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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social Truth-Teller | Independent Journalist and Legal Analyst | Trial Lawyer | @katiephang on Substack, Instagram, Threads, & TikTok
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“Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce”
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
ilinkcs @ilinkcs.bsky.social Itinerant autodidact & stoic seeking the truth, struggling with what obscures it
jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social 5’3 / pretty messy / does not modulate voice / satisfactory appearance 🦕❤️🦖
where to find me in the afterlife: jtierney.net
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
a dong of ice and fire @jonswoe.bsky.social Horny on main 25/8
She/her
letslimbo on AO3. check out my porn.
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social Posting ancient Egyptian text translations that can be coaxed gently into fitting into limited space. Powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com. Run by @kiyanicoll.bsky.social.
Morgan St. James @jessica-33095.bsky.social Chanteuse with the band Windlass and the Stained Grass project
Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social Low Quality Facts written in arguably lower quality handwriting.
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AcausalQualia @acausalqualia.bsky.social 🖤Dark Hearts🩶Grey Skies🤍Light Matter
#Artist #AuDHD #Buddhist #Furry
#Genderqueer #Goth #INTP #Kink
#Libsoc #Occult #Panpsychist #Pansexual
#Poet #Poly #Queer #Sapio #Transfemme
#Transhuman #Virgo #Witch
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ⚧ 🐈⬛(she/her)
Primary → @rjvoidrabbot.bsky.social
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social Welcome to the "Tweets of Dogs" This is a place to share your animal love!
This is a mirror of the original account. Do you own the original?This account was made for you!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Turn It Up To 11 @turnitupto11.bsky.social Almost-blind-music-obsessed 🇨🇦 man. Used to write about... music (from 1995-2015). Newspapers/mags/radio. Ex Polaris Prize grand juror. LPs lover/collector. Contracts seeker. 1000s of LPs, so little time. The original music nerd. 8 years on X. Year 2 here.
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social Author of Fantasy. Way too many cats and only slightly fewer dogs. She/Her.
acommonblackbird @acommonblackbird.bsky.social defiantly neuroqueer human [auDHD, cPTSD, queer, gender nonconforming] striving to survive the polycrisis and cocreate a future worth surviving for. trees and birds help the ongoing messyAF work-in-progressness of it all.
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Lori Jones @lorijonespoetry.bsky.social Dreamer. Artist. Poet.
(she/her)
My debut poetry collection, The Sweetening, is available now.
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=tNc4PEbsbvaXfnA9b8WVRq1j2CfnRZBZCDjCL053p8L
Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social Sci-fi Author, mountain hag, lefty dork, rat queen. She/her. 🏳️⚧️
New book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DP3F2JL4
Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social I love three things: my dog, 60s/70s folk rock, and Rachel Weisz. Everything else I am merely tolerating. Check out comingoutpod.com 🏳️🌈 Sorry about all the semicolons; I can't help it.
OnlyFlans: bit.ly/flansposts
pls pay me 2 write 4 u thx 🙏
A. Sherman Karlsson @ashermankarlsson.bsky.social Writing serial speculative fiction about fighting the current. http://syphoncontinuity.com
Wendy Gent @wendyg63.bsky.social Haiku and tanka poems/ micro poetry. English springer spaniels. I only follow poets, writing
Alison Burke @tiredactor.bsky.social Silly girl trying to make you laugh
Shortshift @shortshift.bsky.social i don't even know any more
Nick Offerman @nickofferman.bsky.social I met Mr. T backstage at Conan and we had a fine giggle.
Chekhov's Murder Hornets @alenxa.bsky.social The Midnight Baker Who Bakes at Midnight. Crafty, musical, and mother-Vulcan snarky. She/her (they/m in a pinch), religion: cake. Baked devotionals and other offbeat stuff at feraltomatoes.com. No worries, my existence infuriates me too.
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social Linguist in LA. Vitam faciunt balnea vina Venus.
Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social I'd be a pretty meh follow, honestly; my only talent is appreciation. Love art, fiction, film, science.
