Simon Ward @simonmward.bsky.social Making mostly animated videos in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa NZ
simonmward.com
Gemolisch @jodievdw.bsky.social Queer Aussie neurodivergent writer, performer, poet, comedian, all that sort of thing. Side quest shouting about accessibility. Shenanigans by appointment.
Lindsay Tobias @historyleisure.bsky.social Coaster Enthusiast, foamer, urbanist, somebody
Kim Anderson @kimcandraw.bsky.social Illustrator | Designer | Writer | Reader ✌️ 🎨 Available for freelance projects + commissions 📖 Currently reading: Goblin Mode by McKayla Coyle. www.kimcandraw.com
Captain Rainbow Princess Unicorn @mycaptainplush.bsky.social I like Lego and cats and dogs and sometimes my childlings. My pudendum was briefly famous one time on another app.
Emily @emilywrites.co.nz 
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
Jennifer @jennifilm.nz Queer & trans writer, photographer, and advocate from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Gender villain, woke ideological feral, extremist lefty loser, party witch, etc.
I ako tonu au i te reo Māori - mehemea ka hē au, kia pai mai!
jenniferkshields.nz
Film Crit Hulk @filmcrithulk.bsky.social Doing the criticism. All essay stuff free over on https://www.patreon.com/filmcrithulk
Avatar by Yannick Belzil @yannickbelzil.bsky.social
Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social lapsed comedian | voice actor | pākehā | trying to be better | good in bread | overalls enthusiast
Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.social Deaf Crocodile is a boutique Distribution + Restoration + Post-Production company focused on new, independent, lost/unseen and world cinema.
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora @healthnz.govt.nz Official account of New Zealand's national health service. We look after the day-to-day running of New Zealand's health system.
Kat Leyh @katleyh.bsky.social A writer/cover for LUMBERJANES. Eisner nommed author of SNAPDRAGON @01firstsecond THIRSTY MERMAIDS and the upcoming SPOKE by @gallery_13
Represented by @ComicsisPeople
She/her
katleyh.com
TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social Bestselling author of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ romances.
A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS out now.
Rep: Larissa Melo Pienkowski @ Azantian
DM's/@'s not checked regularly. Contact me via my website:
https://tjalexander.com/
Strictly Obiter @strictlyobiter.bsky.social Going on a frolic of his own. Distinguished Fellow at the Robert Muldoon Centre for Constitutional Law.
Please send all complaints
c/- Rt Hon Dame Helen Winkelmann GNZM
Supreme Court of New Zealand
85 Lambton Quay
Wellington
Mimi @mimipurple.bsky.social Love Auroras, the moon, cats, rocks, books, crystals, chocolate, tea and coffee. And plants. And fungi! Paramedic/Instuctor, manic gardener, worked for the Blue side, Canadian/French/Scottish/Irish heritage
Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social Investigative journalist | The Crewe Murders 📖 | Nellie’s Baby 🎧 | I tell stories about people | kirsty.johnston@rnz.co.nz ✉️
https://www.instagram.com/kirstyjohnston_nz?igsh=bWU4a2pqemthYm5q
FKMarlowe @fkmarlowe.bsky.social Writer of horror and dark fairytales. Poster of dinner pics. Drinker of tea. Inveterate un-finisher of things.
(Note to self, add wise-sounding insight about life here...) She/her
https://www.fkmarlowe.com
Jez @jezbrown.bsky.social https://jezbrown.substack.com (podcasts and jibbering)
https://plotsauce.com (free virtual plotboarding software)
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
@blacklightnz.bsky.social @blacklightnz.bsky.social 
Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social IYKYK
Josh Lowry @joshlowry.bsky.social Fundraising specialist, photographer, and web developer for nonprofits. Kiwi 🇳🇿, currently based in Tanzania 🇹🇿, can occasionally be found in Cambodia 🇰🇭 and Australia 🇦🇺. 
Jim Bevan @jimbevan85.bsky.social Animation/video game/toku lover, bibliophile, alt-rock/indie music fan, amateur mentalist 
Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com Dad, husband, writer. Wrote a fair-selling book about Power Rangers.
Host/EP of Not Another 2001 Movie Podcast: https://youtube.com/@notanother2001moviepodcast?si=mGBGMaE1R7eI7M3Q
Sibby ✨ @ssibbehh.bsky.social Nerdy pākehā in Pōneke. Probably blabbering about technology, culture, and disability.
🏹 Dependent origination MF ☸️
🖤🤍❤️ Toitū te Tiriti
Jacob Brode @database-ranger.bsky.social Father of two, full-time physics teacher, and part-time YouTuber who likes to pontificate on Power Rangers and politics. (he/him)
https://www.youtube.com/DatabaseRanger
Kirsty @alkalinekiwi.bsky.social Wishes she was reading. Or napping. Or patting cats.
She/Her
Tattooed 40 year old Pokémon trainer
Anna Henderson @annamhnz.bsky.social Ecology, scicomm, writing, outdoors, foodie #Aotearoa
Ko Loren tōku ingoa @mxloren.bsky.social Disabled queer trouble maker. Ngāti Kahungunu. On a reclamation journey. Thriving Madly. Always curious, forever learning. They/Them.
Sarah Chambers @sarahpolo10.bsky.social I'm the owner of Little Makos Swim School that teaches Learn to swim for wee ones and mum to 1 child & 2 staffies
@gkat74.bsky.social @gkat74.bsky.social 
Roderick Fransham @rodfransham.bsky.social Just an urchin livin’ under the street.
Alwyn @alwyndale.bsky.social Scripts, snacks, formerly spandex
@renelebas.bsky.social @renelebas.bsky.social 
Alice Shearman @aliceshearman.bsky.social Creative Leader, lover of screenwriters, defender of the Arts. Still.
Steve McCleary @stevemccleary.bsky.social Author. Editor. Pro Wrestling MC. Comic and horror lover. Wrote for Power Rangers ⚡️
Meredith @meredith-nz.bsky.social urbanist, neighbourhood nerd
she/her
he pākehā ahau
Kim @epponee.bsky.social Bookworm; Coffee & chocolate addict; Loves all things NZ; Mental Health OT: Passionate about improving child & youth mental health. 
Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com 🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books
Queen Captain of Space Station 1
Dr Eliot Attridge @pursuelearning.net I’m an author (mainly textbooks for UK), Head of Science, AI educator, MIEE and a geek. I'm an avid board gamer (one of our rooms now looks like a shop). Interested in AI, creating, science of learning & sciences. https://buymeacoffee.com/pursuelearning
Angela Findlay @confluencekid.bsky.social History geek: Here for the music, cats, politics, books, & cricket. Dunedin Ōtepoti.
Kathryn Dick @excellentwretch.bsky.social Educator; playwright; Ōtepoti is my home. 🏳️⚧️ally
"Too school for cool!"
Scholen Veilig (Safe Schools) @scholenveilig.bsky.social Advocate for Safe Schools with a focus on prevention like Clean Air to protect children from health risks like long Covid. Sharing data on child Covid hospitalizations, long Covid, and schools with clean air: scholenveilig.com
🌍The Netherlands
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
@cdjstratton.bsky.social @cdjstratton.bsky.social 
Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social Advocating for a comprehensive and equitable Covid response.
#cleanair #covidisnotover #covidisnotmild #maskup
Matt Butler @othermattbutler.bsky.social Easily distracted screenwriter
Othermattbutler.com
Leanne Hannah @stratosmacca.bsky.social Illustrator, concept artist (Transformers, He-Man, Power Rangers, Pokémon, Daria) • Lover of spandex heroes • Ravens/Orioles FTW • IG: stratosmacca
Available for commission/cover/pinup/licensing work! LeanneHannah.com
Jason Bischoff @toywonder.bsky.social VP, Licensing at #Funko (@funko.bsky.social). Co-Writer and EP on #FunkoFusion. Writer, comics advocate, and cat owner. Opinions are my own!
Ryan Cooper @ryanthemuk.bsky.social Writer/director at Mukpuddy in New Zealand. Co creator of The Barefoot Bandits, Night Eyes and the series adaptation of Spike Milligan's Badjelly.
erin gourley @eringourley.bsky.social writer, studying international human rights law at lund uni. formerly journo-ing at the post and critic te arohi. she/her.
Catherine Balavage Yardley @catherineby.bsky.social Author of Ember and Where The Light is Hottest. Freelance writer. Editor-in-chief of Frost Magazine. Words in The Sunday Times, Mslexia, The Bookseller, The Guardian, Metro.
and talk it up like yeah YEURH @alastaircalling.bsky.social Sometimes the dog posts for me
🏳️🌈
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Co-founder @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Folk horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. She/her
Blog:
https://theharvestmaidsrevenge.com/
Scout @scoutriver.bsky.social Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa
Mostly just tired.
🖤🤍❤️ Toitū te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤
helloe // Toitū te Tiriti! @helloe.bsky.social she/her they/them lesbiab neurodivergent ace polyam nerd blm ye
18+ minors dni you know the drill
i gay
Mike @miken.bsky.social 
Nikipedia @nickgirlnz.bsky.social Foodie, former chef, fully woke leftie. Food scientist, word nerd and crazy cat lady. Collector of useless knowledge. From Ōtautahi, NZ. She/Her.
Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social Kāi Tahu diaspora nb (he/him) left communist/ communal anarchist
Kia kotahi rā te Moana Nui a Kiwa 🌊
Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social Selfies & left-leaning commentary with a sprinkling of te reo Māori | Kuia | Toitū te Tiriti | He uri ahau nō Waikato Tainui. Ko Ngāti Korokī te hapū. | My views | https://thisnzlife.co.nz/a-home-drenched-in-colour-is-perfectly-suited-to-t
Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social Pakeha man from Aotearoa New Zealand. Community, tech, cities, health systems, politics, disability, design, culture, wit, whimsy..
James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social Kiwi guy living in paradise. Climate scientist, cyclist, woodworker, whisky drinker.
Born at 315ppm carbon dioxide.
Emerald_ro @emeraldro.bsky.social Chronically short of spoons 🥄 and mostly here for the animal pictures. She/her
Robbie Nicol @robbienicol.bsky.social Sorry for all the posts. (He/him)
Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social Toitū Te Tiriti!
❤️🤍🖤
🇳🇿🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Pākehā, Scots-Norwegian lefty, accidental soccer mum, haz reckons.
she/her
Steph Phi @freestylesteph.bsky.social Standing for Whakatū Nelson Council . Architect with Interest in social justice, creative arts & creating a better society for all. Aotearoa. Whakatū Tangata Te Tiriti
Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Sharing info on COVID since the start of the pandemic.
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social Welly illustrator and garret dweller on Cuba Street. Lending a hand in The Wellington Writer’s Studio. #MyAuntHonor illustrator. Aotearoa New Zealand Ngāti Tūkorehe/Tangata Tiriti 🌱
Darby @dashingdarbs.bsky.social He/him. queer small town werewolf. Aotearoa. old punk plant nerd into weeds, conservation, foraging, brunch, coffee, cargo bikes, loud music.
Sensitive but not very deep.
Still in love with the world & angry about it.
Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social Green-leaning and living, Rottie lover, rural dwelling Aotearoan..
...until I left the Air Force for DOC after 28 years in the military, most if not all of my career decisions had been shaped by the Airfix and Revell catalogues from the 1970s...
Emma Smart @cleverdilemma.bsky.social 
Mellopuffy @mellopuffy.bsky.social I believe in love. #Landback. Tangata Tiriti. Cis/She/Her. Ōtepoti home but Ōtautahi bred. Union Strong! ✊🏼
Amy Hall @amyhall.bsky.social film & TV nerd, lover of all dogs, voracious reader, recovering film tutor...trying to be a good person in the world. Fiend for mojitos. Pronouns: she/her.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/7swkx
Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social Tall man, weird little telly boy
Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing, TTRPG design with Handiwork Games and Taleturn, taking action, discussing NZ political nonsense. Usually walking the dogs. #FiveEvil is out!
(mr_orgue at the bird site)
Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social Sometime cabaret reprobate, civic participation nerd, digital wonk, crochet aficionado, several neuroses in a trenchcoat. Pronouns he/they/ia. Wellington & Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Views are my own and not my employers'.
Ange 🍞🌹🏳️🌈 🇳🇿 @seawall.bsky.social Pākehā, born on the land of the Lenape, now living on the whenua of Kāi Tahu. #ToitūTeTiriti
#ADHD probably #autistic parent to an autistic probably #PDA child.
Artist. Separated. Queer.
She/they
Lauren she/her @eccentriccatlady.bsky.social Reader, queer, nerd, mom, animal lover, passionate about social justice, neuro spicy, Aotearoa newbie, 🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇵🇸💚🐶🐱👩🏻🎓
Ali Monty @alimonty.bsky.social Software engineer in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Pākehā. Supporter of people, inc. indigenous rights, and the environment. Not a huge fan of capitalism, but productive in that system. Would rather be productive for a better system though.
sallyposts/mall ghost @sallypoastes.bsky.social Cis, pākehā, adhd person, sometimes disabled with ehlers-danlos stuff. I like making bad jokes and yelling about stuff. Please join me in yelling.
日本語は読めるけどあまり書けない
Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat.
She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/
Brian Michael Scully @brianscully.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 He/Him
Alleged sleep paralysis demon.
Screenwriter/Producer (PGA).
CURRENT: Avatar: The Last Airbender for Netflix.
Salty FFXIV healer.
Punch Nazis.
AI sucks.
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social Chair of Go Eco.
Green Party candidate.
Former Hamilton City Councillor.
Gardener, knitter, nerd. She/they.
Auth by: M Ross, greens.org.nz
🏳️🌈♿🌱💛
belynda @bel10.bsky.social kiwi-dutchie gooner with a scuba-diving addiction. Tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa. Incurable leftist treehugger. She/her. 
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Simon McArthur @simonmcarthur.bsky.social I like making things, including mistakes. Tangata Tiriti.
Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social American in Aotearoa New Zealand. Film editor, filmmaker (Gut Instinct [2024], Jake [2014], etc), musician (The Sea Plus), helpful guy.
Baxtermack🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social It is I, Hamish Mack
And it's through that there Magna Charter,
As were signed by the Barons of old,
That in England to-day we can do what we like,
So long as we do what we're told.
-Marriot Edgar
D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social Enthusiastic amateur gardener. Westie. Dalmatian. Croatian. Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Parent. Partner. Baba. Teta. Cis. She/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Caren Wilton @carenwilton.bsky.social Editor, writer, oral historian. Pākehā living in Wairarapa, Aotearoa. She/her. Old lefty bisexual feminist. Cats, gardens, art, books, knitting, human rights. Kia kaha te reo Māori, toitū te Tiriti. Covid isn't over. AI is a scam.
Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social Rights Aotearoa is Aotearoa's leading NGO championing the universal human rights of all kiwis with a particular focus on the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people.
www.rightsaotearoa.nz
Donation⏬
https://opencollective.com/rights-aotearoa
NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social My mother survived walking through Hiroshima the day after as a 13 year old, so I have a fair idea of what a nuclear holocaust looks and feels like
🇯🇵 🇳🇿
Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social Human Rights Defender / Founder of Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social || he/him || Proud alumnus of London Business School || ❤️Food & Wine || Trans rights are human rights || paul@rightsaotearoa.nz