Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
True Ventures @trueventures.com First to believe. Contrarian capital for exceptional founders.
Launch your career in the new era of work with the True Ventures Fellowship: https://www.trueventuresfellowship.com/
Jupiter G @cybersomeone.bsky.social AI researcher + writer + girl
let's talk "slow" AI and the uncanny
👩🏻💻 🇨🇦/🇺🇸
| https://www.instagram.com/jupitersdimension?igsh=MWw3eHVnMXE4Z3Bxdg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social Politics, economics, info-sec(from the outside), history, climate, occasional joke/meme 25% 🇪🇪 75% 🇬🇧 (War time switch)
Tips, to cover sat imagery and certain news sites I pay for and 🍺 usage, are appreciated https://ko-fi.com/svenerikvolberg
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
Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social https://julienporquet.org/
Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
I study how people (and sometimes machines) look together and against each other.
📍 Montréal
ktb @kevinbaker.bsky.social 
Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social Unpublished writer of meta-history-fiction-satire-poesy-philosophy (of sorts)-even a little physics, jumbled up in stream-of consciousness about British and American empires, fascism, the crazy-making drugs and booze they're all on, dreams, religion, UFOs
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social director of politics and science @wired.com, co-host of Uncanny Valley (available wherever you get your podcasts!) -- signal leahfeiger.86 with tips
Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com A magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, founded in 1922. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social Join us to fight against the tech corporation fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state at PurgePalantir.com. 🫡
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social Finnish PhD candidate and geopolitical analyst. Trying to help Ukraine with the 69th Sniffing Brigade
https://buymeacoffee.com/joni_askola
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Bubonic Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social Cyber space chicken
M Hunter Nebula (thereabouts)
Carol Cohn is Always Right
Views own
He/Him
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social sociologist of disasters
pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
(views aren't even my own) roll tide.
come on, come on, get down to goodison park.....wooh!
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social I like poetry, photography, languages (esp Japanese), and religion (esp Japanese). And movies (esp Japanese). And Bob Dylan. Epilepsy parent.
Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
For defense-related stuff
Site: https://defensearchives.com/news
Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social Fed defense university faculty, Security Cooperation pro, international relations, diplomacy, diverse democracy enjoyer, some boardgames and MtG, human
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social Data, maps, and satellite imagery 🛰🌻🔭
viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
Havoc @havocsix.bsky.social Army Engineer Vet & militant sarcasm enthusiast | Defense, foreign policy, & absurdism | Host Trip Wired: http://linktr.ee/tripwired1 | Historia magistra vitae | Opinions = mine alone |
Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social Atlantic Council Fellow | Military Writers Guild Board Member | Marine Corps Strategist Fellow at Notre Dame | CIMSEC Managing Editor | Personal Account
John Helin @jjhelin.bsky.social Journalist, Fact checker @ http://HS.fi
Ukraine War Analysis with Black Bird Group
Political History at the University of Helsinki
📞 +358413106215
✉️ John@blackbirdgroup.fi
John Ridge 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @johnridge.bsky.social Physics | Weapons Systems | National Security | Foreign Policy | Arms Exports | Security Assistance | Tochnyi Contributor | Donate to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Elena Wicker @elenawicker.bsky.social Military jargon, terminology, dictionaries, and documents. Georgetown PhD. Buzzword enthusiast.
David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social Airman + consultant + aero engineer interested in national strategy, domestic policy, environmentalism, good food, and all things aviation. Views = mine alone and not representative of anyone I work for. #airpower
Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social Surface Warfare Officer (U.S. Navy) in DC. Six years in Japan, two years in China. Episcopalian. Johns Hopkins SAIS/HNC alum. 中文/日本語 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇹🇼
@kriegsforscher.bsky.social @kriegsforscher.bsky.social Private entrepreneur before the full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Marine Corps. UAV company. PP for support: osint4ua@gmail.com
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
War Mapper @warmapper.org Mapping conflicts
If you would like to support me: https://buymeacoffee.com/warmapper
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Flux @flux.community Flux is a media platform for change, providing in-depth coverage of politics, religion, technology, and media.
We're all about empowering independent voices and telling stories that corporate media can't or won't see.
Founded by @matthew.flux.community
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social 
Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social || Pathfinding in a Brave New World || Former Minor Spear Carrier || Redefining the Modern Military || Writing a Kabul Memoir || Loyal Servant of the Republic || No Official Statements || BoD at @thestrategybridge.sky.social ||
Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift
More here:
http://www.unemployednegativity.com
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
@adoumitt.bsky.social @adoumitt.bsky.social Mostly interested in air and space systems, current, future and past.
