- R @riotbrrd.bsky.social @riotbrrd.bsky.social Civic tech, baking, democracy, plants, and cats.
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology
hannahbw.com
Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
Director of the Justice Project
justiceproject.uchicago.edu
Chi Hack Night @chihacknight.org A free, weekly event in Chicago to build, share and learn about civic tech. Join us every Tuesday evening! https://chihacknight.org/
Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social He//him, Chicago, bikes
Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org CSO of TPO.group ♦️ EFF Board of Directors♦️she/her ♦️ bestselling author but only that one time
Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social Chicago represented in pop culture. Large focus on non-local interpretations of the city. Extended credit included in alt text. No AI.
Mark Meyer @markmeyer.bsky.social Civic tech nerd working in digital software/service delivery. Currently building a government AI platform. I like Code and Bach Fugues. D.C. ⇔ Alaska. 📷 http://www.photo-mark.com
Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
Sarah @sarahbee.bsky.social Web manager/content strategist/etc. Placid but prickly.
[banner alt-text: During the wars of prehistory, the gods brought jellyfish to the Earth from another planet and used them as messengers.]
upma @upmasingh.com I have a Punjabi name, I'm not named after food. I do UXey things for my day job. Otherwise I'm a home cook, TV watcher, podcast listener, and a slow knitter. Child-free cat lady. Jaded optimist. Philadelphia.
she/her
Govsky US @us.govsky.org Tracking U.S. government accounts on Bluesky.
Not affiliated with the U.S. government.
Find an official government account: https://www.govsky.org/us
Govsky is open source! View the code: https://github.com/nas5w/govsky
Cameron Dixon 🥄 @notgov.org Infrastructure as a (public) service. Fighting errorism with sapphire bullets of pure love. Not actually Sir Humphrey. I write my own emails.
Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO VANQUISH YOUR ENEMIES. I WILL HELP. (by @nora.zone, icon by Delapouite at https://game-icons.net)
Level Eater Adventures @leveleater.com Adventure-roleplaying fundraisers and events featuring bespoke experiences for games like D&D! Learn more at leveleater.com
Jared Cunha @jaredcunha.com Civic technologist, engineering manager, amateur photographer, lover of food, designer turned engineer, accessibility person, Shiba Inu fan
https://jaredcunha.com/
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Ethan Gardner @ethangardner.com I'm a full stack engineer with a bias toward the front-end. Web performance optimization, accessibility, and all that jazz.
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Mixmoji 🤖 @mixmoji.pixigeko.com Uses Google's "Emoji Kitchen" to send a mix of two emojis every two hours 🧑🍳
➡️ @mixmoji-lite.pixigeko.com if you want 2 posts per day (1 post every 12 hours)
Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social Striving for a safer world since 1945
science policy | nuclear weapons | clean energy | STEM education | artificial intelligence | data privacy | much much more
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com memory safety / Rust, #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more.
🧔🏼♂️ general words: alilleybrinker.com
🦀 rust words: possiblerust.com
Developer Security @ Anthropic (opinions posted are my own)
he/him
Magen Cubed @magencubed.net Writer, essayist, and occasional critic. Jotaro Kujo's #1 shooter. Notorious Shinji Ikari apologist. Likes Tomie Kawakami a little too much.
🔗 magencubed.net
📰 buttondown.com/magencubed
💍 @melissadominic.bsky.social
Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app I write and draw riso-comics about black folks. I also teach math. Black, bi, and nonbinary He/They 💖💜💙 Comics and other contacts on http://akilwilsoncomics.com
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social • Middle Aged Midwestern Mom • Hospice Chaplain • Abortion Doula • she/her • Disaster Bisexual • South Side Best Side • Chicago • Petoskey •
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social Managing director of the Institute for Energy Solutions and the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM) @ UMich. Still also posting about tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, & cats.
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
@shoptalkshow.com @shoptalkshow.com 
Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social Posts when a Federal US .gov domain is added or removed. The Wayback machine can help you browse deleted sites: https://web.archive.org/
NOTE: A website can be unresponsive or show a 404, but this bot will only trigger when the domain itself is removed.
it took an hour, maevey a day @maeveynot.online they/she・not your girl・🌙🌙・the touch of everything blushes me・放了那個作品・being undone and redoing・front left speaker・backwater of the “unreal”・yes, salt・warding-off-magic・the city is empty until you find it・cunt-forward・nec spe nec metu・anyway, it’s very early
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Nome @nome.bsky.social Please don't use unroller bots on my threads.
ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand.
Queer, Disabled, He/Him
🐦@NomeDaBarbarian
💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian
📌 Denver
Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica,
#Pseudoarchaeology, and Appalachia . Posts my own, unless I’m a brain in a jar! He/him
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social Good in a crisis and at no other time
First initial last name at gmail dot com
Signal:@KathrynTewson.06
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Keith McCready @stenogeek.bsky.social Software performance
Stenography
Embedded systems
Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com Trans Queerdo. He/Him. Shirley Jackson Award Winner. Nebula, Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe). No AI. Fuck ICE.
Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social Bakshi Art and Animation. Run by Ralph and Eddie Bakshi. Animation art shop: https://www.ebay.com/str/bakshianimationart
Website: www.bakshistudio.com
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
davi @disastrophe.bsky.social she/they. all opinions are my own, but they should be yours.
fix your hearts or die
Alaina Wiens @alainawiens.bsky.social Sometimes I come here to talk about Detroit basketball.
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and social innovator. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social Brooklyn-based freelance content designer, content strategist, UX designer. Mostly working on civic tech and govtech projects these days. Past: Blue State Digital, Vanity Fair.
andrewhearst.com
Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social Librarian and data stuff.
Scholar of online credibility and sci comm and GIS.
Visiting faculty @ a SLAC
UTexas iSchool PhD, now novice Californian
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️supporter and will be loud about it
#unionyes
she/her
Joel Bernstein @castirony.bsky.social 🤔👨🏻💻📲🕴️ (he/him)
David Demma (he/they) @demma.bsky.social Oh, you're here too!
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net The main thing = @codepen.io
Personal site = https://chriscoyier.net
Podcast = https://shoptalkshow.com
Bend, Oregon
Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev Shopify design-engineer
🎙️ co-host on @whiskey.fm 🥃
prior Google Chrome, Google Cloud, CSSWG, CSS Podcast, Bad @ CSS
Creator of VisBug, open-props.style, prop-for-that, gradient.style, transition.style & more
UI, UX, CSS, HTML, JS
https://nerdy.dev
Egor Kloos @dutchcelt.com The Web, food & drink, photography, music, travel. Curiosity is everything.
Posts are my own - he/him - Gen X - 🇳🇱🇮🇪
Blog: dutchcelt.nl
For the full web nerd: @dutchcelt@mastodon.social
Jesse Sutherland @jsutherland.dev 💾 Web developer, softball player, family man in Montreal.
Frontend dev; built the design system at McGill University. JS frameworks, Web Components, CSS, HTML: all good!
He/him
DM for work inquiries / contracts
jsutherland.dev
jsutherland.leaflet.pub
Burton Smith @stuffbreaker.bsky.social Fun-loving coder and speaker. I love web development, web components, and design systems. Creator of the WC Toolkit.
I work at ZocDoc.
Gray Norton @graynorton.bsky.social Web guy, working on YouTube’s Living Room team; Lit core team member. Formerly: Adobe, webOS, Toyota Research Institute. Also: democracy defender, Proportional Representation advocate, progressive, humanist, singer. Opinions mine.
Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger. 
Cassondra @castastrophe.bsky.social Design systems at Adobe, CSS Working Group, ex-Red Hatter and ASD human. Posts represent my personal ideas and preferences and not those of my employer.
Stephanie Eckles @5t3ph.bsky.social (she/her) ✨ a11y • CSS • HTML • 11ty • Design Systems
David Darnes @darn.es Senior Engineer working on Polaris at Shopify
Previously: @zeroheight.com, Nord Design System, @ghost.org.
Clients: Google, @buffer.com and @netlify.com.
[he/him]
https://darn.es
https://designsystems.wtf
#DesignSystems, #WebComponents & #Frontend
Doug Gibson @dgibson.bsky.social Front-end/design systems engineer (web components, a11y, CSS, JS; former full-stack/ColdFusion developer), metalhead, geek, father.
Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info Award-winning Baltimore based web developer, HCD product lead for federal agencies, mother (humans, dogs, cats, chickens…), democracy enthusiast, nature lover. #civtech #resist #altgov #swiftie 🥄
Jacob Barss-Bailey @jacob.barss-bailey.org america's sweetheart
chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social turnt tf up in the widening gyre
Lit @lit.dev Your friendly neighborhood library to help you build web components!
https://lit.dev
Jesse Gardner @plas.tc 🗽 Design systems and a11y for New York State
🍎 Aspiring orchardist and candlemaker
auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social here
JB Hutch @jbhutch.bsky.social 🇺🇸 https://uswds-tailwind.com • 🍃 https://draft-ui.com
https://jbhutch.com
Portland, ME
Casper Klenz-Kitenge @cabgfx.com Move slow and fix things · Original Hertug™ · Nice on the mic · He/Him · ©ASpEr wAs hERe
👋 cabgfx.com/about 🎙️ cab.dk
Jamie Goodin @yamesfm.bsky.social Software engineer and civic technologist in NYC. Interested in data access and privacy. Occasional art and sound.
IAC - Information Architecture Conference @theiaconf.bsky.social Leading gathering for IAs, UXers, and Content Strategists since 2000 • April 14th - 17th, 2027 in Philadelphia • #IAC27 • https://linktr.ee/theiaconf
Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social (Unofficial) Hacker News Bot with top stories updates.
Jobs from YC startups @whois-hiring.bsky.social
Creator @ykravchuk.bsky.social
Elizabeth Creighton @elizcreighton.bsky.social Founder @ brazen.io. Cognitive Psych PhD. Mom. #hamont enthusiast. Loves 🐈🥋🪕🏋🏼♀️🌭 and @tom.party. She/her.
molly ☺ @mollyyy.bsky.social UX//UI Designer in civic tech
I love pizza 🍕 and cats 😻
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Elizabeth Neal @efneal.bsky.social My work life revolves around accessibility and user research. I also write books for children and young adults, watch too much TV, and love seeing alt-tagged pictures of your dogs. Profile picture is a selfie with our pittie petting my head. She/her.
Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social Former Sexy Murder Poet, Current Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat. (H/T Liam Bright).
Here to play academic and learn. Interests: philosophy, poetry, knitting, spinning, law, community, rejoicing in interdependence
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Bohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org aka bpavuk / Бодя Павук
everything is cure, everything is curse. dose decides.
#hatejavascript
better see my tangled: https://tangled.org/bpavuk.neocities.org
isaak belle lysle @izzotype.bsky.social { consumed by my aesthetic temperament }
https://substack.com/@aroomwithaviewport
Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social articles of interest
Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
Dave Tyler @dtyler321.bsky.social Social Media Director at RIT. Dad. Husband. Music & beer dork. Notre Dame Grad. Recovering journalist.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
NWS Chicago Unofficial (inactive) @nwschicago.bsky.social Unofficial account mirroring tweets from @NWSChicago. Maintained by @llkats.com. Notifications are not monitored. Checks for updates every 20 min.
If NWS Chicago would like to use this handle, please reach out to nwschicagobluesky@llkats.com.
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net 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
Bill Hunt @krusynth.bsky.social #RVA https://billhunt.dev
Personal stuff on here. Work stuff on Mastodon. Other stuff on other sites.
Mark Hopson aka the Procuremancer @procuremancer.bsky.social I am an enchanter of enterprises, to some the sorcerer of strategic sourcing, for industry the baba yaga of buying, in technical meetings I am can be a warlock of work breakdown structures, I am the Acquisition Alchemist. There are some who call me...Tim?
Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me BJJ practitioner and teacher, empathetic technology advocate. Neurospicy, mentally ill, and unapologetic.
Black/Latino, nonbinary (they/them) , pan/poly. spüße müße.
Opinions are my own.
EN/SP/PT
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social Associate prof of journalism, Montclair State University. Community engagement. Most recent prior: CUNY. WI native, beer & Packers enthusiast. Aging 🏃♀️. Author, Transforming Newsrooms w/Jonathan Groves. Must love dogs. Maplewood, NJ resident. views mine
amanda sanchez @aaadnamaaa.bsky.social civic techie! they/them! stinkyburgh, pa! free palestine 🇵🇸
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Ann Lewis @ann-lewis.bsky.social Tech exec, former TTS Director at GSA, former @moveon.org CTO, @scsatcmu.bsky.social grad, bio/pics: https://annlewis.tech/ (Personal account)
Jason Nakai @jnakai.bsky.social Civic technologist, community builder and outdoor enthusiast
Patrick Kigongo @kigongo.bsky.social A New Yorker in LA. Skateboarding. (Casual) football. Fitchecks. ex-18F. #CivicTech. This is a personal account. R/T’s ≠ endorsements
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation