Starter packs with Rachel Holliday Smith

A big list early adopting news sources / explainers on Bluesky. There are MANY more folks here, but I could only include 150. Please note that I'm not a journalist, but I can't remove myself as the creator of the list.

• Created by Greg Pak  over 1 year ago
• 34 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The Big Apple, bay-be! (Also cities, planning, transit, and broader urban affairs; pls don't fight in my mentions).

• Created by Nolan Hicks  over 1 year ago
• 25 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just an incomplete list of folks I follow who seem to have a grounded understanding of what's up and share solid information, good vibes, or practical thoughts on how to keep it moving in troubling times. I don't always agree with everything everyone here says, but I'm always happy to see them.

• Created by Greg Pak  about 1 year ago
• 18 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  about 1 year ago
• 17 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

News, urbanism, transit, art, libraries, and assorted delights from New York City

• Created by Joshua J. Friedman  over 1 year ago
• 11 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Includes a bunch of independent/non-profit news outlets and some non-journalists who actually know their fields and post about 'em!

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

Some of my favorites

• Created by Joshua J. Friedman  over 1 year ago
• 7 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A mix of grassroots, legal & policy orgs, scholars, journalists, policymakers & advocates that care about housing, homelessness & tenants rights 🔑 to get you started 🏠

• Created by Alliance for Housing Justice  about 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Marisa Kabas  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jean Carl  10 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jean Carl  10 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by FPL - El Toro  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Best of Follows

• Created by L. A. Johnson  7 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by PAT Programs  12 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by PAT Programs  12 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Magda Maaoui, PhD  5 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Rhode Island Red Food Tours  12 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Bobby Familiar  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jean Carl  10 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Publishing bold black and white words on the page, Gorilla Girl Ink loves social justice thrillers, fiction that flashes, banned book authors, X platform that crashes, flying free New Year blue sky bashes.

• Created by June Gillam  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just everyone I follow at the moment.

• Created by raygaholic  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jean Carl  10 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by FPL - El Toro  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by mauro-ortolano  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Nicole Brownstein  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Keep up with what's happening across the city from non-profit newsrooms, independent journalists, and more!

• Created by Fthisnoise  9 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Sameer Verma  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Deinonykiss  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Housing New York  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by homeinbklyn  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by E. Gleason  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by E. Gleason  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by E. Gleason  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Just me and my shadow  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by John S-F  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A decidedly inexhaustive, somewhat random list of people who fall into one or both of these categories: 1) people I know/have known; 2) people whose work or posts I enjoy or appreciate. Hit me up if I should add you to this list – especially if we know each other irl

• Created by theJLM / Jeremiah Lee McVay (he/him)  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Mark Smith  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

I've been painstakingly reconstructing my bird site news junkie ecosystem. Hopefully more follows will alert people enough to take a chance on Bsky. Tech, local DC news, latin america... It's a mix. #news #localnews #journalists

• Created by Rob  over 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This be the full crew o' amazin' mates from a wide ocean o' activists, explainer-, dogged-, investigatin' scribes, snapper, folk with tales to tell, writers, scientists, anarchists and other fine souls. This list be forged with plenty o' blood, sweat, an' salty tears. Aye!

• Created by Cap'n Broderick Leadfoot  6 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack of people I follow who write about cities, media studies, tech policy, libraries, literature, love… and this whole earth and this whole life.

• Created by Vipassana  12 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Today is the day NY votes for Mamdani (or those other two guys). Let's go vote NY!!!!

• Created by Grampa Jody  3 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Sebastian S. Cocioba  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Matt Tarduno  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

I'm Hemry Local Bartender and I approve these people

• Created by Hemry, Local Bartender  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Democrats/ Navy USA/ Army USA/ Air Force USA/ [email protected]

• Created by Mozelle Victory  12 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Dave  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Dave  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Janet 💙 Chapin's Best People's Starter Pack #2. Have fun, find great people and always vet and follow back 🔙‼️

• Created by Janet💙Chapin  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Janet 💙 Chapin's Great Follows on Bluesky 💙‼️ I highly recommend them ALL to you ❣️

• Created by Janet💙Chapin  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Bob de Bruce  over 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky