Bill Hammack (engineerguy) @engineerguy.bsky.social Creator of Engineerguy video on youtube
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca A better world, by listening.
FastTrackTO @fast-track.to Home of the 10-point plan to save Toronto’s streetcar system.
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https://fast-track.to/ 🌐
Ryan North @ryannorth.ca You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?
Look... I'm a lot of guys
🔗 ryannorth.ca
David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social Homesick Newfoundlander. Go Niners
Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
Julie Witmer @witmaps.ca Cartographer - Julie Witmer Custom Map Design - witmaps.ca
I like cycling, gardening, reading, kayaking, and puzzles; interested in urban planning and community building, specifically in Waterloo Region
Ravenwood Tabletop @ravenwoodtabletop.ca 
The Works in Progress Newsletter @worksinprogress.blogsky.venki.dev Get the latest updates on our magazine, featuring new and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co
Automated feed of https://www.worksinprogress.news/, discover more at @blogsky.venki.dev
Waterloo Region Record @therecord.com A daily newspaper in print and online, serving Waterloo Region in southwestern Ontario since 1878. Find us at therecord.com, sign up for newsletters and alerts, and download our app. News tip? Email newsroom@therecord.com
PAIGE! @paige.canadiancivil.com #Montreal based advocacy journalist.
Human fan!
Can I take a mere 3 hours of your time to discuss #ElectoralReform?
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social Posting thoughts on plumbing/building codes, engineering design guides, water and nutrient cycles, often with regional and historical insights (personal account)
Director of Plumbing Standards Research and Development
john.lansing@centerforbuilding.org
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics @perimeterinstitute.ca We are an independent centre for research, training, and outreach in theoretical physics in Waterloo.
https://perimeterinstitute.ca/link-in-bio
ION Crash Counter @ioncrashcounter.com Official social media site for IONCrashCounter.com
Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social Policy & Planning Dir. @marinbike.org • UCLA Urban Planning • AICP Planner • Baltimore ➡️ LA ➡️ East Bay • 🚫🚗Car-free commuting since 2015 • Missing middle renter.
📍Berkeley, CA
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social Professor, Political Science, Brock University
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
futur 🔹 @futur.blue words in places and ways they probably shouldn't be
Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social Housing Program Officer, Abundance & Growth Fund @ CG | Sr. Fellow @niskanencenter🏗️ | Urban Econ 🌐🔰🚋 | @worksinprogress contributor | @opennyforall member | @yimbytown alum | former @cbcny |
Legalize housing. Tax land. End poverty with cash
Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social International relations/law UManitoba Political Science https://umanitoba.ca/arts/bryan-peeler
Bryan Based International Order: https://substack.com/@bryanpeeler
Author of The Persistence of Reciprocity in IHL: https://rb.gy/p39ckt
kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine
Justine Underhill @justineunderhill.bsky.social I'm a journalist with a background in economics and theater. I worked as an on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance, and I later created a documentary series. My focus now is on urban design, and I was recently elected to City Council in Falls Church, VA.
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. senatorpaulasimons.ca
OpenMedia @openmedia.org Fighting for your digital privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right.
Learn more and take action at www.openmedia.org.
CIPPIC @cippic.bsky.social The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic is Canada’s first and only public interest technology law clinic. We are based at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Find us here: www.cippic.ca.
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social Law Professor, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa
www.michaelgeist.ca
Law Bytes Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iDUCcDrkzGai0OdTgoucv
http://mgeist.substack.com
The Strange Log @thestrangelog.bsky.social Documenting the strange poetry of changelogs and patch notes. All tweets are unedited and selected verbatim. Created and managed by
@thediscopony.bsky.social
World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social THIS WEEK ON "WORLD'S MOST AGGRAVATING EDGE CASES" by @qntm.org
Kevin Burke @burke.bsky.social Ask me about the Contra Costa County Housing Element
Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social Legal humor. Seriously.
By Kevin Underhill
Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social We explore and catalog the history of technophobia and moral panic.
Our newsletter: http://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Doug Mills @doug161.bsky.social Carpenter, swing dancer, dog lover, ocean lover, #resistance, #blm, #lgbtq, escaped to Bluesky because it’s going to be way worse this time
Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social Economist, UNCG PhD, "serial millennial myth debunker," labor, housing and time use researcher, AU adjunct prof. Views are my own and not any employer's.
The Canadian Internet Society @caninternetsociety.bsky.social We're bridging the digital divide and advocating for an open, accessible, affordable internet for all Canadians. internetsociety.ca
bryson @brysonm.bsky.social tell me the news. yelling at the telecom oligopoly for you. also giving the robots a chance. you're probably mad at capitalism, not technology 📍Toronto
Lex Gill @lex-is.bsky.social litigation for the people. senior fellow at @citizenlab, teaching at mcgill law, former scc clerk. constitutional red team. be brave, be brave, be brave.
Emily Laidlaw @emilylaidlaw.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Working at the intersection of all things tech law and human rights - online safety, freedom of expression, privacy, platforms, AI, security. 
Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social Author, THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCYD6Q77, https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-middle-of-nowhere-23,
Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard @wryimby.bsky.social Waterloo Region Yes in my Backyard, also known as WR YIMBY, is a grassroots community group that urges the cities of Waterloo Region to adjust their zoning to allow for more housing, especially affordable housing.
https://www.wryimby.com/
YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org Please follow to help end the housing crisis with local support • #YesInMyBackYard: the opposite of #NIMBY • http://yimbyalliance.org
Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social Investigative reporter, Institute for Justice. Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.
Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social Australian urbanist in Melbourne. YIMBY. Our cities are not museums. Cargo bike parent of young kids.
Paul M Smith @paulmsmithphoto.bsky.social Photographer. Citizen science. Nature lover. Night sky and storm chaser.
Zach 🚏🚌 @vanishingunder.bsky.social 🇨🇦 28. UW Planning alumnus. Transit enthusiast. Find me on the bus! (Tweets are my own)
Bytor @bytor.bsky.social Metal, Premier League, NBA, Software Dev
Minneapolis
Logan Bowers @loganb.bsky.social Toots on housing policy, economics, computing.
Canardiain @canardiain.bsky.social Fan of Waterloo's rapid transit project, ION (#wrLRT), but I tweet train, theme park, and bicycling adventures, too. Unabashed gadgetbahn enthusiast. 🏳️🌈🐾🇨🇦
Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca vive le Canada 🇨🇦 working in renewable energy 🔌💡hobbying in ✨opinions✨
energy, housing, cities, transit, cycling, politics
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jamie @transitthinker.bsky.social Transit enthusiast | Map maker | Young person | Transit Youtuber | Hopeful for the future of cities & transit | Views are my own | he/him
True Communities @truecommunities.bsky.social True Communities mission is to help people think differently about how we get around and develop urban and rural areas that foster true communities
Blog:
https://truecommunities.wordpress.com
Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social Human-Computer Interaction @ CMU | Critical Computing + STS + Queer Art | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | Incoming Postdoc at the University of Michigan
Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social Economics (PhD UBC), yimby, replication, effective altruism. blog.michaelwiebe.com
Justin Readman @justinreadman.bsky.social Cities, places for people, nature, music and food. 
Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com San Francisco 🌁
City Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Spatial Science. Union Member. Assistant Professor. Banner by Bellows.
@drkeefer.bsky.social @drkeefer.bsky.social 
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Mike Boos @mikeboos.ca Citizen of Kitchener. I make noise about walking, cycling, transit, and land use. Staff engineer in developer productivity. He/him
Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 @pothen.bsky.social Counsel and Land Use and Land Development Program Manager for Environmental Defence. The "Hands off the Greenbelt" guy. Arch-Adversary of Mr. Sprawl. Tweets aren't advice or statements from Environmental Defence. he/him
Berry Vrbanovic @berryonline.bsky.social Personal Account. He/Him. Community promoter of #WRAwesome-ness. Mayor of #Kitchener. Co-President of #UCLG. Motto: Live~Love~Laugh
Dorothy McCabe @mayormccabe.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Waterloo Mayor. Honoured. Grateful. Here to serve.
Community. Bold ideas. Smart public policy. Politics. I'm here for it! 🇨🇦
Mike Morrice @morricemike.bsky.social Executive in Residence @capacitycanada.bsky.social and Deputy Leader @canadiangreens.bsky.social.
Former MP for Kitchener Centre, founder of Sustainable Waterloo Region and Green Economy Canada.
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Block 2, Haldimand Tract
https://linktr.ee/morricemike
@aislinnclancy.bsky.social @aislinnclancy.bsky.social 
Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city Visual urbanist. I like trains, buses, cities, and maps.
Ben Durham @ben-durham.bsky.social 
Tom Babin @shifter.info Creator: Shifter | Urban cycling and bike commuting
Author: Frostbike: The Joy, Pain and Numbness of Winter Cycling
More here: linktr.ee/shifter
Dr Robert Davis @chairrdrf.bsky.social Chair of Road Danger Reduction Forum www.rdrf.org.uk
Posts on RDR, transport, #ClimateCatastrophe. Some other serious matters e.g. #Ukraine, some fun stuff e.g. cycle sport.