Sally Yates @sallyqyates.bsky.social Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States.🏳️🌈
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
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The Erasable Podcast @erasable.us The world's #2 pencil podcast. We can't help talk about pencils! Also: paper, pens, stationery, books, and other creative analog pursuits and tools. We're Johnny, Tim, and Andy. http://erasable.us
L @banalplay.bsky.social Keeping it tight
Michael Fanone @michaelfanone.bsky.social Former DC Cop, high school dropout and proud girl dad.
Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social Girl dad. Hip-Hop lover. Fmr Capitol Police Officer. Making good trouble.
https://www.standingourground.us/
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
Permission2BFancy @permission2bfancy.bsky.social Non-vintage champagne for all but me.
I write about the weird and the beautiful at https://lacachette.substack.com/
Jess @jessdean77.bsky.social Nature lover residing in the mountains. Backcountry/Ecology/Music enthusiast. Graduated in the PNW (Biology/Chem). Art/Writing Collab. Volunteering-Working-Adventuring
All 📷🎨:me (except reposts)
"Dreaming of a better future, one reflection at a time"
Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social Midwest writer who eats several meals a week. Work in Eater, Serious Eats, the BBC, Bon App, etc. Fun at haterade.substack.com
C.T. Idlehouse/LadyChelseaoftheVoid 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸 @ladychelsea.bsky.social leftist/atheist/bisexual/LGBTQIA-friendly/anti-fascist/anti-racist
NO SOLITICING
NO BOTS
NO CRYPTO
https://ladycthelibertine.substack.com/
https://vocal.media/authors/ct-idlehouse-dmszf0wsu
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social Pigeon fancier (unofficial) 
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Rob 🚀☘️ @rjszczerba.bsky.social Rocket Scientist 🚀 turned Tech CEO; Senior Fellow Lockheed Martin; Notre Dame PhD☘️; Wrote cool stuff for Forbes, & Proud Autism Dad! ♥️
@haggis222.bsky.social @haggis222.bsky.social Curious writer and editor
Trini @poetriny.bsky.social Poetry • Cultural Allusion • Human Connection • Nature-inspired
C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social Lvl 51 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Frogman. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.
Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social haiku, poetry, scifaiku, micropoetry,
kidlit in English, German, French, Plattdeutsch.
born: Wesermarsch, based: Berlin-Wedding.
Andi Leigh @andileighwrites.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, & visual artist.
💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜
EIC: @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social
andileighwrites.com
Kate Baer @katejbaer.bsky.social 3x NYT Bestselling author of WHAT KIND OF WOMAN, I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL, & AND YET. Also found in the New Yorker & Literary Hub.
Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social Intermittent Scribbler. Fruitless Cosmopolitan. Transbian-About-Town. "Hardcore." — Will Stancil. U.Mich. '23 (Classical Lang. & Lit.). UDM Law '26 🏳️⚧️⚢
Engaged to @opheliabelladonna.bsky.social
Kyla Tilley 🎶 🎸 🎤 👠 🫐 @kylatilley.com Prog-folk troubadour. Loves high heels, nature, video games, fashion, sports, things with lots of legs. Streams on Twitch, Youtube, and TikTok. Will write songs about anything. Plays a pretty mean guitar. she/her
https://kylatilley.com
Kawaii-chan Christine (♥ω♥*) @archivewhisperer.bsky.social MLIS student, BA in History. I just love to lurk lol. You can pay five doll hairs to read my patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/DiscourseOnHistory
UwU
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Cat girl, Nyan nyan!
(✿ヘᴥヘ)
❀.(*´◡`*)❀
Emma Wulfe @emmawulfe.bsky.social poetry & tiny stories ✍️
snail whisperer 🐌🌿
few spoons 🥄
(chronic illness edition)
UK
Nuclear Winter @4slars.bsky.social Ameri-strayan' from SF located Downunder. I also lived in the UK. She/her
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7lq6uxpoi7g7665lv3znvmbi/feed/aaaczlulk5zf6
Maybe Miri @mirimiri9999.bsky.social Just a techie and a nerd looking to cause trouble.
Jewish.
Trans.
New Englander.
I'm a Liberal (derogatory).
Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social I share beautiful words from beautiful books. Mostly poetry. Some prose. Always attributed, always pro-author, and generative AI is theft.
(All photos original. All rights reserved by original authors.)
Get books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/litbowl
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social Writer and swimmer and teacher. Books: OTHER EMERGENCIES; HEREAFTER; A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN; DEAR YOU; WE & SAD MATH. Best Microfiction 2018-21, 2025-26; Wigleaf 50; NEA poetry fellow; http://sarahfreligh.com. Mom to Wayne and Oscar.
MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009
@thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Traci Brimhall @tracibrimhall.bsky.social 🖌️writer 👩🏻🏫teacher 👾parent
Author of LOVE PRODIGAL ☀️ ♥️
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com I am a carnival mirror reflecting the world
you can tell I’m trans by how I post
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com austin writer & actor, triumphing over this bullshit game
Penfilled @penfilled.bsky.social I write fiction SF/Fantasy with my fountain pens. Follow for pen and writing content. Occasionally my cat.
Stop blaming fountain pens for crimes committed by Sharpies.
YouTube, Instagram, storygraph: @penfilled
London
lililimonada @lililimonada.bsky.social 
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social CNN national security correspondent. Send tips/pics of your dog(s) to Natasha.bertrand@cnn.com
Signal: Natashabertrand.12
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/natasha-bertrand-profile
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Helen @cacophonic.bsky.social Optimistic cynic. Passionate about music, mental health & NHS. Wilts born/Yorks bred European Brit. Proud crazy cat-lady. Views my own.
Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Queer writer & Uni Lecturer | fiction in Smokelong, Wigleaf, Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social 
Brian Bahouth @brianbahouth.bsky.social Public media reporter/editor. I also design/build furniture and other objects from wood. Media literacy. Baseball obsessive. USN '79-'85.
Scot Diskin @scotdiskin.bsky.social Chicago Arizonan, Veteran, Small Business Owner, Childless Dog/Cat owner, Outdoor Cook!
Wondering...How in the Hell did "WE" elect a Felon/Rapist!
Mael Cornic @maelcornic.bsky.social Not always paying attention to what is going on. Unless wood is involved. 
Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social AuDHD author of poetry, prose, and magic.
Thinks you’re lovely and wants to tell you so. Book in link. 📖 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 she/her/hers
https://linktr.ee/kimberlyvanderhorst
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social Researcher in child language development @MPI for Psycholinguistics & Radboud Uni. She/her. "All models are wrong but some are useful" (George Box 1978). https://www.mpi.nl/people/rowland-caroline
🍕 L.T. Vargus, disgraced author🍕 @ltvargus.bsky.social Lex is my name, eating soup is my game
Also writing books: ltvargus.com/books
CRAP https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uesz4twpjyxhawilgwhdgndr/feed/aaadwblv2k7uq
CREAM OF THE CRAP https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uesz4twpjyxhawilgwhdgndr/feed/aaagbhkbm7dwg
Travis Simpson @simpsonservices.bsky.social Father, husband and warrior in life. If you know the story of The Two Wolves??? Well I fed the wrong one for the early years of adulthood. Carpenter by trade and enjoy reclaiming wood or metal and repurposing it. https://collectingchaos.etsy.com
Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy
Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social researcher writer walker of forests swimmer of oceans here for the funny and the interesting
Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
writer/book shelver/final girl
books: DEVILS UNTO DUST, MISSING PRESUMED DEAD
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Sharon Dunten @journophoto.bsky.social Journalist, Photographer; Freelance journalist for The Washington Post & The New York Times; Dunten Media Services LLC; SPJ, NPPA, IRE
Spoontaneous @spoontaneous.bsky.social "Liberating the spoon from a mere hand-to-mouth existence."
Exploring the creative process within the constraints of the wooden spoon... and sometimes, outside of those constraints.
Alternate profile... @idattu.bsky.social
Layla @kc-bombshell.bsky.social Scroll saw artist 🎨 Goofball 🤪
RN, scientist, long covid advocate
Woodworker & apparel designer
Kcbombshell.com
Writing our Destiny aka Andrew @planecrazy.bsky.social A strange assortment of knowledge, caprice, and whims. Throw in steel pens and DnD, shake, strain and serve.
He/Him/Hey You
https://thesteelpen.com/
https://theesterbrookproject.com/
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
@kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
@allisoncay.bsky.social @allisoncay.bsky.social