Toronto the Good
All things Toronto, through a decidedly progressive lens.
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@nemanjabb.bsky.social
@jaypitter.bsky.social
Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
@jocelynsquires.bsky.social
Toronto-centric voice for architecture and urbanism. Transit nerd. Recovering American. Research, writing, bikes, architect-adjacent. (EN/FR, she/her/elle)
@instantdistractions.com
Father. Marketing & Community Professional. Gamer. Goldsmith. Raptor Fan. Confused & Jaded former "Paid" activist. Find my stuff at: www.InstantDistractions.com (currently migrating off Shopify)
@johnlorinc.bsky.social
Toronto journalist & editor. Contributor to Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, Spacing. Co-editor: Messy Cities (Coach House, 2025). Author: No Jews Live Here, A Memoir. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jews-Live-Here.
@ericlombardi.bsky.social
A thoughtful guy in fintech. Champion of progress. YIMBY @moreneighbours Toronto. Writes in @TheHubCanada @TorontoStar 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🌐🏗🏙
@moreneighboursto.bsky.social
Toronto's pro-housing movement. More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
@biancawylie.com
@miltonlaura.bsky.social
Journalist, and storyteller, and basketball fan. Indie-published author through Amazon. Buy Chronicles of the Cure Book 1 today through Amazon: https://shorturl.at/jBMUZ
@cbkemp.bsky.social
An IT/infosec guy who mostly tweets about sustainable, safe, and scalable infrastructure, bicycles, Toronto, tech, gaming, and cinema.
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
Toronto magazine writer and editor, trying this out. Executive editor @thelocal.to. Here for smart longform articles and dumb basketball posts.
@danyaalraza.com
family MD | UofT assistant professor | writing + research on health systems, primary care & possibilities for reform | danyaalraza.com
@blairaf.com
Researcher, educator, creative @ UToronto Transfeminist AI ethics, policy, governance: blairaf.com Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she) ✨Asst Prof (LTA) of Digital Media & Game Studies, U of Toronto Mississauga ✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy ✨PhD(c) U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com/
@christelle.bsky.social
Tech Policy Researcher Grad student at University of Toronto Faculty of Information prev: @PrincetonCITP @christelletessono@dair-community.social She/Her/Elle christelletessono.com
@therewasnosound.bsky.social
arts & culture journalist co-founder @newfeelingcoop writing a book about the history of electronic music in so-called canada for @invisibooks
@lilianradovac.bsky.social
Writer. Arts + memory worker. Sometimes organizer. Post-academic. Disabled/dystonic. Toronto; prev. MTL, NYC. she/they/Dr.
@lanrickbennett.bsky.social
Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
@how-sen.com
Toronto urban environmentalist. 20+ years in climate activism. From Etobicoke. ADHDer. Fancy degrees from McGill and Yale. Posts are my own. https://how-sen.com/link
@glynbowerman.bsky.social
Toronto-based journalist, podcaster, and editor. Cities, Raptors, Leeds United, and two black cats named Hall & Oates. I make an urban affairs podcast called Spacing Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spacing-radio/id1124077274
@glennsumi.bsky.social
25 yrs @ Toronto's NOW Magazine covering theatre (mostly), comedy, film. Now freelance. Star, Globe, Variety. He/him. Blog: So Sumi, covering Toronto performing arts.
@chanface.bsky.social
I make transit construction timelines! 🚧 🚇 | Organizer @tritag.ca | Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 23 | UW Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
@furnesscolin.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and COVID safety advocate. Associate Professor of Information (teaching stream), University of Toronto. My accordion made me do it. (he/him).
@spacing.bsky.social
Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts. Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
@dylanreid.bsky.social
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
@dkfoster.bsky.social
Tweetdecker formerly known as @cityslikr or Former Tweetdecker known as @cityslikr Creator of, curator and writer for All Fried Up in the Big Smoke afuitbs.com
@docnaismith.bsky.social
Amateur pundit with a penchant for perms—never fight a man with one! Hailing from the same hometown as my moniker, though we never met. Former Raptors Republic partner. My opinions? More unpredictable and chaotic than the Dallas Mavericks front office. 🇨🇦🇩🇪
@jasonparis.bsky.social
Obsessed with architecture, design, infrastructure, kitties, media, music, podcasts, politics, Toronto, transit, travel, and all things 2SLGBTQ+. 🇨🇦 *Opinions are, regrettably, my own.*
@torontoarchives.bsky.social
This is not yet an official account. We maintain & make accessible records of enduring value that give evidence of decisions, policies & activities of the City of Toronto.
@torontohistoric.bsky.social
Daily OTD historic images of Toronto from a range of archives, books, and photographers
@ronsexsmith.bsky.social
Canadian singer/songwriter. 3 time Juno winner Former kid detective. Idiot savant without the savant part. Dad. Lawn mower
@cancovsoc.bsky.social
At the Canadian Covid Society, we strive to protect the health and safety of people in Canada against the harms of COVID-19 and long Covid, through education, engaging and empowering the public and organizations with scientific knowledge.
@jodiesjumpsuit.bsky.social
The thing I failed to realize a decade ago was what if my throwaway anonymous Twitter account became popular
@tdotresident.bsky.social
@graphicmatt.com
City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
@thebeguiling.bsky.social
35 years of comics, manga, graphic novels & high-art funny books | Original art |
@anotherglassbox.bsky.social
Building hater/appreciator out of Toronto. He/they. Hates your neighbourhood’s character, yes, specifically yours.
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
@deonandan.bsky.social
Professor, Epidemiologist, Research Chair in University Teaching. Teller of stupid jokes, Keeper of good hair, Servant to a 4-year old, Scourge of the ignorant. www.deonandan.com
@balkissoon.bsky.social
Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great. (Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Local tosser Books author (New: Stroll!) Toronto Star column writer Spacing Magazine co-founder U of T instructor Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place. Links to books, etc: https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, Elle Magazine, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine and more, author of three books. 🇨🇦
@navneetalang.com
Editor on the Opinion team at the Toronto Star. Pitch me op-eds, essays at nalang@thestar.ca. Writer and former columnist with bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
@normwilner.bsky.social
Consultant! Writer! Host! SEMcast, Secret Movie Club, SHINY THINGS. I can probably help you with your movie. He/him. https://linktr.ee/normwilner
@tryangregory.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do. He/him.
@ekoreen.bsky.social
Basketball words at The Athletic. Invented the #HotTake. I'm not that good at breathing in
@dfisman.bsky.social
Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star. Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
@jessehawken.bsky.social
Host and producer of the Junk Filter podcast. Toronto born and raised. patreon.com/junkfilter
@young.me
Vaccine Hunters Canada Founder. Speaker. Web Developer. Cat/Anime/Keanu Reeves fan. He/him. X was @andryou 🔗 young.me 💬 Signal: young.01 Maintainer: 🤖 @craigweekend.bsky.social, @thursaconcept.bsky.social 🌎 bsky.to, isblueskydown.com
@nemanjabb.bsky.social
Likes words + pictures. Still here (in academia, thinking about contemporary lit, visual culture, & politics of aesthetics). Coined the phrase "It's Adam & Eve, not Adam & Jeeves" as a [bad] argument against labour exploitation. Salting the vibes.