𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social ☧ / tech perspectivist / professional strangler / friend maker / infovore / xenophile
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Alex Galbraith @alexwgalbraith.bsky.social Editor @salon.com // Writing the Crash Course newsletter, a daily update on the intersection between pop culture and politics. Read it here: http://bit.ly/4tMKjNL // old work at Complex, SPIN, Uproxx, Bandcamp
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Socialism Lover @socialismlover.bsky.social Same guy from Twitter, please follow me back here
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Julian Hanna @julianisland.bsky.social Prof of Culture Stuff. Author of Island (Bloomsbury) & The Manifesto Handbook (Zer0). Working on something difficult.
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social writer, historian, appetite!
https://benwurgaft.org/
Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social Cool art/artists almost every day, mostly modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing. No AI/NFT's. Not a bot, all posts manually made and monitored by @alexxkittle.bsky.social, so please don't be weird or mean thank youuuuu
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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social ordinand, composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, shaver of yaks, chaser after the wind, churchwarden, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they
Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social Foolish but energetic officer. I work at a grocery store
Tom! @redmustache.bsky.social Guy from Michigan. Flannel enthusiast. Aspiring writer. Episcopalian.
Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social Unfrozen caveman political economist. In my day, we didn't have fancy tools like causal identification, but we knew how to ask: “cui bono?"
Former political scientist. Now I do research for an internet thing. The good one, though.
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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social co owner & bookseller at east bay booksellers
🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org ✍️I write Pocket Observatory, an attention reclamation project.
🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR.
https://linktr.ee/megconley
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
natural passenger @snakedothandler.bsky.social Jess, Sean, natural passenger, nylons appreciator, kyorosuke, snake dot handler, thousand eyes ghost girl, breakdown girl, she-wolf tree dweller. Writer. She/her.
read my fiction, poetry, essays, and more: https://buster-machine.neocities.org
Kathryne @kathrynesings.bsky.social Academic affairs + rock & roll. No, seriously.
She/Her
@g-kbesterfriend.bsky.social @g-kbesterfriend.bsky.social 
Todd Gregory @toddgregory.bsky.social Senior staff editor at The New York Times. From the prairie part of the Prairie State. COYS (Views are my own, etc.)
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social Music and opinions
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
austin, a person @austinaperson.bsky.social it's not you; it's i
Bergotte @twofoldtwilight.bsky.social Big fan of novels, movies, and music. Writing a long-form narrative over on substack.
https://twofoldtwilight.substack.com/
Bird @robindani.bsky.social Bird. Church lady. Alpaca enjoyer. Knitting, probably. 
dido, lamenting 🥀🔥💀🪦💔 @princessdido.bsky.social maxima reverentia debetur pueris 🕊️
home education • music • literature • arts • crafts • democracy
Liberal education for all
Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/default/files/documents/cv/ALH%20CV%202025%20short%20version.pdf
Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social Pointy birds, O pointy pointy,
Anoint my head, anointy nointy.
https://vanessamckeeart.bigcartel.com
OOGLADAAR: https://linktr.ee/oogladaar
Noelle Canty @noellecanty.bsky.social incurable, creative, apophatic
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
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
Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social #Climate investor: early stage #cleantech
Board member workonclimate.org
Built #Google's biggest internal climate group
Brit in Bay Area
#Film & #theater producer
Maker of world class roast potatoes
Opinions expressed here are my own. Slava Ukraini
David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social Writer and stuff. Comics and tv and film. The second-best dressed man in #comics.
The Devil doesn't need advocates: advocate for humans, instead. He/him.
