Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social Yes, I’m pulling the car over to look at plaques. I’ll be just a minute. Not a historian, but did minor in history at Indiana University. Formerly notgoingpro on other socials.
Scott Parker @scottparker.bsky.social 1/3rd of dekudeals.com . builder, gamer of all varieties, and internet dunce par excellence
Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty-dollar-by-brendan-greeley/
Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social Weather and climate scientist focused on extreme events like floods, droughts, & wildfires on a warming planet. www.weatherwest.com
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
Luke Farrell @lukef.bsky.social Building for working people in @NYC | Solved crises @WhiteHouse @USDS 🚀 writing about it occasionally itslukefarrell.substack.com
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Brooks Barber @rollplusfun.bsky.social Tabletop game designer - mostly historical but not always. Designer of Sykes-Picot from Hollandspiele. Forthcoming games Threed, Spindletop, and Painkillers. Co-founder of Hawk & Dove Games.
https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/
Mark @arkmashton.bsky.social "[O]f all the emotions – and indifference, too, because even indifference is an emotion of a sort – only love sees the unveiled truth."
– Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl
https://prayercards.online
Ross Thompson @itsrossthompson.bsky.social Often found playing games, painting miniatures, travelling to conventions and hitting friends with sticks | he/him
The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Candid conversations about the process of making games.
https://linktr.ee/secretlives.games
@nsuttner.bsky.social @nealen.bsky.social @doougle.net @stfj.net @selmaleh.bsky.social @lauraehall.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
terence @tterence.bsky.social smitten with #rstats · associate prof · political economy · the #rayverse's number one fan
armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social Photojournalist for the @chicagotribune. Born in ATX. Still getting used to the cold. Breakfast taco enthusiast. No such thing as bad light or small stories.
Tech Jobs for Good @techjobsforgood.bsky.social Tech Jobs for Good helps connect mission-driven technologists with organizations using technology to meaningfully address social and environmental issues.
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
The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
Sam Fragoso @samfragoso.bsky.social Host of Talk Easy.
talkeasypod.com
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social Astronomy, Exoplanets, Astrobiology, Cool Worlds Lab, Columbia University. Be kind to one another.
Ryan Cox @coxcoaching.co I optimize ⏰ people.
As an Accountability + Growth Coach: I put the🔋in your back and we get shit done.
I built my business at the start of the pandemic through nothing but DM slides on the Bird app.
Miami 🌴 living.
Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social Random Restaurant bot on Bluesky using code created by @friendo.bsky.social, bot engineered by Turbo Dong 420
Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social Economic Historian at Università di Torino. I aspire to a Plinian mind. From Palermo, Sicily.
Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD
jeffnicholshistory.com
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social Ball and chain. Packers shareholder. Duller than you can possibly imagine. Personally wrecked Brooklyn. "A quality follow" -- Peter Kafka
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social Award-winning game designer of Land and Freedom (Blue Panther), Hammer and Sickle (GMT P500), John Brown, and more! https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1081-hammer-and-sickle.aspx
Chicago Alerts @chicagoalerts.com Chicago alerts from Notify Chicago, NOAA and other chicago orgs.
A simple bot by @harper.lol
Earthborne Games @earthbornegames.bsky.social Refreshing worlds. Transformative stories. Groundbreaking production.
Creators of #EarthborneRangers and #HubworldAidalon
Andrew Fischer @afischergames.bsky.social Game design director at Earthborne Games. Lead designer on the Cosmere RPG. Other credits include Fallout, Star Wars RPG, Mansions of Madness, Journeys in Middle-earth. http://andrewfischergames.com He/him
lexande @lexande.bsky.social People need a place to go.
https://transit-timelines.github.io/
mastodon.social/@lexande
twitter.com/threestationsq
McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social Started as updates from an artifact from a significant South Side club that has been spared the scrap heap. Now mostly other Woodlawn/Chgo history. Jazz & minutia. Infrequent posts.
gabriel x. michael @g-x-m.bsky.social Witness to subterranean Chicago. King of Lake Street. Guardian of the city’s oldest buildings. Telling a story of the unappreciated, unseen, unknown.
MCMLXXXIV. All rights reserved.
Pijus Krūminas @pijusk.bsky.social Associate professor at ISM, Lithuania. Wargaming, game theory, comparative politics, economics), blogs about wargaming at: https://pijus.substack.com/
The Map Room @maproomblog.com A blog by @jonathancrowe.net about maps in all their forms, on and off since 2003. maproomblog.com
Email digest: maproomblog.com/about/subscribe
Mastodon: mapstodon.space/@maproomblog
Support via Patreon: patreon.com/jonathancrowe
Nate O. @sanildefanso.bsky.social Official Board Game Tastemaker and Co-host of Cult of the Old with @giantbrain.co.uk and @mattthr.bsky.social. Christian pacifist, TV snob, coffee addict.
