Rachel Coldicutt
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen.
https://carefultrouble.net
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
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Internet Culture and Other Stuff
Some people who are thinking and writing about and making Internet culture - with a slight bias towards some less followed favourites
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@virdev.bsky.social
Leading the content over revolution with Docs. An open source Notion alternative (w/out the dbs)
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@stephiec.bsky.social
Twitter escapee (@eseesea). Social change leadership, connect, collaborate @ywccommunity @socialleadersne @theRSAorg fellow. Feminist. Gone not forgotten Sharing Learning Doing, Good Space/Broadacre House [UK]
@mims.bsky.social
WSJ tech columnist. Dog person. Author of Arriving Today, an unfortunately timely book about the global system of trade we're currently flushing down the toilet: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims
@therestartproject.org
Fixing our relationship with electronics. Pro #RighttoRepair. Founding member of @r2reurope.bsky.social https://therestartproject.org/
@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.”
@keyne-unable.bsky.social
Folk devil ¦ wonkish agitator for climate @Transition-Network and trans lib @TransActualUK ¦ probably touching grass instead of being here ¦ does other things but don't worry about it ¦ views not mine either ¦ pronounced like cane ¦ they/them
@ethanmarcotte.com
designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/ hi friend
@jrmdns.bsky.social
electrical native - prof #sociology & #sts - director of the center for the sociology of innovation (mines paris) New books in 2025: The Care of things (Polity) // Fragilities (MIT Press) Interested in #maintenance #architecture #data #datalabor #city
@juddlegum.bsky.social
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47 | Text: 202-599-7124 Popular.info
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@ericajanemp.bsky.social
Feminist atheist pelagic-brained handwaver It depends / context matters / look for the helpers / find my simple / trust the process Current state: fucking hell, tho
@sandertordoir.bsky.social
Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
@writearthur.bsky.social
Friendly reminders about spooky technologies. Words in Wired, The Economist, The Atlantic, and others. Author of “Eyes in the Sky”
@nabiha.bsky.social
Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation Mama to Musa and Ibi Definitely have cookies in my purse
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
@audree.bsky.social
Was @avfletcher | Director @publicdigitalhq | exChiefDigitalOfficer @tradegovuk & ServiceDirector @ukhsa | Digital Transformation and Strategic Design Leader | Anti-anti-wokeness. |
@openvibe.social
The App for Connecting Open Social Web Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed ✨ https://openvibe.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Because Science is for everyone! 🧪🌎 Learn more ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/standupforscience2025 👯sister org: @sciforgood.bsky.social
@chrischirp.bsky.social
Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal.
@joolia.bsky.social
senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
@calebscoville.bsky.social
sociology prof @Tufts and 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
@cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
🦖 Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (charity no. 1165231) Since 2013, promoting the long-term conservation of the Victorian palaeontological statues and the larger Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park 📧 info@cpdinosaurs.org https://linktr.ee/
@okwonga.bsky.social
In between daydreaming in cafés and on trains, I write books, I talk about football, and I teach in schools. Blog: https://okwonga.substack.com Books: https://www.musaokwonga.com Poems: https://www.instagram.com/okwonga/ Podcast: https://stadio.football/
@slackmistress.bsky.social
TV writer. Writer writer. Penned the Lizzie McG bra episode. Author of The Crone Zone for @quirkbooks.bsky.social (Fall ‘25). Liz Taylor of the Midwest.
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@blairaf.com
Researcher, educator, creative @ UToronto Transfeminist AI ethics, policy, governance: blairaf.com Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
@profafinlayson.bsky.social
Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
@philtinline.bsky.social
Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times' Politics Book of 2022) GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("eye-popping" - Daily Telegraph) https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain Last on Radio 4: Ronald vs Donald https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00274r
@jdcmedlock.bsky.social
More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
@cullenhendrix.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute, Contributing Author, #NCA6. Sustainability, security, and political economy. Heart masquerading as head since 1977. You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.
@garvanwalshe.org
Civic entrepreneur building tech for democrats of all parties and none at Article7.eu. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy.
@paulbernal.bsky.social
Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Politics. Wolves. Irish and British.
@vincerai.bsky.social
Good liver. Half an author. Too cool for school. But also too old. https://linktr.ee/vincentraison
@chadloder.bsky.social
Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
@christinecrafter.bsky.social
I’m a woman who stammers. I love to raise awareness of stammering #ItsHowITalk I’m a crafter and I’m into design, books and theatre
@tanjabueltmann.net
Professor University of Strathclyde | migration & diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
@b-cavello.bsky.social
activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world @b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town avatar description: Portrait of B against colorful background banner description: Collage of creative commons illustrations
@ebharrington.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words @washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian. All at brookeharrington.com
@uxmichael.co
🇺🇬 🇬🇧 design researcher // 📨 writes First & Fifteenth // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // https://linktr.ee/uxmichaelco
@dmk1793.bsky.social
Historian, think tank researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social