William Skudlarek @willskud.bsky.social ๐ผ - researching all things egress and other fun building code stuff as Policy Analyst at the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org)
โ๏ธ - william[at]centerforbuilding[dot]org
๐- Chicago
I post about ๐๏ธ, ๐ , ๐, ๐, and other random stuff
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Senator Mike Simmons @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social State Senator and Former Congressional Candidate for IL-09. Here for the Fight.
Chicago native. Proudly LGBTQ+, Ethiopian-American. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐น
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Derek Newsome @derek.space Spaceflight Photographer
Fighting to keep the dream alive.
derek.space
derekspace.com
He/Him
Jonas Gaiswinkler @gaiswinkler.eu Digital transformation @ รBB INFRA ๐ฆ๐น๐ช๐บ, Er/he
@ktwhitehead.bsky.social @ktwhitehead.bsky.social CTA External Affairs. Village of Brookfield Trustee. Formerly RTA and Active Transportation Alliance.
@ethanc8.bsky.social @ethanc8.bsky.social 
Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social I walk and bike a lot. Product manager at the MBTA.
Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social A long-standing transit activist/commentator since 1972. Blogs at http://stevemunro.ca since 2006. Winner of the 2005 Jane Jacobs Prize and 2024 CUTA Excellence Award.
รthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social he/himbo. i like to walk around a lot. bus/train dude & local bike guy
BizPulse Chicago @chicago.trybizpulse.com Automated account posting interesting facts and data-based insights from BizPulse Chicago's business license and permit database.
Nisei Lounge @niseilounge.bsky.social Chicagoโs oldest baseball bar. 
jad ๐ธ @aerojad.bsky.social Information technology trash with a penchant for photography. Will like all photos of your pets. Chicago is the greatest city in existence.
โซ and while Iโm alive, Iโll make tiny changes to earth โซ
[he/him]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerojad/sets
The Chicago Bench Collective @chicagobenchcollective.org Everyone deserves a place to sit. We build places to sit.
Request a bench: chicagobenchcollective.org
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (Parody) @nitachicago.org This is a parody account of @nitachicago.bsky.social, providing decent transit service since 2027.
Not affiliated with any Chicago or Illinois transit agency.
PFP by @evieatarax.bsky.social
Joe Barry @joe-barry.bsky.social Divvy stations
@chisquaredtransit.bsky.social @chisquaredtransit.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ they/she
Chicago ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฑ @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social Internally displaced southern queer refugee. All my homies hate landlords, car dependency, and exclusionary housing policy.
Housing policy is community, environmental policy, transit policy, and (anti-) segregation policy
Emeline Posner @emelpos.bsky.social reporter, @raceandequityproject.org
get in touch:
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Aggregate Studio @aggregate-studio.com Aggregate Studio is a mission-aligned architecture partner that specializes in dignified, community-centered affordable housing and civic projects.
https://www.aggregate-studio.com
https://linktr.ee/aggregatestudio
etbadaboum @etbadaboum.bsky.social Reading & aesthetics
Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social
chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
Metra Insights @metrainsights.chicagotransitalerts.app ๐ Chicago Metra commuter rail, live.
Cancelled trains, delays, hourly speedmaps + daily recaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
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Kees Bakker @testkees.bsky.social Testkees Fietsersbond, Ajax, oldscool punk en hiphop
Piper Graham @piperlgraham.bsky.social Southside Chicagoan; Theology; Racial Studies; Nonprofit Grant Writer
Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent. Design patent geek. Also interested in #ScheduleA litigation. Full bio (including link to CV): https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/sarah-fackrell
WH Press Pool Reports @whpresspool.bsky.social Bringing White House Press Pool reports to Bsky.
(This account has no affiliation with anything. To support the creator of the original, visit whpoolreport.com)
LIA ็ฆๆฏๅก ๐บ๐ณ๐จ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago alum
United Nations contractor
Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections contributor, et al.
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social You may be forced to do ugly things, but you can always do them with style.
Peopleโs Republic of Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.foxyknitter.com/
Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
houndstepdad @houndstepdad.bsky.social 
Aaron Wallace @awallace230.bsky.social Bicyclist, gardener, miniature painter, former retail wine buyer. Wilmington, Delaware.
Elizabeth Koprucki @ekoprucki.bsky.social Opening the way for creativity and innovation. Operations Manager at the Chicago Materials Research Lab. STEAM and space communicator. Jewelry artist, maker, birder. Opinions are mine. She/they.
CTA Alert Insights @ctaalertinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app Major CTA disruptions โ suspended segments, shuttles, delays. Auto-detected outages + CTA alerts.
chicagotransitalerts.app
github.com/cailinpitt/cta-insights
Not affiliated with CTA.
Metropolitan Planning Council @metroplanning.bsky.social Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) is a planning and policy organization addressing regional built environment issues through a racial and economic justice lens. We work to create Thriving Communities, Equitable Infrastructure and Just Public Systems.
Jen Sabella @jensabella.bsky.social Block Club Chicago Co-founder + Executive Editor
Ex: DNAinfo, HuffPost, Sun-Times
Lesbian Cat Lady, Chicago Lifer
blockclubchicago.org
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app ๐ Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
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Matteo @mmiazzo1.bsky.social Software Engineer, I ride bikes. Go birds
George Hahn @georgehahn.com Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no oneโs to-do list.
J Gieger @giegerj.bsky.social 
Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social PhD Cinema/Media Studies, artist, nonprofit worker, digital archivist, public history, Anti-zionist; Free Palestine, Black Lives Matter, /climate justice, community gardens, old-growth forests, X-CA X-Santa Fe X-A2,MI X-Chicago | Trinidad, CO
James everything is analog @analogist.net โCrowbar the long arc of the moral universe toward justice"
medtech ๐ฉป, neuroscience ๐ง , cities ๐๏ธ, environment ๐ฒ, transit ๐, infosec ๐
Opinions my own. Every little detail matters and itโs all connected.
Derek of WayfindDesigns @dmholmer.wayfinddesigns.com Gay๐ณ๏ธโ๐, urban๐๏ธ, systems ๐ thinker. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, cartography, graphic design, and transit.
All opinions are my own.
๐KC>MPLS>Seattle
wayfinddesigns.square.site
Strong Towns Chicago @strongtownschicago.bsky.social Have fun and make a difference with an active urbanist community. Join us!
Housing ๐ก Transit ๐ Finance ๐ค
Website: strongtownschicago.org
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/strongtownschicago
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social urban mildlife // engagement editor @nyc.streetsblog.org // co-host @rabbith0lepod.bsky.social // formerly social @ motherboard, gizmodo // she/her
talia soglin @taliasoglin.bsky.social chicago tribune
tasoglin@chicagotribune.com
ntm @ntm.bsky.social mathematics, computation, history of science, climate action, systems, compositionality, urbanism in Chicago, bike lanes, type theory, tea, julia-lang, atproto dev
accelerationists btfo
Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61
Miser @misernyc.bsky.social Organized many of the marches for congestion pricing in NYC. Started the daylighting movement, run MicromobilityNYC, and advised Zohran from day 1 of his campaign. (Was also the template for his own video strategy.) We're building a movement here
Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social Same interdisciplinary scientist as on the other sites with the same handle. Chemistry, math, physics, meteorology, GIS, data whisperer.
Natural resources director, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Co. She/Her
https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news โข runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news โข tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic โข software engineer โข wikipedian
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Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social Cartography, GIS, maps, politics, and elections.
Chicago ๐
Chicago Board of Elections @chicagoelection.bsky.social Born of referenda in 1885, the Board of Election Commissioners manages all voter registrations and administers all elections in the City of Chicago.
European Sleeper @europeansleeper.eu Book your Good Night Train to: ๐Brussels๐Antwerp๐Amsterdam ๐Berlin ๐Paris๐Prague๐Milan๐Hamburg๐
๐ https://linkin.bio/europeansleeper
Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com Japanese-American physicist/translator/data scientist in Chicago. Writes about dishes, discs, and districts at https://www.satoruinoue.com
Japanese account: @inoueian.bsky.social
Angie Schmitt @schmangee.bsky.social Planner and writer. Author RIGHT OF WAY. Traffic safety nerd. Mom of two. Working on a new book about child-friendly neighborhoods.
DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social Freelance Urban Geographer and Master of Social and Anti-Social Sciences. A trains-trans in exile (from Maryland to South Holland). Learning Dutch.
Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social Author of How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke UP in 2027). Assistant Prof at Notre Dame. Past and present Chicagoan. www.lidazeitlinwu.com
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account)
also sports, birds, เคนเคฟเคเคฆเฅ, cities, etc.
chicago via new orleans via chicago
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Emmanuel Goldstein ๐บ๐ฆ @goldste.in Editor of 2600 Magazine
Coordinator: Hackers On Planet Earth conferences
Host: Off The Hook & Off The Wall radio shows
etc.
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com Since 1984, 2600 Magazine has published the hacker perspective and documented the development of the hacking community. In addition to the magazine, we have a weekly radio show ("Off The Hook") and a biennial conference (Hackers On Planet Earth - HOPE).
Christof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social Director of Transportation, Madison, WI; Author of โTrains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit,โ Island Press, 2021, โTransportation and the Shape of Cities,โ Island Press, 2026. (he/him) PE/AICP/LEED AP (Views are my own.)
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This account is not monitored. Contact @wandrme.paxex.aero if needed.
Ted McClelland @tedmcclelland.bsky.social Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Writer, Chicago magazine
Jerry Schippa @jerryschippa.bsky.social Traffic Engineer. Posts mostly about ๐ฆ, ๐, & ๐ฒ.
Random Map @arandommap.bsky.social Currently somewhere in Africa ๐
Recent Journey:
๐ด Africa
๐ Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
๐ก Yagaburne, Australia
๐ข In Guezzam, Algeria
๐ต Birdsville, Australia
๐ฃ Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
โซ Kurgan Oblast, Russia
โซ Xinjiang, China
Rodney ๐ง๐ @chanface.bsky.social ๐๏ธ๐ Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast
๐๐ฒ Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca
Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ญ๐ฐ
Ahmed Tigani @ahmedtigani.bsky.social Father, husband, Houser, #nygiants fanatic, NYC History junkie, and always on the lookout for the next must have trendy ๐
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music โ geekery โ media and comms โ more random musings than you can handle โ DC vibe checks & street photography โ somehow has a PhD โ opinions all mine โ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social Mostly biking, transit and housing. YIMBY. BikeSD board member. Mexicana.
๐San Diego | she/her/ella
teamellefson.bsky.social @teamellefson.bsky.social Legal aid attorney, tenant rights advocate, Saint Paul West Sider, and proud Girl Scout troop leader. DFL endorsed candidate for MN State Representative 65B. #IceOut
www.teamellefson.com
Chicago Mayor's Press Office @chicagompo.bsky.social The official press office account for Mayor Brandon Johnson. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases.html
Beermiscuous-Lakeview @beermiscuous.bsky.social Bluesky's only craft beer bar and shop. 2812 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago. 21+ to follow. Posts by @bainard.bsky.social
austin @bainard.bsky.social jorts authority. head dude at @beermiscuous.bsky.social in Chicago. Free Palestine.
Fern @fern-nesme.bsky.social 
Logical Frank @logicalfrank.com Richard J. Daley Branch enthusiast and general issue Chicago person. I throw yoyos, homebrew and get angry about bike lanes. He/him.
Blair Paddock @blairpaddock.bsky.social prisons + investigations for @wttw.bsky.social
bpaddock@wttw.com
mouseartsandletters.org
Reema Saleh โจ @reemasabrina.bsky.social journo, producer & comms whiz kid. she/her โจ www.reemasaleh.com
๐ผ @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social
๐๏ธ @chicagoreader.com @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and elsewhere
๐ policy trained at uchicago
Illinois Department of Transportation @illinoisdot.bsky.social The official Bluesky for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). We enhance safety and quality of life for Illinois citizens and visitors. gettingaroundillinois.com
Good Dan @gooddan410.bsky.social Lives in Chicago. Works in transportation choo choo ๐ Gay dad ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ถ Lover of Simpsons jokes, film photography, and more. He/him
William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social Gay urbanist (he/him), Coach Operator of the Year โ21, โ24, ROSE Award Winner โ22, 3rd Generation Bus Operator, Near East Indy via The Athens of the Prairie // All views my own
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)
public universal reply guy @llkats.com L(ou|ydia|lkats). Chicago, bikes, birds. they/them/comrade.
Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social Personal account for personal comments, which are my responsibility and no one elseโs - not my employer nor any other affiliation.
Argentina-born American, transport infrastructure professional. Started the empty @evalpavement.bsky.social.
@shrub34.bsky.social @shrub34.bsky.social On here now. I cycle and sew, also help at Adepticon.
She/they 
@wimckinley.bsky.social @wimckinley.bsky.social 
Tram Enthusiast @tram-enthusiast.bsky.social Hey! I'm a South Dakotan late teenager with a passion for engineering of all kinds, but particularly civil engineering, and more particularly road design and land use. American urbanism sucks, and I hope that in the future, I can help fix it.
Erik Jensen @eriktakestransit.bsky.social Fan of transit, bikes, and climbing | Regional Coordination at RTA, formerly CTA, WMATA, and NYCT | Views my own
Masto: erik@urbanists.social
Blog: justjensen.co
Alex Wolford @thetexanrhino.bsky.social Writing about Transportation, Trains, and Sometimes Other Stuff. Higher Ed and Health Reporter at @comissourian.bsky.social. Bylines at @DMagazine.bsky.social
Dallas, TX | Columbia, MO
https://linktr.ee/TheTexanRhino
WDTX 1402 @wdtx1402.bsky.social 
David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social Historian of Science, author, eukaryote, synth dabbler, Radical Leftistโข
the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social Extremely Online medieval archaeologist and aspiring politico in the PNW. Dem Tea Party Believer. AOCista. Gerontocracy hater. 2ndGen ๐จ๐บ๐บ๐ธ ๐นDSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him.
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
R.L. BurnStein @prairiepatriot.bsky.social Senate Parliamentarian. Left is best
ยฟpar0dy?
Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com Artist, Cartographer, Historian, Transit Activist.
https://linktr.ee/Vanshnookenraggen
Co-founder of QueensLink @queenslink.org
Opinions are my own.