instant wizard's Starter Pack
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@instantwizard.bsky.social
@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
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@montereybayaquarium.org
How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@elienyc.bsky.social
Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law. Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
@maryrobinettekowal.com
Hugo-award winning author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. The Martian Contingency is available where books are sold.
@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain. My Book! https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994 Calendars! https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2025-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@rfkuang.bsky.social
author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale sinophone + asian american lit BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc... https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
@aliettedebodard.com
Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/Her. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile: @yendraws @readatmidnight
@michaelhoffman.bsky.social
Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network. Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/
@fondalee.bsky.social
NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. Breath of the Dragon out now. News: http://eepurl.com/O9JDn
@jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
Still without airbrushing. Still with teeth. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3PLBUJ8 Newsletter: https://jezebel.com/newsletter
@marinamaral.bsky.social
Digital colorist, history buff, bestselling author, Forbes Under 30, loves dogs and coffee, etc. #actuallyautistic
@andrea.bsky.social
Andrhia elsewhere. Condemned by NASA. Writer, immersive experience designer, games, politics. Just happy to be here. She/her. http://www.deusexmachinatio.com
@stanzipotenza.bsky.social
@kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social
I mostly post about Ukraine 😍 and US politics (🤮). Я можу вимовити «паляниця». Cynicism is the tool of the enemy - stay hopeful and keep going! Gay 🏳️🌈and trans 🏳️⚧️ (he/him) Don’t abandon Ukraine 🇺🇦 https://savelife.in.ua/en
@alg24.bsky.social
Nature lover, bibliomaniac, worrier. Yes, those are some of my bookshelves. I am still not an Algerian news network. Maybe I should have picked a different user name this time. Banner pic: tightly packed paperback fiction. Profile pic: egret.
@genewilsonphoto.site
Amateur rust-belt based photographer. Work mostly in film and am working with friends to build out a community darkroom in Pittsburgh (He/Him). https://genewilsonphoto.site http://www.analogliberation.com Anyone posting AI images gets an instant block
@ambrosen.bsky.social
One day I’ll work out what I talk about. Some green stuff, some nature, some cities, some wonkish stuff.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@soren-lorenson.bsky.social
nihilism is compliance compliance is nihilism 62nd St. Bridge troll, she/her/yinz Making informative zines and art at magaro.net/tles/
@chris-sorensen.com
Photographer of faces & places. Celebrity archive at Redux, travel at Gallery Stock. Wife During Quarantine book available at link below. NYC. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. He/him. IG: @_chris_sorensen Web: http://chris-sorensen.com
@nathasquestions.bsky.social
Minneapolitan, mefite, pofite. I like art, politics, books and TV. Those are the things you'll find me posting about. 📺🎨📖
@locallhuman.bsky.social
- industrial digital supply of all your local minneapolis human needs. - concerned about public seating, organizer of Minneapolis Public Seating Authority - enjoyer of making things https://localhuman.industries
@johnnywallflower.com
Slava Ukraini. Heroyam slava. Fuck Trump. PoFite-MeFite-Guitar-Bicycle he/him Trans women are women; trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights. johnnywallflower.com
@drlith.bsky.social
Translator, dog and pony show empresario, grass farmer, PoFite, MeFite, Midwestern by birth, rurl murlander by choice
@descriptivist.net
I'm a trans lesbian, a mom, an amateur writer of trans-centric fiction, and an avid player/gm of tabletop roleplaying games. Most of my fiction lives here: https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/26947/pollychrome/?sp=1
@wtyppod.bsky.social
podcast about engineering going not good with @donoteat.bsky.social and @liamfromwtyp.bsky.social and @postoctobrist.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@welltheresyourproblempodca1465
@gazerrant.com
my hand hurts from making that damn ukelele E chord tauiwi in Aotearoa Toitū te Tiriti if you post AI slop, you're gonna catch a block
@fcummins.bsky.social
Studying chant. Rants against scientism. Joint speech. Epistemology. Apprentice alchemist partaking in the Magnum Opus. fredcummins.net. stonepharisee.com.
@stampy.org
I've been called flaterik before in other places I used to DJ a lot. House and funk. Desert and warehouse. Some mixes at http://soundcloud.com/eriknelson but I’m not really here for promotion
@neilshyminsky.bsky.social
English professor; co-editor of Spaces & Places of Canadian Popular Culture; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram https://linktr.ee/neilshyminsky
@lightthief.bsky.social
Avid photographer of landscapes and nonsense, music fanatic and local dj on a low power station (Sasquatch on KUPR.org), other stuff. Rarely here, often somewhere, generally in New Mexico.
@pennybacker.net
@stack.bsky.social
Tinker, gamer, marketing trickster. Cannot tell a lie for free. RIP Sammy Jankis. (He/Him)
@douglasquaid.bsky.social
Come on, Cohaagen! You got what you want. Give those people air! (he/him)
@etrigan.bsky.social
Board gamer, Girl Scout dad, audio drama fan, leftist veteran, Springfielder by birth, Michigan flavor by marriage, Trojan by the grace of god. he/him Signal: EtriganZola.05
@instantwizard.bsky.social
Avid reader, mostly fiction: speculative, SF, literary. Cats, Crochet, PoFi, Switch games, makeup esp eyeshadow, thunderstorms, pub quiz. American living abroad since 2015. Remote since 2016.