@floweringinferno.bsky.social @floweringinferno.bsky.social 
BHoswell [Money doesn't change men. It unmasks them.] @benhoswell.bsky.social Proud Australian living in New Zealand. Artist. Reader. Gamer. I love animals and nature. Tolkien lover. Cat whisperer.
Former AI art creator. Dismayed at what the AI data centres are doing to our world.
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Leonie Morris @leoniemorris.bsky.social Toitū Te Tiriti, feminism, tax wealth, climate justice. I work for Auckland Women's Centre but this is my personal account.
Justin Wong @whljustin.bsky.social (Mostly) Wellington local democracy / (some) international affairs @thepost-nz.bsky.social
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Leah Dodd @leahjd.bsky.social poet :)
Tanya Jurado @tjur.bsky.social SMEs
Lisa Favazzo @lisagrace.bsky.social 🎱🍒 𝕷𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖜𝖆𝖞
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
Multimedia journalist for Guardian Australia- P Lissa Mitchell @photocuratornz.bsky.social
Zeiger @imzeiger.bsky.social Software Developer, Aotearoa / New Zealand based
Teagan @wildshaped.bsky.social 🌿✍️ Writer, artist, conservation advocate
🌿✊ Liberation For All
🌿📍Anikituwagi (Cherokee) land
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social 
Alaye @alayebarry.bsky.social Good life is all I pree💭
Future Educator📚
Sport lover⛹️♂️🤾🏼♀️
Kellie @nzkellie.bsky.social She/her - Pākehā - cat lady - MS - feminist - dreamer of a better world - am listening but haven't found my voice yet
TP Blakewell @tpblakewell.bsky.social This is an old account from 2025 when the 1st edition of Light Up The Darkness was published. The posts herein are associated with that edition only and have nothing to do with the completely different 2026 2nd edition on LightUpTheDarknessBook.com
@gingagma.bsky.social @gingagma.bsky.social 
Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social Ka mua, ka muri
American/Tauiwi pākehā living in Aotearoa. She/her.
#Hockey #GoAvsGo, gardening, cat lady, traveller, history, politics, knitter. Big into privacy and democracy. Will most definitely be snarky about politics.
Animals are better than people.
@evanabelich.bsky.social @evanabelich.bsky.social 
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
Nicole Mathewson @nicolemathewson.bsky.social Day dreamer, animal lover, hot chip addict
nicole.mathewson@press.co.nz
Chief news director at thepress.co.nz
@frankachonwa.bsky.social @frankachonwa.bsky.social Lover of people, Lover of all that is good, Restless mind, Creator.
Always in search of something more qualifying than success.
I am probably on your team.
Go and visit https://linktr.ee/Ahobe
JJW @jjw.wtf dislikes typewriters
Dr Rebecca Howard @drrebeccahoward.bsky.social https://buttondown.com/DrRebeccaHoward
Elliot Loves Graphs @elliotlovesgraphs.bsky.social Socialist writer, activist and enthusiastic graph-maker from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Chair of System Change Aotearoa.
Follow my Substack! https://elliotcrossan.substack.com/
Pippa Coom @pippacoom.bsky.social Governance | Strategic Advice | Campaigns
Former Auckland Councillor
@racheljthomas.bsky.social @racheljthomas.bsky.social 
David Harris @davidharrs.bsky.social I'm working at the United States Air Force
Major. Commander-in-Chief of Staff, at Lask Air Base
Studied a Bachelor of Science Degree at Brigham Young University- Provo, Utah
Studied Distinguished Graduate at Squadron Officer School
From California.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
My Opinion @oopsmyopinion.bsky.social News on Science, Climate, Space, Star Trek, & Nature. I love travel & photography too!
NOT A BOT!!
Views are mine. Repost≠Endorsements. 🚫Porn
Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/my-opinion-podcast--6757807
I do receive benefits from ad links.
