The Atavist Magazine @atavist.com One incredible true story every month. Part of Automattic Inc. https://magazine.atavist.com
Benjamin Boles @benjaminboles.bsky.social I cut hair and sometimes make music. Retired music journalist.
He/they
Toronto
https://on.soundcloud.com/z1Wx4
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Matthew G Brown @itsmrmgb.bsky.social He/Him. Performing artist, TTCA winner, ACTRA award nominee, Avid gamer, sports watcher. Repped by The Characters in Toronto. ๐จ๐ฆ born ๐ฏ๐ฒroots. Currently: recharging ๐
aisling murphy @aislingmurph.bsky.social "ash-ling" | theatre reporter + critic @ the globe and mail | aislingmurphy@globeandmail.com
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Christine Estima @cestima.bsky.social Author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and LETTERS TO KAFKA (2025) Bylines: The New York Times, The Walrus, Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Vice, Chatelaine, and more. Free Palestine๐ต๐ธ Free Lebanon๐ฑ๐ง
Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
Tabatha Southey๐จ๐ฆ @tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine, Toronto Star and more, author of three books, and the River-Daughter. ๐จ๐ฆ
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social Iโm doing good, Iโm on some new shit 
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
David O'Neill @oneillbooks.bsky.social Senior editor @bookforum; friend to animals. Work with me: http://david-oneill-editor.com
Jonny Dovercourt @jdovercourt.bsky.social Music presenter, writer, researcher, policy geek, Toronto. Climate change is real. Wavelength Music (co-founder & Artistic/Executive Director), Any Night of the Week (Coach House Books), Toronto Music Advisory Committee, Music Declares Emergency ๐จ๐ฆ.
Erica Shiner @ericashiner.bsky.social formerly equal parts hope & outrage. currently mostly outraged. ๐ฅ&๐น๐น
comms at Canadians for Tax Fairness โ she ๐
scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
www.scaachi.substack.com
scaachi.koul@slate.com
Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca Pronounced Jug(rhymes with hug)-MEET! | Former Leader of Canada's New Democratic Party | Le chef du NPD du Canada | Text me ๐๐ฝ 613-801-8210
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Jim Munroe @jimmunroe.net He/him. SF novelist/filmmaker at http://jimmunroe.net ~ Producer/Narrative designer ~ Co-founded Hand Eye Society, now Game Arts International Network and Toronto Games Week ~ Designed IF tool http://texturewriter.com
Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall.bsky.social TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
Toronto Blue Jays @bluejays.com Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Snapchat and TikTok: @BlueJays
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social We do not allow kings to lead our country. We should have three co-equal branches of government. Fight back or we will lose our constitutional democracy. Retired attorney. Boston sports fan. Music lover.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbtโฌ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Trans ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Intersectional feminist โ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Caitlin @caitlinsharawy.bsky.social I like music and everything that goes with it. Happy that thereโs a lot of musicians joining Blue Sky.
Marlowe Granados @marlowe.bsky.social Authoress
https://linktr.ee/marlowegranados
US Citizens' Congress @uscitizenscongress.bsky.social A Citizens' Congress can rescue the United States, protect our democracy and ensure that the United States government represents the interests of working class citizens, instead of greedy oligarchs.
@erinhaskett.bsky.social @erinhaskett.bsky.social Lark Productions Tv producer type. Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Family Law, Allegiance, Farming for Love.
Tyler Clark Burke @torontoarttherapy.bsky.social Mother, art therapist, and artist living in Toronto.
www.tcbpsychotherapy.com
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Ashley Tinsworth @ashleytinsworth3.bsky.social A Colorado mom with MS, who votes to protect my daughters and others. ๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Ally. I FOLLOW BACK!! RESIST!
Matt Pollack @mattpollack.bsky.social Great guy who manages a bookstore and made the film, Run Run It's Him. Working on a second and third film, and yes, really a great guy.
Marjan Verstappen @marjanverstappen.com Artist and filmmaker
Toronto and Aotearoa
www.marjanverstappen.com
I have a mailing list where I write about painting, science fiction, collectivity, and what's going on in my studio. 10/10 recommend.
https://www.marjanverstappen.com/contact
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Doc Pickles @doctorpickles.bsky.social I make songs, sometimes perform them. Toronto.
https://m.soundcloud.com/docpickles
Mike @torontofringe.bsky.social me online ๐จ๐ฆ
Web developer living in the north @northerndev.bsky.social Live in the north.
Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social Writer, Toronto. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022) https://www.jason-mcbride.com/
Rocky Alcoa @ivortossell.bsky.social Stop! Hammer time
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, whatโs the longest word you can find โ> https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3mvadd2s4ic2l
@manadiez.bsky.social @manadiez.bsky.social 
Kristy @k-risty.bsky.social 
Thee Kevin Hegge @theekevinhegge.bsky.social Watch my movie Tramps! on Prime!
Watch She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column on Google Play!
Jillian Tamaki @dirtbagg.bsky.social Bump on a log
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. ๐๐๐ฑ
Courtney Love Cox @courtneylovecox.bsky.social 
Sofi P. @sofip.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Tired.
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/radium-girl?fbclid=IwY2xjawHiwnxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXygvf1GdC9XqrKQH8rOKqVfgiOcUaR66kk5FwRFULvR9lhGs8HOjNiXjQ_aem_mLm1_goqGeZiFk125HZGNw
Claire Foster @claire-foster.bsky.social literary translator from French (of Pierre Clรฉmentiโs A FEW PERSONAL MESSAGES, Small Press) / bookseller & manager @ Type Books, Toronto
clairefoster.com
J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social The Globe and Mail television critic and recovering theatre critic. I'm gonna bleet about baseball sometimes. Find me by email at knestruck@globeandmail.com. ๐จ๐ฆ
Michael Healey @healey.bsky.social Playwright, etc
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
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Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username๐)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Bridget Moser @bridgetmoser.bsky.social artist, woman, friend. extremely slow runner.
bridgetmoser.com
Chris @chrislockefun.bsky.social Comedian, actor, writer. I have clown blood.
Zoรซ Dodd @zoedodd.bsky.social Anti drug war activist, anti-capitalist, harm reduction. Co-organizer with Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. Committed to living in a better world. Free ๐ต๐ธ
https://linktr.ee/saveoursites
Michael Balazo @mbalazo.bsky.social Comedian/co-host of Evil Men (thesonarnetwork.com/evil-men) & Long Distance, Bit Weird (tinyurl.com/4z8brwk5). Album Pizza Pals here: michaelbalazo.bandcamp.com/album/pizza-pals
Lisa Smolkin @lisasmolkin.bsky.social Performance Artist
๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ @lakelore.bsky.social 
@leesuksi.bsky.social @leesuksi.bsky.social 
Dupuis Christophe @dupuischristophe.bsky.social Writer/Curator/Performance-Maker
Nate Phillips @natephillips.bsky.social Enemy of the Orange Lodge
Daniel Sarah Karasik @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social U know what else is blue, besides the sky?
The seeeeea ๐ฅฐ
Sean Dixon @seandixon.bsky.social He/ him. New novel, PROTECTOR, coming in Feb.
https://linktr.ee/SeanMorleyDixon
@canada.gov.ca @canada-gov-ca.bsky.social I run an instagram account called @canada.gov.ca that is about funny canadian history. There are live shows, too! Check out the account here: https://www.instagram.com/canada.gov.ca/
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com โThe premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.โ
Cadence Weapon @cadenceweapon.bsky.social ๐ฉ grant@midnightagency.com (booking)
๐จ helen@sixshooterrecords.com (mgmt)
https://sixshooterrecords.lnk.to/Forager
cadenceweapon.substack.com
linktr.ee/cadenceweapon
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert โข writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc โข film programmer โข phd โข any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
@jonmccurley123.bsky.social @jonmccurley123.bsky.social 
Rob Benvie @robbenvie.bsky.social Woozemaster | THE DAMAGERS (Knopf, June 2025)
Xenia Benivolski @xeniab.bsky.social Writer | Curator
Sound, Music & Visual Art
๐ PhD LUCA KU Leuven
โ๏ธ Frieze, e-flux, the Wire UK
xeniabenivolski.com
Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social - I @isabelslone.bsky.social @isabelslone.bsky.social
Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social Affable podcast guy! Two-sport athlete (softball, pub trivia).
Today: Senior Producer at 99% Invisible.
Previously: Slate, CBC, did work on The Dropout + 30 for 30
ChrisBerube.com
Anna Fitzpatrick @bananafitz.bsky.social Itโs me, Anna. Not for everyone. Read Good Girl (Flying Books), or donโt.
The Internet's Hazlitt Magazine @hazlitt.bsky.social 
Kelli Marรญa Korducki @kelkord.bsky.social Independent journalist covering the business of everyday life. Canadian transplant in NY but actually from Milwaukee.
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Alexandra Molotkow @alexmolotkow.bsky.social crushmaterial.substack.com
Johnnie McNamara Walker @johnniewalker.bsky.social Openly ginger bon-vivant
johnniemcnamarawalker.com
Aaron is travelling a bit. @teirersias.bsky.social Settler (he/him), living on Inuit lands
Food โข Comics โข Arctic โข HipHop
๐ซNO GenAI/Crypto/NFT๐ซ
Alt PFP: my kid drew a crayon drawing of me
Alt Cover: Sunset over Apex, Nunavut
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Gabrielle Union @gabunion.bsky.social been bringing it since you met meโจ
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv 
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? ๐ We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.