James Harris @jbwharr.is Have garlic in my soul. Scrobbling is the hill I will die on. Frontend dev and CSS wrangler. Neurodivergent AF. Independent radio diehard. He/him.
Dev for @scrobblerad.io
📍Cambridge, Ontario
Housing Affordability Task Force (Advocate) @housingforce.bsky.social YIMBY trying to hold the government accountable for housing policy failures.
Jesse Vincent @s.ly Doing AI stuff at Prime Radiant. Past lives include: keyboard.io, VaccinateCA, K-9 Mail, Request Tracker & Perl.
I can usually be found in #Berkeley
jesse@fsck.com
jesse@primeradiant.com
@jesse@metasocial.com
was @obra on Twitter
Catherine Fife @waterloompp.bsky.social Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Waterloo, Ontario (2012/14/18/22/25); Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade; https://linktr.ee/cfifekw
Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 @henrikbechmann.bsky.social Retired software dev.
I sometimes discuss City of Toronto budget design and support issues.
IMO government is a collective enterprise, and should be fully transparent and forcefully managed for all, and for the health of the planet.
J. Connors @jerconnors.bsky.social Western Canadian well versed in city building & social movements. Mostly keeping tabs on the goings-on on a better platform.
Canada Ministry of Pedestrians @minpedca.bsky.social #WalkPerspective. Here because we need safe walking, wheeling & cycling in Canadian cities. Posts by Martyn of Kjipuktuk/Halifax.
Doug Craig @dougcraig3.bsky.social Planner for placemaking | arts & culture | healthy, vibrant communities | UBC SCARP alum | 🌱 🎨 🎵 🏳🌈 🇨🇦
#VanPoli
Natalie Goss @njgoss.bsky.social Part of City of Kitchener's dynamic city planning team. Textile artist in the making
@martinasling.bsky.social @martinasling.bsky.social Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes in My Backyard.
Ontario Traffic Man @ontariotrafficman.bsky.social Transportation in Ontario.
EN🇨🇦/FR🇨🇦/NL🇳🇱
He/him
youtube.com/@ontariotrafficman
Steve Anderson @steveanderson.bsky.social Founder of New/Mode: @newmode.bsky.social
Learn more at: https://www.newmode.net
Founder and previous ED of OpenMedia. @openmedia.org
Council for Canadian Urbanism @canurbanism.bsky.social The Council for Canadian Urbanism #CanU is a national organization of leading multi-disciplinary urbanists championing better city-building coast-to-coast! linktr.ee/canurbanism Conseil pour l'Urbanisme Canadien
Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social Game dev, pro-housing activist. she/her
Owlbear Rodeo @owlbear.rodeo Official page for https://owlbear.rodeo
An online experience for shared tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs)
Justice Ramin Arman @justiceraminarman.bsky.social Game Design Director for the Dungeons & Dragons TRPG | My opinions are my own. #WotCStaff www.justicearman.com
leopoldwdb @leopoldwdb.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇧🇪 J’sais pas trop d’où je viens.
Urbanisme, politique, et un peu de philosophie.
Nate Erskine-Smith @nateforontario.bsky.social MP for Beaches-East York | Host of uncommons.ca podcast
Threatening Music Notation @threat-notation.bsky.social Cataloguing threatening music notation. DM submissions welcome—please include source whenever possible.
ao3 tags @ao3struggles.bsky.social hall of fame for tags that express the *struggles*
+18
Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com Transport Planner & Researcher
Creative Director | cityux.com
Research Lead | infrastoryinsights.com
https://youtu.be/vAygH6SZg28?si=lY-5xtbZl6yPv823
Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social A long-standing transit activist/commentator since 1972. Blogs at http://stevemunro.ca since 2006. Winner of the 2005 Jane Jacobs Prize and 2024 CUTA Excellence Award.
Astrid Atkinson @astridatkinson.bsky.social Decarbonizing the grid with Camus Energy. CEO, founder, dog appreciator. Ex-Google. I know it gets dark, but there's always a light.
Dr. Adam Stein @astein.bsky.social Energy, Risk, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Research, Father.
Director of Nuclear Energy Innovation at the Breakthrough Institute
Alum. Carnegie Mellon EPP
Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social Managing Director at Radiant Energy Group
Safe Street Rebel @safestreetrebel.com End car dominance and save the planet one direct action at a time. Likes: bus lanes, bike routes. Dislikes: cops, the petrostate
🌎Unceded Ohlone Land (SF)
safestreetrebel.com
void sexts @voidsexts.bsky.social sexts from the void
slowly crossposting from the original project at voidsexts.tumblr.com
Regional Councillor Colleen James - Kitchener @colleenjames.bsky.social www.colleen-james.ca