Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Anya Hess @anya-hess.bsky.social Paleoceanographer and geochemist interested in ocean redox | Postdoc at WHOI | foraminifera | she/they 🏳️🌈
Yale Stewart @yalestewart.bsky.social Award-winning cartoonist from St. Louis. He/Him.
Store & stuff: https://linktr.ee/yalestewart
Connor Hayes @chay3s.bsky.social Pittsburgh Based. Policy & Urban Planning nerd. I like turtles.
r @fourfiveandseven.bsky.social Order muppet in Pittsburgh. I play in a bunch of bands and I ride a bike around.
Mostly skeets about music, Pgh, urbanism, lefty stuff, bad jokes, nice things I see, and my cat
Erika Strassburger @erikastrassburger.bsky.social Mom and partner. Pittsburgh City Council member for @pghdistrict8.bsky.social - Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, & Oakland. For a thriving Pittsburgh. I love running trails and playing music.
Nick Rizzio @nrizzio.bsky.social Learning how to be a yinzer, one day at a time. Penn State grad, Philly suburb expat
@prohousingpgh.org
Armin Samii @arminsamii.bsky.social Well, I’m back.
Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com Journalist, co-host of Blocked and Reported, author of The Quick Fix and an upcoming book on youth gender medicine. Mostly just asking questions.
More info: JesseSingal.com
Jake Pawlak @jakepawlak.com Reject Austerity, Embrace Dirigisme | Native of Pittsburgh, Appalachia | currently Deputy Mayor to Mayor Ed Gainey | Views My Own
jakepawlak.com
Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social Barb is a working mom living in the Four Mile Run corner of Greenfield. She is the Pgh City Councilmember for District 5. Personal account.
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
BlogSky @blogsky.venki.dev Read your favorite bloggers right here on the skyline.
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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social Just an old battleship sailor.
Brandon S., aka BrandTran @brandtran.bsky.social I grew up on transit, bike, & work w/ ADAS transport. Everyone deserves good mobility options! Posts are my own & don't speak for my employer.
DC/PHL, now in PGH 🏳️🌈 all year long
Jack @tracewoodgrains.bsky.social Storyteller. Romantic. Pursue excellence.
Ryan Deto @ryandeto.bsky.social Bay Area native, proud PGH transplant. Pittsburgh reporter for Axios. Past: TribLive and Pittsburgh City Paper. Tips: ryan.deto@axios.com
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Dan Grzybek @dangrzybek.bsky.social Fan of picking things up and putting them down, Pittsburgh sports, and fighting fires (both literally and figuratively). Regrettably politics obsessed.
First and foremost a wife guy.
Opinions my own. He/him
Pro-Housing Pittsburgh @prohousingpgh.org Advocates of housing abundance and affordability in the Greater Pittsburgh region. Join us - DM or email prohousingpgh@gmail.com for details!
PGH District 8 @pghdistrict8.bsky.social Official Bluesky page for the Office of Councilperson Erika Strassburger, serving Pittsburgh's Oakland, Shadyside, and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods.
https://www.pittsburghpa.gov/City-Government/City-Council/Districts/Erika-Strassburger-District-8
Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan.bsky.social Building Housing for Families
Richard Hanania @hananiarichard.bsky.social Subscribe to the newsletter for the thoughtful stuff. www.richardhanania.com
David V. Auth @davidlikesbirds.bsky.social Pictures of birds | Currently at Pitt Law & CMU Heinz | Pitt Law Dems President | #T1D #Insulin4All | #ExpandTheT #HereWeGo
Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, working on programming languages and software engineering. Coauthor, Programming Language Pragmatics (videos: https://tinyurl.com/PLP5vids). CTO of noteful.net ACM Publications Board member. He/him.
Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social You don’t need to follow me just because we were mutuals on Twitter. I won’t be offended. Seems like this account is mostly me getting in dumb arguments which I wouldn’t want to read either.
CalmDownBen.com
Jen Mazzocco @jenmazzocco.bsky.social Dormont Council President. English teacher @ Allderdice HS and Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers Local #400 PAC Chair. Biking enthusiast & advocate for safer streets for all. Dormont CDC Board Member & Dormont Free Pantry Co-Chair! Hail to Pitt!
Noahpinion @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev Economics and other interesting stuff
Automated feed of https://www.noahpinion.blog/, discover more at @blogsky.venki.dev
Construction Physics @const-physics.blogsky.venki.dev Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
Automated feed of https://www.construction-physics.com/, discover more at @blogsky.venki.dev
Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social Fellow @Brookings.edu. Past: Manhattan Institute (2017-25) Sen. Portman chief economist (2011-17), budget policy for 4 prez campaigns. Fiercely independent and tribeless. Views mine.🏳️🌈- G @gregip.bsky.social @gregip.bsky.social
Crémieux @cremieux.bsky.social I write about genetics, 'metrics, and demographics.
My Substack is https://www.cremieux.xyz/
Mitchell @mryannagy.bsky.social Roller Coaster Connoisseur | Skier | Cat Dad | Weather Enthusiast | Photographer | Traveler | Urbanist | Progressive | Riverhounds | USMNT | Pirates
📍Pittsburgh --> Philadelphia
Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social Michigan State political scientist & IPPSR Director; Hooked bookstore/cafe Co-owner; Science of Politics Podcast; New book: Polarized by Degrees
The Niskanen Center @niskanencenter.bsky.social Strengthening liberal democracy through innovative policy solutions.
Wally @nowooski.bsky.social I mostly tweet on Twitter.
GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social Urban economist from Aotearoa living in Seattle. Share rents. Build homes.
Pittsburgh New Liberals @pghnewliberals.bsky.social Advocating for abundant housing, accessible transit, technological progress, and clean air & water in the Pittsburgh region
Open, optimistic, pragmatic
Charlie Wolfson @chwolfson.bsky.social Pittsburgh and Allegheny County government reporter, PublicSource.org | Interested in local government, elections, baseball, Pittsburgh
Chris Beam @nerdkid93.bsky.social Bike commuter, runner, #YIMBY, rock climber @ Ascend, active in Pro-Housing Pittsburgh, and North Way Christian Community member
Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
Michael 🚲🚲 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social Bike enjoyer
Bakfiets dad
Costco hot dogs are nice
Go Dodgers
#YIMBY
pgh_urbanist @pgh-urbanist.bsky.social Advocating for more public transit, bike infrastructure, pedestrian infrastructure, and housing in the Pittsburgh metro area.
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social youtube.com/bigjoel
(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social Tyrants are my enemies | Si vis pacem para bellum |🇩🇪🇪🇺| Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen |Military & History
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social Author of "1491, "1493," and, most recently, "The Wizard and the Prophet." Podcast, co-hosted w/ Virginia Postrel, about the history of things you didn't know even *have* a history: http://bit.ly/4unQNCY
Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social Lefty #YIMBY & board member
@AbundantHomesMA. Both enthralled by & disdainful of pop culture. @TransitMatters
ED & 🚋 geek. Rooting for (almost) everybody black
Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com Media platform covering global conflict zones. Focus on the Ukraine-Russia war. Consider supporting us once via buymeacoffee.com/noelreports or by becoming a member via patreon.com/NOELREPORTS.
Uday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social I like trains. Opinions mine. he/him
blog: https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com Angry old woman. Aspiring RIPTA board member, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
War Mapper @warmapper.org Mapping conflicts
If you would like to support me: https://buymeacoffee.com/warmapper
Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/White House Staff.
Alan Fisher @alanthefisher.bsky.social (he/him/dude)
Living in Philly, go birds
I also make the Armchair Urbanist series
https://linktr.ee/alanthefisher
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social Housing Advocate @prohousingpgh.org. YIMBY. Urbanist. World Traveler.
Amy "rides an ebike" Zaiss @thewildamy.bsky.social you never give me your money, you only give me your funny paper
📍 Pittsburgh
real life zac “Morgan”-ham @guitardude1236.bsky.social Every 311 service’s worst nightmare/most faithful servant
Views Morgan’s, not Zac or my employers’
🚲
Pittsburgh <—> Memphis
Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy alon@pedestrianobservations.com @alon@mastodon.social ↙️↙️↙️
Sara Innamorato @innamo.bsky.social Here for a good time, not a long time, but the good time is building an Allegheny County for all.
Call me ACE.
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
WESA @wesa.fm Pittsburgh's NPR news station. Donate to WESA today: http://tinyurl.com/wesasocial
Bob Charland @charlandbob.bsky.social Pittsburgh City Councilperson in the 3rd District. Working to build a clean, safe, and prosperous future for all. Personal account.
http://charlandforpgh.com
PGH - He/Him
Armand Domalewski @armanddomalewski.bsky.social Cohost of @everybodygetspie, a podcast from the team that brought you YIMBYs for Harris
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social Decarbonization. Likes charts. Helping philanthropy and government advance clean energy. PGH🌲 🚲
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Mykola Bielieskov @mykolabielieskov.bsky.social Research fellow at National Institute for Strategic Studies under UA President, senior analyst at UA NGO “Come back alive”; all ideas tabled here are private position 
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com