Sarah @srhbinion.bsky.social 
claire @clairebaire.dev front-end engineer making websites performant and accessible at a big company. really like adhering to web standards and talking about public infrastructure.
chicago | she/her
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1 // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social “northeast guitar”; he/him/any; useful promo stuff is @realtedleo on insta*ram, tedleo.bandcamp.com
🎉 erin ⁉️ @interrobang.bsky.social a constellation of enthusiasms in the shape of a midlife dirtbag. for all trans rights and some trans wrongs. she/her/y’all. chicago over everything 5ever ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ https://tadaemoji.com
laina 𓆣 @laina.bsky.social she/they • Chicago
awfulest daughter @awfuldaughter.bsky.social go fuck faeself 🖕😔🖕
28/chicago/baseball freak/good at her job/bipolar shawty
Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social Senior politics reporter for HuffPost.
Drop me a tip or a hello: jen.bendery@huffpost.com
Signal: jbendery.41
there will come soft maeves @maeveynot.online they/she・not your girl・🌙🌙・the touch of everything blushes me・放了那個作品・being undone and redoing・front left speaker・backwater of the “unreal”・yes, salt・warding-off-magic・the city is empty until you find it・cunt-forward・nec spe nec metu・anyway, it’s very early
Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too.
www.aaroncynic.com
Indivisible Lincoln Square @indivisiblels.bsky.social Creating a just society through progressive values and grassroots engagement.
📍Lincoln Square, Chicago
indivisiblelincolnsquare.com
anna @killa-tofu.bsky.social here for the proletariat uprising (??)
@arwenawesome.bsky.social @arwenawesome.bsky.social 
Jen Sabella @jensabella.bsky.social Block Club Chicago Co-founder + Executive Editor
Ex: DNAinfo, HuffPost, Sun-Times
Lesbian Cat Lady, Chicago Lifer
blockclubchicago.org
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
Gwen Ihnat @gwenemarie.bsky.social Arts & Culture Editor at Block Club Chicago. ex-WBBMNewsradio, AV Club/Takeout. Twins/puppy mom. Opinions my own. Chicago for life. she/her Pitch me at gwen@blockclubchi.org
Brianna Wellen @briwellen.bsky.social Writer, TV watcher, riot grrrl (she/her)
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.social Board President @bscactionfund.org
The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her.
✶✶✶✶
caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social eisner award winning cartoonist 💬 Nancy, PeePeePooPoo, Adventure Time, Etc
Marnie Galloway @marniegalloway.bsky.social Cartoonist
www.marnie-galloway.com
Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
http://me3dia.com
Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
Chicago Alternative Comics Expo @cakechicago.bsky.social The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a celebration of independent comics! 🍰
www.cakechicago.com/
Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social Comics artist, illustrator and designer in Chicago. Artist for the “Let’s Make” series of comic book cookbooks. Also: I Think You're Sauceome, Shuteye, The Complete Ouija Interviews. She/her
https://tless.link/sarahbecan
Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net Radical indie comics publisher
https://store.silversprocket.net
Max Morris @h0wt0sayhell0.bsky.social Cartoonist, punk?, Chicagoan, absurdist
@trashmirrorselfie.bsky.social @trashmirrorselfie.bsky.social 
@clockluvr.bsky.social @clockluvr.bsky.social Timekeeper & Artist
Chicago
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.
Possessed in Pee Wee's Playhouse @lrd88.bsky.social Environmental science studies, dancer and skate/bike enthusiast. New here 🤗
Cash • Chicago Tattoo Artist @cashonlytattoos.bsky.social Chicago tattoo artist
Sober • Queer
(he/they)
Books • cashonlytattoos.com
Rachal Duggan @radillustrates.bsky.social Illustrator, author, workshop instructor, butts
www.radillustrates.com
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
Divvy influencer @ticketmasterceo.com Columbus ✈️ Cincinnati
🌀 https://cailinpitt.com/timeline
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.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
Logical Frank @logicalfrank.com Richard J. Daley Branch enthusiast and general issue Chicago person. I throw yoyos, homebrew and get angry about bike lanes. He/him.
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social “Wild and wise—a perfect paradox of a woman”—my friend Amanda. Also posting here as ibikedinthis.bsky.social
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
It’s Trash Culture @itstrashculture.bsky.social Colossal nerd. VHS junkie. Sifts through trash looking for treasures. Way too nostalgic.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
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
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
r o n y t h e b e n c h c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social Bike Cities Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Former Coastal Elite Person
chairman mal @localsadghoul.bsky.social Midwest communist | any/all pronouns
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
uptown ilocana @yajeetz.bsky.social 25 | defend migrants | ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
pfp by @bbqsamwich.bsky.social
Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD
jeffnicholshistory.com
rosie on here @feelingstore.bsky.social type of a girl • chicago
Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social great lakes secessionist | ask your therapist about me (she/her)
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!
emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️
she // chicago🔄nyc
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
Kaitlin Grady @kaitlingrady.bsky.social Sustainable Protein Industry Advisor 🥩 🌱 / prev Clever Carnivore + Good Food Institute / cellist 🎻/ songwriter 🎸 / Tar Heel 🐏
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Delia Catalina Ramirez @delia.bsky.social Community organizer, daughter of immigrants, wife, golden retriever mom & Congresswoman of #IL03
Frida @fridalovesbikes.bsky.social Honestly, just bikes. Who am I kidding?
Legs for days
Chicago, IL
sseJ @jessmakesthings.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Academic, University XR Specialist and Facilitator, Artist, Pictomancer, Writer + Game Dev
Rose/Roselion/Lion in various web spaces
they/them
Northeast US but live in the computer
ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social comedian and writer
https://theashleyray.com/
www.theashleyray.com/ashleyraycrafts
https://ashleyraycrafts.etsy.com
Kevin “knittedsweater” Budnik @krevis.bsky.social I’m alive, but my posting heart has died
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Megan Kirby @megankirby.bsky.social chicago baby
Lake. Big Lake. @lakebiglake.bsky.social White Sox⚾️, N.Y. Mets⚾️, Everton⚽️, transportation and urbanism advocate 🚲🚲🚲. Chicago U.S. 🏳️🌈☮️
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Pannier Peter 🚲 @peter.dev Chicago's #1 beefposter | #bikechi | Android dev
chud.dev
Rosamund Lannin @rosamund.bsky.social reading and writing and domestic life in Chicago. #amquerying a YA (?) novel about live action role-playing (LARP). // rosamund.co
Femmes + Thems Bike Chicago @femnthembikechi.bsky.social A safe space for women, femme, non-binary & trans Chicagoans to ride bikes together🚲
No-drop social rides every 1st weekend of the month💫
Plz email us your questions! 💟
https://femmesandthems.org/
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
babski @babski.bsky.social Adam · I like bikes and the bus · he/him
🪩🌌🐎
Chicago via MN
Meryl Streep Fighter @baileysanz.bsky.social I love Chicago. I ride a bike sometimes. Jesse’s girl. Cool and not all like uncool
Hillary @thrillarytcat.bsky.social 
Laura Jane Grace @laurajanegrace.bsky.social New album “Adventure Club” out July 18th
https://linktr.ee/LauraJaneGrace?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Alba Machado @albamachado.bsky.social Booklover and bookseller at albasbooks.com 📚💕 (she/her)
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
Kayla Pekkala @kaylapekkala.com Owner/Artist of TinyWerewolves.com (@TinyWerewolves.com) · Past toy designer · Wife @parkermolloy.com · Probably near coffee & food ·
Newsletter: tinywerewolves.substack.com/
Chicago
She/Her
🏳️🌈
Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400
Tuh Knee Tuh @thetanitashow.bsky.social 
cool jen @anysuchname.bsky.social a very sad and nervous person
Chris L. Terry @chrislterry.bsky.social Author
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social chicago bicycle supremacist she/her
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
foxyjewishmama @foxyjewishmama.bsky.social Sammy (she/her) Chicago-based architecture worker, cyclist, pedestrian, transit rider.
aycedanger @aycedanger.bsky.social he/him - Rogers Park 🚲🚆🌳
Zelda Fitzgerald's Vengeful Ghost @noveldeadbeat.bsky.social Unfortunately a Bears fan 
Dede Crimmins @dedecrim.bsky.social Film critic. Horror Fan. Spinster. Smithie.
Rue Morgue, That Shelf, CFCA
she/her
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/deirdre-crimmins/movies
simonjadis @simonjadis.bsky.social queer, devotional polytheist, he/him
header art of my Dragon Age protagonists by @jadenite.bsky.social
unfortunately ali @probablyalissa.bsky.social I have mental Illinois • she/her
marymary! @marymarychic.bsky.social i can do anything ✨
she / her
linktr.ee/marymarychic
Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social Wonkette writer. Beautiful but doesn't know it. She/ Her
Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social Writes about prose-y books and picture-y books. Might actually be one of those Arcimboldo things where it's just a pile of fresh produce arranged like a face.
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.