Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social trying to figure out what's going on here, co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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.
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social give me a sword, you cowards | half azn 🇯🇵 smol bean | queen of yap | pennsylvanian turned virginian | news editor @vpm.org
https://linktr.ee/meghin
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com writer, editor, historian.
oliviapaschal.com
Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽🏫 #Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer.🗣️Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social Teacher, Latinist, Thought Follower. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
Streetwise, Cville Safety Cat: Interested Female Vocalists Write @averysafecat.bsky.social Bougie, valid. ALA's "Most Inspirational Pinata" 2018. "If you ever go into the UVA library remember to be quiet or this guy will kick yer ass." - antifawatch dot net. He/him. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of UVA.
Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social Cville local. Overeducated carpenter. Fascists eat shit, liberation for the rest. The future's looking rough, but hope is our duty.
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Jonathan Colmer @jmcolmer.bsky.social Associate Professor at UVA Econ | Co-Founder & Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab | Environmental Econ, Growth & Dev, Labor, Public | PhD from LSE | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 | www.jonathancolmer.com 
Jack Hamilton @jackhamilton.bsky.social Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and pop critic for Slate magazine. Author of JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL AND THE RACIAL IMAGINATION 
Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org We keep each other safe
YIMBY Co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social 🏘️ 🚲🚶🏽🧑🏽🦽🌎
More at: https://stevenljohnson.org
Disclaimer: Personal account. Does not reflect my employer
Jk @takethecannoli7.bsky.social narm
Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social Doctor of space rocks turned professional curser at computers. Human of Freya the dog and of Modicello the garden 🌱 (USDA 7b). Does crochet 🧶 in her off time, also cooks a lot 🍽
Megan Stevenson @meganstevenson.bsky.social economist & legal scholar studying criminal justice issues.
professor of law
professor of economics (by courtesy)
UVA
https://sites.google.com/view/megan-stevenson/home
Christine Bryant-Ryback @hootbot.bsky.social Software Engineering Manager in civic tech consulting / @hootbot on Twitter / Charlottesville, Virginia / married to @emily.gorcen.ski / she/her
Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa.
former planning commissioner in charlottesville
Jamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social Aging songster, scenester, vatic scop, tea enjoyer, geek. Sometimes bird pix.
Blow up your TV. Free Palestine. he/hmm
https://lovedeathcville.com
Charlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social Get free emails at cvtom.org/newsletter | Charlottesville Tomorrow is a service driven news organization built for the diverse communities of central Virginia.
Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot.
Crazy cat gentleman.
🇺🇸🇨🇦
Allison Wrabel @craftypanda.bsky.social City woman. Opinions mine. Enthusiastic about Cleveland sports. #YRICD. Peaked in middle school. Last name rhymes with table. #MIZ CLE-COU-CHO
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Durham, NC for the moment.
Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social Libraries, archives, African American history, public humanities. She/her 
Caris Adel @carisadel.bsky.social american & religious studies. UVA. local history, local politics. teaching high school history. Michigander living in VA. elected official 👋🏻. personal account, personal opinions. rt≠agreement
M 🏳️⚧️🦀🏴☠️ @msnook.xyz I run a tiny web agency here in Bangalore, India: https://emju.in. DMs open.
they/them 🍞🌹🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🇵🇸⌨️🚀 sober, dancing whenever I remember to dance.
Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social Appalachian expat in Philly doing what I can to stop school inequality. Ed leadership/policy assistant prof studying tracking and detracking. Blue skies are mine.
Paige Perriello @paigeperriello.bsky.social Mother of 3. Pediatrician. Fighting to protect health care access for all kids & teens & their families. #PedSky
Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing)—@ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her.
Words here = mine alone.
Chris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social Law professor at W&L teaching IP, property, election law and remedies. Husband of @elyons822. Childhood cancer dad.🎗️Pro-public education. All opinions my own.
Hunter Chorey @hchorey.bsky.social Christian. PCA RE. Music lover. Beauty seeker. Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. Wahoowa.
https://instagr.am/hchorey | https://vsco.co/hchorey/
Jeff Saucerman @jsauce7.bsky.social Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiovascular Medicine at UVA. Systems biology to discover drugs for heart disease. Hiking with my dog in Shenandoah NP, around Charlottesville. https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/jeffrey-saucerman
Christine Esposito @msespo.bsky.social Gifted specialist working with and for all students. VA Gilder-Lehrman TOY '09. Co-conspirator who still gets it wrong. I'm the annoying one asking hard questions. she/her
If my mouth doesn't say it, my face definitely will.
https://msespo.substack.com
Kellen Squire @kellensquire.org Perpetually undercaffeinated Author, ER Nurse, DNP Student, Pediatric Acute and Intensive Care and Emergency Department Clinical Instructor. "He's a Bernie Sanders type".
https://buymeacoffee.com/cynicalrn
Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social Religious Studies, ABD. Vanderbilt–>UChicago–>University of Virginia. Skeets my own.
Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social #Cville! Co-founder, organizer, Indivisible Charlottesville. Proud rural progressive. Recovering coder.
Nichole M. Flores @nicholemflores.bsky.social Associate professor of religious studies at UVA. Author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown 2021). Writing a book on Advent & Christian political imagination. Esposa de @jamesdarynhenry, mamá of 2.
R. Coleman @rcoleman.bsky.social Librarian. Pro-housing, noodle loving, coffee slurping person of Charlottesville. Not a fan of cake. Big fan of cats and trying to make things suck less.
Steve Johnson @stevejohnson.bsky.social 
Travis Koshko @traviskoshko.bsky.social Award-winning chief meteorologist @ CBS19 in Charlottesville, Virginia | Penn State Meteorology alumnus | senior cat rescuer | photographer | aurora enjoyer | opinions are my own. This account is a non-AI / secondary source of information.
Jane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social Reader. Advocate for books, libraries, democracy. Super-frequent visitor, @J_MRL. Knitter. She/her. Dual citizen 🇨🇦. And, oh yeah, Mookie Betts fan since 2014.
Jason Inofuentes @tnofuentes.bsky.social Once bought an Xbox at a non-descript bar in Philly. 
Elizabeth Stark @elizabethstark.bsky.social She/her Cville DSA; Organizing for tenant power;
"Michael Monaco" @mmonaco.bsky.social A guy who works in Crozet. If you know me you know me. was once known as "bookshelfstud." posts never reflect my employer or other bodies i'm on.
serious site: https://which-side-are-you-on.ghost.io
fun site: https://michaelbookshelf.neocities.org/
nkrovetz @nkrovetz.bsky.social 
Jen B @jenb.bsky.social I get very shouty about vehicles blocking bike lanes. I get very excited about pockets. Charlottesville, VA. she/her
Jen Krahn @krahnic.bsky.social 
Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social You'll probably see posts about Reds baseball, fantasy baseball, Virginia sports, and the occasional riff on foreign policy.
Shannon Gillikin @sgillikin.bsky.social Kindergarten teacher, union member, coffee consumer 
Brian Spreadsheets @spreadsheetfan.bsky.social The rankest rank-and-filer in Cville DSA.
Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social 
Mary McIntyre @marymcintyre.bsky.social Literacy Specialist• Pres of the AEA• U of Hawaii• U of Michigan• UNCG• 4th gen educator• Committed to being in the arena rather than a critic
Ja'Mir @jahcapone.bsky.social expanding the digital footprint
Greg joins the X-odus 🌹🌍✊ @zorakc2c.bsky.social Lone Socialocust of the Carpocalypse.
Saxophone @ The Hard Modes.
Cville politics, Gundam, and Raising Cane's.
he/him
Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social We advocate for policies to build an inclusive Charlottesville area with affordable housing, sustainable transportation & healthy neighborhoods welcoming to all
https://livablecville.org/- B Heather Balmat @balmatlaw.bsky.social Trademark wrangler, transplanted New Englander, wife, mom. (She/her)
farmcritter.bsky.social @farmcritter.bsky.social Unabashed F-Bomber,
Anti-Fascist, Dedicated Mini Community Soup-Kitchen-
Foodbank-Starter-Upper. ** If you know an organization's food bank that needs support, get in touch with me. **
Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social Like water, good and clean
From the most fucked up looking pipe you’ve ever seen
Sarah K Harris @sarahkharris.bsky.social Our kids deserve better. Stress-crafter. Cville/Crozet. she/her
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social Creator of things you know and you don’t.
Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social Highly caffeinated, vaccinated, obsessive list maker, Virginian, Episcopalian, lover of books, lattes, and having four seasons. 🌈 ally, #BLM, 🇺🇦 she/her
Josh Krahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social Left-liberal YIMBY. Anti-fascist. Dreaming of trains across the sea. Avid fietser. 15-minute everything. Legalize Flavortown. A muter not a blocker. (he/him)
Desi A @desirosie.bsky.social Mostly pablum about my life in Charlottesville. Books, cats, trees, my kid | Engages in occasional academic editing and indexing | I am simply too tired to live up to my potential 🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Jane Smith @mustelina.bsky.social Wading through historical newspapers for glimpses into the past. https://cvillelives.org/
Listening in April for the Wood Thrush.
(Hylocichla mustelina) http://vimeo.com/238643510
Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social Vegetarian, Eagle Scout, frequent pedestrian & hiker, gardener, environmentalist, and traveler.
Ashleigh Crocker @ashleighcrocker.bsky.social Mom of 2, Interim Executive Director at Progress Virginia, Writer, Activist, she/her
Opinions are my own
Paige Lindblom @paigelindblom.bsky.social CCS Prek/ECSE teacher. CFUMC. Bennett’s Village.❤️ Opinions my own.
Charlotte Drummond @charlotte0810.bsky.social #Charlottesville feminist with no patience for greed, patriarchy, misogyny, or injustice.
KattyWren @kattywren.bsky.social Cville pedestrian just trying to find a continuous sidewalk and safe crosswalk. Now I have an e-bike so add more protected bike lanes to my wish list! (She/her)
Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social phd candidate at UVa
stupid opinions sadly mine
📍dc + cville
@mcheb.bsky.social @mcheb.bsky.social Just me.
Your Weird Dad @geoffotis.bsky.social Italian baker, bike rider, music maker, horrible painter, sandwich evangelist. A deli on every corner, a bike lane on every street 
Kat Maybury @katmaybird.bsky.social Ring Camera Hate Account.
Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy #Cities, #history, #technology, #biketooter, #conservation #housing #yimby . #Cville Planning Commission member, teacher, all opinions are my own fault. Bi. #cdda […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://cville.online/@Lyle, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Liz Shoch @lizshoch.bsky.social Mom to two small humans. Cville resident. Sometime expert on packaging and invasive species. Refuse to play Monopoly. Trying my best here.- B Brian Cameron @bcam.bsky.social
Rob Poggenklass @rpogge.bsky.social Policy counsel @acluva.bsky.social. Board member, @justicefwdva.bsky.social Foundation. Former public defender, legal aid lawyer. Cville local. Iowan. Opinions mine.
David Storm is mostly back @davidastorm.bsky.social Mostly here for the sports & local cville info. Scouting America and CatholicSky too. Home of #LaundrySky.
Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social activatevirginia.org
Ythik 🏳️🌈 @ythik.bsky.social Just another gay leftist. He/Him
Em Gunter 顧安 🍉 @emgunter.bsky.social Aspiring anthropologist studying in Taiwan who always stands up for what is right. I care about immigration and queer life in the American South. I'm also a photographer and something of a journalist. GMT+8
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 | 台灣加油 🇹🇼
Opinions are mine
gell-mann amnesia amnesia @whatthecarp.bsky.social 
John McLaren @johnmclaren.bsky.social Economist, classical music nerd, and family man.
J. Prometheus Birdsong @quequegsharpoon.bsky.social Angry and confused squawking sounds
Meredith Ackroyd @meredithackroyd.bsky.social Poet, Artist, Mother. I write poems for adults and children, primarily in the field of contemporary English-language haiku and related forms, and have an MFA in Children’s Literature from Hollins University. she/her
meredithackroyd.com
tj, space guardian @spaceguardian.bsky.social 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner
Saul Rosenbear @sauljrosenbear.bsky.social A pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social Bluesky User
CogitoErgoBibo @cogitoergobibo.bsky.social It means: I think, therefore I drink. Thinking is painful in a modern world. IndyCar fanatic. Cville citizen.
Jessica McCoy (she/her) @jessicamccoy.bsky.social 
cville1989🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @cville1989.bsky.social “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”—Denis Diderot
cranky old man