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@propublica@newsie.social
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
@gossithedog@cyberplace.social
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
@fedifollows@social.growyourown.services
@drewharwell@mastodon.social
@lisamelton@mastodon.social
@mmasnick@mastodon.social
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social
@abandonedamerica@mastodon.social
@gruber@mastodon.social
@meidastouch@mstdn.social
@rollingstone@mstdn.social
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@marymessall@mendeddrum.org

The advice I got when I joined Mastodon was to follow at least 200 people if you don't want to have an empty feed. Then follow anyone else who seems interesting, and unfollow them later if they annoy you. So when I invite people to Mastodon, I want to be able to give them a starter pack of 200 accounts I follow that they can follow too. Unfortunately 150 is the maximum size! This is a general purpose list of people I like.

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George Takei verified 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
@[email protected]

Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts 18,351
Followers 459,795
Following 36
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Executive Strategy & Product Advisor of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts 82,842
Followers 381,358
Following 768
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Posting tips and answering questions about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse 🙂

There are lots of guides on my site at fedi.tips. If you can't find your answer @ or DM me, there's no such thing as a silly question!

I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at liberapay.com/FediThing

Maintained by @FediThing, banner artwork is by @posiputt

🎂 Account originally joined mstdn.social on 16th Nov 2020

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 9,075
Followers 234,666
Following 4
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Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.

Official Ars Technica account. 🟠

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 13,593
Followers 234,101
Following 6
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The official Mastodon page for ProPublica.

Pursuing stories with moral force.

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 4,538
Followers 188,548
Following 159
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Low Quality Facts
@[email protected]

Low Quality Facts written in arguably lower quality handwriting.

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts 16,959
Followers 79,802
Following 46,784
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Project Gutenberg
@[email protected]

Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks.

For more information, visit our website at:
www.gutenberg.org

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 7,666
Followers 79,488
Following 63
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Kevin Beaumont
@[email protected]

Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.

I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 4,812
Followers 78,757
Following 792
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Cory Doctorow
@[email protected]

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
@doctorow.

Archived at pluralistic.net

I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at pluralistic.net.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 111,566
Followers 77,394
Following 966
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐

You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at fedi.directory

I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at liberapay.com/FediThing

Maintained by @FediThing

🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 5,091
Followers 76,662
Following 4
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Washington Post tech reporter

Last posted 20 months ago
Posts 1,183
Followers 71,000
Following 877
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My name is Elizabeth but please call me Lisa.

I'm probably best known as the person who started the and projects at . You may think you know my deadname but... you don't.

I've drawn underground comics, pioneered using a Mac for newspaper graphics and developed software at Adobe and Netscape.

Now I work in and write video tools.

Follow me and I'll fill your timeline with boosts.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 113,718
Followers 70,153
Following 7,663
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Mike Masnick ✅
@[email protected]

Techdirt guy. I once wrote a paper about "Protocols, not Platforms" that seems to be slightly relevant. Also can follow my Bluesky posts at @mmasnick.bsky.social

Last posted 11 months ago
Posts 7,921
Followers 67,321
Following 771
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Wonder of Science
@[email protected]

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein

Last posted 6 days ago
Posts 439
Followers 63,331
Following 14
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I write Daring Fireball, host The Talk Show, and created Markdown.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 8,802
Followers 57,776
Following 600
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Abandoned America
@[email protected]

I'm Matthew Christopher, creator of the Abandoned America website, podcast, and book series about the beautiful and fascinating ruins in our midst. Photos are mine unless credited otherwise. Not a photo bot, so I post about other things from time to time. AI sucks.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 11,143
Followers 57,729
Following 855
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Rolling Stone
@[email protected]

The latest news and more from Rolling Stone magazine and RollingStone.com

Last posted 34 months ago
Posts 1,111
Followers 57,617
Following 2
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Producing the most influential and impactful pro-democracy content in the world. Meidas Media Network. MeidasTouch PAC. Meidas Merch. Because TRUTH is golden.

Last posted 38 months ago
Posts 770
Followers 55,677
Following 48
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Carl T. Bergstrom
@[email protected]

I am a biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.

I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b

I love ravens and crows.

he/him

Last posted 17 months ago
Posts 3,971
Followers 53,617
Following 717
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Jennifer Taub
@[email protected]

Law Professor and Author of Big Dirty Money (Viking 2020) and Other People’s Houses (Yale Press 2014).

Last posted 24 months ago
Posts 1,522
Followers 52,949
Following 435
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Email salesman at Platformer and podcast co-host at Hard Fork. [email protected]

Last posted 2 months ago
Posts 1,715
Followers 49,812
Following 223
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I enjoy pie.

Last posted 1 week ago
Posts 1,280
Followers 45,744
Following 89
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glitch girl

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts 97,164
Followers 42,558
Following 618
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at [email protected] or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice.

