Sarah Starkweather for Oak Bay @starkweatherforob.bsky.social Hi, I’m Sarah and I’m running for Council in Oak Bay BC. Learn more about where I stand at starkweatherforoakbay.ca.
Todd Litman @toddlitman.bsky.social I am a transport and land use policy analyst. I love doing research about ways to make communities healthier, wealthier and wiser at the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org)
Sarah Frumento (she/her) 🇨🇦 @sarahfrumento.ca Dog mum and cargo bike enthusiast + matchmaker in #yyj
Cargo bike sticker collector.
#W̱SÁNEĆ
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social once called «Canada's only public intellectual»
drug policy researcher ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer ⁕ ephemera
vancouver bc canada
institute for the history of possible futures
https://free-futures-society.org/
Victoria For All @victoriaforall.ca victoriaforall.ca
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social I write Cup of Coffee, a daily baseball, politics, entertainment, and nonsense newsletter: https://www.cupofcoffeenews.com/
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social Locally known bicycle personality
Builder of art bikes
Maker of LaneSaber
BC Ministry of Ending Car Reliance @b1kes.bsky.social Will block AI users and apologists on sight, I don't give a fuck if we agree on anything else.
British Columbia Ministry of Ending Car Addiction and Reliance
He/They
@duncankinney.bsky.social @duncankinney.bsky.social 
Kellan @kellanem.com 30 years of social media breaking my heart.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social Editor in Chief, No Jitter; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of a Beehiiv newsletter (https://notes-from-economy-class.beehiiv.com/) parent/partner/community volunteer/aspiring long distance swimmer.
Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote. I hack code for goauthentik.io these days.
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
Katie Mummah @nuclearkatie.com Nuclear engineer. nuclear: reactors, history, waste, nonproliferation, space, humor. "Tells uranium's life story". Lives in New Mexico. UW-Madison, UIUC alum. Outdoors when I'm not working. Views mine alone, like/rt not endorsements. she/her
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
Cate @catehstn.bsky.social fractional CTO. coach. quantum particle. in search of adventure; it’s probably fine ✨
Author of The Engineering Leader, published by O'Reilly
https://cate.blog
https://whatsmyjob.club
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social A small yoz-type object. He/him/oh.
Passive Londoner, active Oaklander.
Only eats kosher planets.
Also @yoz@mastodon.social.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4 awesome young adults. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Lyndsey @lyndseybee.bsky.social Writer of stuff
Crocheter of things
Haver of MS and MdDS
Rider of bicycles
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Just Some Sarah @justsomesarah.bsky.social Victoria BC
Mostly I want a return of the goodness that was Bike Twitter
@megnut72.bsky.social @megnut72.bsky.social 
Bernard 🇪🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @bc-iconoclast.bsky.social That guy from the West Coast with many opinions, some even good, some off the wall
I am resigned to the world going to hell over the next generation. I hope we will see an improvement in 30 years
#BCPoli #YYJ #Ukraine #Estonia
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Will Greaves @wgreaves.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Victoria.
Poli sci prof, local dad, lucky guy. Global and Canadian politics, Arctic, climate, people, jokes. https://willgreaves.ca/
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden @tnh.nielsenhayden.com Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @tnh@wandering.shop.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout. American by birth, Canadian by recent ancestry.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
RedOrchestraAFA @redorchestraafa.bsky.social Ⓐ - DEATH BEFORE FASCISM! contact us with info on fascists anywhere at RedOrchestra161@riseup.net
outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social Artist
PNW
isaac @sevier.io Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “Why public power campaigns win"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/public-power-san-francisco-new-york-shrestha-mamdani-organize/
Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social writer and dogsledder, host of story podcast “what to carry, what to burn”
Defund VicPD @defundvicpd.bsky.social Calling for defunding the Victoria Police Department (VicPD) and reallocating resources to community supports and services.
On the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples.
🌐 DefundVicPD.org
Anthony H 🇨🇦 @anthonywch.bsky.social A lover of gardening, woodworking, family and minimalism/essentialism, living in an apartment.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mini Painter. Gamer Geek.
As seen in CBC, the Tyee, Reactor Magazine (TOR.com), Polygon, and many other places.
Based in lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria, BC, Canada).
