Laurel West @laurelwest.bsky.social After 35 years in Asia, mostly with The Economist Group, now in Vancouver batting for the home team with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
Tracebit @tracebit.bsky.social Assume Breach using Security Canaries | https://tracebit.com
Lily Kuo @lilkuo.bsky.social China correspondent for @nytimes. Former Washington Post China bureau chief. Previously @theguardian @quartz
Brett Terpstra 🏴🐈⬛ @ttscoff.bsky.social Blogger, developer, tech writer. On mastodon at @ttscoff@hachyderm.io. https://brettterpstra.com
vac.mid @vacubomb.com pulling out plugs by the cord until i die
hacking music calculators @ intellijel, recording sounds, making sounds, blah blah
poly pan boi he/himbo
https://waitforme.industries
https://slowwild.party
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Even @evenpay.bsky.social Director at Trivium China. Covering agtech, biotech, food security, resources, and trade. South Dakotan. 20 years in Beijing, but not so much anymore.
📍 Bangkok
Playboy @playboy.com Welcome to Playboy's official Bluesky page, and yes, we have articles too. Find us at www.Playboy.com.
Cyd @cyd.social Hi, my name is Cyd! I can help you claw back your data from Big Tech, starting with deleting all your tweets for free. https://cyd.social
Justin McCurry @justinmmccurry.bsky.social Guardian Japan & Korea correspondent. Wolves fan. Author of War on Wheels: Inside Keirin and Japan's Cycling Subculture. 競輪大ファン。 
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social Librarian for pre-modern Chinese Books @KULeuven. Ph.D. in Chinese studies. Gongyang Confucianism, revenge (復讎), Kang Youwei, and video games. First gen, they/them.
Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Yi-Ling Liu @yilingliu95.bsky.social writer & editor covering China | journalist-in-residence
@tarbellcenter | writing a book on the Chinese Internet for
@AAKnopf
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qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social Cities are life! I've written in the Globe and elsewhere about urban issues, politics, housing for 30 years. Mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market. Now aiming to run for Van city council with OneCity francesbulaforcouncil.ca
De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca Interrogate power. Highlight truth. We are a non-profit, journalist-owned co-operative in British Columbia, Canada.
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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social Assistant Prof (Teaching) @UVA 明清文学
Charlottesville, VA
The long and unruly Chinese 17th century
‘21 National Book Award Finalist
scholar poet translator farm boy
Mondo 2000 bot @mondo2000-bot.bsky.social Posts random pages from the print run of Mondo 2000, once an hour.
Fan account - no official endorsement or association.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science, #Rstats enthusiast, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own.
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social Historian. With Michelle Kuo, a newsletter on #Taiwan: http://ampleroad.substack.com
Emily Baum @emilybaum.bsky.social Professor at UC Irvine (China, medicine, health humanities)
Runner/BQer/RRCA run coach
Author, Needled: How Acupuncture Became Alternative (forthcoming, Viking)
Sarah Cox @sarahkcox.bsky.social Environmental journalist & author of "Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction" and "Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro." Biodiversity reporter for The Tyee.
NetAskari @netaskari.bsky.social www.netaskari.online, cyber operations from China, the world and other stuff
Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social Unfrozen caveman political economist. In my day, we didn't have fancy tools like causal identification, but we knew how to ask: “cui bono?"
Former political scientist. Now I do research for an internet thing. The good one, though.
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Washington, DC
Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social Dan. Hobby photographer. Mostly urban decay, graffiti, a vague sense of isolation, graveyards, birds on telegraph poles, or things generally slightly out of place. Posts usually accompanied with a flippant attempt at comedy.
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Adam Brookes @eadbrookes.bsky.social Recovering journalist, dilatory author. 'FRAGILE CARGO: The World War Two Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City'. Also some spy novels. Opinions valid.
Hongshen Zhu @zhuhs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Chinese Politics, bureaucracy, political economy.
BernUnitHK @bernunithk.bsky.social Freelance journalist now based in Vancouver, ex-South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, and ex-CBC Vancouver
Evan Nicoll-Johnson @evnj.bsky.social Narrative, manuscript culture, environment & literature in early medieval China (3rd-8th centuries, or something)
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com cybersecurity weather man. scanning the horizons for cloudy cyber. Expert at nothing except computer rubbish. Anti-ransomware since 2015.
Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation ethics and R&D // plotter of pretty charts
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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social Anchor/correspondent CNN CNNi covering Hong Kong, China & Asia 🎥📝🌏| AAJA | Stanford | Name my momma gave me: 魯可蒂 (and I’m a momma to Ara & Bobo)
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus. 
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social My hobby is taking pictures of fun and weird Japanese mascots (and other costumed characters).
Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social Reporting on AI and journalism for @NiemanLab.org at Harvard. Previously covering tech @restofworld.org Bylines: @thenation.com @popularmechanics @japantimes.co.jp Signal: andrewdeck.01
Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social Philosopher, writer.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.- D Drew Gibson @drewgibson.bsky.social Independent Scholar: Chinese Dynastic Histories, Zizhi Tongjian, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com Robots and neuroscience and sex. (But not that way.) Disabled and glorious. Leftist activist who works in biotech. Taiwanese American. Queer AF. #BiInSci. Sincere and earnest. Our struggles are intertwined. (she/they) #CambMA
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Smashing Security podcast @smashingsecurity.com Funny award-winning weekly podcast about hacking, cybercrime, and privacy with @grahamcluley.com.
https://www.smashingsecurity.com
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Kristy Bryant 徐愛童 @kristybryant.bsky.social Fellow at Oxford China Policy Lab | Head of Research @ The British Asian Collective | China-West relations, media, AI, tech, governance, identity politics| https://hsukristy.substack.com/
Eugenio Benincasa @euben.bsky.social Cyber Defense Researcher @ethz.ch. Former Italian govt, Pacific Forum and NYPD. LUISS & Columbia University Alum.
Natto Thoughts @nattothoughts.bsky.social Cyber threat intelligence research and analysis from geopolitical, economic, social, cultural and linguistic perspectives.
https://www.nattothoughts.com/
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Katie Nickels @likethecoins.bsky.social 
Nüora Global Advisors @nuoraglobal.bsky.social Nüora Global Advisors turns global complexity into clarity — decoding Asia’s geopolitics, culture, and consumers.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
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books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Robert Henke @roberthenke.bsky.social I am an artistic toolmaker. I am a toolmaking artist. I create music, audiovisual performances, installations, and computer graphics. www.roberthenke.com
Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social New Democrat MP for Vancouver Kingsway. Working for social, economic & environmental justice. https://linktr.ee/dondavies
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social Advancing public-facing, community-engaged research and interdisciplinary collaboration to address the climate crisis.
climatejustice.ubc.ca | linktr.ee/CCJ_UBC
Vancouver Goldeneyes @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social A force formed in flight.
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AudioThing @audiothing.net Audio Plugins (VST, AU, AAX, CLAP)
https://www.audiothing.net/
Reuters @reuters.com 
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social We report on news and events impacting technology and security. https://linkin.bio/cyberscoop/
Greg Otto @gregotto.bsky.social @gregotto from twitter, now on bluesky. Editor-in-Chief at CyberScoop. Host of Safe Mode. Better with words than I am with code.
Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social The electronic music magazine
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Erased Tapes @erasedtapes.com Genre-defying record label and artist collective. All tapes erased since 2007. erasedtapes.com
David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. The universe is a vector in Hilbert space.
Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
Upstate New Yorker, emergency backup hockey writer. FR/EN 🇫🇷
jakelahut.com
(Signal: Leak2Lahut.26)
Anna L. Ahlers @annalahlers.bsky.social Head of LMEP research group “China in the Global System of Science”, MPIWG & professor II, University of Oslo | sociology of science + authoritarianism & democracy + China’s (local) governance | https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/LMRG-china-science
Human Rights in China @hrichina.bsky.social Founded in March 1989, HRIC is dedicated to promoting international human rights and advancing the institutional protection of these rights in #China.
Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social writer ethnographer Prof Umich Author of Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation she/her
BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group | A Welcoming Space for Creative, Critical, and Experimental Research in IR
Indicator @indicator.media Indicator.media publishes original reporting, in-depth investigations, and practical tutorials on OSINT tools & techniques. We provide engaged citizens and professionals with the knowledge they need to fight digital deception.
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Julian-Ferdinand Vögele @julianferdinand.bsky.social Threat Research @ Recorded Future. Previously @ Security Research Labs. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Gus @gusthema.bsky.social Gemma Product Manager @google DeepMind
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- Google AI ⚙️🧠
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
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Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇭🇰 foreign policy & s+t policy researcher @ Stanford. Out in National Security New Voice + Foreign Policy for America NextGen.📍old gold mountain. 混血, 🏳️🌈 menace, new yorker.
AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social Daily-updated stream of AI research from ArXiv
East Van Vodville Cinema @littlefreecinema.bsky.social A Little Free Cinema in East Van, playing local short films and out-of-context clips from movies that we love.
1601 Venables, 4th Window from the Alley, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H1
littlefreecinema.org
Our hosts, the Vancouver Hack Space: vanhack.ca 
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com Since 1984, 2600 Magazine has published the hacker perspective and documented the development of the hacking community. In addition to the magazine, we have a weekly radio show ("Off The Hook") and a biennial conference (Hackers On Planet Earth - HOPE).
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Daedelus @daedelus.bsky.social 🧑🏫. S.E.T.I. A.I.R.
It’s all music. They/Them 🏳️⚧️
Rainbow Circuit @rainbowcircuit.bsky.social Building a circuit of imagination 
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Two-time refugee | Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social Full of hate. Anti-exemptionalist. Functionary of the Human Rights Industrial Complex (Congress-State-NGO). Personal account. @SFGiants @washcaps @everton @WashSpirit @PWHL_Ottawa
Alexandernaut @alexandernaut.bsky.social Music software developer, electrical engineer, and composer. Developer of @fuguemachine.bsky.social, Arpeggionome, and LinkToMIDI. Working on something new 🔮. alexandernaut.com
Switch Angel @switchangel.bsky.social I create high energy music with math and code
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昨天 @yesterdaynews.bsky.social 中国集体抗争事件记录网：https://yesterdayprotests.com
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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social Senior Editor at The Tyee. Reporter. Chainsaw + hockey, soccer + books(?). Lives in Lillooet so probably not posting about Vancouver.
'Ain't you had enough of this stuff?'
tolsen [at] thetyee [dot] [ca]
Fan Yang 楊帆 @fanfanyang.bsky.social Professor, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC
Author of Faked in China (2016) and Disorienting Politics (2024).
Researching media, infrastructure, robots, drones, and AI in Shenzhen and Hangzhou
Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
The Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social China's soft-power vanguard, rectifying your thought since 2010. Claiming this handle as an inalienable part of China.
Linette Lim @linettelim.bsky.social PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Interested in authoritarianism, media control, & nationalism. Former journalist with a stint as a 互联网打工人
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