Dalhousie University @dalhousie.bsky.social This is Dalhousie University โ one of Canadaโs leading research-intensive universities, just steps from the ocean. ๐
Halifax Planning & Development @hfxplanning.bsky.social Official account for Halifax Planning & Development. Need help? Call 311 or email contactus@311.halifax.ca.
Halifax Regional Municipality @hfxgov.bsky.social Official account for the Halifax Regional Municipality. Not monitored 24/7. Need help? Call 311 or email contactus@311.halifax.ca. Call 911 for emergencies.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down.
Martin Bauman @martinbauman.com Writer/Journalist. Author of HELL OF A RIDE (Pottersfield Press). Words in Globe & Mail, The Guardian, DARBY, and elsewhere.
๐: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781990770470/
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social I make charts. Blogs @ deny.substack.com
Halifax
Andy Bowers @evilpez4.bsky.social AndyVent.ca Calendar Wrangler
Recovering Hamburger Helper addict
@evilpez4 on Insta, TikTok, Threads & X
Protecting Canada @protectingcanada.bsky.social Protecting Canada is a group of concerned and engaged Canadians. Our goal is to help Canadians make informed decisions.
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalistโจ
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! ๐
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Halifax Regional Municipality mirror @hfxgov-mirror.bsky.social Unofficial Bluesky mirror of HRM's @hfxgov, @hfxplanning, @hfxtransit X accounts. Sibling account to @hrfe-incidents.bsky.social mirror
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Nova Scotia Webcams ๐จ๐ฆ @nswebcams.novascotia.social We recognize that Nova Scotia is part of Miโkmaโki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Miโkmaq people. Our live webcams share the beauty of this land from 80+ locations across the province.
Visit us at www.novascotiawebcams.com
Waye Mason ๐จ๐ฆ @wayemason.bsky.social Strategic planner, educator, entrepreneur and community builder. ๐จ๐ฆ he/him
"The enemy isnโt conservatism. The enemy isnโt liberalism. The enemy is bullshit." Lars-Erik Nelson
Personal account. Does not reflect my employer.
https://linktr.ee/wayemason
Sam Austin @samaustind5.bsky.social Halifax Regional Municipality Councillor
District 5 Dartmouth Centre
Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social Writer. My latest is The Art of Forgiveness, from @galleon-books.bsky.social, a collection of linked short stories about three boys growing up (roughly) in the suburbs outside Halifax. I also advocate for sustainable energy. https://chris-benjamin.ca
Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social she/her. Newfoundlander in Nova Scotia. Can be found trying to stay alive while cycling and walking in Kjipuktuk. ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ซ
Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social
Ramona Trousers @eastcoastknits.bsky.social Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Shots of Halifax @shotsofhalifax.bsky.social Sharing the many pictures of HRM Iโve taken over the last 20+ years and today, to see the โbeforeโ to the โnow,โ and the โnowโ through a past lens.
Ask a Manager @askamanager.org Creator of Ask a Manager โ home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
Small History Nova Scotia @smallhistory.bsky.social Real historical daily news from Nova Scotia newspapers, c1880-1910.
Curated content, not a bot.
Archives 2014-2023 imported from the other place.
Stay tuned for new content.
Matt Brand @mattbcbc.bsky.social Traffic and Weather on Information Morning, CBC Halifax/Silver Care Bear โ๏ธ ๐ป
Let's help each other get where we wanna go
Traffic Tips? TXT/VM 902-222-3802
Halifax Traffic Cams ๐ฆ @hfxtrafficcams.bluesky.bot Traffic cams from Halifax and other parts of Nova Scotia
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ป ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ
Nova Scotia road conditions
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com Social Media Darling. International Bestselling Author. Occasionally funny. Brittlestar.com
Homestar Blade Runner 20X6 @checarina.bsky.social Carina is a ridge in the sagittal plane of the trachea where it splits into the two primary bronchi. | Chinese-American in ๐จ๐ณ | Trans rights or GTFO
Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social Award-winning investigative journalist with the Halifax Examiner. Horsewoman. Birder. Not everyone's cup of tea. Opinions expressed here are my own.
She/her
Anika Riopel for HRM District 8 @halitrax.bsky.social https://donorbox.org/anika-hrm
Scott McMillan @scotthfx.bsky.social Nova Scotian, bike enthusiast (electric and acoustic), whisky imbiber, Gร idhlig learner, former map making environmental consultant type
Lorraine @ihearthestia.bsky.social We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking
~ Richard Rohr
Offaly ๐ฎ๐ช Bog witch. Transplanted to a rocky shore. ๐ต๐ธ Miโkmaโki / Nova Scotia.
SproutCan @sproutcan.bsky.social Midlife, Change, Rug hooking, art, perimenopause. I'm a Lancastrian living on the beautiful South Shore, Nova Scotia. Owned by Eddie & Rudi the Cats
She/her
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com Chihuahua wrangler. // Higher-ed IT systems generalist. // Weather enthusiast. #NSwx // Grumbling into the ether. Cranky about the state of...well...*everything*. // https://vincent.grovestine.com
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/- H @hfxmark.bsky.social @hfxmark.bsky.social
Libby @libbysometimes.bsky.social Reproductive justice, housing rights, climate, transit, magnolias. Kjipuktuk / Halifax. Defender of Hamilton ON. She/her. Opinions my own.
Bonnie MacD @bonniemac.bsky.social (She/her)
BA @ UPEI, PhD @ QueensU, Work @ TourismNS.ca
โพ Vlad/Bo/Cavan ๐ Davis/Spencer/Ernie โพ
Nicki Doyle (she/her) @nickidoyle.bsky.social Country mouse, quilter, builder, analyst, owned by horses, cats and a perpetually dirty puppers
Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social historian of rural colonial Nova Scotia, father, partner, lives in Niagara, works on Nova Scotia, breaths in PEI
https://danieljosephsamson.com/
Jen @envirojen.bsky.social Urban-parenting and #KidicalMassHFX
Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social Founding editor of GrandParade.news a Halifax newspaper, host of Grand Parade and co-host of Wanderer Grounds. Previously: Writer for The Coast, Founding editor of Committee Trawler, an NDP Candidate, Submariner, and Theater tech. DMs open, he/him.
Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Housing maximalist. Reviewer of local bike lanes and urbanism opiner at HFX By Bike: https://youtube.com/@hfxbybike
Denise ๐จ๐ฆ @kelbear1995.bsky.social Bluenoser, Wife, Mother, and Nana. Loves cats, dragonflies, Hello Kitty, and the colour orange. Beaddragonfly on that bird site; kelbear1995 on the other.
Trident Booksellers & Cafe @tridenthalifax.bsky.social Cafe & Bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia
https://tridenthalifax.ca
Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social 45. Miโkmaw. 2-Spirit. Gay. HIV+. Professional Sailor.
If I donโt follow you. Ask me publicly first before you dm me
https://ko-fi.com/brysonthegaytive
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Womenโs ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Huntโs The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star.
Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through.
https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
Evan Williams @evanwritescars.bsky.social Writes about cars and powersports. Toronto Star, Carbuzz.com Gearjunkie.com, more. President, Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. All Skeets are my own. Unless they aren't
Pete @sweetpete.bsky.social He Him, Unionist. Wannabe Jazz Mandolinist. Halifax adjacent.
