By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚 @catespice.bsky.social Semper Femina. From Aotearoa. C.M. Scandreth on the NoSleep Podcast.
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
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Victoria Goddard @victoriagoddard.bsky.social Fantasy novelist, gardener, former cheesemonger, recovering medievalist 
Kate @knhannah.bsky.social Feminist/co-captain Team Hannah. Here for hope & justice-building. We live in a society. She/her. Most likely making dinner.
These are most definitely my personal opinions.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union @nzpfu.bsky.social The NZPFU protects those that protect you.
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4 awesome young adults. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com new york comics writer lady & musician. lambda literary 2025 nominee. GIRLMODE, KIM & KIM, ETERNITY GIRL, VAGRANT QUEEN. I make music as DAISY & JANE.
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
Justin Wong @whljustin.bsky.social (Mostly) Wellington local democracy / (some) international affairs @thepost-nz.bsky.social
DM for Signal
Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social Ex-academic. General Manager of Green Party of Aotearoa NZ. All views my own
She/her
Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz NZ/CA creative boy.
Then: Birth.Movies.Death, GHOST SHARK 2, 48Hours.
Now: NZ Writers Guild, Freak Development, Court Theatre.
Soon: SPECTRUM, SO LONELY I COULD DIE.
Then: ABERRATION, DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE.
Inspired by actual events.
Opinions my own.
Dr Ayesha Verrall @drayeshaverrall.bsky.social Labour MP based in Wellington. Spokesperson for Health, Public Service and Wellington Issues. Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Tce, Wellington
Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social Moderately popular YouTube game critic and travel author.
Richa @azadricha.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇳🇳🇿; she/her; 22;
आंदोलनजीवी सपना सामंत. Dr. Sapna Samant ✊🏾🍉 @drsapna.bsky.social Jedi. Misfit weirdo. दिमाग़ी नक्षल.
Educate Agitate Organise.
¡Viva la Revolución! Inquilab Zindabad!
Aur Raaj Karegi Khalq-E-Khuda
Jo Main Bhi Hoon Aur Tum Bhi Ho
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social DPA is a pan-disability Disabled Person’s Organisation (DPO) that works towards effecting systemic change. This account is monitored during office hours.
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social Posting ABC News stories from the "Just In" page every ten minutes.
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Spokes Canterbury @spokescanterbury.bsky.social Vision:
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Cover Photo Andrew Boyd Barber.
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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com Writer. He/him. Too boring for social media. Incandescently angry. #RCTID #BAON #YNWA Trans rights are human rights. There is no going back.
The Forged is back in May! Batwoman monthly!
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social Be-shadowed music reviewer on YouTube, cohost of
Song vs. Song
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DecomposedMaw @decomposedmaw.bsky.social Pixel Artist
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LIP @l11p.bsky.social had a good decade & bad couple of years on twitter (@philipsophy), trying something new.
politics, economics, law, films... things of that nature
1of200 co-founder & token centrist
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💥 tauiwi Panjābī, from refugees
💛 queer, trans, & chronically ill
📍 on stolen land in Aotearoa
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🌟sociolinguistics & disability justice
Peace Action Ōtautahi @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social Disrupt war, wage peace.
🇵🇸 🖤🤍❤ ✊
#climatejustice #freepalestine
https://peaceactionotautahi.org/
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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz MP for Rongotai. Green Party of Aotearoa NZ.
Māmā working for healthier, happier cities and climate justice. 🚲🌏🌱💚🍉
Auth by M Ross, L5, greens.org.nz
GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social 🍉 The unapologetically leftist network of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 🍉
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Join the movement: https://www.greens.org.nz/membership-join
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Beatrix @bea-gil.bsky.social Ōtautahi advocate | UC | she/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Ilam Branch of The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @ilam-greens.bsky.social Based in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Auth by M Ross. Level 5, 108 The Terrace WLG
Mike Davidson @otautahimike.bsky.social 🚴♂️🌳🚍🏢(he/him)
Authorised by Miriam Ross, greens.org.nz
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
matt demon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Bafta-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
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
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future
mandyhager.com
Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚 cheese🧀. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♾️
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
Max Harris @maxdnharris.bsky.social New on this! Lawyer/writer/campaigner, former political advisor. 
Courts of New Zealand @courtsofnz.bsky.social Official account. Posting judgments of public interest, daily lists, speeches by judges, reports from the courts.
Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire.bsky.social Maire de Paris
KiwiRPG @kiwirpg.bsky.social We make games, we play games. Through #KiwiRPG you will discover a new constellation of world-class TTRPGs and actual play shows from Aotearoa New Zealand. https://www.kiwirpg.com/
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Be Gay Solve Crimes @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social A False Crime Podcast.
Mia, Nova, and Lucy team up to solve the mystery of why they wanted to be detectives before they knew they were women.
www.begaysolvecrimes.com
@miamulder.bsky.social
@postoctobrist.bsky.social
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social PhD Literary Translation Studies; freelance editor; reader; occasional writer; translator, A Tale of Love/ Conte de l'amour bifrons by Linda Lê (Mākaro Press); knitter, mad, mad knitter.
Sangsin Lee @sslee.bsky.social Political Scientist. Ph. D.
Korea Institute for National Unification
KINU Unification Survey.
@drrawiritaonui.bsky.social @drrawiritaonui.bsky.social 
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
sallyposts/mall ghost @sallypoastes.bsky.social Cis, pākehā, adhd person, sometimes disabled with ehlers-danlos stuff. I like making bad jokes and yelling about stuff. Please join me in yelling.
日本語は読めるけどあまり書けない
Anine Bösenberg @anineillustration.com Scotland-based Illustrator
she/they
🇬🇧🇩🇪
I can‘t read DMs sorry!
https://www.anineillustration.com/
Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social A Pole in Hong Kong. Posts about Museums, Pterosaurs and History of Palaeontology 🦴 Dinosaur Doodles 🦖
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
@burnettaotearoa @burnettaotearoa.bsky.social Burnett Foundation Aotearoa (formerly New Zealand AIDS Foundation) has been at the forefront of the community response to HIV in Aotearoa for nearly 40 years. Authorised by Liz Gibbs, 31 Hargreaves St, St Marys Bay, Auckland 1011
Jay & Miles @xplainthexmen.bsky.social A weekly podcast featuring the ins, outs, clones, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera!
xplainthexmen.com
(@edidin.bsky.social, @gjallerbru.bsky.social)
Cody Ziglar @yayforzig.bsky.social Emmy nominated writer & director.
i write tv & movies & comics but mostly i be chillin'
David Palmer @cloventt.net Ōtautahi / urbanist / Wiki* / software / political junky / tangata tiriti
Danny Webster @nzrazzledazzle.bsky.social Activist, musician and nerd having fun at capitalism's expense in Pōneke Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Any views expressed here are my personal reckons only.
scoot! @scootfoundation.bsky.social 
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
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.
Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social Writer, journalist, former editor of The Monthly.
https://nickfeik.substack.com/
Email: nickfeik at proton dot me
Emily @emilywrites.co.nz 
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
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
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.
Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social Frightful hobgoblin
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Li Chen @exocomics.com I like cats.
My third graphic novel Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery is available to pre-order now! https://detectivebeans.com
Aunty Donna @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social We made pud ✨
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social Writer, journalist, guy that says stuff (about stuff). Editor of The Shot. Anti-genocide. Special envoy for social discontent.
Boonta Vista @boontavista.com The least consequential news from around the world from the least informed minds in Australia.
hosted by Ben,
@lucyxiv.boontavista.com
@illybocean.boontavista.com
@aynrandy.boontavista.com
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com.
A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social Senior TV editor @ Collider. Romance nerd @ Vulture. TCA member. Author of A REGENCY GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE from DK Books. She/her. Subscribe to my Kissing Books newsletter: https://kissing-books.ghost.io/
Aotearoa Greens Global @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social 💚 Global @NZGreens whānau
💚Lived Experience Network of the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ
📍 Overseas-based / overseas-connected
🥝Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5 108 The Terrace Wellington ♻️ FB/insta: @nzgreensglobal
https://linkin.bio/nzgreensglobal/
Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Fortnightly newsletter on SFF, Indian spec fiction, and books: https://gautambhatia.substack.com
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Airyairyquitecontrary @airandangels.bsky.social I like Sailor Moon and Star Trek. I’m from Aotearoa/New Zealand and will be voting/voted Green in the 2026 general election.
Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social Author, teacher, nerd.
I write the Olympus Inc. series - Greek myth meets The Devil Wears Prada. Penelope Pops the Question (https://BookHip.com/PQSRZXZ) is free!
Dia Lacina @dialacina.com The angry brown t-girl she told you don't worry about
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand's offical Bluesky profile.
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Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington, 6011.
Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social It’s Mr. Chau, that’s my name, that name again is Mr. Chau
Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app Nigerian-American. Bi, Black, FAT. She/Her. Creator of #TheKentTest. Co-creator of The Kelli & Kat Test. Author of Fat Off, Fat On (which is out NOW)! The best is yet to come.
Email: clarkisha@clarkishakent.com
Cash App:
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Jack McDonald @tautokai.bsky.social Taranaki, Te Whakatōhea. Campaigner, writer, unionist, DJ.
Saul Elbein @saulelbein.bsky.social Rooted cosmopolitan. Uncovering stories to build broad coalitions around clean water and soil for all Texans. Co-publisher of Heat Death with @asherelbein.bsky.social.
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social "This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Graeme Edgeler @graemeedgeler.bsky.social Annoyingly fair