John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social 
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
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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.
Brock Wilbur @brockwilbur.bsky.social editor-in-chief @thepitch.bsky.social
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
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Friends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social Connecting people and protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since 1976.
Jaz @jaz.sh Jasmine (Jaz)
Gender Nomad
IRC made me gay
Reject drab, wear bright colors and play fast
Former Platform Engineering Lead at Bsky
28. she/her 🏳️⚧️
BSky Stats- https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Neighbors for More Neighbors (N4MN) @moreneighbors.org Neighbors for More Neighbors stands up for secure, abundant homes for everyone in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.
We advocate at the state and local level for changes to allow more homes in existing communities.
Website: https://moreneighbors.org/
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
Mina Markham @minamarkh.am am: Web Experience Lead @slack.dev. International Speaker. Design Systems Advocate. Chaotic Good.
was: HFA (1st dev hired). IBM Design.
always: 🖖🏾. Whovian. Beyoncé.
♿️ AuDHD. CPTSD. INFP. ABCDEFG.
👉🏾 https://mina.codes
Sharyn @sharynmorrow.com Lebanese-Minnesotan. Digital accessibility SME. AuDHD. Proponent of kindness & neurodiversity. Free Palestine & Defund ICE
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time (sparetherock.com). Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only.
St. Paul.
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Twin City Model Railroad Museum @tcmrm.bsky.social Celebrating 92 years of small trains, big memories in St. Paul, Minnesota!
Open Fri-Mon each week.
Plan your birthday party here! Visit tcmrm.org for all the details!
@longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social 
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com Artist, Fabricator, Offsec Engineer
Minneapolis suburbs
He/Him
Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org Minneapolis City Council President. He/Him
Tom Olsen @olsenforparks.bsky.social Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner At Large. Visit http://olsenforparks.org for more info.
Comms Specialist MN House DFL. MPLS, biking, Twolves. He/him/his.
defendthe612.bsky.social @defendthe612.bsky.social Supporting community resistance to the current ICE occupation in Minnesota by connecting neighbors, sharing resources, and documenting.
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
Minnesota Appellate Court Watch @minnappct.watch A newsletter dedicated to tracking appellate cases in Minnesota. Trends, analysis, and the sort of fun only appellate minutia can offer. Run by @danielsuitor.com. Newsletters/posts are for informational purposes, not legal advice.
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Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
@perennialcycle.bsky.social @perennialcycle.bsky.social 
Streets.mn @streets.mn Streets.mn fosters positive connections and inclusive conversations about better places in Minnesota.
localhuman @locallhuman.bsky.social - industrial digital supply of all your local human needs.
- candymaker and proprietor of https://reginascandies.com
- concerned about public seating, organizer of Minneapolis Public Seating Authority
- also at https://localhuman.industries
Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com 🏴 Anarchist without adjectives 🖤
🦸🏻 Writer in progress
📸 Photographer
💻 Rubyist
📦 More geometer than algebraist
🧢 Cubs, maybe this year
📍 Portland, Oregon
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ward 9 baddie @naomi111.bsky.social mom, organizer, abolitionist, problem
Moon Palace Books @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social more books than before
Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com Building a Minneapolis for the many, not the few. Join us at www.mplsforthemany.com
Mike Perham :sidekiq: @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy Rubyist, guy behind @sidekiq and Faktory.
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Kay Carvajal Moran @kayforparks.bsky.social Proud Latina and progressive running to represent MPRB District 5, dedicated to building a park system that is inclusive and welcoming to everyone🌳🦋💚
www.kayforparks.org
Joyful Riders Club @joyfulridersclub.bsky.social 
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
BSides Twin Cities @bsidestc.org BSides Twin Cities. An inclusive security conference for those in the Twin Cities area.
https://bsidestc.org
DC612 @dcg612.bsky.social Twin Cities Defcon group serving the 612 area code
Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer @ashafferwx.bsky.social Retired TV meteorologist, UW-Madison graduate in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences. Bike commuting, mountain biking, windsurfing, skiing, backpacking, canoeing. Protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee Ward 8.
@dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com Southside Senator, husband, father, renter, son of Somali immigrants, long-time advocate for working people. fatehfor62.com
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Dani Kasprzak @foucauldron.bsky.social Leftist. Penchant for hyperlocal Minneapolis politics. Psychoanalytic therapist. Former academic book editor (occasional current proofreader). Queer single parent to a kid and a cat. Piano, gardening & gossip fuel me
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and Abolish ICE 🧊
@nateberkopec.bsky.social @nateberkopec.bsky.social 
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
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Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
absolute horses @jcoglan.com this is him here
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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
Paul Huttner @paulhuttnerweather.bsky.social Retired MPR News chief meteorologist. Weather, guitars, and sunsets make me happy.
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
Moth @walkingminnesota.com Can be seen walking (and biking) around Minnesota at walkingminnesota.com
Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social Engineering Manager @ Spotify💚
Black Code Collective co-founder ✊🏾
Scuba Diver 🧜🏽♀️🤿
Whiskey expert — IG: womanwithwhiskey
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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com Location: South Minneapolis. likes and retweets ≠ endorsements. ICE OUT NOW
Julie Pagano @juliepagano.com Still mostly on mastodon, but investigating.
My views are my own and have nothing to do with my employers past, present, or future.
Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.
Preservation, art, old tech.
18+ only
Something beautiful is going to happen.
(she / they)
Writing: antientro.pics
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com Pulitzer-winning investigative tech reporter. Looking for TPM roles supporting cybersecurity teams. 💕
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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own. https://sarah.dev
Distinguished Engineer @ Google, Chrome
Formerly Google Core Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
MN Cargo Bike Library @mcbl.bike The MN Cargo Bike Library is a community-run program made possible through partnerships with @bikemn.bsky.social, @cyclehoop.bsky.social, the Lyndale Neighborhood Association and a grant from the Minneapolis Foundation.
Colm MacCarthaigh @colmmacc.bsky.social VP / Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Also: Open Source and Apache, Cryptography, Irish Music, mediocre Photography.
Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org CSO of TPO.group ♦️ EFF Board of Directors♦️she/her ♦️ bestselling author but only that one time
Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov Senior U.S. Senator from MN | Snow enthusiast ❄️
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech nb (she/they). boricua. 1312. pfp by @kimstramat.bsky.social ✨ wasm @ fastly. Opinions strictly my own.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
https://linkedin.com/in/malwaretech
https://marcushutchins.com
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social Personal account.
Minneapolis City Council Member - 12th Ward. Hyper-local chatterbox, Pro-labor, Fmr Policy Aide, First-generation Bengali-American.
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social Vegan powerlifter. Personal trainer in training.
https://www.vegan-forklift.com