Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm a teacher 🇺🇸 of English living in Slovakia.
ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org Easy-to-follow digital security advice for people resisting authoritarianism
https://activistchecklist.org/
daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social your daily dose of bunnies ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
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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The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com A history podcast by @dhmontgomery.com covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Annotated transcripts at thesiecle.com!
Rogers Park Food Not Bombs @food-not-bombs-rp.bsky.social We are an autonomous, collective engaged in distro’n rescued food and harm reduction. SUNDAY: 6900 Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL. WEDNESDAY: Touhy Park.
Get involved, send us an Email:
RogersParkFNB@gmail
Contribute: opencollective.com/rogers-park-fnb
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? ✶✶✶✶
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
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Blumineck @blumineck.bsky.social David the Arrow Bard, aka Blumineck.
I do pole dance, archery, and nerdery.
Linktr.ee/blumineck
Rogers Park Free Store @rpfreestore.bsky.social Mutual Aid space for the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago--a group of neighbors helping neighbors get essential items for free. Open hours are the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 12-2pm!
linktr.ee/rp_free_store
@id-vortex.bsky.social @id-vortex.bsky.social 
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social sex & murder & semiotic theory (elves & doomed revolutionaries & kpop men). arriviste & vauquelin & dianize on ao3.
Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
http://allmylinks.com/nokon1501
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com 🌈 The voice of Chicago's LGBTQ+ community since 1985.
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Mattias Boström @mattias221b.bsky.social Interested in Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle. Author of “From Holmes to Sherlock”. Member of the Baker Street Irregulars.
Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social Writer / Executive Producer at Rick & Morty.
Podcast: Get Played
Comedy: Whose Line is it Anyway, Hebecky Drysbell at UCBLA.
Alum: SNL, Creepshow, Eric Andre Show, Twilight Zone.
She/Her/It
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
@kshul.bsky.social @kshul.bsky.social 
Joe DeVivo @joedevivo.com 
Cait Monster @caitmonster.bsky.social Punk kid fighting growing up || My heart belongs to 🇨🇦
@skyymom.bsky.social @skyymom.bsky.social Retired English and journalism teacher, grandma, dog mom.
Lisa @lisa4567890.bsky.social ❤️🐈 🎨 🧶 🍝 🪴 💫
📍NC
my slo-bot life 🏳️⚧️ @myrobotlife.bsky.social Reader, potter, petter of pets. She/her
carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social Dogs, bikes, beer, tattoos, and sometimes academic libraries. Silly goose on the loose and proud union member. I put the “assy” in sassy. No TERFS! Always Carry A Book
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
jimredhead 🍉 @jimredhead.bsky.social Chicago, faggy, leftist, Oscar the Grouch-adjacent, teacher🇵🇸
pun slut @antilamentation.bsky.social He/They. Queer, 🏳️⚧️. Former academic (English, DH, games). Mostly cat pics and shitposts. Alberta.
tronella @tronella.bsky.social medical translator, fan of being in fandom
🇬🇧 She/Her
🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇯🇵 🆗
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
@trockstarrr.bsky.social @trockstarrr.bsky.social architecture, hurricanes, kpop, kdrama🙏🏼
@merleslie.bsky.social @merleslie.bsky.social 
Erin @hissingbooth.bsky.social 30s, she/they, 🏳️🌈. “I like wrestling, cats, and maybe three people”
Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social Allies needn’t be perfect. They just need to be in the fight.
Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effect pedals, Antifa Local 242.
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
Inedible Buddha @inediblebuddha.bsky.social ER-RN, 68wtf, optimistic nihilist, probably a muppet.
Aunt Ruth @auntruth.bsky.social I've spent my life in the southern USA, but my people aren't from around here. Older than the Pope. And, yes, I can drive a stick.
PomperaFirpa @pompera-firpa.bsky.social as st. olga of kiev once said, the birds coming home to roost are real fuckers
bicycle rider, reader, writer, data nerd, unrepentant urbanist and cynical optimist. ADHD AF. fighting the kyriarchy since the last millennium.
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
Agatha Donkar Lund @brandnewkindof.bsky.social 📷🌭🐈📚🥾🗺️🇬🇷🏖️🏀⚾️🏈. baltimore ➡️ minnesota ➡️ chicago ➡️ chapel hill. progressive southerner. 🩵🐏 #gdtbath. feral ocean hag. nevertheless she persisted.
Declan K. @declank.com 36. InfraOps (Python by day). Hacking on compiler stuff & low-level code by night. Hobbyist piano player, gamer. 🏳️🌈
queen cryptid @queencryptid.bsky.social Enthusiast, Wisconsinite. 25% games, 25% politics and history, 50% dinosaur shitposts. Occasional cats. Extremely specific opinions.
