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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe inbox: oliver@status.news
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
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social Eldest Sister. Childless Cat Lady. Italian Jew. Witchy Woman. I’m from N-E-W Jerz
Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social #NotYourMamasMarthaStewart | Journalism l Politics l Tech + AI | Former Chef | Connecticut + Massachusetts I
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social Cartoonist
No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com @postoctobrist.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, and @raaleh.bsky.social cover every mayor, in order. nogodsnomayors.com
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social podcastress. she/her but they/them if you’re mad at me. Trashfuture/Well There’s Your Problem/Kill James Bond/No Gods No Mayors/Be Gay Solve Crimes available wherever podcasts are sold
United For Democracy @weareufd.bsky.social We are a diverse coalition shining a spotlight on the ways this Supreme Court is impacting our families, our communities, our freedoms, and our democracy.
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
cta @chicagocta.bsky.social Official account of the Chicago Transit Authority. Delivering quality, affordable transit services that link people, jobs and communities. For customer support head to transitchicago.com/contact
Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel “The smart, transit-oriented [social media] account” -Chicago Tribune Planning, building, breaking, rebuilding.
Chicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social Petition to Demand A World-Class Chicago Transit System: https://www.change.org/Chicago2100 Advocating for a better tomorrow, one street at a time
The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social Profile for the LGR YouTube channel. Covering vintage computer hardware, software, and various retro tech oddities. https://youtube.com/@LGR
Ken Shirriff @righto.com Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
Ben Krasnow @benkrasnow.bsky.social I design & build electromechanical prototypes and host the Applied Science channel on Youtube.
Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
The Repair Association @repairorg.bsky.social We fight for your right to fix. Join us at www.repair.org and use the hashtag #RightToRepair.
iFixit @ifixit.com 🧑‍🔧 Free repair guides for every thing, written by everyone 🛠️ Fighting for your right to repair your stuff 📸 Share your repair with #ifixit
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
The Register @theregister.com Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Marcia Hofmann @marciahofmann.com Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, US-UK Fulbright.
Obsolete Electronics Archive @obsoletearchive.bsky.social Documenting the forgotten history of technology.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Meshtastic @meshtastic.org Meshtastic is an open-source project enabling off-grid, decentralized communication using low-cost, low-power devices. Perfect for adventurers, makers, and communities looking for resilient mesh networks without having to rely on traditional infrastructure
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
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.
Chicago Critical Mass @chicritmass.bsky.social A Free bicycle ride the last Friday of every month 6PM leaving from Daley plaza. Come out & ride.
NYC Mesh @nycmesh.bsky.social Community Internet- nycmesh.net We are a diverse group of volunteers dedicated to ending the digital divide and extending high-speed, reliable internet to all New Yorkers.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co email: marisa@thehandbasket.co signal: marisakabas.04
Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social Cartoonist, Writer. Two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Herblock Prize, RFK Journalism Award, Berryman Award, NCS Awards, Top 76 Theme Park Influencer. Follow for more comics
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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.
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social Fantasy webcomics. NSFW
Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org We're demanding a city-wide #bikegridnow with slow & safe bike-prioritized streets across Chicago. bikegridnow.org
Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social Abbot and Founder, Upaya Zen Center
Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social Fan account of Auguste Rodin, a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. b. 1840, d. 1917. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️‍🌈🦄
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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
Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) senior editor and opinion columnist — covering politics, free speech, civil liberties, and extremism. Signal: @afish.99 https://www.ms.now/author/anthony-l-fisher
Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social Maths teacher, currently on maternity leave. I aim to share lots of snippets of my lessons using #MathsToday and would encourage you to do the same! Also occasional geometry puzzles 🧩
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast. Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers. Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own. linktr.ee/markhisted neuro: 🧠 /🧪
R Crumbs New Warehouse @robertcrumb.bsky.social Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend! Come inside! Come inside! There behind a glass stands a real blade of grass be careful as you pass. Move along! Move along!
