Joshua Mellin @joshuamellin.bsky.social Writer / Photographer | Published @cnn.com, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc. | Covering #travel #music #art #sports | http://instagram.com/joshuamellin joshuamellin.com
HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
Sound School Podcast @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social The bi-weekly podcast with the backstory to great audio storytelling from @prx.org and @transom.bsky.social. Produced by @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social. https://transom.org/topics/soundschool/
Delgado Y Los Conejos De Amor @conejosdeamor.bsky.social Purveyors of Dark Desert Swoon.
https://linktr.ee/Delgadoylosconejosdeamor
Aran Ruth @aranruthmusic.bsky.social Musician, Artist, Romanticist/19th Centuryist.
Wiccans, Infinity People, Outrageous Cherry, &tc.
PhD University of Michigan 2018
Krista D Ball is Canada's Trade War Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
Jen Sabella @jensabella.bsky.social Block Club Chicago Co-founder + Executive Editor
Ex: DNAinfo, HuffPost, Sun-Times
Lesbian Cat Lady, Chicago Lifer
blockclubchicago.org
LNL @linserella.bsky.social 
Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Out next: HÉLIO OITICICA: PUBLIC WRITINGS. Out before: more.
Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Reductress @reductress.bsky.social The first and only satirical women's magazine. Constantly moving to a new social platform.
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
ekko astral @ekkoastral.bsky.social 2021-2026
contact: ekkoastraldc@gmail.com
Sarah Gardiner @good-one-gardiner.bsky.social Just a pottery pal.
Archival Workers' Collective @archivworkcoll.bsky.social Formerly Archival Workers Emergency Fund that began as a mutual aid fund created in response to the #covid19 #coronavirus pandemic. We study archives labor issues & support archival workers via programming, advocacy, & solidarity.
@ypsijav.bsky.social @ypsijav.bsky.social 
Ag @endlessshrimpp.bsky.social 
audrey @trubble.bsky.social ⛸️ | 🎸 1/5 of loose koozies
zak f @welikeroy.bsky.social 
k boyer @tyvekx.bsky.social Kevin of Tyvek
@ufo-factory.bsky.social @ufo-factory.bsky.social 
@shelleyginkgo.bsky.social @shelleyginkgo.bsky.social 
RC @selfishagenda.com Everyone knows I'm New Wave.
Designer, Art & Technology Educator (CCS/MCAD/MSU), CCS CD/NYU IMA Low Res grad, and small label guy who puts out a record or two every few years.
Ann Arbor/Detroit USA
https://ryancady.design
amanzalot @amanzalot.bsky.social Same as it ever was.
a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social she/her - 🌾🏳️🌈🌾
Plant Toucher
@urndavis.bsky.social @urndavis.bsky.social howdy doo
@lukepeople.bsky.social @lukepeople.bsky.social 
Kathy Kosinski @kathdawg.bsky.social 
Chloe (she/her) @cmisorski.bsky.social cataloging librarian, ILS wrangler, professional hater 🌈
Casey Rae @caseyrae.bsky.social dad, Buddhist/interfaith chaplain, author, teacher, musician
shorturl.at/ntCR9
http://casey-rae.com
Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work.
Read: https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/
Submit: https://anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit
@thepalaceat4am.bsky.social @thepalaceat4am.bsky.social 
Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall thecarryall.org
Cultural criticism, culturerover.net
The Republic of Rock (OUP, 2013), republicofrock.net
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net
Union, uupinfo.org
More, michaeljkramer.net
Fretful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social Lost to almost everything but a vague sense of jam and idleness.
Funkytreetown @funkytreetown.bsky.social 
7 Cylinders Studio @7cylinders.bsky.social We create videos that move people
Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social 🌈 Creative Development Director at Barefoot Books 👣
📍Arby's on McKnight Road
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Tavi Veraldi @trappy.bsky.social Illustrator, Photographer, William Castle enthusiast. Film Studies, baby. taviveraldi.com
@emilylinn.bsky.social @emilylinn.bsky.social 
Arlan Hellison (famous) @thehell.zone celebrity. connoisseur of violent trash. hell zone cavalier. http://thehell.zone
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social Next round's on me
Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social In 1994 I bought a Corel Gallery CD-ROM with 10,000 clipart images. Thirty years later those images haunt this ghost story bot. Posts autodelete.
Credits: clipart from Corel; conversion, curation, code, and alt text by @samplereality.bsky.social
Holly Croft @hollycroft.bsky.social Archivist. Owned by a dog and some cats. I work for a public institution in Georgia, but I also make wreaths in my spare time. Good trouble (usually).
