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Are You Being Detained
Are You Being Detained
@sailbarque.bsky.social
Remembering Daniel Craig answering that question from the kid in Road to Perdition - "Why are you always smiling?"

"'Cause it's all so fucking hilarious."
Professor Furious
Professor Furious
@professorfurious.bsky.social
Left of the Western Lands, thief of sacred objects, card cheat, the Karnak of software.
Ban Cars
Ban Cars
@carabolitionist.bsky.social
Screaming, crying, throwing up (studying for the bar). One-time legislative staffer in days of old. Soon-to-be Brooklyn expat to the Bay Area. Legalize it (housing). he/him
hammancheez
hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
I did not get ejected by the night manager of Waffle House, we mutually agreed to part ways after being unable to come to an agreement

same handle on discord

Dad / sentient sandwich / chronic doomscroller / cishet / he/him/bro
Rob Pollard
Rob Pollard
@robpollard45.bsky.social
Midwesterner. Skeptical, particularly of "economic anxiety." Trying to stay open-minded but generally, they are who we thought they were.
Cowboy Friday
Cowboy Friday
@thotstream.bsky.social
a sharp piece of tortilla stuck in your throat • the void screaming back • podcast nonproliferationist • only bad takes (i promise) • the[my name]@gmail

temporarily: https://ko-fi.com/cowboyfriday
David Sacerdote
David Sacerdote
@davidsacerdote.bsky.social
Software engineer.

Mostly talk climate and related politics.

And yes, we should-reelect Biden. https://secure.joebiden.com/a/BVF?attr=113172809
Emma Evans
Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
Professional Dominatrix and erotic hypnotic Mistress

Making the world a little better, one orgasm at a time

She/Her

https://cash.app/$MistressEmma

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3LT3Y04L704R1

NiteFlirt.com/Trance
Bill Tsukuda
Bill Tsukuda
@btsukuda.bsky.social
Ignore me.
Radley Balko
Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.

Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Jen Sorensen
Jen Sorensen
@jensorensen.bsky.social
Cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, Politico, and elsewhere. Formerly of The Nib. Recipient of the Herblock Prize and Berryman Award. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter at patreon.com/jensorensen or jensorensen.com/subscribe
Joshua Erlich
Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
civil rights lawyer, exhausted
Potomatic
Potomatic
@onbluskysku.bsky.social
Lawyer, reader of too few books, enjoyer of too many jokes
Matt Baldwin
Matt Baldwin
@thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, cyclist, naturalist, martial artist, tall ship sailor. Apparently when I was a kid I heard the phrase “jack of all trades” and it stuck. Mestizo. He/him, single. San Diego, CA.
Matt Weiner
Matt Weiner
@mattweiner19.bsky.social
Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
elias
elias
@eliasisquith.blog
DMs open / reposts ≠ endorsements / mid at best / trust the process / go birds / periodically delete posts
Matthew Downhour
Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis
New Year’s Steve
New Year’s Steve
@lessdismalsci.bsky.social
Radicalized by Shelby County v. Holder
Laura Kelly stan

He/him
Southern Violet
Southern Violet
@southernviolet.bsky.social
Reader, writer, student, cat lover, feminist, she/her, sport lover, AuDHD

The immunocompromised person ableists think should die of COVID.

In my unhinged queer era

Discord: Southern.Violet

Let's Go Os!

#ChiefsKingdom WE IN OUR DYNASTY ERA!!!
CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘
CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘
@nemobluecrj.bsky.social
Texan, shiftless layabout, wearily homosexual
Aubrey Gilleran
Aubrey Gilleran
@aubreygilleran.bsky.social
Episcopalian | North Carolinian | father | husband | English teacher | liberal | IG: @aubreygilleran
Kate Starbird
Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Professor at University of Washington, HCDE. Cofounder and Director of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Researcher of online rumors and disinformation. Also, former basketball player (Stanford, ABL, WNBA).
eva 🏳️‍⚧️
eva 🏳️‍⚧️
@eva.computer
posting lgbt, political, and tech stuff
she/her / bay area
poly / bisexual / transsexual

DMs open, don't be weird
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.bsky.social
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM.

Professor, researcher, author, VP of AoIR, fan of many things, gay lady.

