People Who Get It
Just an incomplete list of folks I follow who seem to have a grounded understanding of what's up and share solid information, good vibes, or practical thoughts on how to keep it moving in troubling times. I don't always agree with everything everyone here says, but I'm always happy to see them.
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@gregpak.net
@simsjames.bsky.social
AVP for Communications, Wesleyan University | Prior: Center Theatre Group, Lincoln Center, AMNH, Broadway World | Columbia Journalism Alum | Air Force Veteran 🇺🇸✈️ | Arts & Theatre Geek 🎭 Film/TV, Media, HigherEd & Democracy ✡️ http://simsscoop.com
@cybeldp.bsky.social
Cinematographer. XO Kitty S2, Beacon 23, Kindred, A League of Their Own. American Horror Stories. CybelDP.com Rep'd by Intrinsic
@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
@amybrown.xyz
writer. sf bay via miami county, ohio. parent x2. not a dog IRL. she/her. amybrown.xyz
@erininthemorning.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking & content: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888 Subscribe to support my journalism and read my reporting at www.erininthemorning.com
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@matthewcort.land
🖋️ Lawyer, advocate, writer, public health nerd 🦠 Immunocompromised, chronically ill, disabled Then: SSI, SNAP, Medicaid Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare. 🔗 patreon.com/mattbc 🏳️🌈nonbinary
@heylookitsruth.bsky.social
jersey based 🗽 | digital: America's Voice | creative: NJYD | views are my own | she/her/ella ⬇️ Know Your Rights Workshops & Resources linktr.ee/knowyourrightsnj
@azalben.bsky.social
Host/Producer: http://comicbookclublive.com | Buy my books: http://amzn.to/3t0NB2t | TCA member | Sure, I’ll be on your podcast | He/Him | http://linktr.ee/azalben
@mostlybree.kitrocha.com
Currently writing SEXY FANTASY romance! Chaotic Good Bard. Bestselling kissing books as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA & loves giant pretzels. Hiding in the Alabama woods. Not asking for tech advice, ever. #TeamADHD kitrocha.com
@asherelbein.bsky.social
Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. (Plus comics.) Bylines in The New York Times, SciAm, Undark, Texas Monthly, and lots of other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary.
@smashfizzle.bsky.social
Author of the bestselling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter. Podcast host. I deserve it all. https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS, Trump, LGBTQ, criminal justice, and other legal news. / Email: lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. / He/him.
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
@susanrinkunas.com
Journalist: abortion, reproductive justice. Jezebel, Slate, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Nation, Democracy Docket. @wgaeast.bsky.social Council. From PA, now in BK http://linktr.ee/susanrinkunas 📯 susanrinkunaswrites @gmail Signal: susanrinkunas.73
@indivisible.org
Building progressive grassroots power and holding members of Congress accountable. Make a difference in a few clicks: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible. I'm here to win AND make friends.
@ezralevin.bsky.social
Co-Founder and Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah. Organizing with local Indivisible groups against this fascistic clown show of an administration and congress.
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@tyleraking.com
General malcontent. Ghostwriter. Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette) Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower tyleraking.com She/her 🇨🇴
@chromatowski.bsky.social
This account will prob be about biomed research—complex chronic illnesses and Covid—w/some material on disability justice and organizing. ME ‘05, LC ‘23, many of their friends along the way. Very severe (FUNCAP 0.8), thanks for your patience.
@joekatz45.bsky.social
Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results. Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him. Activist. Linktree.com/joekatz45.
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@chadhill.bsky.social
Archaeologist, photographer, dilettante. Primarily posting nerdy analogue photography BS: 110-8x10. Photography = catharsis. Co-Winner, 2022 #ShittyCameraChallenge - InstantRegret (Avatar is the dad from the awesome kids book “Pokko and the Drum”)
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source. I'd still rather be playing pinball.
@melissahung.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. ‘24 Sewanee scholar. melissahung.xyz
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Editor-at-Large at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America.
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, trainee lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch. Photographer and digital/analogue miniaturist. Long Covid victim. She/they. Writes at https://loreandordure.com/ 🐘 @antinomy@prattle.org.uk
@shing.bsky.social
Eisner and Ignatz winning cartoonist, National Book Award finalist, 2x Indiecade winning game and experience designer. I build strange and delightful things, like fortune-telling cabinets and medieval eel marionettes. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@thatkarimahmad.bsky.social
Writer of DIVIDE and Muslim Futures, culture strategist, parent, Muslim, future architect. Founder of Utopia Studio & Restoring The Future, Creator @FuturestatesTV https://linktr.ee/thatkarimahmad
@link.spacelawshitpost.me
The Bluesky Sage of Shitposts and Space Law. Bluesky Elder. Apex User. Profile: Cartoon AJ drawn by @atlastalos.bsky.social. Banner: “I am not going to bury my account, my account is going to bury me.” - John Q.
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@emilylhauser.bsky.social
Was: writer, librarian | Now: social justice comms | Always: huge nerd We can reach our destination but we're still a ways away. Chicago Emily, not Em Past writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI Why I post about Israel/Palestine so much: https://bit.ly/4hQmiQl
@keezyyoung.bsky.social
Ignatz-nominated cartoonist! Gay, they/she, a ghost with a skeleton inside it. I write and draw mystery, horror, and love. HELLO SUNSHINE is coming Sept 2025 ☀️ TAPROOT | SUNFLOWERS http://keezyyoung.com | rep'd by Kurestin Armada
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@joshsternberg.com
Executive Editor at Morning Brew Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Mashable, etc etc etc Failed musician. YMMV. Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08
@andykarlson.bsky.social
Husband, father of 3, UU minister, hospital chaplain, dedicated amateur film photographer (unless otherwise noted, photos taken with my Google Pixel 7 Pro), opinions my own. "I am at home with the me. I am rooted in the me who is on this adventure."
@mckelvie.bsky.social
I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi
@taniel.bsky.social
Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
@originalsp.in
TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America Pic: thx @gregpak!
@longtalljodie.com
Comic Stripper & Pro Letterer • Created Lit Brick, The Gospel of Carol, Sporkman • Lettered for DC Comics, IDW, Boom, Oni, Scholastic, Maverick, Bad Egg • She/Her • 2001 Webcartoonists Choice Award Winner ✨ https://longtalljodie.com ✨
@adampknave.com
Eisner & Harvey award winning editor and writer of comics, prose, and other stuff. Bi chaos gremlin. Lives in Portland, OR with a cat named Pants. Irrationally stans Winnipeg. He/Him https://www.adampknave.com/
@wagatwe.com
antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers 🇰🇪🇧🇸 twitter.com/wagatwe wagatwe.com
@trungles.com
Minneapolis. Cartoon fellow. Author and illustrator of the award-winning OGN, The Magic Fish. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. He/him, They/them Support my work: patreon.com/trungles Links: https://bio.site/trungles
@lilahsturges.com
Writer lady: Lumberjanes, The Magicians graphic novels, Girl Haven, Science of Ghosts, Student Government (March 2025). She/her. Wifed by @mekkalekkah 🏳️⚧️ Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/lilah. Discord: lilahsturges
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better. She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@amyhoy.bsky.social
- OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
@ethansacks.bsky.social
Journalist turned comic book writer. Puts words in the mouths of your favorite heroes in the pages of Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, AWA Studios, DC. Past bylines in New York Daily News and NBCNews. StarWars nerd. Climate change advocate on this planet. He/Him
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Author. Opinions=own. She/Her. Writing your fav characters. Rep: Michael Bourret. Co-host on the Official Marvel Podcast. Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot is out now! www.preetichhibber.com Profile illustration by James Lancett
@gwillow.me
Award-winning author of novels and comics. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, THE HUNGER AND THE DUSK for IDW. I watch a lot of soccer. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
@jongraywb.bsky.social
Artist/Writer for IDW Sonic & Disney Comics! 💫 He/Him 💫 SCAD & SVA Sequential Art Professor! 💫 Black & Trans Lives Will Always Matter 💫 Comics & Animation Nut! 💫 Pun Nut! 💫 Big Goof! 💫 Big POYO?! 💫 Chill, Friendly Space for Chill, Friendly People 💫 🌈 + 🍉 💫
@rachelholliday.bsky.social
managing editor at THE CITY (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • bluesky elder (derogatory) • tell me something good: rsmith@thecity.nyc 📍 queens / fun hell
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@karenho.bsky.social
Art crime and business reporter at ARTnews. Owner of a floofy dog. Canadian. Doomscrolling Reminder Lady. Confidential tips can be sent to kho at ARTnews.com or karenkho.45 on Signal
@kendrawrites.com
What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that. Climate reporter based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: MKwrites4000@proton.me signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@reappropriate.bsky.social
Asian American feminism and racial justice. Blogging since 2002. I like pangolins.
@definitelyvita.bsky.social
afro-🇵🇷. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ bard class brawler. writer. work @ Abrams, Black Mask Studios, DC comics, Dynamite, IDW, Image, Macmillan, Marvel comics, Realm, Valiant, Vault. Repped by Susan Graham. Pro-Danny ✊🏾🍉 https://linktr.ee/definitelyvita
@empowlr.bsky.social
MSW. Public policy. Climate, disaster, water, gun policy & such. #txlege staffer, mostly absent during session. ATX rn. Opinions mine. She/Her. Buy me coffee: https://ko-fi.com/empowlr Black Lives Matter. Trans & Nonbinary Lives Matter.
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@davidho.bsky.social
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, @cworthy.bsky.social; Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
@meganranney.bsky.social
Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
@courtneymilan.com
She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm. This biography should not be taken as a complete description. courtneymilan.com
@mags.colvett.online
Appalachian in Queens, day job in public health comms, night job in poems • Queens Arts Fund ‘24, Brooklyn Poets ‘23, Creatives Rebuild NY ‘22-23 • @transjournalists.org • They Personal account, posts delete More: https://mags.colvett.online/
@levin.bsky.social
Digital & narrative trainings @NewMediaMentors. Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
@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.
@celestepewter.bsky.social
Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) | THE GREAT PUMPKIN PANCAKE PARTY (Henry Holt 2027) | Bylines in CNN, Teen Vogue, etc. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Molly Ker Hawn at the Bent Agency.
@bestonetx.bsky.social
Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews. Alte kaker in training. Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande (2024), https://tinyurl.com/273bscwn Corpus Christi, TX www.BryanEdwardStone.com
@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/
@tusk81.bsky.social
Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats. Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨
@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
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@gregpak.net
Rhymes with "rock." Call your reps (reps.fyi) & help your neighbor. #DidThisToday Comics writer, filmmaker, photographer. PLANET HULK, MECH CADET YU, LAWFUL. He/him. gregpak.fyi (this account is me in sweatpants. @gregpak.com is me in chinos lol)