people who make me happy
a random collection of people whose Bluesky presence makes me smile, think, learn
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@keithchaffee.bsky.social
@dfienberg.bsky.social
Same as over at The Other Place: This is the porcine alter ego of @TheFienPrint — mostly for politics and sports. Reminder that for overall entertainment coverage, you want to follow @TheFienPrint. But you presumably are already doing that.
@quoteinvestigator.com
Authoritative quotation information. Book: Hemingway Didn't Say That. Website receives 4.5 million visitors/year. https://quoteinvestigator.com/about/
@msharrietharris.bsky.social
Drama Desk, Tony Award winning, and Emmy nominated actress. I’ve been at it awhile, and I mean to continue.
@trevellanderson.bsky.social
They/Them. Journalist. Critic. Authoress (WE SEE EACH OTHER: A BLACK, TRANS JOURNEY THROUGH TV & FILM; HISTORICALLY BLACK PHRASES). World Changer. slayzhon.com
@waywordradio.org
Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
@dreaclark.bsky.social
Artistic Director (Bentonville Film Festival) | Podcaster (Maximum Film!) | Nominations Producer (Spirit Awards) | Programming Associate (Sundance) | Producer | dreaclark.com
@screendrafts.bsky.social
The podcast where experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric "Best Of" lists. Hosted by commissioners Clay Keller and Ryan Marker. Screendrafts@gmail.com. "Most impeccable taste in guests" - Entertainment Weekly
@joekeenan.bsky.social
Frasier farceur, and co-perpetrator of several other TV shows. Lyricist, playwright. Novels: Blue Heaven, Putting On The Ritz, My Lucky Star. Awards available on request, or I'll just work them into our next conversation.
@becauselanguage.com
A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd).
@byagoda.bsky.social
Author "Gobsmacked!”; “About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made"; "Will Rogers: A Biography"; "How To Not Write Bad" etc.
@korystamper.bsky.social
I write dictionaries and books about 'em. Fiber crafter, keyboard breaker, garden futzer, niila myaamia. Opinions, baked goods mine. www.korystamper.com
@okbjgm.bsky.social
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032. www.linktree.com/okbjgm
@memles.bsky.social
Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
@cmolanphy.bsky.social
Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate's #WhylsThisSongNo1? Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)
@mrsfridaynext.bsky.social
I used to be a "social media bon vivant" but there ain't a lot of "bon" to be had as in social media vive these days. Bluesky, prove me wrong!
@robgeorge.bsky.social
Ex-Bloomberg, Daily News, New York Post; standup, improviser, pun-dit, overthinker, undersharer, Trini-Dad jokes, comics nerd, etc. Writing: https://thepunstack.substack.com/ Comedy: https://www.instagram.com/robertgeorgecomedy?igsh=aTc0Yjd1aW5hc3Fi
@mixedlinguist.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, especially in politics and human-computer interaction. Trivia person, marathoner, CF-L1 coach. LA & the Bay! https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
@benzimmer.bsky.social
Linguist, lexicographer, language commentator, all-around word nut. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/benzimmer
@helenzaltzman.bsky.social
Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
@andydehnart.com
Writer, TV critic, creator of realityblurred.com, VP of TCA, writing coach, husband, cat dad, improviser, runner, lover of em dashes and roller coasters. More at andydehnart.com! 🏳️🌈 He/him
@jodyavirgan.com
Podcast person. Summer Album / Winter Album | What Now w/ Trevor Noah | This Day | Good Sport | The Puzzler | 30for30 | 538 | WNYC, more. Everybody has their own thing that they yell into a well. jodyavirgan.com
@libbyhill.bsky.social
forever midwestspitfire; los angeles with my baby and big dumb baby; tv writer (yellowjackets)
@ghweldon.bsky.social
Author, THE CAPED CRUSADE, NPR’s PODCAST START UP GUIDE. Unauthor, SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. Host, POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR.
@jonathanstrahan.bsky.social
Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.
