Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social Elementary music teacher, Ph.D. candidate at CMER at University of South Florida. Public schools (& teachers’ unions) forever & ever. Eldest millennial raising & teaching Gen Alpha.
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social Gay, from Chicago and now in Milwaukee | adorer of all felines | he/him/they | anti-authoritarian | Derek Thompson went on Dick Hanania’s nazi podcast and blocked me for asking why
Fate Music @fatemusic.bsky.social "I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all" -- unk. Jerry Garcia, Political Science, human diversity and endeavor, European Union, bicycle commuting, Boulder, Colorado, music, Grateful Dead, books, art and anything that makes my brain tickle
Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social Je Suis Marxiste, Tendance Harpo (...movie star, movie star...)
Mostly Harmless. Panicking optional.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Ex-Douglas Bader Meinhof Gang.
Yasser (Arafat), I can boogie all night long.
Views pilfered from everyone else's
Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social Mom, organizer, Lt. Gov. of MN. My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe = Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.
Running for U.S. Senate to fight for Minnesotans
Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Visit drewmcweeny.com for all my shit.
Rude Law Dog @esghound.com Policy, Research, Muckraking, Two time winner of the "Wokest Hedgefund Analyst" award
blog.esghound.com
Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com Publisher/Managing Editor - Utah Political Watch
📝 I write about politics. Sometimes it goes well. | 🧠 Unsupervised adult with ADHD. | 🏈 In a toxic relationship with the Oklahoma Sooners.
DM for Signal.
linkin.bio/schotthappens
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social Programmer, analog game designer, progressive politics, no progressivism without LGBTQIA+ rights. We're gonna win. I will continue to shamelessly split infinitives. he/him
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Kyle I, PhD 🕊️🇺🇦 @kyleiphd.bsky.social Fighting for democracy • 60k+ on TikTok • Personal opinions only • linktr.ee/kyleiphd
Gutsick Gibbon: A Gentle and Modern Ape @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social Loser ape with a poor grip on self control
Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/GutsickGibbon
FatGayFriend @fatgayfriend.bsky.social Eldritch Millennial: dog dad, dad jokes & Daddy issues. Film dork, book butch, pop queen and history nerd. City builder & medieval tavern game enthusiast. Fat, gay, friendly, Bri’ish. Your da would say “hard left”.
Trans rights, or else!
Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social Currently: National politics reporter at Mother Jones magazine. Previously: TIME Magazine. Always: Trying my best. Sometimes: Coming up short.
Email me at avesoulis@cir[dot]org
Encrypted contact info:
Signal: abbyvesoulis.09
Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social Immunology, flow cytometry, music, beer. Opinions 100% my own. He/him. ⭕️
Director of @dartlab.bsky.social
“To science, I felt that I could help”
Also on mastodon: @mielcarz@shakedown.social
Jen❤️⭕️ @colojen.bsky.social Live music, Authentic AF
❤️⭕️🎶
waxbanks @waxbanks.bsky.social saddest song typed on worst computer
Taylor Upchurch @jayteeyou.bsky.social SF, CA
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Hee Haw 4.0 @mikelowetpt.bsky.social Lover of live and recorded music, beer, cooking, friends, and Phish. Savant sometimes. Shenanigans.
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
Mary Ann Dimand @maryanndimand.bsky.social Pissed-off nature poet, modern metaphysical. Any pronouns.
Don’t call me Mary. I’m Mary Ann.
awl @atomly.com www.atomly.com
genderqueer bear dyke communist nerd
they/them/it/its
i probably wrote some code you used. i make a lot of art and music and have put out some records. leftist and mutual aid enthusiast.
🏴⚒🖤🏳️⚧️
Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social Spouse • UAW member/IBEW Bk3 • Pell Grant winner • 1stGen • Controls engineer [Fanuc, Siemens, Rockwell] • Master electrician • Often found in the Great Lakes Basin
Avi: illustration of an imaginary creature's head
Header: photo of myself on a picket line
ROCK! @rocksolver.rocks The original (and only) Rock Solver. PWI 500 alumnus from the late '90s. I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings. Music is good. Not actually Paul Simon
Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social Expert at your life. Novice at mine.
Big Cypress Box Set 🏳️⚧️ @waveofhopepatrol.bsky.social Take care of your neighbors
Calceamenta tua cura
“Any day I put my gratitude ahead of my expectations is a good day”
— Ray Wylie Hubbard
Jim @bondcliff.bsky.social Outraged, but I don't use Bluesky for that. I'm just here to make my little jokes. One time I made Cow Tools. ⭕️⭕️⭕️ Masshole. (He/Him) More than happy to be your Internet Dad if you need one.
https://www.jimmerullo.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
V. @vforvicious.bsky.social I dabble in a lot of things. 🌹💀⚡️⭕️
Cookie Connoisseur. 🍪
FC Basel 🇨🇭 FC St. Pauli 🇩🇪
Tela is not a spy.
Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch.
ixothial @ixothial.bsky.social 
Huckleberry Vagary @huckleberryvagary.bsky.social ENFJ-T (The Protagonist)
ENFP (The Inspirer)
Type 2 (3 Wing) (The Hostess)
Capricorn ☀️ Cancer 🌕 Capricorn 🌅
Year of the Fire Dragon
Most Likely to Start A Cult
Carrie Muir @cmuirmath.bsky.social Community college math professor in the PNW (USA). Misses the early bird app, glad to find old friends (and new ones) here. Neurodivergent, queer, spoonie. Nerd, geek, fandoms random. Probably caffeinating. Pronouns in bio: she/her or they/them
Hemidemisemiferal @mfwebb.bsky.social Screaming into the zeitgeist.
Writer, reader, Luddite. Musical misc. Cats (also possums, deer, and bears). TNR. She/her/they. Ex-TX on Puget Sound. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
www.hookswaltz.blogspot.com
Golden Brown @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social Cosmic guitar music. Guitars and lap steel in Prairiewolf. Releases on Inner Islands, Aural Canyon, and Eiderdown. 🦥🦦
Prairiewolf’s Zone Poems is out now.
https://prairiewolfcf.bandcamp.com/album/zone-poems
Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social Podcast Editor: @wunc.org
Contributor: @npr.org
Alum: @opb.org, @wamu.org
Cheerwine enthusiast. Go Dawgs!
Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social Academy Award winning writer and director of SWIMFAN.
Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social Washington correspondent for The New York Times focused on cyber conflict, digital espionage and intelligence. Prior stops at WSJ, Reuters, National Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dustin-volz
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social Mainer by birth. Logger by trade. With your help, Senator for the people.
http://www.JacksonForMaine.com
Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice reform, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
@spookybutkind.bsky.social @spookybutkind.bsky.social Mostly here to follow artists whose work I admire but also happy to interact with other people. Not interested in crypto or dating.
Please no DMs if we don't know each other.
He/Him
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC, TPM. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: letsgomathias@protonmail.com. Buy my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social Vivant (sans bon). Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history. Every story deserves to be heard. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com
Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan
<Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social Cartoonist in Boston. he/him brianmcfadden.org patreon.com/BrianMcFadden
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto
→→→ linktr.ee/hilaryagro ←←←
You deserve a better world.
Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org he / him. Living with Type 1 Bipolar Depression and PTSD #StigmaFree. Minneapolis resident. The U.S. Constitution is a living document, and it lives in all of us.
Writing → czbi.org/writing
Schedule a call → czbi.org/call
Meet for coffee → czbi.org/coffee
P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social Practicing lawyer and cohost of the Law & Chaos podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social
READ MY STUFF! lawandchaospod.com
LISTEN TO MY STUFF! patreon.com/lawandchaospod
he/him
jesse, 37 @killgoldfish.bsky.social we created it, let’s take it over
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
David Stray Ney @strayney.bsky.social I was the lead singer of the band Pirates R Us. Yes, really. Holy shit guys calm down, I’m just a person like you. Yes, of course I’ll give you an autograph.
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Kristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social Co-Founder & Executive Producer, 535 News.
