Andrew McDiarmid @andwewmcd.bsky.social Corn-fed T&S leader. I used to work at a place that made a place like this place. You have rights; fight fascism; use semicolons; vote.
Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social hello
karen han @karenhan.bsky.social 🍒 screenwriter and culture writer
🍊 author of BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA
🍋 reps: lit entertainment/uta
🍐 krnyhan@gmail.com
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com FOIAball digs through public records to break college football's weirdest, wildest, and biggest secrets.
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Prefix.dev - the Pixi company @prefix.dev Escape dependency hell with Pixi - your new favorite package manager!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Kayla Pekkala @kaylapekkala.com Owner/Artist of TinyWerewolves.com (@TinyWerewolves.com) · Past toy designer · Wife @parkermolloy.com · Probably near coffee & food ·
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Chicago
She/Her
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
@chicago.at @chicago.at chicago.at
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social just an idiot
✶✶✶✶
he/him
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Emily Hunt @emily.space Postdoc @univie.ac.at working on star clusters & machine learning.
Also: open web developer & enthusiast, working on @astrosky.eco and more
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her), Ⓥ
Website: https://emily.space
GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social Mom of four, Illinois Lt. Governor, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate.
Giving the people what they want.
https://linktr.ee/julianaforillinois
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
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Southside Obama™️ @theavgblackman.bsky.social Husband, Father,Writer, Beer Genius|Still #Khive|#TheReidOut amateur expert| #AddToBlackSky | #FuckDonaldTrump| #WeNeedNewDemocrats
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy [bridged from https://pnw.zone/@felix on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Veni Kunche @veni.dev 🌈 Founder of @DiversifyTech.com
👒 I wear many hats as a dev + founder
🐥 Mom to two girls
🧠 Neurodivergent
🙅♀️ Gen AI deinfluencer
✨ she/her
🔗 https://buff.ly/41WjmcB
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social HealthDisparity Researcher who is decolonist, anticolonist, or recolonist/reconquistist. Whatever gets you to see that 1448-1492 was a bad road & that we have to start anew. The West is Dead, get over yourself. Pronouns are todos, omni, (A ∩ & ∪ Ω)
Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com Math videos
Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social Candidate for US Senate | Congresswoman #TX30 | Civil Rights & Criminal Attorney | Progressive | Fmr. St. Rep. HD100 | DST 1913 🐘🔥| She/Her/Ella | #TEXASTOUGH
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
John Breen @breen.tech He/They. Queer.🏴
Tech worker (derogatory)
Software Architect at Antifa Enterprises
Fuck fascism
📍: Northern Virginia
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
Host/creator: Depresh Mode, Sleeping with Celebrities, The Hilarious World of Depression.
Host/co-creator/head writer: Wits.
Author: The Hilarious World of Depression.
Lead singer: Math Emergency.
Dogs owned: 2
It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen, if you’re nasty (or use AI) @queeringtherapist.bsky.social AUTHOR:
📚Personal Responsibility, Inc. AVAILABLE NOW:orbooks.com/catalog/personal-responsibility-inc/
📚Queering Your Therapy Practice
📚Narrative Approaches to Youth Work
📚Therapeutic Conversations w/Queer Youth
😷 ACAB 🖕TERFs
💜MPLS 4ever💜
Winnipeg…4now
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Rep. Haley Stevens @rephaleystevens.bsky.social 
MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social 🇰🇷➡️🇩🇰 #Adoptee 🥚 - Vexed - Free 🍉 - Lots of typos (she/her)
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social 📚 Author
👻 Ghostwriter
Find me at
📺 youtube.com/@JohnGVibes
🔖 johnvibes.substack.com (no paywalls)
📖 raveoutlaw.com
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
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.
Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social Artist/marine geophysicist (PhD Physics)
Printmaker
Find/contact me at:
minouette.Etsy.com
minouette.blogspot.ca
Instagram.com/the.minouette
https://cara.app/minouette
I post art, science, #sciart and stuff with typos. She/her, Settler in Tkaronto 🇨🇦
Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social 40th Ward Alder / Father / Spouse / Chair of Immigration Committee / Chair of Progressive Caucus/ Vice Chair of Latino Caucus / Organizer / Problem Solver / Chicagoan until Chicago ends.
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net Protect libraries. Children are people. Fight patriarchy. Abolish plenary adoption. Make streets safe for everyone. Trans rights are human rights.
AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominated sound designer, composer, professor, and photographer in NYC.
I am an adoptee shaping stories with sound, and music.
📸🎼🔉🏫🗽
The TRiiBE (backup account) @thetriibe.bsky.social The TRiiBE's backup account.
Verified: @thetriibe.com
Read more on thetriibe.com
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social Novelist, college lecturer, and former political staffer. Lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, where she occasionally finds time to read and write. she/her https://emmabarry.carrd.co/
Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
www.jenreadsromance.com
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Col. Gustavo Arellano @gustavoarellano.bsky.social Con su pluma en su mano redux. L.A. Times columnista, Alta Journal co-columnista, KCRW babbler, Kentucky Colonel POR VIDA
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social Award-winning ICE journalist. The Daily Memo. Apple Maps 'Where Memo Eats'. On Netflix. 3rd-gen landscaper. Proud son of immigrants. UC Berkeley alumn. Harvard fellow.
https://solo.to/eltragon
Dynamical Systems Group @dynamicalsystems.bsky.social Systems Engineering for High-Reliability Organizations. Scientific Computing, MBSE, Systems Integration.
Lara Eakins @rhubarble.com Science and tech geek, history buff, needleworker, and all-around nerd deep in the heart of Texas.
kate canterbary @katecanterbary.bsky.social romance author + reader
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Springtide Press @springtidepress.bsky.social Proprietor Jessica Spring is a letterpress printer, daredevil, book artist in Tacoma (where we always print damp). Co-conspirator: Dead Feminists. More at springtidepress.com
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.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Madicken Munk @madickenmunk.bsky.social I like coffee, cats, scientific computing, and nuclear engineering. Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. 
Raven Geary @ravengeary.bsky.social Journalist. Hate mail: raven@unraveledpress.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
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social Antifa goat farm and beer garden in Field Store (Houston) Texas. We used to make cheese and trouble, but we no longer make cheese.
Buy stuff: https://blueheronfarmcajeta.com/
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Damian @notatallshaw.bsky.social Geek
OSS: pip maintainer, resolvelib maintainer
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
Senator Mike Simmons @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social State Senator and Former Congressional Candidate for IL-09. Here for the Fight.
Chicago native. Proudly LGBTQ+, Ethiopian-American. 🏳️🌈🇪🇹
Let's do this together! Go to mikesimmons.org to sign up!
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social investigative reporter covering immigration, labor and more for @propublica.org
signal: nicolefoy.27
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
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- registry.blue
A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social Writer | BEST AMERICAN SFF 2026 | BRAVE NEW WEIRD vol 4 | Stories in Reactor / Lightspeed / Nightmare | More info algoldfuss.com | Newsletter https://buttondown.com/algoldfuss | xe/xir/xem
Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Father. Husband. Mayor. Building Chicago into the safest, most affordable big city in America.
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
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i made: donotreply.cards
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com Head of Developer Relations at Arize. Previously: LlamaIndex, Netlify, co-founded npm, awe.sm, started lgbtq.technology. Married to @jovo.design. He/him. 🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Mils Yobtaf @milsyobtaf.sacpack.org 
Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Independent journalist. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them