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social Photojournalist @BlockClubCHI | BSJ, MSJ, Adjunct Lecturer @MedillSchool | Lifelong Chicagoan | #TodaysReportingLunch | Cats | News | Local Lens
Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com Signal: jseidel.37
Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net It's the Democracy, Stupid. Radio: WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social Video podcast: @lincolnsquare.media Substack: https://edwineisendrath.substack.com/ Long ago: Chicago schoolteacher, alderman, CEO Chicago Sun Times, etc.
Joan Esposito @joanesposito.bsky.social Liberal political talk radio in Chicago. https://heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/ Ignore my old blue sky acct. I lost the passwords, so joanespositochi is dead to me. And you.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
George Hahn @georgehahn.com Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Emily Witt @embits.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker, author of Health and Safety and Future Sex.
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Art Frak @artfrak.com Snap'n Pics of Mortals & Pixel Pushing Wobbly Realities Start'n Fresh Again & Keep'n it Microscopic, No Polish & Xtremely RAW BTS Bazinga Acct • 🚫AI Art • Toronto 🇨🇦 • http://www.artfrak.com
Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social Lover of art, design, photography and knowledge. Also, good music to make art to. Loving meow-meow mama. 🇺🇦🌻🇺🇦 Blue dot in a Red Sea, here in East Tennessee. 💙
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Chosen by god, perfected by science CEO at EZPR.com
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl Honorary IATSE Local 1 banner 📸Christopher Calkins portrait 📸Tom Bloom
CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social High impact easy listening!
Imar @imar.nl Photographer | Arnhem, Netherlands | https://linktr.ee/Imar.nl (please repost or credit with link) Passionate about Artistic Nudes? Join The Nude Canvas Newsletter for free!👇 https://www.thenudecanvas.com
Chrischii_foto @chrischii-foto.bsky.social Photographer from South Germany
Tribal Army @tribalarmyorg.bsky.social Tribal Army Provides a platform to challenge the generational neglect of Indigenous people of world. •Website: https://tribalarmy.org •Twitter: https://x.com/TribalArmy
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com The hardest-working paper in America.
Being Creative @beingcreative70.bsky.social The nude female form | Art | History | Literature | Music | Love | Photography from all over the Universe
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com Signal: muellershewrote.23 Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA. Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account. https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law. Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Bawdily Drawn 🔞 @bawdilydrawn.bsky.social 🔞 No one under 18 allowed. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ ~ 40 | Bawdy adult webcomics of the slightly creepy and thoroughly kooky variety. No AI art. https://bawdilydrawn.carrd.co/ https://www.patreon.com/BawdilyDrawnComics https://subscribestar.adult/bawdilydrawn
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people. Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
@FSensualist @fsensualist.bsky.social Random delicious thoughts….my partner in lust…. @kcwolf11.bsky.social…… “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, and stupid people already have all the answers" ~Socrates Never Daddy ….always “Sir”
Toulouse-Lautrec @toulouselautrec.bsky.social Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was a 19th century French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social 🔗 https://linktr.ee/lautrec_artbot
M. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social Maurits Cornelis Escher was a 20th (1898-1972) century Dutch artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. #artbots by @nuwaves_future , @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social linktr.ee/escher_artbot
Nuwaves // Future @nuwaves-future.bsky.social Nuwaves // Future is an arts education nonprofit. We steward the #artbots network. Follow for art. 🔗 future.nuwaves.xyz
Edvard Munch @edvardmunch.bsky.social Fan account of Edvard Munch, a Norwegian painter and printmaker.
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social https://www.moma.org
Dirk Gently's Enby Detective Agency @evilrobert.newrosehotel.co Gen-X solutions architect, board member of a state PAC, can pronounce disestablishmentarianism, and autistic parent/dad of an autistic child. they/them I have feeds for Journalists of Bluesky and News Organizations
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
R Crumb Warehouse @rcrumbwarehouse.bsky.social We post everything R, Crumb related Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside, There behind a glass stands a real blade of grass Be careful as you pass, move along, move along
Cancer Horoscope @cancer.astrolis.com ♋ Daily, weekly, and monthly Cancer horoscopes from @astrolis.com. Current planetary positions and astrology transits.
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social The Modern Software Engineering Channel ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator. Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton Retired Starfleet officer. Husband, father, Traveler. Nazi punks fuck off.