Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Guy English @gte.bsky.social On Program.
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Justin Ferrell @ferrell.rocks Ripley’s dad. Audra’s husband. Web and mobile developer.
https://ferrell.rocks
Zack Labe @zacklabe.com Climate Scientist at @climatecentral.org | PhD | Passionate about improving science communication through data-driven stories | Harrisburg, PA | https://zacklabe.com/
Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are only my own.
Michael W|Warren Lucas @mwl.io Author of too many books. Sysadmin. Pet rats, martial arts, gelato. Punch white supremacists and TERFs. https://mwl.io.
He/him, but not the gay porn star.
Cory Dransfeldt @coryd.dev Husband, dad, developer, music nerd.
Engineering, music, automation, general nerdery, #tattoos and rescue dogs.
Pronouns: he/him/his
🌐 coryd.dev
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Sal Rahman @salrahman.com I write code for fun, and for profit.
Also working on something (not so) exciting for the Fediverse.
I also post here: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com — 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 — she/her
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at 20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography.
He/him.
Stephen Robles @stephenrobles.com 📱 Making tech more useful for everyone
📺 200,000+ on YouTube
🎶 Musical theater kid at heart
🎙️Co-Host of Primary Tech
➡️ My links: https://beard.fm/bio
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.bsky.social #StarWars . #3DPrinting . #LEGO . #Toys . #Geek . #Nerd . #Tech . #Single #Dad (Jokes) . #Memes . #Retro . #Vegan . #Seattle . #Entrepreneur . #Creator . #Streamer
Justin Pot @justinpot.com I am a freelance journalist and a person. I believe that tech is a tool, not a way of life, and that we should use it to connect with each other. I currently write for Lifehacker, WIRED, The Atlantic, PopSci, PCMag, and The Wall Street Journal.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky, partner @trueventures.com, personal site: https://toni.org
Ryan @snarfed.org https://snarfed.org
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Senior Director of Technology at https://propublica.org. I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Daniel Jalkut @danielpunkass.punkitup.com Founder of Red Sweater and punkass of lore. https://redsweater.com/
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
🇳🇱
Matthias Pfefferle @pfefferle.org Webworker, podcaster and blogger, advocate of the #openweb and citizen of the #indieweb and the #fediverse, working on #activitypub, #atmosphere & #indieweb plugins for #WordPress
Open Web Guy @automattic.com
Jason Tucker @jasontucker.blog he/him. 💙🔵🟦 IT Director / WebDev
Likes: #homelab #unraid #woodworking #woodworker #ghost F1 #Formula1 #Redbull
Blog: jasontucker.blog
Woodworking: createdimperfectly.com
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Jonathan Reed @jonathan.macstories.net Former baby.
I’m a contributor and the Community Manager over at MacStories.net.
Check out my write up of this year’s watchOS 11 release:
https://www.macstories.net/stories/watchos-11-the-macstories-review/
Vladimir Campos @vladcampos.com Sharing my thoughts online since 1997. Obsessed with simplifying processes. Driven by learning and passing it along. 🇪🇺 #Porto. ✍️ = English + Português.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social 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.
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️
Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
Marcin Krzyzanowski @krzyzanowskim.com Member of Technical Staff @ Goodnotes
Todd Scalzott @tscalzott.bsky.social
Phoccer @iamphoccer.bsky.social Husband, dad, fisherman, bad disc golfer, new pickle baller, dog person, e-biker, former devops engineer, Arsenal fan. My photography and fútbol interests lead to my user name.
eBike: Gazelle Medeo T10 2022
Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com Past: PhD in Astrophysics from Rice University -> Science policy at the US Department of Energy.
Present: Data scientist living in Virginia.
I am also on Mastodon, @marcoshuerta@vmst.io
https://marcoshuerta.com
@arombough.bsky.social @arombough.bsky.social
apmeyer @apmeyer.bsky.social Developer of Internet Things. Accessibility and performance minded. +48 Agility. Minnesota.
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Holger Eilhard @holgr.com Uses boxes that turn light and sound into 0s and 1s. Find me https://mastodon.social/@holgr
Shane McWilliams @smikwily.com Husband, Dad of two kids and 4 cats, geek, lover of video games, movies and TV.
Jeff @box464.com Coder, manager, collector of dog fur.
🎵 GenX, Introvert, Music lover
🐶 Over-involved Dog Dad
✌️ Kindness in all things
Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca Freelance vocateur codewriter for Mac, iOS and web. I help make Indigo and Croissant! Astra mortemque superare gradatim.
Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social A climate action advocate running on a drained battery.
Decarbonization is a crucial thing for everyone to do. It's also important to offset the carbon pollution you can't avoid like from air travel. I recommend biochar for Carbon Dioxide Removal. #CDR
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
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DM or Signal danhon.1701
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social Executive editor at @status.news. Email: jon at status dot news. Subscribe to the essential newsletter examining the media and power: status.news/subscribe 📬
Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social Personal account of Quinton Lucas, Mayor of Kansas City. “Aldi-Brand Obama.”
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
https://instagram.com/luckytran
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Dan Phiffer @phiffer.org Web developer at @propublica.org and member of @propublicaguild.org. Lives in Troy, NY. He/him. More active on Mastodon: https://social.coop/@dphiffer
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
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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 employers’
I did a TED talk once
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com Award-winning #cybersecurity keynote speaker, writer, podcaster | Host of multi-award-winning @smashingsecurity.com podcast.
❤️ #DoctorWho, #Beatles, #Chess
He/him
🌐 https://grahamcluley.com
🎙️ https://www.smashingsecurity.com
Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social cryptography • neuro • cloud • biscuits
ORD-DCA-NYC-BCN ✈️
kennwhite@mastodon.social
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social everybody deserves good security.
https://alecmuffett.com/about
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com cybersecurity weather man. scanning the horizons for cloudy cyber. Expert at nothing except computer rubbish. Anti-ransomware since 2015.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Brian Brown @9six7.bsky.social Dodger fan, dad, marketing weasel. One of my dogs would like to meet you. Twitter user number 2,840. Also on Threads at @9six7
Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social "a Washington lawyer whose practice representing people about security clearances is part of an entire legal subspecialty made possible by the current system." - Politico
Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social 9 years in the NFL. 2 rings. #9years2rings
Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social Author, Substack newsletter “To the Contrary.” Host, "To the Contrary" podcast. Dog owner, grandfather. Still Never Trump. No regrets. Website: https://charliesykes.substack.com/
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Lincoln Project and Lincoln Square founder. Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft driver. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com Heir to the Heinz Ketchup fortune.
https://somewhattolerable.com
Stephen Augustus (he/him) @auggie.dev Black.
#opensource governance: @kubernetes.io, @openssf.org, TODO Group
Office of the CTO, Bloomberg — Opinions are my own
Bio and links: https://whois.auggie.dev/
#Blacksky
Formerly @stephenaugustus (Twitter), @justaugustus@hachyderm.io (Mastodon)
Rachel Tobac @racheltobac.bsky.social Hacker & CEO @SocialProofSec security awareness/social engineering training, videos, talks | 3X @DEFCON🥈 | Ex Chair @WISPorg | Ex @CISAgov Technical Advisory Council under Director Jen Easterly
Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon.
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us Computers for work, beer, snowboards, and airplanes for fun. Penn State alumnus.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
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Matthew Riley @matt.dev security eng manager at Google • he/him
Hart Hoover @harthoover.com I help companies you’ve heard of run Tetragon and Cilium… mostly on Kubernetes.
🌮 Authority on Tacos, BBQ, and coffee
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📍San Antonio, TX
Dave Foley @davesfoley.bsky.social A comedian that you or your parents or maybe your grandparents may have enjoyed occasionally since the late 80s. A member of the skit comedy ensemble The Kids In The Hall for 40 years and counting because none of us can find the exit.