Mel🌹 @htmmel.bsky.social it/she, Chicago DSA EC, IT girlie
👊🏳️⚧️🔥🪴
rowan ward 🏳️⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social autofloccinaucinihilipilificator. 🚫 Chicago is home. 🌃 ICE can fuck all the way off. 😡 i play trivia. ❓ i boop snoots. 🏇 musclebound soap opera enjoyer. 🤼 denizen of the interstices. 🩷💜💙 your nu-metal trash dream boy, only older. 🏳️⚧️ (they/he)
Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour and New Music Friday host; long-ago A.V. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; dad.
https://www.npr.org/people/5244882/stephen-thompson
Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social Chicago represented in pop culture. Large focus on non-local interpretations of the city. Extended credit included in alt text. No AI.
Rae Loren @aspwriter85.bsky.social Home cook, data engineer, transit geek, Chicagoan, and mom x2
Chrystal O’Keefe @chrystalok.bsky.social Author, baseball writer, podcaster. White Sox and Mets. Will post corgi pics if you ask nicely. Lynchian. She/her.
Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social Here and there.
Progress City @progresscityusa.com Writer of things for theme parks and sundry. Disneyana, futurism, and stray nonsense.
Co-host of the Progress City Radio Hour. 🎶 podcast.progresscityusa.com
Support the show and get extra fun at
patreon.com/progresscityusa
linktr.ee/progresscityusa
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social the honorable one on The Lost Broadcasts, cohost of Get Cynical, words @ Little White Lies / Reverse Shot / rogerebert.com / Men's Health / Vinegar Syndrome, i have met two capybaras in real life
Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social 🦐Unofficially posting frames from the Food Network dub of Iron Chef 🔥 How will the challenger fight back? 🧄 The heat will be on! 🥑
Episode title and frame # are in alt txt
(ran by @dudethatbe.bsky.social)
Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social Politics & government reporter @evanstonnow.bsky.social 📸✍🏼 // @bostonu.bsky.social alum //matthew@evanstonnow.com
Have a tip? I'm on Signal: mattheweadie.02
Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social A project of @gadflypod.bsky.social that tracks fascist bills, explains why they are fascist, and notes which Democrats vote for them. Check out our work at fdt.beehiiv.com
Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social Recovering girlboss. Podcasts about Cowboy Bebop and She-Ra. Cosplayer, poet, bassist. STFU about Chicago. 🩷💛💙(She/her)
Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org Yes Ha Ha Ha Yes… we’re on bluesky!! A Committee made up of depraved College Football Fans!! All our links here!!
https://linktr.ee/sickoscommittee?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=53fc82b0-d684-4959-a049-cf7703037317
Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social she/her
EN,ES,日本語OK
Hardware necromancer.
My literal job title is CPU Architect.
超高校級のシステムプログラマ。
High Priestess arcana.
I invented Let's Plays.
Crest of Maurice haver.
Av: @kariavalon.bsky.social
Sarasota ➡️ Chicago
⚾️: Rays, 🏈: Bucs
SW-2440-4543-7625
Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social Emily
Chicago, IL
she/her
emidly.08 on Signal
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social Eric_Erins on Twitter
Usually I’m out here posting buildings and real estate listings I think are interesting.
Chicago
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social Freelance education writer. Previously Editorial Director, Future Ed at Georgetown. Selected priors: EdPost, The Chicago Reporter. Former high school teacher. Mom. 
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
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
marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social Werner Herzog’s alt, founding member of the Vatican City DSA chapter, The (former) Chairman, 48th Ward Neighbors and Chicago DSA
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.
Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social 
Inside NU @insidenu.bsky.social SB Nation's Northwestern site, with free coverage and analysis of Wildcat sports. Run by Sai Trivedi
https://linkin.bio/insidenu
lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social what is law, really // opinions are my own // he/him
chicago, law, politics, games, beer, etc
H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
Subscribe: https://chicago312.beehiiv.com/
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social Host of all podcasts. Independent Muckraker. Hollywood’s Ultimate Insider.
The post is probably a joke.
Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social Your Illinois news radar https://capitolfax.com/
Air Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social professional dad. sometimes artist. baltimore.
https://airbudddwyer-shop.fourthwall.com/
madopal @madopal.bsky.social Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Midway, et al), cat lover, data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox, Gen X, music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
📍 ✶✶✶✶
🔗 subism.com/links
Gene “GD” Demby @geedee215.bsky.social co-host, Code Switch at @npr.org. South Philly forever; Tottenham 'til they kill me. 
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social 
@yeaboomerang.bsky.social @yeaboomerang.bsky.social Plausible girl, lover of Pokemon, fantasy, and puns. she/her
@ksudzz.bsky.social @ksudzz.bsky.social 
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
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/
Logical Frank @logicalfrank.com Richard J. Daley Branch enthusiast and general issue Chicago person. I throw yoyos, homebrew and get angry about bike lanes. He/him.
Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social co-host Citations Needed podcast.
order my new book ‘How to Sell a Genocide’ here https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide or https://a.co/d/0hl4hmFi
columnblog.com
SUE the T. rex 🦖 @suethetrex.bsky.social That’s Specimen FMNH PR 2081 to you. they/them
Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social I write a newsletter about sports! It's called Sports! Link in pinned post
Claire McNear @clairemcnear.bsky.social culture writer | wrote a book about Jeopardy! | geist that could've been polter along with zeit
Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
Charles Preston @charlespreston.bsky.social Chicago.
Ann Selzer Memorial Account @napervillepol.bsky.social Guy interested in politics. Also a GIS enthusiast!
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com EIC, @thetriibe.com
2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow
Blank Check with Griffin & David @blankcheck.bsky.social Sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes they bounce, baby! Your favorite movie podcast's favorite movie podcast, hosted by Griffin Newman and David Sims.
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.
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social An avid pedestrian in Chicago.
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Account of the Defunctland YouTube Series. Posts by Kevin Perjurer.
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
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/
Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social Agenda-driven malcontent and grown-up version of Lisa Simpson || Chicago
EHG Assist @assist.extrahotgreat.com Follow if you want to help EHG fill out Game Time questions and other stuff too.
Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social "Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood.
Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related. Georgia raised via UGA & SSI.
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
jam @socialistboat.dad I'm the socialist boat dad
Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social PARODY. All of the popular films and series not coming to Disney+ or anywhere else. Intern @straycunt.bsky.social tweets signed as KH.
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo Just another dipshit from Chicago. Bits and jokes and jokes and bits. Photos, sometimes acting, mostly nonsense.
Banner image thanks to @chgohoods.bsky.social
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com The greatest autism info you will ever find, from autistic people, professionals, and parents. www.ThinkingAutism.com & buttondown.com/TPGA. Pro-neurodiversity. Even more TPGA community discussions on IG and FB.
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social ceramicist in new york https://linktr.ee/yondermen
Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social Writer/editor, opera singer/voice artist, mom/mama. Editing @mikepod.bsky.social at weekendreading.net. Former: Staff writer at Vox and Rewire, senior editor at The American Independent, others.
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social just an idiot
✶✶✶✶
he/him
Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social Beers, bikes & bong rips.
Chicago homer to a fault. (he/him)
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer NO HOMEWORK PODCAST - @nohomework.website // http://veryimportant.lawyer // http://bigsleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/tonal-rotors
And we tried so hard. And we looked so good
cyrus @professorbutts.com area man - have you ever been like woah yeah man that’s what i’m talkin about? that’s what i’m talkin about
he/him - cincinnati forever
signal: professor_butts.99
BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social i'm the byctom guy
http://bringyourchampionstheyreourmeat.blogspot.com/
Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity.
store:
https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
Headshot: Varvara Mikushkina
Cover photo: Brian Cassella
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Righteous Cowboy Lightning @rcowboylightning.bsky.social Utah Utes, Chicago Bears, the American West, sometimes a stray Shakespeare take.
DSA (((Spreadsheet Campaign))) Caucus, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social causing problems on purpose across micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. probably eating a banh mi somewhere in chicago. The Fernando Mendoza of @chicagodsa.bsky.social
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.
austin @bainard.bsky.social jorts authority. head dude at @beermiscuous.bsky.social in Chicago. Free Palestine.
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times