๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ธ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. ๐ฟ๐๐๐
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Chicago Abortion Fund @chiabortionfund.bsky.social We fund abortion in Illinois and the Midwest ๐ซถ๐ฝ
Scary Lady Sarah @scaryladysarah.bsky.social DJ; musician; vegan; traveler; proponent of peace & love; guitars/vox in The Bellwether Syndicate; Nocturna Chicago; cat mama; goth soul / shoegaze heart (or is it the other way around?) ๐๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ถโฎ๏ธ
#alwaysantifascist
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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
T @tanuja.bsky.social 
Langdon @langdona.bsky.social Chicago | Photographer, Leftist, Shitposter
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago @mwrdgc.bsky.social Protecting public health and the environment by providing wastewater treatment for Chicago and 128 suburban communities and serving as Cook Countyโs Stormwater Management Authority. Learn more at mwrd.org.
โ๏ธ Report waterway concerns: 800-332-3867.
Andrew โถ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social โถโถโถโถ
That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
http://me3dia.com
Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
Ravenous @weareravenous.com ๐ฆโโฌ Food media with teeth
โ Worker-owned
Subscribe and donate now
https://www.weareravenous.com/feed-the-bird-subscription-drive-2026/
Roman Susan @romansusan.bsky.social RS celebrates and shares the work of artists in the Great Lakes region. We create cultural engagements that provide resources and paid opportunities for artists. We are Chicago-based. We are artist-led. We are experimental and learning. romansusan.org
Alan Ranta (๊ฑแด แดกสแดแด?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
โ this user is woke
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Chicago Critical Mass @chicritmass.bsky.social A Free bicycle ride the last Friday of every month 6PM leaving from Daley plaza. Come out & ride.
Liberation Library @liberationlib.bsky.social We provide books and reader-led magazines to young people in prison to encourage imagination, self-determination, and connection to the outside worlds of their choosing. #FreeThemAll
Chicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social Petition to Demand A World-Class Chicago Transit System: https://www.change.org/Chicago2100
Advocating for a better tomorrow, one street at a time
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
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
WikiPortraits @wikiportraits.org WikiPortraits is a project to capture high-quality portrait photographs for Wikimedia Commons, through in-person outreach and event coverage. Learn more here: https://www.wikiportraits.org/about
Posts by @nevint.bsky.social and @payravi.dev
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social Celebrating 26 years of metal & wood type letterpress work. Love to share the process, forms and printing adventures. Jen & Jo.
Starshaped.com
Lucy (the) Stoole @tyislucystoole.bsky.social 
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Chicago Bike Sox @chicagobikesox.com Letโs bike to the ballpark
https://chicagobikesox.com
Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike Telling the stories of the Chicagoans who bike around our city, along with the infrastructure that supports them. Full videos on YouTube, and read all our past interviews at chiwho.bike!
Femmes + Thems Bike Chicago @femnthembikechi.bsky.social A safe space for women, femme, non-binary & trans Chicagoans to ride bikes together๐ฒ
No-drop social rides every 1st weekend of the month๐ซ
Plz email us your questions! ๐
https://femmesandthems.org/
Chicakล @chicago-seasons.bsky.social An interpretation of the traditional division of the year into 72 microseasons or kล (ๅ), for the climate in Chicago, by u/sherrillo on Reddit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12uh4lpcqnkYuDY75r7HwKpKLtrefyALw (bot run by @maeveynot.online)
๐ฅ๐ Fire-Toolz ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป๐ด @fire-toolz.bsky.social LAVENDER NETWORKS ๐ซ๐ OUT NOW ON WARP RECS
๐โก๏ธ๐๐ชธโ๏ธโ๏ธโณ๏ธ๐ฆ๐งก๐จ๐ชฑ๐ชผ๐ฉธ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐งช๐โจ๐ซง
PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL HARD NU-NEW AGE MUSIC 4 HEADPHONES
mixing/mastering/productionโก๏ธ @angelhairaudio.bsky.social
๐ https://linktr.ee/fire_toolz
armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social Photojournalist for the @chicagotribune. Born in ATX. Still getting used to the cold. Breakfast taco enthusiast. No such thing as bad light or small stories.
Chicago Community Jail Support @chicommunityjs.bsky.social Volunteer mutual aid network supporting those recently released from Cook County Jail.
Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social He/Him; Fenian bastard;
Area Code 1312
I speak only for myself; affiliates are blameless.
โIf someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.โ
I periodically cleanse my feed; donโt count on your rts surviving
paul goyette @pgoyette.bsky.social Chicago-based photographer documenting and uplifting collective action for progressive change. Most work licensed via Creative Commons at flickr.com/pgoyette
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Charles E Henderson @cafetacbva.bsky.social Veteran Advocate, Anti War Activist, Peace Activist, War Veteran, Community Organizer, Historian Campaign Manager, Chicago Historian, Southside Kid.
Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
๐จโ๐ป @michaelmclean.me
๐ค https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
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
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 ๐
chicagoreader.com
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los รngeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. โThe 2020 Emerging Voiceโ James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Mike Borden @aldebaran26.bsky.social Professional photographer based in Detroit and Chicago who likes skeets about music art boys photography politics history...I seek to learn new things, and people to teach me.
mgbphotographychicago.com
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
couchtobarbell.com
Eleanor @theotheror.bsky.social Trash evangelist, textile nerd, anarchist nonprofit burnout survivor. She/they. Mushroom hunter, some kind of ace. Chicago
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Megan Kirby @megankirby.bsky.social chicago baby
Lenifaye @andreafaye.bsky.social Director of Resource Organizing at Access Reproductive Care-Southeast. Queer & Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.
Durham now, Chicago forever.
https://andreafayehartrt.substack.com/
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University โข Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford โข Tutor Art/Anthropology โข https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
Pop Up Karaoke @popupkaraoke.com Our place, your place, any place: karaoke with us at great Chicago spots all over the city or let us throw a party right in your own backyard!
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
public universal reply guy @llkats.com L(ou|ydia|lkats). Chicago, bikes, birds. they/them/comrade.
Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social Allies neednโt be perfect. They just need to be in the fight.
Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effect pedals, Antifa Local 242.
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
milk @toxicandrogyny.bsky.social ๐ chicago guy ๐
just happy to be here
Leather Archives & Museum @leatherarchives.bsky.social A Chicago-based research archive, library and museum dedicated to the preservation of leather, kink, fetish and BDSM community history.
oliver, online @oliver-online.bsky.social 5โ2โ if that matters ๐
rich jones @richjonesmusic.bsky.social Critically acclaimed life enthusiast - music, food, pot #MikalForever
https://linktr.ee/richjonesmusic
Rosamund Lannin @rosamund.bsky.social reading and writing and domestic life in Chicago. #amquerying a YA (?) novel about live action role-playing (LARP). // rosamund.co
Emily @allweeksend.com Bikes are transportation and recreation. Working in renewable energy. We have to imagine a better world before we can build it. she/her
allweeksend.neocities.org
Breniecia @luxeposh.bsky.social 
Nic Murphy @tinyumbrella71.bsky.social 
bort, pud @crushbort.bsky.social cinematographer for Doogal (2006)
Ashok Selvam @shokdiesel.bsky.social Co-Founder @weareravenous.com | Chicago native reporter and editor. former Eater rapscallion | James Beard Award-winning journalist ๐
| Table Dad โข
Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social Celebrating #zines in Chicago & the Midwest & beyond. #CZF2026 will be Saturday October 10th! https://linktr.ee/chicagozinefest
Yana Kunichoff @yanak.bsky.social Journalist @azluminaria.bsky.socialโฌ covering poverty/homelessness/housing insecurity and organizing in Tucson and southern Arizona
Lior Phillips @liorphillips.bsky.social verklempt, mostly.
๐ฟAuthor of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere
โค๏ธโ๐ฅCurrently writing a book about Cher
๐ค๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ชฌ๐งฟmother of twins ใฐ๏ธ music journalist
chicago via cape town
Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social Your astro bestie. Cofounder of the CHANI app. NYT best-selling author of You Were Born For This.
dario @mexitalianbeef.bsky.social i only post restaurant recommendations and pictures of my dog. youโre gonna have to slum it on twitter for everything else
Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org Screening 35mm, 16mm, and the assorted larger and smaller -mms since 2011
Heaven Malone @heavenmalone.bsky.social Vampire Disco. Eternal side-eye.
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.
H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
Subscribe: https://chicago312.beehiiv.com/
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...
ellery @ellery.bsky.social not a dozen opossums in a trench coat. innovation editor at @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org. she/they ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live cooler by the lake ๐ถ๏ธ๐๏ธ
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
*randomly chosen image from a list of 50+ webcams. image captured within 30 minutes of post
@the.mazz.zone
Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
๐ป๐ปCinchel๐ป๐ป @cinchel.com He/They
๐ธMusician ๐๐
๐ผ๏ธartist
๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ฌchemist
๐ปweb dev
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negative vibes only / forever preverbal / post tonal / optimized for disappointment / simple ideas executed poorly / completely forgettable
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | โEverything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 ๐ @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Corinne Halbert NYCC Artist Alley ๐๐ฎ๐ @corinnehalbert.bsky.social comic artist โ๏ธ horror artist ๐ฉธ filmmaker ๐ฅ
๐๐ค๐ACID NUN๐๐ค๐ @silversprocket.net
๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๏ธSCORPIO VENUS RISING๐๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฆ (2027)
Ignatz-award nominated creator ๐ NYC
Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social Data Reporter @themarshallproject.org.
๐งญ: Tucson, Arizona ๐ต
๐: https://geoff.terrorware.com
๐ฆฃ: https://mastodon.social/@geoffhing
Aadam Jacobs Collection Project @ajc-project.bsky.social A collective of music enthusiasts working to convert the audio recordings of Aadam Jacobs to digital format and upload to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
Feed to shows - https://bsky.app/profile/ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social Artist, photographer
ATX
kicketh out thee jammes matriarch-fornicators!
https://linktr.ee/artofcoop
Photo account: https://bsky.app/profile/photosbycoop.bsky.social
white2tea @white2tea.bsky.social we make tea
white2tea.com 
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Spider Onassis @shitlynn.bsky.social despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a Miata
Edwina Hay Photography @thisisnotaphotograph.com NYC based photographer available for hire.
Contact via my website or email (remove spaces in address):
hellothere @ thisisnotaphotograph.com
https://bio.site/edwina
Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
Max Morris @h0wt0sayhell0.bsky.social Cartoonist, punk?, Chicagoan, absurdist
speedy ortiz รท sad13 รท sadie dupuis รท haunted guy @sad13.horse sadie dupuis \\ speedy ortiz & sad13 frontdemon \\ books: Cry Perfume, Mouthguard \\ ahhhhhhhhhhhh \\ 1331 mixtape out July 10 via Exploding In Sound
Nick O. @nickobis.bsky.social Pronouns: any. I love: movies, theatre, music, all animals, vegetarian and vegan foods, books and audiobooks, Chicago history, music, walking around the city.
cunt orlok @lexaprofairy.bsky.social downloaded this app cuz iโm seeking new methods of brain damage
drink full and descend @thehorror.bsky.social 
Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social Professor | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Dad | Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone | Pittsburgh, PA | https://linktr.ee/punkademic
cody ๐ฃ๏ธ @cody.boats vampire scholar @intothetwilight.xyz
Ganser @ganserband.bsky.social Falling Elevator Music ๐ณ๏ธ
NA BRaffenaud@tkoco.com
EU booking gab@annibale.eu
https://linktr.ee/ganser
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Adam D. Jameson @adjameson.bsky.social Author, teacher, bad movie enthusiast
books: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture (FSG), Cinemaps (with Andrew DeGraff, Quirk Books)
current project: "The Good Bad Movie Scene"
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3SnTp
Impeach Trump and abolish ICE
Harms Whey @dumpster.bsky.social you tell me it makes no difference
at least i'm fucking trying
๐ chicago & gary