The Noir Collective @thenoircollective.bsky.social Hosting weekly watch parties of #FilmNoir – both beloved classics and forgotten gems – every Wednesday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Check back each week for our upcoming schedule!
DishonoredLady @dishonoredlady.bsky.social Film Noir fan featuring actors, movies, & other info. Same on Instagram & TikTok
marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social swamp city cinema
https://soundcloud.com/gauntletmovies
Chicago Buoys @chicagobuoys.bsky.social Posting live readings from buoys around Chicago.
💾 https://github.com/MisterClean/chicago-buoys
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere.
Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social Chicago represented in pop culture. Large focus on non-local interpretations of the city. Extended credit included in alt text. No AI.
The Times of Northwest Indiana @nwitimes.com News tips? newstips@nwi.com
Support local journalism: nwitimes.com/subscribe
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social Exorcizamus te, omnis immunde spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica...
Cherry blossom @chocilate.bsky.social Democrat (derogatory)
Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social She/They ♿️♾️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#AuDHD
MSW & Public Policy
therapist/social worker (ret)
I study creatives.
treatment of violence • chronic illness • neurodivergence • creative process
L.A. reject
NOLA swampgoblin ⚜️
Character in the wrong movie
Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social Military affairs reporter with The Washington Post. State-school alum. Beer-league softball enthusiast. Dog guy. Signal for encrypted tips: danlamothe.30
Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social your fuel prices, explained honestly.
data over politics, no tolerance for political BS.
thousands of interviews | trusted by every White House administration.
Integrity matters.
Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social "Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood.
Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related. Georgia raised via UGA & SSI.
Schnickelfritz 🍻 @schnickilfritz.bsky.social Authentically Kräusened. Husband, Father. Chicago Sports Fan & Sufferer. Native Plant Enthusiast. Zone 5b Gardener (54g Rock River Hills) Northern Illinois. DMs = Insta-block. Cheers! 🍻
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
#1 Babe: Pig in the City Fan @piginthecityfan.bsky.social Babe: Pig in the City fan account 🐷 He/Him
#releasethemillercut
Chicago
Chicago Area Archivists @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social An organization for Chicago area archivists, historians, librarians. Join us!
https://chicagoarchivists.org/
Take action to save Chicago's NARA facility: https://chicagoarchivists.org/NARAClosuresAction
Sign the petition: c.org/cVMG6VvqPS
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
YPT Chicago @yptchicago.org #yptchi Providing development, fellowship, and networking opportunities for young Chicagoans in the transportation field.
Elly Fishman @ellyfishman.bsky.social Journalist. Author of "Refugee High: Coming of Age in America." Bylines in Rolling Stone, New York Times, Fast Company, NPR, WBEZ, Chicago magazine, etc. Clog enthusiast. Everything bagel.
Gestalt-ing Raspberry @clothwhole.bsky.social Sam, I am. Cloth is fabricated. Negligent on follow backs; not personal. Here for the timelines.
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Agence France-Presse @afp.com L'AFP: d'abord les faits 🌍
https://u.afp.com/liens
Lucy Sante @luxante.bsky.social writer, artist, enigma
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him 
Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social Belfast-based Photographer.
Do good, die great.
https://brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/
Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social Professional mammal. Working in conservation policy, focused on birds. Based in Washington state on the South Sound prairie and the lands of the Nisqually.
erikschneiderphoto.com
authodizer @doktrock.bsky.social Earthologist in a Chem Dept. Fargo; from St.Paul Minneapolis. U Minn. 🇩🇪🇱🇹/🇮🇳, spouse 🇮🇸. 2x Fulbright #T1D ally. ❤️Chicago. Geology! ☔️ doktrock.net
Jodie @bultmocity.bsky.social Chicago human.
Fuck Rahm. Abolish ICE.
Lauren Raye Snow @laurenrayesnow.bsky.social Artist. Maker of Graven Images.
World Fantasy & Chesley Award Finalist.
Website: http://rayedraws.com
IG: http://instagram.com/laurenrayesnow
Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social Retired historian + lawyer, Chicagoan, lesbian-feminist, sometime Dolly expert, angry. I lived in Knoxville TN for 16 very long years. Author, "Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History."
CREW @citizensforethics.org CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) fights for the democracy Americans deserve and aims to build a government that is accountable, transparent and ethical.
citizensforethics.org
Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social #TCMParty old movies #VintageMenus genealogy #SFGiants🧡🖤⚾️
I’m a frustrated Democrat Hawaii/Big Island/Puna 🏳️🌈ally🏳️🌈 🚫DMs
chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social late to the urbanist party
Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social I work at a cemetery, I write about Detroit history, I’m in it for the quips. littledetroithistoryletter.substack.com
O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social Books, baseball, Great Lakes. Writes reviews all over, and at South Side Sox. Big fan of rivers and such. He/him
María Inés Zamudio @mizamudio.bsky.social Professional chismosa. award-winning investigative reporter with Invisible Institute/ProPublica. FOIA enthusiast. Professional Chismosa. Past @wbez @apmreports @publicintegrity @ChicagoReporter.
Runner and aspiring fiction writer.
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
languid and bittersweet bisexuals @bombycillacedrorum.bsky.social Kit. Urban birds and nature, human horrors (and joys). Also general media/fandom (fantasy/spies/period drama/women), memes/shitposting. | she/her | * * * *
lindsey romain @lindseyromain.bsky.social chicago-based writer/critic; CFCA (bylines: bwdr, nerdist, vulture, thrillist, etc.)
100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
B. Brillo @todaysbuns.bsky.social two-thirds human, beautiful in almost every way
they/she
Nan Warshaw @nanwarshaw.bsky.social She/Her
Founder/Admin at Refugee Community Connection
Founder, former owner, at Bloodshot Records
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social Philadelphia. Texas Monthly writer-at-large. Ex of Austin, Portland, Cincinnati, Missoula. Music, food, sports (no necessarily in that order). 
Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social We advocate for more & better transit; streets safe for everyone; & housing & land use policies to make this possible. A Montgomery County, Maryland, built for people and not for automobiles. https://www.actfortransit.org/
LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social Artist, Filmmaker, WoW/Retrogamer, Lover of beauty and the absurd but not necessarily in that order - NO DMs - Here for movies, art, games, and humor only
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Eric Stassen Photography @estassenphoto.bsky.social Sharing a photo each day, which helps me to stay positive and appreciate the beauty of the world. I hope these images may do the same for you.
ericstassenphotography.com
@chinorthsider.bsky.social @chinorthsider.bsky.social Chicagoan, history, architecture, recovering lawyer.
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 County’s Stormwater Management Authority. Learn more at mwrd.org.
☎️ Report waterway concerns: 800-332-3867.
Ezra Fitch Pabody @ezrafitchmpls.bsky.social Ezra Fitch Pabody (1868-1940) lived in Minneapolis and wrote seven diaries between 1882 and 1890. Pabody’s diaries record many of the changes that took place during Minneapolis’s “boom town” years.
Account maintained by @auntiefancy.bsky.social
@kelloggfireman.bsky.social @kelloggfireman.bsky.social Full-time fire chief, part-time writer. Husband & girl dad (x2). Author of “War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL” and “Eckie: Walter Eckersall and the Rise of Chicago Sports.”
🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social Research Scientist 🌾 Adj Professor
Scicomm 🌾 Env/Sci History 🌾 Comics
history, plants, & goldenrod 🌾🏳️🌈🌾
https://liz.kozik.net
she/her
@negauneeinstitute.bsky.social 🌿 Chicago Botanic Garden 🌿
https://rethinkinglawns.com
Strong Towns Chicago @strongtownschicago.bsky.social Have fun and make a difference with an active urbanist community. Join us!
Housing 🏡 Transit 🚎 Finance 🤓
Website: strongtownschicago.org
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/strongtownschicago
A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social Chicago-based cat-loving abolitionist nerd.
fund.nnaf.org/ALW26 - Fundraising for Chicago Abortion Fund
Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social Law Professor, University of Minnesota. Constitutional Law • Family Law • Sex Equality. Three books—We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, Intimate Lies and the Law, and Family Law Reimagined.
EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social We are the quiet unnoticed Heron, inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time.
"Nature is reported in the fullness of life... To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech"-Thoreau www.everyheron.com
Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social Facts, Information, and Images related to Space and Astronomy.
Copyright with respective people and organizations shared for educational purposes.
Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social NASA Human Spaceflight for 25+ years. Displaced Philadelphian. Go Birds! Amateur photographer. Occasional sci-fi writer.
Sent people to the Moon!
Go then. There are other worlds than these.
https://otherworlds.picfair.com/
chap @chap.bsky.social ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Pulp Covers @pulpcovers.com I take whiskey straight, women curvy and murder in stride
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social Space news from around the globe, all in one place
Focusing on NASA & ESA Missions
Artemis III 🚀🌕 | 2027
Note we are not NASA just #Spacenerds #Moonjoy
The A.V. Club @avclub.com Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. https://linktr.ee/the_avclub
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Chicakō @chicago-seasons.bsky.social An interpretation of the traditional division of the year into 72 microseasons or kō (候), for the climate in Chicago, by u/sherrillo on Reddit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12uh4lpcqnkYuDY75r7HwKpKLtrefyALw (bot run by @maeveynot.online)
Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @katieklocksin.bsky.social One of the #MillionsMissing with #LongCovid #MECFS JohnVsJon.com // Once a radio and podcast producer, always a Transom alum // native plants
🌻🪻🌼
@squirrelwhisperer.bsky.social @squirrelwhisperer.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇪
Not so young dude trying to carry the news.
Hourly Twin Peaks @hourlytwinpeaks.bagpuss.org A random frame from a random episode/film of Twin Peaks, every hour, on the hour.
Episode details in alt text. Fix your hearts or die.
By Dave Bagpuss Forsey @bagpuss.org
More Hourly TV: linktr.ee/hourlytv
Art bot @art-institute.bsky.social Posting random artworks from Art Institute of Chicago's API. For more info, look at the API https://api.artic.edu/docs/#introduction
Chicago AQ @chicagoaq.bsky.social Monitoring Air Quality Index (AQI) pollutants (PM 2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂ O₃, CO) measured in The Loop, Chicago. Managed by @nikhunder.com
Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social Film, and classic film noir neckwear, baby.
You keep the martinis dry. I’ll be back.
she/her
#moviesky #filmnoir #filmsky #NoirAlley #thenoircollective #oldhollywood #silents #TCM
ILC Chicago @ilcofchi.bsky.social The Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club. Rebuilding the foundation of working class independence through friendship, education, mutual aid, and solidarity.
linktr.ee/ChicagoILC
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Brónagh Tumulty @bronaghtumulty.bsky.social Reporter @WGNNews. 🇮🇪 Irish immigrant in Chicago. I often pronounce words oddly on American telly. Got a story? Email me: btumulty@wgntv.com
Website: www.bronaghtumulty.net
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Motria Oleksiyivna, PhD @motria.bsky.social Environmental health scientist; Ukrainian warmonger; tagging along with the Black-Jewish alliance. Adjunct at UIC School of Public Health
Eddie Muller @eddiemuller.bsky.social Writer. Film Historian. Bartender.
Michael Azerrad @michaelazerrad.bsky.social Author of _The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana_ and _Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991_.
Bylines: the New Yorker, the Yale Review, the New York Times, etc.
RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social Former historian, current indexer. She/her, cis. Cats, nature, crafts, sci fi/fantasy. Covid aware. Chicago parent. GenX. West Coast ex-pat. I block & mute freely.
shawrd773@zirk.us
Need an index for your book in the humanities or social sciences? DM me.
John Elliott @velcroski.bsky.social Refugee of sorts.
Picture shows actual Tower of Sauron.
North Side Pat @northsidepat.bsky.social Husband, Dance Dad, Chicagoan, Music & Cubs Fan. Lots of baseball content, especially April-October.
sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social she/her | ♊️ gemini journalist & all things digital at mprnews.org 🌙 beep me: sstroozas@mpr.org
Patrick Sisson @patrickcsisson.bsky.social Writer. Trends, tech, economics & policy shaping cities. Bylines: New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, MIT Tech Review, Bisnow, Fast Company. patsisson at gmail dot com. 
Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018"
LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre"
PhD in Shakespeare.
Nuts about public radio.
Proud West Virginian.
Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
GBH @wgbh.org GBH produces digital and broadcast programming that engages, illuminates and inspires, through drama and science, history, arts, culture and journalism.
Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social Psychological scientist 📊, first-gen academic 👩🏻🎓, homesick Canadian 🇨🇦. Lover of beautiful spaces, natural 🏞️ and built 🏙️. #Urbanism #Placemaking #PlacesForAll #PlacesForPeople (She/her)
📌 Chicago 🟦✶✶✶✶🟦
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Tuesday Funk @tuesdayfunk.bsky.social Chicago's beloved eclectic monthly reading series showcasing a mix of fiction, poetry and essays. Join us at Hopleaf the first Tuesday of every month.
StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social We are a literary arts nonprofit focused on building a writing community. Classes and events online and in person. Come write with us!
https://www.storystudiochicago.org
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Founder, The Gaia Leadership Project & The Ripple Effect Institute; political/leadership consultant; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights atty; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; NYer 4ever; Host, ResistanceLive on YT https://www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm