@jamescapetown 🇿🇦SA🇿🇦 Starter Pack vol 2!
An updated list of 🇿🇦SA🇿🇦 BlueSky folk as at 17h46 Tuesday 19 Nov '24!
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@jamescapetown.bsky.social
@ayeshaomardr.bsky.social
British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Theoria• Gardening• Calligraphy
@discordiankitty.bsky.social
Videos & analysis on World of Warcraft lore. Find me @ DiscordianKitty on YouTube, Patreon, TikTok, & Twitch https://linktr.ee/discordiankitty
@adamwelz.bsky.social
Author THE END OF EDEN: WILD NATURE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (Bloomsbury) - avail. globally Writer, photographer, old-school naturalist etc. Posts mainly wildlife conservation, climate change, civil liberties & eclectic music Cape Town, S Africa
@julianwood.com
Head often in the clouds, hopefully grounded in reality. Helping people love #serverless @AWSCloud.
@dougaparry.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods https://dougaparry.com #commsky From South Africa
@geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Johannesburg-based correspondent for The Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously 15 years as a correspondent in Moscow and Beijing. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/
@superglaze.bsky.social
Journalist making plans Guitar and vocals @ The Board https://t.ly/UK99J Once wrote a digital rights book called Control Shift https://t.ly/nKVZD European African in Europe. Signal: superglaze.66
@lisas-version.swifties.social
24 • swiftie 🫶🏼 • fan since debut 🦋 • south african 🇿🇦 • London Eras N4-8 🇬🇧 • bi • TN x 1 🫶🏼 (@ lisas_version from twt)
@cobus.dev
Bearded Sr. Developer 🥑 for @AWScloud Spreads DevOps ❤️ If there isn't a terrible dad joke, was it even a conversation? Opinions mine, get's me into trouble. Yes, that ~is~ was my roof.
@pamelaweaver.bsky.social
Writing for a living, mostly about tech. Historian in a previous life. Politics, history, bikes, books, cricket, gardening, dogs, music. SocDem. #FreeSafeLegal Ireland/France/South Africa 🇮🇪 🇿🇦 🇫🇷 Fair warning: expect photos of dogs, France & cake
@johanviljoen.bsky.social
Postdoc, @uniofexeter Cornwall. Marine Phytoplankton vertical structure response to Climate Change. Previously Stellenbosch Uni (South Africa), Phytoplankton & Trace Metals in the Southern Ocean. BioGeoSCAPES Fellow. academic.link/johannesjviljoen
@rehanvdm.bsky.social
AWS Hero | Blogger | Speaker | Serverless and coffee junkie | Building cloudglance.com
@michaelmitchell.bsky.social
Family and friends are more important to me than anything else - interested in travel, theatre, nature, language, sports. If you need to contact me, my email address can be found in my large profile photo. (UVic, UofT)
@rob-kowa.bsky.social
philosopher of science, language, sport | politics | art | photography | sapere aude! | ‘knowledge’ is not a count term | U of the Witwatersrand | AI delenda est | views mine 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇺🇦🇫🇷🇮🇹🇬🇧 #PhilSky www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Kowal
@tashjoeza.bsky.social
A mysterious but friendly vampire Muppet // Editor // 🇿🇦 // (she, they, helluva gay). Banner pic: Stripey dog in silhouette, a red ball in her mouth seeming to glow in the waning light. Profile pic: NJ holding a zebra skull in front of her own face
@janleidecker.bsky.social
International Relations :: Southern Africa :: Based in Berlin :: my heart is in Johannesburg :: Loving gym, rowing and a United Europe :: i love techno
@j.wc.tc
I’m a purple butterfly in a sky of blue & red. I’m Dedicated to solving problems & help humanity. Looking for collaborators, advisors, supporters, & contributors. Let’s schedule! @i.wc.tc A4R.net [No DMs Only Public] [I Follow Back with discression] 💜
@hfx.bsky.social
Sci-fi reader. Digital art lover. Anti-racist. Anti-Crypto. Anti-AI-art theft. 🇿🇦🇳🇱
@jesseburton.bsky.social
Energy policy and just transition researcher with a focus on coal transitions. Senior Researcher at the Energy Systems Research group at University of Cape Town and Senior Associate at E3G
@ambient1sounds.bsky.social
Ambient Sounds For Happiness, Wellbeing And Peace. ....20+ Ambient Sounds and 200+ Ambient Videos.... https://www.youtube.com/@meridianrelaxation/featured https://ko-fi.com/meridianrelaxation
@darren.africandefence.net
Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence) Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa. Email: dolivier@africandefence.net Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/9yYQ7ONQJ8KYa71byz4avvZuSICtMLWim0AlDOYqYwwZhOSZaVpGKLUzYPBqrJAM
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Assoc Prof of Law & Society @JohnJayCollege + Sociology @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. I research marriage as a sociolegal institution, esp in South Africa. Opinions not employer's. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
@amarjeat.bsky.social
@kiwisim4.bsky.social
Warren, He/Him , early 30s , Custom Content Creator, playing since The Sims 1 INFP Creator code: Kiwisim4 #EACreatorNetwork Im the good kiwi 🥝 not that dumpster fire 🔥
@edrybicki.bsky.social
Semi-retired biotechnologist and virologist, interested in making vaccines, lover of 70s rock and hard SF. And good red wine. Posts are both personal and professional, and may include music and/or strong opinions. And possibly zombies.
@thejessness.bsky.social
tv+film editor+ae 🎬✂️ feline appreciator • yarn transformer i’ll be on the dancefloor 🪩 (she/her) 📍cape town
@fumblebee.bsky.social
Turkeys are the worst birds. Twitch: thefumblebee I don’t do it for the follows or likes but the company is cool
@singe.bsky.social
Hacker at Orange Cyberdefense's SensePost Team https://hello.singe.za.net/
@mtdixonrice.bsky.social
Montana novelist, avid reader, vaxxed, lost wife to Parkinsons. Author of serial-killer-thriller THE ASSASSINS CLUB on Kindle
@astronomy2024.bsky.social
The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union is coming to the African continent for the first time - Cape Town 2024. #ItsTimeForAfrica astronomy2024.org
@dwuff.com
South African painter & illustrator. She/Her. Pigment enthusiast. TTRPG enjoyer. 🩷💜💙 Married to @thebeardlyben.art ✨ Dachshund möther. Autism & disability self advocacy. Exvangelical. https://linktr.ee/danellemalan
@shonatiger.bsky.social
Storyteller. 📚 @hararereview.bsky.social linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks 💜 #Obsidianmd and 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe feed links in pinned thread.
@thegrahamza.bsky.social
Writer by trade. Writer by passion. Always looking for cool game dev clients with even cooler projects. Check out #Residual #DeckOfSouls #OrgansPlease #RevivalRecolonization #AnvilSaga #OverKnights Contact details and portfolio 👉 linktr.ee/thegrahamza
@toeianimation.bsky.social
Official Twitter company account of Toei Animation for North America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
@jmigozzi.bsky.social
Economic-urban geographer. Visiting UC Berkeley Sociology. Research Fellow, Oxford University & Urban Studies Foundation. I study digital capitalism, markets and inequalities. https://jmigozzi.github.io
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
The world doesn't have to be this way. Biodiversity, climate risk, resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof environmental futures, conservation biology, Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UnivCapeTown
@liorphillips.bsky.social
verklempt, mostly. 🌿Author of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere ❤️🔥Currently writing a book about Cher 🖤🇿🇦🪬🧿mother of twins 〰️ music journalist chicago via cape town
@emilybethwong.bsky.social
Durban-ite, mom of 3, scientist, ID doc, plant lover, trying hard to understand subclinical / asymptomatic TB at AHRI & UAB 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 #TBsky #IDsky
@ashwinarts.bsky.social
🇿🇦 20 📩Email: ashwinarts565@gmail.com ✨reference redraw Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/ashwinarts/goal?g=1 Links: https://beacons.ai/ashwin._.arts Discord: https://discord.gg/TkjuugTr6K Twitch: https://m.twitch.tv/ashwinarts/home
@riesel.bsky.social
Quando a ignorância reina, sinta *schadenfreude" ao ver aqueles que pensam que sabem tudo tropeçarem na realidade. 🇩🇪 🇧🇷🌍⛵🏔️📸👨💻
@laurenbeukes.com
Novelist, TV writer, comics writer and recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV) Zoo City and multiverse-lost-mother-thriller, BRIDGE - out now
@marcbrooker.bsky.social
Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own. Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
@ginapieters.bsky.social
I was an academic economist for over 10 yrs (UMinn, TrinityU, UChicago) now I work as a researcher specializing in macro-system impacts of digital assets, money, & payments (crypto/stablecoins/CBDCs). #EconSky #Chicago www.digitaleconomyconsulting.com
@johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa, UVA. Usually found in Virginia, longing for Cape Town.
@nickhedley.bsky.social
Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions. Email me for collaboration opportunities: nick.hedley@theprogressplaybook.com
@peterdutoit.com
I speak about climate futures, mitigation and adaptation in the face of the climate crisis. 🇿🇦 I am a huge fan of ephemeral social media, so my posts delete after 90 days. Content that I want around longer is on my blog. https://peterdutoit.com
@outonthemoors.bsky.social
Vulgar woman My posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rzgxnxi42gyskrxw247ofmee/feed/aaacezco2p44q
@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social
🇿🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸Neuroscientist/amateur virologist. Professor, University of Utah. Molecular mechanisms of memory, repurposed transposons, and virus-like intercellular signaling. Personal views. Photography, travel, sports. www.shepherdlab.org
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction at Colby College, my views etc.) https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@tauriq.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow studying international human rights law @ Trinity College, Dublin (he/him) Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency
@dunxen.dev
“wow, everything’s computer” FOSSy guy 🏳️🌈 • NixOS ❄️ • RISC-V • Rust 🦀 • 🇿🇦 • Physics Grad ⚛️ • Btrust Grantee working on lightningdevkit.org 🦨 Zorilla Works @nexed.works ダンカン / 던컨 South African 🇿🇦 Visited 🇺🇸🇨🇭🇵🇹🇨🇿🇶🇦🇬🇭🇳🇱🇭🇰🇰🇷🇯🇵🇰🇪 dunxen.dev
@thebeardlyben.art
He/him. Bearded Illustrator & animator at @freelives.bsky.social. Twitch affiliate. Husbear of @dwuff.com . Metalhead. TTRPG enthusiast. Cat and dog dad. Bisexual. ✉️ thebeardlyben@gmail.com Linktree - https://linktr.ee/thebeardlyben
@gmcd.bsky.social
Economics and data science | Former academic now working in the tech sector | Views my own | 🇿🇦 in 🇺🇸 | https://grantmcdermott.com/
@dcuthbert.bsky.social
Ageing hacker. Black Hat Review board. Now sitting on numerous government cyber security boards so I guess that means I’ve grown up right?
@erikemueller.com
he/هو. nonstate armed actors, the state, armed conflict, North Africa, West Asia, & South Asia. Defense Analyst @RAND.org. PhD student with @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Opinions mine. Timberwolves. www.erikemueller.com
@alastairmca30.bsky.social
Pediatric infectious disease physician, author, runner, metal fan. Dislikes Pseudoscience and bigotry. Views ≠ my employer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Prescription: Ice Cream available now! https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Doctors-Journey-Discover-Matters-ebook/dp/B0CY347H4D
@adambouska.bsky.social
Fashion Photographer & NOH8 Campaign Co-Founder ★★★★★ AdamBouska.com
@noh8campaign.bsky.social
Putting a face to the fight for equality! Join us in taking a stand against bullying and discrimination. #NOH8 #NOH8Worldwide Learn more at: NOH8Campaign.com
@jamescapetown.bsky.social
World's 13th most influential #livestreamer (www.influence.co/category/livestreaming) ➡ follow my #CapeTown #food/#travel/#news exp's! 👍 #Depression/#PTSD struggler & activist 😎🌍🇿🇦