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social Your City is a grassroots organization focused on affordability in Seattle, Washington #thisisyourcity
https://www.yourcityseattle.org
Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) counters, monitors, and exposes far-right hate movements, groups, and figures. Fully independent.
www.antihate.ca | info@antihate.ca
Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social Perverse prolific profane political pansexual polyamorous dominatrix and writer, Seattle. Sex work is work. Queer. Cannabis. Anti-Misogyny. Gen X, she/her. Not here to “build my brand”
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Kevin Ball 🇨🇦 @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social normalize not normalizing the new normal
pro-vax, anti-vax-‘n’-relax
i pity the fools but i do not suffer them Ⓥ
Julie the Cranky Crone @juliethecranky.bsky.social Brooch Warfare, Story Time, and the occasional designer overview and so forth. Writer, knitter, trying-to-be artist. I run on art supplies and yarn.
#CRPS late stage. I had a support group I'd love to replicate.
Do no harm, take no shit.
Oak Bay Gazette @oakbaygazette.bsky.social Fearless voice of the people (sorry, people). Your insightful Oak Bay parody newspaper.
Ebi McKnotty @ebimcknotty.bsky.social Rope365! Rope to sculpt beautiful shapes out of people, loving them with a different kind of hug. Traveling a lot and love to share knowledge. NSFW! She/her/they
Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.bsky.social Victoria, B.C. needsmorespikes.com
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social 🌲 Est. 1980
🐟 Protect nature + defend wildlife + fight climate change
📍 Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario
🔗 wildernesscommittee.org
@tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social *Personal Account* Car-free bike Dad with over 40,000 miles travelled on Bullitt cargo bikes. More kids on bikes w/ bicycle education and advocacy. Reduce car dependency. Increase public transit and micro-mobility. Safe Routes to School and Bike Bus! 😎🚲🥰
Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social Journalist covering politics, policy, and economics for CNBC. matt.peterson@cnbc.com. personal site: mattpeterson.me
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social I want to live in a world with less trauma and more love.
Expeditionary Art @expedart.bsky.social Maria Coryell-Martin, art+exploration+education. expeditionaryart.com
Founder of arttoolkit.com
Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social Currently on partial medical leave and Associate professor, Dept of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary; co-director Electricity Centre; energy/mid-transition/carbon/innovation policy + bikes.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social Grassroots collective working for climate justice and a #GreenNewDeal on Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories. www.climatejusticevictoria.ca #ElbowsUp #yyj #ClimateJustice
Daniel of Clan Lamont @kermitology.bsky.social Where's Daniel? I don't know, but there's his steaming cup of coffee. Just a Canadian guy who likes coffee, physics, tech, BIKES!, books, and my kids.
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Katie @kateytomatey.bsky.social Lekwungen lands (Victoria BC). Support harm reduction and safe supply, passionate about tomatoes, organ donation, trans rights 🏳️⚧️. Parent of a little kid. Emergency management and crisis communications and bikes. 🇵🇸
Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social Official Government of BC Bluesky account.
Moderation policy and collection notice: http://news.gov.bc.ca/23589
Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now. lifeaftercars.com
Nome @nome.bsky.social Please don't use unroller bots on my threads.
ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand.
Queer, Disabled, He/Him
🐦@NomeDaBarbarian
💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian
📌 Denver
Jon Stahl @aardvarkzebra.bsky.social Taker of naps.
Grace Lore @gracealore.bsky.social MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill / #bcpoli / Momma to Asher & Eve / PhD / Lover of running & all things #yyj / she/her
Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social Geographer, Bike Rider, Open Source Advocate, Gamer, Senior Data Monkey
he/him
Maria C-M @mariac-m.bsky.social Artist, entrepreneur, mother, and trying to live conscientiously. Follow my art @expedart.bsky.social
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social The Cenobite of Sharing
The Black Blood of the Earth and Steins of Science guy. Everyone’s friendly internet laser safety officer and health physicist. Happy to answer Antarctica questions.
www.funraniumlabs.com
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
Aidan Knight @aidanknight.bsky.social studio rat and bike boy
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
DOJinExile.com @dojinexile.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account of the future DOJ-in-Exile. Our home in waiting is at DOJinExile.com.
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