Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social Retired journalist, at the ABC for three decades, madly in love with Virginia, 38 years married, swimmer and swim teacher, has reviewed film, music and more for 40 years off and on. No DMs unless l know you.
Paul Murphy @pawlmerfy.bsky.social Film editor. Writer and host of Sony's 'Cover Up: The Conspiracy Tapes' podcast. Geeking out on filmmaking, tech, and the world of misinformation. Explore more of my work here: linktr.ee/pawlmerfy.
Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I love and share #maps and #data that explain how the #world works.
Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum. Historian of science and technology. Nerdy about media tech, the history of electricity, the polar regions and the history of exploration #histsci #histtech #museums 📜
Kane Murdoch @ccguerilla.bsky.social Higher ed misconduct investigator/ consequence courier.
Former professor of cunning at Oxford University
Academic integrity "thinkey and talkey man."
Otherwise, dog father, record spinner, urban hillbilly. Views my own.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
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Aaron Smith @aaronsmith333.bsky.social Tech for work, swimming for sanity, and doing my bit to fight for integrity in our politics. Also at instagram.com/aaronsmith333/
Elinor Johnston-Leek @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social Senior Content Producer @australiainstitute.org.au, resident non-economist on the Dollars & Sense podcast
Low-budget horror movie enthusiast
The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com Unofficial account by @nzcow.com. Visit https://bsky.app/starter-pack/nzcow.com/3lcfdqn57rk2x to find more bots!- R Rest is Politics @restispolitics.bsky.social
The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social All the tweets I love, a few I hate. A few skeets too! Posted individually this time instead of threaded
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Jim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social Treasurer of Australia, Labor MP for Rankin, proudly Logan, QLD born & bred.
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Karen Jane Barlow @kjbar.bsky.social Meddling journalist. Chief political correspondent at @thesaturdaypaper.com.au #ausvotes
karenb@thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Peter FitzSimons @peterfitz1.bsky.social Author, journalist, Australian.
Sammy J @sammyjcomedian.bsky.social Comedian. Writer. Composer. Nerd.
Ben Raue @benraue.com The guy from The Tally Room. Psephologist analysing Australian elections, and hosting a podcast about elections in Australia and elsewhere.
Find me at https://www.tallyroom.com.au/
@drjuliabaird.bsky.social @drjuliabaird.bsky.social
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social Broadcast commentator. Democracy Sausage podcast. Director, Australian Studies Institute, ANU. Ex-Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC RN. Columnist, The Canberra Times. 2025-26 FASIC Australia-in-China Fellow. Multiculturalist. Schnauzer-aligned.
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
The Simpsons @simpsonsquotes.bsky.social One of the most cromulent accounts about the Simpsons. DM suggestions!
Sharnelle Vella @sharnellevella.bsky.social Journalist
Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social See it your way at the Sydney Film Festival, returning in June 2025. https://www.sff.org.au/
Hugh Riminton @riminton.bsky.social National Affairs Editor @10NewsFirst. All views my own.
filmqAU @filmqau.bsky.social 🍿 Weekly Australian movie releases 🎥
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Homers’s Best Bits @homersbestbits.bsky.social Homer’s Best Bits From The Simpsons. DM For Requested Clip. Run By @Richard_6677
Australian Film Critics Association @auscritic.bsky.social AFCA - Australian Film Critics Association
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No longer posting on X for the obvious reasons. 💩
Axios @axios.com Smart Brevity worthy of people's time, attention and trust.
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GhostWhoVotes @ghostwhovotes.bsky.social
Paul Bongiorno @paulbongiorno.bsky.social Columnist for The Saturday Paper, 7AM Podcast contributor, ABC Nightlife commentator, veteran political journalist. His views contestable but his own.
Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social Co-Founder Ette Media | Co-Host ‘We Used To Be Journos’ | TEDx Speaker | Author | Mental Health Ambassador | Charity CoFounder | Popular in WhatsApp Groups
www.ettemedia.com
Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social Co-host of @theshot.net.au's The Sunday Shot, 9am AEST on Sundays at https://www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot.
Theatre and film producer. Writer. Literary curator. Avid consumer of news, politics, wine & AFL. And gin.
The Shot @theshot.net.au Profound and Profane.
theshot.net.au
Reuters @reuters.com
Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social Freelance writer with an unfortunate penchant for Australian politics. clippings.me/rachelwithers/
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
81M @the81stminute.bsky.social Curtis Woodward's FootyTown app.
Michael Beschloss @beschlossdc1776.bsky.social Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Called "normally sober" by Financial Times. X address is @BeschlossDC. Born in Chicago.
Roger Wilkins @rkwilkins.bsky.social Economist working on labour, income inequality, socio-economic disadvantage and other topics. Co-Director of the HILDA Survey.
Possum @pollytics.bsky.social Political, economic and policy stuff. An unrepentant guitar gear hoarder. You know who I am.
A social democrat on the beats - a libertarian between the human, civil and political rights sheets.
The stupidity in this country is exhausting.
Moreton Bay
Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social Australian icon.
Co-host of the Lamestream pod
Lamestream.com.au
gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social journalist, author etc
Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social Now at The i Paper. Some settling of the content may occur during transit.
https://authory.com/NickMiller
Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social King of Lutruwita. Aboriginal Tasmanian - Palawa. Terrible sense of humour. Now a Cat Dad. Wizard of Weed.
Amanda Meade @meadea.bsky.social Guardian Australia media correspondent
Contact me on amanda.meade@theguardian.com
Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Guardian Australia climate and environment editor. Clear Air columnist. Tasmanian Inquirer co-founder.
Andrew Mercado @andrewmercado.bsky.social TV and Film Historian who specialises in soaps and queer content
Rhett Bartlett @rhettrospective.bsky.social Son of a statue
Richmond Football Club Historian.
Famous for his AFL/VFL video vault.
www.youtube.com/RhettBartlett
Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social Writer. Australian. Probably somewhere else.
Essays at patreon.com/geofflemon
Sport at @finalwordcricket.bsky.social
Rohan Connolly @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social I'm an Australian journalist talking/writing/broadcasting/posting about sport (particularly AFL football), music, politics and culture. You'll find my stuff at Footyology, ESPN, Australian Community Media and on 3AW.
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
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Montague Street Bridge @montaguestbridge.bsky.social Vertically challenged - just 3.0m tall!
Allegedly invisible to the naked eye
Come visit me in South Melbourne
Don't be a jerk!
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social Writer & Creator ‡ AU/UK/DE ‡ You can't say I didn't warn you.
Cookerwatch @cookerwatch.bsky.social An avid watcher of Australian conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents, right wing extremists and the anti-everything crowd a.k.a "cookers".
I mainly post amusing stuff and leave the serious stuff to the experts.
the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com We make Honest Government Ads
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social Author/annoyance from The Bird Site
AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social I ain’t no abacus but you can count on me
News, politics, scandals, banter and general nonsense. Open to bribery/corruption etc.
She / her / Madam Tractor
David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social Independent Senator for the ACT.
Insta: davidpocock
Authorised by David Pocock for David Pocock, Canberra
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Andrew P Street @andrewpstreet.bsky.social Word making-in-the-order-doing guy, fleeing Twitter for less Nazi-filled horizons.
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social Editorial cartoons, dog walks, languages, bleeding heart, existential malaise. Latest book Hoary Chestnuts, shop at cathywilcox.com.au
Batshit Australia @batshit-auspol.bsky.social Weird and wild moments from Down Under. Smash follow!
(And for clarity, just because something's Batshit that doesn't mean we think it's bad)
Brent Hodgson @brenthodgson.bsky.social “Strike at the roots, not the branches.”
At the intersection of people, data and politics.
Using data to know them, love them, and work it better.
Trouble. But good trouble.
“Kooyongkoot”, Wurundjeri Land. (Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.)
Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social Investigative Reporter: 4 Corners, ABC. Personal account.
Author: Shellybanks, Pheasants Nest, Witness, Cardinal.
Walkley winner, Press Freedom medallist.
Dublin-born.
I salute sources’ courage.
Linktr.ee/milliganreports
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social Writer, journalist, former editor of The Monthly.
https://nickfeik.substack.com/
Email: nickfeik at proton dot me
Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/ronnisalt
Political-social commentator/sometime-journo. I write books & media articles, sometimes I investigate stuff. Whiny male edgelord's pinup girl. Mostly hilarious most of the time. Likes are acknowledgments only. She/her
Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social Once on Twitter.
Daddy to Daisy
Puns, nonsense, politics, dogs, art, architecture, medical stuff.
Some references will only be understood by Australians
Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social Opticore CFO / Energy things with ANU
syncretica.substack.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Vg7PNIAAAAJ&hl=en
Rob Baillieu @robbaillieu.bsky.social Advocate for integrity in leadership, climate action, and pragmatic government. Proud Australian 🏳️🌈 Boroondara Councillor
Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him.
Research: https://euanritchie.org/
The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A
Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Shodan🥋, 🏀, Carlton FC
🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2
💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social energy geek. root striker. trimtab. impatient incrementalist.
#climate200 #OpenElectricity #AEGN #SuperpowerInstitute #NoDickheads
likes≠agreement. DoB: 329.7ppm
https://authory.com/SimonHolmesaCourt
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Donald Duong @anbear.bsky.social Television presenter, streamer and quizmaster of video games. Somehow an award-nominated journalist. Come for the video games, stay for the diversions into motorsports and musicals.
Martin Dunlop @martindunlop.bsky.social He/Him, Don't worry about the blood, it's mine, I was gonna put it somewhere.
MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social Australian. Atheist. Skeptic. Female. Mother. Self-employed. Blood donor. Avid reader. Lefty. Of course I have a cat. I do not sport. Giving less fucks day by day. I don't auto follow back and block mega accounts. DO NOT ADD ME TO YOUR STARTER PACK!
Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher. Smells books. Maybe we can build a new thing here 🌱
The Upside Down: https://twitter.com/manjusrii
Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney Book & Puzzle. Architecture Prof. ex Sydney Ind Councillor. Aust Arch Gold🥇2024
On Gadigal country
TelevisionAU @televisionau.bsky.social www.televisionau.com
snail @snailvolke.bsky.social https://snail.ws/ | techie librarian; meatier than a seahorse
Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia.
Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train […]
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social Posting ABC News stories from the "Just In" page every ten minutes.
🤖 Bot account 🤖 Replies and DMs not monitored.
Not an official ABC account. Still fixing the bugs. Complaints to @francismarkham.work
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Champagne Comedy @tlschampagne.bsky.social #ChampagneComedy for FAN site of The Late Show AU - ‘92-‘93 (& related) + Self-titled podcast.
ChampagneComedy.com
Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social Off Air TV Archivist. Autistic. (They/Them)
I demand excellence in design & function & will not compromise.
https://archive.org/details/flemishdog linktr.ee/flemishdog
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VHS Revue @vhsrevue.bsky.social TV’s David M. Green presents unintentional comedy & general ridiculousness found on old video tapes. Full Eps on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@davidthegreen?si=n20kJvk1SqjKFvNe
Molk | The Guidefather 👍🇦🇺📺 @molk.bsky.social Future Humanities/Studies of Religion/IPT Teacher
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Didz @didz.net If it's electronic I'll probably pull it apart.