Johnny Loftus
Writer, Chicagoan. Interests include reading, 🍕; being a nice person.
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: [email protected] signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@studsurkel.bsky.social
@jonathangalkin.bsky.social
guy from DFA Records. Label manager of Red Hot Org. Otherly Love + Greenleaf Music. https://bsky.app/profile/redhotorg.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/greenleafmusic.bsky.social
@wouldiwantsky.bsky.social
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Read me: HamiltonNolan.com My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
@richards7370.bsky.social
Creator of the popular #5albums music polls. Family, friends, music obsessive, real ale / craft beer, Potters / Bears, whippets #MDANT 🏅 #musicsky 🎶 ‘In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection’ 🎶
@marchogan.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Former Pitchfork senior staff writer. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a
@erinosmon.bsky.social
Music journalist, critic, author. Teach @ USC. Album notes. Other things. New book about heartland rock due next year via W.W. Norton. Hoosier waving hi in LA.
@tenderlovingkiller.bsky.social
I would hug you but I’m covered in vomit. Home base: T A C O M A
@smorgasboredom.bsky.social
Media writer/ennui enthusiast: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg 📍 NYC
@sabs.bsky.social
charismatic megafauna at Defector books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology) newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/ signal: simbler.88
@katmabu.bsky.social
Running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social
New York Times opinion columnist; MSNBC contributor; author.
@brettwhite.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief 💎 Pop Heist Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel Drag 👠 Barb Hardly Co-Host 🎙️ Must Have Seen TV https://popheist.com/ brett at popheist dot com
@popheist.com
Hi. We’re Pop Heist, a worker-owned media company stealing pop culture back from the algorithm. popheist.com
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@alexblechman.bsky.social
Writer, game designer Former Staff Writer @TheOnion & @ClickHole. Words for Netflix, Jackbox Games, High On Life, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, Saints Row, Kraft Heinz, Darkhorse, Team Coco, other places alexanderblechman.com
@dmercer.bsky.social
Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture. https://chiterracottatours.com/
@mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social
Started as updates from an artifact from a significant South Side club that has been spared the scrap heap. Now mostly other Woodlawn/Chgo history. Jazz & minutia. Infrequent posts.
@gaelicgarlic.bsky.social
Irish/Italian/Chicagoan; Border Collie Whisperer; Live Music Junkie; Attorney and Technology Exec; eDiscovery, Computer Forensics, Cybersecurity and Privacy Nerd; Bears/Blackhawks/Bulls/White Sox; Stubbornly Independent; Sometimes Feisty
@stevenhyden.bsky.social
The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book about BORN IN THE USA is out now. @uproxx culture critic. Host of podcasts living and Dead.
@imprec.bsky.social
Imprec.com Record Label Pre-algorithmic curation since 2001 The character conveyed most often in Important releases isn't style but substance, with a personal and emotional depth that makes the label easy to understand but difficult to explain.
@jamesgunn.bsky.social
Filmmaker, husband, friend to dogs and cats. Creature Commandos debuts on Max Dec 5. Superman in theaters July 11, 2025.
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/
@willbunch.bsky.social
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
@conraddoucette.bsky.social
Music, books, magazines, digital media, etc Brooklyn, NY // Pre-adulthood places: Cincinnati, Niagara Peninsula, Ann Arbor, York County ME https://mstdn.social/@conrad
@wakebakerake.bsky.social
dad, son, brother, uncle. music, movies, dogs & baseball. can probably beat you at pingpong & tetris.
@maura.bsky.social
boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you.
@grahamorama.bsky.social
Strokes fan. Michigan resident. Film Critic and entertainment reporter at The Detroit News.
@katierich.bsky.social
Nude hose and gym shoes gal on the go trying to have a lil fun before the water wars Harley Quinn/Kite Man/SNL/Etc.
@nathanheller.bsky.social
New Yorker staff writer, hapless itinerant, reader. My concise and infrequent newsletter announces significant new publications, public appearances, and nothing else: nathanheller.substack.com/about
@juliapoe.bsky.social
Bulls and Sky beat writer for the Chicago Tribune • USC alum • PBWA member • 🏳️🌈 • Kansan 🌻