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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social Latest novel: THE GREAT AMERICAN BETRAYAL "Best Comedy Books of 2022" —Vulture
English professor, novelist, satirist, editor, father, husband, dog owner, gardener
https://scottsteinonline.com
Lake. Big Lake. @lakebiglake.bsky.social White Sox⚾️, N.Y. Mets⚾️, Everton⚽️, transportation and urbanism advocate 🚲🚲🚲. Chicago U.S. 🏳️🌈☮️
Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social Sometimes sports journo, sometimes comms pro, always a maker. Love Chicago. Probably making a Taskmaster or Murder, She Wrote joke. I won't answer any questions you can Google. I'm here for conversation, not debate. I mute whining about officials.
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com Climate developer, photographer, creator of @chiwho.bike and @electrifychicago.net | 🌎 viktorkoves.com
Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social A Garbage Plate™ kid living in a chicken-wing world. Ra Cha Cha is the nickname of my hometown, Rochester. #MassMob co-founder. Writer for Buffalo Rising. Planner. Also: Urbanism, greenways, politics. #BillsMafia
Chicago AQ @chicagoaq.bsky.social Monitoring Air Quality Index (AQI) pollutants (PM 2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂ O₃, CO) measured in The Loop, Chicago. Managed by @nikhunder.com
@chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social Architecture geek
https://chicagolandarchitecture.substack.com/
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks writer in residence @ texas roadhouse //
NYT bestselling author + stonewall award winner //
first book: ONE OF THE BOYS, out now! //
next book: RISEBALL, out summer ‘27! //
MGS podcast: @shadowmosesbook.club //
buffalo gal // she/her🏳️⚧️ // victoria.monster
patrick @redford.bsky.social i write for defector
James Tyler @jamestylerespn.bsky.social Deputy Editor, ESPN FC. Been on Jeopardy a few times. President, Dirk Kuyt Fan Club, and a proud member of Team Shrug Emoji (Seat 2). All views expressed are my own unique burden. https://twohalvesgame.blog/
Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social Author of The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts: https://splitrockbooks.com/book/9780593653876s
Senior lecturer, Marist University.
Soccer columnist, The Guardian US.
leanderalphabet.com
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social “If something on the internet doesn’t spark joy, mute it.” All views are mine and should be yours. Chaotic good tbh.
Buying Things Is Optional
TacticsFreeZone.com
Jay Cuda @jaycuda.bsky.social mostly MLB & #WhiteSox stats • 35 • liberal 🏳️🌈 • Woodworker🪚 Berkeley '11 Liberal arts
Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social 🇨🇦 troubadour. children's champion. ecology. Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring. beluga grads. 
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social The Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative celebrates this housing style, seeking to preserve the unique features of these houses, protect them from demolition, and continue their use and reuse for the next century – https://workerscottage.org/- K Katie Nolan @katienolan.bsky.social tv lady
Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social Remembering a baseball guy once every two hours. By chickenpuppet.online. Powered by Sports-Reference.
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov Congresista proudly serving the diverse IL-03. 🦋
I will not concede the power of the people.
@glicetracker.bsky.social @glicetracker.bsky.social 
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social Tracks the level of the piss tank on the International Space Station in real time.
Not affiliated with NASA.
Please don't follow me unless you want your feed filled with percentage changes. (It is not as fun as it sounds)
FAQ thread is pinned.
BetsyGriebs @bgriebs.bsky.social Chgo area dog & book lover. User of profanity. Work at Winnetka Public Library where access to info and banned books are always available. Dad was in WWII, husband served as Peace Corps Volunteer in Yemen. Use your head, it’s not just a hat rack. 💙📚🐕☘️
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Charlotte Wilder @thewilderthings.bsky.social 1/2 of The Sports Gossip Show
sportsgossipshow.bsky.social
Writer at thewilderthings.substack.com
kenpom @kenpom.com kenpom.substack.com
Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social Professional landscape photographer focused on Chicago and Ireland. My website is BarryButlerPhotography.com for prints, books and calendars.
Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social Hahne rhymes with bonny || Graphic novel critic || Artist/Comics || Formerly an insufferable ass, sometimes relapsing, sorry. http://linktr.ee/sethhahne #art #comics
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social the cafe is open and serving hot takes 
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Popehat Name Change Tracker @popehatnamechanges.bsky.social We track Popehat's once again frequent name changes.
As always, residing rent free in Michael Avennati's head.
Gourmet Spud @gourmetspud.bsky.social Freedom is just another word for “the condition of being free”. 
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/
Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social NYC Based Stand-Up Comedian•Noel Casler Podcast•Car Rants• 'Noel's Notes' on Substack https://linktr.ee/NoelCaslerComedy?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8fc21144-7ec4-4c40-94ca-b6170fa44c5e•find me: http://noelcasler.com 🔥
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Marge @magsmclaugh.bsky.social It’s me, marge. I am the Number 1 Jiminy Glick Revivalist on Bluesky Dot Com. Proud member of CWA.
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
Too sarcastic for my own good.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
Read my stuff: http://ryanjreilly.com/
Order my book: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-j-reilly/sedition-hunters/9781541701809/
Message me on Signal: @ryanjreilly.62
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social Embracing my villain era. Words: @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social Soccer nerd. Sometimes I even do soccer poasts.
Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social • Middle Aged Midwestern Mom • Hospice Chaplain • Abortion Doula • she/her • Disaster Bisexual • South Side Best Side • Chicago • Petoskey •
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Pink Floyd Hourly @pink-floyd.northsky.social 🤖 Bot by @numb.comfortab.ly
Posting one-liners from Pink Floyd lyrics every couple hours to help you get through the day.
Oh, by the way, which one is Pink?
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Pablo Torre @pablo.show 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/@pablotorrefindsout
🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486
📩 www.pablo.show/about
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.
Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social climate adaptive social housing developer
architect for car-light climate forward cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social Nothing makes me happier than places that have less cars. I make videos about that 👇
https://linktr.ee/carfreekeith
📍Chicago via NW IL, w/ a few years in New Orleans too
he/him
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live cooler by the lake 🕶️🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
*randomly chosen image from a list of 50+ webcams. image captured within 30 minutes of post
@the.mazz.zone
WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social As Chicago's PBS station, WTTW is committed to producing and presenting independent, trusted, best-in-class content fueled by a distinctly Chicago sensibility.
https://t.co/QTmgsrKIaj
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Ludeon Studios @ludeonstudios.bsky.social Independent game developer making RimWorld. We love deep PC games and story generators.
RimWorld: rimworldgame.com
Website: ludeon.com
Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️
she // chicago🔜nyc
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Chicago Growth Project @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social Urbanist PAC promoting a pro-growth agenda for Chicago
www.chicagogrowthproject.org
Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Tallest Italian to live-tweet brain surgery
Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social great lakes secessionist | ask your therapist about me (she/her)
Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social Eric_Erins on Twitter
Usually I’m out here posting buildings and real estate listings I think are interesting.
Chicago
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
Kno @knomercy.com Producer & Songwriter // CunninLynguists - Built To Fade - Sadistik x Kno
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social Not a WH Staffer | Politics, NatSec, and Snark - Your Mileage May Vary | Subscribe to my Patreon newsletter for free: https://www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog |
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social Cartoonist
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel @samkuffelwx.bsky.social Meteorologist | Wisconsin | UW-Milwaukee alum | 🍺🦌🧀🥏
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Edgar McGregor @edgarmcgregor.bsky.social San José State University Climate Science🌧🌴-- Climate activist conducting 1,900+ daily trash pickups.🌎🏜 -- He/Him -- Because the future is worth fighting for
WBEZPolitics @wbezpolitics.bsky.social All things Chicago, Cook Co. and Illinois government & politics.
European Space Agency @esa.int Elevating the future of Europe through space.
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