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Lydia Bugg
Lydia Bugg
@youknowlydia.bsky.social
Comedy writer known for 1900hotdog and other things.
Sara Simon
Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
grad student in history & science studies • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her

smbsimon.github.io
Cindy Storer
Cindy Storer
@cindystorer.bsky.social
Former counterterrorism intelligence analyst now working as an intelligence educator. I have a tendency to end up in documentaries.
isaac
isaac
@sevier.io
Electricity for all, public power, green social housing, and a livable climate 💛 🌏🚰🔌🌱 they in San Francisco

Latest: “On Queer People in Climate and Energy” https://isaacsevier.com/notes/lgbtq-queer-in-stem-for-climate-energy-utility-justice-policy/
𝚗.𝚋. 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙳𝙳𝙴𝚄𝚂
𝚗.𝚋. 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙳𝙳𝙴𝚄𝚂
@thaddeus.zone
⟦ they/them ⟧ ⚧️

non-binary, pro-anarchy, anti-paranoid
former academic/educator
present bookmerchant & podcast hobo
Paperback Paradise
Paperback Paradise
@paperbackparadise.bsky.social
The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity.
store:
https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/
Bellingcat
Bellingcat
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Orbital Fail-Son Canon
Orbital Fail-Son Canon
@nedgilmore.bsky.social
You shall come to a prison built of regrets and sorrow, where the shadows themselves have gone mad.
Chris Carvalho
Chris Carvalho
@gorgepulse.bsky.social
News, photography, analysis, and commentary on the Columbia Gorge and the environment. Rectal cancer survivor. Voice of marginalized Gorge communities.
Matt Seybold
Matt Seybold
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ

“The Guy Fieri of English Professors. But fatter.”
Moths in a human suit (they/them)
Moths in a human suit (they/them)
@lycomorpha.bsky.social
A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. BioMedSci escapee. Always drawing, too many pencils. Paint-maker. Spoonie, disability, & art-related sh*t-posting, video game botany. Find me at linktr.ee/lycomorpha
Martin Kleppmann
Martin Kleppmann
@martin.kleppmann.com
Associate Professor in Cambridge, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
c0nc0rdance
c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
Vajra Chandrasekera
Vajra Chandrasekera
@vajra.me
Writer. Revenant. Author of the novels THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (Crawford, Locus, Nebula winner; Le Guin, Hugo, SCKA finalist) and RAKESFALL (out now!) http://vajra.me/books

Usually Colombo, currently NYC. Website: https://vajra.me
Matt Kasson
Matt Kasson
@imperfectfunguy.bsky.social
Mycologist 🍄🧫🧪& Forest Pathologist 🌳👨‍⚕️ | Nat Geo & SPUN Explorer | SciComm | boy dad | husband | ADHD | 🏃‍♂️ | 2X Newf owner
Rachel Flood Heaton
Rachel Flood Heaton
@rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, industrial designer, and electrical engineer. I make neurally plausible computational process models of visual cognition.
Corey Atad
Corey Atad
@coreyatad.com
Freelance writer @ Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. [email protected] / www.coreyatad.com
Anne Hawley
Anne Hawley
@annehawley.bsky.social
💜🩶🖤🤍 Poster-crone for late bloomers.Writer. Editor. Bike rider. Portlander. She/her
Mitchell Epner
Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
Attorney, former AUSA, father, husband, former JBLC, long-time Knicks fan and occasional talking head
https://mitchellepner.substack.com/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/mitchell-epner
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
@pnh.bsky.social
Editor-at-large at the Tor Publishing Group. Series editor, Tor Essentials. Opinions mine, not Tor’s. Musician and layabout. He, his. Intolerant of anti-trans nonsense.


After decades in NYC, happily in Tucson, Arizona.
Brian McNoldy
Brian McNoldy
@bmcnoldy.bsky.social
I do Miami things: study hurricanes🌀, grow orchids 🌸, and complain about the humidity 🥵. Husband and dog dad. 🏳️‍🌈
https://bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/
Aaron Rodericks
Aaron Rodericks
@aaron.bsky.team
Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.

Individual reports in app get faster review, [email protected] for more complex issues.
Jepsen
Jepsen
@jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy
Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.

[bridged from https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Daryll Marie🐋
Daryll Marie🐋
@daryllmarie.bsky.social
Hobby wildlife photographer 🦋🦇 PhD student & bioacoustician exploring baleen whale movement ecology 🐋 Wrangler of the 🦉,🦊,🦑, & 🐍 feeds. Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/daryllmarie
Nature feeds list: tinyurl.com/NatureBluesky
Matt Ruff
Matt Ruff
@bymattruff.bsky.social
Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels.

https://www.bymattruff.com
Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️
Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs.at
👨‍💼fine time tracking software at nokotime.com
📸 I killed Flash (with script.aculo.us)
🔭#astrophotography - https://lightfrom.space
🕹️#retrocomputing
🐈#cats
BLM. Ally. He/him.
John Pfaff
John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
ghostmeow
ghostmeow
@ghostmeow.bsky.social
Mark Doyle
Mark Doyle
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, Ireland, empire, music, etc. Once wrote a book on the Kinks. Now working on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3 books, plus a thing on African-descended people in Irish history. Here because I want to spend more time with my phone.
Don Moynihan
Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor @McCourtSchool @Georgetown. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Ricky Manning
Ricky Manning
@froonium.bsky.social
TV (mostly sci-fi) writer/producer (Farscape, ST:TNG, &c.); consultant; instructor @ UCLA Extension & ifs filmschule köln. WGA+WGC. He/his. Avatar by Arne Ratermanis.
David_j_roth
David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
The flannel dunce.
Riley MacLeod
Riley MacLeod
@rcmacleod.bsky.social
Co-founder of Aftermath, a website about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
Coyotes!
Coyotes!
@audleyzdarke.bsky.social
Anti-fascist.
Nobody.

🥭

Currently reading "A Botanical Daughter" by Noah Medlock.

[she/her]
Diana Montalion for Mentrix
Diana Montalion for Mentrix
@mentrix.bsky.social
Systems, thinking, writing, software and doggos. mentrixgroup.com, learningsystemsthinking.com
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).
Grumpy Data Scientist
Grumpy Data Scientist
@zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
- Computational socio-linguist (my jam is studying how communities modify language to fit their needs using info theory and language modeling)

- Returned Peace Corps Volunteer

- 110% will talk your ear off about cetacean communication if given the chance
vineyille
vineyille
@vineyille.bsky.social
Flipmode. Flipmode is the greatest.
Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail
@toobigtofail.bsky.social
New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
Ed Zitron
Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
British, But In Las Vegas For Some Reason

Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Columnist at Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/author/ed-zitron
CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR Firm
Rob Shearer
Rob Shearer
@r.v.cx
Pretty sure I’m right about:

- RFC 3339 dates
- ISO 216 paper sizes
- Fahrenheit weather temperatures
- Dot-grid paper
- End-to-end encryption
- Software engineering being about collaboration costs

Less confident about the rest.

https://linktr.ee/rvcx
Director, Basque Space Program
Director, Basque Space Program
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Sr. Tech PM and Product Owner building tools for Public Health Surveillance; Occasional Data Witch; Former goatherd & Humanitarian Data Privacy.
Patrick Howell O’Neill
Patrick Howell O’Neill
@howelloneill.bsky.social
Lead cyber operations analyst @ MITRE
Dan Hon
Dan Hon
@danhon.com
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc

me: https://about.danhon.com
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
Bugge-Finder Private Newton Pulsifer 🏳️‍⚧️
Bugge-Finder Private Newton Pulsifer 🏳️‍⚧️
@apsciencebydan.bsky.social
"How many nuggets have ye?"
Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. They/Them
[email protected]
IG: @dandroidsaperturescience
Discord: apsciencebydan
National Security Counselors 🕵
National Security Counselors 🕵
@natlseccnslrs.bsky.social
Public interest law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. kel at nationalsecuritylaw dot org. Primary poster is he/him/his. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome at https://donate.democracyengine.com/NationalSecurityCounselors/contribute.
The Last Farm
The Last Farm
@thelastfarm.bsky.social
Eco-Socialism. Permaculture. Homesteading. Please subscribe to my very good newsletter: TheLastFarm.Substack.com
hrbrmstr
hrbrmstr
@hrbrmstr.dev
a.k.a. boB Rudis • 🇺🇦 Pampa • Don't look at me…I do what he does—just slower. #rstats #javascript #datascience avuncular•👨‍🍳•✝️• 💤• Varaforseti í Gögn Vísindi @ @GreyNoise-Intelligence
Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi
@paolobacigalupi.bsky.social
Author of the forthcoming NAVOLA (Knopf, July 2024)

Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy Award winner. Micheal L Printz Award winner. National Book Award finalist.

Wrote THE WINDUP GIRL, THE WATER KNIFE, and SHIP BREAKER, among others.

http://windupstories.com.
Micah
Micah
@rincewind.run
Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him.

Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild

PFP by @atlastalos.bsky.social

discord: xel42 (mutuals only)