Zagreus @bigtalkingbird.bsky.social Goth Whovian. General SF/fantasy/horror nerd. Librarian. Cares too much about The Lore.
Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
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
Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social Parent, librarian, public servant, person in Boston
Daniel @dsransom.bsky.social Librarian.
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
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 Transportation Alerts @ctaalerts.bsky.social unofficial fan 🤖 publishing updates about the Chicago transit system. now including the el, cta bus, and metra
for more details, visit https://www.transitchicago.com/alerts/
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Alt National BIM Hour @manofsuds.bsky.social I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog. He/him.
https://letterboxd.com/manofsuds
Jenni Hill @jennihill.bsky.social Editorial Director at Orbit books, (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels.
🏳️🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine.
they/them
Hugo Award 2026 Finalist.
ɹoʇᴉpƎ 'sᴉɹɹɐH ǝǝ˥ @leeharris.net Editor, writer, performer
Multiple Hugo-loser
Editor of the Murderbot Diaries, Wayward Children, Monk & Robot & more
Co-owner (with Paul Cornell) of Cosmic Lighthouse Comics
Newsletter, here: www.leeharris.net/newsletter/
Checking the perimeter.
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social author, coder, fangirl, geek. 🌕🌖🌗🌑 Author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, Temeraire, & The Scholomance. Latest Release: THE SUMMER WAR
https://lnk.bio/naominovik
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social Founder & Agent, Headwater Literary Management. Host of the award-winning Print Run Podcast. AALA Member. Treasurer for Literary Agents of Change. Publishers Weekly industry MVP. She/her & Ms/Mx. Open to queries!
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Tyler Nordgren @spaceart.bsky.social Artist, Astronomer, Author, International Tour Leader, Speaker and all around Astronomical Bon Vivant coined the phrase “Half the park is after dark.”
Jennifer Lizak @jlizak.bsky.social Chicagoan, do-gooder, reader, music lover, community radio advocate, writer, DJ, lover of libraries, rabble-rouser. https://campsite.bio/jenniferlizak 
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social Freelance journalist based in Chicago. Read my stuff here https://zoetakakiworks.wordpress.com
Kelly Wooten @kwooten.bsky.social Archives, zines, a few things in between. Pro candy corn, anti fascist. she/her
Dennis Tracy @dennismtracy.bsky.social Withdrawal in Disgust ≠ Apathy University of Illinois and Marquette University graduate.
T1D for 27 years, Librarian man He/Him
Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social 🧬 Genomics PhD & science communicator
🧑🔬 Founder of @beyondxandy.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive humanist feminist
🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad
🏠 Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
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
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social Lesser building nerd, real estate photographer
Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social Organelle maniac, DNA devotee, RNA fanatic, Biology addict. 👩🏽🔬🧬🦠🧪🔬 ORCID: 0000-0001-5282-8852
https://krishnanlab.uchicago.edu/
Abolish ICE in Chicago and Everywhere @amberchicago.bsky.social (she/her) Chicago. cats. critical thinking. communication. also: knitting, sometimes
Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social Antifascist. Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social Systems librarian, podcaster, coder, musician, author, and cyberpunk.
Podcasting:
Cyberpunk Librarian: https://cyberpunklibrarian.com
The L0WL1F3 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/
Mastodon:
https://masto.hackers.town/@cyberpunklibrarian
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Chicago Appleseed @chicagoappleseed.org Addressing systemic issues in Chicago courts through research and advocacy 🍏
thechicagoneighborhoods.com @chgohoods.bsky.social One designer's take on the neighborhoods in his city, and other things too. Neighborhood prints and Chicago-inspired fonts available on the website: https://www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/links
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI.
You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
cta @chicagocta.bsky.social Official account of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Delivering quality, affordable transit services that link people, jobs and communities.
For customer support head to transitchicago.com/contact
Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/dynamicsymmetry
Glen David Gold @glenqgold.bsky.social Carter Beats the Devil, Sunnyside, I Will Be Complete, and other stuff.
Performing 3000 ORGASMS, a monologue, at the Lyric Hyperion on Aug 11
Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social Professional landscape photographer focused on Chicago and Ireland. My website is BarryButlerPhotography.com for prints, books and calendars.
Michelle Boule @mboule.bsky.social librarian, beer nerd, bibliophile, geek, maker of trouble, and writes as Michelle Boule and half of S.M. Leigh
formally wanderingeyre on Twitter
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. 🐈
Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social Co-Host The Weeknight @ms.now 🇺🇸
M-F 7pm ET/4pm PT
Author of NYT/WSJ bestseller
📘 “Look For Me There.”
Emmy Award Winner 📺
Traveler—72 📍Countries 🗺️
#BillsMafia 🦬
https://www.lookformethere.com
Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social Senior Director of the University of Mississippi's CETL & Assistant Professor of Teacher Education | Author: Failing Our Future (https://bit.ly/3UUdctd) and How Humans Learn (2018) | Speaker: http://bit.ly/jeyler | https://josheyler.wordpress.com | he/him
Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic educator, writer, bibliophile who already loves your dog(s). Opinions are mine. Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Vera Morgen @vera-morgen.bsky.social Horror writer, lesbian crone, and dumpster crow witch. Obsessed with folk horror, old gods, bone-eating deer, and women's wrongs.
Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400
Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social She/her. PhD in Egyptology, now I write fiction. The Night Library of Sternendach is my novella in sonnets. The Glass Garden is space horror and family drama.
Will boost almost anything with a bat in it.
linktr.ee/authorlevai
Gaylestorming @gaylestorming.bsky.social Writer, reader, coffee drinker…dark brews & dark chocolate. A cozy horror creative searching for my place in the universe. 19th Annual Writer’s Digest poetry award winner 🏅 USAF Veteran
https://www.gaylestorming.com
#13MorbidMondays @morbidimagining.bsky.social Join Morbid Imagining in counting down to October with #13MorbidMondays, featuring weekly prompts and chat questions to showcase dark fiction, art, folklore, and other work inspired by death and dying, hosted by @braegrosz.com
No A.I.
Patrick Smith @pksmid.bsky.social Co-host of Say More with Mary Dixon
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Jasmine G @jasminegardens.bsky.social Mom, gardener, pagan blue dot in a red state.
#BlackLivesMatter
#LoveisLove
Pam Grossman @phantasmaphile.bsky.social 🧙♀️Author of WAKING THE WITCH (Gallery Books) and MAGIC MAKER (Penguin Life Oct 2025)
📖Co-editor of WITCHCRAFT (Taschen)
🎙Host of The Witch Wave
📱Creator of WitchEmoji
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies
Cities, Affordable/Fair Housing, Urban Policy, Urban Political Economy, Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social 📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social ⚔️ Jeopardy! Masters is now on ABC, stream on Hulu
🏈 ESPN Jeopardy! now streaming on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN App
🍿 Watch Pop Culture Jeopardy! on Netflix
💙 Stream Jeopardy! on Hulu & Peacock
Sirens @sirensconference.org Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us July 28-August 1, 2027: sirensconference.org
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
Jennifer Keith @jkcreative8.bsky.social I’m a graphic designer, illustrator and oil painter. I live in San Francisco. Easily manipulated by three cats.
Making art holds back the darkness.
My shop: https://www.ufosisters.com/
https://sheridonkeithdesign.com/graphic-design
Absolutely no AI.
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
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🔗 subism.com/links
Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social Eric_Erins on Twitter
Usually I’m out here posting buildings and real estate listings I think are interesting.
Chicago
Caroline Hadley @geometriquilt.bsky.social - modern quilting | Sunday sketches | quilt design
- living + working on Wurundjeri land 🇦🇺
www.geometriquilt.com
www.instagram.com/geometriquilt
Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social Australian cartoonist and illustrator, concept artist, storyboards, trading card artist, other stuff. Anti-AI.
For work enquires email: timecowboyillustrations@gmail.com
🔗 https://linktr.ee/timecowboy
Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour and New Music Friday host; long-ago A.V. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; dad.
https://www.npr.org/people/5244882/stephen-thompson
LODE @loclode.bsky.social NIN, Nyman & Squirrels. Music Librarian at the Library of Congress Packard Campus! I'm that kid you always saw at Tower Records waiting for albums to drop at midnight😉
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social Culture journalist for Esquire, Wired, etc. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (Simon & Schuster), MYST & RIVEN: CAN GAMES BE LITERATURE? (University of Chicago Press, 2027).
https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan
Contact: adam@adam-stephen-morgan.com
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Merp @imagin8ion.bsky.social Mama. Cat lady. Writer. Multi-nerd. Love thy neighbor, call tyranny out whenever you see it, accept no kings in America. FDT.
I WILL YIELD FOR A QUESTION WHILE RETAINING THE FLOOR.
[Bluesky Bonafides: Flavor Flav has liked a skeet or two by this user]
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
Dr. Reinheitsgebot @malzliebchen.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇿🍻
Dad jokes and beer, the destruction of infrastructure not designed for cyclists, Great Lakes secessionist, Solar Noon evangelist. Skeeting from the field of stinky onions.
Sara Tantlinger @saratantlinger.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland. Collector of sea glass. Enthusiast of cats. 🐈⬛
saratantlinger.com
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social 👻Writes the dark stuff
📣Online content ed @ British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Events curator, Writing the Occult
🔪Former editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com
👩💻Day job: Content & community
🇦🇺in🇬🇧
🤓Curious/exhausted
Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social 🌈 Managing Editor and LGBTQ+ news reporter for @windycitytimes.com
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City Cast Chicago @citycastchicago.bsky.social We make keeping up with what's happening in Chicago easy.
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
bunny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
*WHISTLE GOBLIN*
TootTootMotherfucker.com
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a sentient pile of anhedonia and glitter.
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🏳️⚧️Trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Samantha Richardson 💕 @classicfilmgeek.bsky.social Classic film addict and Sabrina Carpenter stan currently writing a treasury of women's recipes throughout the history of cinema! ✨
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
Richard Thomas @richardthomas.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, publisher. Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Thriller Award finalist. Best Horror 11 & 17. he/him
Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social Online SFF magazine featuring stories and poetry for the 21st century! We publish numerous issues a year, two of which are focused on the climate crisis. Editor: Leon Perniciaro.
HavenSpec.com
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |