karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Chris Banes @chrisbanes.me 🕸️ https://chrisbanes.me
👨💻 Senior Staff Software Engineer
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Leland Richardson @intelligibabble.bsky.social Software Engineer @ Google working on Jetpack Compose
Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social 🖥️ Software Developer & Tech Lead
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Ian Lake @ianlake.bsky.social Android Toolkit Developer and Runner
Also at:
- https://androiddev.social/@ianlake
- https://twitter.com/ianhlake
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
SkySpace @skyspace.me A place for friends (who were happier on social media twenty years ago) created by @stecurran.bsky.social. Prototype at https://skyspace.me.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social Game Designer, speaker, presenter. Host @onelifeleft.com and @singmaraoke.bsky.social. Once investigated by the ICC for playing Pokémon Go at The Oval. Currently working on Mindset 🟨🔺🔵.
Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden 🖥️🔒🚴♂️🍲
sft.01 on Signal
Luka Kladarić @allixsenos.bsky.social 
Micky Beisenherz @mickybeisenherz.bsky.social interessierter Laie
Nicholas Drummond @ndrummond.bsky.social Defence analyst and industry consultant specialising in Land Warfare. Former British Army infantry officer. UK Advisor to KNDS Germany. Views expressed are my own. See also my blog at www.UKLandPower.com
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow. Plot twist: not from Åland. 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de Journalist in Berlin. augengeradeaus.net & podcast sicherheitspod.de
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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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.
Stefan Thumann @stefanthumann.bsky.social Lebenskünstler, Defense Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Donaustahl GmbH
🤍💙 Patriotic Bavarian 🤍💙
Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social Bildung, Beteiligung, Demokratie.
Daniel Levi @danuschi.bsky.social PoWi MA @uni-muenster.de📚 | NahOst, Sicherheitspolitik & Populismus |Jude, Bremer, Sozi ✡️🗝️🌹 | Werder🟢⚪️
Marcus Mittermeier @mittermeier.bsky.social Arbeiterkind
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Claudia Major @claudmajor.bsky.social Head of @SWP_IntSecurity; Security & Defense, NATO, Europe, 🇫🇷&🇩🇪; via: @CSS_Zurich @sciencepo @EU_ISS @unibirmingham; mom of 3, 🇫🇷 knight, here personal capacity.
Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social Journalist • Studioleiter & Korrespondent ARD Kyjiw • Podcast „Machiavelli – Rap & Politik“
Thomas von Sarnowski @thomassarnowski.bsky.social Macht was mit Energiewende |2021-2024 Vorsitzender @Gruene_Bayern | Kreisrat @gruenEBE | Vater | Berge & Radl | M.A. International Pol. Economy @UniOfWarwick | Foto: Sonja Herpich
Gren FDGO-Ultra Monkey2k3 @gmonkey2k3.bsky.social pöbeln, ranten, modellbau, gaming, Handgranate und Feuerstoß
Heereslogistiker @major-logistics.bsky.social Defender of the FDGO
Kein S4 mehr, jetzt Kommando 🗂️
FCKNZS
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Ryan McBeth @ryanmcbeth.bsky.social Author, Army Vet, OSINT Intelligence Analyst, Programmer, Cyber guy. http://Ryanmcbeth.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMcBethProgramming
Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social Philosopher - ethics, politics, music | Slowly writing a book on Isaiah Berlin | Born in USSR, home is London | Living with ME since 2003.
youtube.com/vladvexler (main channel)
youtube.com/vladvexlerchat (chat channel)
youtube.com/@vladvexlerphilosophy
Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk Military analyst, naval officer, based in Denmark, mostly #Russia and the war in #Ukraine.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@anderspuck
Newsletter: https://www.logicofwar.com
Author of The Logic of War: https://a.co/d/01Ep6RtI
Fabian Hoffmann @frhoffmann.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo. Defense policy, missile technology, and nuclear strategy.
Weekly analysis of missile tech, nuclear strategy, and European deterrence 👇
https://missilematters.substack.com/subscribe
Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/White House Staff. Running for U.S. Senate
Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social Security & geopolitics | Previously based in 🇦🇫🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇼🇬🇧🇺🇸 | Capital Germany 40 under 40 | ☕ http://buymeacoffee.com/jberlin | Don’t just get mad, get busy | https://berlinbridge.substack.com/subscribe
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social Former UA officer
Founder of the Frontelligence Insight: https://frontelligence.substack.com
To support my work: http://buymeacoffee.com/frontelligence
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator.
http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social Journalist @SPIEGEL.de & @DerSTANDARD.at
Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social Premier Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 🇵🇱
Prime Minister of Poland 🇵🇱
Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦
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
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
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Miranda Boettcher @mirandaboe.bsky.social Researcher @SWPBerlin | Adjunct Assistant Professor @UUCopernicus | Coordinador of ESG Carbon Removal Working Group | ocean/climate governance | foresight | knowledge politics
Views my own.
Felix Schenuit @felixschenuit.bsky.social views my own
SWP Europe @swp-europe.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Forschungsgruppe EU/Europa, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Research Division EU/Europe @swp-berlin.org
https://www.swp-berlin.org/die-swp/ueber-uns/organisation/forschungsgruppen/eu/europa
🤖✍ Posts partly AI-generated
Lazaro Gamio @lazarogamio.bsky.social I make charts at the NYT. Sometimes they're good...
https://www.nytimes.com/by/lazaro-gamio
https://lazarogamio.com/
Becca Foley @beccapfoley.bsky.social techy things @nytimes.com
Dave Philipps @davephilipps.bsky.social National military correspondent for The New York Times
David Gallagher @dfg.im A journalist in Amsterdam via NYC. https://dfg.im
Vindu Goel @vindugoel.bsky.social Director of community engagement @nytimes. Former Mumbai and Silicon Valley correspondent
Alastair Coote @alastair.is British, in Brooklyn. Software engineer making newsy, phone sized things for the @nytimes.com Interactive News team. Infrequently blog about code stuff at https://alastair.is
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Deb Amlen @debamlen.bsky.social Humor writer, former New York Times Games columnist (Ret.) I may have helped you with the crossword.
