August, like the month
Came for the books and sciency stuff.
Stayed for the doomscrolling.
@techwontsave.us
A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com. https://techwontsave.us/
@legal.reuters.com
@ninajankowicz.com
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
@sickofwolves.bsky.social
COFFEE LOVER. GRAPHIC DESIGNER. DEFINITELY NOT A WOLF PRETENDING TO BE A MAN
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocket
@duve727.bsky.social
childless cat lady and nonprofits pro in Chicago who taught university English for 17 years and waited tables for 8
@gilduran.com
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, meta narratives, network state, crypto cartels. Writes: The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com FrameLab: http://www.theframelab.org “Don't judge a taco by its price.”
@coralineada.bsky.social
Internationally recognized tech ethicist, software engineer, & open source troublemaker. Author, "We Just Build Hammers". Creator, Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License. Co-Founder, Organization for Ethical Source. Chair, Governance Futures Network.
@peterclines.bsky.social
NYT bestselling maker-upper of things. Still making things up. Still getting paid for it. No, it doesn't make sense to me, either. Former film guy. Toy enthusiast. he/him
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
@knightcolumbia.org
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education. https://knightcolumbia.org/
@randomhorror9.bsky.social
Making horror films approachable, one movie at a time, in a random order. New podcast eps every Tues. Hosted by @happierman.bsky.social & @cecilbaldwiniii.bsky.social of Welcome to Night Vale
@gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks. For more information, visit our website at: https://www.gutenberg.org/
@adambecker.bsky.social
Author, journalist, astrophysicist. He/him. @FreelanceAstro on the bird site. New book out now: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about horrifying and implausible futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in NPR, NYT, BBC, SciAm, Quanta, and more.
@premeemohamed.com
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Hugo, BSFA, BFA, Locus, Crawford award finalist. 📚🪲 Rep: Michael Curry. www.premeemohamed.com
@recordsdepartment.bsky.social
A different kind of record shop on the Historic Woodstock Square.
@bucketoblood.bsky.social
New and used vinyl, books, movies, comics. Heavy metal, punk, horror, sci-fi, and more. Open 10 to 8 daily. 3182 N Elston Ave Chicago
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@mathworks.bsky.social
Makers of #MATLAB & #Simulink. Accelerating the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in engineering and science. mathworks.com
@wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social
For young readers and the young at heart. We're the independent children's and young adult bookstore with a little purple door. Posts mostly by Rumpian Timothy. Est. 1992 Minneapolis, MN, USA https://linktr.ee/wildrumpus
@tuesdayaddams.bsky.social
@xkcd.com
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to three cats: Ariel, Caliban, and Puck. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
@luciegreen.bsky.social
Physics Prof at UCL. Sun & space. Vice pesident @popastro. Book: http://amzn.to/2nitfmi
@citizenlab.ca
Research and development at the intersection of cyberspace, global security, and human rights. Based at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.
@rondeibert.bsky.social
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@twincitiesgeek.com
Minnesota's geek culture magazine: by MN geeks, for MN geeks. @ us your questions for the MN hive mind! Web: twincitiesgeek.com Write or edit for us: twincitiesgeek.com/write Connect: twincitiesgeek.com/groups Mastodon: @twincitiesgeek@mspsocial.net
@boneshakerbooks.bsky.social
volunteer-run radical bookstore in mpls boneshakerbooks.com bookshop.org/shop/boneshaker open Mon/Tues/Weds. 2–8pm, Thurs 2–7pm, and Fri/Sat/Sun 11am–5pm
@freedom.press
Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century. Subscribe to our ne🦋sletters: https://freedom.press/newsletters/ Staff, board members: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/freedom.press/3lbkk5aha5l22 More: linktr.ee/freedomofpress
@fightforthefuture.org
Digital rights are human rights. There's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core. https://www.fightforthefuture.org
@evangreer.bsky.social
Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. Last album "Spotify is Surveillance" out now on Don Giovanni Records and Get Better Records. she/her/they/them
@puri.sm.web.brid.gy
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy, freedom, and security [bridged from https://puri.sm/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/puri.sm ]
@grapheneos.org
Open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility. https://grapheneos.org/
@witnessblower.net
Living Life Outside of Pandora’s ‘Deep State’ Box. Defending Inalienable Rights. Abhor Authoritarianism & Abuse of Power. Incongruent Divergent. NatSec Whistleblower on Gov’t Violations of Law & Public Trust. Nurturing New Seeds of Democracy & Freedom. 🌱
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@profmmurray.bsky.social
Stokes Prof. of Law @NYULaw; Faculty Dir. @bwlc_nyu; co-host @StrictScrutiny_ pod; talking head @MSNBC; @NYTimes bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
@leahlitman.bsky.social
Michigan Law Prof. Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast LAWLESS - out May 13 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
@petergs.bsky.social
@alexwhite.bsky.social
Novelist: The Salvagers Trilogy, The Starmetal Symphony, Every Mountain Made Low, Alien and Star Trek Games: Alien: Rogue Incursion and [CLASSIFIED] I make blades on an anvil and music on synthesizers. She/They, y'all!
@davidpepperoh.bsky.social
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/
@nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
cyber raconteur | author THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS | former @nytimes | now betting on heroes @ Silver Buckshot Ventures + Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures.
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
@symmetrymagazine.org
Hear the latest news, meet the people behind the science, and get the background you need to better understand the language of particle physics: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/