Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
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Metti Mart | Transit Art @mettimart.bsky.social Your transit art mart. Transit advocacy through prints, stickers, and accessories.
🎨 Art of Greg Ghielmetti
📍 Small family business in Burbank, CA
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
tschuy 🏳️🌈 @tsch.uy Bikes 🚴 trains 🚆 and public land 🖼️.
Get outdoors carfree! https://hikingbytransit.com
CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social suburban urbanist, cargo pants aficionado, UAW member, Georgist, YIMBY socialist, geoscientist, Inland Empire respecter, hydrogen hater, 🔰🚰🌹 they/them. Pro algae.
Traffic Violence Rapid Response @tvrr.bsky.social Traffic deaths are preventable and we will prevent them
IG: rapidrevoltteam M: @RapidResponseTeam@sfba.social
Oakland, Bay Area
https://oakrapidresponse.org/
Mick Foley @realmickfoley.bsky.social Legendary professional wrestler turned multi-time best-selling author turned stand-up comic/spoken word performer. Mick can provide you a personalized video at https://bit.ly/2MsxuJm.
dy/dt @dt8k.bsky.social new annual report >> soundcloud.com/dy_dt/fy24-25
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️ @renzaro.com i make videos (@renzarofitzgerald) about how economic justice and mobility justice are the same winning issue.
journalist in training @usa.streetsblog.org
Posts represent me and me only, obviously
www.renzaro.com
Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social Your local housing & transportation policy expert. Working to end freeway expansions in CA. Trans rights are human rights. They/Them.
TheSeatedBaker @theseatedbaker.bsky.social mike has a wife, 2 teens & #MS. Dx 2001. Seated & baking. Usually dealing with leg spasms. I talk about my life with #MS. I watch a lot of ⚾️
I wrote this⬇️
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some stuff I’ve designed ⬇️
https://theseatedbaker.printful.me/
The East Bay
MTC Bay Area @mtcbata.bsky.social Official account for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
We plan in order to keep the Bay Area moving
🚊🚎🚘🚲🚸⛴
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Josh J Architect @jjarchitect.bsky.social Architecture and built stuff that I find I interesting, amusement park stuff, pro wrestling. Occasionally chicken parm photos.
Renee de St. Croix @reneedsc.bsky.social City planner & urban designer. Planning Director with a Metro Vancouver municipality. Mom of 2. Loves soccer, biking, design & cities. Posts are my own.
Chris aka Rudo_Rampage @rudorampage.bsky.social Head Photographer for Lucha Libro
Photographer for Hoodslam, Full Queer, Stoner U
DM for availability to shoot shows
Video Game Nerd
Reasonably Cool Guy
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/rudorampage
Kaleo Mark @kaleomark.bsky.social he/him | oakland | berkeley alum | transit advocacy at @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social | 🏳️🌈 | ✨class solidarity🥰 | 
Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party AAPI Caucus & CA Dem Renters Council Board, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement.
art: http://alfredtwu.com
sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social next station is the end of history, please gather your belongings as you exit
shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social "shim" (they/them)
@ the design of artistic support tools, sustainable creative ecosystems, puppets, train cosplay 🎨🚆🐰
berkeley, adobe research, mj storytelling
https://shmuh.co
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
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)
Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social Bay Area transit organizer. Trainer of activists, author of "If you want to win, you've got to fight: a guide to effective transportation advocacy" https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781642833737/if-you-want-to-win-youve-got-to-fight
Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city Visual urbanist. I like trains, buses, cities, and maps.
fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com local designer and nonpractising urbanist who would like to make transit easier to use
🏳️⚧️ | 🇨🇴🇨🇱🇰🇷 | 🌳→🦝 | she/they
🚏 blog: fernkhahn.medium.com
📐 portfolio: fernkhahn.com
Okami Stormborn @okidokiokami.bsky.social Enby unicorn in purple human form.🦄💜
Cosplay 👩🏼🎤 | SlamTown 👾 | Model 🕺🏻
Conventions 🔜: TBD
Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA) 📍🌉
#cosplay #landback #fuckice #freepalestine
Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social Transport nerd. Recovering city bureaucrat. Introvert. Working to cut CO₂, eliminate traffic violence, advance equity, and strengthen local economies. Former SFMTA, OakDOT, Nelson/Nygaard. SF.
Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/
Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social Advocacy Director at Bike East Bay. See me for bicycle culture & transportation infrastructure news on the sunny side of the Bay.
RMI - Rocky Mountain Institute @rockymtninst.bsky.social RMI transforms global energy systems through market-driven solutions to secure a prosperous, resilient, clean energy future for all.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com Dutch-Canadian authors and urban mobility advocates who strive to communicate the benefits of happier, healthier, more human-scale cities.
@indydependent.bsky.social @indydependent.bsky.social 
M Mallon @mmallon.com 29 y/o advocate from the "bus community" in Santa Clara County, CA
formerly @monicamallon.bsky.social
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
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
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | James Beard award winner | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Walk San Francisco @walksf.org Join us in making San Francisco the most pedestrian-friendly city in the United States – and winning safe streets for all!
walksf.org
San Francisco Transit Riders @sftru.bsky.social SF Transit Riders is a rider-based grassroots advocate for world-class transit in San Francisco. Join the movement. http://sftransitriders.org/join
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
The Frisc @thefrisc.bsky.social Original 💯 San Francisco journalism, nonprofit & passionate about civic issues, holding people accountable, and fighting for a more affordable, inclusive city.
thefrisc.com
That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social Mack. Yes, That Mack
Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
Danielle Baskin @danielle.bsky.social interactive performances & pixel art. i also build a virtual tarot platform moonlight.world
🐍🌛
daniellebaskin.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social Learn more about what your *real* neighbors are thinking in Silicon Valley! Comedy. Parody. Not official/affiliated with, or sponsored by anyone.
Please support my GoFundMe to help me pay for parking at Valley Fair
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social Mass car use is geometrically incompatible with great cities. Transit & bikes are the future. Tech things sometimes.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social Proudly Representing California's 12th Congressional District. 
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. LA Podcast co-host, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
BART @bart.gov This is the official account for BART. We provide train service throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and connect people to places they love.
For automated service updates go to @alerts.bart.gov
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Wrestling For Charity @wfcwrestling.bsky.social Professional wrestling / Lucha Libre for great causes. Based in California in the Silicon Valley.
http://www.wfcwrestling.com
Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social Mom, El Cerrito Mayor Pro Tem, Bike East Bay Co-Executive Director of Development and Engagement, and former BART Director
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Transbay Coalition @transbaycoalition.bsky.social A grassroots coalition that brings together public transportation, bike, and street safety advocates from across the San Francisco Bay Area to push for bold transportation solutions that make our region better for all! linktr.ee/transbaycoalition
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Brittany Wonder @ultragirlftf.bsky.social indie pro wrestler💪🏽
Video Game streamer 👾
Ultra Girl 💚
Horror aficionado 🔪
Purveyor of Derrière Brutality 🍑
Sienna Chanel "S.C." Videa @siennachanel.bsky.social Just a gal based in Nor Cal who makes wrestling content.📱 Student at Stoner U. Backstage Correspondent/host🎤🎵POLYJAMOROUS🎵 Wanderluster ✈️🚘Certified Yapper🌬
🩷💛💙she/her🇳🇮🇸🇻
Smoak Dawg @joeybsmoak.bsky.social Ex wrestle boy and ex drunk.
Robin Graves @papapoison.bsky.social Raver, wrestler, martial artist, gamer trash and general degenerate, trained by Stoner U.
Available for 2025 bookings, DM for details
he/him
She is Rizz’n @nylarosebeast.bsky.social Nyla Rose from that other app
Daniel Torch @torchmeetsworld.bsky.social I'm a dude; playin a dude; disguised as another dude.
Paul Ponte @thepaulponte.bsky.social Photographer, musician, podcaster.
Kenny K. @kennyk5.bsky.social Last Spinebender// 1 of the top 500 wrestlers in the world #PWI500 //PPW Cruiserweight 🏆 // Virgil Flynn III Memorial Cup winner// ESTB 04'
Shane Hanson/Doc Atrocity @docatrocity.bsky.social Pro wrestler... Tattoo artist... Cult leader... Mad scientist... part time SW... weird guy
Branden @a3branden.bsky.social City Photographer and Ringside Wrestling Photographer in San Francisco, CA 📸 (IG BrandenWPhoto). #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 Camera: A7R V #SonyAlpha
Darwin Finch/FINCH @darwinfinch.bsky.social Sometimes a fun loving nerd, sometimes and angry punk, sometimes other things. Pro wrestler. Horror fiend.
Finch around and find out.
Alpha Zo @alphazo.bsky.social The Blue Flame
Anton Voorhees 🔻 Dumb / Ho @link2futureftf.bsky.social Wrestler, Trainer, Actor, Singer, Lover, Fighter, and probably a couple other things
Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social Working towards a unified, world-class transit network in the San Francisco Bay Area.
https://linktr.ee/seamlessbayarea
@luchablog.bsky.social @luchablog.bsky.social 
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org Journalism for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. A nonprofit newsroom part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
TobyTBD @tobytbd.bsky.social Former pro wrestling Referee & wrestler. Former performer & director of a Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast. Now full time Cat Dad and part time Twitch streamer.
Twitch: TobyTBD 
ATOMIC! REYES @atomicxpro.bsky.social trans pro wrestler based out of reno
societal threat | mutant | she/her | #CRUSHCREW
Marco Mayur @marcomayur51.bsky.social Pro Wrestler, 80s cartoon Enthusiast, sex positive, chill AF, QUEER AF
Richie Coy🌸 @boynamedrichie.bsky.social avant-Garden Nymph//bodySlam Poet//lipstick Thesbian
Full Queer PxP Champion
they/them
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Lost Supper
Words: NYTimes NatGeo Smithsonian
⬇️ Train travel + politics of transit ⬇️
https://www.highspeed.blog
Talks: https://taras-grescoe.com/contact
IG: https://www.instagram.com/taras.rides.trains/
Jess Reina Capablanca @jessreina.bsky.social Pro Wrestler
Student at Stoner U
DM for Bookings
2023 QWI Nominee
Full Queer Wrestling's best chess player 
Full Queer @fullqueer.bsky.social Full Queer is an all inclusive pro wrestling celebration for LGBTQIA+ pro wrestlers, fans & allies
Rosie Fingers @rosiefingers42.bsky.social Co-Producer of Full Queer. Board of Directors, Bare Chest Calendar and Lyon Martin Community Health Services. She/her.
richard shhhnary @richardshhhnary.bsky.social big shush. stoner u. hoodslam. shhhnanigens. bloodbond64
Cerealman @elcerealman.bsky.social Some say he's a warrior of justice. Others say he's an opportunistic villain. All agree he stays crunchy in milk.
elcerealman@gmail.com for booking info
@davereckoning.bsky.social @davereckoning.bsky.social ⛓Dungeon Master⛓
⛓Oakland Executioner⛓
⛓Dungeons & Dropkicks⛓
Lara Frazier @larafrazier.bsky.social Enby baddie, pro wrestler, and dog lover.
DARK Sheik @darksheik.bsky.social Persian Trans Wrestle Buddy
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churchofwrestling.com
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