Jack Colby @jackcolby.bsky.social Won’t you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen?
Chicago YIMBY. Sam Eagle-esque. Edgewater-Lakewood Balmoral
@chicago.at @chicago.at chicago.at
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
Roundabout @roundabout.town Bring your town or neighborhood together online, without the noise or toxicity — joinroundabout.com
Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
https://axdouglas.com/
https://axdouglas.substack.com/
Latest book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203/against-identity-by-douglas-alexander/9780241648216
Photo by Lauren Douglas
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
Kat @katriddell.bsky.social writer, knitter, cyborg, library wizard, Gentlewoman of Evil. “chaotic but a delight.” “lewd but a gentleman.” cake/coffee life. practice makes better. 🏳️🌈🧃✡️ (any pronouns)
Eamon Daly @eamondaly.bsky.social Chicago
he/him
Brayden @braydecker.bsky.social Professional dad, husband, and Product Researcher. Meddler in electoral system design. For some of my work see: https://brayden-decker-contact.pages.dev/
Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.
Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social Culturally redneck. Further right than most of you pinkos, but you're cool. The Internet's premier (only) Peter Milobar stan account.
Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social Curling, cats, and crimes. And occasional baseball. (Also, baseball crimes.) Living in Chicago with @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social. Never quite sure which century I’m in. https://jacobpomrenke.com
Pannier Peter 🚲 @peter.dev Chicago's #1 beefposter | #bikechi | Android dev
chud.dev
Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
Sam @samharden.bsky.social Legal tech something or other
Team Do Something: https://samharden.substack.com/
John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency
Https://www.johndickerson.com
Aaron Silvers Lining Playbook @cut.buzz chameleon/survivor/trustworthy adult now presenting as barber
Look, Feel, and Do Better💈🪒
Book me @ https://cut.buzz/
My popular snark: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nyzgcslzg2pxz3mqwu6bnwoy/feed/aaafikybnwenq
Alec H @sandersculottes.bsky.social 🪕KY to Chicago, Dad, SEIU 73 member in Chicago Parks, Chicago DSA member 🥖🌹. Fan of Louisville City FC, Chicago Fire FC & Racing Louisville FC.
Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social "Take care of Freedom and Truth will take care of itself."
Former Ph.D. student in philosophy/logic/formal epistemology at CMU
Trying and failing to prevent wildfires.
he/him
Website: https://philip-sink.github.io
Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org
Signal - tylermcbrien.97
Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more: www.tylermcbrien.com
Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast
Chicago-based
takes too many photos
non-binary
Blog: https://whatusedtobethere.blogspot.com/
Website: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/
RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
Kati @kadschmad.bsky.social bikes, books, buildings
she/her
📍 West Lakeview
Peter Henderson @peterhenderson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, leading the Polaris Lab @ Princeton (https://www.polarislab.org/); Researching: RL, Strategic Decision-Making+Exploration; Law
John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social Econ person. VP of Policy and Research, @economicsecurityproject.org. Former NEC. #Rstats, Team Macro, dad, Chicago Guy. newsletter.mikekonczal.com
Lucas Filipiak 🕊️ @power-bird.bsky.social Chicago. Student. Trains. Birds. Video Games. Music. He/Him.
Mike @myfavoritetree.bsky.social Chicago
Elin D. Huckerby @elinhuckerby.bsky.social Postdoc, Uni of Bergen, Norway. Working on pragmatism, and personal and political agency in Brexlit.
Was a computer engineer for years. Quit, studied, did a PhD on Rorty and literature. Thinking about AI a lot.
I commute by catamaran across a fjord!
Erin C. @erincikanek.bsky.social Political Scientist. Rhymes with mechanic. Emotions, media, measurement, food, coffee, rowing, and dogs.
She/her
Personal account
Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
cute synthesizer @justchris.bsky.social gender/queer chicagoan artist & designer. talk to me about birds and museums and live music and good films and bad movies. fanzines & art books at justchrispress.itch.io and generally in whatever bag I’m carrying
The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social Philosopher by training; cranky by nature. Professional in science and technology policy. Also photography, combatting antisemitism, politics, and ethics.
Tracy Greer @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social Retired derby player, now learning to ice skate • desker @ChicagoSports.bsky.social • New Mexican • aided/abetted by @buckweaver.bsky.social
Dulany Conjecture (solved) @dulanyw.bsky.social Tech + business, mostly. Here to have fun and learn stuff, not to argue. He/him.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Doll @dollspace.gay It/Its
Senior Agent Engineer at fieldleveltech.org
Its name is doll. The system is an adult.
Creating ethical and safe AI systems.
EGL Fashion posts!
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
AT-proto based encrypted group chat protocol: @freeq.at
Regenerative Software with the Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/
https://chadfowler.com/
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
Courts of New Zealand @courtsofnz.bsky.social Official account. Posting judgments of public interest, daily lists, speeches by judges, reports from the courts.
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/utcountydems
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com Building a liberal movement. Comms @Liberalism.org. Board @ProjectLiberal.org. Husband and father. Views my own.
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
Geoff Allen @gallen89.bsky.social Political scientist; electoral systems, party politics, representation
Phoenix Suns fan
https://geoff-allen.weebly.com/notes-on-moment
The Kaiju Papers @thekaijupapers.bsky.social Our research asks:
what might the future(s) be like if humankind were to implement lessons from Kaiju about love, anti-fascism, the world, and ourselves?
subscribe: thekaijupapers.com
LeeWas @leewas.bsky.social Data science and public opinion analysis --- http://leewas.ch
Daniel Slutsky @daslu.bsky.social A community organizer at https://scicloj.github.io/
building a #Clojure platform for #data and #science
https://github.com/daslu
joe @shariauncle.bsky.social @animesickos.bsky.social
chicago guy, 28th ward
Dr. Karlyn J. Gorski @karlynjane.bsky.social Sociology, ethnography, public policy | youth, schools, transportation | cycling, Chicago, snacks
🏳️🌈 ✶✶✶✶
Chris Galdieri @cgaldieri.bsky.social Political scientist; NH politics; carpetbagging; pop culture
Author, “Stranger in a Strange State” and “Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics”
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social civic transparency for a better tomorrow. founder, MuckRock. also caretaker of DocumentCloud, FOIA Machine, and many other internet friends.
Gerri Whitley @gerriwhitley.bsky.social Chicago based Photographer, Visual Artist and Educator
I love adventures near and far, wild skies, bold colors and starry nights, I’m happiest outside
laina 𓆣 @laina.bsky.social she/they • Chicago
That Person @that-person.bsky.social Your local asexual urbanist architecture student*
Proud Chicagoan
*I am no longer an architecture student but can not legally call myself an architect either, so I am unsure how to reword my bio
Democratic Theory @democratictheory.bsky.social An interdisciplinary academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/democratic-theory
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Old But Still Curious @larrymike55.bsky.social gainfully unemployed (retired), veteran (submarines), reader of banned books, love animals, tolerate people, bit of a curmudgeon, idealistic cynic, always open to a new way of seeing/doing things. No Trumpers. No DMs. No Influencers.
LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
AI & Open Government Workshop @ ICAIL 2026 @aiog.net Using AI and LLMs to Advance Open Government and Public Disclosure Laws Worldwide.
Workshop co-located with the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2026, in Singapore (June 8-12)
#OpenGov #AI #Law #FOIA
https://aiog.net
adam @goadam.bsky.social 📍Chicago. Formerly of NC. I like food, music, records, books, sci fi, walking, public transit, and gay stuff. House head. Dog dad. 👨🏼🤝👨🏾
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4975534
https://www.discogs.com/user/daraskoskie
https://www.last.fm/user/adamgogo
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social not affiliated with https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com, but I do use their data
if I repost your quote post and you didn’t want it broadcast to a larger audience lmk
maintained by @jojjjajjr.bsky.social
https://github.com/johnmatter/dfbugs
maureen @maureenf.bsky.social Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, poems, and where I live.
she/her
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Michael in CHI @michathom.bsky.social Chicagoland Leatherman, one of Tom's Men (BLUF 526). I play the organ (seriously 🎹), I’m a Cat Dad, and I follow politics a bit too much, maybe. Also, find me on IG: bluf_526. 🏳️🌈 (I block and report BOTS…)
@williamreed.bsky.social @williamreed.bsky.social 
Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Democratic Theory. Book: The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy. Bylines Dissent, Boston Review, etc
Suffolk LIT Lab @suffolklitlab.org The Legal Innovation & Technology Lab is part of the clinics at Suffolk University Law School. We build things that help folks navigate and understand legal systems. Learn more at: https://suffolklitlab.org/
Law+Tech bot feed @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org
Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social Chemist (Food, 3D printing), Professor (American University), Author (Chemistry in Your Kitchen)
Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social A generic Chicago-centered posting account. Runs a mean pick six.
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Michael McCarthy @michaelmcc.com 🚲 🚇 🏙️ 🏳️🌈
Urban Planner from Chicago
Medill/Northwestern and UIC MUPP
John Quincy Adams @jqadams-mhs.bsky.social The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his first annual presidential address to Congress, delivered on December 6, 1825.
https://www.primarysourcecoop.org/jqa/
A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society | www.masshist.org
Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social Chicago. Bikes. Books. Writes sometimes. Drums sometimes.
www.andrewhertzberg.com
Delk @ssdelko.bsky.social I read more than I write. Lifelong Chicagoan with over 50 years of Italian Beef consumption. Generation Jones, middle child, left handed, half Mexican, half Polish, completely gay, and happily married.
|||| STRICTLY TIMELINE CLEANSER ||||
Naqiy Mcmullen @naqiy.bsky.social Transit, housing, and safe streets for all
🚲🚎🚄🚇🚶🏽🌃🌹
CTA Holiday Train and Bus Tracker @holiday.transitstat.us Bot by @piero.bsky.social which posts the position of the CTA holiday train and bus every 3 minutes while active.
Also on a website: https://holiday.transitstat.us/ (outdated, use the links in the posts)
Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social I love good books and bad movies. Trying to raise healthy and kind humans on the South side. Overrun by pets and projects. (she /her) Free Palestine.
Skyler 🔜 GB @puppskyler.dog Just a little dog in the big city. Thoughts are my own, as few as there are
🐶 They/them
📍 Chicago
👋 Friendly doggo
Posthuman Postma'am @chicagobowles.com Dancer + Designer • Ancient Millennial + Toddler Mom • Raised in Charlotte, fortified in Chicago • she/her/y'all 🏳️⚧️✶🍉✶🧿✶📍606—
The People's 32nd @peoples32nd.bsky.social Building a grassroots, progressive political movement in Chicago's 32nd ward and beyond!
Housing | Transit | Equality | Education | Environment | Democracy
https://linktr.ee/peoples32nd
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Lizzie Lew @lizzielew.bsky.social 
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov Congresista proudly serving the diverse IL-03. 🦋
I will not concede the power of the people.
smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social triumphant home cooking, est. 2006
three cookbooks + one audiobook + newsletter
glad you’re here
smittenkitchen.com
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
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org Individuals who have lost loved ones or been injured in a crash confronting traffic violence through advocacy and support. #EndTrafficViolence
Good Dan @gooddan410.bsky.social Lives in Chicago. Works in transportation choo choo 🚂 Gay dad 🏳️🌈 👶 Lover of Simpsons jokes, film photography, and more. He/him
robinson ✶✶✶✶ @gache.bsky.social ☸️ །ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱཧཱ། ☸️
people and planet before profits
public library enthusiast | flâneuse | environmental (BS) & information (MS) scientist | IBEW | 🏳️🌈
everything dope—including the pope—comes from chicago
2023.08.12
The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social Chicago’s very own Clown Attorney.
Should not be taken too seriously, please.
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/