fig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com art and transistors, they/them plant-mom, community infra for the atmosphere @microcosm.blue
making/running constellation.microcosm.blue, slingshot, UFOs, spacedust, lightrail, relays, plc mirrors, hubble,
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai
all writing: https://segyges.github.io/
also @antiantiai.bsky.social
aly @aly.codes 📍atl
dev / infra / cycling / cities / linux
@skytrace.aly.town, @atbbs.xyz, switchyard.aly.codes, tangled.org/aly.codes/tg, etc
me: aly.codes
src: tangled.org/aly.codes
donate: https://ko-fi.com/alyraffauf
looking for a job :) send recs my way
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad Bandaid Engineer. I post mostly about coding, atproto, embedded devices and things like that. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time.
📍Middle Tennessee
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Sean Yeager @yeagermeister.bsky.social Politics, bikes, hockey, and music. Not necessarily in that order, and priorities subject to change on any given day. Proud liberal cat guy.
Pablo Torre @pablo.show 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/@pablotorrefindsout
🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486
📩 www.pablo.show/about
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
polytoken dot dev @polytoken.dev A coding harness by somebody who is kind of obsessive about nice coding harnesses. That somebody is @ed3d.net.
https://polytoken.dev
https://docs.polytoken.dev/changelog
Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
signal: millionbear.44
book: https://asterismbooks.com/product/double-black-diamond-mads-gobbo-miles-klee
⚠️ user has been kicked out of Musso & Frank for wearing a tank top
journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social Proud husband to my wife
USDA Hardiness Zone 7a
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social I do comedy on a stage. Sometimes on TV.
Debut book out NOW. Bury me in Alabama. FAMU Forever.
Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com
Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212 
giuseppe @heavy-lens.com rva | heavy music | wheels | systems
8th grade geography bee champ
sox/bulls/b-hawks/eagles
📷 @terminalsleep.bsky.social
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
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/
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
Coach Mustard (aka velospence) @velospence.bsky.social phila, pa | PMA | NO JERKS | opinions my own
unapologetic Wout van Aert & Juan Camilo ‘Cucho’ Hernández Suárez supporter
Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social music pervert. that bitch from the computer. here for a bad time AND a long time (i cannot be killed by human weapons)
linktree: https://linktr.ee/babadooknukem
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social Sci fi and Fantasy Author. Holocaust and Genocide Historian. Host of the Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
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.
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com Human Rights Lawyer • Author • Dad Jokes • SirusXM Host • Creator: Let's Address This • Subscribe: qasimrashid.com/subscribe • Media requests: admin@justwinteam.com
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing)
I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal.
(He/Him)
https://www.offensive-bias.com/
Supreme Executive Council Of Posting @swolecialism.bsky.social i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red cuecuechmiquiliztli en mictlan
MSBWHT • IHNBCBATLA • 🇲🇽 • 🌹
The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social Lawyers for injured cyclists. Advocates for change: www.thebikinglawyer.ca
Cycling Law & Police Violence Specialists. Free legal advice 800-725-0754/info@thebikinglawyer.ca
Rude Law Dog @esghound.com Policy, Research, Muckraking, Two time winner of the "Wokest Hedgefund Analyst" award
blog.esghound.com
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
ash blu @ashblu.bsky.social author of unmasking god. reprobate. apostate. rebel. 2spirit. autistic. queer. child survivor. fundamentalism survivor. they/them.
my book: https://tinyurl.com/ashblu
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/ 
bubba says: try Solenoid! @jortscity.bsky.social in Jorts City, there's only one rule.
PIVOT TO WIKI -> publish.obsidian.md/pivot-point
NODE BASED SPREADSHEETS -> @solenoid-ngc.bsky.social
🇺🇸 in milano 🇮🇹 , returning ASAP. engineer & PM in energy supply chain manufacturing.
