Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social Historian. I post a selection of facts on history that happened on this day at 9AM (BST) on Bluesky and X. It’s a daily journey to inform, educate and entertain.
Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social Dissent is patriotic.
Disband the standing army.
Stop using Google.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Anna Difficult Gill 🐨🦎🐳🦋🐝🐞🌳🌵🌼 @annagill8.bsky.social Science is Real, Religion is Not. No Human is Illegal. Black Lives Matter. Women's Rights are Human Rights. LGBTQ+ Ally. News isn't Fake. Anti-Zionism isn't Anti-Semitism. Always Was Always Will Be Aboriginal Land. Climate Justice Now. Fuck Billionaires.
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Pseudonymous Poster @vwinsloe.bsky.social Retired Boston lawyer. Feminist. LGBTQ+ ally. Anti-racist. Atheist. Eclectic Horseman.
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.
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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)
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social Retired Attorney. Lives on the beloved, enchanted sand spit known as Cape Cod.
Proud Liberal. 🌊🌊🌊
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Did I mention I read palms?
If we don’t know one another, & you DM me without asking, I will block you.
🚫MAGA🚫OnlyFans🚫solicitations
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Kat is ✨phenomena✨ @kathryndeplume.com On a spinning rock flying through space.
Trans. Programmer. Musician.
Monotropic AuDHD. Tourette’s.
AI is a lie.
Free Łink!
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social Writer, artist, parent, carer. Autistic and aspec. Australia via Aotearoa, (soft) atheist. Agender. Pronouns: I want to say “any” since I’m collecting A words. (they/them actually). DMs inaccessible due to Aus age verification. larre.bildeston@yahoo.com
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social Whose diligent shoulders can henceforth sustain this immense and fissured sky, which we fear, for the second time in a long history, will fall on our heads? (Michel Serres)
PhD Uppsala
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
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Dr Mel T @drmel.bsky.social 🇦🇺ex-Microbiologist in 🇬🇧 again adrift from Academia…. Disabled STEMMinist who has pivoted to Arts and Humanities as a Textile Freelancer. #FuckMS #OneHealth 🌈 pan&poly she/her
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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social Cartoonist for The New Yorker. Author of "Inked." Friend to animals. Enemy of robots.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Liquoricelino Printmaking @liquoricelino.bsky.social I like to print.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Julie Murray @juliehoo.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Carleton U. Unceded Algonquin Territory. Two cats, two kids, one wife
Forthcoming: Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity (Stanford UP, 2026)
https://carleton.ca/english/people/murray-julie/
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social ● Educational author & biology teacher (11–18)
● Reader of enactive cognitive science & systems theory
● Author of Teaching Meaning, Difference Maker, and Biology Made Real
Blog & ideas: https://christianmooreanderson.com/
Noeline Purdy @noelinep.bsky.social Left leaning. Love nature. Ruled by 2 standard poodles. Can’t believe the idiocy going on in the world. Take heed of science.
A follow is not an invite to DM. Live on Bundjalung land.
It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social Scientific Director, #MEAction
Affiliations: Stanford Genome, Université de Montréal
TIME100 Health
#ME, #EDS, #POTS, #LongCOVID
Views my own
Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social Ex nat’l security official. NYT bestselling author. Was “Anonymous” — now encouraging people to take their masks off. Also, aspiring Ghostbuster. Speaking out daily @ www.DEFIANCE.News
Leslie Werner 😹💙✡️🧶💉🎉👩⚕️ @lesliemeow.bsky.social Retired RN (Planned Parenthood)/Environmental & Occupational Health/Knitter/Cat mom/PNW/LGBTQIA+ ally
No DM’s or N*zi’s (obviously)
Abortion is Healthcare
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Emily @emilyrose.bsky.social Autistic. ADHD. Chihuahua parent. Not actually a hedgehog. She/her.
Occasional swearing, but pretty SFW.
Redbubble Shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/emilyrosew1/shop
📍Concord, CA
Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social Hic sunt dracones
I represent myself, no one else.
She/They
Computational and associative learning.
Biologically-inspired AI.
https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon
https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon
megan targaryen back in team black @jon-snow-420.bsky.social tramp stamp of a ouija board
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
@fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social Pinko Hippie Greenie
Blocking shirtless selfies
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Defiant Life Coaching @dlccoaching.bsky.social Simone Kolysh, MPH, PhD. Audhd. They/them. 🍉
Life Coach for neurodivergent, LGBTQ and marginalized people. Book a free consult at www.defiantlifecoaching.com
Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social Writer/Editor @protectdemocracy.org. Views are my own.
Wild Serenity Crystals @wild-serenity.bsky.social Crystal-wielding mom, acupuncturist, herbalist & shop owner full of equal parts love ❤️ 🫶🏼🌈🍉 and mid-40’s female rage ⚔️🖤🧿
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social Astronomer and Astrophotographer. Pictures of space appearing in posts, magazines and on the telly. 
Native Stargazer @nativestargazer.bsky.social Celebrating and sharing Indigenous perspectives on the cosmos. From constellations rooted in Indigenous traditions to astrophotography, we want to share the unique stories and beauty of space.
Website | www.nativestargazers.org
Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social Irreverent antiquity and history enthusiast. Army Desert Storm vet. GENX Midwesterner with a passport full of stamps, a takeout menu collection that rivals my bookshelf, and delightfully eccentric friends.
Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social Writer. ALL THE UNLOVED out now. Retired proofreader (90 issues!) for Australian Geographic. Still work for trade publishers. Freediver. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, cats, silliness. Thirroul/Dharawal, Australia.
susanmccreery.com.au
Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, author of Make Your Own Job
madeleineebaker.com
The Drift @thedriftmag.com A magazine of culture and politics
Pitch us at: pitches@thedriftmag.com
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Morabeets 🍉 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈🌏♀️ @morabeets.bsky.social Teacher from Naarm
Fuck Murdoch
Despise Trumpism in all its forms.
