Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social Climate change and equality for all. Down to one cat.
Ōtautahi Aotearoa
Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social Diver, humanist.
Follow with caution, I have no idea where I’m going!
📍Aotearoa
I’m very anti LLM AI. Posting any AI generated slop into my feed will probably get you blocked
Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, SUNY | 1st Gen | Extinction is forever | DevoEvo & EvMed | Science & Society | Friend of Corvids and swans | Science Nerd | I❤️Biology! Lives with Epilepsy
Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social a Hugo and Ignyte Award-winning fanzine covering fantasy, science fiction, video games, comics, cult movies, and other realms of nerddom since 2012.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/
Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social PhD need to thaw the brain exercise the pen cook dinner do the laundry & CLEAN THE TOILET (that’s a metaphor)
Kids gone now
Oldies too 😢 damn Covid 😞😷
PlanetNerd Shrink
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿
(same name on the dead bird and extinct elephant)
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social Military analyst, economist, historian, enemy of dictators everywhere. Advisor to governments. ‘Devils Advocate Services’. 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺🌍
AVAILABLE ON: TheMilitaryAnalyst.com
Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social He/him/ia. Economist convinced that business-as-usual is not the answer. Have data & evidence. Applied to be academic, but didn't know secret handshake. Paid my dues as consultant, then public servant. Now back in comfort zone of cricket and spreadsheets.
Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social Woke socialist, stray cat magnet, Tūī feeder, she/her/ia. Living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social These days mainly I do DIY and chase dogs. I also run a tiny gym with the best view in Aotearoa. Also an academic. Father to a disabled kid so I do the advocacy thing as well. Psychoanalysis; Lacan; MMT. Opinions my own.
Timnit Gebru @handle.invalid Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social Empowering wāhine Māori & women in Auckland with support, education, counselling, community kōrero & safe space. Trans women are women.
Tāmaki Makaurau awc.org.nz
DrJacs @tiwaiwaka.bsky.social Ngāpuhi, Prof of Māori health, surprised terminal cancer survivor - 3 years so far. Toitū te Tiriti, equity etc etc. My memoir, Ngākaurua, is coming out in 2026 via Cuba Press - woohoo!
Lan Pham @lanpham.greens.org.nz Nature frother. Tangata Tiriti. Freshwater Ecologist. Vietnamese and Pākeha heritage. Mum. Green MP.
Authorised by Miriam Ross greens.org.nz
Jeff Halter @morphing.cloud Nostalgic sort, up to various software hijinks. Currently focused on bringing HyperCard and After Dark to modern macOS.
morphing.cloud
The Iconfactory @iconfactory.com For over 25 years, the Iconfactory has made software beautiful. We craft icons, apps, and user experiences for clients large & small. Let’s get started.
North Carolina, USA • Stockholm, Sweden
𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social ✦Guy-Pascal Vallez
✦Illustrator / AD / Cover Artist ✦
✉ gaxixx@gmail.com
🪶 https://ko-fi.com/gaxix
https://linktr.ee/Gaxix 👀
#art #ttrpg
@audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social 
Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social Inveterate tree planter
Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social Science works. Academic nurse. Trans rights are human rights. Free Palestine. Aspire to bibliognosty.
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Michael E Smith @michaelesmith.bsky.social Archaeologist, Arizona State Univ. Aztecs, Teotihuacan. Ancient & modern cities. Commoners in the past. Transdisciplinary, materialist, historical, occasionally musical. Kino the dog.
- These days I'm working on urban persistence over long periods.
350 Aotearoa @350nz.bsky.social 📢 Our mission is to inspire climate action in communities across New Zealand.
https://linktr.ee/350NZ
Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social Writer of the TOXIC AVENGER and TOXIC CRUSADERS comics and co-writer of JUSTICE WARRIORS. Founded The Nib (RIP). Comics editor at In These Times magazine.
https://www.mattbors.com/
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net The main thing = @codepen.io
Personal site = https://chriscoyier.net
Podcast = https://shoptalkshow.com
Bend, Oregon
pave+ @paveplus.bsky.social i am a hobbyist + discord: paveplus
https://ko-fi.com/paveplus
Simply Privacy @simplyprivacy.bsky.social Aotearoa New Zealand privacy and responsible AI consultancy
www.simplyprivacy.co.nz 
Ai Leakage @aileakage.com Independent, plain-English research on AI data-leakage risk for small businesses. We rate the AI tools you actually use for the risk of your data leaving your control — and alert you when one changes its data policy. Independent. NZ-based. aileakage.com
Dee @deerberrynz.bsky.social Kiwi counsellor living with chronic migraine and cats. Tangata tiriti, late Gen X, polyam, kinky, queer, fat. Covid-cautious mask-wearer. Free Palestine. Anti-AI. (they/she)
FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social First in Fright since 1979, FANGORIA is a collectible magazine, a podcast network, and an entertainment studio.
FANGORIA.com
Esoteric Collector @vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social Vintage toys, board games, retro video games, Marvel comics, movies, 80s/90s retro collector. I love books, maps, nature, Dungeons&Dragons, Ravenloft, Planescape, Castlevania, LOTR, HeroQuest, Warhammer, Universal Monsters, Halloween, and Conan
jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social extremely alive cartoonist. I won an award once • http://amultiverse.com • http://goats.com • http://patreon.com/jonrosenberg • http://linktr.ee/mrjonrosenberg • he/him
Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social
Libraries, UBI, infrastructure, civics, and citizens' assemblies.
Finn Illsley-Kemp @seismologyfinn.bsky.social Senior research fellow in volcano seismology at Victoria University of Wellington. Studying Aotearoa's restless volcanoes one quake at a time
www.finniganillsleykemp.com
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social Interested in all things nuclear or high voltage — our attendant histories of research and engineering.
Industrially hygienic.
All posts here do not represent my employer.
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS.
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
Aotearoa's Electoral Orange Guy @poti-aotearoa.bsky.social This is an unofficial, mostly automated account, posting daily to remind you how much time there is left to enrol or update your details.
More tools coming soon maybe
Rocko Screens @rockoscreens.bsky.social Skeeting a random frame from Rocko's Modern Life every hour
Est. 2019 on the Other Site and maintained by @mitenkov.com
Source code available: https://tangled.org/rockoscreens.bsky.social/bluesky-screencap-bot
Louis Schipper @louisschipper.bsky.social Researching how can we reduce environmental impacts of land use. Current focus: GHG emissions from peat, biogeochemistry, soil carbon, temperature dependence of the biosphere. He/him. Website: waiber.com
Jenny Nicholls @jenster.bsky.social Absent-minded twit. NZ Listener book reviewer, book designs, former art director/columnist at Metro/N&S. She/her
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Michel Mulipola @bloodysamoan.bsky.social Sāmoan Artivist ● Professional wrestler ● Tekken personality ● Story Artist on Disney's Moana 2
2026 Green Party candidate - Māngere
Authorised by Miriam Ross, www.greens.org.nz, Wellington
RSVP - https://www.greens.org.nz/mge_se_ota_260620
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social get ready for some bad drawings. he/him
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social Contributor to Big Hairy News #BHN.
https://bhn.nz/
https://www.youtube.com/@BigHairyNetwork
Occasional Stand up Comedian
Ōtepoti I Dunedin NZ
Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social Born at 314 ppm CO2. (We are now at 427.8 ppm CO2)
Founder and presenter on the Everything Electric Shows.
That bloke from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge.
Info@unitedagents.co.uk
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc.
QUEER
RT/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro
http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://osf.io/46sfd/
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social Freelance cartoonist , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary.
Gadigal Country. Australia
NZ Earthquake Bot @nzquake.bsky.social New Zealand earthquake feed (unofficial). Posts whenever GeoNet reports a decent sized quake (a few times per week). Maintained by @slyall.bsky.social
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here.
👨🔬 RS DeepMind
Past:
👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
👤 @nwspk
Melanie Lynskey @melanielynskey.bsky.social 
Lit Box @litbox.bsky.social I am a book vending machine in Western Market in Washington, DC! I feature local books and authors. My mom is @ladiwoods.bsky.social. I am happy to be alive! www.litboxbooks.com
Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social Loud about women’s sport 🖤💛🌈
“F*cking awesome!” - Linda Munn
“Totally rocks!” - John Campbell
Host of award winning podcast
Co-host of the only women’s rugby podcast in the Southern Hemisphere, Full Credit
https://linktr.ee/alicesoapbox
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union @nzpfu.bsky.social The NZPFU protects those that protect you.
https://linktr.ee/nzpfu
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab Mātai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social An independent organisation supporting Wikimedians in Aotearoa New Zealand as a chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.
https://www.wikimedia.nz/
(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social Tyrants are my enemies | Si vis pacem para bellum |🇩🇪🇪🇺| Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen |Military & History
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
ManMadeMovies @manmademovies.co.uk News and updates for all things Duncan Jones.
Film, graphics novels and anything else that pops out of his busy noggin.
https://blog.manmademovies.co.uk
pixelframe.design @pixelframe.bsky.social https://pixelframe.design/
Dedicated to providing quality, original, human-written content on a variety of topics in the design world, including: expert articles, design tips and tutorials, trending topics, and culture.
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Gabriel Weinberg @yegg13.bsky.social Founder, DuckDuckGo. Co-author, Traction. Co-author, Super Thinking. Writing personally at gabrielweinberg.com
Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social I research violent extremism, state security, the Atlas network, free speech/hate speech, and radical social movements across the political spectrum. Currently seeking a teaching or research role. He/him.
Economissive @economissive.bsky.social 'One of NZ's premier economists' - TVNZ | 'Fantastic public service in tweeting' - Crown solicitor | 'A boring Lefty' - Newstalk ZB listener
Te Ātiawa | Ngāti Rāhiri
Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest Local queer/trans woman of color owned comic book store in Seattle's Central District. We carry all ages comics, local/small press stuff, queer/trans comics, 18+ comics, art from local artists, MtG, and more!
https://campsite.bio/crowsnestcomics
Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social Retired lawyer. Anglo-Maltese, now living in The Netherlands. Politics, law, history & now & then laughs.
Lil Regie @lilregie.com A better way to sell tickets online
Get your online ticket sales up and running in no time. Lil Regie covers all the bases of event ticketing.
https://lilregie.com
Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social linktr.ee/sylvanaquafarms for my book (First Generation Farming), meat, poultry, eggs, pet treats, merch, and mutual aid.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social SFWA promotes, advances, and supports science fiction and fantasy storytelling by educating, promoting, and empowering its creators and the larger community. This account is for informational purposes.
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
Foto @fotoapp.co We are building a new social photo-sharing platform! https://fotoapp.co
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social Pākehā. Environmental professional. Not currently in Kiwiland. Light heresy on demand. Copper merchant fancier. Warhammer 40K things will just happen. Proud shed enthusiast.
ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au News and analysis from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.
Gary Chalk @garychalk.bsky.social I'm a wrinkly old fantasy illustrator, best known for Lone Wolf, Redwall and loads of Games Workshop stuff. I live in Charente Maritime France in a house full of books, toy soldiers and dust.
Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social Apparently I'm 60 plus. 😮 The track is my happy place. Proud JAFA. Receiver of nonsensical comebacks from bad drivers. Host of The New Zealand Tax Podcast www.baucher.tax
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social A Doctor Who obsessive, his long-suffering wife, their sons and our House Dalek, Colin.
None of our Dalek/family photos use AI
hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social haskell/rust/art/shitposting/assyrian
she/her (like a ship, not like a person)
blog: recursion.wtf
Shanan Halbert MP @shananhalbert.bsky.social Labour spokesperson for Auckland. Based in Northcote. 🏳️🌈
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Tantek Çelik @tantek.com.web.brid.gy Hello
Hi. I work on web standards and the IndieWeb. I like to run trails, practice yoga, go bouldering, code & design my website, and write when I can. My pronouns are he/him. 🏠 📺 🥏
💬 Contact 👏 Tip Founder at IndieWeb Founder at microformats.org Web Stan…
Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social Official account of the SMMNH located in Blue Earth, Minnesota. www.smmnh.com
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu World-class research and academic institution focused on informing solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems.
📍University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
🌎 https://www.soest.hawaii.edu
actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com Louisvillian, Cleveland sports fan, Cincinnati Bearcat, Kentucky Colonel, beloved newsletter author.
www.actioncookbook.com (it’s on Ghost now!)
John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com Old Macintosh shareware author. Making things I wish existed when I was a kid.
engineersneedart.com
github.com/EngineersNeedArt
MetService NZ @metservice.com New Zealand's weather service. Helping Kiwis be ready, whatever the weather.
RAF Luton @rafluton.bsky.social The assumed Official BlueSky account of the World's most mysterious & secret (and ficticious) military base. (Parody/Satire Account)
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social Aotearoa based Restoration/Applied Ecologist.
Skateboarding, punk rock and plants.
iNaturalist enthusiast https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=any&user_id=andymckay&verifiable=any
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.