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
writer/book shelver/final girl
books: DEVILS UNTO DUST, MISSING PRESUMED DEAD
Abby @abbyeo.bsky.social phew, who even knows. https://linktr.ee/abby_eo
we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social she/her. sorry about my face, an animal licked it
honored east portlander, oregon treasure quest ranger, OSU extension service master food preserver and master composter, mother of multiples, peasant
USDA zone 8b/9a
Apophatically @apophatically.bsky.social Orthodox Christian ☦️ Anti-Fascist, TTRPG Nerd, Leftist
john m @murden.bsky.social Chief box breaker downer at @garnettscafe.bsky.social, will ride bikes for food. More words & pics https://useful.bike
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
Scoiattolo @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social 
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
David Buchanan @retr0.id reverse engineering, cryptography, exploits, hardware, file formats, and generally giving computers a hard time
Fedi: @retr0id@retr0.id
Macroblog: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
tinybaby @tiny.baby 
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
https://www.rifftrax.com
instagram @billcorbett
Deus Pascit Corvos
Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Software Developer ➡️ Product ➡️ Product Operations
📍 WNY / east-coast energy
🎮 Probably gaming
🗣️ Plenty of opinions
💪🏻 Believes in better
Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social I run a kill shelter for small dogs 💖
Zelnut 🍉👾 @dahliaiterations.com (he/him/his)
Unconditional bodily autonomy enthusiast.
Homeschooling survivor.
🍉🏞️🌊⛓️💥
187:6/9
Pedocon theory: more evidence than gravitation. 🖤
ICE is ontologically evil.
Law school drop out, Seminary grad. ☕
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
rax ‘levon honkers’ 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.
Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co
I read every email
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Autistic non-binary, exvangelical, tired. Co-founder of STRONGWILLED, a multi-media project focused on survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods.
http://strongwilledproject.com
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team i'm the most RESPECTFUL transsexual journalist in the world™
@khronos.world
tightpussy.shop
katea.gay
she/her
people i've turned trans: 265
alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social this is a Star Trek opinions account 
m @mjjii.com i like to draw
https://mjjii.com | my website
@stefanmerrillblock.bsky.social @stefanmerrillblock.bsky.social 
Shit Homeschool Parents Say @shit-hs-parent-say.bsky.social They say it, I just post it
dm me screenshots of the nonsense homeschool parents say 💜
@richmondlegalfund.bsky.social @richmondlegalfund.bsky.social 
Michael @michaelklemme.bsky.social I study stuff and research stuff
bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social lol
prints :: http://www.oliverleach.com/contactpurchase-inquiry
secret base :: https://discord.gg/Mr8qUDgtZp
Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social Journalist covering the ocean and climate change / currently: columnist @sciencepolitics.bsky.social / former: POLITICO, The Washington Post, The Post & Courier / National Geographic Explorer / signal @clare.14
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social usually goes by nog. bobcat, probably. he/him. often skulking around a stand of fir trees. may be rapidly approaching. trains, not kings. opinions do not represent my employers past or present, but may represent lunch.
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social activatevirginia.org
OpenOversightVA @openoversightva.org No Secret Police
OpenOversightVA: A public, searchable database of law enforcement officers in Virginia. Find names, badge numbers, officer complaints, salaries, work histories, and more.
openoversightva.org/
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
L @banalplay.bsky.social Keeping it tight
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Tokyo Toni Morrison @sillygenius.blacksky.app I draw shit and paint things.
http://silly-genius.com
http://insitu-archives.com
All City Art Club
http://instagram.com/allcity.artclub
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
The Richmonder @richmonder.org Richmond, Virginia's source for news and information. Funded by readers. Richmonder.org.
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social believing i had supernatural powers, i slammed into a brick wall
https://letterboxd.com/okbutstill/
LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news Coverin' extremism PODCAST: http://bit.ly/3BGThEI NEWS TIPS: leftcoastrightwatch@Proton.me PATREON: http://patreon.com/lcrw DONATE: http://cash.me/$LCRW
@julieinthewoods.bsky.social @julieinthewoods.bsky.social Neurodivergent RN, wife, mom, science nerd, manic pixie forest crone. She/her.
Homeschooler, but believes in kids’ rights and teaches about things like Black and Indigenous history and lots of science, so kind of a lonely homeschooler.