Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
Red @randomredhuman.bsky.social "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."-- Dom Hélder Câmara
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
UCT Law Faculty @uctlaw.bsky.social This is the official account of the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law - sharing information about the law, access to justice, legal debates, the constitution and other key law-focused concerns.
Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social Legal academic at the University of Cape Town - an ethnographer at heart, writing on international criminal law, borders, refugees & migration in central Africa.
ʾIsmāʿīl La خa’ddin @ilagardien.bsky.social "Gently mortals, be discreet."
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Kelly Kropman @kell-krop.bsky.social Public interest and administrative law nerd
Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social JD/PhD. Interdisciplinary sociologist, law & society, transnational gender & sexuality. I research marriage, esp in S Africa. And I organize with colleagues to defend higher ed. Opinions mine not employer's.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949.
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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social Occasional philosopher working on citizenship, displacement, women in philosophy, and other random thoughts that pop into my head
The Philosopher Queens (2020/2027) and The Way Out (2026)
https://rebeccasbuxton.wixsite.com/mysite
Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social 🌍 Daily Human Rights Content 📊⚖️
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
I'm also @steventdennis on the other places. Opinions mine. Email: sdennis17@bloomberg.net
Marianne Thamm @mariannethamm.bsky.social Human, mother, dog lover, legal alien
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social Official account of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Please see our social media policy here: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/P_91153/
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social random messages on an irregular basis
writer | feminist | she/her | PhD | agent:Cath Summerhayes @ Curtis Brown
Gerhard Kemp @gerhardkempicl.bsky.social Professor of Law, UWE Bristol, UK; Institute for Justice & Reconciliation, Cape Town. #internationalcriminallaw 
Mandy Collins @mandycollins.bsky.social Former journalist, current content writer, life coach, author, mother, dog wrangler, reader, tea lover, baker, DIYer, needlewoman, procrastininja. Not always in that order. Depends on the day. www.reddoorink.com and www.mandycollinscoaching.com
Henrietta Rose-Innes @hri.bsky.social Cape Town writer, editor and translator
Henriettaroseinnes.com 
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
Oom Rugby @oomrugby.bsky.social 🇿🇦 A rugby view from South Africa. I tweet a lot about the game but please do not tell my wife , she thinks I am checking the weather app!
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social Occasional editor and writer. Purveyor of half-baked opinions. Intermittently able to make my nieces laugh. (SnoozeInBrief on Twitter)
My blog on usage, editing and suchlike: https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Brett McKay @bmcsport.bsky.social Rugby writer and commentator🏉+🎙️Spreading the 8/9Rugby word on YouTube, podcast & now Substack! (@89Rugby.bsky.social)
Sport Comms & Media. Ex-ABC Sport🏌️golf lover, 📈 spreadsheeter, pie researcher, but still unknown to baristas 😠
Tom McTague @tommctague.bsky.social Editor in Chief of the New Statesman
Barbara Loots @bloots.bsky.social 📚 Bookworm |🍷Wine lover | 🎬 Movie lover | ⚖ Lawyer (Human Rights) | 🎭 Theatre: @theatrescenecpt.bsky.social | 😺 Fur-mom to the #CatsOfDeadwood | 💛 She/Her | 📷 IG: bloots |📍Cape Town, South Africa | 💕 My person: @uncleloo.bsky.social | 🚫 crypto/finance/DMs
Louis Viljoen @uncleloo.bsky.social Playwright & Director
Cape Town, South Africa
Mashudu Modau @mashstartup.bsky.social www.mashstartsup.com
zak @zakareeee.bsky.social 
Social Justice Skitterpunk @thestubbs.bsky.social Union could not bring their dead back home, but they would choke the stars with the living.
(He/Him/His)
amanda strydom @amandas.bsky.social Senior Programme Manager @ Code for Africa
Synthetic media ethics, journalism & info manipulation research
Some cats & some books
Wishful thinker
she/her
Header by Poorly Drawn Lines
RugbyBits @rugbybits.bsky.social 
Quite egregious. @saegregious.bsky.social "Based on our AI agent's analysis of your tweets, you are a politically engaged 30-year-old male activist with a keen interest in international affairs."
the rafferendum @potatotron.bsky.social BLM. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Author in struggle. She/her. spicy white. doesn't understand cryptocurrency. the worst kind of person.
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Larry Fisherman 🧌 @mjninho.bsky.social Ek weet nie wat ons weet en ek is bang om te vra...🇿🇦
Nomad🇿🇦🇨🇦✌️🏳️🌈🧑🍳📚 @cosmopolitanrdw.bsky.social Nomadic Cosmopolitan Afrikaner tannie living, working and studying in Canada. Lover of books, biltong, and afternoon naps. Kept entertained by my GenZ students. I have opinions. Interested in so much more than politics. 🇿🇦🇨🇦
Lerato @lerato.bsky.social Pan-African | Historian | Pomeranian mom |
Formula 1 + #TeamLH 🏁 | own views
Bokang Maragelo @handle.invalid Snr IT Manager | Published Author | Poet 🇿🇦
Graham Love @glove931.bsky.social Like Scottish rugby in the early to mid 2000s, not to be taken too seriously…
Riaan Louw @ringo26.bsky.social I make YouTube videos about rugby.
2023, 2024, 2025 2CGDs winner of Most Valuable Saffa.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RiaanLouw
Sam Larner @samlstandsup.bsky.social Rugby analyst, journalist, coach, but mostly just a fan! Lover of flags and addicted to French rugby, specifically the ProD2. I write for Rugby Pass and Rugby World and dabble in presenting.
Linebreak Rugby @linebreakrugby.bsky.social Dead rugby podcast clinging to a pretence of life
Global supergroup. England (Sav and WJ), France (Fred), Wales (CC) 
Brenden Nel @brendennel.bsky.social SA rugby journalist — 3 decades covering the Springboks. Host of Talking Boks podcast, with Nick Mallett and Gavin Rich. youtube.com/@BrendenNel
Serial traveler, tends to get lost in good music.
Author
EK Rugby Analysis @ekrugby.bsky.social Learning and sharing what I love about rugby
Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social Here on the condition people can be normal about Antoine Dupont
Olwethu @kemangolwethu.bsky.social Philosophy Politics and Economics Student
Gym Broer
Graphic Designer
https://www.instagram.com/kemangolwethu?igsh=bW4xaDY5d3E0ZGlx
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HG Rugby @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social he/him, rugby content creator: stats, videos, podcasts. Positive, friendly interactions only.
Thinasonke @thinasonke.bsky.social Be kind 💕
khayadlanga @khayadlanga.bsky.social What is there to say?
Dan Corder @dancorder.bsky.social The Dan Corder Show 📺🇿🇦 Mondays 9-10pm on eNCA
MvelaseP @mvelasep.bsky.social 
Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor, publisher.
Cape Town. 
Arthur Goldstuck @art2gee.bsky.social Author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to AI, etc). Sunday Times columnist. Publisher of Gadgetza.bsky.social. Founder of World Wide Worx research. Professional speaker. Imbiber of SF, single malt, music, comics. Wits U PhD candidate. Johannesburg. South Africa. 🇿🇦
Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social Former South African print editor now columnist and fumbling podcaster. Ex FT, ex Financial Mail, ex Business Day. Springboks, Tottenham Hotspur 🙈, Real Madrid. Liberal. Homeboy.
Zwelethu @zwelethu.bsky.social 📍Azania to come
Richard Moultrie @richardmoultrie.bsky.social Senior Counsel, Johannesburg Bar
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
@justicemalala.bsky.social @justicemalala.bsky.social 
Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing. 
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Estaleto @estaleto.bsky.social Politics, books, music. Never come across a rabbit hole not worth going down.
"Don't listen to what they say. Go see."
🇿🇦
At various stages home was Syria, Lebanon, India, Yemen, Libya and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Free Palestine.
The Spectator Index @spectatorindexx.bsky.social News, media and data from around the globe. Covering politics, economics, science, tech and sport.
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social Journalist, nouvelle-lettrist, and unionist at The Atlantic. Rubber City -> Bull City. dgraham@theatlantic.com
NYT bestseller THE PROJECT out now: https://smarturl.it/GHz99R
Guido Vittorio Salamdien @rasgrondwerk.bsky.social Pig farmer, Urbino
David Pierce @davidpierce.xyz Editor-at-large at The Verge. I could eat.
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"
Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social Law Prof. Economist.
I do not speak for my employer. RT are not endorsements. Duh.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339527
Mastodon: @lawprofblawg@mstdn.social.
Twitter: @lawprofblawg
@mlungu.bsky.social @mlungu.bsky.social 
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. (All skeets here are my views alone.) Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracy. http://amabhungane.org
OpenUp @openup.org.za We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and helps communities and governments work better, together.
https://openup.org.za
Alex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social Incoming Lecturer at St Andrews in the School of International Relations. PhD from Cornell. Studies land reform, agriculture, colonialism and elections in South Africa and Kenya.
www.dyzenhaus.com
Runette Kruger @runettekruger.bsky.social Distopia.
the Undercommons.
Researching Liberatory SpaceTime.
Autistic.
Charl Blignaut @poptartology.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, poptart, flaming queer. 
Mbekezeli @mbekezeli.bsky.social Digital Comment Creator. Human Rights Lawyer. M&G 200 Young SA 2023. Allround good guy. Words in: @GroundUp_News, @mailandguardian, @SundayTimesZA & @BDliveSA
Jason Brickhill @jason-brickhill.bsky.social Advocate | Academic | constitutional law, human rights, strategic litigation | ed-in-chief @SA-ConLaw.bsky.social
South African Constitutional Law @sa-conlaw.bsky.social Multi-author treatise on South African constitutional law, written and edited by leading academics & practitioners in the field.
Published by Juta Law - available electronically & in loose-leaf: https://juta.co.za/catalogue/south-african-constitutional-l
Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social Legal reporter, Sunday Times. Editor, Advocate.
Sieraaj Ahmed @sieraajahmed.bsky.social #CapeTownBoy. 🇿🇦, 👶🏾, 🏳️🌈, movies, Mariah. Works for junk food, school fees & occasional veggies bc #adoptivedad.
Columbia Journalism MA 2016, Stellenbosch Journalism Honours 2004, UWC BCom 1998.
🇵🇸 ✊🏾
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social Digital policy strategist and creative technologist. Special interest, European digital sovereignty.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
Alastair McAlpine, MD @alastairmca30.bsky.social Pediatric infectious disease physician, author, runner, metal fan. Dislikes Pseudoscience and bigotry. Views ≠ my employer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Prescription: Ice Cream available now! https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Doctors-Journey-Discover-Matters-ebook/dp/B0CY347H4D
Centre for Applied Legal Studies @calsza.bsky.social A centre of the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law and the first human rights organisation in South Africa. CALS has been reshaping justice since 1978
Erin Bates @ermbates.bsky.social Award-winning freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. @carteblanche.co.za anchor and presenter. Shares ≠ endorsements. Views ≠ those of my employers.