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Fashion bloggers at www.GoFugYourself.com, writers of Drinks With Broads on Substack, and authors of The Royal We, The Heir Affair, Spoiled, and Messy wherever books are sold. We use affiliate links.
Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
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Maximum Fun is a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported--directly--by you. Support your favorite shows at maximumfun.org/join.
Somewhere between dinosaurs and spaceships || TTRPG Storyteller || Creative Director || Game Guy 🏳️🌈 PDX/CDMX let’s play some games.
Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Composer, countertenor, cat dad, clotheshorse.
Art is human.
Standup. Writer. Trail Blazers fan.
https://linktr.ee/iankarmel
~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
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Malevola in DISPATCH. Halley in V/H/S/BEYOND.
Writer/producer @watchgodmother.bsky.social.
Indie game dev @layersdeep.bsky.social.
Host @playwatchlisten.bsky.social.
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https://linktr.ee/charalanahzard
Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse.
Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer.
Games, books, bio, etc: http://www.chriskohler.biz
Game Developer, Writer, Occasional Musician
Follow for music clips, literary quotes, Assassin’s Creed lore.
darbymcdevitt.com
Author, Journalist, Critic, Filmmaker.
Books: “Jazz from Detroit”; “Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.”
Film: “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit.”
Former Detroit Free Press arts reporter/critic, 1995-2016
Writing and talking about music. Forever listening.
WRTI, NPR, formerly NYT. Author of a Substack newsletter, The Gig, and a book called 'Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century.'
pianist, composer, writer
No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
I cry a lot but I am so productive!
Running @StrangeScaffold. Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Viola player, Head of Strings HMS, London
Actor. VO at Supergiant Games (Hades, Pyre, Transistor, Bastion)
| 𝑱ᴀᴢᴢ 𝑳ᴏᴠᴇʀ 🎶 | Classical music listener | Compulsive collector | 積ん読 |
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A Jazz Station in Portland Ore. 89.1fm - We celebrate Jazz without Boundaries. kmhd.org
Curating Jazz Music from the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s
•Literary Fiction•Photography-Art
"Jazz has always been the music of protest, equality, and inclusion"
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#JazzSky #Music #BookSky #ArtLover #Photography #BlueCrew #Resist
Ted Gioia is author of 12 books, including The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. His newsletter is The Honest Broker (www.honest-broker.com)
WFIU-Bloomington, IN jazz director, host of the thematic historical jazz program Night Lights (wfiu.org/nightlights). Writer when I write.
editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
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Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
games x performance. acting, directing, consulting, forever advocating for joyful collaboration & sustainability for all. 1/7 of @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Creator, designer, writer of some videogames you may have played. I (still) (occasionally) blog at www.clicknothing.com. I am also the creator of Mythmaster RPG - available now at www.mythmasterRPG.com Follow @mythmasterRPG.bsky.social, or come and play!
1/3 of @nextlander.com, 1/2 of @techpod.content.town. Formerly Giant Bomb, GameSpot
Indie games long-timer. A Good Narrative Collaborator. Dramaturge.
Currently on something unannounced. Previously on Dr. Katz, Home Movies, BioShock 2 & Minerva's Den, Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop.
Invite me to play TTRPGs!🙇
Wanderstop, The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide. Founder of Ivy Road.
Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
🐘 idlethumbs.social/@ja2ke
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Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
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"warrenisdead". he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. writer and narrative designer. Project C for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Bespoke critical deep dives. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Critic. Tabletop columnist at The AV Club and Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
he/him
worker-owner at @maximumfun.org
i like liking things.
Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
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Tryhard | co-owner Defector
Oregon-based investigative journalist. | Co-founder thewesternedge.media
Former OPB. Podcast producer, Bundyville, Dying for a Fight, and Hush.
www.ryanhaas.net
Tell me secrets on Signal: ryanjhaas.01
These days, the main things that I'm spending time on are programming, Tai Chi, and Nei Gong. I blog at https://malvasiabianca.org .
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk.
I try to be good hard worker man, but refrigemator so messy. So, so messy. | tara@taraariano.com
He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Awards / Cinematrix / Movies / TV at Vulture
This Had Oscar Buzz podcast
Demi, Myself & I on Patreon
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
I made an American squirm
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Author of The Wager, Killers of The Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, The White Darkness, and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Also a longtime New Yorker writer.
Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜 I IGNORE ALL DMs!
Critic. Baritone. Enemy of the raisin. Formerly @tomatonation. LFGM.
NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
now: partnerships @ kinda funny & the besties podcast - previously: co-founder of polygon
Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
(he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town | Cohost of the Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd @PCWorld.com
I've never slapped anyone / not the actor
Signal:willsmith.01
Bridge pro (the game; yes that’s a thing!) Occasional doc producer. If I’m not doing one of those I’m probably playing or watching tennis.
Now: Running Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor/reporter for Protocol, Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
A WB kid in an HBO World. Still tryin 2 impress the cool kids.
Lapsed writer, freelance librarian, amateur detective.
I log in to @ my friends (real and imagined)
I've been getting really into like, deleting my posts within five minutes of making them?
Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer and director who works on game-like things and other things.
Author of the novel Process and the visual novel Eliza.
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/process-a-novel
Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
You know... the weird one.
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
Official.
Our new LP The World is To Dig lands in April. Pre-order and get preview tracks at TMBGshop.com Multi-night stands in Indi Boston Brooklyn Philly Detroit + Chicago! TMBG.com for tickets.
im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
gita@aftermath.site
Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
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.
NORMAL GOSSIP dowager queen, Defector Media, books and shit
Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I’m just here for a good time.
Signal: @drewmagary84
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
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social, comics patreon.com/merrittk
The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
I made GameHistory.org and you can too
host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
Deputy editor, Defector.com
I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
