James Libresco @jameslibresco.bsky.social Brown University '29 + Alexandria, Va. // Reporting at the Alexandria Times and The Brown Daily Herald. Former editor of ACHS Theogony.
// Contact: jlibresco@alextimes.com or jlibresco.39 on Signal
becka @becka.bsky.social full of bad ideas
Clem Fandanga @elgalv.bsky.social www.HelgaWithoutTheH.com
Scott @headintheclouds.bsky.social Too old for another social media site/app yet here I am
Nova-ite
WilsonBWilsonB @ignorantelle.bsky.social Make sure they play Freebird at my funeral
@talkingaboutstuff.bsky.social @talkingaboutstuff.bsky.social 
Andrew Beaujon @abeaujon.bsky.social Reporter at Washingtonian. @abeaujon.87 on Signal. Still working on the sound.
@yimbyalexandriaken.bsky.social @yimbyalexandriaken.bsky.social Ask me about Alexandria Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC)
KathC @randomkath.bsky.social Containing multitudes since the 1970s. Doting auntie and lover of the printed word, the performing arts, and knitting. Mostly lurks and reads. Devoted follower of ALX Skeets.
Dianne Harris @dianneharris.bsky.social Ava's person, breaker of all the things, walking enthusiast. Web accessibility tester. A11y.
Melynda Dovel Wilcox @mdwilcox.bsky.social Author | Writer | Spouse | Mom of identical twin girls | Econ nerd | Staff to Cooper, a CKCS
Follow me also at https://melyndawilcox.substack.com/
ACB @aecraw.bsky.social I’m just here for the penguins
Justin Wilson @justindotnet.bsky.social Another social media account!!??
Travis A. Niles @travisaniles.bsky.social #energytwitter alumnus, working on climate. Sci-fi lover coffee and wine aficionado. I don't think there are strangers, just friends I haven't met yet. Alexandria VA resident. Hails from the 607.
Tim Laderach @timladerach.bsky.social All the things! 2 doggos, Commissioner (Chair of EOC), former DRCA President, Navy Reservist.
Views are my own and not the position of the U.S. Navy or DoW.
R. Kirk McPike @kirkmcpike.bsky.social Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from District 5. Star Trek fan. Beagle aficionado. Former City Council Member.
Sarah Bagley (the one in Alexandria VA) @sarahbagley.bsky.social Vice Mayor of Alexandria, VA. Buster’s mom, reader, bike rider, and fan of all things pickled.
Alyia Gaskins @alyia4alx.bsky.social Mayor of the City of Alexandria, VA. Public health & Urban Planning. Changemaker. Wife and Mom to Zeke, Eliana and 🐶#Alyia4ALX
@gebfe.bsky.social @gebfe.bsky.social 
@alx-b.bsky.social @alx-b.bsky.social 
Liz @lizard151.bsky.social Exclusively here to talk about ALX. And coffee. But preferably Alexandria coffee.
Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social Experience design / CX, / UX / Service Design. Data visualization. Traditional & wooden boats and boating. Environment & earth science. Incessant, unapologetic punster. ALX VA. He/His. Trying to be a light to drive out darkness.
Rachel @ramaboo.bsky.social I’m too tired to cultivate and nurture my online personality. Tomorrow is another day to try…
Obsidian Blue @obsidianblue80.bsky.social Lover of books.
FemmeUTCD @femmeutcd.bsky.social Safer streets = day job, Washingtonian (DC), Disgruntled pelican (former Louisianian), baker, mom, insomnia poster, and oxford comma enthusiast, tweeting (skeeting?) into the void as "me time". tweets/skeets = my own. she/her/hers
Carolyn @caslon.bsky.social Hobbies: conservation gardening, soft-core birding, painting, knitting, hiking. Interested in green infrastructure, urban ecology, and adult art camps. Ecoregion 65: Southeastern Plains, ALX, Acidic oak hickory forest. Unprofessional account. she/her.
Matt Arnold @mattarnold.org I like trains and soccer and other things
Joelle Jordan @eastcoastjj.bsky.social Feminist who cooks. #ALX
The Alexandria Brief @alexandriabrief.com Alexandria news and information you won't find anywhere else.
Independent, daily, and reader-funded.
News tips: ryan@alexandriabrief.com
Mike Sager @mikesager.net CISO @ New Harbor
Security, rock and roll, dad jokes. Fan of The National and The Nationals. Former CTO at EMILY’s List.
msager.25 on Signal
Half awake, in a fake empire.
I have friends everywhere.
He/Him
mike@crabstrike.com
rusty @holagato.bsky.social VA - alx czt nnk wtg
Anh Phan @aphan.bsky.social My dog and I both love food a lot. Also into the outdoors, reading, community. Gen X ENFP
p.a.lapid, phd @palapid.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇺🇸 👾🖖🏽 siya/he/him; gringo filipino in the DMV, PhD ekomomista, union member, & marine; Vallejo born; #UCSC 🍌🐌, SF State🐊, UC Berkeley🐻. #NAFO 🇺🇦🇹🇼 #FTTB #DubNation #COYS. personal acct; skeets,likes,reposts are not views of employer or 🇺🇸 govt
Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social it is solved in motion
lostdogcafe.bsky.social @lostdogcafe.bsky.social A funky, family-friendly haven for pizza fans, craft beer enthusiasts, and animal lovers alike.
@ctrlawkdel.bsky.social @ctrlawkdel.bsky.social 
@cantorshimi.bsky.social @cantorshimi.bsky.social 
Patrick @patrickas.bsky.social The higher you rise, the more people can shoot at your butt.
-Eric Adams, Unc Mindset
Kelsey Wright @kelseykw.bsky.social state politics, women's sports, reality tv, indie music, cats, fiber arts, sunsets etc.
📍alexandria, va
views are my own 🏳️🌈
🎼🎶 Laurie MacNamara @lauriedelray.bsky.social “It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.” - Mary Oliver
Eric Spiegel @ericspiegel.bsky.social Voracious reader, indoor gardener, cat dad, casual gamer, film lover, technical writer. Alexandria, VA.
Allen @allenirwin.bsky.social Cities, infrastructure, energy, and trade in U.S., South Asia, and Southeast Asia
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Rob @rjgon.bsky.social Dir/Editor/Journo Nut | Opinions: Me. | Cockfights: The Last Season: https://youtu.be/GF1wQLagn8w?si=udZ81G20zvOTSOWZ | Close Meta Accounts | Close X | #CancelParty | #BlueSkyPR
Emily Estes @moxnrox.bsky.social Sediment geochemist and adventure buddy of one goofy dog. Maple syrup devotee. Delighted ALX resident.
Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social What you call me depends on how you know me. Editor, writer, insufferable know-it-all. Natitude, Hoya Saxa, AMDG. https://lambletters.com/
Peter Carlson @peterdcarlson.bsky.social He/him. Alexandria, VA.
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Marta Schantz @martaschantz.bsky.social Here for the local ALX politics. Also probably a good mix of climate action fangirling and sci-fi/fantasy/romance book love. Too excited to worry about typos. Opinions my own.
Erica Toler @egilbart.bsky.social DASH bus hype girl. Campaign person.
Brian Uri! @urizone.net Coder, composer, creator. Farmed in ALX, tabled in LoCo. Once got a piggyback ride from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Forever blogging at https://urizone.net/
• Writing puzzlehunts at https://puzzlepeak.net/
Allan James Vestal @ajv.bsky.social Journalism, code & politics. Food idiot acolyte and ALX ward system anti-apologist.
(Crunchin' those numbers — and probably something with bacon on it too.)
He/Him.
Kayla Hornbrook @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social Niche meme lord
West End ALX Parent @westendalxparent.bsky.social We are West End ALX parents. The west end is half the city and a majority of the population. We’re not a monolith but we do have some things to say.
bread and roses (and hoping) @weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social Mostly Alexandria gossip, snark, and bitching about HUD stupidity.
Alexandria is cooler than where you live
gender = nope, they/them🌈
opinions all mine, etc etc 
Megan @mmsquare.bsky.social But if you’re bored then you’re boring
billy @glenhanlonsrazor.bsky.social Dad stuff, punk rock, Caps hockey. Bike lanes are good, fascists are bad.
https://railsplitter.bandcamp.com/
📍Alexandria, VA
William Buschur @buschwacker.bsky.social Safe streets are a design decision
John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org “There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant
Husband, dad, dog walker, cyclist, outdoors enthusiast, occasional reluctant driver, Alexandrian, federal employee. 5 USC § 3331
Kerrin @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social #Nativeplants, #pollinator, and #gardening enthusiast. Alexandria resident. DC tree planting all-star. 🌱
Miniature #ceramics and #pottery artist @whistlepigpottery on IG 🥟🥠🍎🥦
Socially awkward SAHM
USDA Zone 8a/65n Chesapeake Rolling Coastal Plain
Rebecca Turner @becsturner.bsky.social Law talkin gal, data nerd, bookworm.
📍Alexandria, VA
Ali @quietstormwater.bsky.social The monkeys must never find out.
Westie mama. Proud (displaced) Pennsylvanian. Hoya and NYG lifer.
Support your local library.
david @dsportsandbrems.bsky.social co-contributor to a blog which wallowed in the dreck of Seattle sports, mainly in the mid-2000s. In-game content may be erratic in nature.
four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social I'm indescribable. Wait, is that good or bad?
Alexandria, VA -> Ottawa, ON
He/him
My photography: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/599316491175426399
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social Oh hey another social media site. What is this, 2005?
Alexandria, VA resident. Quickly becoming radicalized on local politics by Blue Sky. Shitposts are my own.
Nicole Radshaw @nradshaw.bsky.social Mama of two. Teacher. Amateur plant grower and sewist. Passionate about mind-body awareness, maternal health, Caps hockey, WNBA, and our earth. Streets are for people. Ride more bikes.
She/Her
Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social Transportation consultant and engineer.
He said “Kid, it's not me, it's this town”
So I rail against that feeling when it comes
Flowers on Farm @backachers.farm A simple country squire, bringing the botanical to the city life.
backachers.farm
Mallory @mlaw91.bsky.social Hockey, cats, Microsoft Power Platform, more cats. Opinions own.
Jen Vestal @jenvestal.bsky.social Minnesota ex-pat, law firm librarian, professionally nosy. “The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here.” She/her 📍 Alexandria, VA
Donnie’111 @donnie111.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🐶👬🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 🚫DM’S. 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Mike Rodriguez @mroduf.bsky.social Alexandrian in Seminary Valley
Simon G @cygezunt.bsky.social I am so fat, I live on both sides of N. Cliff St.
BlueDotBubba@LesDepew.bsky.social @bluedotbubba.bsky.social 🔵 BLUEDOT in deep red Louisiana
Old enough to know better than the bullshit they’re pushing. We have fought the fight against fascism multiple times, I’m hoping it won’t take a war this time 😎✌️
Joe Fray @josephfray.bsky.social mail lawyer, food haver, dog owner
ALX
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social cities, transportation, transit, and other intermittent discussion.
Mother of a Ginger Claire ⚾️🪡🧵🧶🎬🎶 @bethrich52.bsky.social Washington Nationals, Boston Red Sox, College of William & Mary, politics, quilting, knitting, mysteries, culture, #HATM. Whatever else strikes my fancy. She/her
SFH @sfharris.bsky.social Opinion haver. Those opinions are entirely my own.
Puns intended.
50% stream-of-consciousness nonsense, 50% earnest commentary.
Okay, maybe 80-20.
LSG.
Moira MacDougal @moiramacdougal.bsky.social Knitter, sewist, general lover of fibre arts. Baker. Passionate about climate, housing, transit, and quirky Alexandria politics.
🌱🐱🧵
📍 Alexandria, VA
Tom VanAntwerp 🧙♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com 💻 code things, mostly TypeScript
🏡 hyperlocal Alexandria VA drama
🔮 building bizarre things nobody wants
Please don't make me run for office, I do not want to run for office.
Patrick J. Pespas @westofrome.bsky.social Alexandria, VA
Keeper of ALX Skeets. Please tag me if you’d like to be added
Bonnie En @bonnoggle.bsky.social Alexandrian, super nerdy about housing, transit, policy and publishing. I work in none of those fields.
Brian @egan.ninja But what if we could?
Stephanie Elms @stephelms.bsky.social Book lover, Va Tech & Marching Virginians alum (Go Hokies!), YIMBYs of NoVa📍Del Ray, Alexandria | she/her
Note: If we don’t have a prior relationship or a current connection, please don’t feel like you need to follow or share!
Elena in Alexandria @elenah.bsky.social Alexandria VA, DRCA VP. Bright pink e-bike. Former Chief Strategy Officer @Medallia, now solving Gartner and Forrester problems at Up/Right AR. BetterBraddock.org
Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social He/him. Dad x3, Immigration & GBV Advocate, Alexandria Lead at YIMBYs of NoVA. Local chief of the useful idiots 🫡
Go Bills, Caps, COYG
Personal account only.
Sign up for Alx YIMBY action alerts: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-yimbys-of-nova
@surgeprotector1.bsky.social @surgeprotector1.bsky.social 
Zack D @mrpresident1776.bsky.social Married to @elenasor.bsky.social with 1 cat & 2 sons. Building bike lanes and bikeshare in the Virginia suburbs by day. Views are mine! Enjoys #ebikes #walks #kayaks #urbanism #trains #modeltrains #ALX
Occasionally writes highspeedfail.blogspot.com
Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us a singer and an old bourbon drinker
Romans 12:12
📍Del Ray, Alexandria, Va.
Ryan Belmore @ryanbelmore.com ✍️ Founder & Publisher, @alexandriabrief.com
📍Alexandria, VA (previously Newport, RI)
➕ Powering @whatsupnewp.com since 2012
Kyle Reardon @kylereardon.bsky.social Children’s Picture book Author/Illustrator rep’d by Lynnette Novak at The Seymour Agency.
www.kylereardonart.com
Public nuisance.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography Landscape Photographer and Architect based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
www.linktr.ee/grantbulloch
www.bulloch.photography
UK LPOTY shortlisted 2021 & 22
British Photo Awards finalist ‘22, ‘23 & ‘26
Scottish LPOTY shortlisted 2017-24
Anne de Haas 📷 @mbug.bsky.social Portrait photographer, artist, crow lover, fossil hunter, procrastination specialist. Canuck.
All photos are my work.
"Being human is harder than it looks."
https://www.instagram.com/annedehaas
Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁 @davesadventures.bsky.social My wife says that walking with me is like walking a puppy! Avid photographer of nature, landscapes, and seascapes, based in Ontario. Proud part owner of Canada.
Prints available at https://dave-nodwell.pixels.com/
Dave Bryant 🇪🇸 @davebspain.bsky.social I try to photograph nature, mostly birds & I'm having fun with it.
All my own photos, they are taken in the wild and are copyright©