Good Follows - Smart ‘n’ Funny Folks
These are my favorite starter follows. They inform, entertain, and are just generally interesting.
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@willsmith.fun
@tonx.coffee
Coffee person. Occasional zine publisher. Risograph weirdo. Waiting for a new Boards of Canada album. I put beans in mailboxes. www.YESPLZ.coffee
@janeng.com
Operations Director at Gardens 🌳. I used to build game worlds and now I’m building a game studio. Prev Valve, Campo Santo. Was 3D env art on Half-Life: Alyx, Firewatch. Etc. Immigrant. She/her. 🐱 http://www.janeng.com 🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
@andy.baio.net
The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter. WWW: https://waxy.org Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
@kateconger.com
tech reporter for the NYT! co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT! signal: kateconger.11 buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
@beckyandfrank.com
We make comics and cartoons and paintings! Becky was lead character designer on Steven Universe & Adventure Time! Frank wrote on Bee & Puppycat! Together we made Tiny Kitten Teeth, Tigerbuttah & Capture Creatures! https://beckyandfrank.com
@mikedrucker.bsky.social
Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
@sarahbecan.bsky.social
Comics artist, illustrator and designer in Chicago. I made: Let’s Make Bread!, Let’s Make Dumplings!, Let's Make Ramen!, The Adventures of Fat Rice, I Think You're Sauceome, Shuteye, The Complete Ouija Interviews. She/her https://lnk.bio/sarahbecan
@tangocharlie.bsky.social
Author/illustrator: the DELILAH DIRK series, LET'S GET SLEEPY, BUBBLE. Currently making an epic tale of 19th-century adventure, PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, or #PDAP 🎨 tonycliff.com ⚔️ delilahdirk.com ✨ patreon.com/tonycliff
@glassbottommeg.bsky.social
Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on something mysterious (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️⚧️
@bwjones.bsky.social
Neuroscientist Vision Neuroscientist Connectomics / VolumeEM Photographer / #Leica In the data bryanwjones.com ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
@lauraehall.bsky.social
Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games & escape rooms, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books) ✨ lauraehall.com 🔎 cfia.org 🎙️ eggplant.show
@amandasmith.bsky.social
Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.
@laurahudson.bsky.social
I write comics and video games and stuff. Sometimes journo/editor, formerly @ Wired, The Verge, Offworld, ComicsAlliance; @laura_hudson on bird. Chaotic good, optimistic cynic, total champ. Here to eat trash and be free
@roseveleth.com
👽 butch Frizzle 👽 〰 journalist 〰 sculptor 〰 they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/ → → → TESTED is out now https://www.tested-podcast.com/
@textfiles.com
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
@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/
@duckvalentine.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, proudly @ignunion.bsky.social. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. rvalentine@ign.com, Signal: duckvalentine.25
@indyfromspace.bsky.social
Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
@bijan.bsky.social
normal writer @compulsiongames.bsky.social, music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social bijanstephen.blog/about
@maryrobinettekowal.com
Hugo-award winning author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. The Martian Contingency is available where books are sold.
@austinwalker.bsky.social
Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
@marthawells.com
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@arielwaldman.com
Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker. TED speaker + National Geographic explorer. Previously: NASA. 📍 San Francisco 🔗 https://arielwaldman.com 💌 https://patreon.com/arielwaldman
@gregpak.net
Rhymes with "rock." Call your reps (reps.fyi) & help your neighbor. #DidThisToday Comics writer, filmmaker, photographer. PLANET HULK, MECH CADET YU, LAWFUL. He/him. gregpak.fyi (this account is me in sweatpants. @gregpak.com is me in chinos lol)
@gwillow.me
Award-winning author of novels and comics. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, THE HUNGER AND THE DUSK for IDW. I watch a lot of soccer. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
@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.
@erinbiba.bsky.social
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker. NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others. Hire me to fact check your book. I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills. Jersey girl.
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
@caseyjohnston.bsky.social
Pre order my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION Coming May 6 from Hachette: https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/a-physical-education science writer/author Newsletter shesabeast.co Author of LIFTOFF couchtobarbell.com instagram: swolewoman
@ramiismail.com
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
@ironspike.bsky.social
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics. Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation. https://ironcircus.com Executive Producer, Lackadaisy. Writer, Cartoonist. webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
@robdenbleyker.com
a collection of ass brained posts written by your favorite stupid fucking idiot
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
im gita they/them cofounder of aftermath.site gita@aftermath.site
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@gailsimone.bsky.social
Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds Cyclops is so great I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
@andyrichter.co
I’m here now. Listen to my podcast https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter Or the Andy Richter Call In Show on Sirius XM https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn1XQMtQTx8JVuafOOEWBkdqDUHPXlX4KShxmuMSgwGt3pkQ/viewform?pli=1
@merrittk.com
Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com (buy our debut title: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/Fledgling_Manor/)
@edzitron.com
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Columnist at Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/author/ed-zitron CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
@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.
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@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
@willsmith.fun
(he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town I've never slapped anyone / not the actor Signal:willsmith.01