Mellyfax @mellyfax.bsky.social Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."โBill Watterson
AnnaHalifax @annahalifax.bsky.social She/her
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halisky
Long Covid
Knitting
Dogs & cats
Urban gardening (zone 6b)
Climate change
Transit
Cheryl in Nova Scotia ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ @minibubbly.bsky.social ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅ CANADร ๐
The Resistance, Adventurer, Climate Change is real, fighting for Canadaโs democracy, VOTE ABC #NDP #LIB #GREEN #Canada ๐จ๐ฆ I Nova Scotia is HOME๐ก , Cape Breton Island is a hidden gem. #TeamCanada
Solidarity with Greenland and Ukraine.- G @geeynots.bsky.social @geeynots.bsky.social
Trevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social Canadian, Nova Scotian, Haligonian. Editor-in-Chief, Saltscapes Magazine/Advocate Media. Author of Long Shots (Nimbus Publishing). ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Bartek Ciszkowski @justbartek.ca ๐ Halifax, Nova Scotia ๐ป Building things ๐ง๐ฆ Dad Of 2 ๐ Gardener/forager โฐ๏ธ Running through cities and forests ๐ต๐ฑ 1.5G Canadian ๐จ๐ฆ
Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social Dad, writer, tall person | award-winning middle grade author | chadlucaswrites.com
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Terra ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ @macterra17.bsky.social Empty nest mom of 3, lover of loons & water, bookworm, binge-watcher, servant to Penny ๐ Humans and religion are the problem. Nova Scotia, Canada
Adam (he/him) ๐จ๐ฆ @adaminhfx.bsky.social Warning: May contain trace amounts of sarcasm.
Canadian in Kjipuktuk (Halifax)
@harbourdiscourse.bsky.social @harbourdiscourse.bsky.social train good, ride bikes, have fun, he/him
A. E. Fisher @bluenoselibrarian.bsky.social Walking reference library looking for a place to happen.
Trans rights are human rights. Anyone who has a problem with this has a problem with me.
aefisherns on That Other Site.
(cishet F; she/her)
Lori Cameron @loricameron.bsky.social Lifelong knitter, avid reader, backyard birdwatcher, rural Nova Scotian.- M @marshydope.bsky.social @marshydope.bsky.social
The alter ego to Terry Helen @msmaryellen.bsky.social Sailor, fiance, mother, villan
Sarah G (she/her) @sarahg.bsky.social
Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social Father | | Settler | Lawyer working for Indigenous peoples | beard grower | soccer coach | musician | podcaster | I donโt make the rules, I just interpret them | posts, not legal advice | Halisky
Jim Abraham @yhzweatherguy.bsky.social Meteorologist. Started Canadaโs hurricane research and forecast program. Past-President CMOS: https://www.cmos.ca/site/about/cmos?nav=sidebar
Born 314ppm CO2; we're now 425ppm!
Erin Dudka @erind.bsky.social Nova Scotia IT gal. I like wine, Caesars and learning Espaรฑol. Owner of Buerger's disease and Reynaud's Phenomenon.
Peter Smith @petersmithca.bsky.social Addicted to Whoppers (the candy, get your mind out of the gutter), bike rider, grumpy old man, proponent of community, Ali Express bike part shopper/bike builder.
Alex (he/him) ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ฝ @tsrhg.bsky.social Another refugee from the bird site. Nerdy, politics, sci-fi geek. Recovering F1 fan. Halifax, NS
Adam Faber @accordionadam.bsky.social Local Accordion Dumbass
Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Host of the podcast\radio show Canadian History Ehx. Author of "Canada's Main Street: The Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway" Sharing Canada's history daily!
Bearded Man @cptfuzzy.bsky.social He/him. Dad, Husband, Industrial Engineer. Automotive enthusiast #carsarepain
Liberum Hominem ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @petergreathead.bsky.social Sailor. Former (not by choice!) Ferry Captain. Replicant. Toxic Management Escapee.
My emotional support wombat is at the cleaners.
Fussy Nobody Britches @glutenhatesally.bsky.social Black Lives Matter.
Sex work is work.
Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Gender is fluid.
Land back.
Housing is a human right.
Eat the rich.
Everyone poops.
Etc.
Neil MacFarlane @neilmacfarlane.bsky.social News junkie, Simpsons lover, occasional raconteur. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Beth @wndrwmn.bsky.social she/her. Single momma to two humans+two cats. ๐ป๐ฐProud queer family. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Buckeye. Full time student, part time teacher. ๐๐ Love lake life, CLE, traveling, digital art making, powerlifting, Star Wars, LEGO, Wonder Woman, Fortnite. Pretend Canadian ๐.
Nicola! @nicolacourtney.bsky.social The usual: cats ๐ฑ, coffee โ, adventures ๐. Someone's mom?!
She/Her
Halifax (Dartmouth!)
RIP HaliTwitter.
Raccoon in the sky @seebo429.bsky.social Halifax's raccoon bike mayor
He/him
Patricia "Grandma" X2 @msvugraduate.bsky.social Kayaks and sunsets
My cat Desiree
Social justice
Not necessarily in that order
Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (HRM, NS)
Maggie Rose @rosebeefe.bsky.social Rural NS overlooking the ocean. Medically challenged. Crafts, second hand shopping, hot dogs, crushing & nature. Soft & strong. This is my embarrassing diary; youโve been warned.
๐ฒ๐๐จ
AskAubry ๐ฆ ๐ @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guysโข, WTFs, & Trash Takes
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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social educator. historian of public history, settler colonialism & eugenics. concerned citizen. pop culture enthusiast. Worth a million in prizes, but also anti-capitalist.
(they/her)
Kjipuktuk (Halifax)-Mi'kma'ki
Alanna Pickle @flakypickle.bsky.social Suburban mom with a penchant for quick wit that punches up. I am very nice until I am not. Sarcastic and punchy with words. I like hiking and crafts. Nothing I say here has to do with or is endorsed by my employer.- G Greg B. @gregbeau.bsky.social Halifax kid, now an old guy in Dartmouth. Long-suffering Mets fan. Servant of Lucy the cat. Retired NS civil servant and NSLC exec.
Constantly Distracted @rmhupman.bsky.social Mom of two boys, wife to a patient husband. Internal auditor by day, hockey association treasurer by night.
Pegbo26 @ironyleg.bsky.social
Arts, crafts, and rock n roll.
She/her/elle. Dot dominator & doodler.
Living by peace and friendship.
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It's who you are, not where you went. We all originate from the same descent - Maestro Fresh Wes
Matt D @bmattd.bsky.social Cape Breton's hottest fishmonger (voted by me). Recoved Haligonian. He/him
I will forever โฅ๏ธ sunset pics
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Kate @katerr.bsky.social Professional yapper
L Krabappel @laurakrabappel.bsky.social Halifax, NS. Community, culture, and justice.(AuDHD, settler, cis, she/her). Opinions not reflective of any employerโs.
Lyndsay Armstrong @lyndsayarmstrong.bsky.social Reporter-editor with The Canadian Press in Nova Scotia
Lakefielder turned Haligonian
She/her ๐
Ally Turcotte @allyturcotte.bsky.social Queer cripple punk. (Not as punk as advertised). Storyteller. Teacher. Story editor. Neuroweird. She/her
Emily @em616.bsky.social Beach days & cats ๐งก
Halifornia โ๐ผ
Espressomama @espressomama.bsky.social Living a caffeinated existence on the east coast. She/her. Cis het. Be prepared for mostly cute dog pictures and lots of swearing.
Lynn Matheson @lynnmatheson.bsky.social Writer/Filmmaker. NS. Profile pic Dawn Davis. She/her.
Andrew โPunchcocksโ Badvibes @badvibesonly.bsky.social
Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, cafe owner, bibliophile, darkness-kicker, mild maniac, mother, iconoclast.
Owner/operator of Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Halifax
www.once-and-future.com
Monsters are friends.
Katie @katieversion2.bsky.social Tea enthusiast, microbiology/immunology lab tech in transfusion science, D&D newb, science nerd, music fan. She/her
Halifax / Kjipuktuk, Nova Scotia
michelle mccann @michellemccann.bsky.social of all the michelle mccanns in the world, iโm the michelle mccanniest. | emotional support human to a muppet | small town, nova scotia, canada | she/her