Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Joe Lorenzini @quidprojlo.bsky.social Chicagoan back from Philly
Cities, movies, and politics
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/sGW9
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social multimedia artist and dog woman making hypercolor noise art
occasionally lewd
📸 https://glass.photo/chigbarg
🎞️ https://www.youtube.com/@chigbarg
🎵 numbermuncher.bandcamp.com
🏳️⚧️ she/it/they
ΘΔ dog+wolves
🔞 18+ only
Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social reader, researcher, music-lover, comics editor.
My opera site is MusicDrama.net. Spent 18 years at the graphic novel publishing house Top Shelf Productions. Pronoun: he. Profile pic by “wervty” via picrew
RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER (2025) THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN (2017). lawrence, kansas. contact: rmccarthyjames at gmail
Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization, & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Former middle school science teacher in Oakland and Los Angeles.
https://www.paul-bruno.com/
https://www.last.fm/user/pabruno
Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social Freelance education writer. Previously Editorial Director, Future Ed at Georgetown. Selected priors: EdPost, The Chicago Reporter. Former high school teacher. Mom. 
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
@rullirights.bsky.social @rullirights.bsky.social 
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social festive seasonal homosexual, tinned fish enthusiast, citrus enjoyer, los angeles evangelist, he/him
made @fionaapplebot.bsky.social
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Steven Kahn @sekahn.bsky.social Physician-scientist interested in diabetes. Opinions are my own.
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social Photojournalist in Chicago. Staff Visual Journalist and drone pilot
with Chicago Sun-Times send tips and hate at tlariviere@suntimes.com. I'm also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tylerpasciaklariviere/
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Kyle Gilman @kylegilman.net Film/TV editor The Four Seasons, The Fall & Rise of Reggie Dinkins, Girls5eva, The Best Man, Dickinson, Mr. Mayor, Kimmy Schmidt, Difficult People, Maron, Hal Hartley movies.
ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social A project powered by a network of aviation enthusiasts hunting for interesting cleartext ACARS messages. All posted messages are delayed & have identifying information removed. Most messages are very undramatic.
acarsdrama.com | jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social Author, translator. Polyglot, polyamorous, polygonal. Knower of things. Mostly real.
My posts may be licensed for training data in large language models and generative AI at a cost of US $1000 per word.
Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social Health policy wonk. Start-up co-founder. Data cruncher, purveyor of pretty graphs. Relentlessly hopeful. Kitchen gadgets addict, poster of cat pics, wearer of too many florals. Mum. She/her. Views my own. #QISky
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social 🇰🇷➡️🇩🇰 #Adoptee 🥚 - Vexed - Free 🍉 - Lots of typos (she/her)
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Ryan “tha chicago dawg” @arcadefriar.bsky.social never scored
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
cole @sadgaytechno.com dj sad gay techno -- audio collage / big beat / chaos rave -- bay area -- they/them
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social Videos. Educational? Not really. Funny? Eh.
"the Chappell Roan of educational YouTube"
youtube.com/@captaindisillusion
patreon.com/captaindisillusion
https://go.nebula.tv/captaindisillusion
Zach Marlin @zachmarlin.bsky.social Dramaturg/Talent Agent. Oscars nerd. Lifelong suffering Pirates fan.
ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
Lucy Calkins' #2 hater
Play it fucking loud.
kc green @kcg.bsky.social cartoonist of Greatures, made "This is Fine" • he/him • http://kcgportfolio.site • https://linktr.ee/kcgreenn • email me: kcgreenn@icloud.com
summertime simpness @yakuzajohn.bsky.social a horny snake in a newspaper cartoon
"We must love one another or die"
she/her, NYC
Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social nba stats, raptors | not all fun facts are fun, some are red flags | email: uthayakumar.keerthika@gmail.com
Shauna Rasband @concealocanth.bsky.social PhD in Biology with a focus on avian genomic evolution. Looking for postdoc!
hobbies:
wildlife photography
drawing & painting
"world" literature & music
infodumping
follow me on iNaturalist (shauna1) or eBird (unashauna)
Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social Comedy writer. "Have I Got News For You", "Last Week Tonight", "The Amber Ruffin Show." Author of "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo" and "The Someone New." Friend to several penguins.
Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at Georgia State University College of Law. Scholar working at the intersection of human rights and the environment. Alex Trebek called me a barracuda. Thigmotactic. She/her.
Jude Webre @theotherjude.bsky.social History & Lit & Music | Faculty at Columbia, NYU-Gallatin, and Brooklyn Institute, Columbia PhD | Bass Clef, Inc. Betwixt and between
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
Edward @edwardodell.bsky.social A god damned delight and don’t you forget it. Libs: proceed with caution.
Hunter Felt 🏳️⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social "Rachel Getting Married" LARPER. Writing about music, comedy, sports and pop culture (email hunterfeltblog@gmail.com). "Doll with problems." I'm my own Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Pic is a younger and cuter me. 18+
buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social Buy KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST from my local bookstore now:
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, art fanatic. Created "DRACULA" for NBC/Sky, wrote PSALMS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD & more.
📖 🎧 📺 5AM STORYTALK NEWSLETTER & PODCAST: https://colehaddon.substack.com/
🎧 5AM STORYTALK PODCAST: https://pod.link/1807437928
Jamie Ding @feathersmcg.bsky.social he/him | Erstwhile streamer of cryptic crosswords and Kingdom Hearts at https://twitch.tv/FeathersMcG
Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout. American by birth, Canadian by recent ancestry.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
American Theatre @americantheatre.org The national magazine for the American professional not-for-profit theatre. Subscribe at http://americantheatre.org/join
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social Editor of American Theatre magazine, musical omnivore. trainmyear.blogspot.com
NBA Cobwebs @nbacobwebs.bsky.social Old pics, news clips, highlights and fistfights from the corners of NBA history.
maureen @maureenf.bsky.social Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, poems, and where I live.
she/her
Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social Defense, Technology, Tabletop Games, and hopefully not being annexed. Utilities Enjoyer and former Army Jimmy.
Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social Songwriter, Musician, Interdisciplinary Artist
Visiting PhD Student, CDH, @cam.ac.uk •
@Leverhulme.ac.uk Trust #AuralDiversity (Autism & Music) • @BAFTA.org Scholar Alumna
Transdisciplinary #ArtsBasedResearch
xsara.co.uk/academic
Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥
Book & movie reviews with a bite.
17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing.
👇 Dunk into our latest posts
https://gnofhorror.com/
ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social 
Shelby Sr. @classicshelb.bsky.social Shelby
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social Salty AF. Safe streets & sound climate policy = social justice. Enjoy biking, travel, beer and cats. Content likely to randomly touch on all of the above. All content is my personal opinion. She/Her.
Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app 37. NOLA. Sociology PhD Student interested the intersection of Nerd culture and Blackness. Also other stuff idk I stay talking on here.
https://linktr.ee/melaninatedmagician
Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social 🧬 Genomics PhD & science communicator
🧑🔬 Founder of @beyondxandy.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive humanist feminist
🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad
🏠 Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/
Cyndi B @spintheiryarns.bsky.social Bleach, lighter fluid, ammonia, gasoline, I don't know, lady stuff. Plutonium. (she/her, pic by gufri_uglyada)
Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com (hire me policy professionals) Lighter of people, policy person, @chirppradio.org DJ. Bike guy. Chicago Dog stan. Doesn't proofread. Chicago by way of Cleveland | 🇳🇴
Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org Historian, writer, dad studying the cultural history of beer. Footnotes and pizza both Chicago style. 50/50 pop mourner. He/him
Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social He/him
Books:
THE WITCH BOY series 🔮🕯️
THE GIRL FROM THE SEA 🦭🌊
THE DEEP DARK 🐉🏜️
The DUNGEON CLUB series 🎲⚔️
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST 🦸💪
WATSON’S SKETCHBOOK 🕵🏼♂️📚
TV:
THE OWL HOUSE & more
www.ostertag.substack.com
www.leeknoxostertag.com
🚫AI
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Snappy @snappycaster.bsky.social A guy who hates fascism and loves card games
USW Shop Steward
Forklift Certified
Anime Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/nick1933/
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
"fart" @jonhendren.com tall but otherwise normal
sydney
jonhendren.com
The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan.
JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp
Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters
Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
Baxter @cosmicspooks.bsky.social he/him
writes about Japanese art at: https://www.tsundokudiving.com/
sometimes freelances too
Dai Davies of GenealCymru @genealcymru.bsky.social 🏴 🏳️🌈 Welsh Genealogist. Anthropologist. They/Them. Autistic with depression.
Free #Genealogy videos on Youtube: http://youtube.com/c/GenealCymru
For upcoming talks, client work, & blog: https://genealcymru.com/
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Teija @teija.bsky.social Perpetually tired and achy. Eldest daughter, mother, pianist, writer, reader, and single-player game enthusiast. History MAs: Modern Germany, Imperial Russia. Introvert with a coffee problem.
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.
Dj @djsoke.bsky.social #WeAreJeromePowell
Konradin @konradinkunze.bsky.social Theater Performance Exhibitions Artistic Provenance Research Ancestral Remains Decolonisation / Flinn Works / Marejesho Research and Information Centre
Born at 333 ppm CO2
konradinkunze.de / flinn.works
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social Family historian, lecturer, author. Former Principal Family History Specialist at The National Archives. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 42 years in the business. Loves a good map. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
https://lifelinesresearch.co.uk/
Meryl Streep Fighter @baileysanz.bsky.social I love Chicago. I ride a bike sometimes. Jesse’s girl. Cool and not all like uncool
Jay W. Walker @jaywwalker.bsky.social BLACK! Prez, Gays Against Guns; Co-Founder, @queermarch.bsky.social; Activist, @riseandresist.bsky.social. Organizer, www.stopthecoup2025.org /#ResistProject2025. Basically, out in these NYC streets. Also https://gurl-stop.carrd.co/ Podcast. #BlueResisters