Starter Packs
Created by Emily Liu (5)
1A Advocacy Orgs
orgs that signed: https://demandprogresseducationfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-Letter-to-US-Attorney-for-DC-on-Prosecution-Threats-Against-DOGE-Critics-Updated-2025-02-05.pdf
The Big Interview Starter Pack
Speakers, journalists, and attendees at WIRED's The Big Interview
XOXO Fest
XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online. Join the conversation! Full list of attendees (who opted in): https://bsky.app/profile/emilyliu.me/lists/3l26wyhsz4224
Bluesky for Journalists
Recommended feeds and users for journalists / news! 🗞️
@rparloff.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Lawfare. Ex-Fortune staff. Published in ProPublica, NYT, New York, New Yorker, Yahoo Finance, Air Mail, etc. Practiced law a long time ago.
@aviva.gay
20, she if I like all your posts really fast I'm back reading the mutuals feed 🔗 https://aviva.gay/ just a lil creature but not in the way you think
@ens0.me
💡 writer & engineer 🦆 tech lead @smol.farm 📚 author xorientation.com 🎮 gamer https://smol.quest/u/ens0 🌸 zen existentialist 🍑 metro ATL website: ens0.me socials: ens0.link
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@agomezfcc.bsky.social
@alexreevegivens.bsky.social
CEO at Center for Democracy & Technology, fighting to protect people’s rights & our democracy in the digital age. Proud daughter & Board Member at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
@lakshya.splitticket.org
software + ai engineer. cal alum + instructor. I do elections stuff at Split Ticket (https://www.split-ticket.org) ✉️ lakshya@splitticket.org
@konklone.com
Proud 18F alum. Former tech policy at the White House, led product security for Chrome, rebooted FedRAMP, and opened the government at the Sunlight Foundation.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
reporter @ WIRED covering the politics and power influencing the internet DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32 FAQ, Instagram, TikTok, & everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
@acslaw.bsky.social
ACS is the foremost progressive legal organization in the country with over 200 student and lawyer chapters nationwide. Join us! www.acslaw.org/join
@weisenthal.bsky.social
Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
@jordanschneider.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://chinatalk.media join 40k readers Podcast: http://link.chtbl.com/chinatalk Fellow: @cnasdc
@tk.gg
Product at @financialtimes.com @MattieTK on the bird app, tk.gg elsewhere. Full stack news nerd. Builder of vidgrid.tk.gg and @project-push.tk.gg
@ryanpitts.bsky.social
Journalist, coder, community developer. From Spokane. 2025 JSK Fellow at Stanford. “I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, … who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.”
@koltai.bsky.social
Senior researcher & Trainer @Bellingcat.com Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT "I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
@zidan.bsky.social
Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism. Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine. Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us. @zidanism on that other site.
@bart.gov
This is the official account for BART. We provide train service throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and connect people to places they love. For automated service updates go to @alerts.bart.gov Visit us at bart.gov 🚇💙
@martinstabe.ft.com
Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. Currently at #ijf25 #ddj #dataviz
@miasato.bsky.social
reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
@mrnuma.bsky.social
Designer @bsky.app ✏️ aka Mr. Numa🔥 Product, XR, Motion, 3D Appreciator of beautiful things On a side quest to find the perfect salad 🥗 darrinloeliger.com
@amyxlu.bsky.social
CS PhD Student at UC Berkeley & AI for drug discovery at Prescient Design 🇨🇦
@heidikitrosser.bsky.social
Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
@prmalone.bsky.social
Law prof, IP & innovation clinic director. Dad, husband, rescue dog lover, native New Mexican. Interests and clinic practice focus on IP, innovation, AI regulation, online speech, antitrust, privacy and more. Personal account -- all views my own.
@fadahjassem.bsky.social
Head of Data Visualisation @TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi #Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists) (Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
@franceslorenz.bsky.social
Claude says I process my emotions externally. I am interested in events, effective altruism, and gabbing with the girlies (all-inclusive). I also work on the EA Global team @ CEA.
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and the forthcoming SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
@caltrain.com
Welcome to the Official Bluesky account for Caltrain. We provide news, info & answers. 🚂
@xiranjayzhao.bsky.social
#1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
@annabower.bsky.social
Just asking questions. Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org. Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org Signal username: annabower.24
@nrmarda.bsky.social
Doing AI shenanigans at Mozilla, previously did tech policy in the Biden White House OSTP
@paulgp.com
Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his
@bedoyaftc.bsky.social
Official account of FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya. ***Commissioner Bedoya will never ask you for personal or bank information, or for a money transfer.***
@sahilchinoy.bsky.social
harvard econ phd -> yale postdoc -> stanford asst prof of political science
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and Jan. 6
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov
California's Attorney General. Standing up for all Californians and fighting injustices as the People's Attorney. Official Bluesky account.
@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.”
@werd.io
I lead technology at ProPublica, write speculative fiction, and blog every day at https://werd.io.
@billadair.com
Professor at Duke; founder of PolitiFact; author of Beyond the Big Lie; fan of facts. billadair.com
@wired.com
At wired.com where tomorrow is realized || Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters Find our WIRED journalists here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/couts.bsky.social/3l6vez3xaus27
@davidenrich.bsky.social
Investigations @nytimes.com New book: MURDER THE TRUTH: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful https://www.harpercollins.com/products/murder-the-truth-david-enrich 📬 david.enrich@nytimes.com Signal: @enrich.07
@skyseed.fund
Pre-seed, seed, and development grants for projects in the AT Protocol ecosystem. Founded by @wang.social
@evystadium.bsky.social
鄺文詠 | @wired.com and evelyn_kwong@wired.com | ex-vice news lol | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN