Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
James everything is analog @analogist.net “Crowbar the long arc of the moral universe toward justice"
medtech 🩻, neuroscience 🧠 , cities 🏙️, environment 🌲, transit 🚍, infosec 🔐
Opinions my own. Every little detail matters and it’s all connected.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com anarchist warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. don't be a dick.
https://golikehellmachine.com
https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com
kelabe.bsky.social @kelabe.bsky.social Educator. Advocate. Renter. Running for State House in WA’s 37th LD for well invested, affordable, and safe communities from the CD to Skyway!
Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org Regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research + imaginative advocacy @ nwprogressive.org.
memily @memz.bsky.social bookseller at Mr Pike’s Public Market 📚🐀
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)
Jay @jayspeidell.bsky.social West Seattle. I whine about transit and biking issues and take photos of bugs and mushrooms.
Views expressed are my own.
Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social CEO of Coefficient Giving
Hill Woward @convolutedname.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Trenchant Analysis in Wrong Rock Studies, Oak Table LLC. he/him
Twitty is AFK @twittysuch.bsky.social Game Dev | Occasional Twitch Streamer | Cosplay Weirdo | Historian studing the intersection of girlhood and video games | Sometimes I write about nerd culture and communal spaces | Frmr: Nintendo, UW
Markus Johnson @markusja.bsky.social Abundant housing, abundant transit, & abundant bike lanes in our cities occupies a lot of my thinking. I'm sure other pieces of my personality will peek through over time.
Consider reading: https://medium.com/@markusjohnson2195
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz Transportation planner and economist. Founder, Siegman & Associates. Formerly Principal & Shareholder at Nelson\Nygaard. LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/5cekhrjh
lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social the pool is to swim the horses
https://normalmenpodcast.com
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Seattle Streets Alliance @streetsalliance.bsky.social We organize and mobilize people to make every neighborhood a great place to walk, bike, roll, and live.
Learn more at streetsalliance.org.
Nick Magruder @nickmagruder.bsky.social Former bike mechanic turned internet mechanic
jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social
Tony @tonychiado.com 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇨🇦
Jesse Smith @jessetayriver.bsky.social HVAC, catastrophic/x-risks, EA
Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov Official account of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. This is your city — let's make it a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
City’s digital policies at http://seattle.gov/digital.
Seattle New Liberals @seattle.cnliberalism.org Seattle/Puget Sound chapter of @cnliberalism.org
Open markets, transit, legalize housing, civil rights, open borders. #BuildingsArePeopleToo
Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social Seattle, WA
Software engineer, safe streets advocate, and occasional Seattle Transit Blog contributor
Check out the ridership data for your favorite route at https://seattletransitridership.com.
He/him
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.
Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social More housing, bikes, and transit.
https://youtube.com/@ohtheurbanity
📍 Montreal, Quebec
Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net Chicago, zoning, ADUs, transportation, maps
my blog: http://stevencanplan.com
my business: http://chicagocityscape.com
BUILD: https://buildforil.org/
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
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social Author, The Medicine & Justice Project. BA Jacksonville, CCP Florida, Master's in progress North Alabama. Firefighter/paramedic (opinions mine). PIM(a secret third thing). Got a head full of lightnin', and a hat full of rain.
Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social Dad, husband, double hoo.
Previously - firefighter, medic, stroke researcher, remote medicine and foreign policy.
Opinions my own, especially when they're wrong. Reposts are not endorsements unless it’s woodworking, maybe beagle posts too.
terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run.
endorsements != endorsements. min flow is max cut
she/they
Developer and operator of urbanstats.org
📍 Cambridge Mass
Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social Learn more about what your *real* neighbors are thinking in Silicon Valley! Comedy. Parody. Not official/affiliated with, or sponsored by anyone.
Please support my GoFundMe to help me pay for parking at Valley Fair
AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social Renter, Latina, girl on the bus, ex-waitress, current Seattle City Councilmember for Position 8.
Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social Climate/water scientist💧🌊
People = Good. Billionaires = Bad.
Eat mango dessert, mask up, land back, save the salmon, imprison no one and house everyone. She/her. Views own
Streetcrafting @streetcrafting.bsky.social Working to craft vibrant, safe, and resilient places for all. Living everyday by foot, bike, rail, and transit. #VisionZero #StreetsForPeople
David Seater 🚶♂️🚴🏻♂️🏳️🌈 @davidseater.com Doggie daddy, safe streets advocate, software test engineer. Volunteer and co-chair emeritus with Central Seattle Greenways.
Eddie Lin for Seattle City Council (D2) @linforseattle.bsky.social **New Councilmember account is @cmeddielin.bsky.social. This campaign account will mostly be dormant.**
Affordable housing leader, public school advocate, and labor ally. Seattle City Councilmember-elect for District 2.
Paid for by Eddie for Seattle
Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
🚴♂️ strava.com/athletes/106905687
📸 instagram.com/bikeseattle
📚 blog.jcole.us
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
@tammymorales.bsky.social @tammymorales.bsky.social I may be peaceful, but I'm pissed.
Policy Wonk, Gardener, Seattleite and Native Texan
Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social Your City is a grassroots organization focused on affordability in Seattle, Washington #thisisyourcity
https://www.yourcityseattle.org
Olraca @olraca.bsky.social 📍Seattle
🟠 Urbanist and 🏎️ motorsports enthusiast.
A character in the neighborhood.
🛣️ Aurora Reimagined Coalition
🔗 got99problems.org
Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov Maintaining and modernizing Seattle's streets
For service requests: call 206-684-7623 or use the Find It, Fix It app: seattle.gov/customer-service-bureau/find-it-fix-it-mobile-app
City policies: seattle.gov/digital
@mclindblom.bsky.social @mclindblom.bsky.social Seattle Times transportation reporter since 2003
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social State Rep for the 36th LD. Chair of the rabble rouser caucus (see: @staterepjuliareed). Seattle native. Bike nerd. Theater nerd. Regular nerd. My cat loves me. My husband too.
John Edwards @johnbedwards.io seattleite, professional baseballer, amateur jogger, semi-pro bar trivia ringer. assistant director of data science @mariners.com, opinions my own
West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social Musings on biking in and around West Seattle.
K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social Bikes & transit. SEA & WA. Writes, edits, paralegals. Fmr: PeopleForBikes, WA Bike Law, Disability Mobility Initiative.
Writing The Transit Trekker Manual, b/c it should be easier to enjoy the outdoors if you can’t drive. @transittrekker.bsky.social
Devin Silvernail @devinsilvernail.bsky.social À Nantes, originaire de Seattle. 🟦🌲🟩
Gauche, municipaliste et militant.
Co-fondateur + Directeur du pouvoir commun chez À Portée : https://aportee.fr
Let's tell your story: https://withinreach.fr/
Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social Transit and safe streets advocate, dad, Seattle School Traffic Safety Committee, biker and fixer of bikes, working for the labor movement since a long time ago.
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Andrew Burns @mrburnsns.bsky.social Screaming into the void about planes, trains, automobiles, architecture and lots of other random stuff since 2023.
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social All USA towns chosen randomly.
By @nofunnick.bsky.social
Check out @art-institute.bsky.social and @wydot.bsky.social and @taxsituations.bsky.social
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social Dad x2. Full-time cat herder. Elderly urban planner. Some SimCity brah. Pavers and cobbles stan. Pro bono @theurbanist.org. Probably far from home. AMDG. Pax.
Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social Seattle and other things
Cary Westerbeck @caryw.bsky.social Architect, developer, builder, placemaker, cyclist, Urbanist, planning commissioner seeking to build civilization...the neighborhood is the amenity. LGBTQIA+ & Black Lives Matter ally, keeping it real in Bothell, WA.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Marko Liias 🏳️🌈 @markoliias.bsky.social He/him. I get to represent the neighborhood I grew up in the Washington State Senate. I also chair the Senate Transportation Committee.
🚴♀️🚶🧑🦼 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚄 ✈️
Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social I plan cities for people & other living things. I focus on SEA, PDX, Utrecht, women who create cities, bikes, climate. I'm on Boards @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social @streetsalliance.bsky.social & volunteer @ BikeFlip + DeFietsmeesters in Utrecht. She/her. PhD
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
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social Co-host of Soundside on KUOW. Formerly Seattle Times, Crosscut. Send tips to: dkroman@kuow.org. Sorry for the baseball tweets.
@benmaritz.bsky.social @benmaritz.bsky.social
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social Seattle Voted Yes on Prop 1A (aka I-137) to fund social housing! Seattle voted Yes on I-135 🗳️ | Advocating for Social Housing 🏘️ better land use & climate action.
https://linktr.ee/houseourneighbors
Jason @jrock08.bsky.social He/him. Seattle. People should be able to walk and roll without dying.
Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social Investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, via Business Insider and The Seattle Times. katherine.long@wsj.com. Send tips on Signal: longka.38
Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social Cartoonist and comedian in Seattle. Buy my comix at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com, see my comedy at JOKETELLERS UNION every 2nd Wednesday at the Clock-Out Lounge
Seattle YIMBY @seattleyimby.bsky.social Volunteer-driven grassroots org that advocates for abundant housing in Seattle and beyond. Join us! https://linktr.ee/seattleyimby
Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social Urbanist living in West Seattle
Find me on our neighborshood’s pedestrian friendly Alki Point Healthy street 🚴🏻♀️ After years of advocacy, it’s permanent!!
Fighting for more housing, transit, bike lanes.
oh…and Pickleball will save Democracy
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
couchtobarbell.com
Logan Bowers @loganb.bsky.social Toots on housing policy, economics, computing.
State Representative Julia Reed @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social In-Session Bluesky account for Rep Julia Reed. Look for live threads and unfiltered opinions from #waleg. All comments are my own.
Amy @amyliz.bsky.social Real estate geek | Flaneur | New Yorker | I love cities and nature
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
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.
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.
Jess Bateman @jessdbateman.bsky.social WA State senator 22nd district. Let’s build livable, walkable communities. 🏘️
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social Seattle's trusted source for breaking news, political analysis, and investigative reporting since 2009. PubliCola.com/support