The Catburgers @thecatburgers.bandcamp.com 
Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Sharing info on COVID since the start of the pandemic.
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
🚴♂️ strava.com/athletes/106905687
📸 instagram.com/bikeseattle
📚 blog.jcole.us
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social One regional transit system. NITA sets fares, standards, and schedules across CTA, Metra, and Pace. Formerly the RTA.
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social 🌹 Comics by Elizabeth Pich & Jonathan Kunz 🌹
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas
All Links: https://warandpeas.start.page
Shop: https://warandpeas.com/shop/
Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social Just sharing pics of anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian and anti-colonial graffiti, stickers and street art seen around the world.
https://linktr.ee/Radicalgraffiti
Calgary Brompton League @bromptonleague.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood Calgary Brompton Club.
Licensed to fold.
Matt Sheridan @mattsheridan.bsky.social Married to Iron Circus Comics. Tabletop RPG guy. Always busy.
https://groovepit.neocities.org/
Matt Shearer @reportermatt.bsky.social Reporter for WBZ NewsRadio
Open Produce @openproduce.org 55th & Cornell
Open 8am - 12am every day
Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social Chicago represented in pop culture. Large focus on non-local interpretations of the city. No AI.
Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
Chicago Board of Ethics @chicagoethicsbd.bsky.social Since 1986, we've administered, interpreted + enforced Chicago's Governmental Ethics Ordinance--we advise, educate, regulate, enforce + adjudicate. 312-744-9660. www.chicago.gov/Ethics
Reema Saleh ✨ @reemasabrina.bsky.social journo, producer & comms whiz kid. she/her ✨ www.reemasaleh.com
💼 @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social
🖋️ @chicagoreader.com @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and elsewhere
📚 policy trained at uchicago
Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social Earth - Animal - Plant - Insect & Art 🎶 Lover & Defender
(still a bit uncertain about the people… )
🦋☮️🐾
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
lookcaitlin @lookcaitlin.bsky.social images from 1977 to 1997 from archive dot org
http://lookcaitlin.tumblr.com/archive
lookcaitlin@gmail.com
https://archive.org/donate
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83.com ‘Innocent Runaway’ out now! 🧸 | 80s Retro Synthwave Artist 🎹 | Creator of #blinkwave 🛹 | management@dreamkid83.com | https://linktr.ee/dreamkid83
Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social
📍60625
Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social Chicago
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me Chicago is home ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
[ cities are for people ]
Jack ☁️ @bubblycreek.bsky.social Amateur Chicagrapher
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Allison Darrahill @panicbowl.bsky.social Pay attention to local politics. Certified KC enjoyer, now in Chicago.
Leader at neuchicago.org
Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online She/Its | 27 | AuDHD+
Aceflux Trans Hacker, Maker, and Software engineer
I like planes
Chicago's two-tone cryptid
I bully cops 🇵🇸
Check out my shop! linktr.ee/juni_is_gay
Banned cause likes are public
Minors dni 🔞
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
Rose-Ann @athena42.bsky.social Licensed volunteer bat wrangler and rehabber with Bat Rescue Berkshire, Lancs CCC supporter living in Reading, traveller
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker @officehourslive.bsky.social Office Hours Live is a call-in show with @timheidecker.bsky.social, @vicbergeriv.bsky.social and DJ Douggpound (aka the holy trinity).
State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social Marie Ceselski: Ret public records archivist, embarrassed fmr Dem Cmte woman, dreaming of STL secession for statehood or becoming IL county. Gardening, nature, politics, history nerd. Traveling The Americas in land yacht https://greatstateofstlouis.com/
Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) Blocking doomerism on sight.
blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
sanrio daily @sanrio-daily.bsky.social your daily dose of sanrio! 5 apples tall (bc apparently that matters) sanriodaily on twitter 🫶🏻
Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social Two guys, lotsa songs, and a cruise (http://jococruise.com). 3 seasons of "MST3k", plus Despicable Me 2 (long story). P=Paul, S=Storm in posts. Both he/him.
Mess Media @messmedia.bsky.social Joe Hendry - Chronicling media issues and stories related to bike messengers
Grouchomancer @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
Plz be patient with me @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org Working in game dev professionally since the 1990s, largely on MMO servers. Video games, cat pictures, hockey. Too many previous games to list. Started making games professionally with Ultima IX. Game dev merc for hire.
he/him
Scott @skh80.bsky.social “I like getting older. I feel like I’m finally aging into my personality.” - Nick Miller
Chicago
Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social MS-DOS gaming enthusiast, YouTuber, admirer of cats, RU in NY.
Ask me about DOS games! Tell me your DOS game memories!
I repost and swear a lot.
(He/Him)
YouTube: youtube.com/dosnostalgic
Web: dosnostalgia.com
Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com party game designer/shitpost historian/writer/gaming himbo/MBMBaM heely guy/your maybe future 78th favorite pro wrestler. He/Him SamGreszes@mstdn.social @samgreszes on hive and twitter
discord: robotsfightingdinosaurs
Chris P @chrispummer.bsky.social Husband, dad. | he/him | White Sox ⚾️, Blackhawks 🏒 fan | Secular humanist | General enthusiast | Model citizen, zero discipline.
The Bluesmobile @bluesmobile.bsky.social Cap motor, cap tires, cap suspension, cap shocks. Hates Illinois Nazis.
Don’t try to argue with me. I am a CAR for chrissakes, and my 8-track/onboard SCMOD computer is state-of-the-art in 1980.
