cristian🏳️🌈 @cmaynez.bsky.social He/Himbo. Bi caffeinated designer & illustrator. Enjoy art, design, games, music, and politics with a pot of coffee in hand. 🏳️⚧️Trans Rights are Human Rights🏳️⚧️
email: cristian.maynezgd@gmail.com
www.behance.net/cmaynez
NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social One regional transit system. NITA sets fares, standards, and schedules across CTA, Metra, and Pace. Formerly the RTA.
S. T. Ismail @stismail.bsky.social Former Nutmegger. Chemistry major and science nerd. Educator. Classical music lover. Patriots/Celtics/UConn fan.
"Judge less. Read more." —Kate Good
Allison Darrahill @panicbowl.bsky.social Pay attention to local politics. Certified KC enjoyer, now in Chicago.
Leader at neuchicago.org
marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social 🌿 queer elf with a plant shop
🌵 air plants | succulents | cactus
📍 San Diego, CA
💌 dovesplants@gmail.com
linktr.ee/dovesplants
Sara Heymann @go-for-a-walk.bsky.social Artist, organizer, library worker.
Saraheymann.com
Sean McQuade @spmcquade.bsky.social research fellow @ northwestern kellogg
American Ninja Worrier @xenyx.bsky.social video games, singing and cooking for fun, sysad turned oss developer for money. Chicago enjoyer. she/her
Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social I wear a lot of hats: software developer, entrepreneur, weird fiction publisher, writer, non-profit founder, election worker, local handyman, open-source creator, and Macross & X-Men fan.
Latest updates can be found at notesfromthevoid.cc.
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social Hi I’m Brooke and I tell feminist, working class and lgbtq history to conservative men. (They hate it!)
Bean for 34 @votethebean.bsky.social I’m Nathan Bean. Candidate for Alderman in the 34th Ward of Chicago. Public Defender, Paralegal, and renter fighting for a better future.
Actblue.com/VoteTheBean
Vote Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @voteleni.bsky.social Political account of Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth, Alderwoman and Democratic Committeewoman of Chicago's 48th ward.
linktr.ee/vote_leni
Madeline Loshaw @maddillo.bsky.social anti car, pro cat | Chicago
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social Retired historian + lawyer, Chicagoan, lesbian-feminist, sometime Dolly expert, angry. I lived in Knoxville TN for 16 very long years. Author, "Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History."
Kalen Luciano @kalenfor44.bsky.social Progressive community organizer running for Chicago’s 44th Ward to build a Lakeview for all
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Jay @jay-bunch-o-nums.bsky.social Pseudonymous Chicago guy.
Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social 4pm news anchor and investigative reporter at @wgntv.com in Chicago. For those who @ me, try to be kind.
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
The Chicago Bench Collective @chicagobenchcollective.org Everyone deserves a place to sit. We build places to sit.
Request a bench: chicagobenchcollective.org
donni saphire @donni.bsky.social Chicago if it matters. Dive bar comedy vet. Only seem calm because I’m exhausted. Thinking about some new shirts
Tyler Tumblety 🌹 @tumthebumblebee.bsky.social UIowa History PhD Candidate | Social Chair - COGS/UE 896
UChicago Middle Eastern Studies ‘21
Anthony J. Quezada @anthonyjquezada.bsky.social Chicago’s 35th Alderman. Democratic Socialist. 🏳️🌈Delivering results for Irving Park, Avondale, Logan Square & Hermosa. Political account.
https://linktr.ee/peopleforanthony?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=422f0ab7-06ca-43d2-bd68-afc28860d3e1
Tahman Bradley @tahmanbradley.bsky.social White Sox! Star Trek! R&B! Breaking Bad! Deep Dish & Thin Crust Pizza! 18 Holes! Howard University! @wgnnews anchor & political reporter.
@wanderingchick.bsky.social @wanderingchick.bsky.social Chicago dog/cat mom. TexPat. Gen-Xer (but not a shitty one). Auntie. Nerd. Queer. She/her 🏳️🌈🏴☠️⚾️👬🏒
Wayde G @waydeg.bsky.social Educator/Coach/Learner.
Social Studies/History/Civics/Inquiry/Student Agency/Belonging.
Chicagoan.
Baseball Bison Birds Bikes.
Hawenercook @fhcook.bsky.social Editor & Writer; working on a book about rhetoric; Chicagoan from Texas; mom to high school kid; feeder of cats; petter of dogs; very reliable voter.
alt-banner: a gray tabby cat yawning in a bathtub
alt-avatar: a tuxedo cat loafing daintily
@ryandeterding.bsky.social @ryandeterding.bsky.social Just here to learn about all things Chicago, public transit, urbanism related from y’all. I have nothing to say.
Chicago-Style Pizzaz @chaustin.bsky.social Don't confuse me for a Democrat.
“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
― Ernest Hemingway
kelsey jaffer⚡️they/she @kelatonin.bsky.social 🇵🇰🇳🇴| Towa #TowaGame Jane #ZZZ Yaoyao #Genshin Ayako #SlamDunk Zia #Barbie Ayla #PGR Celine #PTN | #ShadowverseWB #MongilStarDive #LupinIII #FEH #Arknights #Maplestory #EverybodysGolf #ESO #HSR #SMITE #PathToNowhere | kelseyjaffer.com/voiceover 📍CHI
BansheeClause @bansheeclause.bsky.social here to accidentally get blocked by popehat
dftbatony @cactusemoji.xyz 🏳️🌈 he/him
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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social A podcast that takes you on a journey to reimagine how we can bring freedom & liberation to life.
https://linktr.ee/underthetree
Chippy @pastryfangs.bsky.social 
Chicagoweirdo @chicagoweirdo.bsky.social Chicago dad/runner trying to make it through
Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social Chicago based politics and photography enthusiast
I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social Reading, procrastinating, and occasionally living out of a backpack in places both familiar and foreign, though it's (still) a damn pandemic. Mercenary educator. She/her.
alex @igneousflock.dev birder, software dev, sim racer, motorsport fan in Chicago. he/him 🖤🩶🤍💜
i write code: https://tangled.org/igneousflock.dev
Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com look on my posts ye mighty and despair!
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Meredith @musingmeredith.bsky.social 
kaz @karenkaz.com Chicago: Belmont Cragin, #bikechi, CTA rants
Personal: greyhounds, cats, homeownership, sometimes sports
Work: marketing, data, analytics, nonprofits, city planning nerd
ABOLISH ICE is the merciful position
bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social We could’ve had taco trucks on every corner 🏳️🌈
Posthuman Postma'am @chicagobowles.com Dancer + Designer • Ancient Millennial + Toddler Mom • Raised in Charlotte, fortified in Chicago • she/her/y'all 🏳️⚧️✶🍉✶🧿✶📍606—
@kelseylucinda.bsky.social @kelseylucinda.bsky.social 
Alewyfe | 🍂 Kitchen🥧Wytchin' 🐝 @alewyfe.bsky.social chef | farmer | writer | photographer | butcher | baker | doggie treat maker | stardew habitué | itty bitty boats | bikes | beer | old ways for the new world | artful life & adventure | (tiny farm... big mad) | she/her | alewyfe.com
Stigley @flyingbodyattak.bsky.social I'm jus' hangin'
Chris P @chrispummer.bsky.social Husband, dad. | he/him | White Sox ⚾️, Blackhawks 🏒 fan | Secular humanist | General enthusiast | Model citizen, zero discipline.
Æthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social he/himbo. i like to walk around a lot. bus/train dude & local bike guy
Strong Towns Chicago @strongtownschicago.bsky.social Have fun and make a difference with an active urbanist community. Join us!
Housing 🏡 Transit 🚎 Finance 🤓
Website: strongtownschicago.org
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/strongtownschicago
@brose1don.bsky.social @brose1don.bsky.social 
Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️
Pat @hartigan.bsky.social juiced like a strawberry
chicago // phish // kglw // asoiaf // gaming
Gerta LeStrange🇵🇸 @gertalestrange.bsky.social “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
wharf rat @nhwharfrat.bsky.social owner of a one-eyed shiba
Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.
📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra
Updog Sinclair @greaterhuff.bsky.social Something prickly and hard to eradicate
#wifeguy
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Hilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social Academic [gender studies, sound studies, Black studies, queer studies], abolitionist, boxer. Cat person, reader, dreamer, Eyeliner fiend, mutual aid organizer, dog obsessed. Daniel Day-Lewis enthusiast, dad joke appreciator. NYC.
John Keilman @johnkeilman.bsky.social I am a reporter with the Wall Street Journal 
S Gronkiewicz-Doran for 45th Ward Alderperson @sgdfor45.bsky.social Bringing new leadership to Chicago's 45th Ward. Visit our site at www.sgdfor45.com to learn more, volunteer, donate, and sign up for our weekly newsletter (bit.ly/sgdnewsletter)
Hobo Bindle Guy @thenotoriouspdb.bsky.social Not a lawyer anymore. Kid haver and wife simp. Long suffering Titans and Bulls fan. Weirdly convinced human life has inherent dignity. Bad at playing MTG and making music. Better than nothing.
Rotanen ♾️ @rotanen.bsky.social They/he | Antifascist | Isocrat
Evanston IL
I run the Chicago Protests feed
Nick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social Just a guy
Fran @kevnscan.bsky.social Chicago, monocular
“Did you kiss your cat enough today?
No.” - my cat
Animator, on off political field director
Kevnscannell.com
notorious NIK @spaceman25.bsky.social Chicago -> NYC -> Slovakia -> Chicago | “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
concerts georg @sarrusophones.bsky.social always trying to build community
with/through/about music.
also public radio, carhenge, etc etc
views are my own, sorry
Pantwin @pantwin.bsky.social Chicago. Music. Nerves.
Nathan Morris @nathan-morris.bsky.social Chicago liberal, Chicago sports fan
Jeanne Holder @jeanneholder.bsky.social DEI hired in 1980, David Taylor Naval Systems Research Center, Annapolis MD, retired civil servant GS12 electronic technician. 33 years service for Naval Surface Warfare Center. Proud whistle blower of safety violations and damaged Navy equipment in Idaho
Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
http://me3dia.com
Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
General Malort @general-malort.bsky.social 
Meghan Leonard @meghanleonard.bsky.social Professor - Political Science @ Illinois State University: judicial politics & state supreme courts. cats. women's sports. basketball. she/her
Clayton “Death” @itsclaybaby.bsky.social Stupid guy who posts dog pics sometimes
Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
dag @tiedye.bsky.social welcome to my page
Ryan G-S @ryangs.net 
Puddle Oops @puddleoops.com type designer, famously illiterate
xotype.co 📍chicago
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
STL
@rachel-circle-a.bsky.social @rachel-circle-a.bsky.social 
@dtschwartz.bsky.social @dtschwartz.bsky.social 
@allan-b.bsky.social @allan-b.bsky.social 
R.J. Simpson @eonbateman.bsky.social He/Him. Gerald Ford died on his toilet. 93/93
ncv @ncv.bsky.social Fighting game player, musician, skateboarder, father, Chicagoan, wife guy
https://linktr.ee/nicecombovideo
Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
jgreen4919.github.io
Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show producer of Illinois Public Media's @21st.show, journalist, trans nerd. 🏳️🌈📻🏳️⚧️ she/her. based in Champaign-Urbana. past: UIS PAR '21, WPR.
the usual blurb: http://seedisclaimer.com/
Sarah @ilovescotchtoo.bsky.social Bike and egg nog enthusiast. Definitely too old to be doing some of this crap.
Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent.
Civic tech & UX by day, art by night.
Building shared versions of reality + hope.
RaksGeek.com
RaksInferno.com
DawnXianaMoon.com
B. Intrepid @bintrepid.bsky.social Uncommitted. Don't come asking me for money or my time. You'll have to earn my vote (and you're failing miserably). Good for thee, now it's good for me, too 2.0
🇺🇦📎🐾
Jess @jjeessss.bsky.social video editor, sometimes crafter, generally very boring
Rebellions Are Built On Hope @builtonhope.bsky.social Anti-MAGA. Pro-freedom everywhere.
NYC PROUD!
Bushra Amiwala @bushraamiwala.bsky.social 💪🏽Running for Congress in IL-9
⭐️First Gen Z Elected Official in the US
bushraforcongress.com
SACRED Acts @sacreddemocracy.bsky.social www.SacredDemocracy.org
Chicago Board of Elections @chicagoelection.bsky.social Born of referenda in 1885, the Board of Election Commissioners manages all voter registrations and administers all elections in the City of Chicago.
Dave Kayaks @davekayaks.bsky.social Baby-naming magnate, author of ‘Death by Halloween.” On Cinema, Dwarf Fortress, light trolling. I will NOT be discussing kayaking. hehim
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Frankie F. Funk @frankieffunk.bsky.social Chicago's finest Roleplaying Gamer / Energy Wonk / Geekdad / Metalhead /Cargo Biker / Cat Parent
@sg8prl.bsky.social @sg8prl.bsky.social