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@davidmcphersonca.bsky.social
@jaketapper.bsky.social
Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to our two dogs.
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.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.
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@electricalwsop.bsky.social
Recording engineer who plays poker and billiards and eats like a Viking
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@davesfoley.bsky.social
A comedian that you or your parents or maybe your grandparents may have enjoyed occasionally since the late 80s. A member of the skit comedy ensemble The Kids In The Hall for 40 years and counting because none of us can find the exit.
@dworkin.bsky.social
Dworkin Report. Journalist. Investigator. Author. Musician. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/
@midnightpals.bsky.social
King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
@jillkrajewski.bsky.social
culture writer in film, vulture, etc bifurious jillkrajewski.com
@pulmyears.bsky.social
Host of the Record Store Day Podcast, author of biographies about The Kids In The Hall, Todd Rundgren, and more. Canadian Screen Award Winning co-executive producer of Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks
@jessehawken.bsky.social
Host and producer of the Junk Filter podcast. Toronto born and raised. patreon.com/junkfilter
@nikostratis.com
Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, it's out 05/06/2025. She//Her linktr.ee/nikostratis
@adhd-alien.bsky.social
Making comics to spread information about ADHD. 📙Making a Graphic Novel for Penguin Random house. Prev. VisDev, Game Design (BA) 🇩🇪German, 🇯🇵日本語OK. I want to be rich so I can adopt the old dogs no one else wants🐕
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@amystuber.com
Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024) Flash Editor: splitlipthemag.com
@stereogum.bsky.social
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉’𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌 → stereogum.com Merch: http://shop.stereogum.com
@hiattb.bsky.social
Senior Writer, Rolling Stone. Host of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast.
@blakemurphy.bsky.social
Raptors and Blue Jays at Sportsnet. Music and wrestling at leisure. I’m just a constant headache.
@iammilliam.bsky.social
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
@tromano.bsky.social
Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture. https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer
@sterlewine.bsky.social
Music writer and journalist, a founding editor of Allmusic now freelancer for hire. Bylines at Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more. Subscribe to my Newsletter: sterlewine.substack.com
@navneetalang.com
Editor on the Opinion team at the Toronto Star. Pitch me op-eds, essays at nalang@thestar.ca. Writer and former columnist with bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
@johnconorryan.bsky.social
Co-founder: Calx Institute. @calxinstitute.social.bsky Physicist, writer, learning to play jazz on cello. Co-steward of https://getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
@travisyost.bsky.social
Hockey at TSN. And you know I’m movin’ —🏃♂️ 🚴 🏊♂️ https://strava.app.link/kbdkgyw9wOb
@aliceinwonderworld.bsky.social
Up cycler,artist, plushies, music masher, cottage/farm core craver, girl rights! LGBTQIA+, she/her, progressive, DragQuest, Honkai slave, FFXIV,VII, acnl, acnh, switch/ indie games!
@marcissist.bsky.social
I write about music and my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic.
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@nedraggett.bsky.social
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
@rahrahraina.bsky.social
host & writer of world cafe, heard nationally daily from npr & produced at wxpn // voice on pretty dim wonder & pixar's sodas// formerly cbc // instagram: rahrahraina // friend to all
@carlzoilus.bsky.social
Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
@aradwanski.bsky.social
Policy columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, with a current focus on how Canada can boost its economic sovereignty.
@raypadgett.bsky.social
Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3). https://linktr.ee/RayPadgett
@consequence.bsky.social
Music, Movies, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground.
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@jrodriguezmatos.bsky.social
It’s not hoarding if it’s books or records. Author of _Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time_ (Fordham UP). 🇵🇷
@janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social
Writer (Secrets of the Bees out in Jun 2025; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books #FBPE
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@davidmcphersonca.bsky.social
Author. 101 FASCINATING CANADIAN MUSIC FACTS; MASSEY HALL; THE LEGENDARY HORSESHOE TAVERN: A COMPLETE HISTORY. Journalist. Cyclist. Voracious reader. Sober. Music is the Elixir of Life.