Civic tech & UX by day, art by night.
Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent.
Building shared versions of reality + hope.
RaksGeek.com
RaksInferno.com
DawnXianaMoon.com
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech leader (ex google/slack/msft/github/dccc/parkwood)
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
there will be typos
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Maker. Science Communicator. Connector.
Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
wonder.voyage
debuggingteams.com
Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | Sponsored by LogitechG | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum | Into the Mother Lands RPG Creator & CD |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
(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
Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
notnotrocketscience.com
Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Bryan William Jones
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
Professing at Pitt
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Software engineering topics, mentorship advice & movie nerd hot takes ☺️
Latest YouTube video link below 👇🏾
https://youtu.be/Xv_O-S7gSns?si=3q8fLOw_UKLkH17Z
keyboard.io. In past lives, I helped run VaccinateCA, created K-9 Mail for Android, created Request Tracker, and was the project lead for Perl.
I can usually be found in #Berkeley
jesse@fsck.com
jesse@keyboard.io
jesse@metasocial.com
was @obra on Twitter
Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. Working on my Spanish. He/him. Todos somos americanos.
Accountability Architect💡
Artisanal Database Maker🔎 🧾
Storyteller/Writer/Producer🎙️✍️🎥
Avenger, Academic, Lawyer🗳️
Redistributive Justice ⚖️
Choice Optimizer🤖
Researcher & OG Prompt Engineer🧌
Whistleblower🚨
Human Palantir🔮
https://linktr.ee/realdearsarah
Co-founder & CEO, Onsemble. Husband. Dad. Previously: California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, 13+ years Google, FeedBurner. he / him.
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.
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.
former child (derogatory)
current adult (denunciatory)
future ghost (complimentary)
Comics artist, illustrator and designer in Chicago. I made: Let’s Make Bread!, Let’s Make Dumplings!, Let's Make Ramen!, The Adventures of Fat Rice, I Think You're Sauceome, Shuteye, The Complete Ouija Interviews. She/her
https://tless.link/sarahbecan
Released a few open source projects here and there. Dad, Skiiier, Nerd, Villager.
Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.
@texasvc on all platforms
nerd in houston frequently traveling
i have the best friends
FilAm Feminist Foodie Firespinner. British Fantasy & 5x Hugo Award winner. Open to editing/writing & narrative consulting. Writing a book on representation, AAPI identity & power. Green America Executive Editor. She/Her. buttondown.email/MichiTrota
Marine Ecologist, Deep-Sea Explorer, Climate Change Researcher, Science Communicator, Ed @deepseanews
Build. Lead. Perform. Turn the boldest ideas into reality. Inspired by space travel, wilderness, and my dog's ability to nap.
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That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
http://me3dia.com
Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead @ U.S. Web Design System / government / civic; past 18F, Penn State, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan.
He/him, Chicago native. Former eng director @ Google, composer, pianist, banjoist, author, gamer, photographer, illustrator, radio ham, dad. http://debuggingteams.com
Disability Justice, writing & fangirling in Chicago.
Zine stuff at @wildramppublishing.bsky.social. Podcasting at "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz"
https://linktr.ee/KeidraC
Profile ID: Black woman looking up
Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her.
Family and friend to others. Comp Sci & Making Teacher at Lane Tech. LTMakers Lab Director. Owner of Solin Systems Consulting. Fierce advocate for my students. Relentless trasher of Aspen SIS.
Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Senior Instructional Professor of CS @UChicago, amateur sciuriologist. Views are my own.
He/him 🏳️🌈 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Other places you can find me: https://linktr.ee/borjasotomayor
Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order.
Bad Takes R Us
Be Better. Do Better.
He/Him
Father & Husband
US National YoYo Master
Always doing a ton of things, find them all at http://unklesteve.com
Husband, Father, Physician, Astronaut, Space nerd in paradise.
