Random nonsense
I’ve created this starter pack for new users to get a feel for long-time blue sky accounts. I’ve tried to minimize news, politics, and tech, and emphasize random nonsense.
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@cschrader.bsky.social
@andyrichter.co
I’m here now. Listen to my podcast https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter Or the Andy Richter Call In Show on Sirius XM https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn1XQMtQTx8JVuafOOEWBkdqDUHPXlX4KShxmuMSgwGt3pkQ/viewform?pli=1
@pftompkins.bsky.social
TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies paulftompkins.com/live
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@safety.bsky.app
Sharing updates about trust and safety on Bluesky. This account’s mentions are not actively monitored. To report a post or account, use the in-app reporting feature. Community Guidelines: https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines
@johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Radical liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor. Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths?
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is. Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, and squats
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
@craigmod.com
Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years. Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!! shop.specialprojects.jp craigmod.com
@imlunahey.com
29 years old - she/her/they/them - 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 bluesky's #1 professional yapper checkout my bluesky client: akari.blue running on 6h of sleep
@cooperstreaming.bsky.social
♿️ The most overly confident disabled woman in America. Mark Hamill once told me I had pretty eyes and I'll never shut up about it. As seen in Buzzfeed, The BBC, New York Magazine, & most forebodingly, TMZ https://linktr.ee/Cooperstreaming
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@mattblaze.org
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
@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
@nameshiv.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net.
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
national security adviser at popeyes louisiana kitchen | aka revrrlewis | he/him/🏳️🌈 |📍new orleans
@hodgman.bsky.social
Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
@edeggans.bsky.social
NPR TV critic/analyst. This fall, I start teaching as Knight Professor of Media Ethics at Washington&Lee U. Blerd. Drummer. Author: Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. Media bloviator.
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@mekka.mekka-tech.com
Building Digital Ecosystems at Google. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke He/him.
@samthielman.com
Sam Thielman | Seen NYT Book Review, New Yorker, Slate, Flaming Hydra foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | 741.5 (Comic books, strips, etc.) | NC>Brooklyn | cat subordinate | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE with Sean Howe forthcoming from HarperOne
@lolgop.bsky.social
Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids. Find a protest you can join or an action you can start now https://www.reddit.com/r/onethingtodo/ THE FARCE covers American fascism and the mass mobilization against it https://www.thefarce.org/
@techconnectify.bsky.social
I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now. he/him https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
@flavorflav.bsky.social
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award Questions or complaints,,, harass my management: FlavorFlavMgmt@gmail.com
@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
@wapplehouse.bsky.social
America’s stepdad•@TheWapplehouse on Twitter https://linktr.ee/JortsCenter
@dasharez0ne.bsky.social
GET MY T-SHIRTS HOODYS MUGS AT https://dashare.zone - DAILY EXTRAS BY EMAIL AT https://patreon.com/dasharez0ne WHERE U WILL ALSO FIND "DA SHARE Z1NE", STICKERS AND MORE SHYT -DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
@kenjennings.bsky.social
Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of 100 PLACES TO SEE AFTER YOU DIE (bit.ly/3kLgJKO) and a bunch of other stuff. OMNIBUS co-founder (patreon.com/omnibusproject).
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
im gita they/them cofounder of aftermath.site gita@aftermath.site
@jcsalterego.bsky.social
1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆 • Goodfeeds https://goodfeeds.co/ • @skyapp.bsky.social thanked by darth july 20, 2023 📍Austin, TX
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@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
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@levarburton.bsky.social
Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@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
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@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
@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.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@atrupar.com
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
@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
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@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.
@dril.bsky.social
Never Bullshit I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate . https://www.patreon.com/dril https://www.instagram.com/dril_real https://linktr.ee/drilreal
@cschrader.bsky.social
Fifth generation Philadelphian, mixed-race black man and Devops Engineer. Currently into GIS, data analysis, urban and environmental issues. He/him. 🏏🎺 #python | #gis | #devops | #linux | #terraform | #philly