James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social DC Studios co-CEO, #Superman, #GuardiansoftheGalaxy, #Peacemaker, dog owner, husband, servant to my cat.
Book of Taskmaster @bookoftaskmaster.bsky.social All things Taskmaster related can be found here.
Ant Stanley @iamstan.dev Tell us a bit about yourself
Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com
We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions.
Email me for collaboration opportunities: nick.hedley@theprogressplaybook.com
contemptress @thejessness.bsky.social tv+film editor+ae 🎬✂️
feline appreciator • yarn transformer
i’ll be on the dancefloor 🪩
[she/her]
📍cape town
Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. It’s not AI it’s automation
Chris Roper @chrisroper.bsky.social Deputy CEO at @Code4Africa, Former Ed-in-Chief: Mail & Guardian and 24. com. Knight Fellow at ICFJ 2015-2019. He/him
matthew du plessis @mattduplessis.bsky.social Holding up the sky. Stand and deliver, sky.
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social Digital policy strategist and creative technologist. Special interest, European digital sovereignty.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social Technology journalist and host of Tech Gets Real, singer and guitarist in The Board. Desperately trying to focus on nice things. However…
Homepage: https://dmeyer.eu/ / TGR: https://www.youtube.com/@TechGetsReal / The Board: https://theboardmusic.com/
vt 👨🏿💻 @vtcodes.dev anti vibe coder coder club
#ZATechRadio 📻 @handle.invalid Hosted by @vtcodes.dev, @sihle.dev & @sduu.dev
https://zatechradio.co.za/
Lebogang Madise @lebogang.bsky.social Rebranding by going back to the fundamentals🧑🏽💻I love the art of the possible with software development, so here’s to being a student again. // Azure GTM @ Microsoft 🏡📍South Africa
Sihle (See-hle) @sihle.bsky.social Father | Husband | Almost Mobile Again Dev | zatechradio.co.za
Chris @chrismumbeck.bsky.social 99% ethically sourced.
Sdu Gumede @sduu.dev
sdu @sdu.bsky.social here for haram
KevCare @kevcare.bsky.social Everything I'm not makes me everything I am.
Sonic the Transhog @uhmactualeah.bsky.social
Rassie @rassie.bsky.social Software Developer, South African 🇿🇦
Mashudu Modau @mashstartup.bsky.social www.mashstartsup.com
b12a @b12a.bsky.social
Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social While everyone deserves a voice, not everyone has earned a microphone.
US news junkie from SA🇿🇦. I also (re)skeet about advertising, film & TV, HIV, WWW, comedy & Lady Gaga. Agency guy in Digital\Strat\Prod\etc
Barbara Loots @bloots.bsky.social 📚 Bookworm |🍷Wine lover | 🎬 Movie lover | ⚖ Lawyer (Human Rights) | 🎭 Theatre: @theatrescenecpt.bsky.social | 😺 Fur-mom to the #CatsOfDeadwood | 💛 She/Her | 📷 IG: bloots |📍Cape Town, South Africa | 💕 My person: @uncleloo.bsky.social | 🚫 crypto/finance/DMs
@anotherhuman.bsky.social @anotherhuman.bsky.social Mortal
She / her
SevenOfWine @jenofwine.bsky.social If you put your wine down, it’s mine. #swiftie 🇿🇦 🇬🇧
Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com I speak about climate futures, mitigation and adaptation in the face of the climate crisis. 🇿🇦
Fan of ephemeral social media
Posts delete after 60 days.
Signal: https://peterdutoit.com/signal
Website: https://peterdutoit.com
Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com South African painter & illustrator. She/Her. Pigment enthusiast. TTRPG enjoyer. 🩷💜💙|🩷💛💙 Married to @thebeardlyben.art ✨ Dachshund möther. Autism & disability self advocacy. Deconstructed.
https://linktr.ee/danellemalan
Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social Economics and data science | Former academic now working in the tech sector | Views my own | 🇿🇦 in 🇺🇸 | https://grantmcdermott.com/
Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸Neuroscientist/amateur virologist. Professor and Director of the Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Utah. Molecular mechanisms of memory, repurposed transposons, and virus-like intercellular signaling. Personal views.
www.shepherdlab.org
The Beardly Ben @thebeardlyben.art He/him. Cape Town based bearded Illustrator & games animator at @freelives.bsky.social. Husbear of @dwuff.com. Metalhead. TTRPG enthusiast. Cat and dog dad. Bisexual.
✉️ thebeardlyben@gmail.com
linktr.ee/thebeardlyben
FUCK AI
De Wet Taljaard @dwtaljaard.bsky.social Renewable Energy Enthusiast | Solar PV professional. Wine drinking, sports watching amateur | Proudly South African 🇿🇦
#energytwitter transplant
**Views posted are my own**
Can Richards! @cancan-jpg.bsky.social Can, like the beverage container! Comics artist, illustrator, VisDev artist & 3D animator. Dabbler in Game Jams!🇿🇦🏳️🌈 Creator of INTO THE MIDNIGHT CITY
Richard Gevers @richardgevers.bsky.social Digital Services Unit at SA Presidency. Previously Open Cities Lab, Africa Data Hub, Tenji. Non-exec Director Innovate Durban. Cities, Inclusion, Digital Gov, Data, DPI. Geeking.
Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work Recovering misanthrope, practicing anthropomorph, neurodeviant
( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧ tech / oss / personal / bad jokes / repetition
https://github.com/vai
JustVee1710 @justvee1710.bsky.social A perimenopausal, vaccinated, foul mouthed, gin drinking princess. Not a comedian but I'm funny. X blue bird felon.
Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social Assoc. Professor University of Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Co-director Human Evolution Research Institute | geology, isotopes, U-Pb dating carbonates, human evolution, southern African palaeoclimates | equitable fieldwork | decolonisation |she/her
Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social ART
https://taniamelnyczuk.com
ADVOCACY
https://autisticstrategies.net
DAY JOB
https://mariuscloetemoulds.co.za
🇿🇦
#ListenToNonspeakers #WearARespirator
#SaveGaza
#NAFO
#HatOfTheDay
Ungovernable goose @themarthamyth.bsky.social Former silly goose turned ungovernable.
Jo’burg-based. 🇿🇦
🪿 treats: cake, gin, yarn.
Whatever you’ve heard about me is a lie. I’m way worse.
Guaranteed inappropriate.
Robert Kowalenko @rob-kowa.bsky.social research in philosophy of science, language, sport | interests in politics, art, photography | University of the Witwatersrand | immigrant | sapere aude! | intelligentia artificialis delenda est
🇪🇺 | 🇩🇪🇿🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇹 #PhilSky
www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Kowa
Goodcat @chaitmac.bsky.social Neurodivergent photographer, pansexual, blm, no time for isms, bigots need therapy, BPD, my bestie and I went to different schools together.
Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social Agricultural economist from South Africa
Blog: https://wandile.substack.com/
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@agriviewwandile
Email: wandile@agbiz.co.za
james☁️ @jamesklusener.bsky.social "pumped full of soy" liberal☂️💙 | politics/news junkie🤓 | podcast whore🎙️ | tech obsessed👨💻 | gay af🌈 | studying PPE✍️📚 | sa 🇿🇦 | humanist✌️🌍
Jean-Luc @stateofdelirium.bsky.social 🎮 QA guy
🎭 Stand-up comedy @ First Draft
🦆 Silly duck
Find me around Playtopia, Maker's Massive, Super Friendship Arcade, First Draft Comedy, and Armchair.
Lisa 🤍 @lisas-version.swifties.social 24 • swiftie 🫶🏼 • fan since debut 🦋 • south african 🇿🇦 • London Eras N4-8 🇬🇧 • bi • TN x 1 🫶🏼
(@ lisas_version from twt)
Nicolene Renske @rennyx.bsky.social Legal academic, futurist, tech nerd, Trekkie, stress-scribbler, professional over-thinker, South African scholar (AI regulation, cyber law, human rights, and climate change). Obsessed with art and squealing at mindbending innovations (read: robots). 🤖🖤⚖️🎨
Mama Du Preez @mamadupreez.bsky.social Creator of Strange Sims and Chaotic Builds..
Stretchy babies and abductions are apparently my thing 👽🛸👾
Currently on holiday in South Africa.