Ben Brode @benbrode.bsky.social Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder @ Second Dinner
Marvel SNAP | Hearthstone | Commander-At-Home guest | Rapper
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
Chris @cfarrell317.bsky.social Boardgame blogger and writer since 1991, classical clarinetist, and software developer.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Taylor Moore @taylormoore.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Chicago with work in The Guardian, Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, The New Republic, WBEZ, etc. Ex-IWMF. Bloomin' onion apologist. taylorgmoore.com
Corey Young 🔜 Gen Con @coreyyoung.com Tabletop game designer 🎲✂️, laser-cut game accessory maker, otrovert, and Star Trek fan🖖 (he/him)
Nick Bentley Makes Games @nickbentley.bsky.social Posts about game design. Director of Game Design at Taco Cat Games (Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza), former President of Underdog Games Studio (The Trekking Trilogy), former Neuroscientist.
Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social Certified Illinois Expert. 🧡 libraries, buildings, nature, history.
Giving Illinois travel/history lectures at a library near you! See schedule at johnkokoris.com or request that your library book me!
Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
Rory Muldoon @rorymuldoon.bsky.social Graphic designer making games. One half of @postmarkgames.bsky.social. 52 Realms, Voyages, Waypoints, Skora. He/him.
rorymuldoon.com
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@dwightgarner.bsky.social @dwightgarner.bsky.social Books, New York Times. Author of The Upstairs Delicatessen.
Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social Tabletop Game Design | Educational Psychologist | Equity & Justice through Education | Coffee, Zines, Cats | he/him
Games: presspot.games
Research: travisdhill.com
Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social Next round's on me
Rachel Billingsley @rachellynnyo.bsky.social Director of Marketing at GMT Games. Nature enthusiast. Coffee lover. Human.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Dan Bullock @danbullock.bsky.social Analog game maker (1979, In the Shadows, Bowie, Penitent & more) Game Design Deep Dive pod. Fmr Scarring Party bandleader. he/him 🏳️🌈
🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social tabletop games + app games + pie + AsAm Adoptee + She/Her = ruining games one skeet at a time. as seen on History's The Toys That Built America. hates puns - but in a fun way. @saltandsass.bsky.social. i keep 3 things: secrets, promises, and grudges.
Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries @dnlnwmn.bsky.social I design and publish games (my own and others) via New Mill Industries (http://www.newmillindustries.com)
I've been going to the movies like it's my job (https://letterboxd.com/dnlnwmn/films/diary/)
PFP by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Artur Carvalho @arturnottheking.bsky.social Brazilian-French 🇧🇷🇫🇷 Game designer🃏
Ph.D in Modeling & Simulation.
I like to explore the frontier between modern board games and simulation games (wargames/conflict simulation), focusing on how to improve pedagogy instead of reducing complexity.
Luba @lubaa.bsky.social Wargames :)
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp ゲームクリエイター：僕の体の70%は映画でできている
Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev 👩💻 Sr Dir of DevRel at @GitHub.
🔥 Grandmother of the first-ever hellthread.
🖨️ Will probably convince you to buy a 3D printer.
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
SDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social The San Diego Historical Games Convention. Check out everything on our in-person and online conventions, our Conflicts of Interest Online articles, and our annual Summit Award at www.sdhist.com.
Dr. Alexander S. Burns @kabinettskriege.bsky.social Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social Games, cocktails, comics, books, movies and stuff.
Day[9] @day9tv.bsky.social Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness || business@day9.tv
Tor @ccxvii.bsky.social I made rally-the-troops.com, mupdf, gargoyle, and some other stuff.
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
John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; faculty lounge exotica; PhD/JD.
By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport.
24/7: Epistemic humility; posting through the polycrisis; personal account.
jenn schiffer 😮💨 @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Feedback Loop Games @feedbackloop.bsky.social Sharing great writing about games.
Our tabletop games and newsletter: https://feedbackloop.games/
Rodger B. MacGowan @rodgerbmacgowan.bsky.social President RBM Studio LLC • Publisher of C3i Magazine • Senior Vice President & Art Director of GMT Games • Founder of Fire & Movement Magazine https://c3iopscenter.com/
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.
Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Adjunct Professor at Georgetown. Former US Marine. Opinions own.
Geoff Rushton @geoffrushton.bsky.social Editor of http://StateCollege.com.
My brother came all the way from Scottsdale, Arizona to be here tonight, and you’re not going to sing for him?
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social Don't just understand the economy – understand the world.
linktr.ee/planetmoney
United Northwest Side @unitednwside.bsky.social A grassroots independent political organization on Chicago’s Northwest Side - organizing against the broken scarcity politics of the past for a future that includes enough for all of us. 
Andi Lennon @andilennon.bsky.social Writer, Musician, Game Designer, Vegan, Anti Fascist, Anti Imperialist, Pro Crust, Dilettante
Rachel @sofr.bsky.social finance/econ
David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social Mental health awareness advocate. Down syndrome advocate. Game designer.
Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social Australian game designer and former research chemist. One half of Postmark Games. Expect science and game based posts! He/him.
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MatthewDunstan
Milda Matilda Games @mildamatildagames.bsky.social She/her.
Amateur hour board game designer and publisher.
Turncoats, Pax Penning, and Hell-Raisers.
Dentist at times.