Jon Roket @jonroket.bsky.social Chicago | Wisconsin
S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social Librarian, gleaner, energy seeker. Love calls us to the things of this world.
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Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social Oak Park Village Trustee, "boring suburban dad," attorney.
Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark @londonmudlark.bsky.social Found in the Thames by mudlark Lara Maiklem, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and bestselling author. NEW BOOK OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/3WqTsyu
Reverend Lucifer Johnson @protestcheese.bsky.social 
Marvelous Marg @marvelousmarg.bsky.social Retired landscaper/ Collector/ Books/ Ephemera
Vintage resale/ 😺Cats/ 🌱Plants/ 🧘MBSR
Derailed by Long Covid since 2020 😷
Politics-free zone
Metro Detroit
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her . museum collections professional. Lifelong Maryland resident. Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
💫Joy Marie Kaine💫 @joymariekaine.bsky.social "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." - Zora Neale Hurston
"I wear the chains I forged in life." - A Christmas Carol
Vote blue responsibly.
Phineas @phineas.bsky.social This is our most moderately priced receptacle.
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🚫AI Delenda Est🚫
Aaron Lisec @aml61.bsky.social lover of dogs, socialism, archives, history, Chicago, southern Illinois, Bach, Muddy Waters, mid-century modern and brutalism
Tucker @tjchc.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 in Chicago, former baker hopefully current ceramic artist soon, punk/90’s hip hop lover, roommates with an eccentric orange cat. The b&w picture is my grandma at a frog race
Jeff Sabin @texanokie07.bsky.social “It takes a soul to love the prairie.” -Willa Cather
Lawyer, urbanist, & geographer. Sports, music, regionalism, & urban policy. I prefer pleated pants. Texan by birth, Oklahoman by choice, Illinoisan at heart/by heritage. Profile/posts are my own.
D.Horn @pangraph.com Amateur: photographer, coffee roaster, luthier, & recidivist trombonist in Colorado. Mining my archive of photos from over the years and occasionally adding new ones. Works are my own except as noted. All rights reserved.
Website: www.pangraph.com
Andrew Montequin @amontequin.bsky.social Journalist, former biologist, Texan living in the Midwest.
Current Minow Fellow at WTTW/Chicago Tonight
Former AAAS Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He/him
Tim Broderick @timbroderick.bsky.social Data and viz, Modern Healthcare, but views here are mine and don't reflect MH. Anyway, I don’t post much. You’re welcome.
Photo of fox on neighbor’s garage roof (really!) by me
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
Josh J Architect @josharchitect.bsky.social Josh an architect from New Dorp Beach and now in Austin
Architecture, pro wrestling, chicken parm
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
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Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
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Mark Kennedy @mkennedy832.bsky.social History nerd and recovering political obsessive. Photography and architecture enjoyer. Believer in the Oxford comma.
maureen @maureenf.bsky.social Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, poems, and where I live.
she/her
Chicago Area Archivists @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social An organization for Chicago area archivists, historians, librarians. Join us!
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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social Writer of Many Things | The Future is Public Transit | More of an Art Geek Than You Thought | Chicagoan | Cat Mom | Bowie Flamekeeper | Books and Magazines | Fan of Water | Urban Gardener
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Maren ✨ ☭ @gaypenguin.bsky.social Complex and contradictory. Architecture/design nerd. Also into film, photography, communism/socialism and video games.
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
@siezetheclay.bsky.social @siezetheclay.bsky.social artist, potter, mother of daughters
the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social electrically operated over 650 miles
allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com ✂️ handy with a pair of scissors
📍 queer artist in mpls, mni sota makoce
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Elizabeth Austin @elizabethaustin.bsky.social Mistress of Public Policy
I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
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Rocking Reader @rockingreader.bsky.social Radical punk-ass book jockey, ally, mom. She/her. Posts about books, mostly. Fizz habit. Union household. ✊🏽 #Postcrossing 📮💙
Puddle Oops @puddleoops.com type designer, famously illiterate
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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com Transportation/urban planner. Fascinated with cities, geography and the movement of people and goods. Chicagoan. ryanjrichter.com
100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social Boring Gen X Cishet Neurotypical Black American. South Shore to Coastal Empire. Extremely Amateur Historian. Reposts a lot. Flies the W. He/him/'nem.
Matt Bergstrom @mattbergstrom.bsky.social Chicago architecture and history, papercraft and postcards - https://www.wurlington-bros.com/
Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social Your Illinois news radar https://capitolfax.com/
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
AmyP-no-bs @amyp-nobs.bsky.social Gardener, quilter, retired, Grandma, married, solid Dem, hater of fascists. No dating follows, please. #TheOpposition #angret
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
Jen B @jenbaty.bsky.social NeverTrump before it was fashionable
Chicago-ish
ex-gop-campaign-gen-xer
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
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Peter Coffman @petercoffman.bsky.social Retired 🇨🇦 architectural historian. https://carleton.ca/aah/people/peter-coffman/ Photographer. Pilgrim. Occasionally a writer. Chief of Staff to two cats. Photos mine unless otherwise credited.
Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social Daily newsletter/column, Today in Culture, free sub @ Newcity.com. Film critic. Photographer. Editor. raypride.substack.com; [my name] everywhere / weekly film column newcityfilm.com
Chicago Covenants Project @chicagocovenants.bsky.social Identifying and interpreting racially restrictive covenants in Cook County through civic engagement and collaboration.
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app Solo parent raising a brave autistic child, defends fare-evaders and beaters. defund the police. STFU about Chicago. Medicare 4 All is my single vote issue. WESTSIIIIIIDE!!! Go #B1GCats! She/her, M.A.
“Care work IS justice work.” - @whatashrinkthinks.com
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
Writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI
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Miranda from Shakespeare's _The Tempest_ @bbo-miranda.bsky.social The heart has no ruler, only a tide of questions.
I'm Miranda from @bitbardofficial.bsky.social Shakespeare Troupe—where 5 characters find wonder in modern life.
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Noreen Bowden @noreenbowden.bsky.social NY | Galway | Irish diaspora | into art, architecture, history, philosophy, economics, Irish politics | UND, BC, HKS | #cleantheair | #speirgorm
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New Jersey expat, naturalized Chicagoan
Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social Forklift-certified journalist in Chicago. Words in the Chicago Reader, Unraveled Press, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Courthouse News Service and some other ones I forget right now. All opinions & bad jokes my own. DM me for news tips/Signal info.
Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social Co-host of Setting the Tone: An ER Retrospective. Beginner climber. Cozy gamer.
🌴Jeff🌴 @counseloroh.bsky.social NYT Best Selling Author, Social Media Influencer, Olympic Athlete, Entrepreneur, Self-made Billionaire, Male Model, Inventor of the Internet, Rhodes Scholar, Poet. I am none of those. Here because I am pissed! #RESIST #BlueCrew #FBR
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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social Does things but not for a living
Paul Whatever @tonytomaytuh.bsky.social I live in Chicago and I write and sometimes I take pictures.
Wolfington @wolfalizer.bsky.social Tree-loving, ecological-minded, anti-authoritarian originally from Chicago, now 3hrs south for family, but trying to do his best by his community;
aka CNW IV (b.333ppm)
The Harlander ✅ @harlander-1.bsky.social "There can be only one" ✡️ Ars longa vita brevis. 🇺🇦 Nature, culture, everything is political. North branch of the Chicago River watershed.
Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social 🍉 • art • architecture • historic preservation • urbanism • ecology • advocacy • NYC Landmarks whisperer • wit wry and champagne dry
Distractedly commencing a dilatory relocation from that other place.
Scott Sakiyama @scottsakiyama.bsky.social 
Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social ugh, who invited this guy 
Is Everyone Else Tired? @madame-wench.bsky.social Living in a house full of cartoon animals somewhere in Chicago. Shouting into the void.
Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com Covering politics and policy from the Midwest. Newsroom for WCPT820
Heidihell @heidihell.bsky.social Blue wave believer - never hated much until there was an orange shit muppet 😜- ❤️Chiefs 💙Royals and 💜Kansas State wildcats
Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social Chicago!! & Notre Dame ‘23 🥹
I like taking pics of the built and natural environments in Chicago. Big fan of rust belt / midwest architecture & history. Old stuff is cool. Rooting for da bears & Notre dame football, & Blackhawks hockey. leftist.
@Skribbler.bsky.social @skribbler.bsky.social Sadsack since 11/5/24
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
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lindsey romain @lindseyromain.bsky.social chicago-based writer/critic; CFCA (bylines: bwdr, nerdist, vulture, thrillist, etc.)
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DrG78 @drg78.bsky.social 📍 Chicago, Doctor, Dogs, Pro-democracy and equal rights for all. Primarily a re-poster. ‘The Owls Are Not What They Seem.’
Matt Finch @themattfinch.bsky.social Southerner now living in Chicago
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Oak Park Nerd @oakparknerd.bsky.social I hope something good happens to you today.
LynnP @ritter2.bsky.social I love Cities, Buildings, Books, Dogs, Politics, Music. Not always in that order. So, so many thoughts on so many things.
Je suis Link (kaelyn) @kaelynski.bsky.social She/her. Chicago. Metalwork. Community Care. Abolition.
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Banner: light blue/green sky with me looking down from the right side of the frame.
Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social Researcher, reader, connoisseur of dumb jokes
jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social Seed ecologist and wild seed banker 🫘 🌱 | she/her 🏳️🌈 | ATL street peach 🚲 | ecology section program director @botsocamerica.bsky.social | views my own
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Len Grossman @modemjunkie.bsky.social "The willful doomscrolling of one's own soul."
Retweets and Quotetweets (including quoted text) do not necessarily reflect my own views.
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social they/them. audHD.
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Ira Rigaud 🇭🇹 🇺🇸 @irarigaud.bsky.social Joel 2:12: Yet even now...
Oak Park, IL (raised in Randallstown, MD)
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social Former Alaskan, current Evanstonian. Ruby and Bunny are my dogs.
Republicans are trash, stop voting [and making excuses] for them.
Extremely displeased with current events.
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Chicago Lady @chicagoladyrs.bsky.social I look for inspiration everywhere. Art, architecture and nature. Retired prof who taught topics now outlawed in FL. Vegan. Happily living in a blue stronghold. Cat lover. Cubs Fanatic. I’m also a novelist
Martin Zeman @martinzeman.bsky.social The author of all photos on this profile is me.
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At work photographer from Czech Republic.
Outside of work: running, traveling and movies.
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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social Architecture. Music. Art. Other things. Public Transit Enthusiast.
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Max Chavez @maxchavez.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️🌈
ART DECO WORLD available for pre-order: https://linktr.ee/maxechavez
Carmen Theresa @carmen-theresa.bsky.social "The bird song of each day is unique. In all creation it has never been heard before and never will return."
Peter Forbes @petersforbes.bsky.social Live NW of Chicago | Lifelong midwesterner | proud UW Badger
Work: Responsible AI in finance/banking
Posts: AI governance, applied AI/ML, tech, policy, weather, Chicago, assorted stuff and things