Ellen @ellenupsidedown.bsky.social 
Sebastian Midence @sebastianmidence.bsky.social 🇭🇳🇺🇸 in 🇳🇿
Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa (Hamilton, New Zealand)
Michael Kessler @mickessler.bsky.social Global Health Media Consultant
#hiv #tb #infectiousdiseases #CRDs #drugpolicy #ncds #pandemics 
Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com Sustainable Finance, Green Bonds
Co-Founder Altius, Director Australian Ethical, Adjunct Fellow UNSW Business School
Also, Arsenal, St Kilda FC, guitar and fly fishing
James Pasley @jamespasley.bsky.social 
Laura Borrowdale @lauraborrowdale.bsky.social Dystopian short story writer/teacher/mother from Aotearoa. I like to find the place where the domestic meets the horrific.
New book ‘Dead Ends’ due out in September.
@gullyite.bsky.social @gullyite.bsky.social Thoughts and actions, mostly just thoughts about actions. Don’t worry, I also disappoint myself.
@corinnz.bsky.social @corinnz.bsky.social 
Gregory Stanton Greene @gregory-s-greene.bsky.social Humble, aspiring public servant and southern gentleman.
Pursuing my weight loss journey and Matthew 6:33.
Reged Ahmad @regedahmad.bsky.social Former BBC World News TV/World Service Radio Presenter, now Host and Snr Producer, Full Story podcast @guardianaustralia
Marie-Pauline Desset @mp-d.bsky.social Francophone journalist in Australia
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
Ethan Te Ora @ethanteora.bsky.social Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Matakore, Tainui, Ngā Mahanga. Currently a story producer for 1News at Six, formerly a senior reporter at @thepost-nz.bsky.social and freelance with @aljazeera.com. Won the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Emma Hislop @her-slop.bsky.social 
Catherine @deleifd.bsky.social Makes jam. Has chickens. Co-author of ‘Groundwork: The art and writing of Emily Cumming Harris’. Pākehā/Rongowhakaata. She/her/ia. NZ
Living Wage Employer New Zealand @lwemployernz.bsky.social Living Wage Employer, a Trademark for businesses/organisations licensed by the Accreditation Advisory Committee of LWMANZ.
You can find accredited LWEmployers and how to become accredited on our website https://www.livingwage.org.nz/accredited_employers
Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa @weallaotearoa.bsky.social We are part of the global movement to redesign our economic system around the wellbeing of our people and te taiao.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
The lost journal of bowsinger @spellhunter.bsky.social ...{designer}
...I hunt spells on a chess board using #poe_platform...
#marathon #bungie
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XK6FVfN9QfATheyv7
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linktr.ee/spellhunter
Brooke Rose @brooklyn-rose.bsky.social Gave up trying to inform adults, now teaching their kids. Former journo with the Post, @NZStuff and @NZHerald, now teach primary. She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thomas Blair @thomas-bg.bsky.social Building new things, fixing old things. Reader, runner, cyclist, occasional photographer. Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
David Straight @davidstraight.bsky.social Architectural Photographer. Also into books, walking everywhere, random bits of our built environment, landscape and assorted bits in between.
p.s - AI sucks.
https://davidstraight.net/
https://www.instagram.com/david_._straight
Sonya Wilson @sonyakwilson.bsky.social Author, writer, journalist, founder and CEO of book gifting charity Kiwi Christmas Books, former TV news and current affairs reporter, lover of trees. 🌳
Paul Arnheim-Projekt @paula-projekt.bsky.social nd author, Darknet premium member, they/them
#SharingIsTheNewLearning
Von nichts zu viel (Nothing in excess) => A little bit of everything
a²+b²=c²=>a²+2ad+d²=(a+d)²
1st & 2nd Shalan theorem: (0.5d(m²-1))²+d²m²=(a+d)²
(0.5d(((4m³-1)/3)⁰·⁵-1))³+d³m³=(a+d)³
Simon Sweetman @simonsweetman.bsky.social Writer @ simonsweetman.substack.com Organiser of “Say The Thing” monthly open mic for poets and prose writers at MEOW. Collector of movie soundtracks, novelisations, lover of made-for-TV movies. CD and Cassette Tape enthusiast. EVERYDAY BLOGGER
Helen Beech @beechworks.bsky.social Artist. Gardener. Educator.
Aotearoa New Zealand
www.helenbeech.com
#aotearoa #artist 
Steve Murray @stevoandgus.bsky.social Warfie union man.
Paul Le Comte - Toitū Te Tiriti @paullecomte.bsky.social Caffeinated hypermediated leftist designer. Sad devotion to socialist ideals, sports & music. Depending on caffeine & alcohol levels results may vary. 🇳🇿🇨🇦💚 #CureConservatives 
Kevin Sweet @kevin-sweet.bsky.social i try to be curious not just furious - fear, hatred, and anger can blind us to the humanity of others - for any issue and any side we take. 😍✌️🌍🌏🌎🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🥰🎉
we can be better if we know ourselves and each other better - please human responsibly. 👍❤️
Catrin Owen @catrinowen.bsky.social Journalist at Stuff.co.nz
Anjana Iyer @anjanaiyerforwhau.bsky.social 
Bea Downing @beacd.bsky.social Epidemiologist & statistician ;
Interested in spatial/temporal patterns and how evidence -> decision-making ;
#episky #biostatistics
Maiava Nathaniel @maiava.bsky.social Artist
Ma-ray-ka🖖🍉🇵🇸🌏🇳🇿🇭🇲🏴 @majik23.bsky.social Interested in climate, politics and homeschooling
Born at 331 ppm CO2, Gen X
She/her, ❄️snowflake, feminist
Living on Whadjuk/Noongar land
Pretty lefty and anti-fascist
Reluctant RN
Wannabe Vegan- J James Daniels @jdnz.bsky.social
The Current Focus @thecurrentfocus.bsky.social Unbiased fact based content. We present information, you can interpret it and use it as you wish. 🏞 youtube.com/@thecurrentfocus 🌄
Nat Baker @natbaker.bsky.social writer of fictional words @NZListener @takahemagazine @HeadlandJournal @NewsroomNZ @millymagazine @Turbine | Kapohau...Occasional reviews @Kete Books...Here for writing and writers...Opinions all mine (She/her)
Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Aotearoa. Likes the sea & other stuff. Latest book Where We Swim. Fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, on its way from THWUP & UQP. www.ingridhorrocks.com
Justine B @justeenb.bsky.social I love Papatūānuku (mother 🌏), social justice, sewing, upcycling, outdoors, camping. I dwell on the lands of Ngai Tahu Iwi in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa NZ 🖤🤍❤️ Tinorangatiratanga, toitū te Tiriti e ngā wā katoa!
Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social Auckland bureau chief at RNZ
Henry Oliver @holiver.bsky.social 
Metro @metromagazinenz.bsky.social www.metromagazine.co.nz
Josh O'Connor-Chen @joshoconnorchen.bsky.social 
Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social STOP🇮🇱💀genocide Aussie 🦘Whadjuk boodja
Atheist-Left-AntiFascist-TAX THE RICH
•Activist 🌍:
If not me, then who?🌎
•Climate change is real & deadly🔥
•❤️Science
•Born 313 PPMCO₂
For Zero CO2
•Former educator
•BLM🇵🇸🍉🇺🇦 💙📎 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
🚫DMs🚫Porn🚫Racists
🚫MAGA🚫RWNJs
Hannah Marshall @hannahmarsh.bsky.social I don't use social media. Buy my book instead! https://www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/Hannah-Marshall-It's-a-Bit-More-Complicated-Than-That-9781991006943
Cecile Meier @cecilemeier.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Swiss, French, Kiwi.
Sibby ✨ @ssibbehh.bsky.social Nerdy pākehā in Pōneke. Probably blabbering about technology, culture, and disability.
🏹 Dependent origination MF ☸️
🖤🤍❤️ Toitū te Tiriti
IIML @modernletters.bsky.social The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
@tkhunt.bsky.social @tkhunt.bsky.social