Badbeard's Bluesky Allstars
Just wanted to compile a list of all the legends who I discovered here and made this a nice place to be when there were still only a few hundred thousand of us. Bluesky will change but I remember the folks who made it great for me.
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@badbeard.bsky.social
@garius.bsky.social
He/Him. Author. Historian (inc of obscure Military Holy Orders). Strategy streamer. Tech/Transport Strategist. Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
@malaclypse.bsky.social
A hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ex Sociology adjunct turned Accounting nerd. North of Boston, near witches. Born into a 321 PPM world. He/Him. Aurë entuluva.
@suw.bsky.social
Writer, activist, owned by Grabbity & Copurrnicus. Join me over on Substack at suwca.substack.com where I talk about the art of not writing, and wordcounting.substack.com where I share writing links and news.
@belledejour.bsky.social
It's a woman wearing a papier-mâché mask of Bernard Natan
@criminalerin.bsky.social
This is a Twin Peaks stan and police hating account and reconciling that contradiction is your own problem. She/guy
@threnody.bsky.social
fiction writer • roommate to 3 cats with surprisingly rich interior lives • parmesan cheese enthusiast recent stories: hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride month reading list
@kathryntewson.bsky.social
Good in a crisis and at no other time First initial last name at gmail dot com Signal:@KathrynTewson.06
@mommunism.bsky.social
Curly hair enthusiast, ☭, mom, abortion aficionado, misplaced Kentuckian, Berliner, Colonel Sanders chronicler, recovering lawyer, contributing writer @therealnews.com Social Media etc for @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social Always Antifascist
@hayao.lol
Your old pal, Catbus from Online shitposts, shoegaze, cinema ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢᵗᵘᶠᶠ 🌶️Lao Gan Ma Army🌶️
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era. this is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here. ngl.link/armageddon1312 don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
@rahaeli.bsky.social
Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
@nameshiv.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net.
@katie.bzky.team
i'm the most RESPECTFUL transsexual journalist in the world @khronos.world tightpussy.shop she/her people i've turned trans: 234
@artofcoop.bsky.social
Artist, photographer, altruistic pervert, old ATX - no TERFs, no SWERFs, no A.I. https://linktr.ee/artofcoop Photo account: https://bsky.app/profile/photosbycoop.bsky.social
@illumi.meme
artist | storyteller | dad | baseball nerd will eventually finish my graphic novel
@charliejane.bsky.social
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books, 2025), about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
@erinbiba.bsky.social
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker. NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others. Hire me to fact check your book. I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills. Jersey girl.
@cait.bsky.social
big famous microblogger [she/her] texan in ma. Adonis' mom https://ko-fi.com/O5O2SN6KI
@numb.comfortab.ly
Principal software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript. Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order. @anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
@rincewind.run
Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights PFP by @atlastalos.bsky.social
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@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
@junlper.beer
my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer co-host on the western kabuki podcast: http://www.westernkabuki.com/ - a show about what’s going on online i write at https://cant-ever-die.ghost.io/ a reputable journalist at @theonion.com