Chicago Critical Mass @chicritmass.bsky.social A Free bicycle ride the last Friday of every month 6PM leaving from Daley plaza. Come out & ride.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Simogo @simogo.com Lorelei and the Laser Eyes • Sayonara Wild Hearts • SPL-T • The Sailor’s Dream • DEVICE 6 • Year Walk • Beat Sneak Bandit • Bumpy Road • Kosmo Spin
simogo.com
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social
chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
jenn schiffer 🍦 @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social Recording engineer who plays poker and billiards and eats like a Viking
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: https://brianboyer.net Bean tips: https://beantips.com/
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://knguyen.org
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social forbes' 7.4 billion under 7.4 billion.
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
20x2 Chicago @20x2chi.bsky.social Twenty people. One Question. Two minutes each.
Shows four times a year in Chicago. More info at https://20x2.org/chicago or http://20x2chi.org
Sonnenzimmer @sonnenzimmer.bsky.social What an image does to us, we also do to it. Graphic art practice of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi.
Sign up for our Sonnengram at www.sonnenzimmer.com
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Panzer @panz.bsky.social Now: Tiptop
Then: TechCrunch
Onlypanz: instagram.com/panzer
Linda Dong 🍞 @lindadong.bsky.social Apple Design Evangelista.
At work – games, visionOS, design
At home – soup, bread, soup 
Waxy.org @waxy.org Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andy.baio.net.
WWW: https://waxy.org/
RSS: https://waxy.org/feed/
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy
Andy McMillan @andymcmillan.com 💅 Designer, independent event producer, and NA brewery owner
📍 Portland, OR
🍻 @heckbrewing.com
🏫 @xoxofest.com
🌐 https://andymcmillan.com
🔗 https://linktr.ee/ndymcmlln
Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Kind of also trying to be a screenwriter? @buzz on Twitter. Mail: buzz at http://andersen.buzz
nate @nateboateng.bsky.social Dad, husband, hip-hop & jazz junkie, working in healthcare for the medically underserved. The “g” is silent, hillbilly. These opinions are all mine, but can be yours for $19.99 + S&H. Call now!
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
House House @househouse.com We made Push Me Pull You, and an Untitled Goose Game: goose.game. Big Walk is out now: bigwalk.game
househouse.com
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
despelote ⚽ OUT NOW! @despelote.game despelote is a soccer game about people, set in Quito, Ecuador.
made by julian cordero, sebastián valbuena, gabe cuzzillo, ian berman, and niall tessier-lavigne
OUT NOW!
https://despelote.game/
Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com Creative Lead at Panic, working on Playdate, dev software, and helping publish games • Maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand • One of the good ones • Portland, OR • he/him
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
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
donni saphire @donni.bsky.social Chicago if it matters. Dive bar comedy vet. Only seem calm because I’m exhausted. Thinking about some new shirts
Don Schmocker @donschmocker.bsky.social Co-Founder and Creative Director at @okomotive.ch
They/Them
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
Paul Haddad @paul.tapbots.com Nothing to see here
broox @broox.com Builder. Fixer. Thinker. Rocker.
broox.com
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist.
https://danilocampos.com
advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Blippo+ @blippo.plus Channel Surf ✺ New Wave ⚡︎ Television
🎬 Out Now on Nintendo Switch, Steam, & Mac
📡 Broadcasting Weekly on Playdate
🏆 Apple Design Awards 2026 Finalist
🏆 Best Writing in a Game NYGA 2026
🏆 4x IGF 2026 Nominee
https://blippo.plus
Christa Mrgan @antichrista.bsky.social Taller than expected!
✨Videos & Podcasts at Panic✨
🎸Bass & backup vox in Siouxsie and the Banshees tribute @preciousmachinery.bsky.social
she/her 💙💜💖
Okomotive @okomotive.ch We are a Swiss game studio crafting atmospheric journeys with meaningful mechanics. Working on PinKeep. Creators of the FAR games and Herdling.
okomotive.ch
Coal Supper @coalsupper.bsky.social med Thank Goodness You're Here! and The Good Time Garden
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
Playdate @play.date A brand new handheld video game system from Panic.
➡️ Available at https://play.date
💬 Need help? Go to https://help.play.date
Panic @panic.com panic.com • Maker of apps (Nova, Prompt, Transmit) • Publisher of Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour: Play With Your Food, Thank Goodness You're Here, Arco, Despelote, Time Flies • Oh, and also @play.date
Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social Senior reviewer and author of the Optimizer newsletter for The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, the wellness wild west, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun.
Signal: @vicmsong.14
Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.
Joshua Topolsky @joshuatopolsky.com A man in trouble. Founded The Verge, The Outline, & Input. Rebooted Gawker. Co-created Vox Media. Runs Sherwood. Makes rave music. Likes beautiful things. Hates schedules.
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Halli @iamharaldur.bsky.social www.halli.fun
Sebastiaan de With @sdw.bsky.social human interface design
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.