A Mindful and Demure Starter Pack
If I were to start over, this is who I'd follow first
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@chrismcleod.social
@realironhand.bsky.social
Transhumeral dominant arm amputee learning to paint wronghanded. Warhammer and Kings of War, mostly. Exhausted Affleck is my spirit animal. She/her.
@wib.bsky.social
Maker of videos, caster of pods, painter of tiny goblins. He/Him. https://www.youtube.com/snipeandwib
@chadbourn.bsky.social
📖Sunday Times bestselling author, 📺TV screenwriter, 📇journalist at The New European, Guardian, Times 📶Economist. ✂️Runs with scissors. LDN, NYC, LA https://www.markchadbourn.co.uk for contact, agents etc
@zachleat.com
🌍 https://zachleat.com 🎈🐀 Creator/Maintainer of @11ty.dev 🧰 Builder at @fontawesome.com 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 👋🏻 He/him/they 🐘 https://zachleat.com/@zachleat 🐟 out of 🌊 ✅ Front of the Front-end ✅ Static Sites 🚾 Web Components ✅ Web Perf
@darn.es
Senior Engineer working on Polaris at Shopify Previously: @zeroheight.com, Nord Design System, @ghost.org. Clients: Google, @buffer.com and @netlify.com. [he/him] https://darn.es https://designsystems.wtf #DesignSystems, #WebComponents & #Frontend
@aendra.com
Creator of 📰 News feeds, @xblock.aendra.dev, @moji.blue, founder of @shoots.green. Opinions my own and usually terrible. Not a journalist (please don't tag me). she/her/ze/hir 🏳️⚧️ 🌐 aendra.com 💻 github.com/aendra-rininsland
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@mittendamour.bsky.social
I once bought a cold drink for a tramp on a hot day - turns out he wasn’t a secret millionaire; total fucking waste of 80p. (She/her)
@princeofbieltan.bsky.social
Warhammer TV Presenter - Opinions, and vibes unmistakably my own!
@mxb.dev
🛠️ builds stuff for the web ✨ co-founder codista.com ✏️ writes at mxb.dev 🎉 curates whimsical.club
@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queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
@reckless.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
@andy.baio.net
The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter. WWW: https://waxy.org Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
@retr0.id
reverse engineering, cryptography, exploits, hardware, file formats, and generally giving computers a hard time Fedi: @retr0id@retr0.id Macroblog: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/
@edzitron.com
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Columnist at Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/author/ed-zitron CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
@bnewbold.net
dweb, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects. protocol engineer @bsky.app. formerly archive.org elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Signal: KenWhite.1969
@molly.wiki
independent writer of citationneeded.news and @web3isgoinggreat.com • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian support my work: citationneeded.news/signup links: mollywhite.net/linktree
@laurenshof.online
I care about an ethical internet. I write about Bluesky and the ATmosphere at fediversereport.com 🇳🇱, mostly post in English
@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
@chrismcleod.dev
Online since before some of you were born. Tired. Lead Software Developer, but I’m not allowed to talk about it. He/him/his. Scotland ⚠️Potential to post Warhammer content⚠️ Ain't no follow back girl — https://chrismcleod.dev/ https://chrismcleod.photos
@stacy-clouds.net
Speaker & Tech Explorer DevOps Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies Loves learning, Lego, our sand dunes and family! Learning to love with Long Covid and ME/CFS
@edgeblend.bsky.social
Games Workshop Mini Designer of ✨20✨ years - Opinions are my own etc -
@andycruns.bsky.social
Writer, purveyor of increasingly terrible jokes, semi competent miniature painter. Skipping gaily over the line between clever and stupid. Host of Find Folk Friday and idiot behind Stupid Lore Sunday. I’m so sorry He/him Nerdlingherder@outlook.com
@vincentknotley.bsky.social
Prolific Warhammer miniature painter who can’t pick a colour scheme, reads lots, puns too much, moderates Twitch/YouTube chats, oft found contributing to Warhammer Community articles. Battles agoraphobia. (He/him) https://vincentknotley.wordpress.com
@danacea.bsky.social
#Author Titan, Black Library, Aconyte, Rebellion. #Bookseller. 20yrs specialist pop culture marketing, events and PR. Ex-reenactor, #ttrpg gamer, likes cats, #NOAI. Views my own. https://linktr.ee/danacea
@cybercultural.com
I’m a tech journalist 📰 and I also write about internet history⏳on cybercultural.com, hence my Bluesky handle. I used to run a Web 2.0 blog named ReadWriteWeb. I'm a 🥝 living in 🇬🇧. My alt account is @classicweb.site — screenshots of classic websites
@matthiasott.com
Independent designer + web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX, prototyping, & design engineering workshops. 📧 Newsletter: https://ownyourweb.site 💻 Website: https://matthiasott.com
@mat.tl
Public figure/idiot. He/him. Fediverse co-creator. New American/middle aged British. Actual worm. Accessibility. Miniatures. Old UNIX/TV. Track your listening habits: http://libre.fm I exist, to do this. http://mat.tl
@ewacat.bsky.social
Massive human raccoon, very broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 2 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller a carcosa-based lifeform. UK. @EwaSR on twitter
@localghost.dev
🐕 Dog botherer 🚀 Staff Eng at Monzo 🚧 Web1 enthusiast and fan of pointless websites 👻 localghost.dev Occasionally funny, mostly just tired #TransRightsAreHumanRights Banner pic: florian.photo
@jesslynnrose.bsky.social
Bad at languages for fun, bad at computers for money. 日本語出来ますでも下手🫠 Belajar bahasa Indonesia 🔰
@sjoy.lol
Front end developer. Extremely online since 1998! HTML, ✨CSS✨ & a touch of JS. Into web accessibility and inclusivity in general. I'm a cis het elder millennial mum of 2, she/her. ♿✊🏿🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://sarajoy.dev https://front-end.social/@sarajw
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@jenmsft.bsky.social
I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more You can find me on most of the other social media apps including Twitter and reddit with the same account name @jenmsft
@nigella.bsky.social
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
@filmgirl.bsky.social
Twitter: film_girl Instagram: film_girl GitHub: filmgirl Mastodon: film_girl@mastodon.social DevRel @ Google DeepMind. Past: GitHub. Lover of OSS, media, tech and pop culture. Journalist (Mashable, Gizmodo) turned developer. I host podcasts and videos.
@evacide.bsky.social
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employers’ I did a TED talk once
@alice.mosphere.at
📍 london 🦋 emojistats.bsky.sh | 🏷️ https://labeler-starter-kit.bsky.sh | 🟩 https://bluesky-heatmap.fly.dev 🪄 @sortinghat.bsky.sh 🌌 @zodiacsigns.bsky.sh 🧩 @mbti.bsky.sh 🎤 @eras.bsky.sh ✅ @a.rnbw.ca 🤖 @songofsongsbot.bsky.social
@scott.hanselman.com
I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing, sponsorship http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP of Developer Community @ Microsoft 🌮 http://hanselman.com/about
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.bsky.social / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
@anildash.com
that guy from the internet • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • see https://anildash.com
@astrokatie.com
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@lookitup.baby
Kubernetes SIG Security co-chair, container escape artist, aurora chaser, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴 MSP feed info here: https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lapkhevr222w
@xkcd.com
@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
@chrismcleod.social
Alt account for @chrismcleod.dev. Self-hosted in case of emergency.