Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
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? ✶✶✶✶
David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall.bsky.social Chicago and movies, one tour at a time: chicagomovietours.com. Ph.D. Transplant from Louisiana. Hardcore Gene Kelly fan.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social Spin 'em if ya got 'em
Singer, Songwriter, Guitar slinger
Random Soundcheck song posted daily https://www.myrecordplayer.com/
Buy My 1985 World Series Book! @marshall8507.bsky.social Writer and author of the acclaimed 1985 World Series book, “Interstate ‘85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series.” Buy it now! 👇
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/interstate-85-marshall-garvey/1146352383?ean=9780826223272
Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3).
https://linktr.ee/RayPadgett
Denise Ruttan @teawhilewriting.bsky.social Avid reader, concertgoer who's a legal assistant by day. Photographer. Vinyl enthusiast, cinephile. Sci-fi nerd. Knitter, sewist. Queer. She/they.
https://teawhilewriting.carrd.co
Tom Compton @tomcomptonmusic.bsky.social Host of 'Pursuing the Muse' songwriting podcast. Chicago area singer-songwriter, philanthropist. Heir to the throne left vacant by the passing of Abe Vigoda
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social Queer country music nerd and journalist, printmaking, Mets convert, yr butch aunt. Editor of www.rainbowrodeomag.com
Send me music!
https://linktr.ee/rachel.cholst
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
MJ @grooves.bsky.social Vinyl nonsense
https://youtube.com/@bongolia
Formerly @vinyldigs on Twitter
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
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social Daily newsletter/column, Today in Culture, free sub @ Newcity.com. Film critic. Photographer. Editor. raypride.substack.com; [my name] everywhere / weekly film column newcityfilm.com
Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social Mirror of https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973
Engineer. Selecting and curating pictures and videos trying to awaken your sense of wonder. Science, tech, art, weather, space, the unusual around us.
If you own the original, DM
linktr.ee/Rainmaker1973
The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Kathryne @kathrynesings.bsky.social Academic affairs + rock & roll. No, seriously.
She/Her
Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun “see hyphen saw dot fun,” he/they
punk + rock’n’roll newsletter: https://see-saw.fun/
🎙️ punk this week: https://see-saw.fun/tag/podcast/
🎙️ see/saw radio: https://see-saw.fun/see-saw-radio/
✍️ rolling stone, p4k, hearing things, nyt, npr, creem
Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social Film, music and book reviews. Proudly based in Portland, OR!
www.spectrumculture.com
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him. Linktr.ee/adamchicago
Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social Community focused on the proactive development of humanity, promoting education, science, and technology.
We spark synapses with millions of users. Visit out social platform: https://sinapti.ca
Retroist @retroist.com I host the Retroist Podcast and write the Retroist which focuses on nostalgia. I like slightly old stuff and I typo too much. You can find me at https://www.retroist.com & https://patreon.com/retroist. 
UPBeachBum @upbeachbum.bsky.social In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. I am a democracy loving, virulent anti-fascist and an outright heathen. #yooper #fuckice
Michigan Maple Man 🍁🇨🇦 🇬🇱🥄🌲🐓⛷️🚵🏼♀️🎻🏕️🔨💋🐝🪵🌻🌈❄️🛶💙📎🐸 @mimapleman.bsky.social #Antifa, runs with ✂️, I’m a problem for MAGAs, canoeist, kayaker, woodworker, reclamation, broadcast engineer, photographer, cordwood, gardener, beekeeper, butcher, baker, candlestick maker, cello, funhog, ANTIFA
UW-Platteville, IU, NMU
50501 8647
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up, Immigration things over at Unbreaking.org. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social History, music, blues, some Arkansas content.
Silence Seven @silenceseven.bsky.social Graffiti documentarian, photographer, hiker, reader of banned books, Creative Commons cheerleader, lover of tacos & horror movies. Author of 7 photo books about graffiti.
Books, flickr, IG, etc. at the link which is below.
https://linktr.ee/silenceseven
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social STREAM OUR DEBUT SINGLE "LIGHTS DOWN" ↙️
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Rflnb0WvYeuK5B6AHVSXE?si=F93EswKVR5ehFffDiFfCuw&utm_source=copy-link
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyrichmanband?igsi=MWFldWJsOG1pdDl2bA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Charlie Bingham @charliebingham.bsky.social History nerd | Nature fan | Author | Folk fanatic
Debut book out now!
Like nature, mountains & historic houses - often at the same time 🐦🏠
nougatbolle @nougatbolle.bsky.social 
@guidohub.bsky.social @guidohub.bsky.social He/him. Hermit. I like music and women's sports. I hate fascists and content thieves.
Ringo Bunnyman @ringobunnyman.bsky.social Buzzcocks, Bunnymen, Baseball, Bowie, Beatles, hooks, harmonies and other curiosities. Don't forget the Motor City...
Jim Newberry @jimnewberry.bsky.social Photographer
JimNewberry.com
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website:
https://www.thewritertype.com
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social I post lots of music: post-punk, garage, garage revival, and more, cool photos, & some pressing political news.
SK @sk-76.bsky.social "suburban kid, got no name" etc.
I mostly post random images that I find in digital archives. No theme or purpose, but topics include Chicago, Ireland, London, UK, USA, music, social history, street photography, et al. Not a bot.
Contae Chill Mhantáin
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
JCS @theotherprofessor.bsky.social English professor at Illinois State University focusing on Victorian Studies, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Visual Culture, Comics & graphic novels, Literary Fairy Tales, and Lewis Carroll. http://ghostofthetalkingcricket.squarespace.com
Thomas Shrack @tshrack.bsky.social a busted stitch in the patchwork of the flag
Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social
Writer you almost but don’t quite remember from 20 years ago.
New novel! Kosha (Blackstone, 2027)
Past novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken
Past lives: NPR commentaries; guitar; soldier
NewHope, PA & WestCapeMay, NJ
baumansbrain.com
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Charlie Boring @charlieauthor.bsky.social 
Ashleigh @vinylgeek.bsky.social Vinyl lover 🎶🎶 🎧
Coffee Monster ☕️
Gen X UK🇬🇧
Lover of coloured vinyl and cassettes Music lovers welcomed
No PORN accounts , No POLITICS accounts No FAKE accounts No DATING profiles No money begging accounts
#Prince4ever
Paul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social Physicist and Science Writer. Author of nineteen books, most recently THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE: ERNST MACH, LUDWIG BOLTZMANN, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE ESSENCE OF REALITY https://greatatomdebate.com/
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA
Eugie Award Finalist
tammykomoff.com
#writer
J.M. "Butlerian Jihad Now" Kirkness @jmkirkness.bsky.social Museum Professional. Unemployed Bicycle Salesperson. Post-Punk Deviant. Gundam Weirdo. Drain On Society.
Author of The Embers In The Tall Grass. Now available on Kindle Direct: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GB783TGL
Michael Thomas Monte @michael-t-monte.bsky.social Founder, Fountain Records (2011)
Lights and Sounds, IATSE Union (2014)
Other Music Stuff (2005)
Tigers Baseball Fan (1985)
Detroit, Mich.
“Barkin Dogs Can’t Block My Way”
Jason Roberts @jsnr.bsky.social Writer. Author of EVERY LIVING THING and A SENSE OF THE WORLD. 
Craig Maki @craigmaki.bsky.social Writer, designer, musician, photographer, illustrator. I dig music, nature, literature, art, radio.
Turn It Up To 11 @turnitupto11.bsky.social Almost-blind-music-obsessed 🇨🇦 man. Used to write about... music (from 1995-2015). Newspapers/mags/radio. Ex Polaris Prize grand juror. LPs lover/collector. Contracts seeker. 1000s of LPs, so little time. The original music nerd. 8 years on X. Year 2 here.
Donald Teplyske- Fervor Coulee: Roots Music Opinion [he/him] @fervorcoulee.bsky.social Where Daydream Believers, Bobbie Gentry, Bluegrass, Bruce, Billie, Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Billy Strings, "Big Beat,” “Beauty & the Beat," & "Bela Lugosi's Dead" meet. fervorcoulee.wordpress.com & cjsr.com My father was Métis; I'll figure out who I am. 🍁
Bomp 💥 @thebomp.bsky.social music / art / books / poetry / film
Jinx follow me, way up the mountainside
Rockin Hellbilly @rhellbilly.bsky.social Here to share and talk music, in particular rockabilly, psychobilly, hillbilly, western swing, jump blues/country blues/r&b, northern soul, garage, punk, drums, b-movies, horror and schlock of all kinds. A no negativity zone.
Lisa @runtalien.bsky.social 😷 Chicago based book critic and cofounder of Who Even Reads (whoevenreads.com). Follow us at @whoevenreads.bsky.social. Editor in academic publishing. Show me your orange cat. 🐈
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org
Tara Ariano @taraariano.com I try to be good hard worker man, but refrigemator so messy. So, so messy. | tara@taraariano.com
Across The Margin @acrossthemargin.bsky.social An Arts & Culture webzine / publishing company / media group offering an engaging mix of fiction, criticism, essays, satire, poetry, podcasts, and more!
Home of Across The Margin : The Podcast & Welcome To The Party Pal Podcast
Irene Fraser @boozybluesy.bsky.social Music: 🎵🎸🎶🎷🎵
Vinyl collector, Blues, Swamp Blues, Americana, Country/Red Dirt Country. Love the sound of a bluesy sax 🎷
Books 📚
Not as thick as some: Not as clever as others.
DM for my friends ONLY! No Pollyticks! 🚫
Scotchland 🏴
🥃🥃🥃
Josh Timmers--Bleed Cubbie Blue @joshftimmers.bsky.social Baseball, movies, jazz, parenthood. Not necessarily in that order.
RIP Baseball @ripmlb.bsky.social Writing about dead baseball players, visiting gravesites and getting tired of creating more social media profiles. SABR member, card collector, Central PA resident, professional meathead.
