Melanie @celine2017.bsky.social ✨ Curious about the world. Kindness, honesty, and good humor go a long way.
Researcher & Kindle Writer @diagarchbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHY17TQL
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Film Milf 🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 📚 @filmilf.bsky.social Work @ TrixStarT Film Productions.
🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ 📚
Fully Full Frontal 4 Film. Crazy Cool Comics.- G PerpetualMind @georgeofmn.bsky.social Recovered Gopher, Recovering convention attendee
EASTMAN @eastmanblue.bsky.social Social democrat. Vegetarian. Science. Baseball.
Humor. Books. Atheist. Dog rescuer. Advocate.
Fan of critical thinking. I write about politics and religion.
Fred All In 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @fred-all-in.bsky.social Civil and Voting Rights Advocate! Pro-Democracy, Pro-Democrats, Pro-Choice, Pro-Human Rights, Pro-Mother Earth! Let's continue to hold the line against hate, racism, bigotry, and fascism!
F MUSK, F TRUMP, F MAGA GOP
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Simón Weffer (he/him/el) @simonweffer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology and Latinx Studies and Director of DEI (GASP!) at Northern Illinois University. Rabid fútbolista (forca Barça!), Star Wars/Marvel/anime nerd, and swim dad. Native Chicagoan, and papi to four fabulous chingonas.
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Rudra Banerji @rudramakesmovie.bsky.social Producer, Brand Marketer, Father, Husband-er
@truechicago.bsky.social @truechicago.bsky.social 
Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social Educator, Citizen Scientist, National Geographic Explorer investigating heritage and biodiversity
WilliaSkip @williaskip.bsky.social Retired guy, veteran, good trouble, No DMs ✌😷💉🎸🎣🏍🪁
Luke Shepard @lukeshepard.bsky.social Education, robotics and AI developments, and ... book reviews? Worked at facebook, amazon, espark, tempus.
BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social He/him, bi,💙. I don't normally do social media, but this place seems less aggressive than most of the internet.
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.
Sophia Walls @sophiawalls.bsky.social World Events in real-time: 💵 💻 🧬 🎺🐒
Business, Tech, Science, Culture and Politics.
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. 
Crimeajewel @crimeajewel.bsky.social Creative Artiste. London and Venice.
With small creative shop Crimeajewel on www.
No DMs please as 99.99% are spam or scammers. I send no DMs. Thank you.
Ray Christian “What’s Ray Saying?” @whatsraysaying.bsky.social Creator and Host of the award winning podcast “What’s Ray Saying?” Ghetto kid, Ret. Army Paratrooper, Doctor of Education, Fulbright Specialist, audio producer, teller of stories, and Goat wrangler.
@jaimekfl.bsky.social @jaimekfl.bsky.social 
Mark Hayward @themarkhayward.bsky.social Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social Listening! A lot, always.
Also: @audioflux.bsky.social
Also: @thehorsethread.bsky.social
Previously: Radiotopia/PRX, Ear Hustle, ABC (down under),Third Coast Int'l Audio Festival, many record stores...
James Steve @jamessteve283.bsky.social Always be yourself.
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Corey Haines @coreyhaines.bsky.social cats, but you can send me pictures of all animals
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social Anthropologist of Food, Tourism, and Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Antarctica). Lover of plants AND zombies. Barbershop singer. Assoc Prof at Bucknell U but all opinions are my own.
Anne Lukeman @alukeman.bsky.social Escape room owner. Queen of Parcadia.
www.cuadventures.com
Ernest @fintechernest.bsky.social Observing politics, democracy, media, and institutional drift through a human lens.
Interested in policy, social cohesion, fairness, democratic stability — within a core belief that character still matters.
No DMs. No Porn (immediate block)
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MAGANDA WAISWA @magandawaiswa.bsky.social We are providing shelter Education basic needs to orphans, Donations visit the link below👇
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David Schalliol @metroblossom.bsky.social David Schalliol is a visual sociologist living in the Midwestern United States. Co-author of The City Creative, director of The Area, Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Olaf College.
http://davidschalliol.com
http://theareafilm.com
@springrunner.bsky.social @springrunner.bsky.social 
Brant MacDuff @brantmacduff.bsky.social Wildlife Conservation & Taxidermy Historian. I write about the wooly world of wildlife conservation economics. Find my (slightly) more active self at ImmortalAnimals.com and @StuffInMyApartment on Insta. Book- The Shotgun Conservationist 
Troy Henikoff @troyhenikoff.bsky.social 
@natmas.bsky.social @natmas.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.
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
Melissa Fierce @melifierce.bsky.social Aimless recipe for a tiny life
kamml @lisakamm.com My dogs think I’m an ok person.
@epeyton.bsky.social @epeyton.bsky.social 
@esiegel.bsky.social @esiegel.bsky.social 
Krisztina "Z" Holly @krisztinaholly.bsky.social scouting undiscovered ideas and innovators at the frontier 
Keith McCready @stenogeek.bsky.social Software performance
Stenography
Embedded systems
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
Peter Tsai @petetsai.bsky.social Technologist, Photographer, & finder of things old and new... 
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).
Robin Anil @robinanil.bsky.social Technology Builder
Bill Hammack (engineerguy) @engineerguy.bsky.social Creator of Engineerguy video on youtube
Rick Klau @rickklau.com Co-founder & CEO, Onsemble. Husband. Dad. Previously: California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, 13+ years Google, FeedBurner. he / him.
Edna @edna.bsky.social Retired USMC. Inveterate shenanigator. Texas Aggie. UChicago Maroon. Devoted Chicagoan ✶✶✶✶. Late night chair trolley luge gold medalist. Non-sufferer of fools and the unkind.
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
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 - PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
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.
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
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
Matt McCoy @mgmccoy.bsky.social Design | Engineering | Fabrication
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
Matthew Dean @legomatthew.bsky.social Chicago tenor and countertenor, medievalist, food writer, and interfaith collaborator. Currently managing historic preservation at UChicago landmark Rockefeller Chapel.
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
bethanye McKinney Blount @bethanye.bsky.social 
Samar Kaukab @smrkkb.bsky.social 
Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social Chicago gal who wears many hats:
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
📣 Pitch Your Peeps
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
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
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.
Theo Hahn @louispound.bsky.social 
Stacy Tessler Lindau @stacylindau.bsky.social professor, ob/gyn, entrepreneur, first responder, storyteller, beginner bluegrass fiddler, Friday night dinner, earnest citizen, friend to strangers
Jacob Matthews @wrcjacob.bsky.social Digital frenemy
justin massa @justinmassa.bsky.social helping SMBs thrive w/ gen AI. owner @ midwestquality.consulting + board @ solvehungertoday.org | prev: partner @ IDEO.com ; SVP @ Newlab.com