English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
co-host of @whatsallthispod.bsky.social
whatsallthisthenpod.com
twitch.tv/libtron
libbycwatson.com for writing commissions
Patents, copyright, dogs, pictures of space, Michigan sports. If you’re blocked, you said something dumb/doomered so I blocked you. Would like to go back to only being mad about IP policy please. (he/him)
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she/her 🏳️🌈 | personal account | past gigs: @duckduckgo @ConsumerReports @CenDemTech & @FCC | all my tweets have errors
A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
a meditation on videogame (w/ occasional technology and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Writer: BioShock, Mad Men, Hannibal, NYT, LAT, some plays
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. andymasley.com
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📍Washington, DC
Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Minnesotan lawyer (not your lawyer) and photographer. Nothing I say on here is legal advice. Fan of the outdoors, public health, sports, and many nerd things. All views and skeets are my own except the bad ones. (He/Him)
Librarian, copyright nerd, music lover, kpop stan, rabblerouser. All unintelligible typos my own and unintentional. Yet ubiquitous.
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
law professor. dad. democracy & solar power. hoops.
my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition.
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Catholic without a home, Recovering ex-Trad, Social Democrat, Linguist, and Hockey Fan. I mistype a lot.
Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
senior editor at the new republic
Law prof at U Colorado, business and securities. Blogging at https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/
Scholarship at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2365170
No longer welcome in the State of Nevada.
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Creative Director, ESPN Visual Storytelling
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Coverage of the Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, Flyers, Union, local colleges, high schools and more from the sports team of @inquirer.com. You can support local, impactful journalism at inquirer.com/bsky-subscribe/.
Union man. I write about baseball and make stupid jokes, not necessarily in that order. For a midlife crisis expressed through record collecting, follow me @mystupidrecords.bsky.social
Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
this is just a momentary ripple in the stream
work stuff:
www.headwaterliterary.com
www.printrunpodcast.com
www.erikhane.com
Operator @xar.ph
All art sourced from https://discmaster.textfiles.com (not affiliated).
Alt text created from OCR, which may have errors.
Apologies for any crude blocky porn or slurs from edgy teens in the 90s. Report any Nazi or KKK ansi files to @xar.ph
Colorado Attorney General. This is my unofficial account. For more about the Colorado AG's office, go to coag.gov. For more information on me, go to philforcolorado.com.
Corn-fed T&S leader. I used to work at a place that made a place like this place. You have rights; fight fascism; use semicolons; vote.
NE -> East Coast. Progressive politics and college football. Nebraska forever.
War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
🌟 wife, dev, writer, & gamer
🖇️ @protopro.blue creator
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📚 https://xorientation.com writer
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Human. Posting screenshots (sometimes with commentary) from 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 retro commercials/station IDs/interstitials/etc. throughout the day.
Run by @seraphiscain.bsky.social
i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Historian at Fitchburg State. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC Press). Annoyingly obsessed with radio.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
Latest novel "Lake of Darkness": https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/lake-of-darkness
Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
💾 Hypernode is your feed for #BBS culture, #ASCII aesthetics, and terminal-era tech! Your new source for what's hype in the underground #TEXTMODE world. Need proof? Scroll below!
Real-time updates on the latest Antitrust cases. Hosted by @free.law, curated by American Economic Liberties Project.
Also at @antitrust_bot@mastodon.social and @antitrust_bot on X.
Details: https://bots.law/little-cases/antitrust-cases/
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https://franciscothebrady.github.io/
i like to code and skim econ papers.
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Analyst at Poverty Solutions
Fantasy sports and sarcasm. Account run by Grey. Hi.
I write Cup of Coffee, a daily baseball, politics, entertainment, and nonsense newsletter: https://www.cupofcoffeenews.com/
🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) —how influencers, algorithms, &online crowds shape public opinion
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Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
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Black Cat is a live music venue committed to bringing you the best in local, national, and international independent and alternative music.
Telecom reporter @ Bloomberg News.
Means Morning News / Means TV
Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
Phillies podcast "Hittin' Season” for @WHYY, Phils writer for
@TheGoodPhight, Eagles writer for @BleedingGreen. Husband and father of three awesome boys, living in northern Virginia. News producer & reporter in DC. I don't wear bow ties.
The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
freedcproject.org
engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
Posting images from 1992 "Gifs Galore" CD. Bot by @taizou.12bit.club. (Some images may contain mild nudity)
About: https://blog.12bit.club/gifbot/
DJ for Spin Age Blasters on WFMU >>> https://wfmu.org/playlists/EH
Music I make = Cyanide Tooth + Blank Account + Rogue Chromosome + Maximum Ernst
Words for Bandcamp Daily, The Wire, MaxRnR, Maggot Brain, CREEM & more...
https://erickbradshaw.substack.com/
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
Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
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
he/him
Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Phillies
Music publishing professional, rights and royalties attorney, Professor, consigliere. "Another lawyer," according to the Wall Street Journal.
LinkedIn.com/in/casini
Not them over there, not them over here
Absolutely Hammered Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/hittinseason?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan
Been called alarmist, a Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersecurity for Democracy.
Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
A podcast about The Beatles
For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Current Bad Bunny stan
Managing Director of Single Family Housing Inventory at BlackRock. God forbid a woman collect things.
I no longer use X or Threads
FB: @MichaelDeuelSullivan
Mastodon: http://mastodon.wellperns.com/@avogadro
Well: avogadro
Pronouns: he/his/him
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
First Amendment lawyer & Co-Director of Litigation @ NetChoice | Overly passionate about 1A & §230 | I fall in love with fictional characters | 🏳️🌈
DC based, but Cincy will always be home.
Washington D.C. Based Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul, and Rock & Roll
Orchid fancier. Reader. Gourmand. Beer enthusiast. Armchair detective. Securities lawyer.
Hey, I’m Dan Rivkin and I’ve been writing about the Beatles’ Get Back sessions since 2012 at theymaybeparted.com. Same guy you’ve seen @theymaybeparted in all the other places.
Senior editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Dad newsletter: https://martynwendell.substack.com/
21st century digital attorney. cybersecurity & data counsel, privacy & compliance, FOSS, sometimes litigation; probably not your lawyer.
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Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet (ht APF). Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.bsky.social https://josephhall.org/ (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
https://emily613.substack.com/
We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
console cowgirl | texas culture reporter for @chron.com | Houstonian
trans, not related to the actor
Legendary Editorial Cartoonist for The Onion for over 50 years.
"The Most Powerful Name in Cartooning" (TM)
https://linktr.ee/stankelly
Writing about the Phillies for @thegoodphight.bsky.social
If I believe in dinosaurs, somewhere dinosaurs will believe in me
He/him
Nerd lawyer. Kentuckian. Lived in DC for a bit. Administrative/Telecommunications/IP/Aviation law.
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things.
UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Reverse-engineering. Husband. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
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Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream & laughs too loud. Currently mired in the Constitution, speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. Proud Philly resident. More at kendraalbert.com
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