ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com Certified urban planner doing policy stuff at California YIMBY. Posts about housing, skateboarding, and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Martial Law Abiding Citizen @martianmcfly.bsky.social Was once called a NATO chauvinist and it felt good.
Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com FRED & IPUMS enjoyer. Lawyer (DC). Economics, charts, tech policy, urbanism, regulation, housing, transport. Growth is very good. Reposts are demand letters.
Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social Programmer. Trying to enjoy arguing on the Internet less. He/Him.
Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social Dad, husband, double hoo.
Previously - firefighter, medic, stroke researcher, remote medicine and foreign policy.
Opinions my own, especially when they're wrong. Reposts are not endorsements unless it’s woodworking, maybe beagle posts too.
Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
Abolish ICE in Chicago and Everywhere @amberchicago.bsky.social (she/her) Chicago. cats. critical thinking. communication. also: knitting, sometimes
joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social UXR, former MechE, current dispenser of hot takes. I believe in the you that believes in me. Bi, butch. They/them. ICE delenda est.
Micheál Podgers @michealpodgers.bsky.social Yassssssifying infrastructure.
📍Chicago
👨🏻💻Urban Planner
🗣️ EN DE FR NL GA
Professional account. All opinions my own.
Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social Energy efficiency industry employee and former ADU resident. Here to stay updated on climate, energy, urbanism, and weather. I post frequently about Chicago!
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
CTA Train Insights @ctatraininsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚆 Chicago L transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost trains, hourly speedmaps + system snapshots.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social I do housing policy stuff and it’s ruining my life. CADA, SMUD, and SOE fanboy. House Sacramento’s most annoying member.
Urban Land Rent Foundation’s official letterboxd: boxd.it/cUU0R
David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
Æthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social he/himbo. i like to walk around a lot. bus/train dude & local bike guy
Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social Working to make things more equitable, peaceful & humane. Currently: Nonprofit strategy + Bike Bus leader! Prev: AmeriCorps & teacher, ed leader, Booth MBA Civic Scholar, Obama campaign + appointee.
Usually posting about Chicago, safe streets, or #Sixers
Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social OG AltGov. As far as you know.
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here.
👨🔬 RS DeepMind
Past:
👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
👤 @nwspk
Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Axe Ghost. On Steam! @axeghostgame.bsky.social Cleverly push monsters around a grid and blow them up.
Demo👉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994110/
Marcel Weiß @marcelweiss.bsky.social Strategy Analyst & Publizist - FAZ, neunetz.com, neunetz.fm, Lieblingsfarbe Blau
brennan @brennan.computer unlicensed back alley alchemy
digital ⇄ physical, 3D and AI research. living in a world of magic and vibrance
Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com engineering and infosec · he/him (decaf) · vis tacita
maine bluesky feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:txfqncx66asrjzitxfur3of6/feed/aaap7ldsnvpkw
THE INTERNET IS SCARY: @internetisscary.org
tao @btao.org working on favs.blue, it's favstar for bluesky
cybersecurity, privacy, trust & safety 🔸🇩🇰🏴🌐
previously: trust & safety engineering at https://cinder.ai/
caranatar @vibecode.rodeo they/them
computer toucher
anarchist
photography
parent
discordian
J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz Social Justice Bard. They/them. Gay; tired.
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE and ICE has not faced justice.
Revan @revan.eurosky.social Chair of the Malachor V Institute on Posting Madness
The Dark Side of the Posts is a pathway to many replies some consider to be unnatural. This medicine can’t fix stab. Not a real doctor or Sith Lord
Olaren @olaren.dev she/her/they/them | 🏳️⚧️ | software dev | part time doer of cool things | silly internet yapper | Qc | fr/en | https://olaren.dev
Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social Senior Energy and Climate Data Analyst @emberenergy.bsky.social | Lead author of the Global Electricity Review | Finding, curating and explaining the data behind the global energy⚡️transition.
Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com Official Firefox account for people who build on the web. Learn about the things we're working on to grow and improve the web platform.
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Scoiattolo/a @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
Emelia @thisismissem.social Corruptress of Protocols, Tech Princess 👸🏻
Working on Trust & Safety, open-source software, and open social web as an Independent Contractor. Chronically ill.
You've probably used tech I've contributed to.
Bridged: @thisismissem.hachyderm.io@ap.brid.gy
Matthieu 🦋 @matthieu.bsky.team Protocol Engineer at Bluesky. Building the open social web on AT Protocol. Into web standards, OAuth, TypeScript, and over engineered code.
Dad, gamer, Dire Straits fan, sailor and beer enthusiast.
From Brussels 🇧🇪
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/ 
Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev The open source AI code editor
semi professional windmill tilter @thespianrex.bsky.social the wise man at the nude beach covers his face not his genitals
formerly foucaultshi
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
aly @aly.codes 📍atlanta
dev stuff / infra / cycling / cities / linux
building @atbbs.xyz, switchyard.aly.codes, tangled.org/aly.codes/tg, among others
site: aly.codes
code: github.com/alyraffauf
better code: tangled.org/aly.codes
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/alyraffauf
Jeff F @jfeej.bsky.social North Shore now, Chicago forever. Smoothgroin emploid family man. Inveterate smartass. Shoulda minored in PoliSci. Nothing is ever over and the sun always rises.