Elisa Coghlan @esilentio.bsky.social uni librarian • open knowledge partisan • visual design amateur • linguaphile • fetishizer of old paper & shellac • insect friend • phl-dc-den-sea-mke • she
Vslyke @vslyke.bsky.social Music, sports*, TV, screaming into the void. Small piece of the BobServe team.
*Braves/Pittsburgh Pirates/White Sox/Penguins/Titans/Carolina Panthers/UGA
I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social Dogs 🐕 can teach humans love and loyalty
If you are tired of American politics, here is a funny relaxing feed dedicated to man’s best friends; at times other animals are featured 🐈 🐎 🐄 🫏
Avoiding AI generated videos, but at times one slips through
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
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
1988 Topps Podcast @1988toppspodcast.bsky.social A 792+ episode podcast series covering every card in the 1988 Topps set…new episodes almost every week from here to eternity. SABR-Chicago member! Posts by David.
We have a blog with episodes: https://1988toppspodcast.blogspot.com/
whiskeysoaked @whiskeysoaked.bsky.social "We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub."
Erik Inglis @allthebeset.bsky.social warning signs, bikes and buzzards. and train songs. no such thing as negative space.
ismua ᴮˡᵘᵉˢᵏʸ ᴱˡᵈᵉʳ📯 🌈⛵💜 @ismua.bsky.social Make 💜FUNK💜 Not WAR | Gamer | Streamer | Can Opener for two cats | https://twitch.tv/ismua | https://instagram.com/ismua_tv | https://mastodon.online/@ismua | #IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MeinSongDesTages
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"
Roy Rendahl @rendahl.bsky.social Engineer-artist-musician at Trimordial Studio Las Vegas, Nevada, originally from Minnesota - I hate the cold! I'm a liberal/progressive/Democrat, vegan, atheist, & I have a cat named Bluey. facebook.com/rendahl
Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at @wttw.bsky.social News/Chicago Tonight. Past life: Illinois Answers Project, BGA, Columbus Dispatch, ThisWeek News. I cover cops, courts, energy, health, finance, education, pensions etc. Prolific FOIA filer. He/him.
Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social A Chicago-centric news and culture review.
Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social Author. Cat fan. Flaneur. Seeking perfect egg roll.
Found in: As It Ought to Be, To L.A. With Love, Hooghly Review, West England Bylines, NECKSNAP, Broken Antler Magazine, Channel Magazine, subTerrain, /tƐmz/ Review; more.
linktr.ee/JenniferWorrell
every topps card @every-topps-card.bsky.social the bluesky distribution wing and subsidiary of openbinders.com powered by @gritz.
just ask for a pack!
message for a pin.
Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social The devil in nylon hose.
Radio DJ/producer of Haunted Jukebox: red-hot, swingin’ rock’n’roll/R&B/doo-wop/rockabilly, & Snakes and Roundabouts: eclectic music for mixed-up people.
https://www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachelRoll/
Ted Velvet 🇨🇦🍁 @tedvelvet.bsky.social #GoFins #GoJetsGo #ForTheW
#TheCramps #PunkRock #PostPunk #PowerPop #TheCrampsDaily #Punkabilly #Rockabilly
Passionate about Music, especially The Cramps
#Winnipeg via #Vancouver
#Elbowsup 🇨🇦💪🇨🇦 #Never51
Stay Sick
Melanie @powerpop.bsky.social Music 🖤
#TicketStubWed
she/her
Medium.com/@Melanie1701
Richard @ricrus77.bsky.social Music obsessive. Gig goer. Disco pickle. Cinephile. Bookworm. Guinness drinker. Red wine drinker. Pizza eater. Cookie monster. Crisp addict. Chocoholic. I could be the greatest motherfucker you’re ever going to meet… 🌈
Northwest Larry @northwestlarry.bsky.social Lover of nature, music (mostly from last century), sports, & hiking Retired public school teacher iPhone photos #PNW #BorderCollie #DiscGolf
🥏🎸📷 🌲🏔️🐾🎼☮️
Sequim, Washington, USA
Slim Hiney @timdaggerboy.bsky.social Mostly music…..or would that be moistly?
Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too.
www.aaroncynic.com
Lisa B-K @wordydiva.bsky.social Backyard industrialist | lower Midwest | also at @bckyrdndstry.bsky.social | life's what you make it | celebrate it | 🐚
Liz Tamny @etamny.bsky.social Chicago, old films #TCMParty, opera, R&B, books, Jokic 👑 #Nuggets. Impeach Trump now.
- - I hashtag so you can mute - -
Bluesky list for Nuggets game days:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6vccnxg7rok4ae6qxd654lpi/lists/3lb4f4kqs532n
St. John @frightwig.bsky.social Jazz and Baseball
Annemarie DeClark @declark.bsky.social www.annemarie-declark.com
Book reviewer. Mystery author. Tree planter. Cancer survivor. Vegetarian. Married.
Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social I sing in Too Much Joy and Wonderlick and work in tech (Rhapsody/Google Play/Freeform/Zedge).
I tend to post about music, movies, and the death throes of democracy.
Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social Dirty Pretty Things To Weird People .
PunkRock . Horror Movies . True Crime .
Fuck Authority .