CTO, Futureman Digital (futuremandigital.com)
Hobbies: Cars, Disney, Turntables/Vinyl
Chicago
Chicago gal who wears many hats:
📋 Campaign manager
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
🤳🏽 #365feministselfie
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Let’s Move The Needle, is out now. 🖖🏼. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super 🏳️🌈. Gen X
CEO glowforge.com, research fellow at gail.wharton.upenn.edu, creator RobotTurtles.com. Once Google, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Pediatric surgeon, theologian and UCC pastor, healer of healers, and maker of good trouble.
DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) out 8/11/26! REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP out now & forever! | monkeythumbs.com | birdiehorne.com | Also: amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
Retired USMC. Inveterate shenanigator. Texas Aggie. UChicago Maroon. Devoted Chicagoan ✶✶✶✶. Non-sufferer of fools and the unkind.
Artist ✶ Photographer ✶ Entrepreneur ✶ Business Owner
Powered by live music & sunshine.
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
Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Barber. Previously: IEEE-type/Fed/Tech/Teacher.
I'm a yes-and kinda dude.
Look, Feel, and Do Better💈🪒
Join my pivot from 🧠 to 🙌🏼 with ♥️ @ https://cut.buzz/
My popular snark: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nyzgcslzg2pxz3mqwu6bnwoy/feed/aaafikybnwenq
Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
Born in Mississippi raised in Illinois, citizen of the world.
Performance Artist, Musician, Teacher, Designer, Traveller, Adventurer of Life
Desert born, midwest rooted
Artist, educator, and researcher - currently: Electronic Visualization Lab @ UIC.
PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
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.
Cities, humanities, constellations, and reefs. http://ascentstage.com
Expert in building, scaling and maintaining complex web applications - Founder of REVSYS, PSF Fellow, Django Steering Council and Former President of the Django Software Foundation.
Into Python, Django, React, Rust, Kubernetes and cooking
Multidisciplinary nerd. Use Qual+Quant data for sensemaking. Wrangle data & skip trace for fun. Business & organizational ethnographer. Tweets = my own. Will always be up for talking about public ed and nonfiction. Fueled by Ethiopian coffee.
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
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
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
Coral scientist running a gene bank-IVF clinic-NICU-daycare for baby endangered corals, so of course it's super easy and nothing ever goes wrong. Fighting for baby corals because they have very short arms. www.marhaverlab.com
Executive Coach to Product Leaders
https://www.bringthedonuts.com
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things
• Neuroscientist • Development • Visual Circuits • Plasticity • BRAIN
Backpacking, fly fishing, quilting.
Skeets are my own. she/her/hers
Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Making science more open, faster and transparent. Leave me anonymous feedback! → https://www.admonymous.co/karthik
ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
⚓️ Navy CAPT (ret), Aerospace Experimental Psychologist 🚀 | 🛸 DARPA Alum | Tech Innovation in #Education, Social Impact, & Behavioral Health | Autism Parent x2 | Works in Games, VR, and with Sesame Street | 👾 https://russ-shilling.com
Professor: Northwestern, Kellogg School • Director: Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement • Schapiro Fellow: Institute for Policy Research • Book: The All-Or-Nothing Marriage • Podcast: Love Factually
tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Exploring the foundations of trust.
Primum non nocere
Research & Teaching @ Columbia Journalism School
Willful, deliberate, and premeditated emdash user
Preventer of SPOFs
Recovering tech, business, and design journo
Weniger, aber besser.
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
Dot connector, west sider, haunted bungalower, thread winder, unlikely women’s basketball super fan.
Used to do/still happy to talk about.
science & tech for unconditional love, hope, and future preparedness
Program the computers. Gov tech founder, dad, and O’s fan in the US Midwest. I enjoy weightlifting. I collect spores, molds, and fungus. Making my mind a sunless place
Co-founder of Ad Hoc
writer, editor, teacher, axe-thrower 🪓
meganstielstra.com
Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
Digital director for @norc.org by day, singer with @chicagojazzdads.com by night. Luckiest dad and husband in the world. Opinions my own.
www.jgordonwright.com
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