@saraiya.bsky.social
used to write for the internet but that got stressful // FL & NYC & now in #yyc // 🇺🇸/🇨🇦
@thefienprint.bsky.social
Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. General social media dabbler. Most of my content/writing/word-spewing can be found here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/the-fien-print/
@812filmreviews.com
Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • IndieWire • Member: CFCA & AAFCA •
@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found. https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
@tasharobinson.bsky.social
Polygon Entertainment Editor. Former editor at Verge, The Dissolve, The A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her. Letterboxd.com/tasharobinson Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson Nextpictureshow.net
@aduralde.bsky.social
Film critic (thefilmverdict.com) Podcaster (linoleumcast.bsky.social bfastallday.bsky.social maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social deckthehallmark.bsky.social) Member, LAFCA & NSFC. Coming soon: updated edition of HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE XMAS. he/him🌹🏳️🌈🎄📽
@kateyrich.bsky.social
The Ankler | Prestige Junkie and Fighting in the War Room podcasts | I agree, it’s great to be fine
@grammargirl.bsky.social
Grammar Girl. Podcaster. Author of seven books about language. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. she/her http://linktr.ee/grammargirl #AmWriting The 5/13 GG podcast #AmReading The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Bannen)
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@justincchang.bsky.social
Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
@noelmu.bsky.social
Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
@pastpunditry.bsky.social
Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
@briancgrubb.bsky.social
writer and editor (lol) plz subscribe to my blog: https://briancgrubb.substack.com/
@samsanders.bsky.social
Podcast maker. LA based, and Texan forever. TWO shows! The Sam Sanders Show: every FRIDAY wherever you get your pods, and on YouTube. Vibe Check: every WEDNESDAY with my friends Zach and Saeed. Also, I’m cuter on instagram: @samsanders
@lessig.bsky.social
Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
@angelicabastien.bsky.social
Critic and Essayist, New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://linktr.ee/angelicabastien
@isaacbutler.bsky.social
Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
@timothycsimons.bsky.social
Actor. Golfer. Doesn't like cocaine but likes songs about cocaine. https://linktr.ee/timothycsimons
@tvmojoe.bsky.social
West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
@beschlossdc1776.bsky.social
Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Called "normally sober" by Financial Times. X address is @BeschlossDC. Born in Chicago.
@drewmcweeny.com
Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Read my Substack newsletters! (he/him)
@jowrotethis.bsky.social
Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
@aishaharris.bsky.social
🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR 📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social
Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the nearly 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
Honorary Ziegfeld Girl Honorary IATSE Local 1 Jersey girl banner 📸Christopher Calkins
@proptermalone.bsky.social
mostly politics. some Seahawks. oh and one more thing you aren’t going to like what comes after America
@hodgman.bsky.social
Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
@markharris.bsky.social
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Journalism: New York, NYTimes Style Mag, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
@thehighsign.bsky.social
Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
@rickhasen.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
Government and policy writer. Views are my own. perry.bacon@washpost.com. https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-perry-bacon-jr/
@antheabutler.bsky.social
Professor, Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller.
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.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.
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
@robertgarcia.bsky.social
Congressman, former Mayor of Long Beach, educator, comic nerd, urbanist, progressive & proud American 🏳️🌈
@jelaniya.bsky.social
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
@janecoaston.bsky.social
Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
@leahlitman.bsky.social
Michigan Law Prof. Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast LAWLESS - out May 13 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocket
@sorayanadiamcdonald.com
I write about culture, history, and power. Pulitzer finalist for criticism. currently: working on a book previously: The Undefeated, WaPo (Pre-Bezos, mostly) she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
@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.
@sepinwall.bsky.social
He/him Chief TV Critic at Rolling Stone, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/saul-goodman-v-jimmy-mcgill_9781419777196/?utm_source=author+social+media&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Writer, host of podcasts: sci-fi deep dive "Space the Nation" & mental health convos at "Another Day." Leading The Third Story Workshop. More at anamariecox.com
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Oh God, I should probably be doing one of my jobs right now.
@annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@barbmcquade.bsky.social
Wife, Mom, UMich Law School Professor from Practice, NBC/MSNBC legal analyst, The Contrarian contributor, former U.S. Attorney, EDMI
@emilystjams.bsky.social
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma.
@jayrosen.bsky.social
I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site.
@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
@swin24.bsky.social
senior politics reporter @ Rolling Stone magazine // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati (go Bearcats 🐻 🐱) // volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati // Rolling Stones obsessive
@franklinleonard.bsky.social
The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
@maddow.msnbc.com
Mondays at 9pmET on MSNBC MaddowBlog.com From Russia with Lev: MSNBC.com/Lev Ultra podcast: MSNBC.com/Ultra Prequel: MSNBC.com/Prequel