Writers, musicians & odd folk who are good company
This is a list of people who are great follows and who all (I think) currently have less than 2K followers, so they might be new to you!
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@andreapitzer.bsky.social
@stlenox.bsky.social
"Choi’s voice is one of the most striking instruments in music today" - Stereogum Listen to: Ten Modern American Work Songs Profile in Rolling Stone: http://bit.ly/stlenoxRS Linktree: https://linktr.ee/stlenox
@bonenberger.bsky.social
Writer Editor Local politician (Branford, Connecticut) Army veteran Honorary "top 1% Altmetric author" (not tied to scientific publication) Runs the @wrath-bearing-tree.bsky.social account here
@bartona104.bsky.social
Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/
@philipchristman.bsky.social
pretty good essayist. philipchristman.substack.com. buy my books here (https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914)
@rerbelding.bsky.social
Historian of American responses to the Holocaust, author of "Rescue Board" (Doubleday, 2018). Love cats, books, TV, travel, teachers, fighting for a better world. Opinions mine.
@danvergano.bsky.social
Senior Opinion Editor and columnist at Scientific American. - Views expressed in anything I post are my own. They have not been reviewed or approved by Springer Nature. They are my personal opinion. - RT's are not endorsements.
@sveng.bsky.social
Works in healthcare comms. Into cities, music, futbol, food, native plants. Hates fascism, AI. aka Treelock Detroit, Earth. https://8woodblog.com
@waitmanwbeorn.com
Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him Host of The Holocaust History Podcast TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers Psalm 109: 7-18
@brianralexander.bsky.social
Books: Glass House, The Hospital, TK Purgatory of Profit. http://BrianRAlexander.com. Past: Atlantic/Wired/Outside/Washington Monthly/MIT Tech Review/Janitor/Gas Station Attendant/Lifeguard. Speaking: BrightSight. Surf. Cocktails. Old movies.
@brianthill.bsky.social
Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD from UCI | Writer @ The Atlantic, Guardian, Salon, UMinn Press &c. | Just finished writing a novel; now writing a better one
@thephatic.bsky.social
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
@robertloerzel.bsky.social
Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
@ykomska.bsky.social
writer & German Studies prof w/ a heart in Eastern Europe 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2025: Art & Politics of the High Wire • next: where Curious George came from; future of stained glass in the age of disaster • brooch enthusiast • 🐰,🍄,🪡
@bokane.org
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming and Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644. http://www.burninghou.se
@danziger.bsky.social
OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
@ssacks.bsky.social
Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
@eliseblackwell.bsky.social
Novelist interested in arts, sciences, curiosities. Also: professor and host of The Open Book. (eliseblackwell.com)
@kalenski.bsky.social
Zone 6a. Book Babe Extraordinaire. Old skool Denver. Queen of food allergies. Her indoors. Nuggets. Jazz (the music not the team.) Pottymouth. I talk about books. Vaccinated. "Always insightful...." —Kyle Clark
@kathygori.bsky.social
Screenwriter, ADHD, Indian cook, Sat morning Cartoon voice, Lifelong Dem, Uklulelist, Clio winner, Los Angeles radio veteran, film dubber, 2xcancer survivor, dog lover, also everywhere as kathygori My cooking substack: https://kathygori.substack.com
@shannonfego.bsky.social
Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball(Bucs), and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.
@jenhoward.bsky.social
Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her. Signal: jenhoward.16 Newsletter: https://jenniferhoward.substack.com/
@gnostichippie.bsky.social
day shift nurse. recovering CVICU. go 🍁. staunchly anti-kidney. former Poster. war thunder forum leaker. he him
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. In Nashville. Wrote a book-and-a-half on Belfast & one on the Kinks. Latest is John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday
@redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account I talk about pens. 🖋️
@jonathanslaght.com
RegionalDirector, Temperate Asia, WCS (China/Mongolia/Russia/CentAsia/Afghanistan). Wrote Owls of the Eastern Ice (FSG, 2020): Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PENAmerica winner, Nat.BookAward longlist. New book: TIGERS (11/25). Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
@rahawahaile.bsky.social
Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. In Open Country forthcoming. Oakland, CA | she/her https://www.rahawahaile.com/
@hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Haleakala Observatory/NASA T4 Laser Ranging Project (skeets/opinions mine) Photographer/Astrophotographer, birder, conservationist, SCUBA diver, Zen philosopher-idiot. Shoots a big laser at satellites for a living. : ) https://www.myhawaiianimages.com
@petefrasermusic.bsky.social
London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm. “One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
@avashianeema.bsky.social
Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@johnlingan.bsky.social
Writer. "Homeplace," about Patsy Cline's hometown. "A Song for Everyone," about CCR. "BACKBEATS: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers" is out on 11/11/25. johnlingan.com
@evaholland.bsky.social
Yukoner * freelance writer * book author * devoted servant to a retired sled dog
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
Books! Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and a Nabokov bio. Former painter, translator, karateka, and record store clerk. Subscribe to my newsletter and podcast: www.andreapitzer.com