âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social Unofficial Bot of Toronto Star (All News stories), Canada's largest daily print newspaper.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso.bsky.social MTSO advocates for more frequent, reliable & integrated transit networks for riders across Southern Ontario. 🚍🚊🚆🚇
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now | hosted by @counterfactual.bsky.social and @patblanchfield.bsky.social
free episodes every other saturday; even more for subscribers at https://bit.ly/OrdinaryUnhappiness
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social 
Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social 
UnpopularLesbian: Private Investigator of Stuff and All That @unpopularlesbian.bsky.social Canadian, leftist, socialist, anti-capitalist, lesbionic, #disabled, mental illni, #poverty, profane af, often weird, pro-human, has cat, plays guitar, 2SLGBTQIA+, Free Palestine, she/her, Ontario, CA. #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
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:
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social Senior writer @breachmedia.ca
Website: breachmedia.ca
Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686
Bookings: Scott Sellers
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
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Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation
Crone, Quaker-ish, She/Her
whatashrinkthinks.com
collectivedreaming.org
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
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social Exiled to this insignificant rock and the frozen tundra of Canada....fated to forever reside among you lowly Earth creatures.
"Being a leftist often means being right too soon"
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
Toronto Star @thestar.com Canada's biggest daily newspaper thestar.com
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Althia Raj @althiaraj.bsky.social "It’s Political" podcast host/producer, National columnist for the Toronto Star,
"At Issue" panellist on CBC’s The National.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
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:
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social Chief of da autism police and boss of the Irish Mob at the same time. Cousin, I’m a union man.
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, @utoronto.ca Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social Proud Grandpa, Hubby, Dad, Infectious Disease Doc & Medical Microbiologist (retired), Emeritus Professor @Queensu School of Medicine, Past Chief of Staff of 2 large health systems.
johnsnowproject.org/editorial-group
Board Chair Canadian CovidSociety.ca
Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social rural Ontario family doc | writer | Family Medicine @queensuhealth.bsky.social | she/her
Health equity, health policy, wellness pseudoscience, women's health, history of medicine.
🔗 https://informedperspectives.org/expert/?id=001fK00000INrSnQAL
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social Queen's Park Bureau Chief
Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/robert-benzie/
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
Smarthistory: the Center for Public Art History @smarthistory.bsky.social Smarthistory, a nonprofit, collaborates with museums, academics, conservators, and knowledge-bearers to make art history accessible and engaging while retaining nuance and the highest academic standards—plus everything is free! https://smarthistory.org
Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
daniel sieradski @self.agency fmr. publisher: jewish worker, jewschool + orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead: nylon, jta news + repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. holds numerous dubious ordinations. aft+iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny.
🔗 https://self.agency
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app imagining freedom
brad listi @bradlisti.bsky.social author of books. host of the otherppl podcast. in-depth interviews w writers. extroverted hermit. good at walking.
https://linktr.ee/bradlisti
#booksky
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social Gardener. From flack to florist. From PR to peonies. Still fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC
emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social 📝 Writer, editor and researcher interested in photography and the cultural life of technology — past, present, and future.
📸 Author of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳: 𝘈 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 (Duke, 2026).
🗄️ https://linktr.ee/emilydoucet
Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net For 20 years, Mondoweiss has covered the powers that sustain Israeli apartheid – and how people resist it, from Palestine to the U.S.
Banner: Palestinian children with a donkey cart on the beach in Gaza before the Israeli genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net
Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social Editor. Literary academic. PhD candidate. Mostly US literature. Theory junkie. Writer. Musician. Cat mom. She/her. Treaty 1 Territory. Palestine will be free.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social Socialist writer. Read me at The People's Line at http://www.peoplesline.org. Other links at https://linktr.ee/carlbeijer
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
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✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social Dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social Back off man, I'm a scientist. Evolutionary biologist. Professor. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). Vimy, not Vichy. He/him.
Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social Writes about music, books and politics.
https://linktr.ee/richieassaly
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social Engineering professor at York University
Sandy Hudson @sandela.bsky.social Noping my way through life
writer, filmmaker, podcaster & capoeirista
sandyhudson.ca
sandyandnora.com
blacklivesmatter.ca
defundthepolice.org
wildseedcentre.com
abovethepalace.com
ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social she/her | artist | Black radical thought | social justice barbie | abolition & TJ | mama | writing dangerously | sudani in the wampum treaty belt
Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social Disabled disability and aging reporter at The 19th. Opinions are my own. Follows are not endorsements.
Signal: slooterman.18
Email: sluterman at 19thnews dot org
Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
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justpeaceadvocates.ca @justpeaceadvocates.bsky.social 
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social cultural organizing + production in solidarity with Palestine
amplifypalestine.org
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social art historian with eclectic interests
Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social 🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
📕 Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry
✍️ Emmy-nominated journalist (NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone)
Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social Climate litigation. Lawyer, husband, girl dad.
Every inch of the Earth is worth fighting for. No Xers. No AI.
Work: https://patrickccanning.com/
Climate law blog: https://feeltheheat.blog/
LLM (Lewis & Clark). Not legal advice
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
Azadi Archive Toronto @azadiarchive-to.bsky.social Azadi Archive is a public history initiative that seeks to document stories of brown liberation and community formation movements in the city of Toronto.- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
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...
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Xtra @xtramagazine.com Queering the conversation. Fierce, proud and independent LGBTQ2S+ journalism, since 1984. 🌈✨
Read more at xtramagazine.com 
Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social Mom. Leader of the Official Opposition, Ontario NDP. Proud MPP for Davenport.