Kelly Stonelake (she/her) @kellystonelake.bsky.social Former Meta executive turned whistleblower and advocate for kids' online safety, common sense tech regulations, suicide prevention, healthcare equity, and safer workplaces for those on the margins. AuDHD, MCAS, POTS, EDS
overturned.substack.com
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
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.
Polly SinclairLewis Fry @sinclairlewis.bsky.social Lifelong Minnesotan. The Don of the Minnesota Hot Dish Mafia. PhD AmSt/EnvHist, Former documentary producer for series on MN history. I guess I won an Emmy™️. Mid-level Proustienne. Disabled, but still fighting for my neighbors.
Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev Building useful playthings with Go, Svelte/SvelteKit, Kubernetes, NATS, and more. he/him.
Blog: https://hmans.dev/
Work: @chatto.run
Robots are welcome here. 🤖
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Ben @heyben.com ☺ https://heyben.com ☺
Internet Man in Minneapolis
amityf @amityf.bsky.social She/her. public transit user, cat lover, ISAIAH/FiMN Data. "Intimidating", according to men. amityf elsewhere
How to join Minneapolis and St. Paul thread: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social Personal account operated by me, non-official
Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social Citizen of Minneapolis. Die-hard progressive. Tweets on education, policing, politics and urbanism. Love dogs, horses, cats, skiing (nordic/downhill) walking in the woods and camping with family and friends.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
VNC Lottery @vnclotto.misentropic.com I'm a bot that posts random entries from the vncresolver instance at https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/
complaints? @meson.ninja
see also @shodansafari.lol for more open internet infrastructure content
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??
Guy Segal @guysegal.com Design director working on design systems and people systems.
Can fake a decent guitar riff. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. He/him. Views are my own.
🩷💜💙
I talk to cool design folks on my podcast http://designdowntime.com/
Toronto, ON, Canada
em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social a guy drops one piece of ham in the snow and he never hears the end of it. co-owner/editor of @racketmn.com, em@racketmn.com. (she/they)
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
https://www.rifftrax.com
instagram @billcorbett
Deus Pascit Corvos
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.
🇺🇦🍉
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
Ryan D. Peterson @ryandpeterson.bsky.social Minnesota husband, father, and lawyer.
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Lozaning @lozan.ing they/them
Present on various spectrum and resonant on multiple frequencies. Top percentage wigler
- The WiFivedra (WiP)
- RF Field Cams
- toothbrush botnet
- The Wifydra
- The international Wigle Space Balloon
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. DailyCannon.com owner.
The Trans Agenda records anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Our Streets @ourstreetsmn.org We work to make biking, walking, & rolling easy & comfortable for everyone.
Distro of the Week @distrooftheweek.bsky.social The Bluesky site for "Distro of the Week," written by Larry Cafiero (who is @lcafiero.bsky.social, by the way) and featured at http://www.distrooftheweek.com. One new Linux distro reviewed 52 times per year.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Founder, The Gaia Leadership Project & The Ripple Effect Institute; political/leadership consultant; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights atty; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; NYer 4ever; Host, ResistanceLive on YT https://www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
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
Kim Juul Jensen @jensen.kim Passionate and creative techie. Long-lasting love for the #demoscene as part of LiteWerx. #T1D diabetic since 2018.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Anthony Maki 🧊🚫 @anthonymaki.com Personal account • Se habla español • @twincitiesdsa.org @mapeunion.bsky.social • My expressions ≠ my union’s, political org’s, or employer’s • 📍 Minneapolis-St Paul • Desde el río hasta el mar, Palestina será libre. 🇵🇸
Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social 
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.
PFP alt text: a pale woman with red hair sips from a straw in a cup. Her hair is in a high side pony, and she’s wearing goldy gopher sunglasses.
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social Representing Minnesota's 5th District in the People's House.
US Progressives Deputy Chair.
Account managed by staff.
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kate_ross_
Tips on Hate Groups: katerosstips@proton.me
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social all my posts for july are #microblogs. in august i will return to my posts being boring on accident
Scott Riley @scott.is designer for real humans / author / speaker / educator / acab / buy my fuckin book / take my fuckin course
Mindful Design video course:
https://piccalil.li/mindful-design
Other gaffs:
https://scott.is
https://mindfuldesign.xyz
Okraglyv @vokadventures.bsky.social North metro of the Twin Cities. Loves theatre, community, and the Midwest. She/Her
Larry Cafiero @lcafiero.bsky.social He/Him/Dad. Antifascist/socialist/leftist scum. "Distro of the Week" columnist
(@distrooftheweek.bsky.social). Football fan: FC Sankt Pauli | Celtic FC | Hammarby IF | Liverpool FC | Bohemian FC #ForzaStPauli #COYBIG #Bajen #YNWA #DublinsFinest
Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social Simple #allotment folk just twice a week #nodig. UK/RU. Workaholics. R: flyfishing, opinionated, wood butcherer. T: gentle and frugal homemaker/baker. NE UK, very old house by the beach. #sourdough #soilhealth #biodiversity #regenerative #GYO #Bees Green
Frenchy’s House Party @frenchyshouseparty.bsky.social J&W Culinary Grad, Class of '76. Former Chef, Bartender, Waiter, Caterer, etc. etc... Now enjoying Cape Cod, NOT in the food business.
All food photos are mine unless credited.
Travis Norvell @pedalingpastor.bsky.social pedaling the gospel of community, inclusion, social justice, dad jokes, yelling at 🚗, & a deep ❤️ for 🚲 👟 🚌. WV-expat. Pastor of Judson Memorial Baptist Church in S. MPLS author of Church on the Move: A Practical Guide for Ministry in the Community
🏳️🌈 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.
Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social Professor, writer, author of (most recently) Crowded Out. Co-host of @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social. Public health, medical anthropology, tech, politics. Good trouble always.
Jeanne Lakso @jeannelakso.bsky.social Food, books, my front porch and the view from elsewhere. Car-free transit fan, music listener, pastry lover. Seeker of the ultimate biscuits and gravy. Writer, meditator. Diversity is strength.
⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com whitep4nth3r.com
Staff Engineer at [REDACTED].
I am not on The Internet.
▨ weekly newsletter: whitep4nth3r.com/newsletter
♥ drummer, maker of musics @chromasetica.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social Author. Baker. Cheese lover. Late-diagnosed autistic. Writer of fantasy novels & cozy mysteries. Unrepentant poet. Hanford, CA native now in Red Wing, MN.
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
alison 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ @bluishorange.bsky.social aerialist. I make tiny furniture. pls wear a mask in public. they/them
Dillatont @dillatont.bsky.social Perpetual dabbler. Baking, cross-stitching, music, video games, winter sports. Yearly supporter of Desert Bus for Hope.
My YouTube show “Bread After Dark”
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCEgOfUzCzzRd2PscjMKOnBg
taylr @taylordahlin.com local duckling with internet access
📍 minneapolis MN
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Hans Lemuet 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @spone.net Web developer, UX designer & Gravel rider.
Cofounder @etamin.studio, @californiefrancaise.com
Bi of Hormuz @ellen-musk-ox.bsky.social Public transit operator, union thug ATU1005, anti-car advocate, Nobel peace prize nominee & jfk profile in courage ☭
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Black Rose Mutual Aid Bakery @blackrosebakerylnk.bsky.social Fully Licensed AntiCapitalist Cottage Bakery in-so called Lincoln,NE.
DM open for Orders!
Supporting local mutual aid orgs monthly in Lincoln & Omaha!
Support the project - Support mutual aid & collective liberation!
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy @followers4algernon.bsky.social I’m haveing a accident
Fake Signal Name @dropstar.bsky.social Unapologetic Tuff Turf lover. MSP- on the good side of the river.
NotNite @notnite.com jack of all trades, master of none. she/her. programmer, modder, reverse engineer, dataminer, shitposter. https://notnite.com/
scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca Gay Irish-Canadian Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
𝕮 @chrisshank.com seeding discontent in present-day computing and radical patience in how we reimagining it
libcomp.org • @folkjs.org
foraging the web: https://semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com
henry @hdevalence.bsky.social navigating the library of babel
SBOMfunk MC @fack.bsky.social extremely online tech bro from minneapolis who likes his bike
Casey @foxthingsup.bsky.social Live from lovely Saint Paul, Minnesota.
He/him
Pit bull advocate, dog rescue volunteer, dog foster.
I have no idea what to do with a new social media network.
My feed will probably be memes, dogs, and politics.
shiftedshaped - emily mae @shiftedshaped.bsky.social Funeral Director/Mortician/Undertaker
Deep grief with ritual of radical gratitude.
Normies Say ¡Chinga la migra! @midwestprimonotemo.bsky.social Every billionaire is a policy failure. We keep us safe. Find me at Minneapolis’ finest Somali Walmart. (Any medical story is fictionalized/composite.)
Sambotz@bsky.social @sambotz.bsky.social Dad, musician, handyman, guy
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
My Log Judges ICE @bikingmpls.bsky.social Bikes, buses, books, beers and bans off my body. Car free since 2008.
Manda M @bettesays.bsky.social The nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. 📍Twin Cities transplant
🚩 standwithminnesota.com
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Hilary Lovelace @hilove.bsky.social Giant dork, tired.
📍Twin cities.
faves: 👨👩👧🚲🚌🏘️🌈🧄🥯
she/her. tweets mine, not my employer's.
Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co Working class solidarity. We can do things ourselves.
Independent IT is important. Shop local counts for us, too.
AI is for huge dorks. The Luddites did nothing wrong.
Montana and Minnesota with @retroition.bsky.social
https://goreckis.co
Lone Gray Wolf @lonegraywolf2000mn.bsky.social They/them. Plural/non-binary. Lower 40s. Minneapolis renter (Ward 10). Autistic. Urbanist. E-bike advocate. Surprise fashion experimenter apparently. Maybe more undiscovered talents to come.
Mistakes will be made, but at least one can learn from them.
Andy Bell @bell.bz Founder at: @set.studio and @piccalil.li
Complete CSS Course: https://complete-css.com
Studio: https://set.studio
CSS Book: https://every-layout.dev
Newsletter: https://piccalil.li/the-index/
🔗 https://bell.bz/links/
🌐 https://bell.bz
🌍 Cheltenham, UK
Matt @originalmattb.com Hi, nice to meet you. Be excellent to each other. Twin Cities, MN.
tyler @tylergaw.com i make sand do tricks
👴 https://tylergaw.com
📲 @pezzos.app
🏭 https://latchbolt.tech
🎧 https://wax.tylergaw.com
Fresh Air Radio 90.3 KFAI @kfai.org Bringing the world to the Twin Cities
Bringing the Twin Cities to the world
Bringing Fresh Air Radio to Bluesky!
Check out our real-time playlist account @KFAI.fm!
Direct all complaints to @CRZ.mn (for now)
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Bylines in Mother Jones, Zeteo, Rolling Stone, American Prospect. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Newsletter: gillianbrockell.com
Signal: gbrockell.44
Bart @mud2minnehaha.bsky.social A plumbing supply guy from the Minnehaha neighborhood of Minneapolis
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time. Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. SpareTheRock.com. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only here.
St. Paul.
🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social JFK Profile in Courage Award winner, 2026
Dad, neighbor, dietitian and local man. Socialism is good for you. Ask me about horses or food. Find all my writing at forksandfigures.org
Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca A better world, by listening.
Matt Maldre @spudart.bsky.social Artist & designer
Museum wanderer. Noticer of small things. Open web advocate.
Chicago / Glen Ellyn, Illinois
🎨 spudart.org
🏠 mattmaldre.com
🏢 tribunecontentagency.com
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social /j /hj /s 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
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/