Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Arm Chair OSINT @armchairosint.bsky.social A gathering of resources to provide more detailed information about ongoing issues globally.
100% Independent and UNAFFILIATED.
Any stated opinions are my own and are NOT a reflection of my reporting.
VassB @vassb.bsky.social policy designer + writer
I run the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca), where we make sovereignty make sense.
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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social A movement for healing trans nervous systems + infusing inboxes with joy!
📭 Center joy with us: https://transjoy.ghost.io/#/portal/signup
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🏳️⚧️ Help us bring in more voices! buymeacoffee.com/transjoy
Milo @miloblue.bsky.social 💻 Co-Founder, Queer Zine Archive Project - https://qzap.org
🖥️ Professional graphic designer and desktop publisher
📓 Zine Maker - https://milosqueer.shop
🦄 Non-Binary Trans Hoomyn
🥦 weird food lover
💃🏻 They/Them/Comrade
🗳️ Tammy Metzler 4 President
Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social Quite possibly the hardest working retiree in the Yukon. He does more over morning coffee than you will do all day. True story. Or not.
The Merry Dairy @themerrydairy.bsky.social Original recipe dairy and plant-based flavours made in-house! See today's pints, cakes, sandwiches, and scoops on our website TheMerryDairy.com!
Mira @thefreeradical.org she/her professionally, it/she if ur trans ΘΔ
transfem journalist @transnews.network and tired anarchist
go read blessed is the flame
my website has my clips: miralazine.com
miralazine@gmail.com <- for comments, inquiries, and death threats
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social Work in human rights, international criminal law, and accountability for mass atrocities - in Canada and around the world.
Professor and advocate.
Based in Vancouver.
www.markkersten.com
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay @gabriellebt.bsky.social Écrivaine, Actrice, Conférencière
📚La fille d'elle-même/Prix Libraires Qc 22 🏆
Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Mother @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com Bluesky's #1 THE DEAD ZONE (1983) poster.
🏳️⚧️ Surprise girl. 📚 Book stacker.
💍 Happy wife. 🐿️ Attention lacker.
👩❤️💋👩 Girl kisser. 📝 Word slinger.
🎲 Dice roller. ⚔️ Sword swinger.
🎨 Hobby hoarder. ⚒️ Stuff maker.
🥋 武芸者. 🎢 Risk taker.
She/her. #IRememberIsabelFall
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Metonymy Press @metonymypress.bsky.social Small queer press based in Tio’tià:ke. We publish literary works by emerging writers — books that reframe power and affirm life. We really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied. https://linktr.ee/metonymypress
zøë wolfe @glitchwolfe.studio she/they
freelance - video editor, vj, game capture person, circuit bender, game boy camera nerd
glitches featured on @aesnos.bsky.social @numetalagenda.bsky.social @noclipvideo.bsky.social and more
drums/viz @bellacose.music
zoewolfe.gay
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social 
Dr. Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social PhD scholar researching trans media histories https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
Incoming Fellow of the FU Berlin Program https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bprogram/fellows/files/fellows_final_41.pdf
Ottawa Charge GIFs @chargegifs.bsky.social Ottawa Charge GIFs (and some other things too sometimes)
Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social Yukon-based author, writer, editor
Western Canada Editor, Canadian Geographic
Contributing editor, High Country News
My books are NERVE and NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS
Romance reader, slow but enthusiastic cyclist, wife guy
the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse #momlife #pinball #retroarcade #eremeka #artbooks #canqueer #antifascist #djmixes
https://linktr.ee/thetastates
she/her
Morgan Sea @morgansea.bsky.social Cartoonist, artist and a third thing
Ladybugspicnic @ladybugspicnic.bsky.social Running. Bikes. Birds. Urban Things. Unapologetically BanCars and BanFossilFuels.
Photo credit to Jason Tang (The Canadian Press).
Twizy on Tour @twizyontour.bsky.social I own a 2020 Renault Twizy, and I love the silly thing. I drive it a lot, and here I'll share some of my adventures.
Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet.
Member of the poetry collective VII
www.helen-robertson.com
Peter Durst @peterdurst.bsky.social
YYZ to YXY 🤞
Whitehorse, The Yukon
www.peterdurst.ca
cass @cassiusa.bsky.social boy
writer
tired
VB —> MPLS (southside all day)
Louise Weard @weard.moe maker responsible for all unnecessary sex scenes
https://louiseweard.com/
Ottawa Street by Street @heartofottawa.bsky.social Looking at the core of Ottawa’s built history. https://www.instagram.com/monsieurlebun
Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
Tran Girlismo: The Real Podcast Simulator @trangirlismo.bsky.social A podcast about car culture, the decline of empire, and motorsports from @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay and @victoriascott.bsky.social, two (former) auto journalists and (current) trans women
Shirts/Stickers preorder now at: https://store.trangirlismo.com/
Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca trans lady who uses lots of film ⋅ ⚢ⓥ ⋅ ottawa
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Juritrans @juritrans.bsky.social 
Lily Carbonaro @carbonaro.dev 🏳️⚧️
Just to make it clear to the scum: This is an anti-ICE account
https://carbonaro.dev
Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
Flint WTT @flintywrites.bsky.social Scribbler and babbler at WhatTheTrans 🏳️⚧️
Genderqueer He/Him
aoife josie clements @ravineangel.bsky.social writer of PERSONA out now via LittlePuss Press, actor/composer on CASTRATION MOVIE and PLATYPUS, music as RAVINE ANGEL
https://ravineangel.bandcamp.com/album/object-of-affection
Susan Gapka (she/her/elle) @susangapka.bsky.social Dedicated campaigner for social justice: housing, homelessness, mental health, harm reduction & LGBTQ, trans rights
The Maple @readthemaple.com Canadian news & opinion that confronts the status quo. 100% reader-funded & independent.
Edited by @alex.readthemaple.com & @davide.readthemaple.com
Website: https://www.readthemaple.com/
Email list: http://www.readthemaple.com/signup-bluesky/
Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social Actor/comedian/writer in Toronto. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, The Toronto Star, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlackwoodComedy
Occasional Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social Ottawa 🇨🇦 • LRT status updates and municipal commentary and advocacy. https://OccasionalTransport.ca
It takes a village to push a train.
OC Transpo is Occasional Transportation.
Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
ByTowne Cinema @bytownecinema.bsky.social Ottawa's home for independent cinema since 1988.
We're open! 🎥🎬🎞🍿
Email: info@bytowne.ca
Website: https://www.bytowne.ca/
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Little Angus @littleangus.bsky.social Was @LittleAngus on the T;
Northern Alta California, between Sacramento and Oakland; Sarcasm in the defense of liberty is no vice; married and old; he/him, but mainly I/me me me me.
Trans News Network @transnews.network Trans News Network (TNN) is a worker-run nonprofit LGBTQ+ newsroom publishing articles that impact trans communities.
Follow our work and socials: https://transnews.network/bio
Our writers: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/transnews.network/3luvqfz7loz2d
City of Ottawa @en.ottawa.ca Official account of the City of Ottawa.
Not monitored 24/7. Currently testing this new channel. Posting Monday to Friday, occasionally on weekends.
Stay updated with the latest info.
Français: @fr.ottawa.ca
Service-related requests: ottawa.ca or call 311
Élodie Marissa: in Depeche Mode @elodieexdeath.northsky.social Goth night!
Socialisme ou barbarie
Gayest Élodie outside of France
Wielder of Road Signs
Proudly blocked by dozens of journalists
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Writer, historian, wants to make the world a better place
#TodayInQueerHistory
Hotties in Art out in Autumn
Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums
For events and books check out:
https://linktr.ee/jackshoulder
Gersande La Flèche @gersande.com Drôle de gouine nonbine qui hockey post sur la Victoire LPHF 🏒 Gym bro. Chronically ill avec zéro chill. Photographe et peut être un jour je terminerai mon roman.
photos.gersande.com
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
Èlodie Marissa: Câlisse de Chevannes @elodieexdeath.bsky.social Tried to move my account between servers and "oops"
Home of the "Câlisse de marde"
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social photographer & writer & local jeep girl
host @trangirlismo.bsky.social
author, WE DESERVE THIS (2024), POLLINATION (preorders open)
my opinions aren't my employers'
she/her ⚧️ | 🏡: SEA
pfp: @sula-nef.bsky.social
vantimevictoria.com
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Sam Feder 🐳 @samfeder.bsky.social
Www.samfederfilms.com
Lou 💞 @catlouuu.bsky.social 29 • agender lesbian • Ottawa-Gatineau • AuDHD human • 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
I think/talk about human rights, car dependency, and public transit (and how those things relate to each other) way too much.
Slowly learning French!
Allie Athena @allieathena.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍁🚌🚂🤓🚀🏍️🚴🚗📕🎵🎭🎮🎥🍿🍱🍜🍲💛🤍💜🖤 she/her
Sigh @essemeffarr.bsky.social Human being doing human things in Unceded Algonquin territory (Ottawa).
They/them
Sam Orchard @samorchard.bsky.social Queer, Trans and Nerdy. Making comics, reading comics, researching comics. http://patreon.com/roostertails
He/They
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social A trans-led direct action group combatting the rising tide of bigotry in the UK
Join us: https://lnk.bio/BASHBACK
Ivan Coyote @ivancoyote.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.com
TransLash Media @translash.org We tell trans stories to save trans lives. 
