T&ES | City of Alexandria, VA @alexandriavates.bsky.social Official bluesky account for the City of Alexandria, Virginia Department of Transportation and Environmental Services (T&ES)
James Libresco @jameslibresco.bsky.social Brown University '29 + Alexandria, Va. // Reporting at the Alexandria Times and The Brown Daily Herald. Former editor of ACHS Theogony.
// Contact: jlibresco@alextimes.com or jlibresco.39 on Signal
Matt Mihalik @kilahimm.bsky.social
Mike Sager @mikesager.net CISO @ New Harbor
Security, rock and roll, dad jokes. Fan of The National and The Nationals. Former CTO at EMILY’s List.
msager.25 on Signal
Half awake, in a fake empire.
I have friends everywhere.
He/Him
mike@crabstrike.com
@danacolors.bsky.social @danacolors.bsky.social
Byron Peebles @byronpeebles.com Programmer/hacker. Dad. Spouse. Unschooled/er. Programming at Truth Initiative. He/him. @bpeebles@hachyderm.io, from twitter.com/bpeebles and also checkout byronpeebles.com
Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social Geologist, Baker, Voter, Friend of Photography. Posts are my own, not NSF's. [she/her] 🥄
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
p.a.lapid, phd @palapid.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇺🇸 👾🖖🏽 siya/he/him; gringo filipino in the DMV, PhD ekomomista, union member, & marine; Vallejo born; #UCSC 🍌🐌, SF State🐊, UC Berkeley🐻. #NAFO 🇺🇦🇹🇼 #FTTB #DubNation #COYS. personal acct; skeets,likes,reposts are not views of employer or 🇺🇸 govt
Trip Hook @triphook.bsky.social Geographer @ US EPA
Alexandria, VA / Canaan Valley, WV
⛵⛷️🚲🪕🎷🛶🥾🌎
Anh Phan @anhphan.bsky.social Of all the Anh Phans in the world I’m the one from Oregon who lives in Del Ray, ALX, with two little dogs and a great community. If I’m caffeinated I’m happy and I’m always hungry.
Lisa Chimento @lchimento.bsky.social
Moira MacDougal @moiramacdougal.bsky.social Knitter, sewist, general lover of fibre arts. Baker. Passionate about climate, housing, transit, and quirky Alexandria politics.
🌱🐱🧵
📍 Alexandria, VA
Katie Waynick @katieway.bsky.social
Travis A. Niles @travisaniles.bsky.social #energytwitter alumnus, working on climate. Sci-fi lover coffee and wine aficionado. I don't think there are strangers, just friends I haven't met yet. Alexandria VA resident. Hails from the 607.
Justin Wilson @justindotnet.bsky.social Another social media account!!??
Cathy Walker @canawa.bsky.social Not a work account. Here for Alexandria events.
Carolyn @caslon.bsky.social Hobbies: conservation gardening, soft-core birding, painting, knitting, hiking. Interested in green infrastructure, urban ecology, and adult art camps. Ecoregion 65: Southeastern Plains, ALX, Acidic oak hickory forest. Unprofessional account. she/her.
@eleep.bsky.social @eleep.bsky.social
Jen Vestal @jenvestal.bsky.social Minnesota ex-pat, law firm librarian, professionally nosy. “The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here.” She/her 📍 Alexandria, VA
Bill Kalish @colorschoolbeat.bsky.social Devoted husband, dad, and drummer. Retired Cubmaster and Attorney. ALX native/TCW '76/BA GWU ‘81/JD, UH Manoa ‘94.
Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social What you call me depends on how you know me. Editor, writer, insufferable know-it-all. Natitude, Hoya Saxa, AMDG. https://lambletters.com/
Eric Spiegel @ericspiegel.bsky.social Voracious reader, indoor gardener, cat dad, casual gamer, film lover, technical writer. Alexandria, VA.
LightMikey @lightmikey.bsky.social Lighting geekery. Foodie. Occasionally catch a Pokèmon. Becomes Eurovision pilled between March and May. He/Him
Trey @trey197.bsky.social Bike Commuter. Nature photographer. Egg slut. Del Ray Mafia. Stealth City U.S.A All-Powerful Bike Lobby
Annie Ebbers @amcebbers.bsky.social Cyclist, Alexandrian, mom, bureaucrat, Frasier lover, patriarchy hater
Steve Harvey Oswald @mcnadroj.bsky.social Alexandria, VA.
Elissa Laderach @elilad.bsky.social 🏡🏋️♀️🏊♀️🚴♀️🏃♀️☕️🐾📚
📍 Alexandria, VA
👩💻 Real Estate + Triathlon/Swim Coach
Anh Phan @aphan.bsky.social My dog and I both love food a lot. Also into the outdoors, reading, community. Gen X ENFP
Smellfie @landscapejudger.bsky.social writing about fragrance
Brian Uri! @urizone.net Coder, composer, creator. Farmed in ALX, tabled in LoCo. Once got a piggyback ride from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Forever blogging at https://urizone.net/
• Writing puzzlehunts at https://puzzlepeak.net/
West Ovarian @westovarian.bsky.social Arlingtonian Extraordinaire and Verified Grifter
beth @hells-beekeepers.bsky.social cat mom who spends too much time with court filings. she/her. lots of books, sometimes trees, ALX <3. probably watching a Star War
Darwin Salazar @darwin16.bsky.social I have opinions, that’s probably why you’re here.
Peter Carlson @peterdcarlson.bsky.social He/him. Alexandria, VA.
Ryan Reyna @ryanreyna.bsky.social Del Ray dad, ACPS School Board Budget Advisory Committee Chair, runner (occasionally)
🎼🎶 Laurie MacNamara @lauriedelray.bsky.social “It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.” - Mary Oliver
Kayla Hornbrook @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social Niche meme lord
Paul Wiley @paulwileyva.bsky.social If you don’t know where to go, go where you’re needed.
🏡 - Del Ray, Alexandria VA
Mother of a Ginger Claire ⚾️🪡🧵🧶🎬🎶 @bethrich52.bsky.social Washington Nationals, Boston Red Sox, College of William & Mary, politics, quilting, knitting, mysteries, culture, #HATM. Whatever else strikes my fancy. She/her
Allan James Vestal @ajv.bsky.social Journalism, code & politics. Food idiot acolyte and ALX ward system anti-apologist.
(Crunchin' those numbers — and probably something with bacon on it too.)
He/Him.
Mitch @mitch-alexandria.bsky.social
Bonnie En @bonnoggle.bsky.social Alexandrian, super nerdy about housing, transit, policy and publishing. I work in none of those fields.
Alex @portcityposter.bsky.social Free Palestine
would really like to be on a bike ride
[he/him]
Meronne @meronne.bsky.social
bread and roses (and hoping) @weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social Mostly Alexandria gossip, snark, and bitching about HUD stupidity.
Alexandria is cooler than where you live
gender = nope, they/them🌈
opinions all mine, etc etc
Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social Oh hey another social media site. What is this, 2005?
Alexandria, VA resident. Quickly becoming radicalized on local politics by Blue Sky. Shitposts are my own.
Flowers on Farm @backachers.farm A simple country squire, bringing the botanical to the city life.
backachers.farm
Erica Toler @egilbart.bsky.social DASH bus hype girl. Campaign person.
Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social Maryland Housing Advocacy Manager at @betterdcregion.bsky.social, bird and baseball fan. high priestess of woke 2. posts & opinions my own
Mike Rodriguez @mroduf.bsky.social Alexandrian in Seminary Valley
@catiebmakes.bsky.social @catiebmakes.bsky.social
Jim Durham🚌🚶♂️🚴♂️ @jldurham.bsky.social Transportation equity, walking, bicycling, and public health advocate.
https://grassrootsalexandria.org/teams/transportation-equity/
Nicole Radshaw @nradshaw.bsky.social Mama of two. Teacher. Amateur plant grower and sewist. Passionate about mind-body awareness, maternal health, Caps hockey, WNBA, and our earth. Streets are for people. Ride more bikes.
She/Her
Sarah Bagley (the one in Alexandria VA) @sarahbagley.bsky.social Vice Mayor of Alexandria, VA. Buster’s mom, reader, bike rider, and fan of all things pickled.
Rob Krupicka @robkrupicka.bsky.social Don’t hate people. Live and let live. Practice kindness. He/him. Former/recovering elected official in VA. Therapist. Spelling challenged.
@yimbyalexandriaken.bsky.social @yimbyalexandriaken.bsky.social Ask me about Alexandria Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC)
R. Kirk McPike @kirkmcpike.bsky.social Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from District 5. Star Trek fan. Beagle aficionado. Former City Council Member.
Sandy Marks @sandymarks.bsky.social
@kmorod.bsky.social @kmorod.bsky.social
SFH @sfharris.bsky.social Opinion haver. Those opinions are entirely my own.
Puns intended.
50% stream-of-consciousness nonsense, 50% earnest commentary.
Okay, maybe 80-20.
LSG.
Kerrin @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social #Nativeplants, #pollinator, and #gardening enthusiast. Alexandria resident. DC tree planting all-star. 🌱
Miniature #ceramics and #pottery artist @whistlepigpottery on IG 🥟🥠🍎🥦
Socially awkward SAHM
USDA Zone 8a/65n Chesapeake Rolling Coastal Plain
Stephanie Elms @stephelms.bsky.social Book lover, Va Tech & Marching Virginians alum (Go Hokies!), YIMBYs of NoVa📍Del Ray, Alexandria | she/her
Note: If we don’t have a prior relationship or a current connection, please don’t feel like you need to follow or share!
Tom VanAntwerp 🧙♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com 💻 code things, mostly TypeScript
🏡 hyperlocal Alexandria VA drama
🔮 building bizarre things nobody wants
Please don't make me run for office, I do not want to run for office.
JRho @jrho.bsky.social I double majored in hating and math. I minored in history and theater. She/her
Brian @egan.ninja But what if we could?
Kyle Reardon @kylereardon.bsky.social Children’s Picture book Author/Illustrator rep’d by Lynnette Novak at The Seymour Agency.
www.kylereardonart.com
Public nuisance.
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Cesar Santiago @cesarsantiago.net Jaded software engineer. I'm all kinds of stubborn. Puerto Rican transplant in Del Ray, Alexandria VA.
Re-posts are endorsements. Mostly.
Virginia Bush @vebush.bsky.social Non-profit devotee, DRCA board alum, dog Mom, outdoor enthusiast
Del Ray, Alexandria, VA / Canaan Valley, WV / Wisco ex-pat 🧀⛷️🚴🚣⛵
Mallory @mlaw91.bsky.social Hockey, cats, Microsoft Power Platform, more cats. Opinions own.
Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social Experience design / CX, / UX / Service Design. Data visualization. Traditional & wooden boats and boating. Environment & earth science. Incessant, unapologetic punster. ALX VA. He/His. Trying to be a light to drive out darkness.
Patrick J. Pespas @westofrome.bsky.social Alexandria, VA
Keeper of ALX Skeets. Please tag me if you’d like to be added
Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social He/him. Dad x3, Immigration & GBV Advocate, Alexandria Lead at YIMBYs of NoVA. Local chief of the useful idiots 🫡
Go Bills, Caps, COYG
Personal account only.
Sign up for Alx YIMBY action alerts: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-yimbys-of-nova
Elena in Alexandria @elenah.bsky.social Alexandria VA, DRCA VP. Bright pink e-bike. Former Chief Strategy Officer @Medallia, now solving Gartner and Forrester problems at Up/Right AR. BetterBraddock.org
Tim Laderach @timladerach.bsky.social All the things! 2 doggos, Commissioner (Chair of EOC), former DRCA President, Navy Reservist.
Views are my own and not the position of the U.S. Navy or DoW.
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Zack D @mrpresident1776.bsky.social Married to @elenasor.bsky.social with 1 cat & 2 sons. Building bike lanes and bikeshare in the Virginia suburbs by day. Views are mine! Enjoys #ebikes #walks #kayaks #urbanism #trains #modeltrains #ALX
Occasionally writes highspeedfail.blogspot.com
Joe Fray @josephfray.bsky.social mail lawyer, food haver, dog owner
ALX
John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org “There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant
Husband, dad, dog walker, cyclist, outdoors enthusiast, occasional reluctant driver, Alexandrian, federal employee. 5 USC § 3331
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