R. A. Betts @rabetts.bsky.social Artist based in Nova Scotia, Canada: Embroidery, Cross Stitch, Sketching, Drawing, Charcoal, Collage, Watercolour Painting.
Mikeandcheeese @mikeandcheeeese.bsky.social There. Now this is better.
🚫A.I.⛔️🚮
Jennbelle @jennbelle.bsky.social Loves dogs, weed, chocolate, games, and Pepsi. Watches a ludicrous amount of television. She/her/Elle. ♥️🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏾
World Tea House - Phil Holmans @worldteahouse.bsky.social Specializing in organic direct trade loose leaf teas from around the world. Hand blended and thoughtfully procured ingredients from over 20 countries. Open Mon 12-5pm, Tues to Sat 11am-8pm.
https://worldteahouse.ca/
Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov 40th Governor of California.
Building a California for All.
Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Laura White, P.Eng. @lecwhite.bsky.social (she/her)
Councillor for District 7, Halifax South Downtown
Co-chair of family of 5. Engineer. Climate Reality Leader. I ❤️public spaces. Kjipuktuk.
laurawhite.ca
carboncovid.travel.blog
Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD @zekeemanuel.bsky.social Penn professor, bioethicist, oncologist, and New York Times bestselling author of "Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life."
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social Inadequate cat servant. Husband. Dad. Historian of #CdnImm. Public & oral history. Museums. Bikes. PhD candidate (Hist) @ Carleton. Kjipuktuk / Hfx.
(He/him)
Deborah Mancino @debsmooth.bsky.social Pixel-stained-technopeasant-designer-photographer. American based in Scotland. Ancient god (self-diagnosed)™. ©2026 D Mancino All rights reserved. She/Her 🚫 NO AI 🚫 NO DMs 🚫 NO!! DMs!!!! 🚫
Pegbo26 @ironyleg.bsky.social
Arts, crafts, and rock n roll.
She/her/elle. Dot dominator & doodler.
Living by peace and friendship.
Gimme gluten free.
= > ÷
It's who you are, not where you went. We all originate from the same descent - Maestro Fresh Wes
Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social #EastCoastKin Arts Collective member
#BlueBrew Coffeehouse Host, founder #BlueBrewBooks Host, founder
Relentless arts and photography advocate. Eclectic and inveterate sharer. Retired arts administrator. Former dancer. Bookish.
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ LGBTQ+ friendly
Jack @jbishhhhh.bsky.social artist
www.jackbishop.ca
Debbie Cavers @debcbysea.bsky.social Canadian on the east coast. Love finding sea glass, bread making, my veggie gardens, beaches and forests
Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social educator. concerned citizen. pop culture enthusiast. historian of public history, settler colonialism & eugenics. Worth a million in prizes, but also anti-capitalist.
(she/they)
Kjipuktuk (Halifax)-Mi'kma'ki
Heather Nickerson 🇨🇦 @heatherpics1.bsky.social Hello everyone 🙋♀️! Amateur photography taken by my phone and now officially a X ( Twitter ) refugee! 🤗Love all nature, animals and meeting new friends! 🥰🐈🐕🌼🌿🐝🦋🐦🐞🐺💗💙
Karen Daigle @karendaigleart.bsky.social Alla Prima Still Life Artist
🔻 To view original artwork for purchase:
www.karendaigle.com
Speakers Nova Scotia @speakersns.bsky.social We're a brand new (as of Oct 4/24) non-profit that aims to uplift the profession of public speaking in Nova Scotia. As we grow we'll be offering an online registry of members, and professional learning opportunities.
Angela Rauer @angelarauer.bsky.social South Shore Nova Scotia
Elbows Up 🇨🇦
From The Big Smoke
Manon Gagné @mollygagnier.bsky.social 🇨🇦-Québec,Qc💙-Globetrotter-🇬🇷🇰🇷🇯🇵 🇦🇲🇭🇷🇲🇫🇪🇦🇮🇹...Passionate-Amateur photographer, Arts, Nature, Painters, Medicine, Science, Foot, Dogs, Birds, Flowers...Hope for a more just world for all! Retired teacher. In a couple and happy=)
Thuany Brandão @thuanyart.bsky.social Artista e designer
insta: @thuany.art
Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social she/her. Newfoundlander in Nova Scotia. Can be found trying to stay alive while cycling and walking in Kjipuktuk. 🚲 🐶🫐
Valerie Mann @valmannart.bsky.social 2D and 3D Artist, co-owner WSG Gallery, art instructor, among other stuff
website: Valerie-Mann.squarespace.com work available: wsg-art.com
Margaret @catmaylookataking.bsky.social 
Susan J Christensen @sus52.bsky.social Visual artist, daily dog walker, Pacific NW
www.susanjchristensen.com
CarnivorousReyn @carnivorousreyn.bsky.social Halifax NS. 50+ 🇨🇦 🍁 🏳️🌈 🐕🦜🎭👽🌎
Warrior Diva, champion of the underdog, hopeless realist, patriotic Canadian
J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
Jbrookewrites.com
🇨🇦Amanda Rae Donovan @araedonovan.bsky.social She/her Proud Prince Edward Islander, community and event coordinator, co-founder of Drawstring Productions theatre company, actress, artist, singer, and probably a witch. #canada #pei #ally #artisrebellion #loverofbread 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Bradan Press @bradanpress.bsky.social Nova Scotia publisher connecting readers worldwide with Scottish Gaelic language & culture from an inclusive perspective. Nonfiction, children's, poetry, graphic novels, Tattoo Handbook Series 🍁
Richard Tinkler @richardtinkler.bsky.social I make drawings and paintings
Stuart Greer @stuartgreer.bsky.social Husband, father, friend, and banker…mostly in that order. Living on the darkside of Halifax and sorting through this existence one day at a time. Opinions are mine…blah blah blah…not in any way associated with my employer…blah blah blah…cheeseburger.
Whoop-De-Do @edbeals.bsky.social
Tinkerer with artistic delusions in Canada. 🇨🇦🎨 content scrapers and “synth art” “gen ai” and other slop accounts blocked on sight. Sorry, but without humanity it is utterly meaningless.
Stoo Metz Photography @stoo.ca 📸 Full Time Pro Photographer
🏆 4x Gold Winner Best Photographer in Halifax
#Halifax #HaliSky #Mi'kma'ki #Kjipuktuk
https://linktr.ee/stoometzphoto
Meg .ca @dartmouthmeg.bsky.social 50+year-old child. BA in Poli & Women’s Studies. Queer, sex positive, mom, wife. Trauma survivor. Loud about care, justice & glitter. Chronically ill and chronically cool!!
Amy O. @amykow.bsky.social Nova Scotia based artist
Allison McLay @puellaaurelia.bsky.social Teacher, artist, hiker.
📍Kjipuktuk
Frank & Joe 🇨🇦 @thehardyboycats.bsky.social Frank and Joe, brothers and besties from Halifax, Nova Scotia
These guys are not AI, they're just weirdos (complimentary)
Jay Vee Kay @pomojen.bsky.social Midlifing it up in the ‘fax, one doodle , ten jokes and a whole pot of coffee at a time.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Heather Ihn Art @heatherihnart.com An over-sharing, animal-obsessed, California based painter (oils, gouache), budding ceramicist, and occasional game artist.
Www.heatherihnart.com
www.heatherihnartstore.com
Heatherihnart.substack.com
Lucky & Sweetie @ilovechcats.bsky.social Just a couple of wobbly kittens doing the best they can & always living their lives to the fullest💕
DanielleB @itsmedanielleb.bsky.social Caffeine-powered writer-designer-photographer-baker in Halifax. Can play one ukulele song, not very well.
Sarah MacMillan @floweringvines.bsky.social tread softly
Witch of November 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇨🇺🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️🇬🇱 🇪🇺🌍🐕🦺🐾🐈 @scotiasheppard.bsky.social Kjipuktuk raised Nova Scotian in Colchester Co. Feral mom to skin kids Heavy D (19) Big Al (15) fur kids Barnacle Bob, Snerf, Minnow & Day-Z. Co-Star to J. Perimenopausal, ADD, cancer & exhausted. Kept artificially upright and upbeat by medication.
Torvingen @torvingen.bsky.social Cats, tech, vintage 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
She/Her
@natureloverns.bsky.social @natureloverns.bsky.social Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦🍁
Love nature, hiking, photography, art, human rights and kind people. All photos are mine (except, of course, pics in items as reposted) #halisky
@halifaxha.bsky.social @halifaxha.bsky.social 
🍁 MykConnors 🍁 @mykconnors.bsky.social Canadian Cat Sitter, parent of 2 furry kids. 25 years behind a bar. Son of a teacher. Love movies, sports. Left handed, left thinking atheist. Trying to be a better person. Disabled but most parts still work. A social-media under the influencer.
Tony Tracy @tonytracy.ca Trade Unionist.
Socialist.
Anti-Racist.
Anti-Fascist.
Married to @esooze.
Solidarity! Always. ✊
Any & all opinions expressed are mine, and mine alone… of course.
Waterfront Media HFX @wfmhfx.bsky.social Events that affects you, in and around the province. News, weather, traffic and more
Email
hfxwaterfrontmedia@gmail.com
Website - https://waterfrontmediahfx.the902hxir.ca/
Hautumn @goodmorninghfx.bsky.social shit-poster
📖 currently tackling Moby-Dick
she/her
cat lady with no cats
here for a good time AND a long time 🤞🏼
Nova Scotian forever and always
Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social Cerebrovascular neurosurgeon. Mom. Professor. President 🇨🇦 Neurosurgical Society. Survival skills: archery, knitting, backwoods camping. she/her
Haligonia HRM Halifax News @handle.invalid Haligonia.ca is the largest social media source for news and information in Halifax Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada, with over 900,000 followers across all of our feeds. Hello!
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social Gaelic/Gàidhlig in Nova Scotia. Publisher at BradanPress.bsky.social. Author. Blogger at Gaelic.co. Recovering academic. Haligonian. Settler in Mi'kma'ki. She/her/i/ise/i-fhéin. 🍁
Adsum for Women & Children @adsumforwomen.bsky.social shelter. housing. services. support, advocacy
because everyone has the right to a safe secure home.
The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social Longtime loudmouth, chief cook & bottle washer, dab hand. Curator of stuff, enjoyer of food. Lots of etceteras. NYC in my bones, Terre Noire in my heart. Margaree Community Oven 🔥
Bespoke follower/blocker. This ≠ That.
Lenapehoking and Unama'ki
Pet Lion @petlion.bsky.social Aspiring woodland creature
Kjipuktuk (aka Halifax, NS)
He/him
Joan Helson @jhelson.bsky.social Writer, songwriter, technology padawan. Fan of strong coffee and good conversation.
Art(ist) Support! ✩｡:*•.★✼☆｡.. @art-mutuals.bsky.social I repost & support all #Art #ArtWork #Artists #Photographers & other #Creatives ♡☆ From an artist for artists ♡☆ I follow back all creative accounts (SFW) ✩ #BskyArt #Artist #ArtSky #FineArt #Photography ✩✼:*•.
Global Art Community ✩｡:*•.★✼☆
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social Author, independent investigative journalist, member ICIJ global network - environment, climate, and corporate capture my obsessions - allergic to hypocrisy, propaganda and greenwashing grifters. Still writing after all these years. Opinions my own.
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
Catherine in Chester @chestercat.bsky.social Nova Scotia. I think I see some familiar faces here...still preoccupied with Springsteen, life, the universe and everything. Feminism. Health both public and reproductive. Covid ain't over. 
Andy Richter @andyrichter.co Insta: @richtercommaandy
TikTok: @AndyRichterTikTok
Podcast: The Three Questions
Call In Show on Sirius XM
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn1XQMtQTx8JVuafOOEWBkdqDUHPXlX4KShxmuMSgwGt3pkQ/viewform?pli=1
Heather Harkins @harkins.bsky.social She/Her. Living in Canada and sometimes the US. Always curious, sometimes creative, rarely hopeless.
John H. @chatsubo.design It is pitch dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Rich Aucoin @richaucoin.bsky.social musician
iCandy-0 @cr8tivecandy.bsky.social Writer, laugh track fan. Opinions are my own. We are all made of stardust. #halisky
Neil MacFarlane @neilmacfarlane.bsky.social News junkie, Simpsons lover, occasional raconteur. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sue O @susano.bsky.social Who am I even? Cat person, dog person. People person...? Introvert. Reader. Walker. Laugher. Spit take master. 
Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social Senior Artist at @maxinfernogames.bsky.social
Artist & Illustrator & whatever. (he/him) • NO AI • http://paulghammond.com
Dusty Keleher @dustykeleher.bsky.social Aspiring old folk singer/songwriter, nearly award winning recording artist; storyteller (Dusty's Halifax Ghost Walk/The Halifax Ghost Walk), accidental author, one time best busker in a small seaside town as decided in a reader's poll. www.dustykeleher.com
Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities @strangeadventures.bsky.social Canada's Oddest Comic Bookshops!
www.strangeadventures.com
Iain K. MacLeod 🦋 @iain.ca Born to be mildew.
https://iain.ca
https://boostventilator.com
🏭 Dartmouth 🦞 Nova Scotia 🍁 Canada 🇨🇦
Tara Wittchen @tarawittchen.bsky.social Professional writer, editor, nerd. I like toques, books, and carbohydrates. And Star Wars. Anishinaabe/settler in Mi’kma’ki. (she/her, artist formerly known as ookpiktoque)
Raccoon in the sky @seebo429.bsky.social Halifax's raccoon bike mayor
He/him
Alex (he/him) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇲🇽 @tsrhg.bsky.social Another refugee from the bird site. Nerdy, politics, sci-fi geek. Recovering F1 fan. Halifax, NS
Zane Woodford @zwoodford.bsky.social reporter / he/him
nova (CFW) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇸 @cfwnova.bsky.social canadian nomad. settler. thornback. adhd. living for the age of change.
I feel a little lost right now.
ON NS NB BC QB
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)
Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social CCPA-NS Director; mom of 3; PhD poli sci; Acadian; justice-seeker; equity promoter. Cupe 3912 member. Opinions are mine. https://policyalternatives.ca/offices/nova-scotia
Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social Won AGT15 Canada,3rd SOYTYCANS16, Coast Awards 2012-24, Profiled in Wall Street Journal & CBC, Wayne Knight stand-in, Canadian National Ed Wood Trivia Contest champion. Failed Politician. Host some cons He/him
hfxgirl @hfxgirl.bsky.social 40-something battling through love, life and geekdom
Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social Posts by Martyn on Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People.
Adam L @saltyfog.ca Internationally-exhibited photographer - urban landscape, street, live music, also cats and food - Halifax, NS
Yes, you can most likely get a print of that
https://saltyfog.ca/
Girl Friday @girlfriday.bsky.social An absolute menace. My tummy hurts and I’m mad at the Government.
Sometimes funny.
AKA: Manda, Amanda, Manders.
*opinions are mine*
#freePalestine
Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki. (Halifax, NS)
https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/10ED3C25RAUAL?ref_=wl_share
Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social Father | | Settler | Lawyer working for Indigenous peoples | beard grower | soccer coach | musician | podcaster | I don’t make the rules, I just interpret them | posts, not legal advice | Halisky
Diana R Deacon 🫐 @drdeacon.bsky.social Retired University education specialist, she/her PFLAG mom and queer/trans ally, lover of reading, music, knitting, word puzzles, friends/family, and our senior catizen Gracie. 
michelle mccann @michellemccann.bsky.social of all the michelle mccanns in the world, i’m the michelle mccanniest. | emotional support human to a muppet | small town, nova scotia, canada | she/her
Ramona Trousers @eastcoastknits.bsky.social Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Stoo Metz 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social 📸 - Full Time Pro Photographer ➡️ @stoo.ca
They/Them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Radically ProTransgender🏳️⚧️
#Halifax #SoberLife #HaliSky #Mi'kma'ki #Kjipuktuk
https://linktr.ee/stoometzphoto
ValeTer @valeter.bsky.social Landscape and nature photography. Based in the US.
Web: nature.valeter.net
www.map-shaped.com — a tool where you upload a photo to create state- or country-shaped images, or generate maps of visited states, countries, or U.S. national parks.