The Salt Shed @saltshedchicago.bsky.social Chicago's premier indoor/outdoor performance and community space at the historic Morton Salt complex.
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
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Cbharwood @cbharwood.bsky.social “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each both, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently”
Jesse Kriss @jklabs.net 
Adam Fox @adamfoxtattoo.bsky.social Artist, Tattooer, Adventure enthusiast
Wendy Hasenkamp @whasenk.bsky.social 
Britton Picciolini @brittonp.bsky.social Googler since '02, EdTech Fan, Empty Nester, Foodie, Photographer, Sun Devil, Geek. Views are my own. Pronouns: she/her
Andrew Morrison @achmorrison.bsky.social Social media expat. #ITeachPhysics #Acoustics
https://blog.drewsday.com
Misty @mcush.bsky.social 
Rémey @remeyrozin.bsky.social 
@linneadee.bsky.social @linneadee.bsky.social 
Todd McFarlin @derdrom.bsky.social Computer Science Educator and Academic Esports Advocate
@kunesh.bsky.social @kunesh.bsky.social 
Carie @cariegirl.bsky.social ❤️ Campfires, laughing, music, petrichor, pizza, sunsets
We don't deserve animals!
@chicagoish.bsky.social @chicagoish.bsky.social NAFO fella
@janetfoor.bsky.social @janetfoor.bsky.social 
Patrick R Photography @patrickrphoto.bsky.social I'm a photography nerd in New England. I partner with marketing professionals and agencies for content creation. Elevate your brand with photos that truly represent your high quality work. #contentcreation #photography #architecture
www.PatrickRPhoto.com
Chandler Mercer (Chad) @chm74.bsky.social 
@gailchapman.bsky.social @gailchapman.bsky.social 
@crasx.bsky.social @crasx.bsky.social 
@bucktown-news.bsky.social @bucktown-news.bsky.social 
CORE - Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators @coreteachers.bsky.social The CORE caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union. Working since 2008 to create the Chicago our students, families and educators deserve.
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.”
@springrunner.bsky.social @springrunner.bsky.social 
Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com look on my posts ye mighty and despair!
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com Journalist. I enjoy writing thinky features about technology ethics, virtual communities and author profiles/Q&As.
Instructor of computer mediated communication, social media, web design/development and journalism.
nianorris.com
Keith McCready @stenogeek.bsky.social Software performance
Stenography
Embedded systems
Chrys @macdiva.bsky.social 
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.
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
FlavorFlavMgmt@gmail.com
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
Matthew Dean @legomatthew.bsky.social Chicago tenor and countertenor, medievalist, food writer, and interfaith collaborator. Currently managing historic preservation at UChicago landmark Rockefeller Chapel.
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.
Bill Hammack (engineerguy) @engineerguy.bsky.social Creator of Engineerguy video on youtube
bethanye McKinney Blount @bethanye.bsky.social 
Samar Kaukab @smrkkb.bsky.social 
Theo Hahn @louispound.bsky.social 
@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!!!
HeyChelseaTroy @heychelseatroy.bsky.social Please leave a message after the beep.
Melissa Fierce @melifierce.bsky.social Aimless recipe for a tiny life
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
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
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
Always check the latest posts for updated advice/information.
We reserve the right to remove misinformation, spam, and hate speech under our posts.
@joeborn.bsky.social @joeborn.bsky.social 
@natmas.bsky.social @natmas.bsky.social 
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
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.
(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
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/ ]
@dougbradbury.bsky.social @dougbradbury.bsky.social 
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. 
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
Bitsy Joy @bitsyjoy.bsky.social - S Sasha Laundy @sashalaundy.bsky.social
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
@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
Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social Team game
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Hard-for-Me-to-Live-with-Me/Rex-Chapman/9781982197773
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
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
Amanda Walker @aw90.bsky.social security & privacy geek by day, decorative artist by night.
Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
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℠🧀
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
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
Erin Drain (she/her) @erinoia.bsky.social Dot connector, west sider, haunted bungalower, thread winder, unlikely women’s basketball super fan.
Used to do/still happy to talk about.
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Stephan Somogyi @thinkpanzer.bsky.social Primum non nocere
Research & Teaching @ Columbia Journalism School
Willful & premeditated emdash & serial comma user; verber of nouns
Often staring down both barrels of Brandolini's law
Recovering tech, business, and design journo
Weniger, aber besser.
Ben H Kram @benhkram.bsky.social infrastructure diplomat and hot-glue gun
Peter Tsai @petetsai.bsky.social Technologist, Photographer, & finder of things old and new... 
David Altenburg @gensym.bsky.social Chicagoan in SoCal.
Programming, rock climbing, mountain rescue.
Anna Galland @annagalland.bsky.social Democracy enthusiast. Midwest is best.
Jacqueline Ros Amable @jackieros.bsky.social 
Brandon Fischer @imprblcnstrct.bsky.social Farmer, Brewer, Woodworker, Artist, Enthusiast
Ytasha @ysolstar.bsky.social Afrofuturist. Writing in words and pixels. Author. Dancing always. Drinking tea. Champion for humanity. Next: The Afrofuturist Evolution- Y Yoni K @yjkogan.bsky.social Bay area resident, coffee lover, software engineer, outdoor activity enjoyer
Formerly: Columbia (SC), Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston
J. Gordon Wright @jgordonwright.com Digital director for @norc.org by day, singer with @chicagojazzdads.com by night. Luckiest dad and husband in the world. Opinions my own.
www.jgordonwright.com
Yael Hochberg @yhochber.bsky.social 
Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social ⚓️ Experimental Psychologist | Navy CAPT (ret) | DARPA alum | Tech innovation in education and behavioral health | Autism parent | Views expressed are my own| 👾 https://russ-shilling.com/ideas
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
jason huggins @hugs.bsky.social i make robots and test automation tools. (started the selenium & appium open source projects, now vibium.) living at the intersection of software, electronics, mechanics, and the occasional kinetic art project. and baking.
📍: chicagoland
Frank Wiles @fwiles.bsky.social Expert in building, scaling and maintaining complex web applications - Founder of REVSYS, PSF Fellow, Django Steering Council and Former President of the Django Software Foundation.
Into Python, Django, React, Rust, Kubernetes and cooking
JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social Artist, educator, and researcher - currently: Electronic Visualization Lab @ UIC.
PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
Gabrielle Lyon @ghlyon1.bsky.social Desert born, midwest rooted
BKE @bke613.bsky.social Performance Artist, Musician, Teacher, Designer, Traveller, Adventurer of Life 
Mark Hayward @themarkhayward.bsky.social Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
Aaron Silvers Lining Playbook @cut.buzz chameleon/survivor/trustworthy adult now presenting as barber
Look, Feel, and Do Better💈🪒
Book me @ https://cut.buzz/
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Sara Chipps @sarajchipps.bsky.social 💾 console cowboy in cyberspace
💻 Engineering leader in NYC
🍦 Vanilla JavaScript
🍫 Chocolate HTML
🍓 Strawberry CSS
⚾️ Mets
🏀 Liberty
YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social Embracing my villain era. Words: @blockclubchi.bsky.social
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things