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Cecilia Kang @nytceciliakang.bsky.social NYTimes Tech Policy Reporter, co-author "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination" with @sheeraf.bsky.social
Also tree, moss, boulder hugger from PNW, transplant to the Potomac
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliakang
Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him.
Email: ben.casselman@nytimes.com
Signal: @bencasselman.96
📸: Earl Wilson/NYT 
Michaela Román @michaela.bsky.social social @nytimes.com
Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social European security & defence, global order, EU in US-China competition.
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. PhD Defence Studies, King’s College London. Into running, matcha, 中文. Views my own.
geopoliticaleurope.substack.com
Tobias Bunde @tobiasbunde.bsky.social Director of Research & Policy at the Munich Security Conference | Professor of International Security at the Hertie School Centre for International Security in Berlin | working on German foreign policy, NATO, international order, and nuclear security
Philipp Rotmann @rotmann.net Peace & security, conflict, stabilization, foresight & war/policy gaming | Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Sarah Brockmeier-Large @sarahbrockmeier.bsky.social Head of Berlin Office & doctoral researcher
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (@priforg.bsky.social), non-resident fellow GPPi, German foreign and security policy, public opinion (ENG/DE).
Heiko Borchert @heikoborchert.bsky.social Corporate Geoeconomics. Defense. Flow Control. GCC. Innovation. National Security. Technology. Owner BCR AG www.borchert.ch Co-Director @defenseaio.bsky.social www.defenseai.eu
Jakub Eberle @jeberle.bsky.social Researching and teaching International Relations, social theory, German politics and politics of Central Europe. Associate Professor at Charles University | @ims.fsv.cuni.cz | @prcp.bsky.social | Last book: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32703-2
Malte Riemann @malteriemann.bsky.social Assistant Professor in War, Peace, and Justice at Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/malte-riemann#tab-1
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/security-studies/book277843 
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra.
Liana Fix @lianafix.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Europe @CFR_org | Author of Germany Rearmed
| Historian & Political Scientist | #Germany #Europe #Russia #EasternEurope #Security | Views my own, likes and RT not endorsement. Washington, DC.
https://www.germanyrearmed.com/
Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social IR Scholar. Universität der Bundeswehr München. Private account
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Gustav C Gressel @gresselgustav.bsky.social Security, Defence, Europe; #MilSky
Sam Edwards @handstandsam.bsky.social Human, Dad, Mediocre Handstander, GDE for Android and Kotlin, Engineer at Square/Block | handstandsam.com
Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social I lead engineering for Android developer tools and libraries at Google. Opinions my own.
Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh 🌐 https://kau.sh
👨💻 Principal Engineer @instacart + Caper 🛒
🎧 Fragmented podcast
🤖 Google Developer Expert
Chris Sinco @csinco.com UX Lead on AI tooling in Android Studio // pretty okay at bikes
👨🏻🎨 csinco.com
👨🏻💻 github.com/c5inco
Kirill Rakhman @rakhman.info Kotlin Compiler @ JetBrains
Karlsruhe, Germany
https://rakhman.info
https://sueden.social/@kirillrakhman
Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev All this happened, more or less
Blog: zacsweers.dev
📍NYC
James Ward @jamesward.com Just another nerd with a podcast: happypathprogramming.com
And a book:
effectorientedprogramming.com
John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev •Software Engineer
•Android #GDE
•Open-source #KMP/#CMP projects: http://github.com/joreilly
•Blog: http://johnoreilly.dev
•Living in Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
Ty Smith @tysmith.me Principal Engineer at Uber - AI, Dev Productivity, Mobile, & Open Source
Advisor, Investor, Founder, GDE, Public Speaker & Open Source Foundations
Formerly at Twitter (Fabric), Evernote.
@tsmith from Twitter
tysmith.me
Sebastian Sellmair @sellmair.dev Software Engineer @ JetBrains
Working on all things Kotlin.
KMP | Intellij | Compose
Romain Guy @romainguy.dev Photography (https://curious-creature.com), Blog (https://romainguy.dev). In the past: Engineering Director, Android Toolkit team at Google.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
walmyr carvalho @walmyrcarvalho.com.br • 🇧🇷🇳🇱
• (off) road cyclist 🚴🏽
• beginner climber 🧗♀️
• android @ NS 🚆
• design rookie 🎨
• community @ android dev br
https://walmyrcarvalho.com.br/
Tadeas Kriz @tadeas.bsky.social Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile at @touchlab.bsky.social | iOS and Android | he/him | #ADHD weirdo trying to be kind | Toronto 🇨🇦
> Pray Tell: “Kindness doesn’t cost you anything.”
https://mastodon.social/@TadeasKriz
https://tadeaskriz.com
Jesse Wilson @swank.ca Programming, inclusivity, sustainability, & 🦕. he/him.
publicobject.com
Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social Touchlab Partner. http://touchlab.co Kotlin Foundation https://kotlinfoundation.org/structure/. Mostly AI coding tools these days.
Sebastian Aigner 📡 @sebi.io Dev Advocate at JetBrains. Teaching ∞ Learning Kotlin & Compose Multiplatform. Talking Kotlin. Working w/ with love, for there is no other way. Always iterating.
James Barr @jbarr21.bsky.social Android Eng @ Uber
🤖 #AndroidDev
⌨️ #MechanicalKeyboard
🏎️ #Formula1
🚲 #Cycling