Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.social Board President @bscactionfund.org
The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her.
✶✶✶✶
jad 📸 @aerojad.bsky.social Information technology trash with a penchant for photography. Will like all photos of your pets. Chicago is the greatest city in existence.
♫ and while I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth ♫
[he/him]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerojad/sets
redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social Boring Gen X Cishet Neurotypical Black American. South Shore to Coastal Empire. Extremely Amateur Historian. Reposts a lot. Flies the W. He/him/'nem.
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Castle Bravo @castlebravoli7.gobirds.online the first draft of anything is shit
Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social Posts are very ephemeral.
End Conservatism With Finality (he/they)
Trumpism is Treason
Centrists are Literal Traitors in Service of Conservatism and That’s Why Trump Won Twice
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)
BugStick BoomStick @play-on-verbs.blacksky.app Avid Spurs fan (basketball). In active retirement from all multiplayer, Skyrim modder, runner and person who uses circuit boards for stuff.
I hate GenAI with all my spirit
Free Palestine 🍉🍉 #BlackSkyGaming
Sam @very-simple.com new yorker | feminist | lawyer | photography dilettante
Website: very-simple.com
(she/her)
Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
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
Mallory @this-is-mallory.bsky.social Commentary (+comedy) on the Wellness industry, influencers & marketing
📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/this.is.mallory/
🎞️ YouTube: youtube.com/@mallorydemille
mouth coffee fan
views are my own
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social Toiling in the heritage vineyards…
Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social Byzantium, Renaissance humanism, battery materials, apiculture...or any combination of the above.
Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social Wigan-based diminutive middle-aged would-be punk elfin. Obsessed with all things Scandi, chess, politics, music, languages, cooking, and doing the washing up https://worldlyscandifriend.wordpress.com/
William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social Also on the X hellsite, but maybe not for long.
Used to write To September & Beyond, a political blog on Scottish independence that was hilarious, sometimes intentionally.
Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
he/him
Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social Friendly socialist doomer. Scanline Media Editor-in-Chief. Podcaster. Ace. They/them. DMs open.
Compounds Plural @compoundsplural.bsky.social Stupid baby who needs the most attention. Disco Violins.
Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social Hate sharing IRL. Overshare online. Ranting, too infrequently, at http://gastropoda.com/bio/ Cooking & typing at http://fittoc.wordpress.com 
Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social Tired in Chicago. she / her
Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.
Preservation, art, old tech.
18+ only
Something beautiful is going to happen.
(she / they)
Writing: antientro.pics
Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
eriogenous zone @deerea.rs edible || legible
Emily Wilson of fagbags.
famously dumb deer.
@peanuttillman.bsky.social @peanuttillman.bsky.social 
Brian Guilfoos @guilfoos.com Half a century of time served. Football, antiracism, antisexism, and antifascism.
Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
Ben Morgan AKA Alaskan AtomChild @benmorgan1030.bsky.social He/Him. I like all kinds of things: Comics, Monsters, Movies, Wrestling, Animation, Food. Just be chill and don't hate on anyone not hurting anyone, and you're cool with me. 
Max Chavez @maxchavez.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️🌈
ART DECO WORLD available for pre-order: https://linktr.ee/maxechavez
Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social Doctor of Palaeontology. Leftist YouTuber and Podcaster. Transsexual Disaster. SFF Author. She/Her
Kalmbach 🔜 @gdkalmbach.bsky.social Amateur photographer, voice actor, and scribbler.
Volunteer railroader, professional machinist.
Big cat in diesel hat.
May contain adult content, sarcasm
Male, single, bi, 1985
Chicago area.
INTP-A
t.me/GD_Kalmbach
www.youtube.com/c/SynchroScore
Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social Chicagoan, dad, intermittent essayist (medium.com/@brecchie).
You Are Beautiful @yabsticker.bsky.social The little sticker that started it all!
Shared over 10 million times worldwide.
you-are-beautiful.com
Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the artist & designer. New book Chromatic Architecture available to buy now https://www.ribabooks.com/Chromatic-Architecture-The-Craft-of-Colour-in-Design_9781915722782
Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social I live in Denver and I have a pug. College football sicko. Also an editor.
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social Lady about town on a bike.
Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social Founder-owner at Ravenous
Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com 7-time award-winning bakery owner
1-time 2nd place Vanagon car show winner
One half of the @wedonthaveityet.com podcast
New Hampshirite
Lifelong UMass Football stan
Vanagon caretaker
Sportswriter
WPBL stan
Bluesky's #1 Rays fan
Bluesky's #1 Crumbl hater
NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social AKA ninjadude752
Opinions are my own, and do not represent any group.
Go hawks!
Public Transit & Cities should be better.
Jac Mac @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social IT>EN translator. I like pickled onions.
she/her
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.
Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social She/her
Tired socialist mom in central Pa, trying not to be an asshole and not to raise any.
I'm just some lady talking literally don't worry about it.
Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social Math prof (probability), McGill U; workplace organizer. Founding member of the Association for Human Mathematics and of the Association of McGill Professors of Science. https://ahmath.org, https://mcgillscience.ca. He/his.
SinisterBulb @sinisterbulb.bsky.social Not a real lightbulb. Only sinister-ish. But I stay anonymous here because work stuff. Known to fiddle with guitar, music and photography
Significant irritant of @ElisabethHobbes.co.uk. Ally to anyone who wants it.
Matt Frederick @mttfrdrck.bsky.social Edgewater Chicagoan | former St. Louisan
mattfrederick.substack.com
Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com Copy editor @propublica.org. Author of FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (2026), a biography, and MIND GAME (2024), about elite athlete mental health. Nonbinary ace. They/them.
www.juliekliegman.com
Subjective Detective @supratentorial.bsky.social Practitioner of applied science. Nursing Professor. D20 roller. Bootyshaker. Hater of the BMI. Opinionated cynic. Cheerful nihilist. Stealth Bi🏳️🌈 Cat lady.
Former Purveyor of WMDs (ICU RN)
isaac @sevier.io Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “Why public power campaigns win"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/public-power-san-francisco-new-york-shrestha-mamdani-organize/
Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com North East British author of foul-mouthed queer fantasy The Cruel Gods and The Chosen One Con 📚 They/Them 💛🤍💜🖤 Trans rights! 🏳️⚧️ AI 🚫
Learn more at TrudieSkies.com
Cats: Bayley and Gustave 🙀
Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social Books, video games, anime, and me! NO AI!!
https://thebookwyrmshoard8.wordpress.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/thebookwyrmshoard25
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/the_book_wyrms_hoard
https://ko-fi.com/thebookwyrmshoard
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jane Lia @jane-lia.bsky.social Trans demi woman
I do
🕹️ Video Games
📚 Read
📝 Write
💻 Write code
No AI
she/her
Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social I’m Laura. I’m in Delaware. I am BlueSky’s foremost raccoon domestication program advocate.
Diana Fire @boo.bsky.social All hopped up on hormones and surgeries
Bash @bashthebox.bsky.social I make fancy kitchens and wardrobes and stuff, but mostly post a load of old rubbish
www.themoderncarpenter.com
Xero Reynolds @artificer-ind.bsky.social He/Him | Artist & Storyteller | Creative Geek trying to do some chaotic good. 💙 @cozykathryn.com NO AI.
Site: https://artificer-ind.carrd.co/
Biz ✉️: artificerxero@gmail.com
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social Chicago journalist at Injustice Watch. 
Only Aggro Comments @pilco.bsky.social 
jessrock @jessrock.bsky.social Birds, books, crafts, cats, and tea / pro trans joy / against prisons / Chicago / any pronouns ok / you might know me from Glitter or MeFi
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social I am still a communist
Tim Yocum @tky.io I get paid to press buttons on the Internet. Literally and quite often figuratively.
✶ ✶ ✶ ✶, Urbs in Horto, etc.
to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social cats not cops • she/her
Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social I write things.
Now a Hugo/Nebula finalist.
Occasionally on other sites, including marikness.wordpress.com, https://medium.com/@marikness, https://www.patreon.com/mari_ness. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mari_ness
Jesse Orr @jessezorr.bsky.social Once a development consultant abroad, now a Chicago civil servant.
Housing / transportation / politics / etc. opinions my own, but restrained.
Bensmom33 @bensmom33.bsky.social Mom, wife, volunteer, retired attorney, life-long Mets fan, RWRB fan fic writer, BA in History, Masters in Sarcasm.
Intellectual on the streets, clown in the skeets.
Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
drop me a line: jriverawrites@proton.me
Scott @smadin.net Empty out the locker room, let me find my space
location: more like GREATEST Boston
"delightfully Bostonian", I'm told.