I fear coming generations are inheriting a mess they didn't create.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"
"Do not let your spirit wane"
🖖
David Branch @dbranch9.bsky.social Retired, living in Wadawarrung country 🇦🇺. Exiled long-suffering Norwich City supporter. 1/8th Canadian 🇨🇦.
Climate action now. I hate corruption in politics so I hate the LNP, Tories and the GOP.
I get my daily Ukraine update from balloon-juice.com.
Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social Media literacy and critique that helps you get to the real story created by journalists Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf.
Read the news right.
http://apple.co/journos
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her
https://linktr.ee/Lucyham
Mark Brazill 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇻🇪 🏳️⚧️ @markbrazill.bsky.social WGA, Bills, Sabres, Dodgers, Dogaholic, No human is illegal. No religion higher than the truth. 🏳️⚧️ Antifa, FOB, I MUTE AI, Live Better/Work Union
@garethhutchens.bsky.social @garethhutchens.bsky.social 
Jenny @jenniferphilp.bsky.social *No* DMs please. Mother of cats, lgbtqia+ ally. Hater of injustice and bigotry in all it's forms. Married to a most excellent man 🥰
Living the retirement dream in Bali 🌴
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
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From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Reuters @reuters.com 
Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social Executive Director of Campaign for New York Health, VP Legislation National Organization for Women NYS, LGBTQ+ nonprofit co-founder, and former congressional candidate in NY03
Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social Canberra, South Coast, London.
Prof at Uni of Canberra.
Know the past, do the future better.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social 電子音楽家 parked illegally at the intersection of art & technology 🎛🔊🎶🔻✌️🫠
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social I draw houses & sometimes people follow those drawings to build them. Concerned about democracy, disinformation, authoritarianism and how climate action has been stymied. - Awabakal Country- Newcastle, Australia
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social Queer Muslim. Author of five books. Father of two boys. Latest: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
The Marginalian [Unofficial] @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy Marginalia on our search for meaning.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Happy hermit @oigleboigle.bsky.social Tyranny of distance is also a refuge in troubled times. 🦘
Living a simple life in a harsh land, while deeply interested in the wider world far beyond our shores.
💯Europe+ democratic alliance.
❤️🐕 and the land
Lisandra Vazquez @lisandravcomedy.bsky.social 🇵🇷 Comedian Based in Atlanta 💙🍉
Jinn, Insistent Witch (she/they) @polarisjinn.bsky.social Arctic social scientist. Here to build opposition & protect our environment, our rights, and freedoms. Immigrant. Anti-MAGA.
I gawk at nature and imagine bird drama at the bird feeder. Unabashed outdoorsy nerd and parent to Wendy and the Meows. 🩵🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
508 [Loop Detected] @grief-enduring.bsky.social My belief system is straight forward. ALL humans deserve basic HUMAN rights. Food, shelter, freedom of thought & ability to find joy. Religion is personal & QUIET. Healthcare's free & widely available. Ppl are horrible though & the human experiment failed.
Prof. Rattle von Riegan 🦌💛 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇨🇺 @rieganwayoflife.bsky.social ⚜️ Fière origine canadienne française ⚜️
Physicist, ethicist, teacher, researcher
and Academic advisor.
Secular humanist, anti-indoctrination of kids, feminist, socialist, arts lover.
Sarcastic af
Loved my wife 32 years now. ❤️🥂🐷
P.P. Pistachio @pppistachio.bsky.social not a cop
Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social News for the 99%. ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting covering stories the corporate media COVERS UP | https://statuscoup.com/join
Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social Asst. Prof. / #newPI MICOlab @USFCMS studying interactions btwn marine microbes. ❤️ radiolarians, phytoplankton, bacteria. PhD from @oistedu. she/her.
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
🍦Sweet Lo’s Ice Cream🍦 @sweetlosicecream.bsky.social Homemade Ice Cream Expert & Fiend.
Take a chance on my recipes and I promise you won’t regret it! 🍦❤️⤵️
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social An Indigenous led project
anticolonialhistory.com
submissions: anticolonialhistory at proton dot me
LaRae Meadows @laraemeadows.bsky.social Concerned citizen. Journalist. Really concerned citizen.
Dee @deedotk.bsky.social 🇺🇸 immigrant in Berlin. 🇩🇪 || Interests: climate/labor/antiracism/intersectional fem. FC Union Berlin. nd✨
Mike Bloom @michaelbloom.bsky.social I love your dog and cat. Mets fan. Member of the Dangerous Nights crew. Fix your heart or die.
The D stands for Disappointment @jenaciousd.bsky.social Midlife crisis, hyperfixations, cats, watercolours. Chronic fatigue and depression / anxiety. I need a nice cup of tea and a hug. PhD student in microfluidics with the OU.
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social Support independent journalism
I am so fucking sick of being censored..
Barron W. Tramp @barronwtramp.bsky.social I give gay, snarky updates from our homes-mostly MelaniaTowers & Mom-A-Lago
Parody acct-I have to say this because I'll probably be arrested or shot.
I'm not for everyone but I am for you 😉
Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social Your favourite comedian’s least favourite comedian. Buy my live stand-up special at www.gofasterstripe.com/bet
Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social Medical Gaslighting; Psychologisierung, Stigmatisierung von ME/CFS, PAIS;
Kritik an "Psychosomatischer Medizin"
Universität Leipzig
sie/ihr, they/them