Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social Urban and Disadvantaged Botany.
All photos are by myself & feature pavementplants unless otherwise noted. Based in South Philly.
Support/Shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/concretebotany/shop
Bloomscrolling > Doomscrolling
Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds and biodiversity. birds.cornell.edu/home/
(White-breasted Nuthatch by Hannah Criswell / Macaulay Library)
Bitch Hoggle @bitchhoggle.bsky.social The bastard child of 100 maniacs.
Lexi & The Beast @lexsky.bsky.social I like to sew clothing and run my mouth. Blue rural’ish dot. Jersey Girl. Horses. Cats. Mom life. Very slow distance runner. Middle-aged feminist rage. Enthusiastically giving fewer f-s with every passing day. I wish I’d gone to fashion school.
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social gossip, FOIA, art and zinemaker in chicago
taking notes for myself
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www.thefoiabakery.org
Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social Fiber artist and opinionated Minneapolis leftist. Come for the embroidery, stay for the chaotic bisexual energy. BLM - ACAB
nickeyrobo.com
Rustic Acres Wildcat Rescue @rawrsanctuary.bsky.social www.rawrsanctuary.org
A 501(c)(3), GFAS-verified bonafide wild cat sanctuary that provides a forever home to nonreleasable wild cats & domestics with various disabilities. Members of Big Cat Sanctuary Alliance. We never buy, breed, or sell animals.
LC @makemorecareless.com 🧶 Knitter. Gamer. Spreadsheet enthusiast.
still blogging at makemorecareless.com
City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social #NativePlants & #Pollinators Lover. Master Gardener. Master Urban Farmer. Cookbook Editor/Chef. Tiny #Chicago Garden Zone 6A. All photos mine unless otherwise indicated. #UrbsInHorto #GardenDogs #KitchenGarden #FantasticFoliage
The Victorian Archivist @victorianarchivist.bsky.social Librarian, historical costumer, tea addict
fancymiscellany.wordpress.com
Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social The offical account for Chicago Piping Plover news and content. Media inquiries email piperwatch@chicagobirder.org.
@peculiaritygallery.bsky.social @peculiaritygallery.bsky.social 
@potatobay.bsky.social @potatobay.bsky.social 
@sciencegoth.bsky.social @sciencegoth.bsky.social 
Becky @beckymew.bsky.social Co-Founder, Peculiarity Shop.
Circus peanut/unicorn kaiju. They/them, sometimes She. Black lives matter. Disabled & queer people are people. Genocide is wrong, actually. Pay artists.
Fuck fascists, abolish ICE; this shouldn't be a controversial position.
The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Ten years of LGBTQIA+ folks making cool stuff.
Co-Founded with @beckymew.bsky.social
No one is free until we are all free.
Shop: www.peculiarityshop.com
Gallery: @peculiaritygallery.bsky.social
Jurph: you're soaking in it @jurph.bsky.social Veteran of dial up BBS, mIRC, AOL federated messaging, and Google Reader. When all this is gone I will remain. The most important thing is helping people.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
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http://www.jkimpictures.net
gnocchi dokey (she or they) @gnocchidokey.bsky.social Math teacher, anarchist, anti-racist, friend to animals. Officially elsewhere. Nowhere near my original coordinates.
Philly-centric ICE Response Guide: https://wedontlikeice.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/masterpost-what-to-do-if-you-see-ice-in-southeast-pa/
B the Art @bla63.bsky.social Artist. All my art is hand drawn and original. All Art I post is Copyrighted and belongs to me. Timelapse art videos. Photos of my art. Art appreciator. Animal protector. Gardener. Movie watcher. BtheArt63 Youtube channel.
cupofmin @cupofmin.bsky.social Hi! I embroider pets! And I make bookmarks shaped like teabags! 🍂🪻She/her - Spain - Contact me: cupofmin@gmail.com
Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. 🙏🏼🌎 🕊️
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard
Budapest HU║Long Beach CA
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
Alison @knitattheridge.bsky.social Knitter 🧶 sometimes sewist 🪡 reader 📖 backyard homesteader (5a) 🍅 nature lover 🪴homeschool mom of a senior 🌎 and a grad 🎓
governerd 🦅 ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Colorado 🌄
Radicalized by Basic Human Decency
Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz Write, illustrate, play music, create. Faiako before - working in broader education now. PsA, 3 tabby cats, duckposter. she/her.
I look after the garment sewing feed + lots of Aotearoa feeds.
faiako- 🐦🐘 faiako1-🧵
Vicki Davis @chigster.bsky.social Tofu-eating London dweller - usually knitting, sewing, reading or making something or other
#knitting #sewing #walking #travelling #reading #sci-fi
Golden Girls and the News @goldengirlsnews.bsky.social Not to be confused with Huey Lewis and the News 🪗🧨
The Wasteshed @wasteshed.bsky.social Chicagoland's Creative Reuse Resource! Humboldt Park and Evanston, we've got the good stuff. An Art & Education & Environmental Nonprofit.
www.thewasteshed.com
linktr.ee/Wasteshed
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Carrie @cooler-by-the-lake.bsky.social Chicagoan | cliche urban progressive | cat lady | birder in denial
@invictus29.bsky.social @invictus29.bsky.social Calm is a superpower. Trying to fit as much sewing and knitting into my day as possible. Plus cats, and gardening, and books.
TAUKO Magazine @taukomagazine.bsky.social ✂️ Award-winning sewing & lifestyle mag from Helsinki & Berlin! 🌍✨
www.taukomagazine.com/links
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social Same interdisciplinary scientist as on the other sites with the same handle. Chemistry, math, physics, meteorology, GIS, data whisperer.
Natural resources director, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Co. She/Her
https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/
iroai.jp @iroai.bsky.social Japanese Textiles, Traditional Patterns & Color | Indigo Dyeing, Handcrafted Textiles, Weaving, Textile Design
https://www.instagram.com/iroai_jp?igsh=MTY2dTI1OHN6ZzZ0dg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
@apheliotropism.bsky.social @apheliotropism.bsky.social A collection of interesting facts with a personality precariously perched on top. They/them. 
Tara @taraandchicken.bsky.social Policy wonk, chaos gardener, friend to the animals, sewist, urbanist, person-in-charge-of-paint-and-tiling in this old house, parent. St. Paul, MN
Sewicked @sewicked.bsky.social Tatter, dabbler, gamer, writer, & ally in progress
she/her
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app Solo parent raising a brave autistic child, defends fare-evaders and beaters. defund the police. STFU about Chicago. Medicare 4 All is my single vote issue. WESTSIIIIIIDE!!! Go #B1GCats! She/her, M.A.
“Care work IS justice work.” - @whatashrinkthinks.com
madopal @madopal.bsky.social Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Midway, et al), cat lover, data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox, Gen X, music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social A Middle East-based journalist and geopolitical analyst in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Pin and Stitch @pinandstitch.bsky.social 🐈 Cat pics
🪡 Couture disasters
🏴 No Gods
🔥 No masters
And definitely no fucking Nazis
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
N/A Beverage Appreciator (under duress) @miatadork.bsky.social Cat/Dog Haver, Bikes, Chill Driver Miata Trackrat #weirdcarbs
Liberal Redneck
Protect Trans Kids
AI generated "art" = blocked on sight
Kelly Wooten @kwooten.bsky.social Archives, zines, a few things in between. Pro candy corn, anti fascist. she/her
Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social Lesser building nerd, real estate photographer
Eljay/knitmeapony @knitmeapony.com Maker, builder, artist, gamer, and all around raconteur.
Alt text for profile pic: me, a fat white person with short silver hair and big turquoise framed glasses.
Chicago Tree @chicagotree.bsky.social Mostly reposting Chicago trees & sometimes other trees. And birds. And other things I find interesting.
Joane Jung @justjoan808.bsky.social 🌀Maker Of Shiny Things. Collector of things. Currently purging things.
Guild Member. Unseen University Alumna🪬Former BigMarket Tour Guide, Verbi Ipsi Loquitur. I see&hear Spirits and they say “Hi”👻
kit sparks 🔥 @kitsparks.bsky.social I am 1.89 Stanley Cups tall.
I make nail polish! luckylacquer.com
I’ll take whatever pronouns you got (they/them probably most accurate, he/him most likely to delight, she/her in the gay way).
Радужная Дрянь @rainbowjunk.bsky.social she/her
queer, feminist, atheist - in short, just Satan according to Putin's regime
big Halloween enthusiast and cat lover
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Carofineis57 @carolinesphotos.bsky.social Not a liar.
Just like all the other girls.
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
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Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @friendsofbear.bsky.social A 501(c)(3) cat rescue dedicated to saving homeless, sick, and discarded cats in the SF Bay Area and beyond.
friendsofbearcatrescue.org
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Sewing through Fog @sewingthroughfog.bsky.social Quilting with upcycled & repurposed fabrics. BERNINA ambassador.
Quilt your jeans.
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GASP Archives Vintage Sewing Patterns @xxgaspxx.bsky.social Digitized vintage sewing patterns. We have PDF Freebies every other week of random vintage sewing patterns.
smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social 20 years of triumphant + unfussy home cooking
three cookbooks + one audiobook + newsletter
glad you’re here
smittenkitchen.com
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Big Al’s Workshop @bigalsworkshop.bsky.social Knitting Sewing Crocheting Fibering Arting.
Handmade gifts, custom projects, alterations & mending.
Dayton, Ohio.
linktr.ee/bigalsworkshop
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.
Hecate @danademaster.bsky.social Not afraid to take the path of maximum resistance. Too loud. Habitually overdressed. More responsible than you think.
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Laura McGarrity @a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social Spreading joy through art 🧶❤️
Embroidery and fiber artist 🪡🧵
In the Pacific Northwest (Bothell, WA) 🌧️
Find embroidery patterns (no finished pieces, sorry!) in my shop 📦
www.etsy.com/shop/LauraMbroidery
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social Making things sheep to skein in the USA
www.jilldraper.com
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Chicago AQ @chicagoaq.bsky.social Monitoring Air Quality Index (AQI) pollutants (PM 2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂ O₃, CO) measured in The Loop, Chicago. Managed by @nikhunder.com
WikiVictorian @wikivictorian.bsky.social Sharing random stuff from 1800 to 1920s: fashion, stories, art, and a compilation of faces and cultures that coexisted then ✨
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair. I hack things and build community.
Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
@julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social Women, women’s history, dress history, art history, books, politics, wine…under a French sky.
Formerly Twitter (X) AStitchInTime13
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
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Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online Appalachian in Queens • Writer, editor, union member • My cathedral is built for a god to see so even secret places have ornament • They
Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social We are a GFAS-accredited farm sanctuary & donor supported 501c3 nonprofit located in Charlotte, Vermont. We provide healthy, happy, permanent homes and lifelong care to 100+ rescue farm animals & humane education programs. https://linktr.ee/merrymacfarm
George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social Droppin' mics then bringin' them to be fixed 'cause I'm nice and whatnot. Look for "Clean Slate" on Prime Video February 6th.
@tankgurrl.bsky.social @tankgurrl.bsky.social Sew dresses and coats for my plus size greatness. Lover of Spirit, my weenie pup. Have a healthy love of shoes. Random posts. I believe and stand by equality of love and human rights.
Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social Fantasy webcomics. NSFW
LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social A book fanatic with an unhealthy amount of knowledge about Russian Lit, Jane Austen, and Lotrs. This is my platform to post daily about fashion history.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
TashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social I don't usually actually wear a bowl on my head. Usually.
Mostly food, games, and silliness. Tech sometimes probably. This is my personal account, thoughts are my own.
Lyz @lyz.bsky.social Men Yell at Me. I write books.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Word In Black @wordinblacknews.bsky.social 'Black America's Digital Daily' — innovating on the near 200 year legacy of the Black Press.
World Central Kitchen @wck.org WCK immediately prepares & serves fresh, nourishing meals to communities impacted by natural disasters and during humanitarian crises. #ChefsForTheWorld
Learn more: linktr.ee/wckitchen
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
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We reserve the right to remove misinformation, spam, and hate speech under our posts.
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.