#TeamLiamNissanTM
🎉 erin ⁉️ @interrobang.bsky.social a constellation of enthusiasms in the shape of a midlife dirtbag. for all trans rights and some trans wrongs. she/her/y’all. chicago over everything 5ever ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ https://tadaemoji.com
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Chicago 🏳️⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social Internally displaced southern queer refugee. All my homies hate landlords, car dependency, and exclusionary housing policy.
Housing policy is community, environmental policy, transit policy, and (anti-) segregation policy
Sarah Smith @sarahbuckleysmith.bsky.social 
Jeff Agrest @jeffagrest.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times deputy sports editor/night editor/media columnist
chicago.suntimes.com/sports
YouTube: https://trib.al/TNpHnRr
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social Famous writer. Well, maybe not exactly famous. Famous with the right people. Was married to the great Jill. Has a really nice dog.
Jake Berman @lostsubways.com Lawyer, historian, mapmaker. Transport + housing nerd. Californian living in New York.
Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning @ Columbia. Wrote and illustrated "The Lost Subways of North America". Order the book at: http://lostsubways.com
Andrew Montequin @amontequin.bsky.social Journalist, former biologist, Texan living in the Midwest.
Current Minow Fellow at WTTW/Chicago Tonight
Former AAAS Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He/him
kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social I teach at a community college. I am a caretaker of elderly parents. Writer (in progress).
Rooting for funniest possible baseball outcomes
Baseball. Chaos
Fucking cornball
She/her
David Wain @davidwain.bsky.social 
Back-in-MI-Train @mackletrain.bsky.social Shitposter from Twitter known as Mackletrain (Mike). Red Wings, Detroit and general sprots fan. D&D nerd. Progressive. Mostly insufferable
Donald @rabbitoh.bsky.social Chicagoan, Hollander, dog dad, husband, teacher, grant writer, and mutual-aid doer. Hyphen enthusiast.
Sandra @lilysch.bsky.social Biochemist. Former Science Editor. Working on a degree in Political Science. „Ein Leben ohne Mops ist möglich aber sinnlos.“ 🐾 Currently in Michigan. She/her. Anti-fascist.
Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social 
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app ✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers (1981-2026) • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
Governor McCheese @bathysphered.bsky.social Gay Gen-X guy living in Chicago. Democrat and Harris Progressive. I wanted to be a Muppeteer. In no one’s starter pack. AI is theft. Anti-nazi, especially those pretending to be Democrats. DEVO was right.
REPUBLICANS COULD STOP THIS AT ANY TIME
Captain Rick @windycitysalmon.bsky.social Salmon & trout fishing charters on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
Info/bio: Windycitysalmon.com
Former finance
#salmon
#trout
#fishing
#greatlakes
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social voice actor | represented by CAA | prozdkp@gmail.com
Matt Finch @themattfinch.bsky.social Southerner now living in Chicago
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Library Bear 📚 @adklibrarybear.bsky.social Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her.
Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
Sox Populi @soxpopuli.bsky.social Writers producing great work and podcasts you're sure to enjoy. We champion the voices too often overlooked. Feel free to read us (www.SouthSideSox.com) and support us (https://www.patreon.com/SoxPopuli/membership).
Joel @jtmac1709930.bsky.social Car-free on Chicago’s Northwest side. Biking, botanizing, birding, and transit.
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Jen Burns @jenburns.bsky.social Thoughts from hometown Chicago. Fan of active transportation, live music and vinyl. Guilty pleasures include motorcycling and watching F1.
katie @palindromese.bsky.social Michigan-raised, Chicago-claimed, Ope-filled
public health digital comms
my (mostly silly) opinions are my own
Railfan & Railroad Magazine @railfanandrailroad.bsky.social Railfan & Railroad Magazine is your one-stop-shop for news and information about the hobby and industry. Taking you trackside since 1974!
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
DVD Menus @dvdmenus.bsky.social All menu capture, photos, and words by me (Ryan). He / him.
Yasmina Ketita @yasminavhs.bsky.social The Rewind Zone @ruemorguemag.bsky.social
Contributor at @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social @cipictures.bsky.social @arrowvideo.bsky.social
More words at https://yasmina-ketita.ghost.io/
Programmer at Paradise Toronto | She/Her
📼 https://linktr.ee/YasminaK
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
💡 Helping you make informed health decisions
🎓 MPH, PhD
👇🏻 Get weekly science-backed updates
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social Walkable cities, bikes, AI (not that kind), trains, etc. PhD student doing machine learning for robots.
Chicago via Indianapolis via The Corn
Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social quasar gazer | science & education policy wonk | prof. of physics & astronomy at a public liberal arts college | Illinoisan
Nick Kindelsperger @nkindelsperger.bsky.social Food, beer, and guitars
InsideEVs @insideevs.com Leading the charge since 2012. The world’s top authority on electric vehicles, new car technology and the future of how we’ll get around.
www.insideevs.com
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
Challengers Comics @challengers.bsky.social Chicago/Bucktown 📚 Striving to prove the best thing about being in a comic shop, is being in a comic shop! ✏️ And if you can't come in, shop online: http://challengerscomics.com 👔 WIth your dapper hosts, Patrick and W. Dal!
Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker
Board games: https://hollandspiele.com
video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland
sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
@brigidmania.bsky.social @brigidmania.bsky.social 
Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social Past: Comedy Central, The Onion
Future: Dead
📍Michigan
He/him