“This heaven gives me migraine.”
post malone ergo propter malone
post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
mostly politics. some Seahawks. emoliberal.

oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Sean
Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
cat enthusiast. public health guy. 5x jeopardy applicant. personal account: all opinions are my own, except for any bad ones
Kashana
Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels The Survivalists and The Payback (2025). Deadly with a butter knife.
https://kashanacauley.com
Waffle Cut
Waffle Cut
@wafflecut.bsky.social
I’m on island time.
Los Angeles, he/him, bald.
Annmarie
Annmarie
@annmariepisano.bsky.social
your favorite flaky all-butter pastry dough.
ca-dmv-bot
ca-dmv-bot
@ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social
Real personalized license plate applications that the California DMV received from 2015-2017. Posts hourly. Not the CA DMV. (16.41% complete)
Make it a Quote
Make it a Quote
@miq.moe
Mention me in reply to create an image from the post.
If you want to delete an image I created, please mention @remove.miq.moe in reply.

Website: https://miq.moe/
Dr. Sheila Addison
Dr. Sheila Addison
@drsaddison.bsky.social
Couple & Family Therapist | she/her | LGBTQ+ advocate | end white supremacy | invisibly disabled fat lady | Ally Skills/DEI | SJW | relationship wizard 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿♿🍞🌹🖤🦇 https://www.drsheilaaddison.com
Protest and Survive
Protest and Survive
@postnatodepression.bsky.social
She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Discord is also postnatodepression.
Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library.

Gam zu l'tova.
Aaron Sojourner
Aaron Sojourner
@aaronsojourner.org
#Labor #economics @upjohninstitute.bsky.social • Brookings nonresident fellow • former senior economist for labor at White House CEA • living in Minneapolis. Views mine.

aaronsojourner.org

Be kind • Work hard • Have fun
Rob Honeycutt
Rob Honeycutt
@robhon.bsky.social
As long as Elon’s not here, I’m good.
Timbuk2 founder, climate advocate, patent holder, GA pilot, art lover, mushroom forager
Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
dumb laws deserve my thoughts on them
https://linktr.ee/ugarles

i will do your podcast
ALABSeries.com with @helldude.bsky.social @wyattprivilege.bsky.social & @garliccorgi.bsky.social
City Saint/Country Saint with @lronmexico.bsky.social
Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Columnist for The New Republic and MSNBC. Co-host, "Space the Nation" with Dan Drezner, a podcast about political science and science fiction. Like my work? Buymeacoffee.com/anamariecox
Anna @ CQ Press
Anna @ CQ Press
@annaatcqpress.bsky.social
Acquisitions Editor for Political Science at CQ Press | A physical manifestation of your book deadlines | My evil twin is on Twitter | Kinda Witchy
The Mall Krampus
The Mall Krampus
@themallkrampus.bsky.social
Excel Jockey and Aspiring Quirky Suburban Dad. GrillCath Supremacist. Mostly here for well-read snark. RT = Regrettable Tumescence, Likes = Stochastic RTs.
Raven Onthill
Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
Elle
Elle
@elleisanisland.bsky.social
researcher writer walker of forests swimmer of oceans here for the funny and the interesting
lukelukeluke
lukelukeluke
@lukelukeluke.bsky.social
I’m not here to post my THOUGHTS. I’m not here to share IDEAS. I’m here to post PICTURES OF MUSHROOMS and BE AN IDIOT

linktr.ee/lukevenechuk
Jimmy Two Hands
Jimmy Two Hands
@jimmytwohands.bsky.social
I make music and comics for my own amusement. A jimbo, not a himbo. He/him
Kelly
Kelly
@kellybdevoe.bsky.social
Platform-chaser. Banned somewhere, but not Chicago. social worker. shitlib (not resist). Derrida said reskeets are unknowable. she/her.

crazy in love with my children Yatcher, Thates, and Thardley.
Crystal Preston-Watson
Crystal Preston-Watson
@scopicengineer.bsky.social
Accessibility agitator in the streets. Sr. Digital Accessibility Analyst @ Salesforce in the sheets. Opinions and shitposts are my own. 24/7/365 absurdist.
The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
Gabriel Malor
Gabriel Malor
@gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Oklahoman in Virginia. Attorney. I talk about federal court decisions. A lot. Sometimes the most you can do is the best you can do. [email protected]
Jacob Harris
Jacob Harris
@harrisj.bsky.social
Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future.
Technology Connections
Technology Connections
@techconnectify.bsky.social
I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.

https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections