Krisztina "Z" Holly @krisztinaholly.bsky.social scouting undiscovered ideas and innovators at the frontier 
Keith McCready @stenogeek.bsky.social Software performance
Stenography
Embedded systems
Saleem Hue Penny @huedotart.bsky.social Saleem Hue Penny (him/friend) is a Black, disabled, mutual aid advocate & “rural hip-hop blues" poet who punctuates his hybrid/mixed-media work with drum loops, Jim Crow artifacts, and birch bark.
Chrys @macdiva.bsky.social 
Melissa Fierce @melifierce.bsky.social Aimless recipe for a tiny life
Jacob Matthews @wrcjacob.bsky.social Digital frenemy
Matt McCoy @mgmccoy.bsky.social Design | Engineering | Fabrication
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
Timehacker @timehacker.bsky.social Founder of 1 Second Everyday. 13 years & counting!
Co-founder of Truth Arts 🔺 & Goblintown 😇
Creative Human Person / Artist / NERD.
IRL: Cesar Kuriyama
@springrunner.bsky.social @springrunner.bsky.social 
Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com look on my posts ye mighty and despair!
HeyChelseaTroy @heychelseatroy.bsky.social Please leave a message after the beep.
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@suzala.bsky.social @suzala.bsky.social Of the people, by the people and for the people. Despise injustice! 🖕 the 🍊 NAZI #FOTUS...💙 DOWN BALLOT...FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY...LOVE & BE LOVED! DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE! BOW TO NO ONE!!!
Theo Hahn @louispound.bsky.social 
Samar Kaukab @smrkkb.bsky.social 
bethanye McKinney Blount @bethanye.bsky.social 
Bill Hammack (engineerguy) @engineerguy.bsky.social Creator of Engineerguy video on youtube
David Falck @davidfalck.bsky.social Engineering leader who loves innovating and growing SW/ML/AI talent. Also, you cannot convince me there's a better place than the Indiana Dunes.
Matthew Dean @legomatthew.bsky.social Chicago tenor and countertenor, medievalist, food writer, and interfaith collaborator. Currently managing historic preservation at UChicago landmark Rockefeller Chapel.
Andrew @andrewkruger.bsky.social 
Kara Oehler @karaoehler.bsky.social sound, art, science, data and journalism. Copenhagen-based
Executive Director - Institute for Climate Sound & Society
Senior Researcher - AIR Lab, ITU Copenhagen and metaLAB (at) Harvard
Jamie Sanchez @spacedragon.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ she/her
Curiouser.design makin’ websites
JamieSanchez.com blog
AnimeChicago.com founder
BebopBeat.com pod co-host
BitBashChicago.com co-founder
Doctor B. Popular @docpop.org Yo-yoer, artist, musician, and host of the Fediverse Files.
San Francisco
DocPop.org
He/Him
Mastodon is still my main account, but you can follow my Masto account here on bsky via here: bsky.app/profile/docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Amanda Walker @aw90.bsky.social security & privacy geek by day, decorative artist by night.
Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
Bitsy Joy @bitsyjoy.bsky.social 
Lorena Nicole @lorenanicole.bsky.social #Chicago #Latinx #technologist 👩🏻💻 cat mama to 3 floofy 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛ Maine Coons, lover of #Python 🐍, #educator 👩🏽🏫 & public speaker, #Fitness buff 🥊🏃🏽♀️🧗🏽♀️, #OrdCamp nerd, Champion of #EthicalTech, down with the left. Forget the rest.
👉🏽 lorenamesa.com
Saya (Sigh-Uh, like Maya) Hillman @sayahillman.bsky.social Keynote Speaker | Facilitator | Product & Community Creator ➡️ Transforms adulting from 🙄😒🤮😳🫣 to 🥰😎🤑😁🥳👏🏾. Personal life, ✅. Professional life, ✅. Life of Yes℠ spreader via Mac & Cheese Productions℠🧀- S Sasha Laundy @sashalaundy.bsky.social
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Aaron U. Salmon @aaronsalmon.com UX & Design leader in Eau Claire, Wis. Jovial lad, coffee/bike shop co-owner.
Standing up my own PDS. Excited about public squares that work for everyone.
Past: Obama '12 HQ, Pentagon, Northwestern Knight Lab, and a bedroom BBS in '91.
aaronsalmon.com
Corey Haines @coreyhaines.bsky.social cats, but you can send me pictures of all animals
Sara Hudson @saratexas.bsky.social Interim CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Nonprofit Quarterly. Writer. Auntie. Children's books stan. Pro-Black, pro-justice, pro-libraries, pro-kindness. she/her/ella
@theadpolancic.bsky.social @theadpolancic.bsky.social 
Rebeca Mojica @rebecamojica.bsky.social 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈🪐📘🎲😸
Chainmaille artisan, instructor & author.
she/her
We can chose words and actions to build people up or tear them down. Our choices are contagious.
https://linktr.ee/rebecamojica
jenniferathome @jenniferathome.bsky.social Proud museum person. Trying to be a good human and make the world lovelier in all the ways. Mom, partner, knitter, Italophile. Pro-peace, pro-choice. No effs left.
Joe Walnes @waln.es Building new stuff at Stripe.
Previously: Apple, Google, Thoughtworks, trading, founder.
