The Urban Truth Collective is a creative, evidence-based collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social & @grantennis.bsky.social
Writer about law, lore, and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London.
www.theemptycity.com
Profile schmofile. You might know me from the bad place. Aotearoa you know it
Anglican priest, learning to sleep in on Sundays; Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand
Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
http://disasteradio.bandcamp.com
he/him solo member of Disasteradio (synthpop) & Eyeliner (utopian virtual / fake fake jazz) from Aotearoa New Zealand
33 & 1/3 book on Eyeliner's "Buy Now" by
@jingajik.bsky.social out mid 2025
Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl.
equal parts physics, left politics, DIY science, and photos (space/birds/stuff). formerly astroparticle physics, now astrodynamicist. "dr" in certain extremely specific professional contexts. ohio for 3 decades then west coast (sfbay, now pdx). fuck ai art
Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Labour Candidate for Mt Roskill, Dad of 3, armchair cricket expert, unreliable gardener.
Former Minister of Transport, Immigration and Workplace Relations & Safety. 🇳🇿
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Tce, WLG.
Barrister (Auckland) - IP and commercial disputes. Music enthusiast and other things. He/him
Award-winning independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest.
https://watershedinvestigations.com/
Watershed is:
@rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
@leanahosea.bsky.social
Posts by Chloe
Freelance science journalist contributing to NYT, SciAm, Nature etc. Author of "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking" (2018) and "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World" (2023).
Husband, dad, granddad, proud member of and Executive Director for Accessibility Excellence at the National Federation of the Blind, broadcaster, podcaster, Beatles fan, cricket nut, living the keto dream. Keeping things in perspective through meditation.
Independent music, independent games, independent samples 🇳🇿
Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
Producer/Executive Producer, Rāpeti Magic Films.
EP: GRAND FINALE: A NEW YORK ODYSSEY (now in post-production), executive producer HAUNTED & DEVOTED. Neurospicy. Māori (Ngai Tahu), Hispanic. #filmsky #scriptsky #womeninfilm
💙💙Always Blue, Unapologetic advocate for children with disabilities, minorities, economically disadvantaged, animal rights and ALWAYS Civil Rights. In my very limited spare time I am a lifetime Broadway lover!
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Researcher @MasseyUni, Housing 🏘️ & Transport 🚌
Musician 🎶 and Aviation Enthusiast✈️
Satirical news by and for autistic people (poor things). Founded by Sara Gibbs & Elsa Williams; run by Sara Gibbs & Sarah Amero
www.thedailytism.com
www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism
Autistic Women Oversharing Podcast:
https://linktr.ee/thedailytism
More housing, bikes, and transit.
https://youtube.com/@ohtheurbanity
📍 Montreal, Quebec
Writing, thinking, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech.
Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
Village Voice, Reverb Motherfuckers, etc. https://edroso.substack.com
Data Scientist by day, gamer tech junky by night, welcome to my stream of conciousness
Toys, tools, tings I tinker with: https://gamer-geek-news.com/showcase
💑👨👩👦🌻🕺🎸🎮💻🏳️🌈☮️🧘♂️🥦
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
New Zealand Legal Information Institute.
Member of FALM
Free Access to Law
Aotearoa New Zealand
For donations to support our mahi - http://www.nzlii.org/nzlii/contributors/contribute.pdf
or
https://alumni.otago.ac.nz/donate/NZLII
Thank you so much
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
Going on a frolic of his own. Distinguished Fellow at the Robert Muldoon Centre for Constitutional Law.
Please send all complaints
c/- Rt Hon Dame Helen Winkelmann GNZM
Supreme Court of New Zealand
85 Lambton Quay
Wellington
writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @followthecrypto.org • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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links: mollywhite.net/linktree
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i am a cognitive scientist working on auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
PhD Economics. let there be music. centre left. loves humour.
Art tinkerer, library dweller, immigrant. Thinking a lot about how to prove libraries are worth keeping around. Ōtepoti.
Suffering arts admin PTSD and fatigue from capitalist value extraction with our colonial overlords. I may have lost my smile, but the optimism is under there somewhere. 🇼🇸🇳🇿
Artist | Filmmaker | Creative Director at @fafswag.nz
Local government nerd. Dog lover. Left leaning but shacked up with a dairy farmer so experienced in seeing both sides. Committed to being a considerate human being.
If you're interested in NZ politics, polling and elections you're in the right place. #nzpol
www.theprogressreport.co.nz
Lost in the woods. Still hopeful 💚 Greenie, West Aucklander, immigrant
Chair at NZ Commerce Commission
Biological dairy farmer at Rai Valley
Posts are personal views. Shares are not endorsements.
american.nz / Americand writer & dad in Aotearoa. PhD in Substack at the IIML, Victoria U of Wellington. Americano & ginger slice, for here
I like the party favours but I hate the party people.
Labour Candidate for Wellington Bays in 2026. CTU Economist, Unionist, and believer in a better Aotearoa.
https://linktr.ee/craigrenney.official
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Unofficial RSS news feeds from Radio New Zealand brought to you by @kylebarrow.com.
Hope to hand this over to RNZ whenever they decide to officially join Bluesky.
Mayor of London since 2016. Former Cabinet Minister, MP and lawyer. Husband and father. Author.
Our mission is to serve, teach, inspire and impact current and future urban professionals in our quest for actionable steps towards safe, inclusive, active mobility.
MP for Rongotai. Green Party of Aotearoa NZ.
Mama working for healthier, happier cities and climate justice. 🚲🌏🌱💚🍉
Auth by M Ross, L5, 108 The Terrace, WLG
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
vetus et superbus // Sentient curmudgeon
📍Whakatū, Aotearoa
#Activist fighting deadly drug policy.
🏳️⚧️ mom and ally.
Co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm. Member of 4B Harm Reduction Society
Guest on Treaty 6
#HarmReduction
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#YouAreSafeWithMe
#Canada #Alberta
Takes about all kinds of things but predominantly politics, autistic people things and research, technnology.
Opinions my own and all terrible.
He/Him Pōneke/Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Muriwai Valley Aotearoa NZ
I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, fascism, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
wordsSHIFTminds is Auckland, New Zealand-based composer, Chris Bell, recording in the Universal Mango Research Kitchen.
Boycott Spotify.
https://www.instagram.co/wordsshiftminds
https://soundcloud.com/wordsshiftminds
https://wordsshiftminds.bandcamp.com
People, places & Pacific wonder
Public programs curator
> The Veiqia Project > > >
Kai Lancashire, England + Vasu Nadroga, Fiji
Working on Baramadagal land
New Zealand mathematician, writing on climate & the environment at http://planetaryecology.org
Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui, Pākehā. Kaituhi Māori. Author of “Kurangaituku”.
Writer of things. Popular emotional cheese dish.
She/her/ia.
www.whitihereaka.co.nz
Profile photo by Tabitha Arthur
...𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎 - 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑...
Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Devil’s Picnic | Words NYT NatGeo Smithsonian WSJ | Talks: http://taras-grescoe.com/contact
https://www.highspeed.blog
https://linktr.ee/tarasgrescoe
IG: https://www.instagram.com/i.ride.trains/
Aotearoa based. Mostly bonsai with my coffee is all I seek.
Started Bonsai 2020 = new to it. Also into aviation/space/science/geopolitics/wildlife/helpful tech stuff.
Bonsai feed
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sw2dek7u74jxlriba65utp4d/feed/aaaiycpqcyp4u
Gay, married, greyhounds, writing, books, music, art, opera, cooking, politics, history, opinionated. 🇳🇿🇹🇷🏳️🌈
🇪🇺British/New Zealand urban planner & university teaching fellow living and working in Auckland. Twitter refugee. Interested in most things, esp. architecture, energy, accessibility, sustainability, comedy and health. My views are my own. #FBPE
Statistician, Forensic Scientist, Road Cyclist, Gamer. Slecht Nederlands spreker. #rstats, Statistical Computing
gay artist, game dev in nz // my website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about rugby https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Hawthorn FC, Kiwi, Lawyer (Victoria), cancer survivor
Co-founder and writer at Tokyo Cheapo @tokyocheapo.bsky.social
3 kids. Social Democrat. Living in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Cabinet/Govt nerd. Toitu te Tiriti. Go Pack Go! Up The Arsenal!
Figuring out a balanced life. Mostly here for the urbanism. 🏳️🌈He/him
Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Anglican priest in Auckland NZ, Elam grad, theology, liturgy, art, architecture. Toitū te Tiriti. DMin(Liturgy) candidate at Sewanee. Despairing of politics & the patriarchy in the church and the world and hoping for better.
🐉🍵✨ Community Garden AKL 🕳️🕳️ 95bFM 🕳️ Audio Foundation🕳️🕳️ Kaiwhakaoko/Percs/DJ 🕳️🕳️ 🕳️ Te Arawa🕳️ Piscean✨🍃♨️ ia/any/all
🕸️ https://linktr.ee/br_dge 🌐
Old world dreams, new world lives.
Which is your favourite solvent to abuse?
Find out mine here: https://notagrift.com
Digital technology and AI ethics, early-stage science and deep tech start-ups, cats. Always learning, opinions own.
Shining a light on Aotearoa’s most acute sufferers of Woke Derangement Syndrome one useful idiot at a time — along with a cheeky bit of political commentary 🇳🇿
This is the Bluesky account of the future DOJ-in-Exile. Our home in waiting is at DOJinExile.com.
A progressive alliance of Labour, Greens, and Community Independents. We’re building a thriving, liveable, and inclusive Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. City Vision is an effective community voice for our region.
https://linktr.ee/christopheltruento
Professional storyteller 📺🎥 Creative industries cheerleader 📣 Pākehā New Zealander 🇳🇿🥝 Fortunate Wanderer 🌏 Fan of 🍸 and board games. CEO Greenstone TV; opinions here my own.
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
FlavorFlavMgmt@gmail.com
I write about tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Senior Engineer at Maxis
Previously Blizzard
He/Him/They 🏳️🌈
All views are my own and do not reflect my employer
Founder Global Cannabinoid Research Center 2018, ECS (Endocannabinoid System) Education is key. With Nature, I’ve kicked Cancer to the Curb 5x & beat a 24yr Rx Opioid addiction ~ I Love Weed ~ 💙 Independent, Former Civil Rights Lobbyist ResearcherOG.com
Polisci prof at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption in Eastern Europe 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺; European politics; occasional Canada/US commentary abt rule of law and sovereignty.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. http://linktr.ee/CityNerd 🐘 @nerd4cities
Author - red wine - techno - I create helpful, heart-driven tools for people to use ❤️☀️
Haslett Street Books & “It would really help me if you…”
Thinking about my dog 🐶, nerdy ways to have fun, and occasionally tech policy from Aotearoa New Zealand. Views my own.
Leaning against a wall, with the other elders
Deranged liberal and Bluesky Elder: public-sector researcher on terrorism and violent extremism, and I am such, such the biggest nerd.
Kicked out of Twitter. I am a deaf cancer survivor and medical cannabis grower in California. I advocate for sensible gun control and disability rights.
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