We ask unanimous consent on a motion to reconsider everything we know about how Congress is covered.
www.535.news
J. Stephen Clark 🏳️🌈 @jstephenclark.bsky.social ALBA𝗡𝗬 LAW SCHOOL
Con Law | Conflicts | Employment
Ethiopian food | A.B. Durand art
Andrew’s partner | cat dad x2
𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯
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
Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social Writer (Disney, Spotify, that one West Wing spec thread you remember from Twitter) | Endurance Rider | Amateur Unfuckologist | Bug Simp | your real dad | mgmt @ Heroes and Villains 💜💙💗
sharif @sharfers.beef.fish I speedrun Barbie games and FMV games. I used to work on Kubernetes. I know a lot about baseball and a fair bit about baking. DFTBA. he/him. 🦄 🇪🇬 🎵
beef.fish
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social I write things. Pitchfork. Stereogum. SPIN. Vice Chair of Florida Film Critics Circle.
Space and light and dreams
That's what people need.
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Vinny Thomas @vinnythomas.bsky.social ancient reptile in real life, Omar on Platonic. formerly known as vinn_ayy
Cynthia Nevil @cynthianevil.bsky.social Crone.
Philadelphian (Point Breeze)
Go Birds.
My favorite Cars character is Nigel Gearsley.
My aesthetic is Crumbling Opulence.
Retired clinical trials administrator.
Crypto bots, OnlyFans bots, and Jesus zealots, move along.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
David Firth @davidfirth.bsky.social Animation and stuff.
SALAD FINGERS PLUSH TOYS! (+other merch) http://saladfingersstore.com
gwen pepperoni 🏳️⚧️🤘🏼🍕 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social transness is life
🏳️⚧️
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social Host SiriusXM radio's The Dean Obeidallah show, writer, lawyer and comedian. Saving America one fact and punchline at a time--not necessarily in that order! Please sign up for my newsletter https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social ex-technologist, middle-aged 3L at cornell law, yakuza/rgg fangirl, she/her
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com Certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social Dad, husband, U.S. Senator from Georgia.
Buttons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social She/They
Here for OFMD.
I make gifs about gay pirates.
Biologist specializing in harmful algal blooms, drinking water treatment, and source water management IRL.
@Seven_Sugars on Twitter
Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social He/Him. Toronto, Canada. If you can explain it to me, then I can explain it to everyone. Elsewhere at https://linktr.ee/mjmbca.
Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social it’s me
https://youtube.com/@any_austin
Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social just 'nother old, tired transfem survival FSSWer, livin' in the gutters of a society that don't want us
* SW clients fuck off
* no capitalists allowed
* Foundationist (ask me about it!)
* the yappiest woman in pdx (she/her)
Green Team @greenteamdance.bsky.social dance collective founded Halloween Indio 2009 with roots to Halloween Vegas 1998
Green Team credo:
💃DANCE
💚be KIND & respect consent
🌵GREEN is good
also on the Fediverse at
https://shakedown.social/@GreenTeam
@greenteam.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy
Hunter Felt 🏳️⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social "Rachel Getting Married" LARPER. Writing about music, comedy, sports and pop culture (email hunterfeltblog@gmail.com). "Doll with problems." I'm my own Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Pic is a younger and cuter me. 18+
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com
Natsec, policing, surveillance
Signal: dell.3030
Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social Itinerant cycligrapher©™
Coffee, Bikes, Photography, Food, you know that stuff
Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social Posting the worst medical takes. Have a submission? DM or @ me. #MedSky https://ko-fi.com/badmedicaltakes
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them.
rosalarian.com ro@rosalarian.com
Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad Bandaid Engineer. I post mostly about coding, atproto, embedded devices and things like that. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time.
📍Middle Tennessee
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
She / her | current Detroiter, forever New Yorker, child of the Garden State
Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social I wear an orange hoodie while laughing. Known to make replies go viral.
No way out of the billagarchy without torching 🔥
Give Resources to MN 🦾
Ill-treat transphobes 🏳️⚧️
📺 In Plain Sight 📺 The Riches 📺 The Shield 📺 The OC 📺 Bones
🎥 Something’s Gotta Give