Thomas Lockney @tlockney.net https://tlockney.net
Platform-oriented Product Engineering Leader. Instigator. Tinkerer. Loads of interests.
May occasionally post about: #systemthinking, architecture, #serverless, #typescript, #rust, #python, #wasm, books, music, & dogs
Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad Bandaid Engineer. I post mostly about coding, atproto, embedded devices and things like that. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time.
📍Middle Tennessee
Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team DevRel at Bluesky. THE Bluesky.
Applied Meteorology is where I write about AT Protocol and the Atmosphere: https://am.jimray.net
Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recurse.com. public transit enjoyer. azzajew. thoughts on local-first software, atproto, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae.
🌐 https://jakelazaroff.com
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
Richard Barnes @ipv.sx Trying to do right by the world, in part by using computers and cryptography.
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Jeremy Theocharis @jeremytheocharis.bsky.social Co-Founder and CTO of the UMH (www.umh.app). Writing about the Industrial IoT and distributed systems on theocharis.dev
Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social Business writer, The Oregonian 
Anoop Ranganath @anoop.bsky.team I didn't know I was lonely til I saw your face
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
Kellan @kellanem.com 30 years of social media breaking my heart.
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social Reporter at The @Oregonian | Priors: @nydailynews @crainsnewyork| Holler: skavanaugh@oregonian.com
ATProto PDX @pdx.atproto.camp The home of #ATProto in the City of Roses (Portland, Oregon)
co-organizers:
@graham.systems
@brittanyellich.com
@katexcellence.io
@vvill.dev
blento.app/pdx.atproto.camp
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Eric Ries @ericries.bsky.social Trying to change how startups are built
formerly @ericries on the bird app
New Book coming May 2026: INCORRUPTIBLE: Why Good Companies go bad... And How Great companies Stay Great
Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonuses at: http://incorruptible.co
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social Independent Journalist & Doc Producer
Newsletter: lastweekinhell.substack.com
Video/Writing in Mother Jones, Truthout, Waging Nonviolence, and more.
📍Portland, OR
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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social If Barbur Blvd was a person: curvy, too wide, useless. Transit, architecture, urban geography.
Opinions are that of *your* employer.
Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America of Portland, OR. We organize for power for the working class to build a socialist future. linktr.ee/portlanddsa
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Nicole Ozer @nicoleozer.bsky.social EFF Executive Director | All about rights, technology & democracy | Trailblazer in public interest tech law | 2025 Technology & Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School | Former ACLU |
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me to write/research/do policy analysis: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Pre-order my book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/build-or-die-how-america-is-suffocating-its-cities-and-what-to-do-about-it-ned-resnikoff/
Portland Thorns FC @thornsfc.com Three-time NWSL champs playin’ in Soccer City, USA 🌹
Time to lock in for 2026 at Providence Park! Are you ready?
Sightline Institute @sightline.org Think tank cooking up nonpartisan policy research on housing, energy, climate, and democracy in Cascadia. 🧠🍳 Likes/follows ≠ endorsements.
Newsletters: sightline.org/signup
2-way protected bike lane enthusiast @seachanger.bsky.social “there’s nothing new under the sun but there are new suns”
-Octavia Butler
# 1 St. John’s bridge fan acct
Alaska->PDX
let’s plant trees in the street
Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social Environmental lawyer, union member/officer, & wife guy. Voted #1 Portland pizza hype guy account.
Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social she/her | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇮🇩🇵🇾🇧🇷 | Lifelong Beavertonian fighting for a better world | personal account, likes/shares≠endorsements
https://www.evelynforbeaverton.com/
Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org Housing is a human right. Fighting for tenants rights along with four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. 🏘️
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky, partner @trueventures.com, personal site: https://toni.org
Jonathan Bach @jonathanmbach.bsky.social Housing reporter for The Oregonian
"High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West" (OSU Press) https://tinyurl.com/mrx84282
Banner photo: Molly J. Smith Photography
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com A beautiful home
in a healthy city on
a thriving planet
Lanefab Design / Build
Oori Architecture
B.Eng M.Arch
www.Lanefab.com
Vancouver BC
#ThickWallsAreSexy / #SingleStair / #ElectrifyEverything / #Passivhaus
Chuck Slothower @chuckslothower.bsky.social Reporter and editor, Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland. Interested in housing, development, CRE, design, construction, public policy. Oregonian. Typing at my kitchen table.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social Portland, Baltimore, Oregon, Maryland, Idaho, green, blue, law, government, cats, kittens.
Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Garage tinkerer. Thorn in the side of the privileged and powerful. U.S. Senator from Oregon. Official campaign account. Fighting for YOU. He/Him.
jeffmerkley.com
Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social Portland city politics reporter, @opb.org
Past lives: CA, DC, TX
📬 azielinski@opb.org
Signal: alex_zee.03
www.opb.org/author/alex-zielinski/
Alexei Rodriguez @alexeirrm.bsky.social 
Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social Parking and local politics, mostly (and some dad-type jokes). President of the Parking Reform Network. Grist 50 Fixer.
Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social BikePortland.org founder 🚲. Basketball coach 🏀. North Portlander.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
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. 🏗️🏙️🌲🚲🦫
David Binnig @binnig.bsky.social Portlander. Transportation & housing hobbyist.
iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social Posts about urbanism and development, mostly specific to Portland
🏳️🌈🏴
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
Senator Khanh Pham @senkhanhpham.bsky.social Official legislative account for Senator Khanh Pham, representing District 23 in the Oregon Legislature.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sen.khanhpham
daniel holmgren 🫠 (@ ietf 126) @dholms.at just trying to build a little network we can all hang out in
head of protocol @ bsky 🌅
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
that genehack guy from that dead bird site @extremely.website Assigned John at birth · IT service industry worker • Founder, @hacksalem • More words at genehack.blog + dementedandsadbut.social • pronoun.is/he • I speak only for me. I only Bluesky when my Fedi feed is empty
schmichael @schmichael.com 
Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social Oregon-based investigative journalist. | Co-founder thewesternedge.media
Former OPB. Podcast producer, Bundyville, Dying for a Fight, and Hush.
www.ryanhaas.net
Tell me secrets on Signal: ryanjhaas.01
Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social ✊🏼 Formerly houseless anti-hunger advocate
🏛️ Portland City Councilor
🇵🇾 Paraguayan immigrant
💥 Occasional rabble rouser
Portland.gov/Disclaimer
linktr.ee/councilor.angelita.morillo
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
gabby @fullmoon.id Author of haskellforall.com, dhall-lang.org and @trygrace.dev, professional doggirl and endurance hunter
I'm a midwife to the hidden beauty in everything
she/her 🏳️⚧️ coworkers DNI
https://linktr.ee/gabriella439
💖 @ember.pet
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social Mother, physician, and proud U.S. Representative for Oregon's Third Congressional District.
https://dexter.house.gov/
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social full stack content engineer, portlander, t1d
he/him
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social Official account for Portland City Councilor Sameer Kanal, District 2 (North/NE Portland).
DMs not checked regularly. Reach out through portland.gov/kanal
portland.gov/Disclaimer
Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social Official account for Portland City Councilor Mitch Green from District 4. portland.gov/disclaimer
https://linktr.ee/councilorgreen
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com I miss you when you’re around.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov Dad, runner, filibuster reformer. U.S. Senator from Oregon.
www.merkley.senate.gov
RIP America 🇨🇦 @lenday.bsky.social Facts matter! Opinions are like, well, you know, everyone has one. Proud anti-TreasonousTrumper/MAGAt. Believer in democracy, accountability, the rule of law, all things not MAGAt. Proudly ANTIFA, just like my ancestors who fought Nazi Germany.
Strong Bad @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social CGNU founder, alum, and exiled drop-out
David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Clarion West Instructor 2026. he/him
eric sorenson @ahpook.bsky.social synthesist, live sound engineer and lighting tech, anti-fascist. product manager for oss supply chain security @github.com ... "Descriptive, helpful, and collaborative, with no indications of prohibited content."
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social Oregon Governor. Committed to building a better future for all Oregonians.
https://www.tinafororegon.com/
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social High-level code wizard
Gym rat
Mom
Musician
TTRPG designer
Retired roller derby athlete, now coach
Gamer™
I contain multitudes.
🐘 @tess@mastodon.social
🛼 Royal City Roller Derby
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
mike @mike.puddingtime.org takes pictures. fiddles around.
https://mike.puddingtime.org
https://pix.puddingtime.org
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social Trash Collector / Open Source Advocate
@ Temporal, prev GitHub, Puppet
Portland, OR
👩💻 open source: funding & sustainability
⚒️ archaeology: respectfully exploring your surroundings
🚮 history via trash
🍓 growing fruit
🎲 RPGS and D&D
🖼️ art & ceramics
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org An org with a mission to educate the public about the impact of parking policy on housing, climate, equity, and traffic.
https://linktr.ee/parkingreform
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
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
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/