@sarah-h-bee.bsky.social @sarah-h-bee.bsky.social 
Ellie Dori @elliedori.bsky.social I read poetry and write code. I also blog at http://technikellie.com.
Senior software engineer @ Vanta
Simón Weffer (he/him/el) @simonweffer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology and Latinx Studies and Director of DEI (GASP!) at Northern Illinois University. Rabid fútbolista (forca Barça!), Star Wars/Marvel/anime nerd, and swim dad. Native Chicagoan, and papi to four fabulous chingonas.
Rudra Banerji @rudramakesmovie.bsky.social Producer, Brand Marketer, Father, Husband-er
Andrea @aknightd.bsky.social 
Lesley Bevan @lesleybevan.bsky.social (She/her)Some time Actor, all the time Potter. Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ now and forever. You’ll find me in Chicago, covered in clay dust and dog hair…
Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social Educator, Citizen Scientist, National Geographic Explorer investigating heritage and biodiversity
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
@goldman-d-c.bsky.social @goldman-d-c.bsky.social 
@eljaspero.bsky.social @eljaspero.bsky.social Folk musician, fabricator, gamer, art handler, historian, museum insultant, lackey
Rachel Grey @greyoctagon.bsky.social Handstand junkie, software engineer, manager, ocicat parent, atheist, subway rider. Loves cities, coffee, cats, & books. I don't believe in endless growth for the sake of growth, and think that "stay hungry, stay foolish" is some truly terrible advice.
Margaret Treanor Frey @margtfrey.bsky.social Artist, writer, living in LA.
Elee @eleewood.bsky.social Still dreaming and asking questions. Generally a fan of pirates and Sasquatch. Occasional knitter, gamer.
マリオ (Mario Menti) @mario.neko.cat Swiss-Brit 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇹🇼
❤️ cats, japan, taiwan, books, running, drums, cooking, (mostly weird) music and tinkering with technology. 日本語を勉強しています。
https://menti.net
Currently listening to / 現在聴いている曲: @mariolistens.neko.cat
Duncan Davidson @duncan.dev Software developer and engineering leader. Ex-[Shopify, Microsoft for Startups, Wunderlist, JavaSoft,...]
@springrunner.bsky.social @springrunner.bsky.social 
Melissa Fierce @melifierce.bsky.social Aimless recipe for a tiny life
Elizabeth Churchill @efc.bsky.social Sociotechnical scientist, UX leader, design-oriented scholar
Peter Olson @peterolsontoo.bsky.social Father, singer, works with Technology and information security
Sophi @sophikravitz.bsky.social Wildly optimistic.
Artist / Electronic engineer
Exploring soundscapes, environmental data, and multi-eyed creatures
Theo Hahn @louispound.bsky.social 
Samar Kaukab @smrkkb.bsky.social 
Matthew Dean @legomatthew.bsky.social Chicago tenor and countertenor, medievalist, food writer, and interfaith collaborator. Currently managing historic preservation at UChicago landmark Rockefeller Chapel.
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
@joeborn.bsky.social @joeborn.bsky.social 
Bill Hammack (engineerguy) @engineerguy.bsky.social Creator of Engineerguy video on youtube
Stacy Tessler Lindau @stacylindau.bsky.social professor, ob/gyn, entrepreneur, first responder, storyteller, beginner bluegrass fiddler, Friday night dinner, earnest citizen, friend to strangers
Joe Gregorio @bitworking.org My name is Joe Gregorio and I am a happily married guy with four kids and two dogs living in North Carolina working for Meta in Reality Labs, Xoogler.
I am a maker across a broad set of interests, including software, woodworking, and cooking.
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
shaneoloughlin @shaneoloughlin.bsky.social Voice actor, sound goblin, director, editor, and composer of Venture Forth: a D&D podcast. He/Him.
Lorena Nicole @lorenanicole.bsky.social #Chicago #Latinx #technologist 👩🏻💻 cat mama to 3 floofy 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛ Maine Coons, lover of #Python 🐍, #educator 👩🏽🏫 & public speaker, #Fitness buff 🥊🏃🏽♀️🧗🏽♀️, #OrdCamp nerd, Champion of #EthicalTech, down with the left. Forget the rest.
👉🏽 lorenamesa.com
Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Rebeca Mojica @rebecamojica.bsky.social 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈🪐📘🎲😸
Chainmaille artisan, instructor & author.
she/her
We can chose words and actions to build people up or tear them down. Our choices are contagious.
https://linktr.ee/rebecamojica- S Sasha Laundy @sashalaundy.bsky.social
Saya (Sigh-Uh, like Maya) Hillman @sayahillman.bsky.social Keynote Speaker | Facilitator | Product & Community Creator ➡️ Transforms adulting from 🙄😒🤮😳🫣 to 🥰😎🤑😁🥳👏🏾. Personal life, ✅. Professional life, ✅. Life of Yes℠ spreader via Mac & Cheese Productions℠🧀
Amanda Walker @aw90.bsky.social security & privacy geek by day, decorative artist by night.
Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
Yael Hochberg @yhochber.bsky.social 
Anna Galland @annagalland.bsky.social Democracy enthusiast. Midwest is best.
Peter Tsai @petetsai.bsky.social Technologist, Photographer, & finder of things old and new... 
Doctor B. Popular @docpop.org Yo-yoer, artist, musician, and host of the Fediverse Files.
San Francisco
DocPop.org
He/Him
Mastodon is still my main account, but you can follow my Masto account here on bsky via here: bsky.app/profile/docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC- B Ben Laurie @benlaurie.bsky.social Exploring the foundations of trust.
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
Eric Lunt @elunt.com I live near Chicago and I love tech. More at elunt.com
jason huggins @hugs.bsky.social i make robots and test automation tools. (started the selenium & appium open source projects, now vibium.) living at the intersection of software, electronics, mechanics, and the occasional kinetic art project. and baking.
📍: chicagoland
JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social Artist, educator, and researcher - PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
Kim from Scrappy Affirmations @kimmoldofsky.bsky.social Bold Belief Builder, bringer of light, facilitator, speaker, author, creator / producer of Hot Flashes & Fierce Tales (like The Moth, but menopause-centric), death, ritual, and ceremony, flighty creative type www.scrappyaffirmations.com
Cathy Chouinard ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @chouinardphoto.bsky.social Artist ✶ Photographer ✶ Entrepreneur ✶ Business Owner
Powered by live music & sunshine.
Steve Brown @unklesteve.com Father & Husband
US National YoYo Master
Always doing a ton of things, find them all at http://unklesteve.com
Robin Shostack @shostack.bsky.social Build. Lead. Perform. Turn the boldest ideas into reality. Inspired by space travel, wilderness, and my dog's ability to nap. 
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun (he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town | Cohost of the Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd @PCWorld.com
I've never slapped anyone / not the actor
Signal:willsmith.01
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Adam Savage @asavage.bsky.social Maker. Science Communicator. Connector. 
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social Anthropologist of Food, Tourism, and Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Antarctica). Lover of plants AND zombies. Barbershop singer. Assoc Prof at Bucknell U but all opinions are my own.
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Adelle lin @adellelin.bsky.social Artist, technologist, indie games, working on the resistance @newinc @onx @nycresistor
Faculty at Parsons and helping out at the Math Museum in NYC
adelleninja.com
John Tolva @johntolva.bsky.social Cities, humanities, constellations, and reefs. http://ascentstage.com
Gabrielle Lyon @ghlyon1.bsky.social Desert born, midwest rooted- P Matt Krause @prokraustinator.bsky.social Brains, Machines
Sara Winge @sarawinge.bsky.social Agnostic about Yet Another One.
Erin Drain (she/her) @erinoia.bsky.social Dot connector, west sider, haunted bungalower, thread winder, unlikely women’s basketball super fan.
Used to do/still happy to talk about.
Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social Born in Mississippi raised in Illinois, citizen of the world.
Mark Hayward @themarkhayward.bsky.social Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
Chelle_D @chelleld16.bsky.social Lover of democracy, Angeleno, music, live music, dance, books, outdoors, hikes, caring for/about others, good times with good people. Go Dodgers!🇺🇦
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” - Victor Hugo
Julia Mossbridge, PhD @gocerp.bsky.social science & tech for unconditional love, hope, and future preparedness
Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social Entrepreneur-in-residence. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social coder, music writer, game maker
katherinemorayati.com
justin massa @justinmassa.bsky.social helping SMBs thrive w/ gen AI. owner @ midwestquality.consulting + board @ solvehungertoday.org | prev: partner @ IDEO.com ; SVP @ Newlab.com
Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social Text adventure / CRPG creator.
🕹️ WISHLIST Cyberganked on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@icecreamjonsey
Jamie Sanchez @spacedragon.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ she/her
Curiouser.design makin’ websites
JamieSanchez.com blog
AnimeChicago.com founder
BebopBeat.com pod co-host
BitBashChicago.com co-founder
Dion Almaer @almaer.com Bringing nuance to a knife fight 🔪, surprisingly older than @bgalbs
Past: Ajaxian, Shopify, Google, Mozilla, webOS, and more!
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
acciodoughnut @acciodoughnut.bsky.social 
Dr Sarah @drsezzer.bsky.social LLM Psychologist (yes really). Witcher fan (books/games not netflix). Recreates retro games in python for fun! *Opinions are mine* or borrowed from those more insightful.
*Won't age verify, so no DMs.*
Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social Librarian, Grappler, Diagnosed ADHD late in life, TTRPG'S
Podcast: Daydreaming about Dragons
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons
Blog: Githyanki Diaspora
https://githyankidiaspora.com/
Mieko @miekof.bsky.social 
DeWitt Clinton @dewittclinton.com I work on machine learning at Google. Father, husband, and Eph. dewittclinton.com
Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social 🎶Cream-colored ponies &
crisp 🍎 strudels
Doorbells & sleigh bells &
schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the 🌙
on their 🪽s
Bitchslapping 🪢🌊Nzis is
one of my favorite things🎵
"If equal affection cannot be
let the more liking one be me”
River Gillis @riv.dev Working on writing, Japanese, occasionally games.
riv.dev
Paige E. Ewing @paigeewing.bsky.social Alis volat propriis. SFF & romance writer. Author of Precise Oaths - Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville series. Throws axes, flings arrows for fun. 
Mikjaer @mikjaer.com YouTuber, Security consultant, musician, comedian, data archeologist, open source, hacker and digital freedom fighter.
🌈 Polyamorous
Tweets in DA and EN.
https://youtube.com/retrocomputingwithmike
Jack Welch @dhakajack.bsky.social By day, I set up and run cancer clinical trials, globally. Some hobbies include trying not to kill everything in my garden, ham radio, interactive fiction and computer projects. Also, games. I live in southwest France.
Borja Sotomayor @borjasotomayor.bsky.social Senior Instructional Professor of CS @UChicago, amateur sciuriologist. Views are my own.
He/him 🏳️🌈 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Other places you can find me: https://linktr.ee/borjasotomayor