University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka @universityofotago.bsky.social 
Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social Human Rights Defender / Founder of Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social || he/him || Proud alumnus of London Business School || ❤️Food & Wine || Trans rights are human rights || paul@rightsaotearoa.nz
Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social She/Her. Pākehā Mum, poet, teacher, tangata Tiriti, Planet Earth lover-protector. Adorer of dogs, birds & wormfarms. Chloe, Marama & Hana for PMs. Born @
323ppm carbon dioxide. Mostly hopeful. Might be 5-7 minutes late.
https://gannetink.home.blog
Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social Left leaning Kiwi in Australia watching the world. If being woke means caring about people then I’ll wear that as a badge of honour #BHN #auspol #nzpol #NZpolitics #USPolitics #ukpol #Naarm #Melbourne #MelbourneWeather☀️🌧️⛈️💨🥝🦜🐼🐴🐶😻🇳🇿🇦🇺🦘
Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat.
She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/
Rob Suisted, Pro-Photographer, NZ @robsuisted.bsky.social 📷 Professional commercial & nature photographer, expeditions, small farmer, dad, NZ. ☕️ & 👀 http://naturespic.co.nz I http://RobSuistedonCanvas.co.nz | http://storyportraits.nz | http://robsuistedphotography.co.nz | https://www.nzgeo.com/?s=Rob+Suisted 🌳
Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social Art / nature / connection / sniping at the patriarchy / 🇳🇿 #kikorangi
Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
Niall Gardens @niallgardens.bsky.social 🌿Gardening creator, writer and presenter
🌸Sometimes seen on TV
🏆Alan Titchmarsh New Talent of the Year ‘22 winner
📹My channel: https://www.youtube.com/niallgardens
Wren @justmewrenb.bsky.social Teacher, writer, 🏳️🌈queer af🏳️⚧️. Dad joke aficionado. Ask me my word of the day.
Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social Indignant over the media's indignation. Mostly focused on New Zealand.
"The media should report true things in proportion to their importance" – Jamison Foser
www.dailyindignation.com
Anna 👩🏼🌾 @waiitiridge.bsky.social tiny house - big garden 🏡 slow living offgrid 🍉 gardening 🌱 sewing 🧵 baking 🥖 solarpunk 🔆
Living as a hermit on a hill is nice, but community building is better 💚
Bauhausandmies 🏳️🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social I'm a proud, GenX queer. I'm woke, I’m anti-fascist. I will not listen to racists, TERFs or anti-vaxxers. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. LGBTQIA++ bandit. Tangata Tiriti.
Toitū Te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤
MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social Anti-patriarchy, Anti-white supremacy, Atheist, Bi, Feminist, GreyAce, Humanist, Nonbinary woman, Science-lover.
Taranaki, Te Atiawa, Nga Ruahine. Pakeha.
Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social Jewish. Deputy Editor of Jewish News. Resh Galuta of Bluesky. Regular entrant on the NY Times Bestseller List of Unpublished Books. All opinions are mine.
Rory #ToitūTeTiriti @nightwyrm.xyz Gen-X curmudgeon • Chaotic Good Datamancer
Pākehā nō Pōneke, ngai Aotearoa ahau • Tangata Tiriti
Cis/he/him/ia
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social Aotearoa NZ. Pākehā. Toitū Te Tiriti
#Queer (they/them) 😷
❤️ #Books Music
I block followers without posts 🧱⚠️
Please don't follow me unless you use Alt Text on images 🧱⚠️
https://manningkrull.com/digital-philosophy/alt-text-101-for-bluesky/
Femme Noir @djfemmenoir.bsky.social I think I DJ sometimes
Otherwise I’m being unserious
Let’s laugh together 🥰
Max Rashbrooke @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social Senior research fellow (adjunct), Victoria University. Words at the Post, Spinoff, Guardian. @TEDTalks '3 Ways to Upgrade Democracy'. Author on tackling economic inequality and creating democratic renewal. Mostly broadcasting here.
Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social Pakeha man from Aotearoa New Zealand. Community, tech, cities, health systems, politics, disability, design, culture, wit, whimsy..
nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social 
David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social TV Writer - Person of Interest, Law & Order, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, etc. Proud WGA Member. Pro-Democracy. Anti-Evil.- A Aaron Incognito @aaronincognito.bsky.social
Charlie Martin @dbtcharlie.bsky.social Pro-Democracy, Anti-Fascist, and Pro-Live Music
Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social 🇵🇸 🍉💚Random green voting leftie views on New Zealand and world events from an anti-genocide rabbit ( fascists & fascist apologists get blocked)
Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Aucklander. Oppose Ford Rangers.
Very Woke: Concerned for Democracy Everywhere! @dogrescuer.bsky.social Dog Rescuer, Coffee Fanatic, Political Junkie
Love ALL Animals, Nature, & Mother Earth
Protect Democracy & Liberalism
Fight against fascism, racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. Joined B'sky 12Nov24
Read my posts: might need a Depends
Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social Mainer by choice
CinnamonGirl 🇪🇺 @zimtmaedchen.bsky.social Fabric manipulator. GenAI despiser. Renaissance woman. Early Modern girl. Enthusiastic dilettante. Mom. Reader. Listener. PhD. AuDHD. Gaimanite. Baker. Maker. Fan. It's all a blur.
She/her.
Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social Cities, transport and economic and climate transitions
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. Toitū Te Tiriti. 323ppm
https://paullecomtephoto.nz
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social New Zealand's liberal blog.
@norightturnnz@mastodon.social
That PGP key expired a long time ago
P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social Former Mayor. Global Greenie. Political reckons etc etc
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Liz Barry @lizbnz.bsky.social Proud lefty dog lover in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Fighting disinformation, racism and bigotry.
Semi retired broadcaster who narrates audio books and plays piano.
And I'm proudly Woke!
#resisttrump
#onetermgovernment
#toitutetiriti
#nzpol
#bhn
Andrew W (aw@mastodon.nz, aw_nz@twitter.com) @awnz.bsky.social IT sys eng. Tweets on transport/infra/IT/politics
Blended family🇳🇿🏴🇵🇱🇵🇫🇰🇷
(he/him)
nat ✨️ screaming ✨️ @handle.invalid nat/natty ✨ 28 ✨ she/they ✨ bisexual ✨ aotearoa ✨ ♐ ✨
baby just call me lava because I'm hot, thick and move slowly
I make art sometimes
Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social Mind of Sid James in Jenny Agutter's body. Descended from Frenchified Vikings. Gen X. Former Record Shop Snoot. Former Egyptian Archaeologist. Olympic Snarkaeologist. English. Tangata Tiriti. She/they. 🏳️🌈
Karma Jingpa @karmajingpa.bsky.social Social scientist, parent, spinner of wool, lover of bikes and rivers. She/they. Deaf and proud. Uninvited settler on sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory.
Jojo @kiwiaussiejo.bsky.social An Aussie born Kiwi who just wants a peaceful life without rabid people.
Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social AKA Kirsten Vibeke. Bikes and birds, printmaking and design and running downhill with my Blue Heeler pup. I am as 🇳🇿 as I am 🇳🇱. Designer, creative pixel pusher. Love making a map. Have made a few maps. 🗺️
Emir Hodžić @xovich.bsky.social partner, father, artist, unionist, resettled genocide survivor, tangata tiriti, formerly Tāmaki Makaurau, now Ōtepoti
Irisia (Holly) 🌈🏳️⚧️ @irisia.bsky.social Iris/Iri/Iry/Holly ~ 24 ~ 🏳️⚧️🇷🇺 she/her/fae, HRT: 12/25/25 ~ not good enough outside, brave and strong inside
https://linktr.ee/iamirisia
Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social mrjeffhowell.substack.com
Kirikiriroa. Gully adjacent. Airbnb valet. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Political opinionator.
My other car is a canal boat.
𓆉 A Study of Resistance 𓆉 @colourmefiji.bsky.social Optimistic Indigenous Fijian artist-curator. Dreamtime n Recovery. Mother of Girl Child & Vunilagi Vou. Suva-born Tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa.
Tāne @kawaduh.bsky.social 27 year old teenage dirtbag.
Aotearoa
he/him
Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social Skeptic! Struggling for eternity against the never ending torrent of misinformation. #Birman #Horror #sci-fi #books #politics 🇳🇿
Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social "This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Brian Dixon 🌿🌐🎶 #ClimateAction 🔆 #ClimateJustice ☮️ @brianboru.bsky.social Advocating for Te Taiao/environment & social justice. Home places are Ōtepoti Otago & Kuaotunu, Coromandel Peninsula in Aotearoa. Climate Professional, helping with #ClimateAction (community to international). There's #noPlanetB
~Born on a Friday.
Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social Freelance Wikipedian, fan of flightless birds, invented the platypus custard joke that Ricky Gervais stole. Ōtautahi, Dr Him.
0000-0003-1183-2550, Q56458901
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
Ira @ira.bailey.nz Building coshop.nz, a community-centered food platform.
Things I repost:
- Food Systems
- Art I like
- Weird Cryptography
- Liberatory Tech
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A-eO8zapoeySJJAWhLwVOxeiP6oY8VgfsdXSS2RXLRIr#did:plc:iqk7tmzyrrczk7rnhqds63l3
Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social Aging, hermit-prone, art inclined, left wing, climate panicked,animal lover 😊😮💨🌳🙏 #Kikorangi #ToitūTeTiriti
Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social Maths Edu | Speaker | Author http://amzn.to/2JmoTFv | Doctor (not the save your life kind, just the useless philosophising kind.)
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
@iv-coffee-stat @iv-coffee-stat.bsky.social RN in Primary Health. Vaccinator. Atheist.
Lover of good coffee and good grammar. Not averse to swearing.
Te-Whanganui-a-Tara
Beans @geenerneener.bsky.social ADHD gremlin
Too short to pedal a party bike
Only here for the shitposts ✨
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com Husband | Dad | Designer | California Native | Lifelong Dem | Strategist
JD is on the case 🕵♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social "Yes, mon ami, there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!"~Hercule Poirot
Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten & #Cats of course
Avi/banner:The Sheep Detectives
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library.
Gam zu l'tova.
Aliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social Advocate, Educator
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists
Currently researching climate disinformation in alt-media
But I seem to mostly post about movies
Newsletter: feijoadispatch.nz
buy me a coffee http://ko-fi.com/byroncclark
Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social scots. telly writer/director he/him/his
first show: "the rockford files" 1994
last show: "mobland" 2025
next show: "slow horses" 2026
i'm against ai owned by billionaires.
i purge my posts but meant what i said.
a: hobo
b: chimp wi' a megaphone (getty)
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
deb te kawa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social Ngāti Porou | Aotearoa | Political Theory | Public Administration | Kua tata oti taku tohu kairangi
Aileen Ludlow @kiwalba.bsky.social Avid Gardner, tramper, previous competitive sailor (I'll find time one day) and medical oncologist
Kevin Weaver (he/him) @kevinweav2003.bsky.social I may have been radicalised by basic decency, and a belief in social justice for all.
Husband, dad to two great boys, socialist, maths, music, football, books, computing, skiing, kayaking, tai chi, cycling, sci-fi, ...
Geraldine, New Zealand
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social Lecturer in public policy, STS sociologist, tangata tiriti, feminist, geek, coffee-addict, lesbian, urbanist, electric motorcyclist, ex-Chicago, half Dutch, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her 🇳🇿🇳🇱
https://about.me/sarahhendricabickerton/
Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.
Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social IT by day, Improv Comedy by night. Lover of e-bikes, good food and wine, family and Aotearoa New Zealand. 
𝕽𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓 🖤🏳️⚧️🌹 @softgoth.bsky.social aka @asoftgoth
18+ 🖤 bbw tgirl of ur dreams (nightmares)🖤 “booty the size of texas” -Vogue • 'Rhea Ripples' • sapphic • vampy • body positive • leftist • top 11% • She/Her
https://linktr.ee/asoftgoth
Heemi @heemikh.bsky.social Tūhoe, Pōneke Wellington NZ
Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network Neurosurgeon, among other things. Views, of course, are my own. Be Excellent To Each Other. He/Him.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFGRCu0AAAAJ&hl=en Brookfield/Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social Read on for mid-level shit posts, mediocre sarcasm, and exaggerated hyperbole.
Bacon wrapped in an enigma.
🇳🇿 Based in Kirikiriroa Aotearoa 🇳🇿
🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️🤍🖤
Jane @janerefreshed.bsky.social She/her Aotearoa NZ #kikorangi. Toitū Te Tiriti, Climate Justice 💚 We are all made of star dust✨️ #BlackLivesMatter #IndigenousLivesMatter #LGBTQIA+🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #DisabledPeopleAreMyWhānau LovingKindness #FreePalestine🇵🇸 #Decolonisation Reject Capitalism
David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social Software developer, family man, Playstation junkie, and headbanger since ages ago. Amateur guitar torturer. The only thing more progressive than my politics is my music taste. Gluten is my kryptonite. He/him.
Wendy Andresen @wendywings.bsky.social Here we go again I guess.New site,same
me. Blurry actress.
Good egg according to the NZ Herald. Museum things on occasion.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wendywings0
New Zealand.
Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social We are a group based in Pōneke, Aotearoa who are standing up against fascism and disinformation.
https://linktr.ee/antifascistponeke
Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social Freelance writer & editor, full-time silly sausage. Books, bikes, better places, beastly puns. She/ her/ the cats’ mother. 😽😈🏳️⚧️✊
Aspirational af. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau aka New Auck City. Always starting something; feel free to pick up where I leave off.
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Alex @banksybeeboo.bsky.social queer, mentally ill, terrified, baffled, in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She/her.
Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social Teacher. Karaoke queen. Herder of cats. Politics junkie from the left. Big #ChiefsMana fan. Independently owned and I garden on warm sunny days. If you believe in free quality public education, LIKE Save Our Schools NZ on Facebook.
Cath Jackson @cathnz.bsky.social Quiet life in coastal Aotearoa New Zealand. Equity, empathy and compassion. Pro-cat. #pwME
Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
Catherine @otepotikate.bsky.social E-bike convert. Lover of all things family. On the other side as @MrsMacNZ
Andrew R _ @andrewr4.bsky.social Often irreverent. Moving further left as I age. He/Him.
Member of BlueSky Bubble of Woke Lefties
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland /Aotearoa / NZ
Nancy Dollar @nancydollar.bsky.social Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon - Beautiful Boy 1980).
I love Aotearoa.
God Defend Te Tiriti!
Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social Councillor for Wharangi Ward, Te Kaunihera o Pōneke. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.
KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