Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
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Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Alister Robbie @alisterrobbie.bsky.social editor, camera nerd, brewer, marketing type person. Still trying to have fun amidst the chaos.
Melbourne / Naarm, Australia
David A. Conrad, Ph.D. @davidaconrad.bsky.social Author of AKIRA KUROSAWA AND MODERN JAPAN (2022)
Essayist for RAN 40th anniversary Blu-ray (2025)
New book on postwar Asia in progress
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Paul Quin @paulquin.com Committed to integrity, fairness, inclusivity, and justice. Against racism, prejudice, and propaganda.
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social |Media|#auspol|#ClimateCrisis|Freelance journo writing about politics & the environment. Read my stuff: https://tinyurl.com/AndrewGardiner
Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social Number cruncher. Story teller. Coalition builder. Vision setter.
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Australia.
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I identify as tired. #heroineaddict
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Phil Johnson @philjohnson72.bsky.social Childless cat bloke. Supporter of struggling sports teams. Dances like a baby in need of a nappy change. Former journalist of more than 30 years. Pub trivia try-hard. Makes a pretty mean music playlist. Stays up way too late.
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Luke Stammers @lukestammers.bsky.social Marxist Leninist, Gamer Geek, World Citizen & Hero of Kvatch. He/Him. 🇯🇴✊ Fuck the Australian Libs/Labour's cruel regime and their torture of refugees
Scott William Carter @scottwilliamcarter.com My first novel was hailed by PW as an "impressive debut" and won an Oregon Book Award. Since then, I've published over 30 books, including the popular Garrison Gage mysteries. Also the cartoonist behind www.runofthehouse.net. | www.scottwilliamcarter.com.
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I block anyone posting AI slop.
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Rashida Yosufzai @rashidajourno.bsky.social Reporter at Australia's world news broadcaster SBS News
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Lover of the Oxford comma.
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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social Researcher - Critical Animal Studies - Men & Masculinities
📖 👇
https://www.routledge.com/Human-Animal-Relationships-in-Times-of-Pandemic-and-Climate-Crisis-Multispecies-Sociology-for-the-New-Normal
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
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Community, connection, wellbeing ...
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NT, Australia
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
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Dr jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social An Antipodean disciple of Brandolini's Law trying not to succumb to it. It’s a pity we’re so bad at the whole ‘equitable distribution’ thing. Social scientist. Personal account, etc.
Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com Nomad & Print Artist since 1998: Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling. Traveling along my German grandmother’s roots. Mover: Strong voice against Trumpism. Linktree: linktr.ee/Strandjunker
Peter Wicks @madwixxy.bsky.social Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends.... Opinions are mine, but you can borrow them...🇵🇸
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
David Fenton @dfenton.bsky.social Host of Agitation Nation, a podcast from the Fenton Forecast newsletter. Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator fentonforecast.com
Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social Croakey.org is NFP public interest journalism with a focus on health in all policies, First Nations health, health equity, social determinants of health and climate justice. Based in Australia, and providing local, national and global coverage.
Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social Ex-MSM journo who thrived till she didn’t. Citizen journo reported the #IndependentsDay movement, reporting #SaveBulgaForest. CM, SMH, Age, CT, A Current Affair, LNL & #Webdiary alumni.
Website nofibs.com.au
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
Too sarcastic for my own good.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social I live on the unceded lands of the Gunaikurnai people and I pay my respects to the ancestors Conservation wildlife bushwalking left leaning gardening equality and justice. Despise the LNP
If you DM me I will block you so please don’t.
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au Reporting the future of energy, independently.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/
Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social Psephologist, polling analyst and poll transparency advocate, political commentator, ecologist, chess player/admin. No party loyalties. Not-A-Pollster.
dan nolan @dannolan.bsky.social keyboard peacekeeper
Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social Opticore CFO / Energy things with ANU
syncretica.substack.com
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social Economist & blogger @ http://johnquiggin.com, http://crookedtimber.org. http://johnquiggin.substack.com/?utm http://mstdn.social/@johnquiggin
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Emma Swift @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social Singer/ songwriter / enthusiast 💜
New songs landing in 2026
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
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Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social Churchill Fellow, Lawyer, investigator; ethicist, academic, author. Former Commissioner for Equal Opportunity & Human Rights,Victoria; Hearings Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission; Director, Office of Children’s Rights Commissioner for London.
Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social Cartoonist
Crowd-funded at https://www.patreon.com/glenlelievre
Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social Author, researcher, historian, cinema, music & comic-book junkie. 5x Rondo Award nominee. My latest book, Louise Lovely: Australia's First Hollywood Movie Star, out now. My views are my own.
Substack: danielbest1967.substack.com
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social Fighting for climate action, and challenging anti-science propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation.
Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her
https://linktr.ee/Lucyham
Luke Foley @lukefoley.me LFC aficionado. NYR fan. Footscray FC aka Western Bulldogs member. Cricket tragic. Music lover. I talk shit about a lot of things. Western Naarm-Melbs born and bred now living on Gunditjmara land in Heywood, Victoria. YNWA.
Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social Professor of International Law, University of Sydney Law School.
Former Councillor, Inner West Council, Sydney, 2021-2024.
www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/tim-stephens.html
orcid.org/0000-0001-9678-2227
Born at 331 ppm CO2
Peter Stahel @peterstahel.bsky.social Existing in the context @ essentialmedia.com.au for public affairs, campaigns & politics: owner and MD.
Resist @resist.wiki 🔐 Resist the dystopian future, surveillance, and oppression systems. Tech for liberation, built on solidarity. ✊🌱
@philby34.bsky.social @philby34.bsky.social 
Maree @bickys.bsky.social I follow Western Bulldogs and Buffalo Bills. I play AFL SuperCoach, AFL Fantasy and AFLW Fantasy.
I also enjoy watching good television series and documentaries.
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com Demographer | Demography, populations, social trends, surveys, data, methods, census. Educator, researcher. | Author ‘The Future of Us’.
The original Dr Demography!
@DrDemography on X and Insta
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
Prof Marc Tennant AM @marctennant.bsky.social #Academic/Commentator: #PublicHealth Equity #Reform #Biology #Computing #PopulationModelling #GIS #Dental
My words. My thoughts.
Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social Frightful hobgoblin
Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters & #NaturesMemory. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni. President of the Society for the History of Natural History. Australian mammal nerd. He/him. Own views.
Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social Queer botanist and botanical illustrator, with a keen interest in Parasitic plants, Particularly Pilostyles!
Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social Exploring the #moths and other #inverts seen in Western Australia #mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist 🐛🪲🕷️🐞🐜🪳🪰
Also posting about WA’s native flora and #orchids at WA Orchids (@wa-orchids.bsky.social)
📍Perth, WA (Whadjuk Noongar Boodja)
Faunaverse.com.au @faunaverse.bsky.social Everything Wildlife. Fauna surveys, photography, books about Aussie wildlife in poetry, educational field days, getting people to engage with Earth and learn about the ecosystem we live in and the ecosystem that lives in (and on) us. Read the Alt text!
SoftStone @softstone40.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Queer as a Giraffe.
🌳 Conservationist.
📸 Nature Photographer.
🇺🇦Russia out of Ukraine. Slava Ukraini.
🇪🇺 Dirty Globalist, Pro NATO, EU and what's left of a rules based order, quaint.
Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social Dad. Wiradjuri (Australian First Nations) man. Nerdy, creative, actor, political. Join your union. He/Him
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus
dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc
work: nick.evershed@theguardian.com
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