Starter packs with Dave Karpf

New to Bluesky and used to getting your news from Twitter? Well, stop, collaborate, and listen! Here are a bunch of outstanding accounts that will keep you tuned into the news without having to get Elon's emotional semen on you. Let me know whom I missed!

• Created by 🗽LOLGOP🗽  about 1 year ago
• 550 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Welcome CARD readers to Bluesky. Here's a list of good accounts to follow if you want a deeper understanding of the topics I write about.

• Created by Melissa Ryan  12 months ago
• 57 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

it's a collection of news outlets, journalists, people, and other people

• Created by Justin Ling  over 1 year ago
• 28 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Creates an active feed of (mainly) US politics

• Created by Daniel Donner  about 1 year ago
• 22 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A great mix of different subjects and interests from people who are active on Bluesky. Dive in! Bluesky has "the juice."

• Created by Hunter Walker  11 months ago
• 17 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People who provide fact-checking, who study misinformation or who provide insights into human psychology and the media system

• Created by Ingrid Brodnig  11 months ago
• 15 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Journalists, GeoPolitics, Tech, Writers, +++

• Created by 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 🇨🇦💪🏼  11 months ago
• 13 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Scholars, reporters, bloggers, and other good posters

• Created by Jan Jęcz  about 1 year ago
• 12 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of individuals who have written for Tech Policy Press, appeared on our podcast, or otherwise contributed to our community.

• Created by Tech Policy Press  over 1 year ago
• 11 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Michael  10 months ago
• 10 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Good people who deeply care about addressing climate change related issues.

• Created by Murshed Zaheed  12 months ago
• 10 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just some recommended folks to follow.

• Created by Mike Masnick  12 months ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Independent writers, bloggers, and journalists.

• Created by Molly White  11 months ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Group of influential scientist and science communicators on Bluesky as of October/November 2024. You can see a description of our method here: https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-emerging-as-the-new-platform-for-science/ and here: https://lassehjorthmadsen.github.io/blueskyanalyses/

• Created by Mike Young  11 months ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of people who post about media reform: structural media incentives, the collapse of US journalism, bringing back ThinkProgress, why AG Sulzberger and John C Malone are different problems... And solutions to improve our media. There’s a Media Reform list too: pin it as a Feed.

• Created by Eric Blair  about 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Follow a bunch of previous guests from Tech Won’t Save Us!

• Created by Tech Won’t Save Us  11 months ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Folks working on public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields.

• Created by Meredith Broussard, PhD  11 months ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Cohort of smart people with reality based reflections on insane world of media and poltics.

• Created by Murshed Zaheed  12 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Tech bods

• Created by Leighton Andrews  about 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

people who know things

• Created by John Stange  about 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The best analytic takes on American politics — from political scientists, historians, other academics, and a few extraordinary journalists — that I can find on Bsky. Reading these folks will make you smarter and better informed. Find your partisan jollies somewhere else. 😏

• Created by Christine Barbour  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Luke Garrett  about 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

We are a community of scholars researching social activism, protests, movements, and mobilization, online and/or offline.

• Created by Saif Shahin  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Democracy suffers when billionaires control the media. This list includes leading academics, writers and advocates in the movement to build a more democratic media system.

• Created by Tim Karr  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

You've just arrived, and you're confused. Worry not - here are a few great profiles to get you started. Welcome.

• Created by Aske Kammer  12 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Accounts that engage with the minutiae and big picture of Congress, mostly from a political science perspective. Not reporters or actual Members of Congress. Limited to 150.

• Created by Alex Garlick  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

seeking the vibe of twitter before the halfwit bought it

• Created by Patrick LaForge  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Dittie  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Everyone knows a Dave. It's one of life's universal constants.They're the human equivalent of a default setting, pre-installed in every social circle. But if you're sitting there thinking "I don't know a Dave," don't panic. Here's your Dave. You're welcome.

• Created by David Boyne  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Maria Langholz  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Politicos, Journalists, and friends who have informed and challenged my own thinking over the years.

• Created by Melissa Ryan  12 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Deorges Ganton  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Academics, journalists, activists, and other smart people who post about extremism, mis- and disinformation, conspiracy beliefs, technology, and other issues important to democracy. People I've worked with or interact with frequently.

• Created by Daniel Malmer  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

These are the accounts I use on here to follow what’s going on

• Created by Max Berger  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Marisa Kabas  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This is an incomplete list of the people on this platform at the intersection of civic tech, data, and design, which includes both practitioners and researchers.

• Created by Jae Yeon Kim  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by lourdes981  5 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Editors, Writers, and Patrons

• Created by Liberal Currents  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

If you need to replace me in the aggregate, this should get you a solid 80% of the way there

• Created by ghost malone ergo propter malone  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

You can follow a bunch of ppl I follow so you won’t have to start from scratch

• Created by Jerbear  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals concerned over America's current pandemic of mental ill-health.

• Created by James P. Kelly  8 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

My favorite people on here, including some of my favorite voices from Twitter.

• Created by Kombiz Lavasany  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack for students, researchers, archivists and culture workers engaging with digital heritage and culture studies.

• Created by Micah Bateman  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The faves

• Created by Andrew  9 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Fabienne Vande Meerssche  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

a starter pack for professors of corporate & business association law, history, sociology, politics, theory, finance, etc. If you'd like to be added (or removed!) please let me know.

• Created by Kate Jackson  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This is my first attempt at making a starter pack! I'll try sharing things I find interesting or fun here. They're not necessarily endorsements or signs of agreement on my part!

• Created by Len Epp  11 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Bernadette  2 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Mart Roodbeen  about 1 month ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky