Jim Margalus @soxmachine.com Paying attention to the White Sox so you don't have to at soxmachine.com. VP, Nashville Curling Club.
Marktwain Mullen @mrbutterchicken.bsky.social Here for the same reason as everyone else: to attempt to fill the hole in my soul.
Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social Welcome to my page please be polite
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel
“The smart, transit-oriented [social media] account” -Chicago Tribune
Planning, building, breaking, rebuilding.
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
Chicago Buoys @chicagobuoys.bsky.social Posting live readings from buoys around Chicago.
💾 https://github.com/MisterClean/chicago-buoys
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
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
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Nome @nome.bsky.social Please don't use unroller bots on my threads.
ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand.
Queer, Disabled, He/Him
🐦@NomeDaBarbarian
💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian
📌 Denver
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org The region's sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, helping to make the city and suburbs better since 2013. Posts: @johngreenfield.bsky.social (unsigned) and @stevevance.net.
Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social Soft left(ie), former Labour staffer, now 🟢 member, and a tech/climate nerd who follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/him + 🏳️🌈.
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.
Ohm's Resistance @a-nobodyuser.bsky.social Gen X...union guy...cat dad...old punk...bike rider...beer drinker...defeated American... Midwesterner for life.
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Young at Heart Senior Pet Adoptions @youngatheartpets.bsky.social Senior pet rescue and sanctuary in Woodstock IL ❤️Older pets deserve second chances too! Love has no age limit™️🐾 www.adoptaseniorpet.com
Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter covering the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and criminal justice issues in Chicago.
Signal: jmeisner48.08
Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
💡 Helping you make informed health decisions
🎓 MPH, PhD
👇🏻 Get weekly science-backed updates
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social Public Service Fellow - Lawfare
Adjunct Professor - GWU
Former Senior Analyst - CIA
Former Director - NSC
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Faxes From Uncle Dale @realfansprogram.bsky.social We're over here now.
Hawks hockey and more for reasons we no longer remember.
SAM'S BOOK!: http://bit.ly/2sOuXe1
Andy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social USWFS meteorologist. dogs, native plants and good food. georgia now but midwest is home. he/him/🏳️🌈. opinions my own.
Friendly Skeleton @jonathan.eylerwerve.com I post art, art process, some trash. Reskeets mean you fucking crushed it, good job.
Chicago. Trying to make the Internet a nice place for humans at https://civicworkbench.com
The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc The City Reporter is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving New Yorkers. Sign up for our newsletter: thecityreporter.nyc/the-city-newsletters. Send tips: thecityreporter.nyc/contact/
JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social Jason Van Glass is a standup comedian and dog hugger in Hollywood, California principally known for his string of "Road" movies with lifelong friend Bing Crosby
The Bob Hope American Patriot Award is named in his honor
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
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art Taxon-agnostic entomologist, science communicator and cartoonist. Artist of ARISE, YE SKELETON KING!, cat dad, special little guy.
Full-time Extension Educator in New England, USA.
Personal and art account: Catposting, goofs, sometimes art.
(He/Him)
Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social drifter/writer on architecture, culture and Chicago, photographer specializing in out-of-focus images. there will be posts on opera, apologies in advance.
Chicago Alerts @chicagoalerts.com Chicago alerts from Notify Chicago, NOAA and other chicago orgs.
A simple bot by @harper.lol
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social 🦐Unofficially posting frames from the Food Network dub of Iron Chef 🔥 How will the challenger fight back? 🧄 The heat will be on! 🥑
Episode title and frame # are in alt txt
(ran by @dudethatbe.bsky.social)
Dungeons & Dragons @dndbeyond.com The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game.
https://www.dungeonsanddragons.com/
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I love and share #maps and #data that explain how the #world works.
Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social Extreme weather and climate change expert writing for Yale Climate Connections. Co-founder, Weather Underground; former hurricane hunter.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social Photojournalist for the @chicagotribune. Born in ATX. Still getting used to the cold. Breakfast taco enthusiast. No such thing as bad light or small stories.
Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com Women's Sports Lead at The Athletic & co-host of Full Time. (& also UTFG.)
🌐 meglinehan.com 🎙️ fulltimepod.com
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social class war hooligan
president, @7mountainsafl.bsky.social
member, @newsguild.org
he/him
Edgewater Chamber @edgewaterchamber.bsky.social Chicago, IL
Supporting, promoting, and connecting the Edgewater business community since 1984
Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social writer and editor (lol)
plz subscribe to my blog --> https://type-click-type.ghost.io/
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/
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
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
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social Be-shadowed music reviewer on YouTube, cohost of
Song vs. Song
Patreon: http://patreon.com/toddintheshadows
Media/inquiries: toddintheshadows@standard.tv
Andrew Nelson @i.amnot.social I push bits around for money. Likes are free, so use them. Be kind. He/him.
Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social Fiasco is BIG GENIUS can catch any kind of moth even MAMMOTH am still working on hims SCREENPLAY it is very good no u cannot read it (he/him).
Pannier Peter 🚲 @peter.dev Chicago's #1 beefposter | #bikechi | Android dev
chud.dev
John Muller @johnspacemuller.com making a good soccer app for you called @futi.live
Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social Seismologist, investigates the Andes and subduction zones, currently complexly affiliated with St. Louis University and looking for new projects.
Replies to my geoscience posts that include LLM content get your account blocked.
Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social Writer of Fluxblog for 20+ years... I heard codes in the melody and heeded the call, so I'm sharing things I know and love with those of my kind http://linktr.ee/fluxblog
SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social The official @SickosCommittee soccer/fútbol account. Follow us here as we Park the Bus and track all the Red Cards from around the world. Watching as many of the games no matter the league. All our Committee Links here - https://linktr.ee/sickoscommittee
Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social 35 year meteorologist in warning/forecast provision and research, now CEO of Balanced Weather LLC, Disney/Peanuts fan, golfer, sports fan, TK Little. For more weather info go to https://balancedweather.substack.com/about
Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social GQ Correspondent, NYT Mag, NatGeo, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Garden & Gun, This American Life, et. al. Author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution. Three James Beard awards. https://linktr.ee/brettsy
http://www.brettmartin.org
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social So shave your face with some mace in the dark
29,272 words #AmWriting @legalminimum.bsky.social Now shamelessly employed but not telling you where (yet).No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social Chicago. Reporter now, @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Focused on violence, and running to ground things related. Past: CNN, Chicago Tribune. More of a baseball account now if I am being honest.
Well used to ghostly company by this time
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff.
please dont, "not all white people" me
George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social My name is George. I am the senior mouse catcher and I “work” at Stourbridge Junction railway station. *not all quotes are my own- but quoted with love
Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Taller than your dad
Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social festive seasonal homosexual, tinned fish enthusiast, citrus enjoyer, los angeles evangelist, he/him
made @fionaapplebot.bsky.social
🗡️🦐✨
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Arpon Basu @arponbasu.bsky.social The Athletic’s senior columnist on the Montreal Canadiens, co-host of the Basu and Godin Notebook podcast, regular contributor for Habs on TSN. Subscribe at:
Print: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nhl/team/canadiens/
Audio: https://basuandgodin.com/
Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com Writer. Only work gets done here. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. I will not betray my soul. Fix your hearts or die. Tiocfaidh ár lá
Sid Financy @sidfinancy.bsky.social “The Godfather of String Theory”
—Società Italiana di Fisica
Snarko-terrorist
Under-the-influencer
#twinja
Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social Dutch. History, lit, art and animal lover, especially cats.
Not particularly woke, just a decent upbringing which apparently is the same as woke.
This is my DetoX space. No DMs.
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
DID NOT INTENTIONALLY KILL OPTIMUS PRIME
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
CTA Alert Insights @ctaalertinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app Major CTA disruptions — suspended segments, shuttles, delays. Auto-detected outages + CTA alerts.
chicagotransitalerts.app
github.com/cailinpitt/cta-insights
Not affiliated with CTA.
Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social 4pm news anchor and investigative reporter at @wgntv.com in Chicago. For those who @ me, try to be kind.
Mayor Donna Deegan @mayordeegan.bsky.social 45th mayor of the City of Jacksonville, Florida.
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Tortoise Books @tortoisebooks.bsky.social Your favorite publisher's favorite publisher.
Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com I'm an architecture photographer and Chicago is my backdrop. I post about weather, science, and urbanism issues, too. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
📩: nick@nuphoto.com
https://linktr.ee/nick_ulivieri
Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social 
Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social I make comics