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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
@jonbois.bsky.social
jon https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
@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.
@junlper.beer
my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer co-host on the western kabuki podcast: http://www.westernkabuki.com/ - a show about what’s going on online i write at https://cant-ever-die.ghost.io/ a reputable journalist at @theonion.com
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The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
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In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
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Independent journalist. Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268. Join my newsletter 👇👇👇 kenklippenstein.substack.com
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I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.bsky.social / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
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Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
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President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@notalawyer.bsky.social
No longer in good standing with the New York State bar My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast / i am probably not asking for cooking advice
@agoldman.bsky.social
I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social I used to make Reply All. One day I will be in the ground hopefully flowers will grow out of me Music: Slowfawns.bandcamp.com Western kabuki (the official podcast of Bluesky): patreon.com/weste
@rmcelreath.bsky.social
Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - organic modem converting poetry into code - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
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@evacide.bsky.social
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employers’ I did a TED talk once
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@edsbs.bsky.social
Chopper Dave’s on The newsletter: https://channel-6.ghost.io/ The podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4RnuFiR6Q2AJovur2vLTvE?si=_-fvsbYKR-KgjtUF0JPBgw The goal: in a word, chaos
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and the forthcoming SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
@mattnegrin.bsky.social
The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
@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!
@axz.bsky.social
Professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social social.cs.washington.edu
@netw3rk.bsky.social
Writer, host. SIX TROPHIES, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOUSE OF THE DRAGON POD, PRIMO (RIP FREEVEE), MIGUEL WANTS TO FIGHT
@jayapal.house.gov
Congresswoman, lifelong organizer, mom. Proudly serving WA-7. Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Member of Judiciary Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Budget Committee. She/her.
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
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@sabs.bsky.social
charismatic megafauna at Defector books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology) newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/ signal: simbler.88
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone. Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews Www.instituteofunreality.com Unreality.institute
@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