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Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social Agricultural economist from South Africa
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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social New York. Trace amounts of past lives at THE CITY, Human Rights Watch, Mail & Guardian, and Hindustan Times may be present. Slight risk of bicycles and mountains.
Nomboniso Gasa @nomboniso.bsky.social Feminist. Researcher & Writer: Land, Gender, Politics & Culture. Yogi. Available for Public Talks and Keynote. Flowers. Jazz.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
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Chris @chrismumbeck.bsky.social 99% ethically sourced.
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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com Astronomer, planet hunter, Pluto killer, bear whisperer, finger-wrapped dad. Dangerous secularist. Foot soldier in the War on Cars. He/him.
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Spina Spinetta @spinaspinetta.bsky.social Teacher|writer|theater maker|atheist| socialist|part-time Italian
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Raymond Joseph @rayjoe.bsky.social Journalist, fact-checker. 2021 Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Journalism; 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year; Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism Award 2022
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Cat rescues by day. Secret animal cities by night.
Serial fiction + real foster stories.
👇 whiskersociety.substack.com
JustJos @joswalker.bsky.social Mom to the #flyingdog and #LesserSpottedSid. I'd love to reinvent myself, but I love beach sunrises and rugby too much to change. Catch me in a tree somewhere, or getting my hands dirty. Bridging divides between people and nature, making change happen.
Tyro, ft Ricky @tyrowo.com Cat poster. Self-taught professional software developer, exF2P MTG Arena Challenger, ex wr holder speedrunning HotD2_100%, ex streamer, ex melee player.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracy. http://amabhungane.org
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Sometimes funny. Author of WINTERSET HOLLOW (1st edition out of print, 2nd edition coming October 2026!) HOLLYWOODLAND coming 2027!
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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social Resisting the global rise of Fascism. Social impact writer. PhD in Creative Writing. Sixth book of poetry, Understorey, coming out February 2027 (uHlanga Press). Librettist and amateur artist. 🇿🇦 LLMs are a scourge. 🚫 NO AI SLOP
MamaZombieZa @meganstow.bsky.social That blue-haired feminist your mom warned you about. Hex the patriarchy.
P1zza Face @p1zzaface.bsky.social Will do underpants stuff for soup money
Tumi Nkosi @tuminkosi.bsky.social Engineer. MBA. MEng. Ke tswa Mamelodi. Mamelodi Sundows fan by birth. South African 🇿🇦 Startup Founder. Neurodivergent. Keto. Gym bunny. My husband’s baby mama. I work hard coz God promised me everything. Apple 👩🏾💻 is the hill I’m dying on.
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Redi Tlhabi @reditlhabi.bsky.social Award winning broadcaster, author, moderator. South African. http://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org. http://ModerateThePanel.Com. Ex BBC, Aljazeera. MA: IR
AntonHarber @antonharber.bsky.social Journalist, free speech activist, executive director of the Henry Nxumalo Foundation
News24 @news24southafrica.bsky.social Trusted News. First.
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Sarah @sarahious.bsky.social Using behavioural insights and optimising business processes by day, saving Temminck’s pangolins by night.
James Blunt @jamesblunt.com Yeah, that guy. Cockney rhyming slang for the good stuff; Proof that one song is all you need. New music out now! https://linktr.ee/jamesblunt
Hook and Adder @hook-and-adder.bsky.social @amypanikowski | Freelance Scientist trying to cope in this messed up timeline | Proceeds from sales support the conservation, rescue, & rehab work of Eshowe Snakes and Reptiles as well as regional rescue/rehab of bats (Bats KZN mbr) | DM for commissions
GUGZ @gugustatu.bsky.social I tell you the NOOZ 📰
I encourage you in the morning ✨️
Bebé is the wisest lil' girl 🧑🏾🦱
Lola 🐶 is my boss
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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LiezelTee @mselletee.bsky.social Ex Twitter Baddie
Pamela Power @pamelapower.bsky.social Author of both fiction and non-fiction. Screenwriter & Script Editor. Loves coffee, cats, books & rugby. Has two children & one husband and lives in Johannesburg #SoberCurious #Springboks #ReadSA 🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️
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. 🇿🇦
Phumzile Van Damme @phumzile.bsky.social Changemaker. Award-Winning Counter Disinformation Strategist. @Harvard Technology & Human Rights Fellow. @VitalVoices Global Leader. Ex-MP. INFJ. Virago.
Cath Jenkin @cathjenkin.bsky.social Mama. Dog Person. WordWoman. Committed to Joy.🤩
Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social South African sustainability scientist. Prof in Sustainability Transformations and Futures at Global Change Institute, Wits University and researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre. IPBES expert, Earth Commissioner and general academic traveller
James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social Ichthyologist doing IT.
You could say I moved from fish into chips.
Katherine Sproule @katherinesproule.bsky.social 
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Nico Du Toit @closebutnocigar.bsky.social Move words around for a living. It's my opinion and you're entitled to it.🇿🇦
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Zak Brown @zakbrownceo.bsky.social Racer, Businessman and proud to work for McLaren Racing.
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Ted Kravitz @tedkravitz.bsky.social F1 / Ted’s Notebook 
Will Buxton @wbuxtonofficial.bsky.social Broadcaster, NYT Best Selling Author and voice artist.
Andrew Benson @andrewbensonf1.bsky.social I am BBC Sport’s Formula 1 correspondent
Chris Medland @chrismedlandf1.bsky.social Freelance F1 journalist/broadcaster for Racer, SiriusXM, Motor Sport Magazine and others
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Charles Leclerc 16 Lewis Hamilton 44
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Marika M @marikalmuller.bsky.social Maker-Worrier-Communicator. Cricket. Arsenal. 🏴 🇿🇦 🇲🇿 🇬🇧 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 Intermittently present
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Marthelize @konfytbekkie.bsky.social Don't let the winged eyeliner fool you. I have no idea what I'm doing.
Clive Simpkins @clivesimpkins.bsky.social Anti Trump-Musk-MAGA
🇿🇦 SouthAfrican veteran strategic communications coach. Still helping folks make the most of their best. Whether interpersonally, in any media, presenting, or public speaking.
Love what I do, do what I love.
#RescueCatDadx3
Tanya @taniawithay.bsky.social 
Formerly known as Anatinus @anatinus.bsky.social Overthinks, procrastinates, paints (mostly with lipstick).
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social Cartoonist and creator of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens https://linktr.ee/theoatmeal
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Neil Higgs ⚖️ 🌼 @nthiggs.bsky.social Retired survey statistician passionate about numeracy, nomographs and analogue calculators, walking in nature, photography, grandchildren and writing. Amazing wife! Having the best time. Author of “All/other things being equal - Ceteris paribus”.
6000 @6000coza.bsky.social south africa's best loved blogger | cape town's foremost ex-bacterium wrangler | son of sheffield | forged in steel | manx roots
JK @jkza.bsky.social Help others make sense of numbers. Bit of finance, bit of coding. Trail runner, Camper, Cricket and Rugby supporter. Read too much news.
CapeTownSue @capetownsue.bsky.social Scatterling of Africa, proud Capetonian, bubbles drinker, good food eater, animal lover, adventurous traveller (been to 71 countries so far), scuba diver (dived in 36) , wannabe mermaid and sports fan.
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Scott @squidsquirt.bsky.social Filling a basket with words and leaving it in the bulrushes.
Karen Dunlop @kambabe.bsky.social The world can be cruel & harsh. You don't have to be. Capetonian living in Sunny Malta.
Kindness always.
Amy F @amyiom.bsky.social I hope you like cats.
Bronwynne Wiehl @handle.invalid I help GenX professionals to stop hiding & to grow their confidence & personal brands on social media channels | LinkedIn coach | 8min/km runner (some call it jogging) 💁🏻♀️
Ulrich Janse van Vuuren @ulrichjvv.bsky.social Humanitarian | Environmentalist | 📱 Digital media 👥 Advocacy 🌍 Global development 🎓 University of London ⭕️ UN Global Goals #Goalkeepers2030 🌿 For people and planet.
📍 Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Poobie Pillay @poobiepillay.bsky.social Alara’s grandpa and butler to HRH Prince Oreo