Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social Forever learning, opinions mine. Generally annoyed about something.
Aotearoa.- J John Marshall @johnm.bsky.social Bioinformatics tools developer at Australia’s Centre for Population Genomics. Will edit GA4GH specifications for food. New Zealander fairly recently returned after a decade in the U.K.
Kiwi on your left @kiwionyourleft.bsky.social Kirikiriroa Hamilton. East of the river, left of the centre. Environment. Treaty. Trans rights. Healthcare. Education. Tax wealth not work. All these things and more.
Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net Kiwi, Dad, Human Factors Psychology PhD, & Games User Experience Research.
Director of Intended Experience: https://intendedexperience.nz/
Formerly Epic Games, Player Research, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Te Manatū Waka, & Hamilton Zoo.
LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk Offical Bluesky account for the LGBTIQA+ Greens, the queer liberation group within the @greenparty.org.uk. Co-Chairs: @melissa.green & @kathrynbristow.uk.
Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Calliope Ryder > GAMESCOM @callioperyder.bsky.social Made that hobbit game.
Gamedev, Producer, Artist, PR
On some neat lists (hi ma!)
Now: game analytics platform director @ GYLD. Resident cozy-game-expert @ Dragon Snacks.
Prev: Lead Producer on Tales of the Shire @ Wētā Workshop, Gamerunner @Starcolt
Stina Womack @trickpixel.bsky.social Around the world and home to Ōtepoti again: 🇳🇿>🇦🇺>🇬🇧>🇫🇷>🇺🇸>🇳🇿 ⬅️ Accent is the bastard child of all those places.
Erin 🏳️⚧️ @queerjoy.nz Tangata Tiriti, student, organiser, troublemaker. ✌🏻🍃
Black feminists taught me. 🖤
None of us is free until all of us are free 🫶🏻 🍉
See also @wxhbxh@mastodon.nzoss.nz
What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
Florence @strawberry-impasse.bsky.social BA: Pols & IR. she/her. Aotearoa, Netherlands, Luxembourg, UK. Ecosocialist (go Green!).
shanley @shanley.com The forbidden tech critic.
Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto.
Welcome to my studio.
www.vcinfodocs.com- D @drchuddmd.bsky.social @drchuddmd.bsky.social
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
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.
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
Meeping wainscot @ohnoiratebrian.bsky.social Middle-aged, goth-adjacent moper living her best (?) life in Aotearoa.
Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com Ko kiritea ahau, he ngaakaunui ahau ki te kai moana.
Hater.
https://woosh.link/m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com
T. from Data Rocks @datarocksnz.bsky.social Dataviz | Information Design
The person behind The Dataviz Bookshelf, The Data Design Manifesto & The Design Matters newsletter series.
I don't use autocorrect. I own all of my typos.
https://www.datarocks.co.nz
@firedupstilettos.bsky.social @firedupstilettos.bsky.social 
Tim Welch @tfwelch.com urban planner, educator, transport nerd, data geek, dad
Courts of New Zealand @courtsofnz.bsky.social Official account. Posting judgments of public interest, daily lists, speeches by judges, reports from the courts.
Rustie @rustie.bsky.social Sewer socialist technocrat.
Infrastructure. Psephology. Shitposting.
Long-suffering Blues fan. 🏳️🌈 but bad at it. He/him. Not a pigeon.
Pōneke/Wellington, Ao/NZ
Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social Old, tired intersectional social democrat and feminist. She/her. Not actively seeking followers but you can follow if you want. I don't repost anything without alt-text.
Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University.
Melonie @quioui.bsky.social Many interests... politics - communication - education - writer and reader - NZer in Canada - she/her/they/them
Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social Retired psychiatrist, Masters degree in bioethics and health law. Socialism means looking after one another. Fabric artist, sailor, occasional gardener, granny of two.
Amerikkka is an undemocratic warmonger.
🇸🇩 🇺🇦
Toitū te Tiriti.
