Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol + senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com
+ podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social
(@multitude.productions)
+ she/her ✡️
+ sometimes i post about pottery and the phillies
+ my opinions ≠ my employer’s
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Since You Arrived @sinceyouarrived.world A memento mori for the internet age. The world has gained these things, and lost them, while you were looking.
sinceyouarrived.world
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
Cacaodaemon @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | should be writing
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
STARLOG @starlogmedia.bsky.social STARLOG, the legendary sci-fi magazine, returns–exploring the intersection of science fiction, technology & culture.
Podcast | Newsletter | Magazine Coming Late 2026
50 Years. Since 1976
https://thelodestar.starlog.com/
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online Director at Library Futures, a project of NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. MPA, MLIS. Words at Flaming Hydra and other places sometimes. she/her
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
💡 Helping you make informed health decisions
🎓 MPH, PhD
👇🏻 Get weekly science-backed updates
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net J-prof at Northeastern University. Co-leader, with Ellen Clegg, of @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.
Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com).
See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/
“Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social Artist/marine geophysicist (PhD Physics)
Printmaker
Find/contact me at:
minouette.Etsy.com
minouette.blogspot.ca
Instagram.com/the.minouette
https://cara.app/minouette
I post art, science, #sciart and stuff with typos. She/her, Settler in Tkaronto 🇨🇦
Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to post about it.”
Solidarity through goofin' about it. Unaffiliated with the Twitter version.
Some shared takes will be good
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Ryan @snarfed.org https://snarfed.org
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Jesse Nathan @rudemechanical7.bsky.social The San Francisco Poem (Scribner 2027), One Question (McSweeney's 2026), Eggtooth (Unbound Edition Press 2023)
jon christian @jonchristian.net Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Helping people do their best work despite the ravages of capitalism at everythingchanges.us.
Posting from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/. I log in about once a week.
pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social i lost it at the movies
David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com Words, data, code. Senior data journalist with @today.yougov.com. Host of the French history podcast The Siècle (@thesiecle.com). 
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
Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com Chair of @journalismdesign.bsky.social at newschool.edu.
Editor, writer, producer, subway photographer. Podcast consulting at http://nounandverb.rodeo.
Knicks. Mets. Everton. Cook. Thief. His wife. Her lover.
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
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.
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social The name is a joke from Shakespeare
This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera
The Bronx
one-legged juggler // he
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
Tom Slee @tomslee.net 
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social Senior writer at Wired, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
Eliza Strickland @newsbeagle.bsky.social Senior editor at the tech magazine IEEESpectrum. My current work obsessions: neurotech, all things AI, & climate tech. I'm a newshound, only more Snoopy-like.
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Philosopher of emotion. West coast soul in Philly.
Now researching: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration.
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
🚫 AI
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• https://berjon.com/
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social A good guy.
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Naum @nauminous.bsky.social All power is one in an infinite web of energy
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social I sing in Too Much Joy and Wonderlick and work in tech (Rhapsody/Google Play/Freeform/Zedge).
I tend to post about music, movies, and the death throes of democracy.
Helen Shaw @helenshaw.bsky.social Theater critic at the New York Times. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ TBD Formerly at The Washington Post, Ithaca Voice. Listen to my series on John Brown: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-carnage/id1723391781
Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
http://allmylinks.com/nokon1501
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social Fight Like Hell for the Living
https://susiebright.ink
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places:
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pact.blacksky.app
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu Journalist and essayist. USian in the EU. Migrated before it was cool.
One of the very early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag.
Background image from Occupy Oakland.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com Sir Robin's minstrel
ex-Netscape, ex-Mozilla
https://asadotzler.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Classic Web @classicweb.site Screenshots of classic websites and blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s.
Brought to you by the internet history site https://cybercultural.com
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://indieweb.social/@classicweb, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Nuclear weapons expert (history, policy, costs, accidents) and tracker of the nuclear “Football.”
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky, partner @trueventures.com, personal site: https://toni.org
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
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.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social researcher @google; serial complexity unpacker
ex @ msft & aerospace
R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Musician/Lyricist, Big DADA You remember MONDO 2000 so do I
https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/ better still 
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy Automated feed with new posts from live music & unusual recording repositories to accompany @LiveMusicArchiveUpdates, instigated by @bourgwick, operated via […]
[bridged from https://heads.social/@livetapes on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Sean Bonner 🔥 @seanbonner.com Artist. Troublemaker. Misanthropologist.
🖥️ https://seanbonner.com
💬 https://t.me/justanothercrowd
James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social "Ah, Watson, it's a wicked world." --The Speckled Band
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com some lady.
she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
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.”
Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social Washington Post tech reporter
San Francisco
Defense tech and AI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/
Signal: GerritD.27
Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social 🇪🇪🏳️⚧️ | Archivist | 12 CVEs in Chrome | CSS sophomore | MapartCraft | Horse | rebane2001#3716 | Lyra 🦊
she/her
https://lyra.horse/
@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
Tatum Hunter @tatumhunter.bsky.social Internet culture reporter at The Washington Post. DMs and Signal are open: 513.368.3359
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward