Starter packs with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Blacksky is where culture happens. This starter pack is a selection of accounts and feeds popular with the Blacksky community.

• Created by Rudy wants revolution.  over 1 year ago
• 173 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Here's a sampling of people, orgs and publications I follow on Bluesky.

• Created by Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart  about 1 year ago
• 91 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A mix of critical, enthusiastic, and moderate voices. This one hit the 150-person limit, so see also part 2 at https://go.bsky.app/LfBmi32

• Created by Anna Mills  11 months ago
• 86 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The definitive list of people fighting back against Trump.

• Created by We Resist  11 months ago
• 56 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Writers, artists, weirdos. Personally, I'm hoping that two out of three ain't bad.

• Created by David M. Perry  about 1 year ago
• 50 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Media we follow!

• Created by Films For Action  10 months ago
• 38 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Recommended feeds and users for journalists / news! 🗞️

• Created by Emily Liu  over 1 year ago
• 36 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A great mix of different subjects and interests from people who are active on Bluesky. Dive in! Bluesky has "the juice."

• Created by Hunter Walker  11 months ago
• 17 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack for intellectual historians, broadly construed, and those in adjacent disciplines - philosophers, political and legal theorists, literary scholars, etc. By no means exhaustive. Continued into Part 2 and so on.

• Created by Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー  11 months ago
• 16 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Content for studying and advancing socio-ecological transformations that render a more caring and democratic society within planetary boundaries.

• Created by David Palomera 🇵🇸🇺🇦  11 months ago
• 15 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Michael  10 months ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A few poasters to follow if you want to live...in a livable climate. Some climate researchers, some climate journalists, some climate activists, all climate poasters.

• Created by Costa Samaras  over 1 year ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

I have excellent taste. These are fun, lovely, brilliant, cool people you should follow. You’re welcome. You look like you need a win.

• Created by Saeed Jones  11 months ago
• 7 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Some great accounts and feeds to follow for those who study or work in academic philosophy. Sorry, but this starter pack is now full so it’s not possible to add anyone else! For a list of philosophers on Bluesky, see https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3bybp6nqszlhuan2ch2cmv66/lists/3l6zq7w7wgt26.

• Created by Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻  over 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

If you like philosophy of tech, potentially good people to start following here. Heavy in #PhilTech-adjacent scholars like historians and STSers.

• Created by AshlEEEK ShoooOOOooo, our region's third most haunted body  11 months ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Group of influential scientist and science communicators on Bluesky as of October/November 2024. You can see a description of our method here: https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-emerging-as-the-new-platform-for-science/ and here: https://lassehjorthmadsen.github.io/blueskyanalyses/

• Created by Mike Young  11 months ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Hey you know some of these people! You don't know others! I like all of 'em and if you like me you might like them. Be excellent to each other. Friends, faves, raves, and Flavor Flav.

• Created by A.R. Moxon  11 months ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Interested in creating a sustainable food, land use, and climate future? Like talking about not only problems but also solutions? Some suggested follows here.

• Created by Richard Waite  about 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

- the radical left - the marxists - the anarchists - the agitators - the looters - the people who in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing

• Created by transgender marx  11 months ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by SergeantAVG.bsky.social  11 months ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack of official (and unofficial) union accounts, labor leaders, labor journalists, activists & more.

• Created by Martha  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Collaborators & contributors at The Polycrisis. A bunch of smart people on political economy of climate change & related things, some of whom will start posting here more soon, I am sure.

• Created by Kate Mackenzie  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Robi  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A collection of accounts that shape my understanding of things. Take the time to explore and find the ones that resonate with you - resist the bulk purchase mentality. Inclusion =/= Endorsement Curated with love y’all 🌍

• Created by Shai 🇧🇩🇲🇺(🇺🇸)  10 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Economists, scientists, scholars, activists, theorists, communicators, & others who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies that run counter to contemporary neoliberal economics. (Also ecosocialism, doughnut economics, et al.)

• Created by Jesse Damiani  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Occupy Wall Street  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The first part of an incomplete starter pack for research and resources on Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, etc. Please write if you feel like you should be on here (or you want to be removed). You will be added to Part II, which can be found here: https://go.bsky.app/5GR8AAt . 🍉

• Created by Mikkel Flohr  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Putting together a list of Black/African economists and academics for an easily accessible list of scholars doing and publishing research that we can all read and cite

• Created by Belinda Archibong  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Fellows, staff, and comrades of the Climate and Community Institute

• Created by J. Mijin Cha  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

hiya making this starter pack of folks working in carbon removal. missing loads of folks and can't keep up with all the folks joining bluesky, please reply/DM to get added!

• Created by Catherine Fraser  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by dswalsh  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Essential follows for Crider Thought

• Created by Paul Crider  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

If you're African, or working on Africa issues - whether environmental, social, political-economy related - feel free to join this starter pack!

• Created by Atieno Mboya  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Helpful reporting, analysis and commentary for anyone, but especially people interested in liberal-left to leftist thinking. Just started; will be updating and open to suggestions.

• Created by Zeeshan Aleem  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Blessing Sonia Bulaun  9 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of black academics, independent scholars and deep thinkers. Please contact me if you'd like to be removed from this list. All of the folks on this list--and more!--can be found at the #Blackademics feed. Follow there to be part of the conversation.

• Created by Jonathan W. Gray  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Maria Langholz  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Loey Norquist  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

For those interested in the study of relationships between language and society

• Created by Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Marisa Kabas  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

We are a worker self-directed nonprofit organization that builds solidarity economy ecosystems using data science, story-based strategy, and action research.

• Created by Solidarity Research Center  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Fabienne Vande Meerssche  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Here’s a starter pack of NA news, geopolitical news, analysis and OSINT

• Created by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Feeds of media organizations and journalists/writers you can trust.

• Created by bblloobb  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A bunch of people who are organizers in various orgs, movements, and causes, paid or volunteer. Also social scientists who study organizing and community building. And a couple of independent publishing houses and media outlets.

• Created by Clément Petitjean  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People who do work on the history of socialism. Covering various aspects, tendencies, and eras, including recent years.

• Created by Neil Warner  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Also feat ecological, planetary, energy systems etc

• Created by Rosie Collington  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People interested in Global South, Majority World and post-colonial/decolonial perspectives on development, environment, climate change and post-growth/degrowth. People committed to taking decolonial perspectives, in scholarship and in practice.

• Created by Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This generation of Book Authors with Black Books for you to support. Fight against Book Bans and the censor of Black literature. Never say you can't find us.

• Created by Steven Underwood  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky