Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social Religionless religion professor and writer. Working on my second narrative podcast series and third book. @goodjudypods.bsky.social founder. Queer. Minneapolis ❤️
chrisstedmanwriter.com
Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
Solo Game Developer
Pixel Artist
Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day
Male presenting NB
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atØmic91 @at0mic91.bsky.social Classic Sci Fi book collector, Traveller TTRPG GM, retro handheld and board game player. And I guess now a returning Final Fantasy XIV player.
Chris ❤️🔥🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social 🌮 West Texan. Redneck Disney Princess. Dallasite. Data guy. Byzantine& Late Antique History. I’m the Golden Retriever boyfriend. He/Him
“The Gospel takes away forever our right to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.” —Dorothy Day
Hecate @danademaster.bsky.social Not afraid to take the path of maximum resistance. Too loud. Habitually overdressed. More responsible than you think.
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com “Swing down, sweet chariot! Stop, and let me ride!”
probably thinking about OutKast, Flannery O'Connor, or Steve Ditko.
beloved.
iamdavidbrothers.com for veiled nihilism x arts criticism
Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com Musician, Writer, Designer—Shitposter. She/her.
https://nissamitchell.com/links/
Lorraine Wagner-Zbornak @childsplease.blacksky.app I swear man I'm like Huey mixed with Riley, Thursday I be trying to save the world then on Friday, I hit the club. 31. MN. BS Cell and Molecular Biology & MPH. Vaccine researcher. Views are my own. I enjoy engaging with people on here, but don't push it.
winston @winston.cc st. paul, mn
fighting to make better worlds. interested in complexity, justice, knitting, books, and so much more. i have a lot of feelings, and curiosity. vulgar as fuck.
job: Principal Technical PrdMgr
site: winstonhearn.com
Vernacularshift @vernacularshift.bsky.social Photographer, writer, dork, leftist. In Minneapolis
Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social illustrator, birdwatcher, mustelid enjoyer 🌲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⭐️ Portland, ME @campmustelid.bsky.social
links: https://www.bird-illustration.com/links
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social Anxious Minnesotan. Actuary turned basketball data analyst. Bike lane protector
I do not speak for my employer the bad opinions are mine alone
jay marie 🏳️⚧️ abolish ice @jmawork.bsky.social Nobel Peace Prize nominated Minneapolitan
Designer, illustrator, and animation professional
I brake for fiber arts and film photography
they/them, jewish, you fascists bound to lose
all opinions: my own. all funding posts: vouched
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.
Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org Multi-Racial Working-Class Power Building | The Twin Cities chapter of Democratic Socialists of America | More at http://tcdsa.org
Dylan @tcdylan.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈| he/him | bicycle enthusiast | dad | LGBTQ research and policy nerd | Lynx 🏀
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Door (needs a roof) @bananabreadmaker.bsky.social ⚧︎ weird little thing shouting into cyberspace ☆ 1996 ☆ north MPLS ☆ they/fae/any ☆ still masking in 2026 ☆ here to help my community & deliver mail ☆
www.gofundme.com/f/trans-new-roof-safe-home
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
🌸ayana🌸 @ayanajsk.bsky.social • Legislative Assistant
• Minneapolis DFL Chair
• Communications Director
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📍Minneapolis
she/her | my views do not reflect those of my employer
"People don't live their lives through statistics." - Zohran Mamdani
Soren Stevenson - Minneapolis Ward 8 @ward8.minneapolismn.gov Soren Stevenson represents Ward 8 on the Minneapolis City Council.
https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/city-council/members/ward-8/
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
little john @littlejohn.bsky.social [he/him]
aka nhojelttil
a delightful ding dong
smpls
mx. reads-a-lot @schufman.bsky.social 📚 books 🚲 bikes 🚌 buses
Lance Dixon @lancedixon.bsky.social human. Floridian. doing audience work at @19thnews.org. previous stops at WLRN, The New Tropic and @miamiherald.com. forever grateful for Morehouse College and The Maroon Tiger.
Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social Robin Wonsley is a Black Independent Socialist—proudly serving Minneapolis Ward 2. This is a campaign account. Views expressed are the campaign's, not City of Mpls.
Get involved at robinformpls.com
Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social Long-time production artist/illustrator, horse fancier and animation history buff
ellis 🪱 @mothdude.bsky.social 🐁 so-called printmaker
🦐 mpls
mothfruit.online
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Minneapolis to be born?
Holly @hollyrandersen.bsky.social Education. Disability Justice. Bookworm. Union member. South Minneapolis.
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
slutcyclist extraordinaire, rimmin' the world @strwbryph1eld5.bsky.social ICU/ED RN
ACAB
Fuck ICE
Trans rights
Mpls
Bex @wordofgreen.bsky.social I mostly talk about X-Men and sci fi and board games and stuff I love. Neofeudalism sucks tho. Fae/faer or she/her.
Jam @jamfish728.blacksky.app Blerd That Does the Most. Tech/Security OG in transition. They/Them. Neurodivergent. MN (KY Born and Raised). Duckie enthusiast.
Moth @walkingminnesota.com Can be seen walking (and biking) around Minnesota at walkingminnesota.com
Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social I write.
Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them.
rosalarian.com ro@rosalarian.com
Malcolm Lee @malee76.bsky.social Gamer, foodie, entertainer, podcaster, brother, guncle, son, radio dj, educator, advocate, me.
KFAI Fresh Fruit every 4th Thursday KFAI.org
MAD-T Podcast. https://madt.libsyn.com/
Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social Teacher, gay guy, and recovering Catholic living in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦. Into politics, religion, and astronomy; am a lefty weirdo. BLM. Trans liberation now! Fuck ICE! He/il/él
DMs open, but I'm happily married, so behave.
bree @rougette.bsky.social (surprisingly) not the bavarian cheese
gingerspicerack/defleppardjacket
📍612 wharf avenue
Tess Scilipoti @scilipoti.bsky.social comic artist • read and contact at tessscilipoti.net
cohost of bsky.app/profile/leavingthepartypod.bsky.social
brooklyn, ny • more posts at instagram.com/tessscilipoti/
Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.
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TIGERRS @tigerrsmm.bsky.social Non-hierarchical collective by & for trans + intersex Minnesotans.
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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social Think globally, shade locally
📍 Mippulus Min
Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social "No living man am I! You look upon a woman." (she/her) (trans)
Stories, Robuts, Dinosaurs, Monsters and games both board and TTRPGs.
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social Decode the universe. A popular science magazine, writer-owned forever. From @goesbykim.bsky.social @maxlevy.bsky.social @dsamorod.bsky.social and @maddiebender.bsky.social
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org Independent journalism dedicated to shining a light on all the complexities of the Western U.S since 1970.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org Award-winning nonprofit news site chronicling the #LongCOVID crisis. Founded by @BetsyLadyzhets.bsky.social & @MilesWGriffis.bsky.social
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social Broad-minded media for all. Support independent journalism https://www.damemagazine.com/membership/
bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social An independent, award-winning online magazine connecting you with stories about biodiversity and conservation from around the world. (Former account of Hakai Magazine)
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Dan Weissmann @danweissmann.bsky.social Reporter. I make @armandalegshow — a podcast and newsletter about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can maybe do about it.
Distributed by KUOW - Seattle's NPR station.
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The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
Novara Media @novaramedia.com 📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org The Emancipator is a digital magazine dedicated to examining and confronting racism and the inequities it creates. Visit our website: https://theemancipator.org 
Inquest @inquest.bsky.social National Magazine Award finalist. Cited in Best American Essays. Stillwater Award winner. Focused on ending mass incarceration.
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The Maple @readthemaple.com Canadian news & opinion that confronts the status quo. 100% reader-funded & independent.
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The Sprawl @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social Slow news for curious Calgarians. Subscribe to Sprawlcast, Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts! sprawlcalgary.com
Heatmap News @heatmap.news A new media company focused on the biggest story of our time: climate change. Subscribe to our newsletter at https://heatmap.news.
Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike Radical localist, urbanist, ecosocialist.
I love cities 🏙️, bikes 🚲, trains 🚊, and cats 🐈⬛.
Transportation planner for safe streets & healthy equitable communities. YIMBY. Union. Board @streets.mn
Neurospicy. Ukraine➡️Mpls.
Agender/gender apathetic.
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Degenerates Collective @dgncollective.bsky.social Chicago-based collective of degenerates
Market / Magazine
Submit to Degen Mag or apply for our market:
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The Doctor🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️ @doctor-lesbian.bsky.social Mostly mild mannered fiber artist. Holy whore androgyne come to sunder the stop signs. Social justice Time Lord, erstwhile accordion player, veteran of the Cola Wars. Lefty in more ways than one. Forklift certified. They/them.
haremenot @hareme.net 🏳️🌈 gentleman of doubtful virtue 🏳️⚧️
"hare-me-not" aj. twin cities. he/him. hareme.net
Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social Minneapolis’ lowest ranking and least respected public official. Also winter enthusiast, tax justice advocate, and Director of We Make Minnesota.
briguy @datbriguy.bsky.social standard-issue leftist white jew with a haunted dog || mpls || he/him
mads @patster223.bsky.social i’m mads ✨ they/he ✨ books and games and cats and stuff
Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social Humanity Fanatic | Creator | Bench Enthusiast | Union Booster
Reach out if you’d like something made.
🏠- South Minneapolis, MN
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Chop Wood | Carry Water
he/they • Skeets are my own
secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com Isa / bi ace ink goblin 🏳️🌈 🎨 (her/they). French Canadian📍[Montréal]. Co-author of the webcomic Namesake. Author of Crow Time. 🧿 ♊
Mask Bloc MSP @maskblocmsp.bsky.social disabled- and queer-led mutual aid providing masks & other viral mitigation resources in so-called Minneapolis/St. Paul. Request form & more @ maskblocmsp.com Emails will be answered faster than DMs on this platform
Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. i live in Minneapolis. my pronouns are he/him. i am a cofounder at @sequencermag.bsky.social
dansamorodnitsky.com
Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social spec fic writer, sfwa member, assistant editor @ baffling mag, queer weirdo, etc.
(he/him)
@bonsaibrute.bsky.social @bonsaibrute.bsky.social 
Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network "Ok. Not good. Probably bad." Disabled, queer, Jewish, cyborg, astrophysicist, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches. Building joy with a side of chaos. "..a wizardess is never late. Nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to."
David J. Ley Ph.D. @davidleyphd.bsky.social Shrink, author, sex and psychology expert witness. Black belt in BJJ, Burner, beer and bourbon enthusiast. Oh. And Dad jokes. Sorry.