Last posted 1 month ago
Posts 5,498
Followers 41,065
Following 1,034
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web3 is going just great
@[email protected]

tracking only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, defi, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects since 2021 • created by @molly0xfff

Last posted 2 weeks ago
Posts 2,291
Followers 38,914
Following 1
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Prof Brian Cox
@[email protected]

Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science.

Last posted 48 months ago
Posts 11
Followers 38,118
Following 2
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The official account by theverge.com

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 23,382
Followers 37,953
Following 18
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Charlotte Clymer
@[email protected]

Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. She. | [email protected] | subscribe: charlotteclymer.substack.com

Last posted 1 month ago
Posts 793
Followers 37,547
Following 20
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Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 27,093
Followers 36,480
Following 372
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Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.

Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate/

Buy our book "We Are Bellingcat" here: bit.ly/2EP09EN

Our award-winning podcast series: apple.co/36LJURI

Last posted 3 days ago
Posts 2,741
Followers 36,421
Following 58
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physician-scientist, author, editor

Last posted 18 months ago
Posts 667
Followers 36,187
Following 69
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Open Science ✅
@[email protected]

Science must be opened — because science opens everything else! Sapere aude!

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  Boosts are most welcome 👍
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Last posted 27 months ago
Posts 408
Followers 32,802
Following 14,711
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home of fine hypertext products since 1998

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 5,430
Followers 32,211
Following 25
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𝘀𝘁𝘂𝘅☀️
@[email protected]

I am also the web cat @stux stux

From the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Social media needs to be fun, safe and secure again. Our team and I are working hard to keep that possible here for you♥️

Don’t forget: questions or any other chitchat are always welcome, we are on a social platform after all!

Last posted 1 week ago
Posts 3,078
Followers 32,056
Following 747
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Leo Laporte, podcaster & tech pundit. Founder of the TWiT Podcast Network twit.tv. Admin at twit.social. Blog and contact info at leo.fm/about

Last posted 1 month ago
Posts 1,646
Followers 29,764
Following 1,140
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
@[email protected]

Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington

Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS)

If we don't know each other, I probably won't reply to your DM. For more, see my contacting me page: faculty.washington.edu/ebender

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 5,106
Followers 29,516
Following 343
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Chris Hallbeck
@[email protected]

Cartoonist. Animator.

Last posted 11 months ago
Posts 2,725
Followers 28,564
Following 81
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Charlie Stross
@[email protected]

Scottish resident SF/F author (he/him/they/them). Three times Hugo Award winner, 30+ novels in print. Does not play well with Nazis. Abolish the monarchy!

Born in a world with 320ppm atmospheric CO2, 3.3 billion people.

@cstross.bsky.social on Bluesky

blog at: antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat

FOLLOW REQUESTS: don't expect a reciprocal follow. And I will reject requests from folks with no profile and/or no tooting history.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 54,958
Followers 28,416
Following 1,639
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DC, etc.

Last posted 23 months ago
Posts 89
Followers 27,413
Following 6
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I'm a bot by @see

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts 62,276
Followers 26,689
Following 3
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co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, staygold.us, blogger. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well. Let's be kind to each other. 💛

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 16,362
Followers 26,641
Following 224
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
@[email protected]

Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin. Please Boost any you like.
Patreon: patreon.com/microsff
Home: microsff.com/

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 1,125
Followers 26,305
Following 18
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I really like xkcd, so I post them here as soon as they are released. Feel free to boost or favorite my toots if you enjoy them. – Made by @lx in

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 1,345
Followers 24,973
Following 2
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20 years ago I killed Flash with my library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in and .

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 242
Followers 24,847
Following 784
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𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 ✨ @arsnovanyc

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 309
Followers 24,704
Following 206
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Prof Alice Roberts
@[email protected]

Anatomist, anthropologist, author & broadcaster; Prof of Public Engagement in Science. University of Birmingham; all views my own

Last posted 36 months ago
Posts 43
Followers 22,929
Following 34
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Filmmaker, actor.

Last posted 23 months ago
Posts 533
Followers 22,141
Following 882
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Fesshole 🧻
@[email protected]

Official Fesshole account on Mastodon - Rob Manuel reads your 100-400 confessions submitted a day and chooses what to post.

A b3ta.com production

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 18,407
Followers 22,130
Following 2
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Author.
The Telephone: A New History
Chaos. Genius. The Information. Time Travel.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 3,185
Followers 22,012
Following 346
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myrmepropagandist
@[email protected]

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.🎖️(<<Medal Awarded for the time when there were too many people.)
Proverbs 6:6

bug haters DNI

If you only use bluesky follow me here:
bsky.app/profile/

I am a single human person not an ant colony.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 84,217
Followers 21,977
Following 6,913