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
shanley @shanley.com The forbidden tech critic.
Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto.
Welcome to my studio.
www.vcinfodocs.com
Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social Ensuring political appointees serve the public interest.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/
Read more of our work at http://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com and http://hackwatch.us
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Twitter/Post @RevolvingDoorDC
FB/IG: RevolvingDoorProject
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social Mathematized philosophy of literature
peligrietzer.github.io
Ghost in the Machine: documentary film, 2026 @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social The untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power. We're revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here, and where we go next. Mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI. On PBS September 14. notaidoc.com
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance. 
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social 🖊 Writing about China and Technology for WIRED. Reporting on everything because everything is computer.
✉️ zeyi_yang[AT]wired.com
💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com Satellite images past and present 🛰️
Building an archive of interactive declassified spy satellite images 🕵️
https://spacefromspace.com
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Dr. Stephanie Santschi @stesantschi.bsky.social CONNECTING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL.
Working on Hokusai publication. Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Art History, University of Zurich. Japanese arts, prints and digital humanities specialist.
Ioannis Gaitanidis @igaitanidis.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Tohoku University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025)
https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis?lang=en
Jon Mitchell 🏴 ジョン・ミッチェル @jonmitchell.bsky.social Author, journalist with Okinawa Times. "Why are we in Okinawa? A History of Violence" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). 沖縄タイムス特約通信員。米国環境ジャーナリスト協会 出版賞。石橋湛山記念 早稲田ジャーナリズム大賞。著書「『情報自由法』で社会を変える！」岩波書店, etc https://www.jonmitchellinjapan.com
Emily DiCarlo @emilydicarlo.bsky.social artist, writer, critical time studies researcher
communications officer @studyoftime.bsky.social
guest editor @kronoscope.bsky.social
www.emilydicarlo.com
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
Raji Steineck @raji-steineck.bsky.social Chair of Japanology at UZH. Philosopher. In love with language and music. Believes in the complementarity of the sciences and the humanities. Views my own.
Maya Jude ✰ nyc & fmty @mayajudenyc.bsky.social MJ for short • “trouble”• marigoldgift.com/mayajude • mayajude@protonmail.com • mayajude.com
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
ᴋʟᴀᵾs @tinyklaus.com Writer and host of @patternstellstories.com podcast with @libertybirb.bsky.social. 🛸
Podcast: linktr.ee/patternstellstories
Substack: https://www.tinyklaus.com
Website: https://patternstellstories.com/
Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social Doing a year for space contempt.
Qualifications: Vanderbilt J.D.
Official Capacity: Just Some Guy
Admissions: only when in a contemplative mood.
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
˚*𓈒𓏸𑁍 Kaori Fujisawa ꕤ @edcba1111.bsky.social Forensic and Litigation Consulting
Paralegal
Anti-Money Laundering Counter Fraud, Risk Compliance and Audit Analyst
Criminal Intelligence Analyst
Junior Cyber & Electronic Warfare Modeling & Simulation Engineer
Electronic Warfare Test Engineer
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Feminist political geographer and drone researcher interested in technological visibilities, volumes, and futures.
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
https://sensehofstede.nl/
Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Adjunct associate professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics, should be GM of the Quebec Nordiques. Usual disclaimers. Skeets in English, curses in French.
Dzyga's Paw @dzygaspaw.com Dzyga’s Paw Charity Fund. 🐾 We bring tech to Ukraine's defense — over $6M delivered thanks to your support. Join our mission to defend the free world!
https://dzygaspaw.com/thread-of-fire?project=Thread%20of%20Fire
Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social I'm playing everything in my record collection (@80%)
#MonksMusic explores my Classical record collection 800-2024
Here for music & art
#ASD but not in a good way. I post UK disability stories but avoid politics.
Not a monk, don't dance
Defense AI Observatory @defenseaio.bsky.social The Defense AI Observatory (DAIO) monitors and analyses the use of artificial intelligence by armed forces. Funded by dtecbw.de. Account operated by @HeikoBorchert.bsky.social
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com journalist, author, internet participant
writing and reporting on space, AI, and public policy
I always want to hear your tips and ideas on signal: tim_fernholz.21
timfernholz.substack.com | www.timfernholz.com
Oakland, CA