Vancouver Island Local History Society @vilocalhistory.bsky.social We support history work that is inclusive, diverse, and representative of communities in the past and present 🌲 VILocalHistory.ca
🛤️ Travelling exhibit on now: TheGreatLandGrab.ca
Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social Latest: Empties (McGill-Queen's UP)
Die Workbook | Ruin | Unbecoming | Their Queer Tenderness | On High | Super, Natural
Poet Laureate of Nanaimo :)
neilsurkan.com
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
a square house @asquarehouse.bsky.social literature, art, ephemera, etc.
📚poetry press + distro
📍snuneymuxw
asquarehouse.ca
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
VIU Department of English @viuenglish.bsky.social Latest from the English Department at Vancouver Island University. Visit us at https://ah.viu.ca/english
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
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Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of 2SLGBTQIA+ & BIPOC stories and more. Literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books 📚🏳️🌈
arsenalpulp.com
Massy Books @massybooks.bsky.social Nêhiyaw-Métis woman-owned bookstore on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ territory (YVR). BC Green Business Certified; Rick Hansen Certified; Voted 2023 & 2025 Best Bookstore (Georgia Straight)🥇
https://linktr.ee/MassyBooks
James Gifford @giffordjames.bsky.social Professor & Director @FDUP.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful
I'll be a lot more active at @GiffordJames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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
BC Civil Liberties Association @bccla.bsky.social Equality. Liberty. Freedom. Justice. Fighting for civil liberties and human rights since 1962 through Litigation, Law Reform & Public Legal Education.
bccla.org/donate
James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger
Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage
Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast
Official site: http://jameskennedyofficial.com
SSOTD @ssotd.bsky.social Posting sad songs daily. I love music that makes me feel something. I hope you enjoy
Lisa Marie Barron for Nanaimo-Ladysmith @lisamariebarron.bsky.social NDP Federal Candidate for Nanaimo Ladysmith 🇨🇦. Served as MP 2021-2025.
Dano Loves Music @danolovesmusic.bsky.social I’m a music nerd posting nearly every Hot 100 hit (plus some UK) from 1955 on in alphabetical order, plus #AlbumADay. #beatles #GenX #teacher #powerpop #Sounders #Everton #MLS
https://www.youtube.com/@danotalksmusic
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social Wear Your Voice
➖Every Purchase Aids Humans In Need
➖$4.1M Donated To Humanitarian Causes
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Bryan Crockett 🇨🇦 @bryancrockett.bsky.social He/him · Métis · @westcat.ca | Paralegal, ex–Parliament Hill staffer, other things too probably idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✉️ bryan.crockett@westcat.ca
📍 BC, Canada
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Diego Cambiaso 🏳️🌈 @diegocambiaso.bsky.social Tech journalist, UX and soft dev, passionate about music, books, movies, dogs, democracy, design, and science. Also, a vinyl record collector, avid traveler, and photographer.
https://pixelcoblog.com
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EN - ES - IT
Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social Canada's leading voice of the independent left since 1963 | https://canadiandimension.com
Youth Observer @youthobserver.com We are a global media organization created for the youth, by the youth. We amplify fresh voices, explore issues that matter, and deliver bold, authentic perspectives on culture, politics, & society.
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Olivia Atwater @oliviaatwater.com Whimsical historical fantasy author and satirist. Wary of faeries and fond of pineapples. Author of Half a Soul. Wife of Nicholas Atwater.🇨🇦
https://oliviaatwater.com
https://patreon.com/atwater_authors
rep: Christabel McKinley @ David Higham
Meg Fyfe Watkins @megwithintention.bsky.social Yoga Lifer ✨ Obsessive Planner ✨ ADHD Navigator
🧘🏻♀️ Founder of Kind Society | Non-Profit Yoga Collective
📍 Vancouver Island, Canada
DJ Scotty Rock @scottsteuck.bsky.social Court reporter by day, and vinyl, nature, and food lover the rest of the time. Gen X. Central Wisconsin. Handle is from my days deejaying at the local bar, which are long over.
Asiya @asiyamiya.bsky.social "Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral."
— Edward Said
Sumūd ✊🏻
Photograph by Man Ray
Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social Professor of comic books & Canadian Literature at University of Winnipeg. Writing about refugee & migrant comics, architectural imagination in comics, Canadian auto/bio.
Stereogum @stereogum.com 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉’𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌
→ stereogum.com
Merch: http://shop.stereogum.com
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
CHLY 101.7FM @chly.ca #Nonprofit #media in #Nanaimo. Affiliated with Vancouver Island University via students. Broadcasting from the traditional territory of the #Snuneymuxw.
Fund our Nonprofit Newsroom Project today for more local journalism! chly.ca/donate
David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social Husband and father of three. Leader of the BC NDP. MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey. Let's Build B.C. strong, together. 🇨🇦
Mick Sweetman @micksweetman.bsky.social Photographer in Nanaimo, British Columbia / Snuneymuxw Treaty territory.
Saul Williams @saulwilliams.bsky.social Poet
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Not My Favourite @kasiar.bsky.social Kasia R
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Jeff Colley @jvcolley.bsky.social Music. Places. Books. Notes. PNW. #AlwaysGo
jesslyn delia @jlyndelia.bsky.social writer • luddite • cut & paste
nanaimo BC 🪺
blog + stuff: jesslyndelia.com
poetry press + distro: @asquarehouse.bsky.social
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social Ideas with appointments for food. 
Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social Journalist. Entrepreneur. Kwantlen FN, Nooksack Tribe. rjago.substack.com / knowledgekeepr.ca
Yvonne Prinz @yprinz.bsky.social Head cook, Control freak, Canadian, Californian, Amoeba Music Owner, Stoner, Junk Collector.
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social Kitchen witch, sparkle mind & aging whore. Wrote SUB ROSA, SODOM ROAD EXIT and other queer weird books. New poetry collection BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL Spring 2025.
https://arsenalpulp.com/Contributors/D/Dawn-Amber
Historyhitsuk @historyhitsuk.bsky.social On This Day: Music & History”
Daily highlights of past UK news stories paired with deep-cut tracks from the charts of the time. Relive the moments where headlines and hits intersected
The Nanaimo Beacon @handle.invalid https://nanaimobeacon.com/
The Mid-Island's Most Reliable Source of News
Editor: Nathan Poe
это сработало. они думают, что я один из них. отправь водку.
🤬 COMPLAINTS? Call us at (248) 434-5508
#nanaimo #bcpoli #victoria
(It’s satire, Janice.)
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
The Vinyl Vault 🎸🎤🎧🎵🥁 @thevinylvault.bsky.social 🎵 The Vinyl Vault Show 🎵
4 friends.Iconic albums.Heated debates. Pure nostalgia.
From the 80s to the 00s, we dive into the greatest albums, sharing timeless classics and our opinions
🎧 Catch all our episodes on MixCloud:
👉 mixcloud.com/LateLateProductions/
Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
@eritskes.bsky.social @eritskes.bsky.social Writer, editor, taker of pictures. Dad of four.
Living on Unceded Quw'utsun lands (Vancouver Island).
Bulletproof Soul @bulletproofsoul.bsky.social Music Group, Art Collective & Online Publication for the soul of the culture. 🌹
www.bulletproofsoul.art
Jollypike @mad1vinyl.bsky.social An ant on an infinite mountain, peering into the mists of time looking for enlightenment. May be slightly vinyl mad! 🤪
IDLES @idlesband.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/idlesband
Sound Eaters @soundeaters.bsky.social 🎶 Rock music lovers & cake artists from 🇨🇵
🤘 Celebrating our fav tunes & albums
🍰 Turning bands into cakes
https://sound-eaters.com/
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com The most trusted voice in music
pitchfork.com
Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social The world's leading music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed music fans: https://disc.gs/Bluesky
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
Chris Tonelli @cjtonelli.bsky.social Musicologist, Soundsinger, from Sudbury Canada through San Diego, St John's, Wellington and a few other spots to Groningen
WAXLYRICALVINYL @waxlyricalvinyl.bsky.social Phil he/him
Music Lover in Australia
Eye On Palestine @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social Ran by the WSU4P team | instagram.com/wsu4p
🇵🇸 Spreading the message of Eye on Palestine on BlueSky
Sara K | سارة 🇵🇸 @sarakishawi.bsky.social Free Palestine ✌🏼
KJ Reed @kjreed.bsky.social they/them. Gender Studies prof 🧑🏻🏫, academic librarian 💻, scuba diver 🐙, nature nerd 🌲, queer and non-binary 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, 🍉 solidarity. I research surveillance and privacy in the lives of trans, nonbinary, and 2S youth.
Kelly B @kellyblack.ca Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Opinions mine etc. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy Welcome! I am: Dad, Husband, Tech.
Former #PortAlberni City Council.
Dual 🇨🇦🇪🇸. Speak English, French and Spanish in descending order. Climate and […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Mark Beatrice Kaethler (they/iel) @mbkaethler.bsky.social Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London; Book Review Editor for Early Theatre; Acting President of Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance.
Simon Horrocks @simonhorrocks.bsky.social ex Twitter lover (ex X)
Paul Barrett @paulbarrett1.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and DH at the University of Guelph
colin clark @profcolinclark.bsky.social associate dean (r&i)+ prof of sociology & social policy @ UWS. interested in mobility, borders, identity, roma rights. fond of vinyl, cassettes, coffee, cats, swimming, autumn. glasgow.📍
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hectorlistensto🎧 @hectorlistensto.bsky.social 💿 Sharing my physical media collection
🎧 Pop music on vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and more!
🎤 Concert lover
📍 Las Vegas
📧hectorlistensto@gmail.com
Jens Nelson @jensnelson.bsky.social The soundtrack to my boring life.
Spinning the existential vertigo away…
One record at a time.
Dylan nerd: Nothing Is Revealed podcast
Dr Veronica Skrimsjö @veronicasvinyl.bsky.social 🖤 PhD in vinyl & record collecting
☕ Published author
☁️ Analysis of the vinyl revival
🎛️ Co-chair of SMPR
Sheena Beena @sheebellax2.bsky.social Urban Haíɫzaqv on Vancouver Island. I should be writing but I’m watching hockey. 🇨🇦👩🏻💻📚🏒🥅🌊🌲🦉
Craig Taylor @craigdtaylor.bsky.social 
Susan Juby @susanjuby.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Writer, professor, devoted aunt, indulgent dog owner, oil painting enthusiast.
My newest book is called Contemplation of a Crime. Available this May.
strombo.bsky.social @strombo.bsky.social The Prime Mixister. The Pho Pharaoh
Writer. Director. Producer. Host. Wolf
World Food Programme Ambassador
Entrepreneur in food &agronomy 🇨🇦