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.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff.
Negate the gods -- raise rocks.
She/her 🏳️🌈
BlackJew 🏳️⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social Jordan (He/Him) - Expert in politics. Recovering Executive Director. Now consulting.
Proud to appear on an award-winning podcast on MA Politics
https://linktr.ee/jordanbergpowers
Profile Pic: Black Man w/ dreadlocks wearing black Tax the Rich
K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social On an island. Will be your dad if you ask. Making things for you. Shirts pay for skeets: https://www.teepublic.com/user/kthorjensen
Chris A. @letseatnachos.bsky.social he/him • friendly neighborhood reply guy • video game player • progressive • dad • 15x half marathon runner • 1x full marathon runner • undiagnosed but we're all pretty sure
LoboJoe @lobojoe.bsky.social Father, husband, bald, atheist, Leo, Water Dog, INTJ, Chaotic Good, funk addict, nerd of various stripes, politically furious, antifascist
MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social A “fella”. Art, too much politics, Ukraine, dogs. Repost a lot.
Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。
Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu Planning cities that make people smile;
Co-founder @ humankind
Author of The Car That Wanted to be a Bike: http://humankind.city/car
📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Cam all one word 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror
(he/him)
Americans: if my post is about you I will say so
Profile pic: Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro facing the camera
edith @edithcharles.bsky.social Former journalist, survivor, disabled, I will not rest until golf is abolished 🏳️⚧️
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@jacobwisner.bsky.social @jacobwisner.bsky.social Data specialist and legal tech developer. Former nuclear engineer and physicist. Opinions are my own. He/Him
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social Postdoc at @opioidcobre.bsky.social. Translational transdisciplinary drug scientist, harm reductionist, artist, paramedic, chemistry enthusiast, Texan. she/her/ella
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Sloth or entropy @ludditerobot.bsky.social Writer, movie-watcher, jazz-listener, fascism-loather. Dad.
Xia @xiacobalt.bsky.social She/Her. Thirty-something trans woman and lesbian. Opinions not my own.- G @gruffthedog.bsky.social @gruffthedog.bsky.social
Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
Corina @corinavr.bsky.social Heya! Thanks for stopping by. I am a professional (and indie too) Game Designer/Developer. By day, I develop war games and simulations for my day job. By night, I am mostly working with VRChat worlds and assets.
https://linktr.ee/sistersingaming
Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social Dad. Wiradjuri (Australian First Nations) man. Nerdy, creative, actor, political. Join your union. He/Him
Brent Johnson @brentajohnson.bsky.social Proud father, music educator, arts administrator, Winnipegger, community believer and builder (he/him).
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social "The shitposting will escalate as the deadline encroaches".
Researcher & Analyst with @edmoireland.bsky.social.
Internet Governance, Tech Policy & Human Rights.
Would honestly rather be talking about movies.
(He/Him)
Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social #NotYourMamasMarthaStewart | Journalism l Politics l Tech + AI | Former Chef |
Connecticut + Massachusetts I
RedwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social Socialist, anti-fascist, Trekkie, Cal grad, ex-LucasArts, public health nonprofit comms in Chico, CA. Loves flowers, poems, universal healthcare, affordable housing, & HSR. GenX, Level 59.
-> COVID isn't over, so mask up!
-> #Prosecute&AbolishICE
@tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social 
Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design Antifascist MacGyverette maker and cosplayer, broken tran on the Halifax pier and the very model of a modern ace transsexual. Butlerian jihadist.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Xero Reynolds @artificer-ind.bsky.social He/Him | Artist & Storyteller | Creative Geek trying to do some chaotic good. 💙 @cozykathryn.com NO AI.
Site: https://artificer-ind.carrd.co/
Biz ✉️: artificerxero@gmail.com
sabriel is so sleepy @droningg.bsky.social just your average sentient swarm of mantis wasp hybrids
small angry and useless
lesbian, transexual woman, licensed misandrist, anarcho-collectivist, audhd, transfeminist
she/her, it/its is cool if you're cool
44 years old
rural north eastern oklahoma
James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social Award-winning screenwriter and Nicholl QF;
https://m.youtube.com/@JamesWVanFleet
Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social That bloke from off of Twitter. Writes books. Likes cats. That sort of thing.
You can give Ko-Fi donations too, if you fancy it:
https://ko-fi.com/nickpettigrew
MapQuest @mapquest.com The OG of online mapping.
Get the app on Android and iOS: lnk.bio/MapQuest
David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social Host of the Cold War Channel in YouTube. Independent Historian 20th Century, military, and Soviet and Post-Soviet spaces. Lifetime Spurs sufferer/supporter. He/him
History exists in shades of grey and yet so many seek only black or white
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social Bone Jail
I draw comics i think that’s a nice way to spend my time
instagram.com/roryblank
patreon.com/roryblank for my monthly print zine
roryblank.bigcartel.com for cool shirts
https://rawpaw.ink/collections/rory-blank (reprints of a few shirts)
Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social I'm a background artist in Vancouver! Projects include Star Trek: Lower Decks, Rick and Morty, Carmen Sandiego, My Little Pony: The Movie amanda.wt.wong@gmail.com
Website: http://www.amandadraw.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandawtwong/
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online writer and coffee professional, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.
I also have a newsletter: https://jesseraub.online
Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social Autistic parent of autistic artist, athlete etc. about whom I’ll never stop kvelling. Editor at @thinkingautism.bsky.social. Fan of democratic governance & real science. U should read Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes. ❤️ earnestness never been 😎.
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.com
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social New role to be announced soon!
Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Fan of Tom Paine.
George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social “No, not that one”- Politico | Creator of Video Games Industry Memo | MD, Half-Space Consulting | Author of Power Play (June 2026) | Pun Appreciator
Order my book 👉 https://linktr.ee/Power_play_book
Madfishmonger @madfishmonger.bsky.social ✨Creative wizard ✨ Writer for Nerdburger Games ✨ Freelance Writer ✨ Roleplayer & GM ✨ they/them ✨ Queer disabled Canadian ✨ Treadle sewing machine user/enthusiast ✨Avatar art by Penflower Ink
@maplemaps.bsky.social @maplemaps.bsky.social 
Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social Founding Principal / CEO - Science Leadership Academy Schools
Co-Author of "Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need"
Dad to Jakob and Theo.
Still writes here when I can: http://practicaltheory.org
Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social MIT-trained economist & Harvard prof | 1st-gen college grad | Education, inequality | Shitposts in a Boston accent | 1st career: union organizer
NYT Columns
https://www.nytimes.com/by/susan-dynarski
https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski
www.susandynarski.com
Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social (VERY SERIOUS) USA TODAY humor(ish) columnist. May or may not be notable. Hypocrisy enthusiast. WOKE MOB, CO-FOUNDER. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (2017 to present).
מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social jewess. radical-liberal. euro-med politics, north korea, languages. 🔶🇳🇫🇬🇱
「仁人之事者，必務求興天下之利，除天下之害。然當今之時，天下之害孰為大？若大國之攻小國也，大家之亂小家也，強之劫弱，眾之暴寡，詐之謀愚，貴之敖賤，此天下之害也。」
Herne @herne.bsky.social Ranting Canadian, Print Designer & Production Curmudgeon, and Occasional Smartass. Mostly here for the dog, cat, and baby goat pics… Opinions are my own.
Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca Hamiltonian, publisher of http://thepublicrecord.ca
I cover Hamilton City Hall with reader support.
www.joeycoleman.ca
JoeyDov - creator of Alan and Birb @joeydov.bsky.social Amateur cartoonist, trying to develop my skills in animation, drawing and story telling.
Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.
Preservation, art, old tech.
18+ only
Something beautiful is going to happen.
(she / they)
Writing: antientro.pics
Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com www.kdonhoops.com
No relation to Doug "The Second-Deadliest Man Alive" Dwyer, he/him, posts fully represent opinions of employer.
Hammermime @hammermime.bsky.social Orthodox hedonist
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49
Author page: https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/
Free monthly newsletter: https://bit.ly/4tUXg9r
Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social Lead APMACanada | Order of Canada | CEO of the Year | Macleans Power List | Proud Dad
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social How about a hug
Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social International relations/law UManitoba Political Science https://umanitoba.ca/arts/bryan-peeler
Bryan Based International Order: https://substack.com/@bryanpeeler
Author of The Persistence of Reciprocity in IHL: https://rb.gy/p39ckt
Samantha Mary Beiko @smbeiko.bsky.social I write young adult fantasy novels, write and draw my own comics, organize comic events, and generally hang out in my lair attempting to conjure good trouble in YWG.
📚 www.smbeiko.com
✏️ Patreon.com/smbeiko
Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social I write things.
Now a Hugo/Nebula finalist.
Occasionally on other sites, including marikness.wordpress.com, https://medium.com/@marikness, https://www.patreon.com/mari_ness. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mari_ness
🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social Passionate about Canada
Posts about the recent challenges faced by our amazing country
🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁
🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🍁
TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE
🇬🇱🇩🇰WE STAND WITH GREENLAND🇩🇰🇬🇱
#Canada #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp #TheResistance #cdnpoli #never51state
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
katie @supermathskid.bsky.social still not a real question
whatever my latest is: www.iflscience.com/dr-katie-spalding
Love, Wolfie 🏳️🌈 @goldengaytime.bsky.social Who is she? Who was she? Who does she hope to be? #LGBwiththeT | He / Him 
Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social Your fave NYC dominatrix turned policy researcher turned DOGE casualty turned dominatrix (and therapist, elsewhere).
No adult content on socials—unless political commentary counts—but we do get PG-13.
Become useful at DominaDiletto.com
inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com it's baseball season
michele. short story writer, inthefade from twitter, probably high
long island forever #isles
free palestine, protect trans kids, she/her
i am to the left of you
http://ihavethatonvinyl.com
Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.
Nash @radiodeadair.com My hovercraft is full of eels. Co-pilot: @taradeenihan.bsky.social
Also helpful: http://patreon.com/radiodeadair
Links: https://linktr.ee/nash076
Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social Monocule. Socialist. Coder. Christian Liberationist. Neurodivergent. He/him. Partnered w Liz. I like to read many books and I also have a Telecaster. I am one half of the Fifty Books Project. pfp by @imagining-sisyphus.
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net Esoteric goth-y femme. Occasionally speedy. Liker of randomizers. Queer Jewish gremlin. 🏳️⚧️
Website at chaiaeran.net
גלות ייד. דארטן, ווו מיר לעבן, דארט איז אונדזער לאנד
דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד. העם דורש פלסטין חופשי
Honey Hyman-Dworsky @hymandworsky.bsky.social Aspiring writer to beginner writer to amateur author to professional author.
Currently in step 3.
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
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town Californian in Minnesota.
Weird animals, unsettling ephemera, games.
She/They
John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social Friend, actor, musician, medium-sized mammal (he/him) (ACTRA)
www.imdb.com/name/nm15034108
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, swamp pink, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com
Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen! 🀄️
Byline: MSNBC
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social no one of consequence. professional cybersecurity person and failed academic. queer feminist wittgensteinian artist who values privacy and is inspired by people.
Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET
Do you really think work wants my social media opinions?
Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 
Kendra Mellifera 🏳️⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social Can’t donate, will share
Disabled leftist witch MASK TO SAVE LIVES
Trying to not lose my whole mind and survive a fascist uprising
Interior BC, Canadia
Laura Lee on Lake ONTARIO 🇨🇦🍁🦫 @laura-leez.bsky.social Canadian fighting for Democracy. Lib/NDP AF. MY body MY choice. Happily married over 30 yrs. Toronto Blue Jays fan.
🚫MAGAts or MapleMagats 🚫DMs !!!
🚫Bitcoin/Crypto
**No posts/No replies = NO Followback**
**DM me= Block**
#NeverVoteConservative
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Misty Bromley @misstea10.bsky.social Feminist. Accountant. Knitter. Cyclist. Enthusiastic but somewhat inept gardener (she/her).
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
Jay of the North @1proudcanuck.bsky.social One Canada - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
1st of his name.
Make it make sense. At least some of it.
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)