Luis Villa
Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Current: Sonarsource, Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), California Housing Defense, 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Mozilla, 305
Also: https://lu.is and https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
Starter Packs
Created by Luis Villa (1)
CA pro-housing starter pack
Folks who are interested in housing abundance, mostly in/around California.
@d9neighbors.bsky.social
We champion the creation of more housing in Bernal Heights, the Mission, the Portola, and St. Mary’s Park—the neighborhoods we call home. Find out how you can join us: https://www.d9neighbors.com/
@nathalievanraemdonck.com
Social media networks and social norms, PhD student at Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science. I think about identity, stigma, race, and politics more than any normal person should. Lover of life. Pro-democracy. People should dance more. Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823
@mhansen.bsky.social
bay lifer and bike nerd // transit technology planner @ Muni // UCLA MURP 2020
@richardfontana.bsky.social
Product/technology lawyer at Red Hat with interests in free software/open source, open-ish machine learning, and other nontrad IP. Originally from Brooklyn. Currently more often at https://mastodon.social/@richardfontana.
@caseusvelox.bsky.social
@andrewtorrez.bsky.social
HLS '97, ex-BigLaw Practicing lawyer and cohost of the @lawandchaospod.bsky.social podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social READ MY STUFF! lawandchaospod.com LISTEN TO MY STUFF! patreon.com/lawandchaospod he/him
@knowtheory.net
Distributed social networking nerd. Co-organizer for #ATmosphereConf & ATproto Community Fund; Product person. Scifi nerd. Grew DocumentCloud. Made Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
@divingwithorcas.bsky.social
Computer Science PhD student at UChicago | Member of the Chicago Human+AI lab @chicagohai.bsky.social
@wmcgeveran.bsky.social
Dean, University of Minnesota Law School. Legal education, data privacy/IP/tech law, preservation of democracy. All opinions are just my own.
@jessjenk.bsky.social
@thestorygraph.com
An app for you to track your reading and choose your next book. Founded by @nodunayo.bsky.social. Built by her and @robfrelow.bsky.social. support@thestorygraph.com
@robfrelow.bsky.social
I'm an All-American athlete, living a Middle American life. Blender, personal finance, tech, and machine learning. Co-founder TheStoryGraph.
@andrewbridges.bsky.social
Retired lawyer, Philhellene, wannabe philosopher but still just a philotheamon. SF Bay Area, Greece (Μεσσηνία), Michigan. Interested in the Rule of Justice, FoE, disestablishment, Mediterranean cultures and history, and defeating the Confederacy.
@jennyschuetz.bsky.social
Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
@vvong.bsky.social
California and Ontario lawyer, based in Toronto. Expect posts about the law and Canada.
@abenewman.bsky.social
W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
@drkalyncoghill.bsky.social
Scholar•Activist•Storyteller Protecting Black Womxn and Girls always in ALL ways. Hoodrat Scholarship™️🧠 Community Moderator @blacksky.app 1922🐩 804 ALL DAY. www.kalyncoghill.com/links
@bgeisinger.bsky.social
basketball analyst/dork, art museum loiterer, look up at the trees read all about it: https://briangeisinger.substack.com/ Buzz Beat Charlotte Hornets podcast: https://shorturl.at/sajhV
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
@amuuueller.bsky.social
Postdoc at Northeastern and incoming Asst. Prof. at Boston U. Working on NLP, interpretability, causality. Previously: JHU, Meta, AWS
@johngasaway.bsky.social
Writer: johngasaway.substack.com (it's free!) Author Election of 1840 revisionist Taught basketball analytics
@listifications.app
Follow me to receive notifications via DM whenever you're added to a starter pack, block list, feed or when someone blocks your account. Follow @unsub.blocks.listifications.app to opt out of direct block notifications. Created by @dom96.picheta.me
@ajescoffery.bsky.social
professor @ Northwestern visiting scholar @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards Media and Data Equity Lab: http://madelab.org researching & developing social media/tech, film, TV & intersectionality Reparative Media on MIT Press Fall 2025
@payravi.dev
(he/him) I like tech, wikis, & knowledge equity. Follow me on the fediverse: https://payravi.xyz/@kevin Website: https://kevin.payravi.dev
@aeschright.bsky.social
Writer, musician, community organizer, software engineer | they/she 🏳️⚧️ Weekly news and analysis - https://www.patreon.com/news_not_doom Disaster prep and more - https://lifeofaudrey.com Music - https://audrey-eee.bandcamp.com
@internetarchive.eu
Internet Archive Europe, a Dutch non-profit research library, is building collections and tools to bring them to life. Working with libraries, museums, and archives, we share these tools and collections to further everyone’s services.
@jelaniya.bsky.social
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
@abartov.bsky.social
Founder of Project Ben-Yehuda. Wikipedia volunteer. Free software developer. Lapsed classicist. Literary editor. Lead program officer at Wikimedia Foundation.
@heatherburnstech.bsky.social
UK + EU tech policy / tech regulation / digital rights / human rights / internet governance / good trouble / extra mature MSc student @ Strathclyde / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work / 🇺🇦 Keep the drama on my X account, please
@california-hcd.bsky.social
Our Mission: Promote safe, affordable homes and vibrant, inclusive, sustainable communities for all Californians.
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov
California's Attorney General. Standing up for all Californians and fighting injustices as the People's Attorney. Official Bluesky account.
@emmakidwell.bsky.social
Award-nominated writer at Firaxis | Opinions are my own | Narrative for Hindsight | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/
@codefreedomritr.bsky.social
Sometimes I do things. https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/safe-skies-api https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/SAFEskies
@bobcalhoun.bsky.social
Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com
@rodger.bsky.social
Sports traveler and sports writer Available for freelance/dumb ideas
@olu.online
web dev | writer | "content" creator | mad/disabled | queer | https://social.gfsc.studio/@oluOnline | https://www.instagram.com/oluoluoxenfree/ | https://olu.online | https://notes.olu.online/ | https://www.youtube.com/@oluOnline | they/them | join a union
@davidgunkel.bsky.social
Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
@gbsohn.bsky.social
Telecom, media and technology policy. Many hats. Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, American Association for Public Broadband, Georgetown Law School, G Squared Strategies. Find me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gigisohn/
@aidan.skinner.me.uk
Open Source Open Rights Open Banking Open Labour Open Minds Open Containers. Open's a verb GNU/Accelerationist Dusty black coat red right hand (He/Him)
@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
@braitsch.bsky.social
Activist / Data Analyst / Designer & Engineer Creator of https://transpomaps.org & many other things. https://beacons.ai/braitsch
@are0h.bsky.social
Creative, Founder, Chaotic good https://roiskinda.cool https://h-i.works https://h-i.social/@are0h
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.