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@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
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
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Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse, follow this account. To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.…
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@tomwarren.co.uk
Senior Editor @theverge.com ║ Sign up to Notepad, my weekly newsletter on Microsoft's big bets at http://theverge.com/notepad ║ Tips? msg me on Signal: tomwarren.01
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com — On 👨👶 leave until July — 📝 ft.com/jbm
@triketora.com
founder & ceo @blockpartyapp.com: helping you deep clean your socials and live a better online life harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
@peter.andringa.me
Journalist/technologist, FT Visual Investigations 📰 @financialtimes.com📍London 🕰️ WaPo, Guardian, OII, UNC ✉️ peter.andringa@ft.com 🔏 Signal: @peterandringa.01 ft.com/news-tips
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@techmeme.com
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web. This account shares top-level Techmeme headlines. Visit https://techmeme.com/ for full context.
@xkcd.com
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@simonwillison.net
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@fesshole.bsky.social
Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you? Buy show tickets 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole Add confession https://bit.ly/addfess Buy book https://amzn.to/40ySjVn Sponsored by hebtro.co, Run @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social
@retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
@jonnelledge.bsky.social
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Political columnist, The Guardian Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
@timbl.bsky.social
Inventor of WWW Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org Founder w3.org Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl Pre-order my memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://linktr.ee/thisisforeveryone
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@gilesyb.bsky.social
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, baker of overly dense loaves. I run five times a week so does that make me a Running Punk?
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Press Gazette energy & envt journalist of the year 2022 Press Awards envt journalist of the year 2025 (shortlisted) Deputy Editor + Senior Policy Editor Carbon Brief https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org carbonbrief.org simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
@stokel.bsky.social
Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide @stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
@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.
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
@robfordmancs.bsky.social
Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Author of "Brexitland" and "The British General Election of 2019" My Substack, "The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/ https://www.robertford.net/
@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"
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@danhon.com
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc me: https://about.danhon.com i make: https://donotreply.cards work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/ my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallway-track DM or Signal danhon.1701
@pickardje.bsky.social
Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
@arusbridger.bsky.social
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
@retrocomps.bsky.social
Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. ~6-8 posts a day, ~24 posts on holidays. ⚠Outbound links tagged and monitored by Bluesky.
@dpcarrington.bsky.social
Environment editor at The Guardian Send info confidentially via Signal: dpcarrington.35 Or via this link👇 https://t.co/sSyh2w8LHj
@leohickman.carbonbrief.org
Editor and director, Carbon Brief https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org
@arstechnica.com
Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
@mikebutcher.bsky.social
(MBE) Editor-at-large @TechCrunch | mike@techcrunch.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | http://mikebutcher.me | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Columnist / Speaker / Moderator / Broadcaster | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
@ciaranm.bsky.social
“Cyber Security Ace” - Daily Star In reality: * Prof at Blavatnik School, Uni of Oxford * 1st head, UK National Cyber Security Centre * ex-Treasury, constitution & security official * adviser to cyber security companies * APT Name: Warlike Manatee
@mariafarrell.bsky.social
Irish writer and keynote speaker: let's rewild the internet! Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her http://www.mariafarrell.com https://buttondown.email/MariaFarrell
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