Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social Workers' Lit is THE literature podcast for hot, cool, gay, and/or working class people. Hosted by Aysha, Jen, Lenore, and Jacob
Account run by Jacob. Others bear no responsibility for bad posts
www.workerslit.com
https://patreon.com/WorkersLit
Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast
Chicago-based
takes too many photos
non-binary
Blog: https://whatusedtobethere.blogspot.com/
Website: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/
RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social Overcaffeinated Kentuckian in Massachusetts. Librarian. Professor. Trustee. Ask me about #GraphicMedicine. Trying to be kind, do good, and read comics. (He/Him)
noethematt.com
Jeff Sabin @texanokie07.bsky.social “It takes a soul to love the prairie.” -Willa Cather
Lawyer, urbanist, & geographer. INTJ. Sports, music, regionalism, & urban policy. I prefer pleated pants. Texan by birth, Oklahoman by choice, Illinoisan at heart/by heritage. Profile/posts are my own.
Alt Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives @anarchobara.bsky.social Hell yeah bruther, more of all 4 of those things
He/Him, anarchist
kl5 @kl5.bsky.social Kristen - loves Chicago, the Great Lakes, birds, bugs, critters, native plants, trees, rocks, old houses, and my chaotic dog Olive Elvis
spooky and wistful (Pony Man) @sirsethamus.bsky.social Witnessing the fall of Elon Musk from afar
Jenknitstoomuch @jenknitstoomuch.bsky.social A knitter, among other things, who needs to put the damn phone down. Sports, music, knitting, OT7
Mega Thee Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social Hi 👋🏾 Founder & co-host, of Roomies (she/her) Review the Movies @roomiesrtm.bsky.social, NerdgasmNoire https://nerdgasmnoire.carrd.co, Lovecraft Country Crossing https://shorturl.at/o3Zj5 & MORE
https://mariacj.carrd.co/
Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social Media studies and communications professor
Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social Dad to Bluesky’s favorite dog, Frankie girl. Married to @probablyinbed who is infinitely more awesome than I am. Unrepentant leftist. Special Ed teacher.
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social texas culture reporter for @chron.com
console cowgirl, houston based, go stros 🏳️⚧️
borodda @borodda.bsky.social Professor, Media/Games/Design.
Brian Lynch @brianmichaellynch.bsky.social Screenwriter: Minions, Secret Life of Pets, Hop, Puss in Boots, Big Helium Dog.
Minions & Monsters out now
Co-host of Hey That's Me: A Commentary Podcast
https://linktr.ee/heythatsmepod
Boomer (Mike Beaumier) @mbeaumier.bsky.social Husband and citizen. Part of the smartest, funniest group of guys running the best gay hotels in the world. Chicago Reader personals guy, This American Life guy, etc. Kindness and subtlety.
worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social Hi
Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social Now: Making Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor for Protocol; reporter for Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
Who Up Socializing Their Summit, 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
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
@bcinchicago.bsky.social @bcinchicago.bsky.social 
Chicago Public Library @chipublib.bsky.social Read, learn, discover.
Opened in 1873, Chicago Public Library has locations in every Chicago neighborhood.
Attack Librarian @attacklibrarian.bsky.social Personal account for Cleveland attorney interested in learning Japanese, photography, and running.
Kourtney @soitwent.bsky.social I said I wouldn’t but here I am, sigh.
Elvis/gin/security
📍Chicago
She/her
#freshpots
Opinions are mine alone, not employers, associations, etc. 
bag of moons 🏳️🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social just a bag of moons... she/her/that dyke/maaaaaaammaaaaaaa/maestra
extended lesbian cinematic universe
Wearing more dinosaur clothing and making more eye contact than Minnesotans can handle.
📍I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon
Up with a quist @kquist.bsky.social She/her. Friendly neighborhood anti-capitalist bartender & teacher. Book worm, angry idealist, shaker of cocktails/fists. I make drinks and I read things. Bay Area.
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us gayyy in chiçago..................
www: punx.us
songs: http://soundcloud.com/speedqueen666
old poems: http://bottlecap.press/products/oyster
assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social parent to a transgender young'un. active at reddit r/cisparenttranskid. throwback memes. pretty woke.
I block bots, brigaders, and bullies (including crybullies) with zero hesitation or notice
Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
prairieczar @prairieczar.bsky.social Bicycles and Prairie.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social
📍60625
cayce @cayce.zone get in your go-kart and go, little sister
'case', not 'casey'. lowercase.
it/its, almost 40.
cayce.zone
tacoma, wa
Rev Kirsty @ikirsty.bsky.social mother, minister, muser, mentor, merry, mischievous, mellow, now more cowbell. She/her. Opinions mine.
And now with more pronouns.
Because I believe people should be able to choose. And I believe it is basic politeness to refer to people as they ask.
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social 
this corrosion @roguesecunit.bsky.social Fiercely defending the Resistance from my couch. Data geek with pulmonary disease. Chaotic tired, runs on Dunkin. She/her. My kids don't think I'm funny but they're wrong.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
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.
Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social Sci fi and Fantasy Author. Holocaust and Genocide Historian. Host of the Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social jamie alert
Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social Queer, nonbinary author, MFA, adjunct professor, and dog mom. Your local ND science-goth crocheter.
Julia Child meets Vincent Price. They/them
karajorgensen.com
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
📩 linktr.ee/scottsantens
Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social Living + gardening just west of Chicago. PhD sociologist doing research + transformation in a large suburban public school district. 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨🏫
dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social DJ of Yonic! boom on hollowearthradio.org, turntablist, marxist-feminist...and yes i do have a podcast about weed high femme
https://andienela.carrd.co/
Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social Organizer for change on #sustainability, #democracy, #renewables, #basicincome and fighting the #climatecrisis
Captain Tom @jonforsyth.bsky.social music technologist | musician | awards eligible
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
Cyderist @cyderist.bsky.social Scattered. lazy. Nice-ish.
Chester Christmas @imemptyplshalp.bsky.social 🎄 my job is tables 🎄
🏳️⚧️ june | יוֹכֶבֶד🪬 @junewl.bsky.social transgender californian antizionist jewess of color (they/she). everything is gender. minors DNI. opinions are exclusively my own, reposts are not endorsement.
pfp by @newarc.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇧🇷🇭🇰🇦🇺 (EN)
GridGlitch @gridglitch.bsky.social Decoding friction between a 19th-century grid & 21st-century static. Dispatch on urban policy, Chicago grit, & ghosts in the machines. High tech, low life, transit-oriented. 🏙️⚡️🚋🚗🚲🛴
📍 Chicago | TikTok & Substack: @gridglitch
Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social Historian and theologian, professor at Villanova University. Byline Il Regno, Commonweal, Global Catholic, et al. Gelateria Catholic since 2017. Views my own.
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
gwen pepperoni 🏳️⚧️🤘🏼🍕 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social transness is life
🏳️⚧️
dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social not affiliated with https://dwarffortressbugtracker.com, but I do use their data
if I repost your quote post and you didn’t want it broadcast to a larger audience lmk
maintained by @jojjjajjr.bsky.social
https://github.com/johnmatter/dfbugs
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social Ensuring political appointees serve the public interest.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/
Read more of our work at http://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com and http://hackwatch.us
Follow:
Twitter/Post @RevolvingDoorDC
FB/IG: RevolvingDoorProject
PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social Gerrit
Wildlife photographer from Northern California
All photos are mine (except the reposts)
instagram.com/pacbirds
Kindness • Humility • Courage
pacbirds.myportfolio.com
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social books: THE RED SACRAMENT, my debut novel, is out now!
Also costume design: ACD/shopper on The Off Weeks, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime, Monsterland & more!
USA 829 IATSE, lit rep Isabel Kaufman. she/her
rydia @acupofsugar.bsky.social The disabled cat lady of your dreams
Frustratingly gay, low energy high desire, lapsed amateur game dev
Chicago, plants, cats, games, books, tech
she #longcovid #mecfs
https://lizsugar.me
columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social posting the columbo out of touch edit every thursday. original video by gimmieabowlofchili on tumblr, ran by @dialkforkaty on twt🕵️♂️
ira @lashonhara.bsky.social my 2 cents
@readeasel.bsky.social :)
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/
THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
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
Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social Human geneticist 🧬, bioinformagician 🧙🏻♂️, choral musician 🎼, and unrepentant city slicker 🏙️. Amplifying interesting signals (like #ScienceWin)! [he/him]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3466-1846
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Breezy Bellizzi @glyph0.bsky.social Inept but can operate the ♥️ button real good. Food yummy. Chicago baby. LA boy. Brooklyn aging millennial.
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
Archives: https://eliaayoub.com
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social “guards, seize he/him!”
managing editor @sojo.net.
nyc
Aadam Jacobs Collection @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Volunteer project to preserve the legacy of Chicago music taper Aadam Jacobs. Archives available to all at: https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
[bridged from https://mas.to/@ajcproject on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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
When IT Happens @when-it-happens.bsky.social Bottle of champagne ready? Fun reaction post? Pocket full of confetti? Celebratory playlist? Cake recipe?
Related posts of “when it happens” and #WhenItHappens are reposted here, please tag me on appropriate posts!
Politics Mom @politicsmom.com Politics, screaming, @thenightcaucus.bsky.social host @warhammerandsickle.bsky.social host, Chair @pademsruralcaucus.com #LGBTQIA #SixersFan #ADHD #TransRights #Democrat https://linktr.ee/politicsmom
Adam Music @musicadamt.bsky.social Geek dad. Husband. Godmother. Gardener. Situational humorist. Dad joke purveyor. Legal content pro. He/him. Opinions and snark are my own.
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social author of THE VEILED PROPHET — writing in The Nation, The Intercept, Slate, Jacobin, Boulevard — he/him — rep Erik Hane, Headwater Literary
https://linktr.ee/devintoshea
Dave Barefield @barefieldlab.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago studying cardiomyopathy and atrial contractility.
#HCM #DCM #Arrhythmia #AFib
Views are my own.
https://www.barefieldlab.org/
Min. Foolish Farrakhan @uhohjaye.bsky.social Queer. Chicagoan. Aquarian. ENM.
Mystery/Thriller/Suspense📚Junkie
Artist. Baker. Furniture Maker.
Serial Binger. Women’s 🏀 Stan.
Finding a new way to be Jaye.
Alt National BIM Hour @manofsuds.bsky.social I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog. He/him.
https://letterboxd.com/manofsuds
WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app Christ Aspirant Sabbatarian | Daddy | Husband | AuDHD/Neurodivergent | Student Emeritus | Actively Activist | Cultural Curator | Crate Digger | Dilla Disciple | @thebanterpubfc
he/him/his
Discord: Carnegro#7927
Handle the same across most platforms
Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social He//him, Chicago, bikes
Chris Stedman @chrisdstedman.bsky.social Religionless religion professor and writer. Working on my second narrative podcast series and third book. @goodjudypods.bsky.social founder. Queer. Minneapolis ❤️
chrisstedmanwriter.com
megankmaneater @megankmaneater.bsky.social 
Charlie Fillenwarth @illinifan1280.bsky.social Accountant by day, stoner and awful sports takes by night. Illini/Arsenal/Packers/Cardinals fan, so I’m used to being disappointed.
Star Wars > Star Trek, pineapple does not belong on pizza, and leave the NCAA Tournament ALONE!
Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Daniel La Spata @daniellaspata.bsky.social Dad, urban planner, proven progressive, and Alderman of Chicago’s 1st Ward. Loving music, running, bread, biking, and democracy.
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social evaluated? buddy they keep me in a temperature-controlled vault so they can measure all autism accurately against mine
Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social Host and producer of the Junk Filter podcast. Toronto born and raised.
patreon.com/junkfilter
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
dorktacular dad @dorkdad.bsky.social Dork. Dad.
He/him.
David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team If a box on a curb with "Free Meyer Lemons" written on it were a guy
(personal account, obviously)
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.