Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetransportation.org
@ktwhitehead.bsky.social @ktwhitehead.bsky.social CTA External Affairs. Village of Brookfield Trustee. Formerly RTA and Active Transportation Alliance.
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social podcastress. she/her but they/them if you’re mad at me. Trashfuture/Well There’s Your Problem/Kill James Bond/No Gods No Mayors/Be Gay Solve Crimes available wherever podcasts are sold
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Transit Columbus @transitcolumbus.org fighting for better transit for all.
grassroots, volunteer run. meetings at the main library on the 2nd tuesday of every month. open to everybody.
https://linktr.ee/transitcolumbus
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Liam @wtyppod.com Podcast guy and social worker. He/Him.
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
NEOtrans @neotrans.bsky.social Breaking news real estate development and transformation blog for urban Northeast Ohio. We're usually first and always free!
Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online I write about art, gender, and the tech industry. Video essays on @nebula.tv, Twin Peaks podcast @tstv.show 🌲🌫️
All that is solid melts into air
youtube.com/@lily_lxndr
Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social The #greenestzooinamerica is dedicated to creating adventure, conveying knowledge, conserving nature, and serving the community. Home of Fiona the hippo 🦛
Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social Writer, CS Grad, environmentalist and optimist.
Focused on infrastructure, macro-systems, and excellence. Bylines in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and Toronto Star. DMs Open.
https://www.thetransitbrief.net/
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Scott Hand @artifactscott.bsky.social Cincinnati<Ohio<Midwest
Branding @ artifactbeer.com
Station Manager @ radioartifact.com
Arts and sustainability Architect http://trilobitedesign.com
Painting/design/construction/acoustics/bicycles/urbanism
(he/him)
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social Nothing makes me happier than places that have less cars. I make videos about that 👇
https://linktr.ee/carfreekeith
📍Chicago via NW IL, w/ a few years in New Orleans too
he/him
Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social Posting live from the Most Serene IL-Khanate of the Great Khan JB Pritzker
Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social Chicago. Transportation law, policy, and technology mostly. Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council. Views my own. One ticket, one timetable, one network....
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Becca Costello @beccacostello.bsky.social Local Gov Reporter at WVXU Cincinnati Public Radio | Listen to Backed Up, a 6-episode podcast about sewer infrastructure!
Tips: bcostello@wvxu.org.
Transit @transit.app We make life better without a car.
Live in 1000+ cities worldwide. Made in Montreal.
🌳🚌🚏🚇🚲🌼
En français svp 👉 @fr.transit.app
go.transit.app/more
Cincinnati Reds @reds.com The official Bluesky account of the baseball's first professional team.
Chicago YIMBY Unofficial @chicagoyimby.bsky.social A bot that posts articles from the Chicago YIMBY RSS feed - maintained by @michaelmclean.me
If New York YIMBY LLC wants to actively use this handle instead, please reach out to Michael
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
Taylor Radcliffe @taylor-radcliffe.bsky.social 
WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social As Chicago's PBS station, WTTW is committed to producing and presenting independent, trusted, best-in-class content fueled by a distinctly Chicago sensibility.
https://t.co/QTmgsrKIaj
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org
Transit Maps @transitmap.net A celebration of transit maps and diagrams from around the world. Visit the blog at transitmap.net. 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
Transit map prints sold at: transitmap.net/store
Transit mappers starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/32jXV41
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social A foundation working to secure a just and sustainable future with abundant transportation options. transitcenter.org
MBTA @mbta.com The official Bluesky account of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
mbta.com
Cincinnati Metro @cincinnatimetro.bsky.social Metro is Southwest Ohio's regional transit system.
Page monitored M-F, 8-5. Social media policy: http://bit.ly/3yu7EL3
Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
BART @bart.gov This is the official account for BART. We provide train service throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and connect people to places they love.
For automated service updates go to @alerts.bart.gov
Visit us at bart.gov 🚇💙
Randy Clarke @wmatagm.bsky.social Proudly leading the Metro team @wmata.com (America’s Metro System) as GM & CEO. Also on IG and Twitter with same handle.
Metro @wmata.com Official Bluesky page for WMATA, aka Metro, the major public transit provider in the National Capital Region, serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
wmata.com
NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social One regional transit system. NITA sets fares, standards, and schedules across CTA, Metra, and Pace. Formerly the RTA.
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
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for MLBTradeRumors.com.
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Sarah Freishtat @sfreishtat.bsky.social Once: reporter @chicagotribune. Now investigating elsewhere.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info Visit mta.info for service information.
Download our official apps for real-time customer care: mta.info/apps
keelin @kmc26.bsky.social 
Chicago Bike Sox @chicagobikesox.com Let’s bike to the ballpark
https://chicagobikesox.com
Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org We're demanding a city-wide #bikegridnow with slow & safe bike-prioritized streets across Chicago. bikegridnow.org
Femmes + Thems Bike Chicago @femnthembikechi.bsky.social A safe space for women, femme, non-binary & trans Chicagoans to ride bikes together🚲
No-drop social rides every 1st weekend of the month💫
Plz email us your questions! 💟
https://femmesandthems.org/
Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social I write baseball words for a living. Constantly tired and ready to retire. Here to make myself laugh.
Baseball Reference @baseball-reference.com I'm a website devoted to baseball stats & history. Founded in 2000. Part of the Sports Reference family of sites.
🔗 https://www.baseball-reference.com/
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.
Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social my romanticism is not post-, it's neo-!
https://www.youtube.com/@InnuendoStudios
he/him
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com words and sounds and the sounds of words
🚫 https://neverpo.st 🐉 https://funcity.ventures 🪦 https://ripcorp.biz
BK NYC // rugnetta.com // posts delete regularly
HSRGood @hsrgood.bsky.social Trains.
I don't have enough of them.
(21)
Milwaukee Ave Bike Lane @milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social If it were a well-designed bike lane, I wouldn't have to tweet about it. Chicago demands safe and sustainable transit for all.
Aaron Rogers @aaron-r.bsky.social Not Aaron Rodgers | He/him | 🏳️🌈 ✶✶✶✶
A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Sometimes Too Online, but working to never be Terminally Online.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Better Streets Chicago Action Fund @bscactionfund.org Fighting for the streets Chicagoans deserve.
bscactionfund.org
William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social Gay urbanist (he/him), Coach Operator of the Year ‘21, ‘24, ROSE Award Winner ‘22, 3rd Generation Bus Operator, Near East Indy via The Athens of the Prairie // All views my own
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Josh 🌹🚇🚲🚎 @mopey024.bsky.social Lefty train bike person in Detroit (he/they) 🌹
AmyL🌹🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @amylextraordinaire.bsky.social queen, freak, railroader
LUCY 🚎🏳️⚧️🌺 @halfhourheadway.bsky.social Chicago based dumb slut obsessed with trains and buses
RestingBikeFace ™ @restingbikeface.bsky.social bikes and dogs
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🍕
they/them
chicago
Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at WBEZ - Chicago Public Media
bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com I make stuff for transit and trains, but not only for transit and trains. 🚰
Oakland, CA, ex-NYC
he/him or they/them
Christof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social Director of Transportation, Madison, WI; Author of “Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit,” Island Press, 2021, “Transportation and the Shape of Cities,” Island Press, 2026. (he/him) PE/AICP/LEED AP (Views are my own.)
Michael @michaelsfba.bsky.social clinically insane foamer
Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎🚰 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social Future urban planner just screaming into the void, usually about transit and Philly sports
Lettuce Cat @piero.bsky.social they 23 chicago
piemadd.com
i program and i work on trains
justin. @justinoboyle.com he/him • software engineer | support tenant rights, nationalize the railroads and build housing.
Posts mine & not my employer's or any other organization
Daniel Fischer @danielfischer.nyc Brooklynite riding bikes & BMT
He/Him
Doug @doug.city Not actually a train. Personal account, views mine. He/they. 🏙️🚇🚍🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Kurtis Pozsgay @kpozsgay.bsky.social Certified urban planner. Letter "B" love: Books, Bikes, Beer, Bowling, Bocce. Malort. 
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social Managing director of the Institute for Energy Solutions and the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM) @ UMich. Still also posting about tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, & cats.
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Mebhy ✶ @mebhy.bsky.social | 🏳️⚧️ Transexual Travisty |
✶✶ Rogers Park, Chicago ✶✶
| Loves her Dogs 🐶 |
| She/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ |
Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com @Peacock Pitching Analyst
@MLB Analyst
@FDSportsbook Pitching Guru
@MLBonFOX Analyst
Link to my book Unhittable:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/unhittable-rob-friedman?variant=43912948252706
kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine
alexandra @bigmoodenergy.bsky.social transit opinions • trying to post ceramics • learning bass • your ad here • she/her
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com