✨🙏💚🐝🐞
🇿🇦 #UbuntuZA 🇿🇦
Janet van Eeden @janetvaneeden.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Dean of AFDA Durban.
Gabby Correia Illustration @gabbycorreia.bsky.social Award winning Children's Book Illustrator from South Africa. Member of SCBWI
Proudly represented by @illoagency
http://www.gabbycorreia.com/
#kidlit
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Dean Wingrin @deanwingrin.bsky.social Aviation and defense journalist, author, photographer, defenceWeb correspondent and general raconteur.
Ashwin | Shop Open✨🎨 @ashwinarts.bsky.social 21 | Self-taught Illustrator 🎨 | Drawing my favourite characters ✨ | 📩ashwinarts565@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/ashwinarts
https://twitch.tv/ashwinarts/home
Northern @northernlyn.bsky.social Slightly obsessed with glowy things ✨
AI Begone 🚫
Big ear expert
Worker of Automotive headaches
🇿🇦🏳️🌈
🔞 for artistic nudity
Rosalie Fox 🇿🇦 @rosaliefoxauthor.bsky.social 📚Historical fiction author writing about love and aviation. Artist, amateur photographer and goat girl
🇿🇦 South Africa
Johan Viljoen @johanviljoen.bsky.social Postdoc, @uniofexeter Cornwall. Marine Phytoplankton vertical structure response to Climate Change. Previously Stellenbosch Uni (South Africa), Phytoplankton & Trace Metals in the Southern Ocean. BioGeoSCAPES Fellow.
academic.link/johannesjviljoen
Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social Economic geographer.
Assistant Professor, Cambridge University.
I research how digital capitalism transforms markets, cities, and inequalities.
https://jmigozzi.github.io
Liz Phillips @fynbosliz.bsky.social Collector of dogs. Mother of pigs. Aspiring painter, better potter. Keeper of guests. Plett.
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
Adrian Frielinghaus @blauhaustechnology.com Rugby, programming, and Oxford commas 🇿🇦
Gavin Chait; @gavin.whyqd.com I am a data scientist, researcher, engineer, sometime-traveler, and African SFF author.
I am fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis.
I also drink a great deal of coffee.
Hennie @henniedebeer.bsky.social If you're not living a life that would have gotten you burned at the stake during the middle ages, are you even living?!?!? SW-4664-2999-4964
Ashleigh Klein ➡️ LOOKING FOR WORK! @ashleighrpg.bsky.social ✦— 🇿🇦 | she/her | Freelance Writer | Words at: @techraptor.net ✦ GameRant ✦ GINX TV ✦ Weekend Argus ✦ IOL News ✦ Primedia Broadcasting (KFM/CapeTalk) ✦ GLAMOUR 🇿🇦 —✦
👀 all my links here: https://ashleighklein.carrd.co/
☕: https://ko-fi.com/ashleighrpg
Bruce E Sutheland @bruceesutherland.bsky.social Faceless was born in 2009, strips were spotted in the wild, behind toilet doors, on other websites, in emails and more recently, in Playboy South Africa.
Excellent Khumalo 🇿🇦🇬🇧 @excellent-k.bsky.social B2B SaaS founder @lepsta.com • 12 years in Software Development • 11 years in entrepreneurship • 6 years working remotely • Father & Husband.
Rhywle @jozzf.bsky.social Kinked dustball, stuck on a pale blue dot.
Is it 42, or ''just some beans, sire''?
Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social i have approximate knowledge of many things (except blacksmithing, i know quite a bit about that. hmu if you want pointers) | Asexual, he/him
Lynley @lynley.bsky.social Eh. Accountant, geek and too old for a lot of this sh*t. Here’s a picture of my dog.
Salty @chocmilk.bsky.social Sometimes insightful, mostly nonsense.
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
edith.maison @edithmaison.bsky.social Student of economics, writer, occasional indiedev, mostly for Panic’s Playdate. A princess/divisive. Not lost in the flood, but thriving in the overstimulation. Happily South African. She/her
Danie @gadgeteer.co.za Tech blogger - https://gadgeteer.co.za/blog
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@GadgeteerZA
Technology, South Africa, Cape Town, FOSS, Open Source Software, Linux, Open Standards, Health Tech, Ham Radio ZS1OSS, Privacy, and Green Tech
avesse @avesse.bsky.social Neophile, web geek, product builder, optimist, pragmatist.
South African in Stockholm 🇿🇦🇸🇪
Craig Rawlins-Wilson @craigwilson.net Technology editor at @barrons.com
zak @zakareeee.bsky.social
ɯᴉpɹɐɾ ɯᴉʇ 🇿🇦 @timmehjimmeh.bsky.social jaded freelance animation generalist by day
kobold artificer by night
he/him
Read my webcomic: revenantscomic.com
https://www.instagram.com/bastelns_homebrew/
#Revenants #art
Philip “phillament” Joubert @absolute-phil.bsky.social Builder of Robots.
Scorner of most humans.
Loathed for endless snark.
man gav rapping @gaaavie.bsky.social bottom rock 🇿🇦 Cape Town-based rapper and writer. DM or email gavin13p@gmail.com for anything music related.
deb naughton @debnaughton.bsky.social Sinistra solvere, ius stricta.
Fractious.
Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social Comics and storyboarding for animation(Kizazi Moto, Supa Team 4, Twende). Disgruntled gender goblin.
Tattoos at kitastrophe_tattoo
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇿🇦🇦🇺
Jess Jardim-Wedepohl 🇿🇦 @jessjardimwedepohl.bsky.social Illustrator and designer for people and the planet 🎨 Kidlit artist ☀️ Climatebase & Terra.do Fellow, Clean Creative 🌍 Book Dasher 📚 JQC alto and committee person 🎶🏳️🌈 she/her
www.behance.net/jesswedepohl
www.linkedin.com/in/jesswedepohl
HellaTamaryn @hellatamaryn.bsky.social Poes for life.
Tamara Oh @tamara0h.bsky.social Independent writer, editor, and communications consultant.
Word Chef. Mom to Noogie. Grammar grumpypants. F1 nut. Here for the cat pics and puns.
Shameez Patel @shameezwrites.bsky.social Author of Playing Flirty (romcom) & The Selene Trilogy (fantasy), lover of cozy games, LOTR, board games & cosplay.
www.shameezwrites.com
MvelaseP @mvelasep.bsky.social
WOLFREIGN @flvmmingo.bsky.social Author, Creator, and Owner of the work
sioko @sioko.bsky.social Hi I’m Sio (they/she)
✨illustrator/concept artist ✨ bad at bios ✨no n/f/t or a/i✨
https://linktr.ee/sioko
Craig @handle.invalid I live in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, with my wife Tessa, our daughters Kitt & Farrah, our dog Rafferty and our cat Matilda.
HelenaHurry @helenahandbasket.bsky.social Backrooms of The Forgettery Palace
DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social Videos on World of Warcraft lore & player housing. Human. Find me @ DiscordianKitty on YouTube, Patreon, TikTok, & Twitch
https://linktr.ee/discordiankitty
amanda strydom @amandas.bsky.social Senior Programme Manager @ Code for Africa
Synthetic media ethics, journalism & info manipulation research
Some cats & some books
Wishful thinker
she/her
Header by Poorly Drawn Lines
Melissa @merlotgirl.bsky.social Human bean. Cat person. Always hungry.
🇿🇦🇸🇪🐈🍷🌭
Burrito, Son of Naruto @witchbail.bsky.social god's favourite bitchbaby.
Special interests: music & music history, animation, surrealism, horror, historical linguistics. Don't let the dragon drag on
.
🇿🇦Cape Town (unfortunately)
(they/them)
Nick Clare @nickclare.bsky.social Sarcastic software engineer, cloud architect/advocate. Powered by codeine, coffee, coseyntx and clonzapam. Not to be taken seriously
Leah Jazz Live @leahjazzlive.bsky.social Mostly nocturnal radio babe.
Bipedal, bisexual, biodegradable 🍎
Founder of Eden #EatTheFruit
Shira Terror @shiravondoom.bsky.social she/her they/them
ex-pat Houstonian. Bene Gesserit Witch