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social 
River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social Managing Director of Single Family Housing Inventory at BlackRock. God forbid a woman collect things.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social PhD in History, fiction published by Sea Lion Press and original non-fiction research published by Historical Research and the South African Historical Journal.
Lecturer in History and Politics at a Nid-Tier University.
Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com Memory safety / Rust 🦀, Dodger baseball ⚾️
...also #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more.
Helping you assess OSS risks with @hipcheck.mitre.org.
Principal Engineer at MITRE (opinions are mine)
blogs: alilleybrinker.com / possiblerust.com
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev Mid-20s, CS grad, unemployed. The world is a trashfire. 🏳️🌈
I've had this username for ages and I still don't know much of anything.
Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social 
ajdecon @ajdecon.org Building HPC systems, currently at IonQ. Formerly NVIDIA, FB, LANL, R Systems; and before that, materials physics.
Perpetually a bit confused. As always opinions are mine. He/him.
🏡: Denver, CO
🌐: https://www.ajdecon.org
Signal: @ajdecon.42
Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com I like utilitarianism, consciousness, AI, EA, space, kindness, liberalism, longtermism, progressive rock, economics, and most people. Substack: http://timfduffy.substack.com
Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social A shitposting plane who knows stuff about polls, drug development, and CFR Part 11 validation.
MrNelson007, Dragon of Dojima @mrnelson007.bsky.social Video game idiot at large.
I write stuff sometimes. That’s about it honestly.
politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social Nerd obsessed with comic books, 90s television shows, and unfortunately politics. Annoying scoreboard tracker. Neoliberalism was right all along. Pro-Gerontocracy. No War But Culture War. A Biden Democrat to the end.
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
rimidar @rimidar.au Colourful Australian racing identity. U-North Document Review Department. Ideological Sollist. Novice Hermeticist. Gnostic Catholic. Reillusioned liberal. He/him. Just trying to post through it all.
This is not going to end well.
Marketplace @marketplace.org Every story has an economic angle. We break it down to help you live smarter. marketplace.org
📧 Want even more Marketplace? Subscribe to our newsletters: https://www.marketplace.org/newsletters/
polytoken dot dev @polytoken.dev A coding harness by somebody who is kind of obsessive about nice coding harnesses. That somebody is @ed3d.net.
https://docs.polytoken.dev
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)
Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetransportation.org
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social Official account of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal created by
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social.
Home of the ongoing webcomic SMBC, A City on Mars, and of little books featuring large concepts abridged beyond the point of usefulness.
Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org The region's sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, helping to make the city and suburbs better since 2013. Posts: @johngreenfield.bsky.social (unsigned) and @stevevance.net.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social American, Texan, Father, former USAF F-16 pilot & NASA Astronaut. Trying to bring some happiness and sanity down here on Earth.
www.terryvirts.com Book a 1 on 1 call with me at: intro.co/TerryVirts
Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation ethics and R&D // plotter of pretty charts
https://minimaxir.com
Eris @isolyth.dev 💛🤍💜🖤
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Straight lines on log plots
https://eriskii.net/
Adriana Cardona @adrianacardmag.bsky.social I'm a Colombian journalist based in Chicago and I cover immigration for WBEZ 91.5FM. https://www.wbez.org/author/adriana-cardona-maguigad
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social Deleted the stove emoji because we are now touching it.
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre shortstop
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
have a tip? DM me for signal
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social believe in a better future for it is all that you can do - @jael.bsky.social
park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, pushing papers for our public lands. EMT, PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack. opinions are mine, and so is Clayton. 🏳️🌈
a matt @thrillhowse.bsky.social newer, more interesting midwestern architect
Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social Digital executive editor at Fast Company
Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev Making TypeScript for 10 years running
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
express bus stan account @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social chicagoposter extraordinaire
Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social Radiologist. Broadly enthusiastic. Science, outdoors/nature, travel. Lakes, coasts. Home experiments. Local environments. Many photos of slightly oddball things. Not seeking unsolicited advice.
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social linear algebra is not ontologically evil
The Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com Tech shitposts
Boston // Athens
Coder, writer, weightlifter, metal dive bar enthusiast
Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social Linux sysadmin, WordPress developer, general nerd into mechanical keyboards, electronics, sci-fi, and <misc geekery> in Pittsburgh now, Asheville long ago. Agents welcome 🤖✨
asura @asura.dev they / any and will move your infra to GCP for food
Broke Blaise's (@wittywebhandle.bsky.social) brain after they claimed batteries weren't a form of vertical integration but openAI was. 🤪
Tech, pets, games, ... Linux, python, cloud
Be queer, do things
Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social He/him
Threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain
A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
Loafer and gentleman of the fancy.
Intermittent NSFW (42, over 18 for a long, long time)
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist.
https://danilocampos.com
advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon.
@scottmanley.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social 
Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social If you blame/attack Democrats more than Republicans, you are not on the left.
The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Curating curiosity for all since 1887. The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Cover photo: Oak Street Beach postcard from Curt Teich Postcard Collection.
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social We are all we’ve got. We are all we need. ✊🏽
Community Organizer 🚲 @cyclingxsolidarity