Nolan Hahn @nolanhahn.bsky.social The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark
Phil @ascentale.bsky.social #BikeBus
Mastodon: @ascentale@sfba.social
Oakland, CA
Th Clvr Mnky @thclvrmnky.bsky.social I `yield()` for co-routines
Berkeley Climate Equity Action @climateequity.bsky.social A voice for climate action that leaves no one behind. Focused on Berkeley, California.
suldrew 🏳️🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️ @renzaro.com i make videos (@renzarofitzgerald) about how economic justice and mobility justice are the same winning issue.
journalist in training @usa.streetsblog.org
Posts represent me and me only, obviously
www.renzaro.com
Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social SF based, medicinal chemist by trade, housing and urban transportation enthusiast
aubrey 🌼 @windsweptmokii.bsky.social windswepttttt.straw.page
Andrew Bowen (he/him) @acbowen.bsky.social KPBS reporter covering housing, transit and local politics in San Diego. Union shop steward. Creator and host of Freeway Exit, a podcast about freeways. Gaily homosexual.
I run @sdtrafficdeaths.bsky.social.
https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/freeway-exit
@fil.rezo.net @fil.rezo.net maps | data | code | journalism
#D3 & #Observable
👁️🗨️ https://observablehq.com/@fil
🌍 https://visionscarto.net/
Marin YIMBY @marinyimby.bsky.social 🏡 Marin YIMBY
Building a more affordable, inclusive Marin through abundant housing.
Housing policy, local politics & advocacy. 📍Marin County, CA
𝘪𝘢𝘯 @decaffeinated.io ✨technical✨ adtech and ebikes
berkeley is home 🌁
Breck @breckw.bsky.social Urbanism | Mom x3
📍 🇫🇷
Samuel @safestreets4lfk.bsky.social Organizing for safe streets in Lawrence, Kansas. He/him.
Related topics: parking reform, zoning reform
Topher Brennan (he/they) @topherbrennan.bsky.social The richest man in the world is a Nazi.
RAVEN🏳️⚧️ @yimby-pilled-gal.bsky.social Scenemo & Metalhead. I love ranting about and learning more about Housing and Transit policy in the America’s & Europe, I am a Market Socialist YIMBY, Guitar Player, #1 Suburb hater! All opinions are mine. She/Her
📍Santa Barbara County, CA
Elizabeth Goodspeed @goodspeed.bsky.social Independent designer, writer, trend spotter, & casual archivist (she/her)
Jenny Build Housing Silva @jrskis.bsky.social Sitting on a dock by the bay. 🏡🛥️ MEHC is now Call Marin Home. YIMBY. @jcdjcd.bsky.social biggest fan.
Sean Yoda Rouse @seanyodarouse.bsky.social A married UC Berkeley alum who enjoys Star Wars, Disney, California (the state AND the Golden Bears), Craft Beer, and other stuff. Go Bears
Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com San Francisco 🌁
City Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Spatial Science. Union Member. Assistant Professor. Banner by Bellows.
Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social Housing Program Officer, Abundance & Growth Fund @ CG | Sr. Fellow @niskanencenter🏗️ | Urban Econ 🌐🔰🚋 | @worksinprogress contributor | @opennyforall member | @yimbytown alum | former @cbcny |
Legalize housing. Tax land. End poverty with cash
Energy Institute at Haas @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social Helping create a more economically and environmentally sustainable energy future through research, teaching and policy engagement. Visit our website for more information about the Energy Institute: haas.berkeley.edu/energy-institute/
Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social 🏛️Santa Monica Planning Commissioner
🛠️ Backend Platform Engineer
🎛️ Electronic Noise Producer
🕹️ Game Modder
🌌 Astro Enthusiast
Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social Mostly biking, transit and housing. YIMBY. BikeSD board member. Mexicana.
📍San Diego | she/her/ella
Syrak Micael | Candidate for Berkeley City Council District 7 @syrakforsouthside.bsky.social Democratic Socialist, lifelong Berkeley resident, recent Cal graduate, & organizer running to represent Southside on the Berkeley City Council. 🌹🧡 linktr.ee/syrakforsouthside
94501 @94501.bsky.social That policy outcome you want is downstream of good land use policy and housing affordability.
Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley and LBNL working on @simonsobservatory.org . I might work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, but my puns are never reheated.
ira @ira.bsky.social I like cats and dogs and politics and cities and bikes. I made Joyridebike.app
David Ciani @davidciani.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 Thinker, Liberal, Technology Oriented. Data-driven research and analysis. Hailing from Monterey County, California. I speak for the trees, for myself, and no one else.
#HeHim
John @rieth.dev Los Angeles. Trying to cut red tape with redtape.la. Writing about improving LA County at lacounty.build.
Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social Migration is beautiful.
Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social Neoliberal shill
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social By day, recovering economist and lender with a heart at Student Freedom Fund. On here, mostly random thoughts. I like science fiction, biotechnology, household finance, causal inference, home fermentation, and powerlifting.
@landofwords.bsky.social @landofwords.bsky.social
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social PhD student doing urban econ and industrial organization at Duke. Former highest paid cashier in the Midwest; former RA at Eviction Lab; Macalester College. Not a real bus driver
Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social Climate Data Scientist working on natural hazards and climate risk in the property sector. Interested in the science of water, climate, cities, and landscapes, also dogs. Opinions are solely my own.
Emily @eajm.bsky.social Why can't I lock this? | Interests include narratology, speech representation in Latin literature, Berkeley lore, and the Philadelphia Eagles. | W '16, UCB deo volente
Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social Data-driven decarbonization at @electricitymaps.com
Almost certainly that guy you know from the internet.
There are 20 data centers between my house and the grocery store.
Sometimes this is a light-on-context soccer account. Sometimes VAR is trash.
David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social Computers, startups, bikes, Italy (lived in Padova for about 15 years), Central Oregon YIMBY
Construction Physics @constructionphysics.skystack.xyz Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
This is an automated Substack Account of https://constructionphysics.substack.com
Discover more/Create at: @skystack.xyz
Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social Journalist, writer, historian; peripatetic, skeptic; fisherman, amateur pomologist, admirer of wildflowers, mushrooms; worshiper of forests, swamps, deserts, and mountains.
Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA
1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com Portland should aim for a minimum 2% average annual growth rate. People already want to live in Portland, we just need to make it cheap and easy to build homes. 🏗️🏙️🌲🚲🦫
Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social Bicyclist, backpacker, beer drinker. Neighborhood organizer. North American Contingent of International Bollard Association. More Roundabouts!
Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com Illustrator, character designer, concept artist, draws a lot of ladies and monsters. Won a Hugo.
Netflix, WB, Disney Books, WotC, Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette
Torino 🇮🇹
Rep: Alison Mann
⟣ She/Her ⟢
⟣ Prints, patreon, merch: abigaillarson.com ⟢
⟣ No GenAI ⟢
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Jake Berman @lostsubways.com Lawyer, historian, mapmaker. Transport + housing nerd. Californian living in New York.
Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning @ Columbia. Wrote "The Lost Subways of North America". Get the book at http://lostsubways.com.
Personal account.
Kevin rides the bus @kpwroth.bsky.social interested in all things cities - in particular urban mobility with public transit, cycling, and walkability. also care about politics, foreign policy, and soccer. YNWA!
Drew @drewda.bsky.social A bookish pedestrian in Northern California. Just here to chit-chat (not to represent any orgs, employers, or clients)
MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social
Edward Burtynsky 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @edwardburtynsky.bsky.social 40+ years dedicated to bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet through lens-based art. www.edwardburtynsky.com
Sarah Bell @bell-sarah.bsky.social Lead of East Bay YIMBY
East Bay for Everyone Board of Stewards
Chair of Sierra Club Northern Alameda County Housing Committee
Chair of Berkeley Housing Advisory Commission
ADEM Delegate from AD-14
AWU-CWA member emeritus
Mandolinist
Tango dancer
Speedoshi @speedoshi.bsky.social 26 / He/him / UI/UX graphic designer/Illustrator/ 🚫AI
#OC #fanart #studies
Comms: closed
Commission info: https://speedoshi.carrd.co/
Brandon Istenes @bistenes.bsky.social Economist and data guy. Research & organizing around the housing crisis. Socialist 🌹 urbanist 🚲 . Newsletter: https://rentrentier.com
SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social i am a drawer / any pronouns / MDNI / sometimes drawing 🔞
// personal alt: @noctsilk.bsky.social
// Fanart: #SpindleClub
// Lore & Yaps: #SpindleLore
// COMMS CLOSED - I don't know when I'll open them //
Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com Oakland, Maps, Bikes, etc. Also @migurski@mastodon.social and formerly @migurski on the birdsite.
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social I am writing a book that explains why Washington DC is the way it is: leafy, monumental, and segregated. I am also a licensed architect.
https://www.thebirthofacapital.info
critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
Steve @swfong.bsky.social
Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social past life of limnology & aquatic ecology |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
“pathologically optimistic” |
“irredeemable nerd” |
always a scientist |
mcyoung 🏳️🌈 @mcy.gay a whimsicott crawled into your compiler and got stuck
call me sunny. yes! i am a furry artist!
⌨️ mcy.gay
🎨 art.mcy.gay
💰 art.mcy.gay/comms
🔞 @art.mcy.gay
📍Seattle, WA
Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area. Transpo planner/technocrat
Adam Briones @ab51025.bsky.social
Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social defend democracy and build homes / policy advocate @protectdemocracy.org / author ifyoucankeep.it / board @sacyimby.bsky.social / rash opinions my own
No kings but Sac Kings
📍Sacramento
Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social CNET Editor, here for tracking decentralized media, primarily Bsky/AtProto and Mastodon/Fediverse ... and for disc golf! #DiscGolf
he/him/they/them
Berkeley, CA
Other AT presences
Books: https://bookhive.buzz/profile/peter-butler.bsky.social
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social 🐧🐧🐧
29
Bi
He/Him
Rob Parolek 🍉🐳 @robparolek.bsky.social Politically active YIMBY, New Urbanist, StrongTowns, Historic Preservationists, MCM lover, Climate Warrior, rabid pro density, transit & housing in turn. Electrification & Heat pump evangelical.
Laszlo Bock @laszlobock.bsky.social 2x AI founder, x-Google, currently teaching at Berkeley and Stanford
Tom MacWright @macwright.com bikes, runs, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social GIS Faculty, Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS); Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society; co-Director, Esri Canada Centre of Excellence (COGS). My posts
Just getting started on bluesky
Astronaut photos-of-Earth maps: https://isspix.com/MapTourHowTo
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social Econ/finance only account to keep me more sane for the duration of the crisis - B @berkped.bsky.social @berkped.bsky.social Freee Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim
Free Sami Hamdi
Free Marwan Barghouti
Free Chris Smalls
Remember Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
Free Lelo aka Alfredo Juarez Zeferino
Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Free Rümeysa Öztürk
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social I do housing policy stuff and it’s ruining my life. CADA, SMUD, and SOE fanboy. House Sacramento’s most annoying member.
Urban Land Rent Foundation’s official letterboxd: boxd.it/cUU0R
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
aaronsojourner.org
Be kind. Work hard. Have fun.
@housingpony.bsky.social @housingpony.bsky.social Developer + Housing Policy Wonk
Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social Sidewalk enthusiast and adopted Midwesterner (formerly Twin Cities, Chicago). I write and research about housing and cities. PhD student at UW-Madison.
https://pencillingout.substack.com/
https://zakyudhishthu.github.io/
@marisakendall.bsky.social @marisakendall.bsky.social Homelessness reporter for @CalMatters.org
Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social he/him; Geospatial, Geology, Geophysics, Software Engineering, Open Source, Open Data, Proj, GDAL, Ocean Mapping, etc. Cofounder of Global Fishing Watch, Whale Alert, NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), NASA Ames Viz&StereoPipe
Yousef Baig @yousefbaig.bsky.social California Voices Editor @calmatters.org | NorCal ATLien | journalistic master of none | (good) views are better shared
@dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social Interested in figuring out how to build better housing, transit and cities. Construction lawyer; advocate for East Bay for Everyone. Oakland.
Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social UC Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning.
'The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis' (MIT Press 2024)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549868/the-equitably-resilient-city
Brandon Yung @brandonyung.bsky.social Housing policy wonk in Berkeley, CA
James Pirruccello 🌉🇺🇸 @jamespirruccello.com AI slop enjoyer
East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social https://eastbayforeveryone.org
Matthai Chakko • മത്തായി ചാക്കോ @matthai.bsky.social Child of public health in India trained as a reporter in US using information to serve via @berkeleyca.gov Alum: @mercnews @sfchronicle @sfgate @cal He/Him
Avery Arbaugh @averyarbaugh.bsky.social Candidate for Berkeley Rent Board
berkeleyrentboard.com
Chair: @berkeleytenants.bsky.social
Steering: @dsaeastbay.bsky.social
Head of the Berkeley Tenant Organizing Task Force
she/her
John Beaulaurier @john-bee.bsky.social Scientist 🧬 Urban biking enthusiast 🚲 Berkeley dad 🌉 Loves talking about parking 🚙 and street safety 🚸
🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social We deserve a safe and free future
@mikewilsonbikes.bsky.social @mikewilsonbikes.bsky.social
Igor #IStandWithUkraineTregub he/him @igortregub.bsky.social #downtown #berkeley Councilmember (D4), engineer turned policy advocate, @acdems Chair, immigrant, universal purveyor of dad jokes. He/him. #IStandWithUkraine