Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social Legal humor. Seriously.
By Kevin Underhill
Kevin Underhill @kevinunderhill.bsky.social Lawyer, author of Lowering the Bar (loweringthebar.net) and The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance (not the ordinance, a book about strange laws).
Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social Mainly focused on covering extreme weather events worldwide. Also interested in climate dynamics, geohazards and satellite remote sensing.
Also on X: x.com/wxnb_
Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social Father, Husband, Lawyer, and Minnesota Lawmaker. DFL & Labor endorsed candidate for Hennepin County Attorney.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Bailey Wolfe, Voice Actor and Lactase Apostle @bbwolfevox.com Professionally queer Korean voice and on-camera actress in Minneapolis. bb@bbwolfevox.com 💚she/her💚ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ ➡️ bbwolfevox.com ⬅️ or twitch.tv/bbwolfe for unbridled irreverence (M-F, 6CT)
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award winner, I guess??
David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social Director of Fordham University's Center on Religion & Culture. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." Recovering Vaticanista. Occasionally commit journalism. https://linktr.ee/gibsonwrites
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
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careful & care-filled. puns.
unfamously dumb, but usually real.
Minneapolis. pro-protest.
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social sociology phd candidate at duke | https://tkeskinturk.github.io/
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
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it’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social the only higher power i answer to is the minnesota board of social work//mpls forever
Nome @nome.bsky.social Please don't use unroller bots on my threads.
ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand.
Queer, Disabled, He/Him
🐦@NomeDaBarbarian
💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian
📌 Denver
localhuman @locallhuman.bsky.social - industrial digital supply of all your local human needs.
- candymaker and proprietor of https://reginascandies.com
- concerned about public seating, organizer of Minneapolis Public Seating Authority
- also at https://localhuman.industries
Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places
Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social Humanity Fanatic | Creator | Bench Enthusiast | Union Booster
Reach out if you’d like something made.
🏠- South Minneapolis, MN
More work and printshop: linktr.ee/riley_the_bruce
Chop Wood | Carry Water
he/they • Skeets are my own
tinzo @tin-zo.bsky.social 🫧🪩🇵🇭🕯️🥀
tinzoandjojo.com
Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike Car culture dominating society is social murder.
Posts are mostly about the US, sometimes focused on parenting.
sometimes writing more at https://politicsofcars.beehiiv.com/
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around.
Defund, abolish, prosecute.
Oh, and I RT ducks.
#DriverNotCar
#PlowSidewalksToo
#WindshieldBias
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev Making TypeScript for 10 years running
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social Minnesotan. Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica. Previous bylines at ExtremeTech, Android Police, Wirecutter, NY Times, PC World, HotHardware, Android Authority, and more.
Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby 
Michael @schmutzie.bsky.social Contractor - Camper - Chicago - Fuck Trump - VOTE ANGRY!!
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
The Normaal Bike Shop @normaalbike.bsky.social Located in Edmonton but currently operating online only at www.normaal.bike
Genuine used Dutch bikes and other practical cycling goods.
🏳️🌈 Flo 🏳️⚧️ @bigcitybabygirl.bsky.social 🔞 34 - she/they - North MPLS 🔞
Southern Cryptid living in the Great North,
with Mothman's ass and a southern belle's sass. 👻👩🏼🌾
If Jacob Frey has no haters its cause I died.
Fuck ICE, abolish DHS. 👎🧊
All opinions are my own.
ianVG @ianvg.com my mom says I'm funny
do me some websites and boomer tech support
MN Freak
fuck ice
Kate @k8c.bsky.social MSP/ABQ Librarian, Greyhound Person, Intimidating Goose. #uglydogs, #skyhounds Information literacy for all!
Eric Moran @deveric.net Parent & spouse. Bicycles. Transit. Music. Gaming. Climate. MN/🇵🇷 news. Queer/Genderqueer. Poly. Organizer.
They/He Elle/El
I roller skate sometimes @rollnorthmn.com.
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR) enjoys a living legacy as the oldest Black-owned newspaper in the state of Minnesota and one of the longest-standing, family-owned newspapers in the country.
https://spokesman-recorder.com/
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com NBC News senior reporter | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Retired t-ball coach
www.mikehixenbaugh.com
aric @aghastronaut.com Minneapolis non-comedian
Made webcomics, did improv, and other unnecessary web stuff.
"Has a history of creating conceptual internet projects" -Billboard
(he/him)
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Joncollinsjournalism.com
Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov Official Account of Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader.
schumer.senate.gov
Patrick Stephenson @patiomensch.bsky.social Documenting Dad Life in Saint Paul, MN 🌟
🚲 Founded #30DaysofBiking, organizes #JoyfulRidersClub
❤️ Two daughters
🏀⚾️⚽️🥇Loves Timberwolves, Twins, Loons, F1rst Wrestling
💰 Writer by trade
“Patrick is always friendly.” - Anu Li
He/him
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Michelle @thegreenstudy.com Writer, Minnesotan, Army Veteran, Bird Nerd, Parent, Spouse, Atheist, GenX. I've named the squirrels in my yard & I swear a lot.
At thegreenstudy.com. She/her.
2025-26 Loft Literary Mentor Fiction Fellow.
Ruining workplaces since 1985. Unpaid agitator.
TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social 🇩🇪🏴
Friendly & wordy. Work-from-home knitter. Kind, not stupid. Ally of decency.
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Team Science. Team Democracy. Team Diversity.
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Based in Germany. In love with Scotland. At home in more than one place.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Rage Against the MAGA Machine @mahanimal.bsky.social Guitar enthusiast 🎸 | Anti fascist 🚫 | Cat dad 😸 | Tortured Minnesota sports fan 🐺
#EndCitizensUnited
“I think we’re all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong” - Aesop Rock
Anna Hensel @ahhensel.bsky.social I'm a retail journalist based in Minneapolis; I love writing 1,000 word stories and I hate writing 100 character bios. 
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
https://bookshop.org/a/5522/9798888903667
Called "our own cunty Gramsci" and "Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
DJBaconblade @djbaconblade.bsky.social 40s cat dad; photographer, married general nerdy dork. Northsider. Minneapolis. 🔞Nsfw, no minors. He/Him
z. @zanadu.bsky.social Librarianed so hard I got a reading injury, still read more than you. I don't believe in the sun. Minneapolis (or not).
Allergic omnidirectional nerdling- music, books, tech, words, food, weird geeky random, thee cat. She/her.
EmKay K-A @mkettleson.bsky.social She/They. Old. Minnesota then&now. Whole decades in OrangeCountyCA, WheatonIL, &OmahaNE. Invested in people, community, science, data, history, & the future. ASD. Mutual aid. Basic Income. Follow minority leaders. Born in St Paul, but love Minneapolis too.
Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social Un éléphant. Pour de vrai.
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social texas culture reporter for @chron.com
console cowgirl, houston based, go stros 🏳️⚧️
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social Catholic Priest
Passionate about Tech and Science
Jesuit in Rome
Bots, edgelords & those who can't have a civil conversation are blocked.
All opinions are my own
The Cargo Bike Shop // Madison, WI & St. Paul, MN @thecargobikeshop.bsky.social The home of bikes that do more.
Currently here mainly to follow like-minded folks while we figure out how to best engage.
Established 2014.
Bikes Rule. Cars Drool.
Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com
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.
mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social Minneapolis Southside question asker. 🐰 Systems-change strategist. Policy research and advocacy. Recovering journalist. Mongoose. Neurodivergent nail biter and hair flipper. 🐶🪐🦄
Antifa List Member. She/They
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
jolene @trefinedaura.bsky.social you need me like a hole in your head.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Eric Harrison @laterbacon.space Blackstone Valley, RI 👟🚲🚌💾🪡
Abolish ICE.
Cars ruin everything.
Trans rights are human rights.
"I missed the boat once when I was young and stupid, but now I am able to miss the boat repeatedly with great skill and accuracy."
-Fish
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
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Radiohead @radiohead.wastehq.social https://radiohead.com
https://waste.lnk.to/radiohead.linksBS
Thom Yorke @thomyorke.wastehq.social https://waste.lnk.to/thomyorke.linksBS
Ringo Starr @ringostarrmusic.bsky.social https://ringostarr.com
Garbage @garbage.com Garbage.com
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happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social Mason aka @Firstgentleman on Twitter. Someone already took that name on here so I'm stuck with this.
This is an A.I. hate account
🏠: L.A.
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No avi = BLOCKED
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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social Hey! We're The Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota, a 501c3 working on making Minnesota a place where every person everywhere can easily walk, bike, and roll. All Ages, All Abilities.
Learn more at BikeMN.org
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com Trans, non-binary, Minnesotan. Working to make the DFL more trans-inclusive because being a trans refuge state does not mean we are actually doing the work. South Minneapolis, Stonewall DFL, and Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules.
linktr.ee/dexanderson
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social Minneapolis resident, polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 blogger, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, AuDHD, grey-ace, 💔 widow, COVID cautious. (she/her)
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Joyful Riders Club @joyfulridersclub.bsky.social 
@perennialcycle.bsky.social @perennialcycle.bsky.social 
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
sam henri gold @samhenri.gold animal, vegetable, and mineral. product designer/engineer-er (prev Tavus, @lickability.com)
City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov Official Bluesky for the City of Minneapolis.
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Brooke Gladstone @brookegladstone.bsky.social Co-host of On the Media. Author of The Influencing Machine and The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
quick13 @quick13.bsky.social Same quick13 you know from the other place. Salesforce consultant, Organic Gardener, Dual Citizen, professional pedestrian, Eldercaregiver, Dead Varmint Removal Specialist. Supposedly Elder.
Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social Your friend and Neighbor. Local Oaf. I work for Saura. I foster teeny little kittens. I love you.
Anthony Delvalle @atdl.bsky.social I'm Tony Delvalle, Class of 2017 graduate, Bluey, Sesame Street and One Piece fan.
I post a Bluey question every day, Almost every day!
Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com 
Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social Write about fantasy baseball, post about that and lots of other stuff. He/him/his