Observing The City @observingthecity.ca Observations from around the city (in most cases, Toronto)
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social Here for some skeets!
I rarely see @s because Bluesky notifications are broken!
If you'd like to support my art — http://patreon.com/elivalley
Thanks!
Irbis @irbis.sh Open-source tools for a better internet.
Visit: irbis.sh
Megaphone News @megaphone.news Megaphone is an independent online media platform covering current affairs in Lebanon and the world 📢
For Arabic content, visit our website: https://megaphone.news
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist.
📍Vancouver, BC
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.
Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology. Researching social vaccines and cures for the colonial and ethno-national virus in the midst of the pandemic. Daily swimmer. Cook. Cabinetmaker. Grandfather.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
Bright Saver plug-in solar @brightsaver.bsky.social Bright Saver is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the adoption of clean energy in the US through plug-in (balcony) solar systems that are simple, affordable & accessible to ALL☀️ Here's the proof: https://www.brightsaver.org/balcony-solar-kits
Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com (He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit.
Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.
Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
Tanille Johnston (she/her/elle) @votetanille.bsky.social Proud Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ woman, social worker, and parent. NDP leadership candidate who puts people > profit.
Join me: Tanille.ca
Peter James Hudson @darkfinance.bsky.social Writer, historian, associate professor of geography. Author Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Working on histories of Pan-Africanism and racial capitalism.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo26032761.html
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East | Instagram: cjpmeofficial | https://linktr.ee/cjpmeofficial
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
Matthew Varona @matthew.wiki data, design, digital culture, birds
PhD student at University of Toronto working on visualization/HCI! Focus on visualization literacy 📊📖
they/them | https://matthew.wiki
Amelia Doğan @ameliadogan.bsky.social currently PhD @ischool.uw.edu | thinking about climate justice, computing, data, hci, and co-liberation // research affiliate MIT Data + Feminism Lab
Alex Press @alexanderpress.bsky.social Jewish (Non-)Identity (book reviews), jewishnonidentity.substack.com; Always the Oddball: A Family Story (memoir), alexpress.substack.com
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social The Palestinian Policy Network. An independent, nonprofit think tank without borders. Arabic & English. https://al-shabaka.org/
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
Kareem Rabie @kareemrabie.bsky.social Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
https://www.kareemrabie.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited
+972 Magazine @972mag.com Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine, home to Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
Adalah Justice Project @adalahjustice.bsky.social At the Adalah Justice Project, we believe that collective action is essential for achieving justice and liberation. As a Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S., we are committed to building cross-movement coalitions and drawing connections
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social Broadcaster | Producer
Samira@onthelinemedia.org
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.
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social Autistic led grassroots activism. Amplifying voices.
With goal that we will be heard& be able to bring about better awareness and more supports
Has worked with: Bustle, Salon, Flutie Fdn, *the* White House(!), and Netflix.
See📌🧵DMs open
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
linktr.ee/common.wealth
Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social Investigating the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. By @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Darcy Higgins 🏳️⚧️ @darcyhiggins.bsky.social
Lift360.ca
Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Issue 8.1 is out in June 2026!
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
General Partner @mana.inc
🌳
American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social AAG brings together members of the global geographic community. We are an academic & professional organization representing educators, researchers, & practitioners in geography. https://www.aag.org/membership/
Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social Renter rights & stopping displacement w/ policy & communication action.
Postdoc @curaumn.bsky.social & affiliate at @minnpop.bsky.social & @buoncities.bsky.social
https://www.kentoncard.com/
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social Geographers supporting academic boycott of Israel / in solidarity with the liberation of Palestine. We are a campaign in support of BDS in AAG. https://linktr.ee/geog4pal
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/
Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social Toronto municipal policy wonk, engineer, urbanist, father.
Consider donating to effective charities: https://www.givewell.org/
Sudan Solidarity Collective @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social Volunteer collective based out of the University of Toronto. Dedicated to advocacy, community building & fundraising. Register for Workshops4Sudan below!
W @redheadtalking.bsky.social Academic librarian interested in history, prison abolition, prisoner justice, critical librarianship, labour, surveillance/privacy, anti-racism, fat liberation, gender, and sewing.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Political economy and critical social sciences.
Disponível em PT / disponible en ES.
phenomenalworld.org
phenomenalworld.org/pt-br
phenomenalworld.org/es
Muna Dajani @dajanimuna.bsky.social 
Toronto Public Space Committee @torontopublicspace.bsky.social Register now: www.publicspace.ca/competition
Arielle Angel @arielleangel.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, Jewish Currents
@shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social 
@relkatz.bsky.social @relkatz.bsky.social 
Nima Fatemi نیما فاطمی @mrphs.bsky.social Privacy x Security x Social Impact
Abolitionist x Intersectional
Free Palestine 🍉 Free Iran ✌🏽
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com Tech & policy at criti.ca
among other things, a part-time punk
https://claudioruiz.com
Canadian Freelance Union @cdnfreelanceunion.bsky.social Union of freelancers across Canada, fighting for more. Community chapter of UNIFOR. DMs always open!
join here - https://canadianfreelanceunion.ca/join/
Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
Global Voices @globalvoices.org The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
UntoldMag @untoldmag.org UntoldMag.org is a platform that challenges the established and amplifies the untold, bridging the gaps between rigorous analysis and accessible discourse and reimagining knowledge as a shared, dynamic, decentralized, and deeply situated experience.
Duha Elmardi @duhaelmardi.bsky.social she/her - Sudanese based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal
Lorna M. Campbell @lornamcampbell.bsky.social Open education technology, policy & practice at University of Edinburgh. Occasional historian, former Trustee of ALT & Wikimedia UK. Used to be an archaeologist. She/her.
I blog at https://lornamcampbell.org/
#oer #openscot #femedtech #cmalt.
Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social Editor in Chief @untoldmag.org | West Asia & North Africa Editor @globalvoices.org | Senior Communications Specialist Centre for Lebanese Studies
@paultownsend.bsky.social @paultownsend.bsky.social 
Chuck @hirizehotrodz.bsky.social AKA HiRizeBear/HotRodJunkie/HiRaker66 from other socials.
High-rise dweller, pogonophile, collector of records & 1/64 cars.
🏳️🌈
Ajay Singh Chaudhary @materialistjew.bsky.social Executive Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Tweets are my own and do not represent positions of BISR.
my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social kentuckian in ATL, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, etc. etc.
Social Movement Technologies @socialmovetech.bsky.social Campaign support for people power movements and groups across the world. Follow to hear about free and paid training and coaching, reading groups for organizing wisdom, and great organizing. https://socialmovementtechnologies.org
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social Marxist dude bro
Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social Syrian political activist from #Daraa #Syria Freedom. Ya Hala 👋 8.12.2024
buymeacoffee.com/nedal
Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social A Syrian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with 20+ years’ experience, founder of the Prisons Museum. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
https://prisons.museum
https://linktr.ee/amer.mattr
KhaledAlesmael @khaledalesmael.bsky.social Just a regular Syrian writer and journalist in London, telling stories of love, exile, and everything in between.
Always in 🐆 print! So watch out ⚠️
(He/him)
Books: Selamlik 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇪🇩🇰🏳️🌈
Gateway to the Sea 🇩🇪🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Henning Lahmann @hlahmann.bsky.social International law & theory & digital tech (he/him)
Would rather talk about music
Assistant Professor, Universiteit Leiden
Amsterdam & Berlin
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/henning-lahmann
David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything | working on a sequel #TheThirdFreedom | media enquiries: MFlashman@janklow.com
Sanjay Bhangar @batpad.bsky.social Developer @ Development Seed
I like making things with maps and video in web browsers.
Also:
https://studio.camp
https://pad.ma
Marc Farra @marcfarra.bsky.social I write code and make hot sauce in Beirut.
Director of chess things at keshmat.org
Engineer at @developmentseed.org
Send me an interesting map or recipe!
Pereloup 🔻 @pereloup.bsky.social PhD wanderer @uparisnanterre | Law & Politics
Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
+ 972mag, Shado Mag, Decolonial Centre, New Internationalist, Crimethinc, Red Pepper, Lausan, Commons Ukraine, Der Spekter, Arab Reform Initiative etc
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Sheena Sharp @sheenasharp.bsky.social Architect, Candidate for Green Party in Don Valley West, Chair Toronto 2030 District. Principal Coolearth Architecture inc. donvalleywestgreens.ca Coolearth.ca
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Spacing @spacing.bsky.social Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
Yassin Swehat @yswehat.bsky.social Periodista y editor íbero-mesopotámico. Picheleiro en Berlín. Cofundador y editor ejecutivo de @aljumhuriya.bsky.social
Siria y países árabes, UE, izquierda posmelancólica, y memes.
Gohary @ircpresident.bsky.social Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. @GlobalVoices.org Services Lead and Board Member. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering. Find me at https://mohamedelgohary.com
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Bissan @bissan.bsky.social 
Tara Tarakiyee @tarakiyee.bsky.social Public interest technologist. Open source, digital autonomy, internet
governance. Berlin. another internet is possible. tarakiyee.com
Abir Ghattas @abirghattas.bsky.social CIO & Director of Information Security @HRW • Feminist • @abirghattas@infosec.exchange •
Mona Seif @monasosh.bsky.social This time I won't run after anything, you will find me playing with ducks.
Scientist, Human Rights Defender, Cat Decipherer, and Mother 💛
#FreeAlaa