPN 
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
VGC @videogameschronicle.com First for video game news.
Patreon: patreon.com/VideoGamesChronicle | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VGC1981 | Podcast: lnk.to/VGC
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social Producer. Co-host, Shift+F1. Formerly: Digital Eclipse, Cloth Map, Giant Bomb.
https://drewscanlon.com
2 Mello @2mello.net Music maker
audio director @virtuoso-neomedia.bsky.social virtuoso.world
https://2mellomakes.bandcamp.com
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rax โlevon honkersโ 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.
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social Senior reviewer and author of the Optimizer newsletter for The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, the wellness wild west, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun.
Signal: @vicmsong.14
Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.
John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usually for @CambridgeDay.
MIT; public recs; data; legal news
Lately: immigration.
jhawk@alum.mit.edu
617.797.0250
Erika Uyterhoeven @electerika.bsky.social Organizer, advocate, antitrust economist, State Rep in Somerville and candidate for State Senate in the 2nd Middlesex district, she/her.
https://www.electerika.com/volunteer
https://linktr.ee/electerika
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social that kangaroo what makes the game rec threads and such
Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery โwith extraordinary moral clarity.โ Fellow, Society of American Historians. The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025.
AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app Adanna (She/Her) Game Writer, Narrative Designer, Researcher, Dev, Speaker|๐น๐น๐บ๐ธ|๐ AFNarratives@gmail.com
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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social Hyper local in Somerville, MA. FOIA requests & long threads live-tweeting city meetings. Also @fdmts
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