E waka eke noa.
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
autonomynews.co
TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social Trans-led non-profit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people. Over 200 member organisations across 50 countries in Europe & Central Asia 🏳️⚧️
Co-funded by the EU
https://linktr.ee/tgeuorg
Pippa Coom @pippacoom.bsky.social Governance | Strategic Advice | Campaigns
Former Auckland Councillor
Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social I’m a queer, autistic, disabled, elder Millenial Pākehā from Aotearoa New Zealand. I read 200+ books a year, play World of Warcraft, and spend way too much time solving genealogy mysteries.
“The Earth is our mother / we must take care of her.”
FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social Nothing but #fintwitter headlines to get you started on blue sky.
Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Fast and reliable results and analysis for elections at every level, from federal to local. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/decisiondeskhq
Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social 🇳🇿 Aotearoa New Zealand
She/her. Web developer. A house with seven rescue animals. Book lover.
Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social Japan/World/Food/Migration historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Still masking. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
Hornburger @hornburger.bsky.social Aotearoa. Lazy lout, work in liquor so will post drinks. Always a hairs breath away from a bad decision. Horny for spring, life, delicious food and you. 
Sobekhotep 🐊 @sobekhotep97.bsky.social Egyptophile 𓅒 | Sith Lord 👿 | Zoologist, Lover of snakes & other reptiles 🐍 | Bibliophile 📚 | Horse-rider 🏇| Anti-fascist | He/They |🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🇮🇹|
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 || Abolish ICE || Trans rights are human rights || Fix your hearts or die ||
Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social 🧬 Genomics PhD & science communicator
🧑🔬 Founder of @beyondxandy.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive humanist feminist
🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad
🏠 Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
📩 linktr.ee/scottsantens
PaulC @argestes.bsky.social 🇳🇿
schrödinger's dove @eggsbox.bsky.social ·𐑩𐑥𐑭𐑤𐑾/·𐑥𐑨𐑤𐑟 || Amalia/Mals (she/her). ✡️,♿.🔞. Pōneke.
pfp & banner @interkosart.bsky.social
Binkenstein @binkenstein.bsky.social Cats
Spreadsheets
Grumpy
Blitz🔞 @staticblitz.bsky.social 31 y/o AnCom Autistic Trans furry freak from Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Place for my art, as well as my very cool & correct opinions :)
there will be kink talk, mental health & politics 👻 ooOOo!
NSFW & SFW.
🔞18+ only!🔞
❌NO bigots, NFT, AI, incest ❌
Steph 🍉🇵🇸🕊🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @steph-tepania.bsky.social She/Her
Whanga-Nui-a-Tara, beer, politics, cats
I really like potato
Peter @cloudynetwork.bsky.social 🇬🇧 in NZ 🇳🇿. Random commentary on politics and econ. Mostly econ. Used to tweet about tech in the distant past.
Chris Sims @cwasims.bsky.social Economics Ph.D. student at Northwestern, studying the economic history of Europe. Originally from Vancouver, BC. https://sites.google.com/view/cwasims
GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social Toitū Te Tiriti
Toitū Te Taiao
Down with the Atlas Network-driven, clown car coalition!
PeteO @pete0.bsky.social Old. lost, confused. Here for the cat pictures
Penny @abstractslug.bsky.social She/Her. Queer. Luddite (complimentary)
. Dumb bitch.
Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social Elder software engineer with a garden. Local-vore. Civil Disobedience Kiwi. He kai kei aku ringaringa. Reduce. Reuse. Repair. Boycott the supermarkets.
T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social Kia ora
#Solarpunk / #Hopepunk/ #NeoLuddite / #Astrophotographer
#ClimateEmergency / often #nzpol #auspol posting
Those who build walls are their own prisoners #leguin posting
Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social Councillor for Wharangi Ward, Te Kaunihera o Pōneke. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.
Tumeke Studio @tumekestudio.bsky.social Tumeke Studio is a Māori owned, independent R&D-driven game and systems studio building the tools and stories of tomorrow.
https://www.tumekestudio.com
Keri Hēnare @kerihenare.com 
2covet @2covet.bsky.social NZ museums and heritage aficionado, shoe fancier, curator baiter, demure chocoholic, and all-round-caffeine fiend. Personal views; Not those of my employer.
Toby @theogtzc.bsky.social A damned and luxurious mountain goat.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
🇵🇸 Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa 🍉 Ōtautahi Christchurch Branch
For events around the motu https://www.psna.nz/events
Wrath of Fox ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈 @wrath-of-fox.bsky.social Toitu te Tiriti - support LGBTTQAI++ and specifically Trans folk - zealous bike rider - gardener - looking after my practicing adults and my community - Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
she/her/ia
Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social PhD need to thaw the brain exercise the pen cook dinner do the laundry & CLEAN THE TOILET (that’s a metaphor)
Kids gone now
Oldies too 😢 damn Covid 😞😷
PlanetNerd Shrink
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿
(same name on the dead bird and extinct elephant)
Melanie Low @melanielow.bsky.social Toitū Te Tiriti and Free Palestine. She/her
@besty13.bsky.social @besty13.bsky.social Conservationist / nature lover. Regenerative small farm. Coastal kayaking, pottery and painting. Love a good book, film and nordic noir. Progressive politics. Climate watcher. Stop the genocide. Support Ukraine. Proud kiwi. Simple life. 
Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social Middle-aged husband, dad, punk. Ed-tech guy. Tired. Grumpy. Moar coffee? Des liens et contenu parfois en français. (it's a WIP) Montréalais.
Union? Forever.
He/Him/accomplice/problem. Free Palestine.
Use your head. Be aware. Give a fuck.
Yvette Taylor @yvettect.bsky.social 
Undupably @undupable.bsky.social Anti-disinformation and conspiracy theories in Aotearoa New Zealand. Don't be duped.
Theocracidal🍝🇳🇿 @theocracidal.bsky.social Dad was a 2NZEF POW ANTIFA AF. Noodle did NOT fall far from the colander. Use your noddle, rebuke C'thulhu. Vote like the most vulnerable people's lives depend on it.
📗Dildo Baggins 🍏 (he / him) @imflyingsolo.bsky.social 🥝 left-leaning. Green💚🟩📗🟢🍏
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
@pollysoundsgood.bsky.social @pollysoundsgood.bsky.social Below-the-line film industry grunt.
Tangata Tiriti by birth, American by circumstance.
Annoying loudmouth (so I'm told).
Woke as fuck.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social Full time mama, part time theatre & improv
she/her/cis/bi/pākehā
Archie @archietype.bsky.social Community organiser.
Printmaker.
Clown.
Neuro + gender nonconforming.
Tangata Tiriti of Irish, Scottish, English + West Indies African descent living on Ngāi Tūāhuriri land in Aotearoa.
Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social Sci tech person.
TTRPG player.
“Fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.” ~ Iain M. Banks
Ace, ally, Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti.
Toitū te Tiriti
She/Her
Don't do DMs
#AoNZ
LINCARD1000 @lincard1000.bsky.social I ate all the pies. ngai Aotearoa ahau. Filthy SJW and unrepentant lefty, greeny, hobbyist sci-fi writer, non-heterosexual 😝🏳️🌈 he/him, 18+
james @roleplayingjames.net I'm on Blue Sky now.
normal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social I have a PhD in maths. I don't know what any of this shit is and I'm fucking scared. SF6 cfn: normal-wife
Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social Award-winning romance author writing happily ever afters about difficult people with complicated lives. SAG-AFTRA. Figure skater. Former journalist/media analyst. They/them.
Whaea K @whaeak.bsky.social Childless cat lady, compulsive reader, Steampunker, Swiftie, Māori urbanist, auntie, anti-TERF feminist, Buddhist. Officially Old & fine with that. Te Atiawa/Taranaki, now living in the beautiful Ngāti Kahungunu rohe. Toitū te Tiriti!
DoktorHobo (Toitū Te Tiriti) @doktorhobo.bsky.social "He/Him."
Tangata Tiriti.
Not sure how to put this: I am a side account from somebody dealing with harassment. Happy to clarify in DMs?
Hera-nui-te-Pō 👑 @herapls.bsky.social Noted chaos tulpa and epidermis nerdis
Ngāti Maniapoto | Pākehā
Wear your fuckin sunscreen
Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social Kāi Tahu » Climate Change » Indigenous & Disability Rights » Papatūānuku » President Disabled Persons Assembly » Impact Director at Activate Agency » RTs and Follows =\= agreement etc » #Mask4YourMates !
Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social Pōneke based Pākehā.
#NZPol
Humanist. We can make everyone’s lives better with deliberate choices.
Toitū Te Tiriti.
This is the worst government ever.
⚠️ Bad fucking language warning.
Gil Greening @gilgreen.bsky.social retired scientist, kiwi in Oz - Ngunnawal Country, avatar from Iceland, aurora australis from sister in Dunedin. #nzpol Vaxxed to the max. Greenie moll.
Mostly just a lazy reposter.
Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social Te Atiawa. Lefty. Some other stuff too. No nazis ever. no DMs
NZ Political Parties News (unofficial) @nzpol.nzcow.com News fetched from official websites. Unofficial account, unaffiliated with any Parties. By @nzcow.com. Visit https://bsky.app/starter-pack/nzcow.com/3lcfdqn57rk2x for more interesting bots!
@ergomoss.bsky.social @ergomoss.bsky.social 
The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social Aotearoa based. Mostly bonsai with my coffee is all I seek.
Started Bonsai 2020 = new to it. Also into aviation/space/science/geopolitics/wildlife/helpful tech stuff.
Bonsai feed
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sw2dek7u74jxlriba65utp4d/feed/aaaiycpqcyp4u
Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social Milwaukeean by birth, Kiwi by choice, progressive always. Believer in the power of the editorial cartoon. I used to chef. Now I hang out with my wife, play punk rock guitar, umpire New Zealand baseball, and play with my deaf dog.
Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social former child (derogatory)
current adult (denunciatory)
future ghost (complimentary)
Trans ark @transark93.bsky.social To build capacity, provide technical support and advocate to strengthen Transgender refugees in south Sudan gorom refugee camp🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Peter Asquith @wasabicube.com Arbitrary Function Generator (🏴→🏴→🇳🇿)
Aotearoa
he/him
https://wasabicube.com
tasmin 🔸 @tasmin.bsky.social overall normal guy / they:them
A.J. Ponder @ponderbooks.com Author at https://ponderbooks.com
Poet. Builder of worlds. Player of games.
He, she, they. 
DEMOCRACY REQUIRES COURAGE RESIST - PROTEST - MOBILIZE - FIGHT @thebfloyd99.bsky.social EpsteinPEDO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo Protest https://www.fiftyfifty.one Krasnov PEDO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCMh7V7Y700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvjkJXaIJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCX9hMw55pE Congr: 202-225-2777
Nick HLG @nickhlg.bsky.social He Hākoro | Toa Rangatira | Kaipūkaha Rorohiko | Tauiwi ahau. I am a father | husband | computer engineer | immigrant. Working on learning Kāi Tahu Mita for my whānau.
Katie Pai @katiepaiau.bsky.social Always trying to be more professional at work. Tangata Tiriti wahine in a Ngāti Mahuta bubble #landback. Self-confessed science nerd. Only quiet when reading.
Anja Ravine 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @anjaravine.bsky.social Willy wagtail aficianado; Rehabilitated tweexter
Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social Pakeha man from Aotearoa New Zealand. Community, tech, cities, health systems, politics, disability, design, culture, wit, whimsy..