Grim Dawn @crategrimdawn.bsky.social Grim Dawn, (c) 2026 Crate Entertainment
Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social This is a police hating and human existence loving account
Whenever I do satire everyone thinks its news and whenever I do news everyone thinks it's satire so good luck with these posts I guess
On Mastodon: Criminalerin.jorts.horse
She/they/guy
Stephanie goes by Stephanie @pagnificent.myatproto.social Verified goddamn delight. Will not understand your jokes.
My moral philosophy is Dog.
Known for typos. I don’t care. Read through them
One day, men will stop mansplaining wine to me. Make today that day.
https://throne.com/pagnificent
Loudoun County Sheriff's Office @sheriff.loudoun.gov Official account of the LCSO in Loudoun County, VA. For an emergency, call 911. Non-emergency, call 703-777-1021. Social Media Policy: http://bit.ly/3WOVVPu
Smellfie @landscapejudger.bsky.social writing about fragrance
geof-hoffman @admin.hacloco.org Loudoun Co, VA dad and husband👨👦👦Hobbyist coder💻IoT hacker🔧Purple belt🥋Open-source & net neutrality/privacy advocate🌍Passionate about building, innovating, and giving back through non-profit work🤝currently developing bapol.org and hacloco.org
Del. David Reid | HD-28 (Loudoun) @deldavidreid.bsky.social Virginia House of Delegates representing Ashburn, Broadlands, and parts of Algonkian, Brambleton, and Sterling.
Andrew Feeney @andrewfeeney.au Software developer from Sydney Australia.
PHP, Typescript, Javascript, Rust, Laravel, React, Vue, Serverless.
ACB @aecraw.bsky.social I’m just here for the penguins
Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social Crossword maker. XwordInfo stockholder. Parent of 2.
"Making puzzles is my passion" - Jigsaw from "Saw"
RIP Craig Etui and stuff 😴
Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social Fan of Virginia Elections 🗳️ (Views expressed are mine personally)
bread and roses (and hoping) @weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social Mostly Alexandria gossip, snark, and bitching about HUD stupidity.
Alexandria is cooler than where you live
gender = nope, they/them🌈
opinions all mine, etc etc 
Steve Mossberg @mossdef.bsky.social Music teacher/crossword maker: WSJ, Times, Independent (Mog), and elsewhere. Cryptics editor at AVCX. he/him
patreon.com/squarechase
Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social Designer/producer/business guy at Asymmetric (we make the Loathing series of games). I also write puzzles, take photos, and climb rocks.
Christopher Yudichak @theoddlinguist.bsky.social Hi there! Hope you’re doing well! So, what do I…
Do: Software developer.
Like: Games, puzzles, music, fun.
Think: Sure, why not?
he/him
Fedi: https://mastodon.social/@TheOddLinguist
West End ALX Parent @westendalxparent.bsky.social We are West End ALX parents. The west end is half the city and a majority of the population. We’re not a monolith but we do have some things to say.
Daniel Peake @quizzydan.bsky.social Deputy Puzzles Editor at a UK newspaper, picture researcher / question writer for Only Connect.
I stream puzzles and games a few evenings a week at: twitch.tv/quizzydan
All views here are my own and not those of any of my employers.
L.L. Stephens @triempery.bsky.social L.L. Stephens, author of epic fantasy Triempery Revelations series and other SF&F fiction. SFWA member. Player of board games and painter of minis!
For essays and info about the Triempery novels: https://www.triempery.com
KWU @htwdbstto.bsky.social Dabbler in democracy and digital comms/surveillance discussions 🫠
Alexandria's Fourth Most Impactful News Source @alxbeef.bsky.social All Argument, No Knowledge.
Kyle Reardon @kylereardon.bsky.social Children’s Picture book Author/Illustrator rep’d by Lynnette Novak at The Seymour Agency.
www.kylereardonart.com
Public nuisance.
Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
twitch.tv/dreamwispjen
linktr.ee/dreamwisp
Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE
Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com Software engineer, AI/ML researcher, and mathematician at Johns Hopkins APL.
Former New Englander, current Marylander.
Brown CS PhD and Notre Dame math alum.
Nerd of sorts (computers, math, language, puzzles, games, books, music).
Opinions are my own.
Bailey ☀︎ @rllydumbgirl.bsky.social 🇺🇸 emergency medicine doc 🏥
my random, sleep-deprived thoughts 📓
🏠 Brooklyn | Columbia VP&S 🩺 MD
Alexandria Times Pitchbot @alexpitchbot.bsky.social 
True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social Current Software Engineer, Erstwhile Journalist, Perpetual Democrat, all based out of Oakland (he/him)
Do what you can — no less, no more
(CT/VT/RI => TX => WA => VA => CA)
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Patrick J. Pespas @westofrome.bsky.social Alexandria, VA
Keeper of ALX Skeets. Please tag me if you’d like to be added
Kayla Hornbrook @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social Niche meme lord
Tim Laderach @timladerach.bsky.social All the things! 2 doggos, Commissioner (Chair of EOC), former DRCA President, Navy Reservist.
Views are my own and not the position of the U.S. Navy or DoW.
Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social He/him. Dad x3, Immigration & GBV Advocate, Alexandria Lead at YIMBYs of NoVA. Local chief of the useful idiots 🫡
Go Bills, Caps, COYG
Personal account only.
Sign up for Alx YIMBY action alerts: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-yimbys-of-nova
🍃🌙 Cenarius/Cen @cenpuzzlehunter.bsky.social LV 40 | he/they/fae | aroace
Puzzlehunt constructor, tester, and solver currently organizing MIT Mystery Hunt 2027 with Team Providence.
Main Fandoms: Cookie Run, WuWa
Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us a singer and an old bourbon drinker
Romans 12:12
📍Del Ray, Alexandria, Va.
Jan @resentfulmuffin.bsky.social 40+, weird but maybe not by Internet standards. 🔞 Got way too into BG3, and somehow still into FE3H (but I like OFMD and Dragon Age and Trigun among other things.)
Current thing: trying to be online less and Pokopia when I fail
Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social Drosophila neurobiologist. We study insect behavior and individuality using the tools of computational neuroethology.
Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (co-chair) & Center for Brain Science
https://debivortlab.org
Cameron (grooving) @halfpixel.bsky.social local puzzle boy does it again
I make mashups and video gamey stuff!
they/them, he/him is fine too
@halfpixel274 on twitter
Josh Heit @jheitdc.bsky.social Choral singer, arts advocate. Here for the Alexandria takes. Jeopardy! silver medalist, J! Second Chance bronze medalist.
Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social Posit host & educator. Data Weasel. Community Builder. Teaches R+Python.
🔉 Heeren == "hair-en" ✨
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/libbyheeren
DS Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh
DS Lab: https://pos.it/dslab
Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart.
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
Brian @egan.ninja Dad of 3. 🚲 Cargo Biker. 💻 Tech/Data nerd. ⚾️ #Mets fan. Appreciate craft beer, whiskey, fire pits, and good books. I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me.
Adam Temple @awwpeaches.bsky.social Husband, dad, HS English teacher. Poetry/music/art enthusiast, gardener, foodie, Greyhound adopter, fantasy footballer, retro gamer. Reston: born/raised.
Doing my best to not let my emotional life be run by Time magazine.
Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com Software engineer @bsky.app exploring the Atmosphere with @attie.ai
Topics: accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth
Podcast: @overcommitted.dev
Website: brittanyellich.com
ATProto Site: opensocial.community
#pdx #atproto
Erica Toler @egilbart.bsky.social DASH bus hype girl. Campaign person.
beth @hells-beekeepers.bsky.social cat mom who spends too much time with court filings. she/her. lots of books, sometimes trees, ALX <3. probably watching a Star War
Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social Oh hey another social media site. What is this, 2005?
Alexandria, VA resident. Quickly becoming radicalized on local politics by Blue Sky. Shitposts are my own.
Stephanie Elms @stephelms.bsky.social Book lover, Va Tech & Marching Virginians alum (Go Hokies!), YIMBYs of NoVa📍Del Ray, Alexandria | she/her
Note: If we don’t have a prior relationship or a current connection, please don’t feel like you need to follow or share!
P&A Puzzle Magazine @foggybrume.bsky.social Creator of P&A Magazine and Puzzle Boat (https://www.pandamagazine.com)
Whittmann @whittmann.bsky.social Software Engineer, Writer, curious about distributed social media applications
Jasmine Damani @webdevour.bsky.social Software nerd, cat enthusiast, pixel art noob, gamedev, playing with LLMs
Evan Birnholz @evanbirnholz.bsky.social I write crosswords for The Washington Post. I also like cereal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/crossword-puzzles/sunday-evan-birnholz/
Eric Spiegel @ericspiegel.bsky.social Voracious reader, indoor gardener, cat dad, casual gamer, film lover, technical writer. Alexandria, VA.
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
amyash.me
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Raymond E. Feist @refeist.bsky.social Writer, football geek, whisky nerd, fan of graciousness.
Mike Rodriguez @mroduf.bsky.social Alexandrian in Seminary Valley
Mallory @mlaw91.bsky.social Hockey, cats, Microsoft Power Platform, more cats. Opinions own.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Capital Weather @capitalweather.com D.C.'s Trusted Weather Team
http://www.capitalweather.com | info@capitalweather.com
Allie MacPhee @alliemacphee.bsky.social all in on innovation, ai, and guac w/ extra cilantro. I am looking for a full-time role... product marketing, sales/bd!
in my Larry David era.🤘🏻
Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Former Congresswoman, CIA Officer, and Federal Agent. Mom.
Will Geeks Out! @willgeeksout.bsky.social Jack of all trades, master of none. Lets talk, gaming, comics and LEGOs
Twitch.tv/willgeeksout
Byron Peebles @byronpeebles.com Programmer/hacker. Dad. Spouse. Unschooled/er. Programming at Truth Initiative. He/him. @bpeebles@hachyderm.io, from twitter.com/bpeebles and also checkout byronpeebles.com
erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social Photographer. Runner. Sourdough baker. Knitter. Reveler. Mom of two chaos monsters, a wild young pup, and a very tolerant cat. Unapologetically pro-union and anti-AI. Crossed the border to Arlington; my heart belongs to Del Ray. Opinions are my own.
Jef Spaleta @jspaleta.bsky.social Newly arrived to Reston, Virginia
Loudoun County Public Library @library.loudoun.gov Loudoun County provides reasonable accommodations for social media. To request, visit loudoun.gov/SocialMedia
Sarah M @lore.house Mom of 4, Christian, opera singer, literature nerd. Technical program manager at NBCU.
I bake bread. (And other things.)
Digitizing and translating Old English texts
Books, music, Germanic language
lore.house
lorehord.com
PFP by @mgcoco.bsky.social
Joe Fray @josephfray.bsky.social mail lawyer, food haver, dog owner
ALX
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
https://sarah.dev
Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social Writer/Producer for FOX 5, formerly ALX/ARLnow. Archmage of the College of Winterhold. He/Him.
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
Delegate Atoosa Reaser @atoosareaser.bsky.social Problem-solver, listener, mom, lawyer; serving Loudoun as Delegate for Virginia’s 27th House District. Views are my own.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social Maya and Nina’s Dad. Miranda’s husband. Proudly serving Virginia’s 10th Congressional District. 🇺🇸
Marta Schantz @martaschantz.bsky.social Here for the local ALX politics. Also probably a good mix of climate action fangirling and sci-fi/fantasy/romance book love. Too excited to worry about typos. Opinions my own.
Sarah Bagley (the one in Alexandria VA) @sarahbagley.bsky.social Vice Mayor of Alexandria, VA. Buster’s mom, reader, bike rider, and fan of all things pickled.
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social Hi! I'm Tim Schafer!
Founder, Double Fine Productions
Official DF account: @doublefine.com
Please report bugs to http://support.doublefine.com
Press: pr@doublefine.com
Aaron A. Reed @aaronareed.bsky.social Maker of books, games, games about books, and books about games. Social media content syndicated to multiple platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronareed
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
zeu @zeu.dev software engineer, developer educator @ twilio.com 🇵🇭🇺🇸🏳️🌈
http://zeu.dev - tangled.org/zeu.dev - http://github.com/zeucapua
stream: https://twitch.tv/zeu_dev - https://stream.place/zeu.dev
Charles Hansen ♾️ 🗳️🏛️ 🧮 @loudounvateacher.bsky.social Teacher (high school math and government/politics), Adjunct at Richard Bland College of William & Mary, civic activist My views
🚫DMs 🚫OF/porn 🚫crypto
#socialjustice #iteachmath #EduSky #UnionStrong #Resist
📍Loudoun, Virginia
https://go.bsky.app/RVYQ4PF
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com 🇱🇧 Frontend web / UI engineer, speaker, author, and educator specializing in web accessibility • Creator of the Practical Accessibility course https://practical-accessibility.today
🕸️ https://sarasoueidan.com
📤 https://www.sarasoueidan.com/newsletter
Abel Montero @monteroauthor.bsky.social Sci-fi and fantasy books!
👇🏼📚▶️👇🏼
youtube.com/@bookswithabel
Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev 👩💻 Sr Dir of DevRel at @GitHub.
🔥 Grandmother of the first-ever hellthread.
🖨️ Will probably convince you to buy a 3D printer.
Loudoun County Government @loudoun.gov Welcome to the official BlueSky account for Loudoun County Government. Follow for important county-related updates, news and information about our community. (View comments policy: http://bit.ly/2gHmIyF)
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Elena in Alexandria @elenah.bsky.social Alexandria VA, DRCA VP. Bright pink e-bike. Former Chief Strategy Officer @Medallia, now solving Gartner and Forrester problems at Up/Right AR. BetterBraddock.org
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.site Librarian, creative technologist, award-winning scholarly memeologist
📍 Dharug country (Sydney, Australia)
Blog/Shrine to the 2000s internet hannahshelley.neocities.org
Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social Michigan State Senate Majority Whip | Notre Dame ☘️ | Ray Wert’s ginger half | Noa's mom
Tom VanAntwerp 🔵 @tomvanantwerp.com 💻 code things, mostly TypeScript
🏡 hyperlocal Alexandria VA drama
🔮 building bizarre things nobody wants
Please don't make me run for office, I do not want to run for office.
Scott Riley @scott.is designer for real humans / author / speaker / educator / acab / buy my fuckin book / take my fuckin course
Mindful Design video course:
https://piccalil.li/mindful-design
Other gaffs:
https://scott.is
https://mindfuldesign.xyz
Exiled. @exiledgamer.bsky.social Level 45 gamer. Real life human. Survived 9 separate Bluesky deaths. I mostly play RPGs but enjoy a wide variety of games.
Occasionally I am quite silly, but we all are, so it's OK.
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me