Historical Name of the Day
The best genuine names I unearth on the job, trawling the dusty underbelly of historical databases.
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
@mayadeane.bsky.social
mayadeane.com. I wrote Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that drags other books behind its chariot and boasts about it.
@shaneharris.bsky.social
Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris @washingtonpost alum. Signal: shaneharris.64
@wafflepartyplanner.bsky.social
📍The tallest waterfall on the planet! 🕺🏽Manager of Choreography and Merriment 🇨🇦My outie is a Canadian academic 💪Liberal/NDP/Green #elbowsup
@jbroome.bsky.social
@katherinesacks.bsky.social
Health Economics @ the Milken Institute || all opinions = mine
@catsofyore.bsky.social
Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Fergus and Francie. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908. Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
@stephenfry.bsky.social
Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
@janeespenson.bsky.social
TV Writer: Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls, The OC, Once Upon a Time, Foundation, Fallout season 2...
@eff.org
We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at https://eff.org/social. https://eff.org
@kenjennings.bsky.social
Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of 100 PLACES TO SEE AFTER YOU DIE (bit.ly/3kLgJKO) and a bunch of other stuff. OMNIBUS co-founder (patreon.com/omnibusproject).
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@dril.bsky.social
Never Bullshit I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate . https://www.patreon.com/dril https://www.instagram.com/dril_real https://linktr.ee/drilreal
@fishtopher.bsky.social
FIV+ internet cat 🐟animal rescue fan 🐠 spay and neuter your pets https://linktr.ee/fishtopher
@andyrichter.co
I’m here now. Listen to my podcast https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter Or the Andy Richter Call In Show on Sirius XM https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn1XQMtQTx8JVuafOOEWBkdqDUHPXlX4KShxmuMSgwGt3pkQ/viewform?pli=1
@milesklee.bsky.social
New Jersey ain’t the whole world https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/