AKA Tartantroozer's Starter Pack
More inclined to follow those who make us think - and laugh.
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@rupertthebear.bsky.social
@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
@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.
@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.
@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"
@mattyglesias.bsky.social
@markonthemaps.bsky.social
🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer specialising in design, cartography and architecture around public transport. In ‘transit’ from that other place as @markovenden. (no DMs about crypto or dating please!).
@kjmarsh.bsky.social
Still recovering from four decades at the BBC. I write. I read. And paint ... and use the shredder a lot.
@marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev
Small steps towards a much better world. Automated feed of https://marginalrevolution.com/, find more feeds at @blogsky.venki.dev
@fallingtreeprod.bsky.social
We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces. Our free archive of nearly 900 documentaries is available at - www.fallingtree.co.uk
@diamondgeezer.bsky.social
East End blogger bloke (2002-2025) diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
@sceneonradio.bsky.social
2-time Peabody-nominated podcast made and hosted by John Biewen with collaborators, from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke U. and PRX. Season 7: CAPITALISM, on its history and how we might do better. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/KeepingScOR
@gbullard.bsky.social
Journalist and critic. I study nostalgia in pop culture and politics. I'm writing a book about convenience. I'm on the radio. Everything is at gabebullard.com. Basel, CH.
@theundergroundmap.com
Obsessed with London history, transport and maps. Occasional posts about space science and random stuff. Based atm in Leiden, NL
@toddzwillich.bsky.social
Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A on NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.
@lordshortcake.bsky.social
Formerly famous fat head & farceur, inventor of the Zeelman Flay (pat. pending) and one half of Danny Kelly's Performing Rat Wonderland. Sole Ambassador for Threadgold's Thorough-Grip Garterettes Currently kicking the legs up here: patreon.com/dannybaker
@99pi.org
Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
@billbrowder.bsky.social
Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice and Freezing Order
@archivetvmusings.bsky.social
Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse. Nothing serious, nothing political.
@whisperingbob.bsky.social
Father. Music Broadcaster. Writer. Cat lover. Loving life… Charity: The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust Check my website for photos, archive and booking www.bobharris.org
@mtosterholm.bsky.social
Director, CIDRAP New episodes of our podcast on the latest infectious disease threats: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/osterholm-update
@neilirwin.bsky.social
Chief Economic Correspondent at Axios. Author of daily Axios Macro newsletter. Author of "The Alchemists." Formerly: NYT, WashPost.
@romanmars.bsky.social
Creator of 99% Invisible, WRMCLACL, Power Broker Breakdown - http://99pi.org TEDTalk on flags has over 7M views NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book East Bay, CA Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock of Bard, UGA
@corriecorfield.bsky.social
Retired Radio 4 newsreader/announcer. Loves snow, a good wood stack, The Ionian and pootling in the garden. Proud spectacles wearer.
@sambrook.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
@cassetteboy.bsky.social
Audio/Video collagists. We made that Alan Sugar mash-up, and that Boris Johnson one, and that other Boris Johnson one ko-fi.com/cassetteboy youtube.com/cassetteboy
@jillfilipovic.bsky.social
Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, the Daily Beast, and others. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats. jill.substack.com NYC/HK
@julierovner.bsky.social
Chief Washington Correspondent KFF Health News, Host "What the Health?" podcast/horseperson/corgimomx2/unapologetic Michigan fan.
@anitaanand.bsky.social
I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple.
@edwardluce.bsky.social
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including forthcoming biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
@geofftech.bsky.social
If I had more time, I would have edited you a shorter video. Transport Filmmaker : bit.ly/2TBWFsX
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social
Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
@davidgura.bsky.social
Anchor and Correspondent, Bloomberg News | dgura2@bloomberg.net | Opinions are my own.
@maryrziegler.bsky.social
Historian/Guggenheim '23-24/6 books, including Dollars for Life and Roe: The History of a National Obsession. Bylines in the NYT, Atlantic, CNN, MSNBC, and Slate.
@olgs7.bsky.social
Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
@lettersofnote.com
Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice.
@moonalice.com
From 1982 to 2015, I invested in tech. Since 2016, I have been working for reform of the tech industry. Author of NYT bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Musician in Moonalice (https://www.moonalice.com/splash) Phillies fan.
@jonquilynhill.bsky.social
You can call me JQ. Howard Alumna. Hosting Explain It to Me for Vox. I like cornbread and collard greens. Got a question? Call 1-800-618-8545 and I’ll find you an answer.
@shaneharris.bsky.social
Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris @washingtonpost alum. Signal: shaneharris.64
@countbinface.bsky.social
Space politician. Sane. Down with Fascism, Up with Ceefax! Come see me on tour: countbinface.com/tour
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
Virologist. PI at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language. Opinions my own.
@ledbydonkeys.org
Art, Activism and Accountability https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
Journalist & Historian. Director, @aspencyber. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Doomsdayscenario.co
@hugorifkind.bsky.social
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@ddiamond.bsky.social
White House reporter at the Washington Post. Focused on politics, policy and public health. Democracy dies in darkness. Find me on Signal: username dan_diamond.01
@lkrozen.bsky.social
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
@jfallows.bsky.social
Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
@kairyssdal.bsky.social
Dad, husband, host @Marketplace. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran. kryssdal@marketplace.org
@nigelslater.bsky.social
A cook who writes. Observer columnist. Author. Gardener. Books: The Kitchen Diaries, The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book, A Thousand Feasts. Instagram.com/nigelslater
@leahlitman.bsky.social
Michigan Law Prof. Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast LAWLESS - out May 13 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
@carlzimmer.com
NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.31 web:carlzimmer.com AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793/air-borne-by-carl-zimmer/ [This account includes a tweet archive]
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness