Orbital Studies @orbitalstudies.com A literary science magazine. Issue № 0: Ways of Seeing the Living World available now. https://orbitalstudies.com
Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social Hey, Toronto!
Running for Toronto City Council in Ward 11 University–Rosedale.
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Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social fan update account for #heatedrivalry and hudcon. definitely spoilers ahead.
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
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Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
@tallcoleman.bsky.social @tallcoleman.bsky.social 
Jon @jon-g-b.bsky.social bikebrigade.ca
ChrisD @chrisd.bsky.social Being critical, but not cynical.
Vibe connoisseur and x-risk contemplator.
Toronto, ON 🇨🇦
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social Journalist, author, musician, sonifier. I make things with data. Half of Loud Numbers.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Spotted in Prod @spottedinprod.bsky.social The very best of iOS
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
DMs open to followers
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net 
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
Ross Zurowski @rosszurowski.com Designer + developer in Toronto. rosszurowski.com
Guy Segal @guysegal.com Design director working on design systems and people systems.
Can fake a decent guitar riff. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. He/him. Views are my own.
🩷💜💙
I talk to cool design folks on my podcast http://designdowntime.com/
Toronto, ON, Canada
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca The social media you want. Built for Canada.
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip south. Built on AT Proto.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Derek Vaz @derekvaz.bsky.social Dad, designer, chef at home.
Founder and CEO, With
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With @withcodesign.bsky.social With is a co-design studio for socially-centered futures. We shape progressive ideas into transformative digital products and brands.
Tarun Sachdeva @tarunsachdeva.bsky.social building traces.com @traces.com
Progress Toronto @progresstoronto.bsky.social 
Overheard @ 1RG @overheard.1rg.space The best of the 1RG discord server.
@makeworld.space made me.
Khasir @khasir.bsky.social hi!
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social Geographer, public transit and active transportation advocate, Torontonian. He/him.
seanmarshall.ca
Balance on Bloor @balanceonbloor.bsky.social I finally watched a Not Just Bikes video and it turns out that bike lanes are good for business after all... Sorry for wasting your time everybody.
#BalanceOnBloor
OCUL @ocul-libraries.bsky.social We're the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL).
OCUL provides academic libraries with shared services and technology infrastructure to support teaching, research and learning success.
Visit our website: https://ocul.on.ca/
How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com Toronto urban environmentalist. 20+ years in climate activism. From Etobicoke. ADHDer. Fancy degrees from McGill and Yale. Posts my own.
Energy and transit should be free and plentiful. Cars should be an option, not a necessity.
https://how-sen.com/link
Lauren Feiner @laurenfeiner.bsky.social Covering tech policy @theverge.com | Formerly @CNBC.com | she/her | Tips? Find me on Signal @ laurenfeiner.64 (no PR pitches via Signal please)
Tangled @tangled.org https://tangled.org is the next-generation social coding platform.
→ Docs: https://docs.tangled.org
→ Discord: chat.tangled.org
→ IRC: #tangled @ libera.chat
Show Up Toronto @showuptoronto.ca https://showuptoronto.ca brings together community organizing, mutual aid, and advocacy events from around the city. Run by @phirephoenix.com. This account posts automatic reminders about events daily and a few hours before each event.
City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social Climate info & tools for immersive learning. Everywhere: @CityAtlas
#PlayEnergetic Posts: R Reiss
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html
https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/energetic/energetic-in-new-york/
Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca 🔎 Ontario Reporter and Podcast Producer @pressprogress.ca
DMs open for news tips and interesting crockpot recipes
Alina Rehkopf @arehkopf.bsky.social Anti-capitalist leftist, powerlifter, environmentalist, recovering overachiever, ebike commuter, KI grad, trying to figure out how to apply urbanism in rural Ontario.
I stick needles in people for a living.
Ontario 🇨🇦
IPFS @ipfs.tech Building blocks for a better web. Open protocols to store, verify, and share data across distributed networks 💎.
https://ipfs.tech
MapleTakes @mapletakes.bsky.social He/Him Canadian Leftist Political Commentator and Streamer
Catch me live over at https://www.twitch.tv/mapletakes
Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Eelam.
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social Métis (he/him) weareserfs.com
I explain the internet. LGBTQ+ activism and freedom for all are my jam.
Go watch youtube.com/@theserftimes and patreon.com/theserfs
Steve Boots (inactive) @steveboots.bsky.social Retired content creator
James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
PressProgress @pressprogress.ca Award-winning Canadian journalism that:
🔎 Holds the rich & powerful accountable
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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Jonathan Bowers @jonotron.ca 🦋 Wildfire and climate tech, 🏊🏼🚴🏼🏃🏼 triathlon, 🧑🏼💻 data and code, 👶🏼 parenting.
🌲 Co-founder of @pathandfocus.com (wildfire)
🤖 Founder of @twostoryrobot.com (code)
NEXT Magazine @nextmagazine.bsky.social ESSENTIAL TORONTO: nextmag.ca
events, music, theatre, screens, listings, news & beyond from creators of original NOW Magazine
Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social Artist, Phd
All art posted is by me. Let me know in the comments your thoughts and impressions
DM me If you are interested in purchasing anything I post. I only sell the original work and generally are priced about $60
Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca web person, photographer, urbanist
https://iainmc.ca
Sara M. Watson @smwat.bsky.social saramwatson.com
Coraline Ada Ehmke @coralineada.bsky.social Internationally recognized tech ethicist, software engineer, & open source troublemaker. Author, "We Just Build Hammers". Creator, Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License. Co-Founder, Organization for Ethical Source. Chair, Governance Futures Network.
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
The Kitchn @thekitchn.bsky.social The secret ingredient for home cooks ✨
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social A public transit advocacy group. We're transit users who want better public transit in Toronto.
🚍🚇🚊✊
Not affiliated with the TTC.
www.ttcriders.ca
#KeepTransitMoving
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca Investigative journalist | Editor, @pressprogress.ca | Send tips & story ideas: llebrun@pressprogress.ca
Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Building hater/appreciator out of Toronto. He/they. Hates your neighbourhood’s character, yes, specifically yours.
City of Toronto @toronto.ca Official account for the #CityOfTO sharing #TOnews. Not monitored 24/7. Contact 311 Toronto to create a service request. Terms of use http://toronto.ca/socialmedia.
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Pam on the internet @pamselle.com a strong independent acid snake in the skinsuit of a strong independent woman
Host of Ignore All Previous Instructions (the podcast) @techcultpodcast.bsky.social
jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com I write code for a living and words for my sins. occasional blog posts at https://phirephoenix.com, weekly newsletter for organizing/activism in Toronto at @showuptoronto.ca.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
@buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com We believe Canada should be the most prosperous country in the world 🏗️🇨🇦
buildcanada.com
CRIT @handle.invalid independent writing class in brooklyn
shitposts and "advice" by @tonytula.com
crit.works
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
Mayor Olivia Chow @mayoroliviachow.ca Mayor of Toronto 🇨🇦
Former City Councillor, Member of Parliament, and school trustee.
For assistance, email mayor_chow@toronto.ca.
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Doug Hall 🍁 @doughallphd.bsky.social Leveraging public data to build an equitable & inclusive economy that benefits everyone. Currently at Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. Alum of EARN/Economic Policy Institute, Connecticut Voices for Children and others.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Alex @alexo.bsky.social AI-skeptic AI researcher.
Leading the Centre for Analytics & AI Engineering at the University of Toronto
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social Digital policy @ Canadian Digital Service. Reasonably subversive. Husband of Amy. Skeets entirely my nonsense and not my employer. He/him. Jewish/🏳️🌈
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
myles @myles.garden ✌️Hey I’m Myles! I’m a software engineer living in Toronto 🇨🇦. In my free time I like to 👷🏼build things, 📷 take pictures, 🏚️ go urban exploring, and 🎵 make truly terrible music.
🌱 https://myles.garden/me
alt: @milo.garden
The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social Toronto's current affairs & culture print mag. FREE in 30 TTC subway stations, and 300 other GTA locations.
thegrindmag.ca
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Michal Heuston @michalhue.bsky.social (they/them)
editor & mediamaker
dʒeɪmz @transmute.ca 
@stefan-sells-out.bsky.social @stefan-sells-out.bsky.social 
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Aspiring solarpunk living in Toronto. Software developer. Learning what I want and how to live it.
I post a lot of links.
he/him
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com newsletter about technology and culture:
https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Ilya Kreynin @ilyakreynin.bsky.social Toronto-based looney tune, passionate about civic tech and strong, engaged democracy!
Working on @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca and @civicdashboard.bsky.social, both with great people
Often spotted at @civictechto.bsky.social hacknights
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
@borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social My bio https://borisv.lk.net
Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
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