All the things: https://linktr.ee/DAvallone
Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit. #3A
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social Lives near that river, in Ottawa, Canada. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social Author, "The Screen & the Mirror," "Dorothy & Jack," "The Gospel in Dickens," & "One by One." I'm at https://dearstrangethings.substack.com/ and https://dickensblog.com. Beethoven fan, skating fan, Army brat, Pope Leo-quoting Protestant. #TCMParty #MST3K
Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social Analog illustrator, vintage collector, dark horse. Wife guy.
http://www.brianna-ashby.com/
https://ko-fi.com/briannaashby
merritt @merrittk.com Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social, merritt+ patreon.com/merrittk
Aelith Loves Art 𖣂 @aelith4ever.bsky.social "To be happy is to be liberated from the distractions of desire." - Spinoza
☆🎨 Lover of art & all things beautiful
☆🌱 Dedicated to reducing suffering
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social idiot savant
instagram.com/lahlahlindsey
The Erinaceous One @erinaceousphd.blacksky.app Grumpy Black crone who likes to think and explore (and seek mindfulness, within reason). In pfp: a hedgehog with a kente kufi on its head, and red laser eyes. Not chill. “Coward American” — an opp.
The aging, unsociable 🦔 rescue watches over me now. 🪽
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Cadenza 華彩樂 @eldritch.beauty 鋼琴彈不好的小魔女 🌻🐈⬛ 🇹🇼
ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social Brian. Bluesky's token straight guy.
Low IQ, savage genetics, Cleveland defender
Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
https://andrewwittkop.com
Lauren @larrygoose.bsky.social Goofy ass and wife of kevjg
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Derek Duplessie @dnduplessie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University
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.
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Love freedom of expression, digital ownership, libraries, and fun.
Avatar by @carmenjohns.bsky.social
maria |at| flaminghydra |dot| com
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Jules @catholicclod.bsky.social 28 | Marxist | Catholic | Friend :)
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social he/him tradwife | catholic theology phd student | socialist | hate amerikkkan kkklantholicism
snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social social democracy enthusiast
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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@economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social Theology, urbanism, economics, Michigan. Full stack Excel developer.
Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
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Batsyhead @batsyhead.bsky.social I’m fine.
@batsyhead on instagram.
Link for store: https://www.batsyhead.store
I only permit the sale of my artwork on my own website and do not authorize its sale on any other platform.
Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in DC. Author of Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico, NYT, The Atlantic.
www.lkfield.com
Also with American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW.
Jennifer Oliva @jennoliva.bsky.social Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social; #health law, #drug policy, #privacy, #evidence, #torts, complex #litigation; West Point, Oxford & Georgetown Law alum; https://law.indiana.edu/about/people/details/oliva-jennifer-d.html
Siddhartha Gudetama @easybakeoff.bsky.social Generally Regarded as Silly.
I refuse to join any polycule that would have me as a member.
On a journey of meaning
She/They
Alva Gotby @alvagotby.bsky.social Author of They Call it Love (2023) and Feeling At Home (2025)
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social Professor at SLU | Balthasar, Blondel, Péguy, Lonergan | théologienne, monstre | pensées sont en rapport avec la vie de l'âme
Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social Vera said that?
Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
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Gnocchic Apocryphon @gnocchicapoc.bsky.social Esoteric potato pasta, independent scholar, amateur political philosopher, writer at https://open.substack.com/pub/gnocchiccodices
Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional
b****t****** @longearedowls.bsky.social long-eared owlet looking at a helicopter 
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]- C @ckeiper.bsky.social @ckeiper.bsky.social
Mecha @mecha.bsky.social A new world left to conquer has entered the chat • Astoria • Photography • Movies • 🏳️🌈
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social • culture worker
• publisher aliciakennedy.news + TOMATOTOMATO.xyz
• author of On Eating; No Meat Required; & Desde mi escritorio — all out now
http://www.alicia-kennedy.com
Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social i’m thinking about cars
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
Graham MacAree @grahammacaree.com internet person. irish-chinese. he/him. grahammacaree.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social Attorney sharing 🖼️🪩⚽️
🦦🦦Tommi & Alvi📍Philly
lumpyplume.com
not italian🌻☀️ @notofassisi.bsky.social wife, mom, Python-enjoyer, I really like the American Time Use Survey.
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/
Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social Theology prof at Assumption University
| Apophaticism, Xology, and Speculative Metaphysics | Idealism and Neoplatonism | Christian Mysticism and French Religious Thought
Angel Food Magazine @angelfoodmag.bsky.social writing to nourish the angels living among us. https://angelfoodmag.com/