She/her.
z. @zanadu.bsky.social Librarianed so hard I got a reading injury, still read more than you. I don't believe in the sun. Minneapolis (or not).
Allergic omnidirectional nerdling- music, books, tech, words, food, weird geeky random, thee cat. She/her.
Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social "the Pepsi of Austrian writing." do not be weird at me online. buy bumper stickers, from me, at https://mplwdnoveltycistern.etsy.com/
Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social Currently: Senior TV editor, The A.V. Club
Previously: Sundance, IGN, IndieWire
Eternally: Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater
erikmadams.com / erikadamswrites@gmail.com
bijan @bijan.bsky.social
writer. music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social, making @dearannagame.bsky.social | prev. @compulsiongames.bsky.social @valvesoftware.com
got writing work? inquire within:
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Jason Kosnoski @jasonkosnoski.bsky.social Professor of Pol. Sci. UMich-Flint. Political Theory and Labor Studies. AFT 5671 member. Author "The Political Theory of Salvage" https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Political-Theory-of-Salvage. Opinions solely my own and do not reflect my institution.
Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social Accountability Architect💡
Artisanal Database Maker🔎 🧾
Storyteller/Writer/Producer🎙️✍️🎥
Avenger, Academic, Lawyer🗳️
Redistributive Justice ⚖️
Choice Optimizer🤖
Researcher & OG Prompt Engineer🧌
Whistleblower🚨
Human Palantir🔮
https://linktr.ee/realdearsarah
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social Chicago
Tobi @lxrosen.bsky.social Rabble rouser on occasion 
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Muñeca, my queer gothic historical fiction novel, out now: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211/muneca-by-cynthia-gomez/
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. Rep @LaurenBajek.
cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com
Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social Probably down a research rabbit hole.
📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (W. W. Norton).
🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net
He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online Appalachian in Queens • Writer, editor, union member • My cathedral is built for a god to see so even secret places have ornament • They
sarah @oo0oo.bsky.social photographer / chicago / sarah@glitterguts 
Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social Social Justice Worrier
Personal account; tweets are not representative of any employer (but are often nerdy about Chicago and/or local government)
It’s pronounced “Blewski”
He/him
Jesse Dukes @curiousdukes.bsky.social Editor + Producer of Podcasts. Songwriter. Comedian. Writer. Surf + Garden. Upper Middlebrow.
Currently reading: Cats Cradle, Vonnegut
Recently completed: Ripley's Game, Highsmith
Jessedukes.com
uppermiddlebrow.com
Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social Librarian, Liaison Program Lead & Qualitative Research Specialist. LIS adjunct faculty. Library liaison programs, info lit instruction, higher education policy studies, valuation of library labor, qualitative methods.
🌱🐈⬛🚲☕️
https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social Recording engineer who plays poker and billiards and eats like a Viking
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social Professional obsessive.
BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc
COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory
https://linktr.ee/black_neon
Jhumpa Bhattacharya @jhumpa.bsky.social Bengali Badass. Centering Black women for economic justice. Co-pres for Maven Collaborative. 
Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social Please be funny or a cat.
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Catbus @catbus.phd Your old pal, Catbus from Online
shitposts, shoegaze, cinema
ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢᵗᵘᶠᶠ
the Zone demands respect
or it will punish you
The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social Author, blogger, proprietress of Nowhere Bookshop, loose cannon. 
Alix @alixrae.bsky.social Digital scholarship, libraries, horse girl, baseball enjoyer
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social I believe in people and I like to make things together.
Writing a book about how that turned out.
mikkihalpin.com
@lbrvn.bsky.social @lbrvn.bsky.social 
Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social Writer.
John Parker @johnparkerwrites.bsky.social Posting here about the cosmos, MCOC, gay films, cats, and baking fails. Host of @thegailyshow.org and @thisqueerbook.com. Founder of the Queer Armenian Library. GLAAD Media Award nominee. Lambda Literary Fellow.
Janelle M Joestár ⭐💋 @beatrixkiddo.bsky.social Librarian watching dystopia unfold in real time. I'm the cowgirl who ain't never been caught (she/they)
Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social Archivist/Academic Librarian. Coordinator of Public Services & Outreach. Special Collections Research Center. Temple University. Stanford & UMSI alum
Dr. Don S Dizon @drdonsdizon.bsky.social Father and Husband, Oncologist, Editor, Writer, Academician, Humanist
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
Reblogga @reblogga.bsky.social Former Librarian, Forklift operator, small business, grown in PA, keeper of Macy the tabby, Henry & Vincent #Cats #UglyDogs #nailpolish #insomnia #migraines #enchiladas
FairestGifts.myshopify.com #fairestgifts
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social Aspiring touching grass and lying flat influencer