Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews
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A few people who I follow and read routinely that understand the unique threat we are faced with from the far right and others.
@leftliblucy.bsky.social
Radical liberal, world federalist, lesbian zoomer. Big fan of worldbuilding, alt-hist and shitposting (see rest of bio). Palingenetic ultraglobalist. Saint-Just Democrat. Kemalist with American characteristics. Keep the immigrants, deport the xenophobes.
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on media, information/the web, and the humans at the center of it all. Send tips (please!) by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
@decassette.bsky.social
art; yet again. SORRY ABOUT THE EMAILS it's a lot & I'm v tired. not available for work rn. buy things/other socials: https://linktr.ee/turndecassette
@swopbehindbars.bsky.social
Sex Worker Community Support Line - 1-877-776-2004 - Chat for support on our website at www.swopbehindbars.org We create Community from the Inside Out!
@drmelmcbride.bsky.social
Researching the affordances of specialized environments, materials, & tools for tacit, physically embodied, multimodal, learning in contexts of skilled practice. Distance runner. Mostly outside. Waiting for locked accounts Closed network = randos blocked.
@newsguy.bsky.social
Personal/unofficial account of VOA's chief national correspondent. Author: ‘Behind the White House Curtain.’ Board member: National Press Club, @juristnews.bsky.social; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7VOA on ham radio. Adjunct asst. professor, Shenandoah Univ.
@purserhallard.com
Philip Purser-Hallard writes stuff -- most recently Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere. Posting about writing, TV, SF, Doctor Who, politics, language, crosswords, things I like, things I'm interested in, things.
@calebw.bsky.social
Social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy. Book project: The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde Postdoc at Uni Hamburg Photo by Frank Ward, 1999 https://www.calebward.xyz/
@mostestghostess.bsky.social
oh, am I being weird? | artist, obsessive, granger taylor truther | if genAI has no haters left then that means I've left this earth | she/her 🏳️🌈 instagram.com/crossandbedeviled
@courtneymilan.com
She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm. This biography should not be taken as a complete description. courtneymilan.com
@bluejay.tv
professional cutie ✿ tabletop RPGs, cosplay, fantasy fashion/styling ✿ twit @bluejayonx insta @bluejay || she/her 💙💜💖 ✿ linktr.ee/bluejay712 || alt @bluejayirl.bsky.social
@sgoodyear.bsky.social
Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
@francescadnunz.bsky.social
Texas Observer investigative reporter covering the US-Mexico borderlands, immigration, AI-powered surveillance tech, + extremism. chatty polyglot 🗣 FOIA gremlin 🧾 📩 dannunzio@texasobserver.org https://linktr.ee/FrancescaDnunz
@theanarchistturtle.bsky.social
anarchist trans woman that pretends to be a turtle online. I also occasionally track down fascists and cops. not a democrat. she/they/it
@aurinmpls.bsky.social
Personal account. Minneapolis City Council Member - 12th Ward. Hyper-local chatterbox, Pro-labor, Fmr Policy Aide, First-generation Bengali-American.
@thomasbirm.bsky.social
Y23, He/Him | Someone once said I’m naturally anti-dogmatic. Housing is a human right. Currently @thenation.com. Previously @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social and more!
@cathoderituals.bsky.social
pdx anarchist, antifascist, hater of cops, tired as fuck, letterboxd addict (they/them)
@mauratwit.bsky.social
Umbraphile. Vaccine enthusiast. Minneapolis. Interested in police abolition, MPS and mutual aid. She/her. Trans rights are human rights. Xer Mom to 2 teens. Free Palestine. Bluesky joiner #442,075 Posting my way through it.
@historianjenfl.bsky.social
Southern historian and political scientist. I mostly post about politics on here and sometimes complain about Orlando traffic.
@onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Foreign Affairs Journalist | Former UN Diplomat | Real-time #ACTUALNEWS 🇺🇸 & 🌎 News Briefing (M, W, F) 🇨🇦 Weekly Recap (SAT) ☀️ SUN Edition - NO politics 📧: www.onestnetwork.com/newsletter WATCH Weekly Recap (SUN 8p ET): https://youtube.com/@onestnetwork
@rileybruce.bsky.social
I make photos and video professionally. Reach out if you’d like something made. 🏠- South Minneapolis, MN More work and printshop: linktr.ee/riley_the_bruce he/they • Skeets are my own
@ryancordell.org
he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—suspected mechanical paragraphist—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director of @skeuomorphpress.org
@skeuomorphpress.org
An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
@dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20. I am, ashamedly, a curator now too Digital Curator @ National Museum of AfAm History and Culture but all opinions my own, not my employer's www.dorothy-berry.com
@theweind.bsky.social
She/her. Expat. Michigander. Northerner. Wirralian. Cat Mum. Green. Gardener. Hedge Witch. Erstwhile MeFite. No Tories, No TERFs. No MAGA. Will make a fuss of your pet pics, and compliment your outfit. I instantly block chuds, so don’t bother.