Open source: websocketd, xstream, hamcrest, and others…
github.com/joewalnes
linkedin.com/in/joewalnes
x.com/joewalnes
@natmas.bsky.social @natmas.bsky.social 
@joeborn.bsky.social @joeborn.bsky.social 
Andrew McLaughlin @andrewmcl.bsky.social Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
(Shy-lee) Shaily Hakimian @hakimian45.bsky.social Reduce Anxiety, Overwhelm, & Ambiguity when you Juggle Multiple Roles. 2X Your Creative Capacity. Unbox Yourself & Feel Empowered Beyond Social Media @ YourSocialMediaSherpa.com
Ytasha @ysolstar.bsky.social Afrofuturist. Writing in words and pixels. Author. Dancing always. Drinking tea. Champion for humanity. Next: The Afrofuturist Evolution
Dan Bornstein @danfuzz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Virtual Machinist. Loves coffee and noise. May or may not be working on an operating system.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@danfuzz on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Jacqueline Ros Amable @jackieros.bsky.social 
Anna Galland @annagalland.bsky.social Democracy enthusiast. Midwest is best.
David Altenburg @gensym.bsky.social Chicagoan in SoCal.
Programming, rock climbing, mountain rescue.
@dougbradbury.bsky.social @dougbradbury.bsky.social 
Peter Tsai @petetsai.bsky.social Technologist, Photographer, & finder of things old and new... 
Ben H Kram @benhkram.bsky.social infrastructure diplomat and hot-glue gun
Lenifaye @andreafaye.bsky.social Director of Resource Organizing at Access Reproductive Care-Southeast. Queer & Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.
Durham now, Chicago forever.
https://andreafayehartrt.substack.com/
Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR. 
Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent.
Civic tech & UX by day, art by night.
Building shared versions of reality + hope.
RaksGeek.com
RaksInferno.com
DawnXianaMoon.com
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
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
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Adam Savage @asavage.bsky.social Maker. Science Communicator. Connector. 
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Potter. Recovering technologist. Would like to pet your dog.
Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
wonder.voyage
debuggingteams.com
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun (he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town | Cohost of the Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd @PCWorld.com
I've never slapped anyone / not the actor
Signal:willsmith.01
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
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.
Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
notnotrocketscience.com
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social Bryan William Jones
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
Professing at Pitt
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Byron Woodfork @byronwoodfork.bsky.social Software engineering topics, mentorship advice & movie nerd hot takes ☺️
Latest YouTube video link below 👇🏾
https://youtu.be/Jlk93rV8tws
Jesse Vincent @s.ly Doing AI stuff at Prime Radiant. Past lives include: keyboard.io, VaccinateCA, K-9 Mail, Request Tracker & Perl.
I can usually be found in #Berkeley
jesse@fsck.com
jesse@primeradiant.com
@jesse@metasocial.com
was @obra on Twitter
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. Working on my Spanish. He/him. Todos somos americanos.
Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social Accountability Architect💡
Artisanal Database Maker🔎 🧾
Storyteller/Writer/Producer🎙️✍️🎥
Avenger, Academic, Lawyer🗳️
Redistributive Justice ⚖️
Choice Optimizer🤖
Researcher & OG Prompt Engineer🧌
Whistleblower🚨
Human Palantir🔮
https://linktr.ee/realdearsarah
Rick Klau @rickklau.com Co-founder & CEO, Onsemble. Husband. Dad. Previously: California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, 13+ years Google, FeedBurner. he / him.
Star Simpson @starstar.bsky.social Aviation, automation & a long list of other interests. 🇩🇪🇯🇲 Repeal the Jones Act ⛔️🚢 From Hawaii 🌺 Used to live in Iceland 🇮🇸 ég get varla talað íslensku. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
Jesse von Doom @handle.invalid Mostly I live in a Zoom window.
Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social former child (derogatory)
current adult (denunciatory)
future ghost (complimentary)
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
Chris DiBona @cdibona.bsky.social Released a few open source projects here and there. Dad, Skiiier, Nerd, Villager. 
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop. 
aziz @texasvc.com @texasvc on all platforms
nerd in houston frequently traveling
i have the best friends
Michi the Adorable Tiny Demon @michitrota.bsky.social FilAm Feminist Foodie Firespinner. British Fantasy & 5x Hugo Award winner. Writing a book on representation, AAPI identity & power. Green America Executive Editor. She/Her. buttondown.email/MichiTrota. Repped by @lmpnk.bsky.social
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Two obsessions: the biodiversity of Earth's largest habitat, and why body size varies across all of life. Science communicator, ocean's weirdest animals daily.
Robin Shostack @shostack.bsky.social Build. Lead. Perform. Turn the boldest ideas into reality. Inspired by space travel, wilderness, and my dog's ability to nap. 
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
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Ben Sussman @sussman.bsky.social He/him, Chicago native. Former eng director @ Google, composer, pianist, banjoist, author, gamer, photographer, illustrator, radio ham, dad. http://debuggingteams.com
Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social Slinging zines in Chicago @wildramppublishing.bsky.social.
Co-host of "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz" podcast
https://linktr.ee/KeidraC
Profile ID: Black woman looking up at picture of mountains
Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her. 
Jeff Solin ✶✶✶✶ @jeffsolin.bsky.social Family and friend to others. Comp Sci & Making Teacher at Lane Tech. LTMakers Lab Director. Owner of Solin Systems Consulting. Fierce advocate for my students. Relentless trasher of Aspen SIS.
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Borja Sotomayor @borjasotomayor.bsky.social Senior Instructional Professor of CS @UChicago, amateur sciuriologist. Views are my own.
He/him 🏳️🌈 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Other places you can find me: https://linktr.ee/borjasotomayor
Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order.
Bad Takes R Us
Be Better. Do Better.
He/Him
Steve Brown @unklesteve.com Father & Husband
US National YoYo Master
Always doing a ton of things, find them all at http://unklesteve.com