Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Swan Webb @swanwebb.bsky.social Proud parent, Minneapolitan, data scientist, progressive, urbanist; lover of the outdoors, art and irony
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social Chicago. Digital Libraries. Walking from all the way hither to all the way yon. First love: Detroit. Current love: the UK canal system.
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
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare. I talk about tech sometimes
Location: Squamish, BC 🇨🇦
Website: https://jeremymorrell.dev/
Elise Joshi @elisejoshi.bsky.social Love unions, protected bike lanes, berkeley pizza. Hate cybertrucks.
Head of More Perfect Union's campus newsroom More Perfect University
10 mph to freedom @10mph.bsky.social I'm riding a bike and freeing my mind
Stephanie Gal @stephaniegal.bsky.social I used to just post about safe streets, but there's a lot going on right now. I'm worried about the climate, growing fascism, injustice, and my friends in Palestine. Also will be giving my observations of the US after living in Greece for 10 months.
Rudy Faust @rudyfaust.bsky.social 
Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social K-hole fanatic/Nurse Anesthetist (views my own and do not represent my employer). Retired from arguing on the internet. Amy Dunne’s #1 fan.
Living in hope for a better world and the Vikings winning the Super Bowl.
Lots of typos. Sorry bout that.
John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org “There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant
Husband, dad, dog walker, cyclist, outdoors enthusiast, occasional reluctant driver, Alexandrian, federal employee. 5 USC § 3331- J Johnny Lamont @jlamonty.bsky.social future solidarity lawyer
Cassidy @cassidy.social gas powered leaf blower hater • web software worker • chicago by way of nyc • she/her
@chinorthsider.bsky.social @chinorthsider.bsky.social Chicagoan, history, architecture, recovering lawyer.
That Person @that-person.bsky.social Your local asexual urbanist architecture student
Officially now a Chicagoan
Alex @acannon.bsky.social They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike.
Chicago
Matt @mldickens.bsky.social Transit and biking in DC. All opinions expressed represent my many endorsement deals and are not my own. You can also find me at https://thepit.social/@mdickens
Cate @catehstn.bsky.social fractional CTO. coach. quantum particle. in search of adventure; it’s probably fine ✨
Author of The Engineering Leader, published by O'Reilly
https://cate.blog
https://whatsmyjob.club
TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
Car Into Building @carintobuilding.bsky.social Hide your house, hide your office
#CarIntoBuilding
Divvy influencer @ticketmasterceo.com Columbus ✈️ Cincinnati
🌀 https://cailinpitt.com/timeline
@gscl.bsky.social @gscl.bsky.social 🚲Car-free euphonium person.🎵 💜Asexual and somewhere in aro/gray/demi-romantic land. 🏙St. Paul, MN, US 🎛️DnB, Jungle, and other electric music enjoyer.⚡
Cat Sharp @catsharp.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Best known for getting hit by a car
Nick Wagers @nwagers.bsky.social I hiked the AT, rode the Tour Divide, and paddled the Mississippi. I spend the rest of my time trying to save democracy.
Chicago Tree @chicagotree.bsky.social Mostly reposting Chicago trees & sometimes other trees. And birds. And other things I find interesting.
Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
🚴♂️ strava.com/athletes/106905687
📸 instagram.com/bikeseattle
📚 blog.jcole.us
Robin Richardson she/her @canadarobin.bsky.social Doing everything I can to help people bike more and drive less. Obsessed with cargo bikes. Organizer, Yonge4All; Leader, KidicalMassTO; Contributor, ebikes-international.com.
Proud 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 mom.
Still COVIDing 😷💉
The Biking Vet @thebikingvet.bsky.social 
Honeycomb @honeycomb.io Honeycomb is the observability platform built for the new shape of software.
Naaadams @nathanieladams.bsky.social 
clara @clararaubertas.net simple urban beer mom • ✶✶✶✶ • 👨👩👧👧 🚲 🏢 🌇 🚍 💻 🎶 🌳 🌊 🍃 • she/her • also @youngcrone.net • elder millennial, Chicago, kids, urbanism, music, Ruby, et al
Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me sunshine and rainbows and f-bombs 🌈
she/her
@redmonk
Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
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
@monktoberfest.com @monktoberfest.com 
Emily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social chicago urbanist, mediocre triathlete, and baker
https://substack.com/@brickandwheel
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social Professor #SOTL #bioRxiv affiliate. Citizen volunteer to make Québec city a happy city. Elected on Conseil de Quartier St-Louis & executive council of Table de Concertation Vélo de Québec ("Québec bike coalition"). Elle/she/her/ella
Jack ☁️ @bubblycreek.bsky.social Amateur Chicagrapher
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
Art bot @art-institute.bsky.social Posting random artworks from Art Institute of Chicago's API. For more info, look at the API https://api.artic.edu/docs/#introduction
Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social That other brewery posting cat pictures is ripping us off. You can’t drink fancy beer here, but you can drink fancy beer at our taproom Mousetrap.
Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike Radical localist, urbanist, ecosocialist.
I love cities 🏙️, bikes 🚲, trains 🚊, and cats 🐈⬛.
Transportation planner for safe streets & healthy equitable communities. YIMBY. Union. Board @streets.mn
Neurospicy. Ukraine➡️Mpls.
Agender/gender apathetic.
🇺🇦🍉
Alex @3eeutiful.bsky.social Chicago inhabitant
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Daedelus @daedelus.bsky.social 🧑🏫. S.E.T.I. A.I.R.
It’s all music. They/Them 🏳️⚧️
Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com (hire me policy professionals) Lighter of people, policy person, @CHIRPRadio DJ. Bike guy. Chicago Dog stan. Doesn't proofread. Chicago by way of Cleveland | 🇳🇴
@coachbalto.bsky.social @coachbalto.bsky.social 
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
@dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
@tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social Car-free bike Dad with over 30,000 miles travelled on Bullitt cargo bikes. Getting more kids on bikes through bicycle education and advocacy. Reduce car dependency. Increase public transit and micro-mobility. Safe Routes to School and Bike Bus! 😎🚲🥰
Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
steve o’grady @sogrady.org helped found redmonk. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. otherwise found in the great state of Maine. wrote the new kingmakers and the software paradox. married to @girltuesday.org. eph.
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Radical Left Congestion Pricing Jihadists.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social Oak Park Village Trustee, "boring suburban dad," attorney.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetransportation.org
Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social MF Pride of the Tyne
🏳️🌈 🚲 😷
She/her.
pfp: black and white photo of me, dark circles painted under eyes as though extremely tired, black lipstick, collar of black faux-fur coat
Madeline Loshaw @maddillo.bsky.social anti car, pro cat | Chicago
Subscribe to my newsletter! (it's free) https://tinylilactionschicago.substack.com
@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social Staff engineer at Figma, driving innovation into new ways to round corners.
I wrote a book on RxJS! https://pragprog.com/titles/rkrxjs/build-reactive-websites-with-rxjs/
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy:
https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
Frankie F. Funk @frankieffunk.bsky.social Chicago's finest Roleplaying Gamer / Energy Wonk / Geekdad / Metalhead /Cargo Biker / Cat Parent
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.
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
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.social Board President @bscactionfund.org
The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her.
✶✶✶✶
Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social 
April King @april.social Staff Security Engineer at some random tech company, previously Mozilla, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and (pre-Elon) Twitter. Has read @kateconger.bsky.social’s autobiography.
web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social Explaininator, Sticker Thoughtleader, Marketing nerd. Not straight, she/her. Parent of adults, catbox scooper, wife of @silmaria.bsky.social, Kermit-coded.
Find me at heidiwaterhouse.com
#quilting
#sewing
#knitting
#therbligs
Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social (he/him they/them)
Local Award Winning Bike Nerd
Architecture. Accessible Design. Nature. Food. Building a Better System.
Professional Bicycle Propagandist @bikemn.bsky.social
Co-Chair @streets.mn
Views here are my own.
Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social Entrepreneur-in-residence. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social full-time photographer for 50+ years, listening to your stories...
“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” –Robert Doisneau
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era.
this is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here.
ngl.link/armageddon1312
don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
Joel @jtmac1709930.bsky.social Car-free on Chicago’s Northwest side. Biking, botanizing, birding, and transit.
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Phillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev my dumb blog https://www.phillipcarter.dev/
work: agent platform @github.com
play: computers, backpacking, snowboarding, hiking, kayaking
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Pint peddler @pintpeddler.bsky.social 
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social Systems. Design.
she/her
noah @opacybikevalet.bsky.social baseball & bikes
Scott Sakiyama @scottsakiyama.bsky.social 
Tennille Nicole Allen @tennillenallen.blacksky.app West Side Chicagoan by birth. Sociology professor by training. Black feminist by Audre, bell, and Patricia. I study Black people doing Black things in Black places.
OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social Road Safety Lunatic
Try an ebike, you'll love it!
San Diego, CA
Check out the videos tab ⬇️
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
@ridingbikes.bsky.social @ridingbikes.bsky.social Books, bicycles, chocolate, climate change, and the Oxford comma. Fond of functioning democratic systems and breathable air.