Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social An avid pedestrian in Chicago.
I biked in this @ibikedinthis.bsky.social Addressing common barriers to everyday biking and proving that you can roll in style—even in Chicago. https://www.instagram.com/ibikedinthis/ https://linktr.ee/ibikedinthis
David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social Transportation planner working on making biking, walking, rolling & riding safer & easier | Care deeply about transparency | Posts are my own ofc
Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social Sometimes journalist, sometimes jokester, full time Angeleño. He/him
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social We are all we’ve got. We are all we need. ✊🏽
Community Organizer 🚲 @cyclingxsolidarity
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike We tell the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city, in photos and video. Read all our past interviews at chiwho.bike!
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app Harvard PhD candidate. Studying work, technology, and identity. #GodsPlan ☀️
Research: annagifty.com/research
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com Nonprofit, independent newsroom telling stories that matter for a dynamic, evolving state.
News: https://coloradosun.com
Support: https://coloradosun.com/support
Newsletters: https://coloradosun.com/newsletters
Mary Boone @boonewrites.bsky.social Author of books for curious kids. 📕✏️📚
UNFATHOMABLE, FLYING FEMINIST, PEDAL PUSHER, SCHOOL OF FISH, BUGS FOR BREAKFAST and more.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social SCOTUS podcast (Crooked Media)
Hosted by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, & Kate Shaw
Produced by Melody Rowell
Chicakō @chicago-seasons.bsky.social An interpretation of the traditional division of the year into 72 microseasons or kō (候), for the climate in Chicago, by u/sherrillo on Reddit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12uh4lpcqnkYuDY75r7HwKpKLtrefyALw (bot run by @maeveynot.online)
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
Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; faculty lounge exotica; PhD/JD.
By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport.
24/7: Epistemic humility; posting through the polycrisis; personal account.
Electrify Chicago @electrifychicago.net We find Chicago's most polluting buildings, so you don't have to! Powered by public energy benchmarking data. 🌎 ElectrifyChicago.net
Meets weekly @chihacknight.org
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social Emily
Chicago, IL
she/her
emidly.08 on Signal
Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social Advocacy platform through visual journalism. Focused on environmental protection and human rights. Elevating, celebrating and centering the voices of marginalized communities.
https://humanizingthroughstory.org/support
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Parks for All @parksforall.bsky.social 
Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Querying a memoir on grief, healthcare system fuckery, and a spine injury
BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social Shakes Prof, cyclist, grouch, fabulist, cat guy.
https://bradleygreenburg.com/index.html
Repped by https://strachanlit.com/
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Maria Hadden @chialderwoman.bsky.social Democracy champion and Alderwoman of the Chicagos 49th Ward.
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social Research Scientist 🌾 Adj Professor
Scicomm 🌾 Env/Sci History 🌾 Comics
history, plants, & goldenrod 🌾🏳️🌈🌾
https://liz.kozik.net
she/her
@negauneeinstitute.bsky.social 🌿 Chicago Botanic Garden 🌿
https://rethinkinglawns.com
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I’m just here for a good time.
AiR - Activists in Resistance @air-chicago.bsky.social Lifting up Chicago activists through community
building, mutual aid, and solidarity in the fight against fascism.
https://linktr.ee/AiR.Chicago
Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social Lefty who sometimes engages in typo ridden sincerity.
Adam Harris @adamhsays.com writer, southern.
Co-host, Radio Atlantic.
Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America?
More: www.harrisadam.com
Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social Editorial Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and acquiring editor for our Higher Ed. program.
“Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”
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/
Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social Mom. Fighter + Community Leader
https://lindseyfornyc.com/
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
National Lawyers Guild Chicago @nlgchicago.bsky.social 
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social Writer/Organizer/Hopemonger. Read The White Pages (please) (https://thewhitepages.net). From Montana/now in Milwaukee.
"We put on ZZ Top and turned it up, real loud"
Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social Photojournalist @BlockClubCHI | BSJ, MSJ, Adjunct Lecturer @MedillSchool | Lifelong Chicagoan | #TodaysReportingLunch | Cats | News | Local Lens
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
General Strike US - Illinois @gsus-illinois.bsky.social This is the Illinois Chapter of General Strike US ✊ the decentralized strike network uniting 3.5% or 11 million Americans to strike!!! 🍉
Join us: GeneralStrikeUS.com
IL Resources: linktr.ee/gsus_illinois
#FreePalestine #AbolishICE
Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social I am a tree scientist and botanist writing about relationships between trees and humans including climate change. A Fulbright Scholar, Author of Venerable Trees and more books in progress. Read about trees here: https://ourtrees.substack.com.
Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social gossip, FOIA, art and zinemaker in chicago
✶✶✶✶
www.thefoiabakery.org
Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social economist // former Charlottesville state rep 🏛️ // UVa prof // election reform 🇺🇸 // I write about bright lights for democracy ✨
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
ABC7 CHICAGO @abc7chicago.bsky.social For stories you care about, follow Chicago’s #1 news source.
Visit abc7chicago.com for more.
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.”
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
20x2 Chicago @20x2chi.bsky.social Twenty people. One Question. Two minutes each.
Shows four times a year in Chicago. More info at https://20x2.org/chicago or http://20x2chi.org
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
The Reprintery @thereprintery.bsky.social Charlotte and Michelle are artists, educators and reuse advocates collaborating as we print and sew reclaimed textiles in Portland, OR
https://www.thereprintery.com
Showcased in the 6th Pattern Directory
https://uppercasemagazine.com/spdg6
Kristin Barrus PhD @kristinbarrus.bsky.social An ethnographic researcHER exploring the anthropology of 21st century quilts. I'm a Gen X mom who draws inspiration from pop culture and the outdoors. Join our quilt wave of rad makers to learn more about craftswomanship, fandom, self-efficacy, etc.
Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Let’s Move The Needle, is out now. 🖖🏼. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super 🏳️🌈. Gen X
Caroline Hadley @geometriquilt.bsky.social - modern quilting | Sunday sketches | quilt design
- living + working on Wurundjeri land 🇦🇺
www.geometriquilt.com
www.instagram.com/geometriquilt
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@piecefully.bsky.social @piecefully.bsky.social I stand with Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Sewist, knitter, fabric and yarn dyer, and gardener. Mama to Piper dog and Pixie devil cat. Married to Sworded Tales! Beach walker and shipwreck shard collector/geek.
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Moms United Against Violence & Incarceration @momsunitedchicago.bsky.social Moms United is a Chicagoland community group that organizes mutual support & participatory defense in solidarity with mothers who suffer criminalization & forcible separation from their kids. 
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Unfuck Your Habitat @teamufyh.bsky.social Messiness is not a moral failing
https://www.patreon.com/unfckyourhabitat
Solidarity Alliance @solidarityalliance.bsky.social A meeting place for progressive organizing - where activists, workers, and movement builders work together to strategize, change policy, win elections, provide mutual aid, and learn from each other.
We organize. We fight. We win.
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
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
have a tip? DM me for signal
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social Activist. Political content creator. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions Substack.
Linktree 👇
beacons.ai/jesscraven101
General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social THE Decentralized General Strike Network ✊ Uniting 3.5% (11 million Americans!) to actively participate in a STRIKE for economic & political reconstruction.
JOIN US: www.GeneralStrikeUS.com
LEARN MORE: https://linktr.ee/generalstrikeus
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Postcards for America @postcards4usa.bsky.social Came to try and help save Democracy.
Staying for The Resistance. Again.
Former White House, Former Time Magazine and US News Correspondent.
Former rather a lot of things, actually.
#PC2A #DemCast
Learn with us @uwt-real.bsky.social Undergraduate students presenting their work to teach back & bring awareness to law, policy and legal frameworks in the US.
Trolls will be blocked.
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social Parent-founded. Parent-led. Defending the right to read & supporting the fight against book bans in our public schools & communities.
Join us: www.txftrp.org/petition
📍Texas, USA
Reasons to be Cheerful @reasonstobecheerful.world An online editorial project sharing stories of solutions and positive change. Created by David Byrne. reasonstobecheerful.world
Become a member: https://bit.ly/3BUCAnL
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