KiwiNewsBot @kiwinewsbot.bsky.social Uses natural language processing (not generative AI!) and a self-improving database of words and phrases to take real New Zealand headlines and mix them up in unpredictable and - hopefully - amusing ways. Completely automated, no human curation.
Fade In @fadeinpro.com Because you deserve better screenwriting software.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social Editor & Writer | Unbreaking.org volunteer | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, druid, cool aunt, nature & conservation | Views mine | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲/|\ https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com trans potato of fury
random whimsy, nonsense, ranting about Events leftishly
Used to do IT
she/her
Disabled, no income, homeless, please help me afford shelter and food
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social YouTuber, author, critic, actor.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social I've been here long enough where a lot of you don't even know where I come from and I kinda find that delightful.
But I'm glad you're here! How are you?
Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social Answering to many names.
@vintagehabibi.bsky.social @vintagehabibi.bsky.social 
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social Filmmaker (WHAT LIES WEST) and formerly a little Twitter famous. Married to @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social, writes with @nicksinnott.com
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social Good in a crisis and at no other time
First initial last name at gmail dot com
Signal:@KathrynTewson.06
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
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she/her
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social Feminist, leftie, māmā. Tangata Tiriti, she/her. Opinions stated are entirely my own and do not reflect any other person or organisation.
Scout @scoutriver.bsky.social Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa
Mostly just tired.
🖤🤍❤️ Toitū te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤
Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social Director & Writer | IDENTITEAZE film | YouTuber | former writer/video producer at Gamespot, The Advocate, Microsoft, Out Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, & Skybound | Trekkie by birth
https://www.jessieearl.com/
Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her.
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Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
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More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer. Musician.
Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈
Join my sci-fi book club:
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social IYKYK
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social Mind of Sid James in Jenny Agutter's body. Descended from Frenchified Vikings. Gen X. Former Record Shop Snoot. Former Egyptian Archaeologist. Olympic Snarkaeologist. English. Tangata Tiriti. She/they. 🏳️🌈
Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com Deaf, ND, multiply disabled.
W3C Invited Expert participating in WCAG 3.
Software eng. & consultant:
@ashlee.semanticfish.com
Blog:
ashleemboyer.com
More writing:
@semanticfish.net
Interests: crip theory & critical access/disability studies.
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social Stephanie Sterling. Writer for Vampire Survivors, Date Everything, & Quantum Witch. Transfem She/Them Polyantagonist. Also a pro wrestler. Currently accepting writing gigs for cool games by cool people.
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social "This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social Updates for Bob Chipman + MovieBob Productions - THE BIG PICTURE, MOVIEBOB REVIEWS & more!
Joined March 2011
http://patreon.com/moviebob1
https://ko-fi.com/moviebob0168
GSAP @gsap-greensock.bsky.social 
The Cafibulator @cafibulator.bsky.social 30-something wastrel in semi-professional housekeeping and pet care, dad of many cats and video game nerd. he/him 🩷🤎💚
Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social Post-production ninja. (she/her)
Editor. Colourist. Maker of trailers. Drinker of tea.
http://linktr.ee/ashleylyncheditor
Vancouver, BC
tags: #editing #postsky
Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social 🍉💚🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖤🤍♥️- Ka whawhai tonu mātou.
Woke and wishing I was asleep and this was all a bad dream. (they/them/ia)
Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social Spiky author person with a rad jewelry shop. They/She. Queer, AuDHD, and probably watching a horror movie. Black Trans Lives Matter.
I swear too much.
Official cat herder of the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.
Emmy Rākete @cannibality.bsky.social communist, prison abolitionist, criminologist, cool mum 🌱 university lecturer, unless you're one of my students, in which case you didn't see me on here- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Jonathan Marshall @jmarshallnz.bsky.social Statistician in Papaioea, Aotearoa. #rstats, #datascience.
Ari from Aotearoa @arinic.bsky.social Living in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Green member/voter and dedicated socialist. Like to sew and knit with some gardening. Grandma, she/her 🇳🇿🏳️⚧️
Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.
antihobbes @antihobbes.bsky.social 
Alix Higby @alixhigby.bsky.social Journalist of the TV producer variety
📍Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa NZ
Michele A’Court @micheleacourt.bsky.social Comedian/Writer
Tangata Tiriti
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era.
this is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here.
ngl.link/armageddon1312
don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Becs A @bereccanz.bsky.social TV Watcher. Lego builder. Card maker. Embroiderer. Puzzle-solver. Accountant. Bus passenger. Fully vaxxed. She/her.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Stephanie Pearce @wild1pearce.bsky.social “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal.”
Leftie. She/her. Secular homeschool mum.
Former childrens nurse.
Anti alt right numpties.
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
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social davidslack.net
Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social Making online videos since 2010. Writer, presenter, editor. Find me talking games at @outsidextra.bsky.social, playing tabletop at @oxventure.bsky.social and being opinionated at youtube.com/@icklenellierose she/her, Londoner
Jenny DeMilo @jennydemilo.bsky.social Erotic Recording Artist, Equestrian, Professional Dog Friend, Boss Mare.
Born behind the orange curtain, raised in East LA, currently living on a farm below the Mason Dixon
https://www.jennyhatesyou.com
https://allmylinks.com/jennydemilo
STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social | scientist | hurr/durr | Pronouns: Your Grace/Your Majesty/Yes Ma’am
All power to all the people
No DMs.
Melbourne, Australia
Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social Professional Dominatrix and erotic hypnotic Mistress
Making the world a little better, one orgasm at a time
She/Her
https://cash.app/$MistressEmma
NiteFlirt.com/Trance
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Craig @kiwicraig74.bsky.social Full woke lefty town-planner in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
I don't think you're ready for this jelly.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com Extremely online internet gremlin, writer & raccoon enthusiast 💜 @roxiqt on TikTok 🦝 roxiqt.com ✨ she/they 👻 frightaboutnow.com 🌻
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social Author. Opinions=own. She/Her.
Writing your fav characters. Rep: Michael Bourret.
Co-host on the Official Marvel Podcast.
Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot is out now!
www.preetichhibber.com
Profile illustration by James Lancett
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social crows can hold grudges for 17 years. amateurs.
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social Scientist/nerd. Human to Lilja the floof. Allegedly pissed off too many men on twitter
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social PR hack. Sometimes maybe good. Sometimes maybe shit.
He/Him
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social Personal account so expect eclecticism. Law, politics, SFF books, anime, gaming, music. Queer stuff.
Day job = Administrative law and public law theory.
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social Lecturer in public policy, STS sociologist, tangata tiriti, feminist, geek, coffee-addict, lesbian, urbanist, electric motorcyclist, ex-Chicago, half Dutch, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her 🇳🇿🇳🇱
https://about.me/sarahhendricabickerton/
Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social Critical view from the imperial periphery
Co-founder and Executive Producer for https://www.1of200.nz/podcast
Described as "NZ's Early Edition"
Support us here: https://www.patreon.com/1of200
feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social They call you a feminist killjoy because misogyny is fun for them.
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social I like collating data,
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
Toast Conger @toastchanges.com Yes Toast. Topics I follow: change, NZ pocket friends, KDrama, weather, permaculture, weaving, she/her🌱🇳🇿
@toastfloats@mastodon.nz
@toastfloats elsewhere
*playful music stops* @mizjwilliams.bsky.social “The universe is fuckin’ rad, bruh!” Geek très chic with a side order of communicatrix, mama, partner of @huttjatt, hound owner, Scottish/tangata tīriti/sort-of-Brazilian. I like tall trees, camping, ssamjeong, chunky shoes and sobriety. She/they.