• Blog: https://smadin.net/
• Fediverse: https://better.boston/@smadin
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social 30-something Jewish 🇺🇸 🇦🇹 dual-citizen biologist patent lawyer who grew up in South Jersey, Delaware, and Geneva 🇨🇭. Now in Northern Virginia
Proud dad to twin daughters 👶👶
Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, & raising giant isopods in my basement, for fun and profit.
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social Writer, carceral history & disability; part of the struggle for academic freedom. My latest book: https://chicago1919.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/fightforrights/index?path=introductions
Pope Elwood IX @ekingsbury.bsky.social The kind of dude who’d like Charley Crockett and birds
Proud fan of Brewers & Packers
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.
David And the Cube @dsalmon1449.bsky.social He/him
Chicago
Free Palestine
Alex @acannon.bsky.social They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike.
Chicago
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
Irritable Yet Soporific @psychopropane.bsky.social Triangular molecule, highly stressed.
Gaz Bottom @garjones.bsky.social Welshman living in South East Asia. Rugby loving immigrant who when he Googles his name only gets hits for Gaz Top, so must be bottom. 
Sam @hoodoo-operator.bsky.social All opinions are my own, and are correct.
josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social not real
boreal
🦓 😷 🕊️ Sproggie 🌈 🏳️⚧️🧷 @sproggie14.bsky.social Hypermobile, neuro-divergent, COVID aware, child-free, animal lover & pigeon rescuer. UK.
Furious Floridian @lmh82.bsky.social She/Her. Proud Blue Voter. Woman for Women's Rights. Anti-GOP/MAGA. Anti-religion. LGBTQ+ ally and supporter. Pro-science.
I will never be on the side of the oppressors.
marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social Werner Herzog’s alt, founding member of the Vatican City DSA chapter, The (former) Chairman, 48th Ward Neighbors and Chicago DSA
Rosie @rozphy.bsky.social reading and talking about transit, climate, the Great Lakes, local stuff. I ain’t here on business, baby, I’m only here for fun
Mayor of Greater Chicagoland @thedazzlingone.bsky.social Ashley! South side bardbarian librarian. Hot toddy evangelist. Scruffy lookin' nerf herder/LLAP. Your gaucho amiga. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this. she/her. Profile pic by @arideo
✶✶✶✶
Brandon “Bouncing Beebles" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social Opinions posted are not my own as I am not real - He/Him/they -Chicago
Find my art at kirkmanbrandon.weebly.com - podcast about Kaiju movies at https://www.machineculture.com/podzooky-pod podcast about MtG cards https://www.youtube.com/@EveryDamnMagicCard
Thirst For Adventure @thirstforadventure.bsky.social 🎙️ A Live Action Adventure Show
⚔️ Action, Comedy, Dice
🍻 Live From Wishing Well Tavern!
🌭Chicago based, we only put mustard on our shows
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thirst-for-adventure-a-dungeons-dragons-live-comedy-show-tickets-706263020707
AngoraFish @angorafish.bsky.social Australian. Left wing nerd, native plants, landscape design, urbanism, urban fantasy reader, Celtic music, folk festivals, violins, free range children, atheist. No gofundmes, fund political lobbying instead. Free Palestine. Fuck Murdoch.
Down East Chowderhead @whitney-farm.bsky.social Mainer. Husband. Ex-rancher. Red Sox fan. AT thru-hiker (SOBO is best-bo). Advocate for rail, livable towns, grassy tram tracks. Grower of lowbush blueberries.
Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social In no way a web of evil
James Connor 🇸🇩 @jamesconnor.bsky.social 18 or over only🔞 More kindness to everyone including animals. I work naked a lot🤑 Occasionally I use Grok to make me more interesting😬
Taraaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh Zombies @theblueststar.bsky.social She/Her
Award Losing Radio Presenter.
Same size hands as Joe Pesci.
Bisexual. Trans Rights are Human Rights.
Leslie Grantham blocked me on The Bad Place and now he's dead.
#PUSB
Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com Engineer.
Book: 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us'
I'm interested in connecting with those who build, explain, or bring ideas to life in unusual ways.
www.lucyrogers.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers
Drew @drewavery.bsky.social Drew's feed reads like a museum exhibit curated by a caffeinated octopus with a penchant for politics and pet pics.
🚩Can get lost in deep discussions about medieval fishing practices.
I don't think I'm a bot but does a bot know it's a bot?