Zagria @zagria.bsky.social author of the Gender Variance Who's Who
I'll be Frank with you 🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social a photographer and techie living in Toronto. I used to shoot rolls of film and use BBSes, now I'm here. I focus on infrared landscape and street photography, two great ways to get me off the couch.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
Trish Rempel @dreamspin.bsky.social she/they • 44 • non-binary • 🇨🇦 🦬 • AuDHD • married • sofware developer • really really like gaming 🎮
Gabrielle Huston @talktogabrielle.bsky.social CBC Journalist 🍁 Ottawa/Sudbury
She/They 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇿🇦🏳️🌈
gabrielle.huston@cbc.ca
📚 Journalism & Humanities at @carleton.ca Alumna
Harper Jean Tobin @harperjean.bsky.social Muppet Queen, Recovering Lawyer
(It’s an honorary title the Order Muppets came up with. The Chaos Muppets would never tolerate a real monarchy. So we compromised on an anarcho-syndicalist federation with a symbolic head of state for the fancy parties etc.)
Pink @pinkwug.bsky.social Medium effort shitposting │ New comic every week │ Democracy enjoyer 
Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray.
Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away.
The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way
By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.
'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better @fairestcat.bsky.social Same girl. New site. Queer, polyam, bi-polar fangirl with eclectic tastes.
Vidder. Multifannish AF. Kind of obsessed with figure skating. Once got a concussion from a cat.
ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social 
Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social Filmmaker and consumer activist. Life‘s work archived by US Library of Congress. transgendermap.com / andreajames.com
AJ Vicens @ajvicens.bsky.social Cybersecurity correspondent at Reuters; former Mother Jones, CyberScoop. Will bore you with skateboarding, UFO lore or Denver Broncos minutiae on request. Signal: ajvicens.57, additional contact methods: https://tinyurl.com/47jc45h7
Mike Ali @handle.invalid Mostly maple syrup content. #ottbike
Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org Peer support hotline for the trans community.
US: 877-565-8860 | Canada: 877-330-6366
10am - 6pm PT/1pm - 9pm ET
translifeline.org- M W McLean @mclabradore.bsky.social
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
DON'T NOD @dontnod.bsky.social Developer & publisher of meaningful games. We’ll take you on a journey.
Your next adventure: #LifeisStrange #TellMeWhy #LostRecords #Vampyr #Jusant #RememberMe
Mel Woods @melwoods.me Senior Editor, Content Development at xtramagazine.com 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
(they/them) from the prairies, now in Vancouver
I also play Magic: The Gathering a lot
Subscribe to my newsletter, Ranch Baby: https://ranch-baby.ghost.io/
Work with me: melwoods.me
Ecology Ottawa @ecologyottawa.bsky.social Working to make Ottawa the green capital of Canada 🌿 Nous nous efforçons de faire d’Ottawa la capitale verte du Canada.
www.ecologyottawa.ca | info@ecologyottawa.ca
Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social Vancouver bureau chief for Bloomberg News
tseal@bloomberg.net
Signal: TSeal.01
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AS5AQQizNJE/thomas-seal
Michelle @thunderhoneysnow.bsky.social PhD in Food Politics, Social Movements, Feminist Theory, Social Media
Joy: Ultra Trail, Running, Yoga, Dog, Cooking, Bike
Life: Mask Up, Covid Aware, Disability Justice, Sjogrens, Scent Free, MCS
My Yoga Studio:
https://thunderhoneysnowstudio.ca/
Radical Events Ottawa @rad-events-ottawa.bsky.social Your friendly local anarchist collective Punch Up puts out this weekly email list of rad events coming up in the Ottawa-Gatineau area. Follow us here or go old school, subscribe to the calendar or sign up for emails! https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo
Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
Kelly Francis @kelly-francis.bsky.social Queer USA Expat, Neurodivergent Digital Nomad, Writer, Educator, Activist, Pagan Quaker, Mad Prophet
Mija @mija-again.bsky.social https://mijasroom.net <- My not-so-new blog, mostly about spanking.
Pablo and Mija’s Treehouse... yes, *that* Mija.
Zhu @xiaozhuli.bsky.social French woman in English #Canada or most likely somewhere else. #Backpacker, #translator, writer and photographer constantly fascinated by cultural differences.
Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social Associate Editor @pressprogress.ca // Member of @defactomedia.ca // words and photos in Chatelaine, Jacobin, The Tyee, Xtra etc.
LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social Profile for the LGR YouTube channel. Covering vintage computer hardware, software, and various retro tech oddities. https://youtube.com/@LGR
Trans Outaouais @transoutaouais.bsky.social Cette page est utilisée par et pour les personnes de la diversité de genre de l'Outaouais. transoutaouais.com
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa