Dark Times Academy
Making learning joyful again
https://darktimesacademy.co.nz
@waxw.ing
Techy luddite working to create democratically accountable digital infrastructure. Surveillance, Sociology, Digital Justice, Programming, Social Movements, Infosec. Formerly riseup.net, leap.se, thoughtworks.com.
@savasavasava.bsky.social
academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in tkaronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. www.screeningsurveillance.com amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me drinking coffee from guillotine mug banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9 iykyk
@scicomguy.bsky.social
Science Lead at the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa & Otago Uni. Researching comms and comms-ing research. Psychology, risk, and media.
@thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social
Disabled non-binary mom. Antifascist always. I film cop stops in my free time. Use alt text or I will steal your picture and not give you credit.
@marvingardens.nz
Scot in Aotearoa, ex-scientist and journalist. Writing poetry and fiction, making pottery and willing to smash neo-liberalism. Anti-AI, LLMs. No Nazis/TERFS/billionaires. Plant based. Far left. He/him. Toitū Te Tiriti. https://marvingardens.nz
@mlascarides.bsky.social
Art tinkerer, library dweller, immigrant. Thinking a lot about how to prove libraries are worth keeping around. Ōtepoti.
@spencerbeswick.bsky.social
Historian of anarchism and the left in the Americas with a PhD from Cornell University
@andreakremer.bsky.social
Democracy enjoyer, separation of church and state enthusiast, rule of law supporter, coastal elite, empathy fan and practitioner, union member. Also: part-time creative, music nerd, cat wrangler. T-shirt co-magnate at bonfire.com/store/liberty-bodice
@lianza.bsky.social
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand A thriving library and information sector.
@andizeisler.bsky.social
Writer, editor, culture crone. Formerly Bitch Media. Currently some stuff and some other stuff (inquire within). Show me your dog.
@melanienewfield.bsky.social
Science and environment writer and communicator. Loves to talk about risk. Obsessed with plants and hopes to one day see every species of eucalypt. I make the science behind important issues accessible here: https://theturnstone.substack.com
@mdaubs.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago. Co-Director for Kōtaha: the Internet, Social Media and Politics Research Lab at Te Herega Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | 🇨🇦 in 🇳🇿 (he/him) | @mdaubs@aoir.social
@madeindex.bsky.social
🌍 The #Sustainability Index 🌲 #Environmental #News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact 💻 #Privacy, Journalism, #Politics, #Humor, #AI #Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature 💚 #Vegan & #vegetarian topics 🔗 madeindex.org
@livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social
A movement of community, faith based and union organisations campaigning for a Living Wage. We’re diverse, but share a common view – that the Living Wage is one way to lift working people from poverty and inequality. https://www.livingwage.org.nz
@maxjohns.nz
aka MxDEJ, aka Mike Alpha Xray. Glad to be here. Disliker of billionaire saboteurs.
@annamamho.bsky.social
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.
@tonipotter33.bsky.social
Sometime actor, gardener, compost builder of Te Tai Tokerau, Aotearoa (later known as New Zealand)- Pākehā/Kai Tahu.
@slanecartoon.bsky.social
Cartoonist https://www.slanecartoon.com 🇳🇿 #nzpol #cartoonist #comics #privacy #cybersec #mountainbiking
@hashigozake.bsky.social
@graveline.bsky.social
st paul, mn people gotta synchronize to animal time 💿 listen now: https://on.soundcloud.com/i6sqPZcrMemja8je6
@carb-on-carb.bsky.social
Kāi Tahu diaspora nb (he/him) left communist/ communal anarchist Kia kotahi rā te Moana Nui a Kiwa 🌊
@viddef.bsky.social
Homemaker. He/Him. Team 2024 YR4. Don't make me use my GenX coping mechanisms on you.
@riecks.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, photo metadata consultant, project leader http://PhotoMetadata.org Owner: http://Controlledvocabulary.com
@narwhallibrarian.bsky.social
Co-founder of Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social Counter disinfo 🗣 Critical tech 📵 Climate 🌀 Community education 📚 Words 🖋 Art 🎨 The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. —Dubord
@verbscape.bsky.social
User testimonials: "a great bear"; "a very wise stack of rocks". Social Justice NPC. Toitū te Tiriti.
@orthanc.nz
Semi-professional bad influence, secret santa imp, comfort food influencer, and all around good guy, He/Him, Orthanc of the Bluesky. Tāmaki Makaurau
@annapendergrast.bsky.social
Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
@kumararepublic.bsky.social
“It is cruel jest to tell a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” - MLK World's southernmost capital city, NZ/Aotearoa
@sageanastasi.bsky.social
Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @sageanastasi@mastodon.nz
@krveale.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer of Media Studies/Digital Media, and author. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-8932 https://wheretofind.me/@krveale "He/Him." Tangata Tiriti. All views expressed here are my own.
@srhastraea.bsky.social
Cognitive psych interested in distributed cognition, memory, weird and non-weird beliefs, cognitive biases, conspiracy belief, misinformation, scientific vs lay cognition, climate change, open science, metascience, 4eCognition. From Aotearoa/New Zealand
@cyncharron.bsky.social
Ōtautahi, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Mum of teens, former biology teacher. Proudly 🇨🇦 and 🇳🇿. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally. Desperate for covid safety in schools. Loves our greyhound Pearl, cargo e-bikes, cycle infrastructure, 📚, 🪡, 🧶. Please use alt-text for photos.
@allanalach.bsky.social
Another refugee from .... Retired primary school principal. career cut short by ME/CFS, with a very left view of life. Looking forward to meeting old and new friends. Email allan.alach@icloud.com
@kats-garden.nz
Tiny farmer in Te Hiku (Far North), Aotearoa. I grow stuff, I write about it. She/her. Pākeha. Toitū Te Tiriti. Your cat's favourite catnip purrveyor 😻 https://www.kats-garden.nz / https://www.katsnip.nz
@andrewtychen.bsky.social
Digital technology ethics (Chief Advisor: Technology Assurance at NZ Police), early-stage science and deep tech investment, cats. Always learning, opinions own.
@topherhenk.bsky.social
Mostly cycling, with some tech stuff. Green and class issues if in the mood for politics. Maybe some family photos if you are really lucky. Home is where it is raining heaviest.
@oblomova.bsky.social
Climate. Car and flight-free. Inordinately fond of sheep. Owner of cute wee 70s caravan. Crafty, gardener and a reader. I own a scythe and I'm not afraid to use it! Ōtepoti
@epredota.bsky.social
Chronically ill queer genderqueer neurodivergent Jewish witch anarcho-communist + Certified Bluesky Elder (lol). Pronouns vary. PP: Album cover of Ghost Of Cain by New Model Army HP: 🏴☠️on 5bar gate.
@cartoonsbyjim.bsky.social
Cartoonist by night, PR consultant by day. Music, movie & stand-up comedy enthusiast at all times! #Kiwi & #Aussie!
@supergoofnz.bsky.social
Geek, dog nut, player of video games. Middle-aged idle. May contain coarse language & traces of nuts. Tangata Tiriti, Aotearoa. She/her. #Kikorangi. #ToituTeTiriti / #TransRightsAreHumanRights / #BLM
@seawall.bsky.social
Pākehā, born on the land of the Lenape, now living on the whenua of Kāi Tahu. #ToitūTeTiriti #AuDHD #Queer Parent, poster, progressively worse. She/her
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.