Arthur Wintermute @lucidloon.bsky.social Reader, Procrastinator extraordinaire
Evan Bond @evanbondauthor.bsky.social ✒️ Thriller/Suspense/horror author 📚
🥾 Avid hiker and photographer 📸
💀 Totally not a skinwalker 🧟♂️
https://bio.site/EvanBondAuthor
@anilaw.bsky.social @anilaw.bsky.social 
Bluescat @bluescat67.bsky.social Critters, forests, gardens, regenerative agriculture.
Put CHRIST back in Christian and take nationalism out.
k8andrewz @k8andrewz.bsky.social Fangirl, kitty mom, writer. she/her.
21+ plz. same username at DW, AO3 and Tumblr, though I'm mostly here.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Farnes @farnes.bsky.social Fandom old. Asian drama and bl fan ( #cdrama #cbl #kdrama #kbl #jdrama #jbl #twbl #thaibl #eydc2025)
Sister Ignatius @inthepalemoonlight.bsky.social Lurker. Here to read and press the like button.
Vegan Sonia @vegansonia.bsky.social Abolitionist Vegan🌿 Flight Attendant ✈️ Mom to Percival and Theodora🐈🐈 Kallmünzerin verliebt in Regensburg🗝 Adopt Don't Shop!❤️ Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
oh no @ili.bsky.social antihype
A Pineapple @pineapplecrushface.bsky.social I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon.
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social Late-diagnosed ADHD, elder millennial, tired af. LIS, data, and tech in many combinations are cool. I have a tuxedo cat named Darwin and he's the best.
I like things a completely normal amount.
AO3: pearwaldorf
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social Commissions: https://ko-fi.com/guilhernunes he/him
jjtaylor @jjtayloresq.bsky.social You do not have to be good.
luna @lunalein.bsky.social always threatening to start a book podcast.
gonna die mad about Mookie Betts.
she/her
JC (they/she) @mazily.bsky.social a little bit soap opera and a little bit space opera.
current fandoms: Andor, All Creatures Great & Small, M*A*S*H, Shetland (femslash edition), WNBA. always: Star Trek & Wars. Berena. B5. Slings & Arrows. sometimes: GH.
old. queer. they/she.
Saskia W. @saskiawezenaar.eurosky.social Muziek🧡| Kunst (re)posts| Wanderer and wonderer| Jeugdzorg| Amsterdam binnenstad| Fransche Kamp, Bussum🏕️.
"Streef onbekommerd naar het ideale" ☀️🌱
Phyllis @jamesdeanmonroe.bsky.social our love is God. let's go get a slushie
spuffyduds @spuffyduds.bsky.social Writing as Kellum Jeffries for romance and Kelly Dalton for horror. She/her, cis, bi. Fuck terfs. Writer, librarian, knitter, beginning weightlifter. Will watch anything with spaceships and/or vampires. So much fanfic on AO3. Heck yeah RVA.
yasaman @iasmelaion.bsky.social just here to read, mostly. she/her.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
sanjerina @sanjerina.bsky.social Your Gen X auntie. Jewish by choice, queer by luck, the ADHD is just genetics. Therapist for teens. Picking my battles every day. She/they.
Curt Brown @crtbrown.bsky.social planter of plants, Iowa resident, evil underlord, renowned cupcake eater
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.
wildehack @wildehack.bsky.social here for fandom, cannibalism, and grown-up stuff. please don't follow me if you're under 18. 
Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס @tikkunolamunist.bsky.social Author of the upcoming book, "How I'm Jewish".
לאָזט ייִדישקייט בלײַבן מאָדנע!
"Keep Judaism weird!"
מײַנע פּראָנאָמען זענען (ער/אים)
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
a pair of ragged claws @pairofraggedclaws.bsky.social scuttling across the floors of silent seas
Suz @suzbell.bsky.social Queer SLP with a dog and a sweet tooth. She/her. 
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social FIV+ internet cat 🐟animal rescue fan 🐠 spay and neuter your pets
https://linktr.ee/fishtopher
Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.- I Lovely and Talented @ifiwereabell.bsky.social Yes girl, go on and give us nothing. (She/her)
Legal Pigeon @peony1234.bsky.social honestly bears have the right idea. eat salmon, get fat, sleep through winter. 10/10 life plan, no notes.
Dora @humdrumspider.bsky.social Cats and gardening, mostly.
five dollar box. @inastraightline.bsky.social eat this life till your heart is full. she/her.
https://kickthebeat.carrd.co/
Frostreads @frostreads.bsky.social Global Events, History, Travel, Art, Cats Sports, Comics & far too much Politics. She/her. frostreads on most of the socials
marmolita @marmolita.bsky.social old-ass fangirl 🔞
currently into: haikyuu, yowamushi pedal
(header image from loktonlucis on tumblr)
goseaward @goseaward.bsky.social Sort of a fanfic writer, mainly a fanfic procrastinator. She/her.
Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social 🤷🏽♀️
queer black 30something mom in atl. #blacksky #birdsky
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom