News, arts, community, resources and events for Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Texas Monthly writer focused on the far right, Christian nationalism and the billionaires funding them. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Send me music.
disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. pitch me: molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.76. mollytaft.com
Reporter covering immigration, homelessness, other stuff, for THE CITY
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te reo bot - word of the day in Māori language. Made and curated by: @Amirzing
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History of Science, Information, Media, Books, France, Britain
Writing: https://scholar.harvard.edu/csiszar/publications
Latest (on AI and scientific authorship): https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.5.611
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
posting about posts at new york magazine. have me on your podcast!
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
A podcast on media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
puzzles that love you back
a zach gage and orta therox joint
www.puzzmo.com
Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast
Professor at the Middlebury Institute, member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and former member of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board.
History Professor @ UCSB => science + tech + environment
Kluge Chair in Technology & Society @ LoC, 2025-26
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT, researching the rise of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com.
Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Freelance: T, New York, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usually for @CambridgeDay.
MIT; public recs; data; legal news
Lately: immigration.
jhawk@alum.mit.edu
617.797.0250
Teaching Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Wrestling, Pop Culture, #BillsMafia #commsky
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
Book publisher, est. 1925.
Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net
Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS.
Maintained by @danni.id
Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Unofficial MBTA Transit Alerts Bot (still in testing…)
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The official Bluesky account of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
mbta.com
Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG
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ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Writer, political theorist in DC. My book, Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right is now out. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico.
www.lkfield.com
American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Brookings
Quality, independent New Zealand news
https://newsroom.co.nz
I'm a musician (Dub Asylum, Hallelujah Picassos), DJ, writer, blogger & vinyl fiend. My book on Deepgrooves is out now. Get it here: https://flyingout.co.nz/products/peter-mclennan-deepgrooves
https://planetsauceradio.com
https://dubdotdash.blogspot.com
Aotearoa visual artist, working with rocks and minerals to think about the world. Among other things! shelleysimpson.co.nz
Media, music, technology, films etc. Often found endlessly dog walking, work in digital. Also https://twitter.com/richardram
Wellington-based journalist. Substack https://towardsdemocracy.substack.com
Reporter, wanderer and cricket/music/cinema obsessive. Here because everyone else seems to be!
Quite interested in music, books, film, sport and politics
Music, books, art, animals, poodles, Aotearoa. She/her.
Publicist at AudioCulture, and for other music/arty things.
She/her.
Slow Boat Records is Wellington, New Zealand’s longest running independent record store. Situated at 183 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington
www.slowboatrecords.co.nz
Absent-minded twit. NZ Listener book reviewer, book designs, former art director/columnist at Metro/N&S. She/her
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa me Tangata Tiriti, philosopher of education, musician, unionist. Toitū te whenua; toitū te Tiriti.
Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Digger for Herald Business and ICIJ. Disclaimer: Views my own yadda yadda. Signal 64211931011
Official page for NZJH. It has been the country's premier journal of Aotearoa New Zealand history since 1967. Account managed by @drjatindermann.bsky.social.
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” she/her, systems thinker, writer, artist, Tangata Tiriti AnneleiseHall@mastodon.nz
Avatar: Princess Leia 'A woman's place is in the resistance'
Aotearoa
Blog: https://diary-of-a-butterfly.ghost.io
Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @aucklanduni.bsky.social - opinions mine. He/Him
Science: https://cosmology.auckland.ac.nz
Blog: https://excursionset.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/excursionset
Film & TV Producer for Magnetic Pictures. Auckland.
historian of modern science and technology
Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Aotearoa published daily → thespinoff.co.nz • Unofficial Account
Meteorologist/Horticulturist @gbh and @bostonglobe. Daily podcast #weatherwisdom. https://feeds.captivate.fm/weatherwisdom/
Proud Alum @colbycollege and @bostoncollege
Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics.
www.cabinetmagazine.org
Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Breaking news and developing stories from the U.S. and around the world
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
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Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
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tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
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Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change,
Northeastern University
Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
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Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy; Member of @limnpress.bsky.social editorial collective; Researcher & practitioner of scholarly publishing; Digital explorer–analog sailor; @timelfen@assemblag.es on Mastodon; Victim of meaning.
Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
Metadata wrangler. Sometime indexer/bibliographer. Minicomputer collector. Onetime early modernist. Baltimore, USA.
AI+Cultural Heritage (OCR, CV, LLMs), Digital Humanities, Archival Science, Media & Cultural Studies.
Member of The Alan Turing Institute AI+Arts Interest Group / Editor at The Programming Historian.
Professor and advisor on sustainable computing futures at the University of Bristol. On loan from lutruwita/ Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
It's a label which exists to give albums the release they deserve. Some classic, some brand new. It's also an occasional podcast about great records.
Every story has an economic angle. We break it down to help you live smarter. marketplace.org
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Here's one more social media platform I probably won't use much. Formerly r_j_nichols on Twitter.
Media political economist - video games, labor, information.
Pop culture fan: music, books, tv, film, photography, the San Antonio Spurs.
Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
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Literature, media and cultural studies, games, dogs.
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Prof @svsu, author Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody (AltaMira, 2001) and Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024).
Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Sociologist at Lucerne University. Researching libraries/librarians, valuation, amateurization, and resisting organizations (not necessarily connected, but 🤷♀️)
New book out in March 2026: Currency of Nihilism. Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
