The Bollard
Fearless indie journalism about Maine since 2005. Subscribe at bollardhead.substack.com for scoops, rants, and daily music & arts listings
@chickenforxmas.bsky.social
50% of Team Pretty Kitty, 25% of Covered in Bees, bookkeeper, cat dad, story-yeller, crossword puzzler, OG Turbojugend Port City, horror/genre fan, record collector, Mainer. I make jokes because I am uncomfortable everywhere. ⚰️🚫🤘
@mainefarmersmkts.bsky.social
We're the statewide nonprofit organization that supports Maine farmers' markets with resources, promotion, advocacy, fiscal agency, food access programming, and more! mainefarmersmarkets.org
@assistant.bandcamp.com
Left-field jangle pop from Brighton: Felt/Yo La Tengo/Stereolab etc. CERTAIN MEMORIES is out on Subjangle NOW: https://assistant.bandcamp.com/album/certain-memories
@labourstart.bsky.social
The global trade union movement's news and campaigns service. www.LabourStart.org
@ndrew.bsky.social
Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
@labornotes.bsky.social
Putting the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. linktr.ee/labornotes
@ericblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Rutgers Labor Studies; author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/ Red State Revolt, laborpolitics.substack.com; EWOC, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, 🌹
@mainematters.bsky.social
A round-up of Resistance events and political updates for the week in Maine. #Maine #MEPolitics #politics #Resistance
@commondreams.org
News and opinion for a better world. Nonprofit. Independent. Reader-supported. https://www.commondreams.org/
@bmcquade.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Criminology at University of Southern Maine: https://usm.maine.edu/directories/people/brendan-mcquade/ Anti-security collective member: https://www.anti-security.org/ Your go-to fusion center critic: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/p
@glamulus.bsky.social
Owner - Piano Movers of Maine, single dad, motorcyclist, troublemaker, etc
@roaddude.bsky.social
Photog/Writer/Artist/Cook Maine Coast - Well versed in slow travel, off grid, & back country life - Gardening Geek, Woodworker - #TheMicrofarm - #GetOutside Wherever you go, whatever you do, "#LeaveItBetterThanYouFoundIt"
@jenjoaquin.com
Silly, loud, lucky artist learning spanish and loving life. Mainer, bigtime backyard gardener, Gen X, left of left, with an accidental cat, regularly travels to the Basque Country with my media naranja 🍉🌎☮️
@iwriteok.bsky.social
I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
@ddayen.bsky.social
Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
@thegroovebarn.bsky.social
Live music sessions recorded in Maine. Our main focus is spotlighting bands that play original music.
@sounds-of-the-city.bsky.social
Weekly and monthly playlists showcasing most of the bands playing in/around Portland the upcoming week. Hear something you like, check out the show! If you have a band/show to add, send a message!
@jensmind.bsky.social
Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine, Freelance Editor, Class Solidarity over Nationalism, Arrested for Lollygagging in Whiterun, Coastal Maine She/Her https://jrey.trollbreath.com/ https://magazine.trollbreath https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
@maddyv1.bsky.social
gallerist/proprietress at Sidle House Freeport, Maine SidleHouse.com
@strim.bsky.social
Former Mayor. Former State Senator. Current podcaster at wmtw.com/inthearena/ & columnist at mainebeacon.com/author/ethan-strimling/ "I have never feared becoming too radical. I have feared becoming too conservative." Eugene Debs
@improvportland.bsky.social
Improv Games every Wednesday (No Audience)! - 7-9pm Upstairs at the Woodfords Club in Portland (Or often at the Eastern Prom Gazebo in the summer). All experience levels encouraged to come! Donation-based. We head to a bar after!
@annella.bsky.social
Host of the Morning Beat on WMPG Northern Irelander, Londoner and Portlander
@wingedprints.bsky.social
Jaime Wing 🪽 he/him Artist Printmaker based in Portland, Maine 👉🏼 https://wingedprints.com/shop 👈🏼
@youranoncentral.bsky.social
#Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://spookyconnections.com/
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories. https://bit.ly/4lbdmXU
@zfabrics.bsky.social
Independently owned fabric and yarn shop in downtown Portland Maine. Offering beautiful and inspired fabrics, yarns and supplies for the modern maker.
@radiojunkdrawer.bsky.social
mister pence wednesdays 4p eastern maine | portland in the air | 90.9 FM in the stream | wmpg.org in the app | wmpg show archive: wmpg.org/show/radiojunkdrawer playlists: https://spinitron.com/WMPG/show/166827/Radio-Junk-Drawer
@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work. https://davidgraeber.institute
@jdorchen.bsky.social
essayist, fiction writer, other kind of writer, food preparer and eater, illustration guy, sickened unto death by the folly of humanity, nevertheless astonished by the cosmic myriad
@introvertedknitter.bsky.social
Yarn artist, sourdough enthusiast, amateur sewist, Mainer
@milestone-recovery.bsky.social
Providing help and hope for those facing homelessness and substance use since 1967. ☀️ 🌈
@preblestreet.bsky.social
50 years of creating solutions for homelessness, hunger, and poverty in Maine. Meeting urgent needs, advocating for change, and empowering people. #PrebleStreet50 #CompassioninAction
@heritageseaweed.bsky.social
Seaweed products & uncommon gifts in Portland, Maine ~ heritageseaweed.com
@jeritheriault.bsky.social
Poet and collage artist. Author of SELF-PORTRAIT AS HOMESTEAD, (M)OTHER, RADOST, MY RED and editor of WAIT: POEMS FROM THE PANDEMIC. https://www.jeritheriault.com/
@dennisperkins5.bsky.social
Freelance writer. LateNighter, AV Club, Ultimate Classic Rock, Paste, Primetimer, Portland Press Herald, EW, etc. See my stuff at https://authory.com/DennisPerkins Currently preparing for the coming Thunderdome. Join me, won't you?
@theflytrapmedia.com
Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm. 🔗 theflytrapmedia.com