Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social I like trains. Studying computational linguistics at the university of Stuttgart
A little blog about public transit and my life: https://macsquirrelera.substack.com
I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social Nerdy, blerdy student of society (for better or worse). Lover of comics and cardigans and the occasional cocktail. Watch this corner of sky.
Some of my self published work here: https://medium.com/@gwhiz07
Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social If Barbur Blvd was a person: curvy, too wide, useless. Transit, architecture, urban geography.
Opinions are that of *your* employer.
Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Mexican in the US.
Posts in Spanglish.
https://elikaortega.net
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
Our site: http://the-downballot.com/
Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social Trying to make Seattle's Route 8 bus not the worst in the city! https://fixthel8.com/
Sign our Action Letter: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/csg-fix-route-8/
A project of @centralseattlestreetsforall.org
Artwork by Francesca Oaksford
Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.
Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social Lead Counsel, In Re Ea-Nasir MDL. Promote Frederick Douglass Thought
Obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise
Nick @sregorn.bsky.social brooklyn supremacist
“The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment…”
你可以叫我愚尼克
Andrew Damitio @andrewdamitio.bsky.social Environmental Economics and Policy | Municipal Reform | PNW Expat | YIMBY | Techno-Optimist | Opinions Mine, Not My Employer's | Pro-Economic Growth |
Will U'ren @whollingsworth.bsky.social Bikes, books, busses, buildings, Bortland
"Mommy, mommy, buy me a license plate!"
"No, come along Bortland!"
"Are you talking to me?"
"No, my city is also named Bortland."
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social Bostonian. Journalist/Author Past: Mass Appeal/Okayplayer/Boston Magazine. Books: Instead We Became Evil: A Tale Of Survival & Perseverance & On Track: The Kronicles Of DJ Amir
Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social Moved to Portland from Seattle in late 2025. Ride bikes, travel when I can, and work in zoning and community planning. I love makin' maps.
www.crozierian.com
https://urbmonger.wordpress.com/
www.cycleblaze.com/journals/crozierbike
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Nic Cota @nictrieslife.bsky.social All around transportation and urban planning wonk in beautiful Portland, OR. Civil engineer by day. Father, husband, and proud member of a car-free family. Thoughts my own
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Barak Pliskin / Pliskin Architecture @panyc.bsky.social Manhattan based architecture and interior design firm, focused on high-end design projects throughout New York City.
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
American Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social Championing a movement to protect and restore the rivers on which we all depend. Learn more ↙️ www.americanrivers.org
Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com Biking news up Seattle’s hills since 2010.
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/
#SEAbikes #Seattle
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
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.
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org Housing is a human right. Fighting for tenants rights along with four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. 🏘️
Peter @onrepete.bsky.social ⛏️ geologist turning carbon to minerals
📍 east coast -> south coast -> west coast
🪩 aspiring socialite, city-guy, nature-guy, terminal indie-head, lgm
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Neighborhood Workshop @nbrhoodwrkshop.bsky.social Principal at Neighborhood Workshop & Faculty with the Incremental Development Alliance.
Coined and popularized the term ACU - Accessory Commercial Unit. ACUs keep it local and make it walkable.
Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com I push transit to its limits, while attempting to be entertaining.
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
ben fryback @bfryback.bsky.social Transportation Engineer (In Training)
posts and thoughts are my own
Salem, OR
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social I do housing policy stuff and it’s ruining my life. CADA, SMUD, and SOE fanboy. House Sacramento’s most annoying member.
Urban Land Rent Foundation’s official letterboxd: boxd.it/cUU0R
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com Eisner, Ringo, and Harvey-nominated author/artist/adventurer behind Banned Book Club, Student Ambassador, No Rules Tonight, Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit. Worked on Garfield, Star Trek, Popeye. Repped by Janine Kamouh at WME. Find me at ryanestrada.com
Amy @phoo.bsky.social Eternally Annoying 🥰
Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social Official account for the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). Report road hazards 24/7 to 503-823-1700.
Learn more at https://www.portland.gov/transportation
Nick Christensen @nickcpdx.bsky.social I’m Joe Lombardo.
Government flack. VGK / LAD / UNLV fan. Snarky traveler.
These posts are mine, not my employer’s.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Rithy @rithykhut.bsky.social I'm here for #WoSo, #StarWars, and #Urbanism / #Bikes. Living in #Portland / #PDX. Still at 🏡.
Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social PTFC, the Beavs, and Tottenham Hotspur in no particular order. Enjoyer of trains. Resident of Portland.
Jonathan Khoo @jonk.org Nothing to declare, but I have a lot to say.
213➡️818➡️708/847➡️773➡️415➡️510➡️+49➡️510➡️503
https://linktr.ee/jonkhoo
Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social Portland, Baltimore, Oregon, Maryland, Idaho, green, blue, law, government, cats, kittens.
Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social Contributor @the-downballot.com.
Elections, voting rights, redistricting, and maps.
Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social 📍Seattle/London. Board member at Seattle Streets Alliance. Opinions amirite. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. Dongho Chang superfan. (he/him)
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
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.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Ian Davidson @iandavidson.bsky.social Board Vice President Cherriots🚏🚌 | Co-founder of @SalemBikeVision.bsky.social 🚲| Pragmatic optimist ☀️| Father
Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social full stack content engineer, portlander, t1d
he/him
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social Mom, attorney, nerd, she/her. Mayor of Bend.
📨 mkebler@bendoregon.
https://linktr.ee/melaniekebler
Campaign account: keblerformayor.bsky.social
John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social Posting thoughts on plumbing/building codes, engineering design guides, water and nutrient cycles, often with regional and historical insights (personal account)
Director of Plumbing Standards Research and Development
john.lansing@centerforbuilding.org
Ariel Méndez @amendez.bsky.social Personal account. I support walkable, bikeable, kid-friendly communities. Associated Faculty, Poli Sci @ OSU-Cascades. Official City of Bend account: @councilormendez.bsky.social
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Brian Libby @brianlibby.bsky.social Architecture & arts journalist, author of In Search of Portland: Exploring a Transforming City • photographer and experimental filmmaker • fond of film noir, college football, cats, British panel shows, tennis, jazz, espresso, Columbo, democracy
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social 
Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org David Goldstein • Sr. Fellow at Civic Ventures • Economic storyteller • Co-host PitchforkEconomics.com • Recovering blogger/journalist • Truth is the best defense against prosecution for libel… but rhetorical hyperbole is more fun.
1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com Portland should aim for a minimum 2% average annual growth rate. People already want to live in Portland, we just need to make it cheap and easy to build homes. 🏗️🏙️🌲🚲🦫
Ben Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social Carly Rae Jepsen nano-influencer. Bike bro.
Nashville
Hannibal Tabu | writer/VO actor (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social Professional blerd: comics, code, DND. On the line. On the grind. On your mind. Broadcasting live from Los Angeles. VO REP: Eris Talent Agency. https://hannibaltabu.com/411/ & https://bit.ly/bookhannibaltabu
Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social Hi, I'm Chris K 👋
Former science communicator, now documenting Mount St. Helens: before 1980, the eruption and the years of activity that followed, and the land's recovery since.
Links/email: https://linktr.ee/mountsthelensarchive
Next Portland @nextportland.bsky.social Next Portland is dedicated to making it easier to discover what’s being built in Portland.
Central Oregon YIMBY @bendyimby.bsky.social Advocating for housing of all shapes and sizes for everyone who wants to live in Bend and Central Oregon
https://centraloregonyimby.org/
Biking in Bend @austinmazzolini.bsky.social I make posts about bike infrastructure in Bend, OR
Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social Skull astronaut
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.
@3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social Mostly tweeting about cities, climate change, demographics, land use, and housing econ on this account.
I post photos and facts about Jersey City, where I live.
🇨🇴🇺🇲
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social Sixplex enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Erstwhile Prince of Prosciutto, now Policy Director at California YIMBY.
Cities are for people not cars. California is not full.
he etc
sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social next station is the end of history, please gather your belongings as you exit
Portland Streetcar History @pdx-streetcars.bsky.social A companion account for the "Portland Streetcar History" research wiki curated by Cameron Booth, established February 2024. Lots of photos, maps, remnants, and research musings.
Visit the wiki at: https://tinyurl.com/pdx-streetcars
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org An org with a mission to educate the public about the impact of parking policy on housing, climate, equity, and traffic.
https://linktr.ee/parkingreform
foxyjewishmama @foxyjewishmama.bsky.social Sammy (she/her) Chicago-based architecture worker, cyclist, pedestrian, transit rider.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social I think it's good when cities are legal, and I work at Sightline Institute to make that happen. My takes on here, though, are no less than 100% mine.
Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social Now I am become sarcasm, destroyer of worlds. Cogito ergo sumbitch ipso facto vis a vis hold deez.
Grits
Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief 338Canada丨Rédacteur en chef Qc125丨Chroniqueur @ L'actualité, The Walrus & Politico Canada丨Co-host The Numbers podcast丨Prof astronomy & astrophysics丨Occasional cat pictures🤍丨📍Montréal
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social climate adaptive social housing developer
architect for car-light climate forward cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
every lot montréal @everylotmtl.bsky.social Tweeting every lot in Montréal, QC, Canada. Maintained by @davidasilva.bsky.social
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social Pedestrian
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
📍Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social Computers, startups, bikes, Italy (lived in Padova for about 15 years), Central Oregon YIMBY
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt