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Beats & Balance @beatsnbalance.bsky.social Community. Creativity. Liberation. 🎙Check out our Podcast- available on all platforms. Linktr.ee/BeatsNBalance
Redskies @redskies.bsky.social Books, art, maths, knitting, embroidery, gardening, cats, hens, Early Medleval history, the Western Isles, good food, sea swimming, shells, birds & wildlife.
Kourosh Nourisamie, MD @knourisamie.bsky.social Radiologist. #JohnsHopkins Body imaging class of 2003. #Radsky Amateur gardener. Rose enthusiast. Nature lover. California. Not all roses and photos are mine. When possible will give credit. For enjoyment and education.
Councillor Heather Spearman @hspearmano.bsky.social City Councillor for City of Airdrie. Opinions are my own!
Matt Combs @mateocombs.bsky.social Freshly-minted Canadian living in la belle province... 🍁
Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social Canadian. Statistician. Math. Show me the evidence. I've been known to dwell on little things like pandemics, population health, preventable deaths, disinformation, authoritarians, kleptocracies, annexation, and protecting democracies. Also, Leafs & Jays.
Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social Welcome to the prairies! In my day job I'm a microbiology prof @hilllabsask.bsky.social. Weekends are for the birds (literally). 🇨🇦 Citizen scientist in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Volunteer for birds. Photos by me.
Janet E. Hill, PhD @hilllabsask.bsky.social (she/her) Studying microbes & microbiomes at U of Saskatchewan co-Editor in Chief ISME Communications Posts by @saskajanet.bsky.social (who posts about birds)
kms @karmso.bsky.social passionate gardener, defender of democracy…I strive daily to pay attention, and to brew a perfect cup of tea🌿 all photos mine unless noted otherwise 🌱
Guy Tal @guytal.com This account is updated automatically with posts from my blog. I generally don't spend much time on social media. If you wish to see more of my work or contact me, please do so at my website: guytal.com.
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth | BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️‍🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social Editor. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/ Retired reporter. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/les-perreaux/
The Old Gay Guy @oldgayguy2020.bsky.social Canadian, whyte, queer, married, left-leaning, politically engaged, retired, amateur photographer Racism, fascism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, DMs blocked They/them or He/him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 I'm too old to be bullied or take 🐂💩 ACAB
Brad Weldon @canadensis.bsky.social Gardener, movie lover, privacy lawyer, like food, wine, and tech. 🇨🇦 Canadian. YIMBY. A settler on W̱sáneć territory. 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈
Unbranded @unbranded63.bsky.social Canadian, progressive, father of a brood, world traveler since birth, worked equal time in both public service and the private sector. I may reveal my real name soon. It will excite no one. 🇨🇦
Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social CNBC senior economics reporter. Husband, father, journalist, guitarist and fly fisherman. (The Lies-man joke has been made. It’s not fresh. It’s my father’s father’s name, bastardized at Ellis Island. Move along.)
Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social Senior researcher & political economist @policyalternatives.ca Health services, public finance, care economy, privatization, policy solutions SFU PhD candidate. Views mine https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/andrew-longhurst/
@robertlavigne.bsky.social @robertlavigne.bsky.social International affairs, defence, energy policy, business, aviation, wonk, & pilot Keen supporter of the "Kingston Consortium on International Security" and its Conferences https://www.thekcis.org/
ShyDandelion @shydandelion.bsky.social A curious girl who loves reading, writing, and art.
Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social Retired from a career that took me around the world and continually reminded me that Canada is a wonderful place. Winnipeg transplant, currently living in Ottawa. Interested in issues concerning politics, law, and human migration.
Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social Editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and the Hill Times. Substack: https://substack.com/@deadder Follow me! Follow me! Follow me! Follow me! Follow me!
Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social Professor of Poli Sci. Drawer of Flow Charts. Walker of dog. Proud Canadian. Nostalgic for the liberal world order.
The Strategists @thestrategists.ca Professional unprofessional strategists Stephen Carter, Corey Hogan and Zain Velji dissect the news of the day, pass judgment on strategy choices and lift back the curtain on how decisions are made. Described as "the least deliberate podcast of all time".
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Morgan Wilson @morganificent.bsky.social Small time rancher. Overtime truck driver. Alberta born, politically frustrated. Redneck intolerant. Pro choice. Western poet. Professional procrastinator. Closet writer. Recognize my privileges. I miss who I thought people were not so long ago.
steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12 Read & support my work: https://linktr.ee/Stevanzetti
Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social Mom, wife, doctor. Owned by Bouviers. Born feisty. Enchanted by children, animals, Canada and those who tell the truth. Published medical + mystery articles, found on: https://maryfernando.squarespace.com Writing mysteries.
Chris Murphy @themurphologist.bsky.social Meteorologist for The Weather Network & CBC News Network. Rabid CFL fan. I'd rather be fishing.
Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social Truth Teller
Jeffrey Luscombe @jeffreyluscombe.bsky.social Bestselling Canadian novelist.📚 Author of the award-winning, SHIRTS AND SKINS🌈 & TO REFRAIN FROM EMBRACING (a Best Book of the Year🥇). I was called one of “fiction’s brightest new stars” by Huffpost but you can call me Jeff. Podcaster|Hamilton born.🇨🇦
Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social Author, lawyer, trilobite hunter.
National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com National Newswatch – Canada's most comprehensive place for political news and views. Visit us at https://nationalnewswatch.com/
Brenda Tharp Photography @brendatharpphoto.bsky.social Photographer, photography educator, writer, author of “Expressive Nature Photography and Extraordinary Everyday Photography.”
Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social Writer of thrillers, horror and suspense. My debut novel, The Day I Died Again, coming October 13, 2026. The Sins We Buried, coming March 2027. 📚🔪 https://linktr.ee/nadineantoinette
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star. Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
Susan Wright @susanwrightab.bsky.social Blogger (Susan on the Soapbox) and retired lawyer. Interested in energy and politics.
Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics.
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Jane💙💙🚫DM: “I’LL SEE YOU ON THE BEACH” @jyc-jane.bsky.social "The world will not be destroyed by evil people but by good people who do nothing to stop it. Hopefully there will always be good people courageous enough to take on the bad guys, this is the only way humanity can hope for salvation."
MAGA Cult Slayer @magacultslayer.bsky.social The #4 story in world history is on our substack! #smokefleet https://open.substack.com/pub/magacultslayer
Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social 🇨🇦 #Canadian placemaker, artist, geek, active citizen, tech writer, ally. 🌈 Photography, painting, music, books, science, lateral thinking, creativity, kindness. She/her. Treaty 7. 🍁🦫 #CanadaSky #Canada #Calgary #yyc #art READ:WRITE:DRAW:PAINT:CREATE:DO
Hoping for a better world 🧡💜🇨🇦 @rlbca.bsky.social YYC. Left leaning. Retired therapist. She/her. Mostly looking for news and politics. Known to quote Dr. John Gottman's 5 point criteria for trustworthiness. (Why date, work for, or even vote for, someone who doesn't pass?)
Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca 📰 Postmedia Alberta legislature reporter (Edmonton Journal/Sun) | Works with 📊 data & 📃 documents | 🎓 UBC & UAlberta (2x) | Profile pic by my 3 y/o daughter MatthewBlack.ca
Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social 👩🏻‍🔬 Immunology | 🦠 Microbiology 🧫Cancer Biology | 🧬 Biotechnology SciComm | Data | Snark Founder: ImmunoLogic Director: American Lyme Disease Foundation w: immunologic.org | ALDF.com
Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Toronto. Bloodborne infections, Lyme disease, misinfo. COVID-19 Resources Canada. Defend journalism. Look for the helpers. Opinions mine. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 https://covid19resources.ca
Charles Thorne Photography @charlesthornephoto.bsky.social Dorset photographer for 35 years who loves making #art with the camera. Using #ICM #panning and traditional methods I make my individual view Socials - https://www.instagram.com/charles_thorne_photography https://www.facebook.com/charlesthornephotography
The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com Written by academic experts, edited by journalists, backed by evidence ✉️ Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2W8X3Ev 🎧 Podcast: http://bit.ly/39v1EE0 ➕ Donate: http://bit.ly/3GV1uam
University of Toronto @utoronto.ca Welcome to #UofT! Canada’s top university, and a catalyst for discovery, innovation, and progress. #UofTDefyGravity 🔗 utoronto.ca
Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online I write about art, gender, and the tech industry. Video essays on @nebula.tv, Twin Peaks podcast @tstv.show 🌲🌫️ All that is solid melts into air youtube.com/@lily_lxndr
Paul Doroshenko / Prairie Paul🇺🇦🇨🇦 @pauldoroshenko.com Distiller. Small town lawyer in the big city. Country and blues singer. Supporter of Ukraine in their battle with evil. Anti theist. Music on Apple and Spotify. I went from a prince, now I’m a toad.❤️🇺🇦NAFO 🇨🇦
Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social Photography enthusiast. I post my own photographs from beach walks, travels, and just because… No AI, just my eye, Canon EOS, Olympus OM, and IPhone Pro Max. #BeachLife
Mark LJ @marklittlejohn.bsky.social Photographer who takes pictures of anything unlucky enough to pass in front of my camera. Lives on the edge of a beach in Wester Ross, Scotland
Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social Emergency Physician. HC advocate. Got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
Hillary Younger @hillsee.bsky.social Landscape and conservation photographer from Tasmania. Wanting to protect wilderness and wild beings. Maayaa namaarnu hola - don’t let the love die.
Wendy Bagnall @wendybagnall.bsky.social Photographer Exhibitor Mentor Workshop Leader
MicheleMuse 💙🌈🦋🇺🇦 @michelemuse.bsky.social Teacher, poet, kind human. I appreciate the follows. I post a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I hope you enjoy, since a muse should inspire. You’ll never see his face or his reposts on my TL except on very rare occasions. @blueskytracker.app
James Lane @jameslanephoto.bsky.social 🥾 Landscape Photography ⛰️ Currently building my 2025 Portfolio 📷 Website, Portfolios and Prints below: jameslane.photography
Jeff Thompson 🇨🇦 💪- Be Good 💖 @jeffthompson48.bsky.social Television Writer/Producer. I do stand-up comedy instead of therapy. My name is Jeff and I AM A NASTY CANADIAN! 🍁 No MAGATS or Humorless Scolds Please.
Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social Landscape photographer obsessed with trees and fog based in Prague, Czech Republic. www.martinrak.cz www.bohemianjourneys.com
Jennifer @olablanca.bsky.social #Hipstamatic iPhone photography | PNW | she/her “My roots are in the depths of the woods.” - Émile Gallé
Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social Iceland-obsessed Landscape Photographer. UK-based. Newsletter sign-up: https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/2233713/forms/183477923653617261?fresh=1%2Fpopup
BlueFacts - Bluesky Trends & Insights @bluefacts.app 👉 https://bluefacts.app/ • 🌟 The top trending Bluesky users - https://bluefacts.app/trending • 📰 Build your own feed - https://bluefacts.app/feed-builder • developed by @uwemaurer.bsky.social and @thijser.bsky.social
Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦🇨🇦💉 @ziadfazel.bsky.social In Nov 2024, BlueSky became my primary platform. Still have my @ziadfazel on Xitter because of my history of threads there. Thanks for following me (back) here again. Photo summer 2024 at Stamps game with my friend @booshmeister. Life is good.
Chantal Hébert @chebert18.bsky.social Journaliste politique/CBC At Issue/Les Coulisses du pouvoir et C est bien meilleur le matin-SRC/Good Talk-Sirius XM & YouTube
@rickmilliken.bsky.social @rickmilliken.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Grandpa | Retired Oil Industry Exec | Now sometime carver and woodworker | Foothills, Alberta, Canada
Gnarled Barkley 🌳 @thomashugtree.bsky.social Learnt to walk, now learning to run. Trees, trees, trees 🌲🫁♥️ Peace seeking, phony photographer with an S25 Ultra. All my pics, except reposts 📸 Proud 😊 #EastCoastKin ✌️
Whitefire 🇨🇦🧡🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @white-fire.bsky.social Canadian, Albertan …rural. Older and love Bluesky days. Skeptic 🤨. 🐈🐕‍🦺🐓🐇👩‍🌾 I think I’m funny (I learnt to laugh at myself first). Self-correcting
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Info Shymkent @infoshymkent.bsky.social A passionate 🇰🇿-🇩🇪 traveler couple is bringing #CentralAsia closer to you. All photos & texts are ours - unless otherwise stated. Our online magazine: www.shymkent.info
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.
Deadbeat Club @deadbeat-club.bsky.social There is no money in books. (or coffee) We are very new here… give us a minute. http://deadbeatclubpress.com
@billshapiro.bsky.social @billshapiro.bsky.social I’ll show you great photographs; maybe some you’ve never seen. Former Editor-in-Chief of LIFE magazine; contributing editor, Leica Conversations; co-wrote “Gus & Me” with Keith Richards.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Denise Taylor @denisetaylor.bsky.social Fine art and stock images represented by Getty Images, Arcangel Images, Millennium Images, Capturing the images of California…..and beyond! Digital and film fan.
Diane Marie 🇨🇦 @dianemarie.bsky.social Canadian, kitty person (but I secretly crave a dog), RCAF brat, Anybody but Maple MAGA, voracious reader (Scandinavian noir, police procedurals, etc.). ***No religion***.
Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social Feature writer covering federal politics at The Globe and Mail. I love great beer, old art, all cheese, The Golden Girls and Gritty. I have too many cats, which is the correct number.
Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social Prof. Emeritus at Dalhousie/King's in Halifax, NS. Canadian history (with sources), public finance, pix of woodland and coast. Slow to anger. Stage IV MBC https://ukings.ca/people/shirley-tillotson/
Leanne Prain @leanneprain.bsky.social (She/Her) Writer at night 🫖, creative director by day ☕️. 📚 Author of The Creative Instigator’s Handbook, Strange Material, Hoopla, & Yarn Bombing (w M. Moore). Art, design, and publishing nerd. Settler, Vancouver BC, Sovereign 🍁
Val McKinley @valmckinley.bsky.social Photographer. Nonprofit professional. Pacific Northwest.
Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com Oatmeal socialist, pocketed dress enthusiast, chaos goblin, food stylist, insufferable dog mom, spoonie tattooed librarian. She/Her https://www.feistywaters.com/
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2. Front takes towards enemies.
Isabella Tabacchi @isabellandscapes.bsky.social Emotional Nature Photography 🌄 Traveler and Dreamer 🌌 Internationally awarded 🏆 Featured on National Geographic, BBC, Forbes and more 📸 https://bio.site/isabellatabacchi
BNO News @bnonews.com Breaking news and developing stories from the U.S. and around the world
Martin Podt @martinpodt.com 🇳🇱 Dutch photographer who loves trees 💡 Here to inspire and relax 🌳 #photography = #noai 🌐 martinpodt.com 📷 www.500px.com/martinpodt 🤝 #zeldenzomooigezien
Lorraine Parramore @loriargyll.bsky.social Well travelled Brummie happily living in Scotland since 2012. Loves the coast, mountains, wild places, hence photography. I enjoy reading fantasy and sci-fi. Armchair follower of politics. Treasurer, Cowal Camera Club. All images are mine except re-posts.
Richard Wong @rwongphoto.bsky.social Museum-quality fine art photography prints for homes, hospitals & offices. Landscape Photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area. websites: https://www.rwongphoto.com https://www.fineartphotographyprints.com
Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social Former veterinarian doing photography Brian Peterson Photography Website: https://brianpetersonphotography.myportfolio.com/ My Adobe Stock page: https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/210766016/Brian%20Peterson Daily hummingbird and sunrise photos
Kathleen Clemons @kathleenclemons.bsky.social Maine photographer, teacher, flower whisperer
Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social Retired research scientist in North Florida. Biologist. Hiker and forest wanderer. Springs lover. Photographer of natural things. Nikon Z8, Z6iii full spectrum, D750/Ikelite housing underwater. www.artpal.com/msriffle
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social Pierre Poilievre's taxpayer-funded bots succeeded in getting me permanently suspended from X. X said it was because I used PP's pic on my profile. I call "BULLSHIT."