@mtruscello.bsky.social
anarchist, prof. He/him. Work on Treaty 7 territory, Hellberta. www.michaeltruscello.com #horror #anarchism Free PDF of my book, Infrastructural Brutalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4884/Infrastructural-BrutalismArt-and-the-Necropolitics
@davemilbo.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, guy that says stuff (about stuff). Editor of The Shot. Anti-genocide. Special envoy for social discontent.
@brionykidd.bsky.social
Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer. Coach for artists & ADHDers. Against fascism, corporate rule & cynicism. For old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels. Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
@docsirianni.bsky.social
Biomedical Engineer, Professor & Vice Chair of Research for Neurosurgery, UMass Chan Medical School. Treating pediatric brain tumors and neurodegenerative disease via all things nanomedicine and the subarachnoid space. *opinions are my own
@weareoversight.bsky.social
We're a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that advances truth, accountability, and democracy by enforcing the public's right to government records.
@wylder.bsky.social
43 🏳️⚧️ he/them Disabled, Artist, Writer, Witch Masking covid-realist 💜: Star Trek, Libraries, Community, HopePunk, Accessibility 💸🔗 linktr.ee/wylder 🌠📝: linktr.ee/wyldwish Profile Alt Text Banner: Lower Decks Animated Quark's Sign Pic: white enby doing 🖖😏
@haqistan.net
Anti-Zionist Mexican Jew 🇵🇸 ☭ | #BLM #EZLN #LandBack 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ rights are 🧑🏻 rights | 🌿🌴🎸🐶🐈⌨️🏴☠️ 🕸️ haqistan.net | 🐘 hachyderm.io/@haqistan Please follow @DogsOfCelestun.bsky.social Interested in offline search & online chaos
@scottjshapiro.bsky.social
Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. Content creator. Author, “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing"
@mssemicolon.bsky.social
Editor of a higher-ed magazine. Loves: science, words, live music. When in doubt, delete it.
@audhd-psychnp.com
TW: I curse a lot & post adult themes (including suicide & abuse) Practicing psych APRN w/ a decade in psych, previously specialized in severe persistent mental illness. Now providing evals for ASD. Personal account. Angry. Fuck around and find out. 🫶🏻
@punkwithacamera.bsky.social
28. Film & Merchandise Creator. Merch Babe & Tour Manager For Hire. HTX Screen Printing / Small Biz. Est. 2014 DIY Or DIE.
@bbwolfevox.com
Professionally queer Korean voice and on-camera actress. bb@bbwolfevox.com 💚she/her💚ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ ➡️ bbwolfevox.com ⬅️ or twitch.tv/bbwolfe for unbridled irreverence (M-F, 6CT)
@sannl04.bsky.social
Educator, educational policy, longtime news consumer andcommenter, Hoosier (not an Indianan), and fan of the disposition of my avi pup (now old, but still bold companion.)
@toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social
He/Him. Raised in Oathkeepers and the Militia Right, rural Montana delegate to the crash and burn DNC of '24 and (doomed) state legislature candidate on top of it. Sometimes a writer, becoming a local troublemaker, subject of a documentary, Aquarius ♒️.
@aprilglick.bsky.social
union gal, progressive comms pro, wife+toddler mom, swiftie⸆⸉, Mets 🧡💙, tennis obsessive, etc., recovering actor + bartender. views mine! https://ko-fi.com/aprilglick 📍 NY/New England 🏔️🏙️ @citizenactionny.bsky.social
@lrshedupodcast.bsky.social
EDU podcast that believes education is the backbone of a cooperative & compassionate society - that's why we fight to empower those who work & learn in schools. https://littleredschoolhouse.libsyn.com/
@aheise.bsky.social
Community college instructor - I teach micro to future healthcare people especially nurses. Also curious about astronomy, geology, museums, art, funny things.