Observing The City @observingthecity.ca Observations from around the city (in most cases, Toronto)
School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social A hub for city research, education and engagement/outreach at U of T. Stay tuned for new #SofC initiatives at http://linktr.ee/uoftcities
Marcy Sutton Todd @marcysutton.com Senior engineer frontend infrastructure at @KhanAcademy.org, accessibility advocate, cyclist, hiker, wife, mom 💚 Bellingham, WA
Morgan @morganwebdev.bsky.social For summer taking a bit of a break, but still checking this weekly is the plan
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social The Regional Seismic Network for Washington and Oregon. We operate almost 700 seismic stations and are the authoritative source for information about earthquakes in both states.
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
The Washington Bus @washingtonbus.org The political organization of young people, by young people, for all people in Washington State. http://registerinwa.org ✨ http://linktr.ee/washingtonbus
DESI Survey @desisurvey.bsky.social The DESI Survey will measure the properties of Dark Energy using a survey of 30+ million galaxy redshifts.
Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social Artist and head of R&D at Rare Volume
https://linktr.ee/roberthodgin
🏳️🌈
SideFX Houdini @sidefx.bsky.social 
REI Union @reiunion.bsky.social We are the REI Union, a group of union workers organizing to build a better Co-op for our fellow green vests and members!
https://reiuniongear.org/
https://linktr.ee/reiunion
Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social Cities are life! I've written in the Globe and elsewhere about urban issues, politics, housing for 30 years. Mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market. Now aiming to run for Van city council with OneCity francesbulaforcouncil.ca
Jax Jacobsen @jaxjacobsen.bsky.social Freelance science features journalist covering mining, earth sciences, and oceans | Content strategist for Science & Tech co's | Cyclist | Green urbanist | NYC-born, heart in UK/France, feet in Montreal | je parle français | www.jaxjacobsen.com
Al Vanderklipp @alvanderklipp.bsky.social Researcher, Democracy + Elections @sightline.org; eBay apologist + diner regular on my own time 🥞☕ (Personal account! Views are my own.)
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
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
Stephie @geohistnut.bsky.social Nuts about geology and history, the arts and the natural world especially animals. 💙
No pornography, nor do I wish to date anyone. I believe cryptocurrencies are a con and an abhorrence to the environment.
Please no DMs.
Opinions are my own.
The Lubber's Hole @lubbershole.bsky.social Welcome to the Bluesky account for The Lubber's Hole - A Patrick O'Brian podcast. Follow us for chat about the Aubrey Maturin novels and adjacent topics. There's not a moment to lose!
Kiro @kiro.dev Agentic AI development from prototype to production. Kiro helps you do your best work by bringing structure to AI coding with spec-driven development.
Airwars @airwars.bsky.social The civilian harm watchdog.
We also run the Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social
Donate: http://airwars.org/about/donate
Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social Bay Area transit organizer. Trainer of activists, author of "If you want to win, you've got to fight: a guide to effective transportation advocacy" https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781642833737/if-you-want-to-win-youve-got-to-fight
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/
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
Dave on VanPoli and other stuff 🤨😤🧐😳 @vanpolimorphus.bsky.social Commenting on politics and other issues, primarily related to Vancouver, but it's all connected, so I stray. 
Maptime HQ @maptime.bsky.social #Maptime is global, decentralized community of local chapters that provide hands-on, beginner-focused workshops for learning about maps and geospatial technology.
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Infrastructure Club @infraclub.bsky.social We are Infrastructure Club and we are here to send you tweets about cranes and stuff.
Join our slack community!
🌎 https://infrastructureclub.org
🐘 https://chaos.social/@infraclub
🐤 https://twitter.com/infraclub
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
MapTiler @maptiler.bsky.social 🗺️ Maps for developers: Visual tools, global data, SDK & APIs for web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
Whole Washington 🍎for Universal Healthcare @wholewashington.bsky.social #Universalhealthcare for Washington State! 🍎📝🩺 grassroots, people-powered org and campaign. Spread the word / Volunteer / Donate 👇
linktr.ee/wholewashington
FairVote Washington @fairvotewa.bsky.social We’re a non-partisan, grassroots organization fighting for ranked-choice voting in Washington State!
Stephanie Houghton @womanoffield.bsky.social Serious about reform, not myself.
Talking turnout, election incentives, and representation.
Connecting ideas to impact - one post at a time - your thoughts welcome!
Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now. lifeaftercars.com
Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social Leader of the @bcgreens.bsky.social ⚡
Fight The Oligarchs, Fund Our Future
https://linktr.ee/emilylowan
National Voter Registration Day @natlvoterregday.bsky.social The nation's largest civic holiday dedicated to getting America #VoteReady for its next trip to the polls!
Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social Loving open source software, practicing the piano, moving things around, working @crunchydata.com
More at https://blog.cleverelephant.ca
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
The Pop vs Soda Page @popvssoda.com https://popvssoda.com/
The Pop vs Soda Page is a web-based project to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms "Pop" and "Soda" to describe carbonated soft drinks.
Created by @mappingmashups.net
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. 🏗️🏙️🌲🚲🦫
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Geoffrey the Navigator @follow-the-map.bsky.social My travel adventures and photos. Based in the PNW. For 17 years I taught Continuing Education courses in Scottish Gaelic language, history of Scotland and Ireland, and travel to Scotland and Ireland.
Certified Tourism Ambassador through Visit Seattle.
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
Our site: http://the-downballot.com/
amb @amb.fyi how can we stroppy strangers live together without doing each other too much violence? | homes not highways | born 350ppm | still got hope so i think we’ll be fine in these disastrous times | he/they | www.amb.fyi
📍stj, pdx, or
Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social Ancienne Maire de Paris
Cascadia Journal @cascadiajournal.bsky.social An opinionated email newsletter about politics, the environment and culture across the #Cascadia bioregion, Written by @andyengelson.bsky.social.
Sign up for the free newsletter here: https://cascadia-journal.ghost.io/
Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social Writer. Organizer with @cascadiademocratic.bsky.social
Resident of Seattle and Cascadia 💙🤍💚 ️🌈 He/They
Sign up for my daily newsletter!
https://www.cascadia-journal.com/
@cascadiajournal.bsky.social
Message me on Signal @andyjourno.55
Protomaps @protomaps.com The world in a file. Open source!
more: https://protomaps.com
GitHub: https://github.com/protomaps
posts by @bdon.org
Jonathan Lurie @jonathanlurie.bsky.social Software eng. maps 🗺️ + geospatial 🌍 + computer graphics🔺 + weather science enthusiast
🚴📷🏔️🧀🇫🇷🇨🇭
FairVote @fairvote.bsky.social Nonpartisan organization seeking better elections. We advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative.
Fair Fight Action @fairfightaction.bsky.social Fighting for free and fair elections — in Georgia and around the nation. A joint account of Fair Fight and Fair Fight Action. FairFight.com
Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social the closer we are physically, the closer we are socially.
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com Panther Cub. Political writer and organizer rooted in the Black radical, Pan-Africanist, and socialist traditions. Plant-based.
RoseCityReform.bsky.social @rosecityreform.bsky.social How do you reform a city? Let us count the ways! We analyze and cover Portland's historic reform effort. Nonprofit. Nonpartisan. No endorsements. 
Run for Something @runforsomething.net We recruit & support young leaders running for state + local office in all 50 states + D.C. in order to build long-term sustainable power.
If you want to run for office, we're here to help you.
runforsomething.net
Grist @grist.org We're a nonprofit news org dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Get our journalism in your inbox: https://grist.org/subscribe/
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
By @joesondow.bsky.social
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Wash Out Washington @washoutwashington.bsky.social Hi, I'm Sequoia (9 yo, they/them) and I want to Wash Out Washington off our flag and change the State name! We deserve better.
Send me your flag ideas! Tell me why you think he should go! #WashOutWashington
bigrockbigriver.com/wash-out-wa
Paul Stamets @paulstamets.bsky.social Mycologist, Author, Inventor, Teacher, Earthling
Discover my biography here: http://bit.ly/47a6pA9
New Media Mentors @newmediamentors.bsky.social We change organizations so they can change the world. A hands-on online learning program that trains nonprofits & unions in digital and narrative strategy. https://www.newmediamentors.org/
Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social Sharing the Japanese American experience. Look for programs near you at janm.org/OnTheGo
VersaTiles @versatiles.bsky.social free and easy maps for everyone
Web: https://versatiles.org/
GitHub: https://github.com/versatiles-org
Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social Renter; bike and transit rider
Construction project manager
Posts about safe street design and transit projects
Berkeley, CA
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Amtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov Go find your happy! We'll drive. Enjoy spectacular scenery, fresh foods + local beer, wine & spirits. Free Wi-Fi. Amtrak Cascades is the best way to explore the PNW. 18 cities served. Thank you for riding! Page monitored M-F 8am-4pm.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/subscribe
wrote a book by the same name wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polling averages at @fiftyplusone.news
formerly @ 538 & The Economist. email, don't DM, me
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social climate adaptive social housing developer
architect for car-light climate forward cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
Portland Streetcar History @pdx-streetcars.bsky.social A companion account for the "Portland Streetcar History" research wiki curated by Cameron Booth, established February 2024. Lots of photos, maps, remnants, and research musings.
Visit the wiki at: https://tinyurl.com/pdx-streetcars
TrailStash (Daniel Schep) @trailsta.sh Maps and Mappy Software by @dschep.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
✨ All Projects - https://trailstash.net
🔍 Ultra - https://overpass-ultra.us
🗺️ OpenTrailStash - https://open.trailsta.sh
🔀 MapSwap - https://mapswap.trailsta.sh
Nox @noxmobility.bsky.social Get your own room on a train - coming 2027 🚆
Discover our rooms, schedules and network on our website!
Join the Early Bird Club for perks 👀 👇
www.noxmobility.com
Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org Bringing together transit riders, environmentalists, and union members for fast, clean, safe catenary electric regional, intercity, and freight rail in California. #CatenaryNow #ElectrifyMetrolink
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
photoJDL @photojdl.bsky.social Visual Content Manager @WoodlandParkZoo. Mechanical ornithologist, C-list aviation personality and freelance content producer.
un Américain perdu à Paris @paris75009.bsky.social "an American lost in Paris"
Wandering Paris to discover art, architecture, transportation, & lifestyle.
Fighting Illini, Colonial, Teufelshunde
Markus Johnson @markusja.bsky.social Abundant housing, abundant transit, & abundant bike lanes in our cities occupies a lot of my thinking. I'm sure other pieces of my personality will peek through over time.
Consider reading: https://medium.com/@markusjohnson2195
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.
Anna Fahey @trufahey.bsky.social Thinktanking on housing + democracy + clean energy
Opinions—all mine. Or yours, recycled—as also mine. Zero endorsements here.
#Housing #affordability talking points galore
🏘️🎯➡️ https://www.sightline.org/the-pro-homes-messaging-toolkit/
#Parking feed ⬇️
@savesalishsea.bsky.social @savesalishsea.bsky.social 
RCV123.org - Ranked Choice Voting @rcv123.org Free non-profit site for running your own ranked choice voting elections. RCV123.org
Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social Your City is a grassroots progressive org in Seattle. 🏔️🌲🌧️ #thisisyourcity
https://www.yourcityseattle.org
Sharmila Kuthunur @skuthunur.bsky.social Space journalist. ✍️ in Scientific American, Astronomy Magazine, Science, Space.com, Payload Space + more. Signal @SharmilaKuthunur.01 | sharmilak@proton.me
Carl Anderson @leapingllamas.bsky.social Data science, NYC/Jersey City
Web: carlanderson.ai
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account.
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Martin Fleischmann @martinfleischmann.net Researcher. Cities, urban morphology, human geography & spatial data science. Open source software developer. #python #cities #open_science
https://martinfleischmann.net
Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social Data visualization designer & data scientist
Co-founder of Jetpack.AI
Nick Brown @nickbrownnow.bsky.social Attorney, Advisor, Adventurer. Attorney General-Elect of Washington State
WorldPop Project @worldpop-uos.bsky.social Open demographic data for decision making
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
Data: http://worldpop.org/datacatalog/
News: http://worldpop.org/news/
Applications: http://apps.worldpop.org
Josephine Dorado @jodorado.bsky.social Immersive Learning Pioneer | XR & AI Champion | Fulbright Scholar | WHO Alum | #OpenMetaverse
Lat × Long @latlong.blog A weblog exploring and documenting geospatial technology, data and standards on the Web. Edited by Oliver Roick in Melbourne, Australia. https://latlong.blog
OpenHistoricalMap @openhistoricalmap.org Explore the world throughout time, mapped in minute detail by people like you & dedicated to the public domain. OHM is a charter project of @osmus.bsky.social and cousin of @openstreetmap.bsky.social. #oldmaps #dh #hgis
https://www.openhistoricalmap.org