Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Elizabeth Zaleski, author of The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure and chief fart archivist at greatfartsofliterature.com. Mostly Onion reposts and ambivalent self-promo: https://beltpublishing.com/products/the-trouble-with-loving-poets
Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
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Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andy.baio.net.
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Another designer in New York
I do comedy on a stage. Sometimes on TV.
Debut book out NOW. Bury me in Alabama. FAMU Forever.
I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
#neuroscience PhD, visual storyteller, author of Neurocomic & other science #comics - Multimedia Producer for Columbia's @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social - Art Editor for Science for the People.
https://linktr.ee/matteofarinella
I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Director of Flow(2024) and Away(2019)
I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. Co-host LA Podcast, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
Creative Director at @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
Music, travel, books, comics, 20th century pop culture, MKE, bikes, and then some
Everything more orange than everything else.
Melbourne, AU
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Illustration, comics, fonts, book design, crosswords. Art Director at Large, Tundra Books. https://johnmartz.com/
Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
The Art of Noticing author, Fast Company columnist. Ex-Workologist, ex-Consumed. Etc.
https://robwalker.substack.com
https://robwalker.net/
Humanities research library and museum at @utaustintx | Coming September 20: Live From New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection
Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social board member, anxiety guy. mschaubtx@gmail.com.
Film/tv composer - Big Mood, Love Monster theme, Beyond Clueless etc
Film producer - Witches (out on @mubi now)
Musician in Summer Camp and solo
Writer/filmmaker/TV professional
jamesfrancisflynn.com
Creator: Emoji Kitchen
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Austin, TX. Very occasional writer for Eater, Texas Monthly, Austin Chronicle. Mostly a real estate coach, trainer, and manager. Dad to two high schoolers. Certified Sommelier. Spurs forever.
The first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. Eisner, Ignatz, and Harvey award winner. Rock star, cartoonist, wild berry picker. https://linktr.ee/kochalka
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secretbean.com
Well, okay. Hello.
I made that left turn in Albuquerque and stopped.
More at https://blog.dmccreath.org/
not as a nymph, but for a reed
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
Free Palestine
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Rock Chalk
Software and content person. Writer only when there's a deadline. Video game and ttrpg nerd. Design history obsessed.
Co-Author CRYPTOPUNKS: FREE TO CLAM (Phaidon). Artist. Troublemaker. Misanthropologist.
🖥️ https://seanbonner.com
💬 https://t.me/justanothercrowd
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Musician / Writer
Dada Drummer Almanach https://dadadrummer.substack.com/
Damon & Naomi https://damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/
and yeah I was in Galaxie 500
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
magazine editor, Texas Highways
I commission and edit the Open Road essay series: https://texashighways.com/topic/open-road/
Author of LIFE ON DELAY | Contributing Writer at The Atlantic | Stories in NYT, NY mag, Esquire, Rolling Stone | Working on a doc! | johnhendrickson.org
DFW Society, author of The Belan Deck, co-host of Concavity Show, mattbucher.com
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vivacious yet depressed amateur drummer and professional ideas-haver
Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Senior Maverick, Wired. Author, maker, artist, father. Cool tool maven, true film buff, and fan of Asia. Radical optimist.
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Writing, food, drinks, Victoriana, Age of Sail, bad times in cold places, synths, Formula 1, fanfiction. Pretentious lefty jerk. She/her.
Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
Eater Northeast deputy dining editor & Eater NY; former Eater Austin editor & BizBash photo editor; writer & photographer; guinea pigs/cats/bunnies; NY>ATX>NY; @voxmediaunion.bsky.social
Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
musician / sound designer / field recordist / film composer
‘HRAFNAMYND’ is out July 11 on Balmat
https://patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/
Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
Writing your dad's Christmas present since 2012 - https://linktr.ee/johnhiggs
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
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio.’ Other books: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Pink, Christmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
I teach music and write about it http://www.ethanhein.com/
Ex-WSJ, Marketplace, Guardian. I probably followed you for pictures of your pet. Hi.
Co-founder: @austinbeerguide | PDF expert: @texasmonthly | Bike and skateboard rider.
classic albums, told by the people who made them.
Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Cartoonist!
https://linktr.ee/summerpierre
She/Her
dad, writer, web dev, mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/OptimisticUnderground/
https://buymeacoffee.com/funkentechno
The Projectionist at The New York Times, and the author of “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road”
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Robert Sims hosts KOOP at the Movies 3-4:30 pm CT Wednesdays on KOOP Radio 91.7 FM/https://koop.org. Lights Camera Austin-branded filmmaker interviews + reviews. Plus soundtrack sets. Member of Austin Film Critics Association + Critics Choice Association.
That annoying, monotone chef from various other platforms. Yup, it’s me.
Critic @nytimes.com. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out 6/23!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
Music, writing, teaching: http://linktr.ee/franznicolay ||| PianoFighter.substack.com ||| To us, the beautiful!
Managing Editor, Internet
NextDraft.com
Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
Writer: CARRY THE ROCK / Editor: CHARLES PORTIS: COLLECTED WORKS / Screenwriter: A TREACHEROUS COUNTRY and DOG OF THE SOUTH jayjennings.net
Art & visual culture since 2010. https://www.thisiscolossal.com
Writer, Documentary Filmmaker, Inveterate Recommender
New Book: BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS
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www.breaktheframebook.com
www.kevinsmokler.com
Novelist (Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, The Interloper), Contributing Editor (A Public Space), Photographer (Slow Paparazzo), Struggle Rapper.
Book designer. York, UK.
danielgray.com
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
Bookselling || D&D || Wrestling || Horror
💙📚Currently reading: CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO by Matt Dinniman
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Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
staff writer @newrepublic.com / author A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (@littlebrown.bsky.social, 2KTK) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Writer. Only work gets done here. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. I will not betray my soul. Fix your hearts or die. Tiocfaidh ár lá
