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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com A project of The Center For Scientific Integrity https://centerforscientificintegrity.org/
Daily newsletter http://eepurl.com/bNRlUn
Database http://retractiondatabase.org
Tips team@retractionwatch.com (better than @ replies)
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Izzy @izzyrizinti.bsky.social Cis Lesbian. Queer AF. Feminist, gives good resting b/tch face. I snark occasionally and I swear a lot so, ya know, be prepared. She/Her
ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com bugs and shrews, critters with booze
https://ascalaphid.com
https://bowelfly.tumblr.com
stickers: https://ko-fi.com/ascalaphid/shop
QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com Understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media with our free weekly newsletter 🏳️🌈
📧 4.8/5⭐ newsletter
🎙️ QueerAF podcast
🏳️⚧️ @transhistoryweek.com
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social YouTuber, author, critic, actor.
linktr.ee/councilofgeeks
Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social Streaming at twitch.tv/caseyexplosion
Youtube: youtube.com/@CaseyExplosion
Steam Curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28340174-Casey-Explosion/
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids
https://www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vids
https://www.patreon.com/shaunfromyoutube
Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social 🧬 Biomed experts mobilizing scientists to fight transphobia through education 🏳️⚧️
🌐 beyondxandy.org
✉️ info@beyondxandy.org
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered
Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865
Some writing and illustration for @thedailytism.com
Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️⚧️
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social A podcast about deconstructing the feminist discourses in academia and popular culture.
Hosts:
@taliabhatt.itch.io
@dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Find us at crackedivory.com or wherever you listen to podcasts! Support us at patreon.com/CrackedIvoryPod
@muppetssextrauma.bsky.social @muppetssextrauma.bsky.social "Muppets, Sex, and Trauma" is how Sara described Farscape to newbies Jack and Josh, and so naturally that is what we called the podcast. Episodes released biweekly
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io she/her/xe/xer
Support my work: https://taliabhatt.com
Preorder CALL ME KIMBERLY: https://taliabhatt.com/#rcbg
Co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social, co-author of "Attack Dogs" with @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Read ATTACK DOGS: attackdogs.ju.mp
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social Disabled, nonbinary trans woman(she/they/fae), ace, lesbian, artist,
Writes and creates with Tirrrb and Jessie Gender,
Video essays: https://youtube.com/@Aranock
Other links: https://linktr.ee/Aranock
PFP by my friend https://www.tumblr.com/lowdowndandy
Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan
<Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>
Sara The Fat Culture Critic 🇨🇦 @saraezzat.bsky.social I talk about culture and representation. I am also fat, which shapes how I see the world and how it sees me. I am also a cisgender, bisexual, queer, neurodivergent, Egyptian/Scottish/Canadian cis woman https://youtube.com/@Sara_TheFatCultureCritic
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Steph Paton @stephpaton.bsky.social Glasgow left journo writing about politics, LGBTQ+ liberation and environmentalism. Columnist for @ScotNational. They/Them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Views are mine etc.
Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social Working for gender identity and gender reassignment equality and rights in Scotland. Part of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
https://www.scottishtrans.org/
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Iris Duane MSP 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @irisduane.bsky.social Green MSP for the Glasgow Region 💚
Socialist, feminist and trade unionist ✊🏾
Let’s make hope normal again!
she/her/hers
Views my own 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). Equalities officer for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
jj 🍉 @sapphicsgalaxy.bsky.social needy and a bit feral ✨ they/them ✨ lesbian ✨ 28
Emily Andras @emandras.bsky.social Writer of scripts. Attempter some quips. Eater your chips. #WynonnaEarp etc.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0028118/
Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social Analysis & commentary on UK law affecting trans people and their rights. Our work is unfortunately suspended at the moment.
Deeply opposed to UKSC/FWS ruling of 16/4/25 & to its blatant exploitation to hurt trans people by the EHRC, the media & others.
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social Elf Princess: feminist, journalist, campaigner on political and sexual liberty: also IT, law and policing. Content may contain spoof!
She/her. Also fae/faer
Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com Professional tree enthusiast with a PhD about it.
Not being super professional here.
I make pride pins to fund my transition.
canopyrobin.com/links
(they/she)
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social she/her feminist author
Books: The seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
(And others)
Newsletter https://www.feministgiant.com/
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
Submission? DM me
DMs are subject to the public
Buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/askaubry
Follow≠endorse
TL=TW
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin.
Please repost any you like.
Patreon: https://patreon.com/microsff
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/microsff
Books: https://microsff.com/books
UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social The trade union for staff at the University of Glasgow.
📥 : ucug@glasgow.ac.uk
https://glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/
J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS.
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social Director & Writer | IDENTITEAZE film | YouTuber | former writer/video producer at Gamespot, The Advocate, Microsoft, Out Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, & Skybound | Trekkie by birth
https://www.jessieearl.com/
Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social World's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy.
Website: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/
Other social links: https://beacons.ai/v_museum
Donate: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/donate
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social Italian | 🏳️🌈 | ♿ | antifa terrorist | writes stuff | rep'd by Laura Bradford
X @jackdaw_writes
IG @jackdaw_writes
Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social Senior videogame tech artist /art director.
Unreal Tournament 04, Dragonage, D&D Online, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Stellaris, Civ IV + more. VFX Where The Wild Things Are.
https://www.delaneyking.com
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Morag Perkins @moragperkinsphoto.com Photographer, mostly film, mostly plants. Looking straight into the light with the lens wide open.
Also occasionally touching on disability, MECFS, and rare types of diabetes (specifically MODY)
She/her
Glasgow, Scotland
www.moragperkinsphoto.com
Colin Perkins @csperkins.org Computer networking research and Internet standards. Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. Long-time IETF participant. Former chair of the IRTF. Personal views only. 🏴🇪🇺
https://csperkins.org/
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social truth, science, hope
Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social trans butch lesbian anarchist. disabled feminist theorist. she/her.
Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network https://transsafety.network/
Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK.
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork
Max Carnage @maxcarnage.bsky.social Photographer and commission miniature painter based in Glasgow 🏴
Nonbinary ADHD gremlin
Profile pic: @altformat
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social She/her, Disability Justice, feminist, equalities consultant, writer, performance poet. Zines, physics, poetry, politics, cats, accessibility, landscape, Scotland, complexity 🏴❤️🦕
https://linktr.ee/FionaRobertson
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social Cartoonist, scientist. I draw cartoons for newscientist. I wrote a book once. 
Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
Donate; http://liberapay.com/ballotboxscot
Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social What distant worlds may be like. Or not. An exoplanet bot by @cbquist.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter.
Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura, Empire, etc. she/her
Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
@yendraws
@readatmidnight
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Dani Donovan 👩🏻🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com ✨ ALL THE LINKS:
https://linktr.ee/danidonovan
🎨 ADHD comic artist + TikTok creator
https://adhddd.com
📚 Author of “The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It”
https://anti-planner.com
Natalie Washington @transsomething.bsky.social Football v Transphobia Campaign Lead, good feet for big tran, all that
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Annabel Campbell @annabelcwrites.bsky.social (she/her) SFF writer based in Lanark, Scotland. Her first novel, THE OUTCAST MAGE, combines a coming-of-age narrative with thrilling magic and found family. Out now from Orbit UK/US in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook.
Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social Aspiring poet, growing problem. My books POYUMS, and POYUMS ANNAW are available to order now. https://buythebook.online/poyums-annaw
🏴💙
Dave @davemck.bsky.social Glaswegian nerdy type, former rocket surgeon, now doing controls & model based design. Massive fan of MATLAB, Simulink & test driven development (TDD).
#MATLAB #Simulink #TDD 
Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social Neurodivergent (ADHD), I pretend to be an SFF writer, but I wish I had more time to write. I like boardgames, and video games, and tech stuff former SWE.
Scotland, but originally from the “Middle East”.
He/Him
Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social Author - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and EDI lead at the Bylines Network. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #writer #author
Annette @weeble.bsky.social I like puzzles and diagrams. Queer.
(@weeble, @nettles@mastodon.scot)
Lizard Queen / ragbonehair @ragbonehair.bsky.social An entirely separate class of problem. Reside in Scotland, live in my head. I write and craft and talk random shite. Mainly the last one. Queer, pretty left wing, fuck terfs/swerfs/bigots. They/she 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Becky @beckymullen.bsky.social Nerd in Scotland. Cat haver; game player; pizza enjoyer. Trains are cool. Ask me about inventiveness.
We got a 10-24 in West Babylon.
Bi. She/her.
Pendragon Armoury @boundlessphotos.bsky.social Hi there, I make armour and jewellery for any occasion.
I also do photography.
Whilst I'll be posting my work and photography here, I'll also be posting personal opinions.
Dr Joanna McKenzie @jobob.bsky.social Data nerd with a PhD in particle physics from before they discovered the Higgs. Loves Fantasy books and TV, drawing and painting, and sometimes I do running and cycling. Glasgow based. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk Glasgow based writer with credits across film, TV, audio drama, and theatre. www.grace-knight.co.uk. Current project for Choice of Games:https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/magic-at-the-masthead-by-grace-knight-wip-thread-60k-word-demo/178096
🏳️🌈🚲📺🪡🎮🏕🫖🚀🐀🥔
Sam Rankin @sorankin.bsky.social Geek and general enthusiast. Keen interest in living in a Fort made of books.
Vanessa Traill @comnena39.bsky.social Vaguely academic, sf&f and crime fan, unashamedly a geek, fan and mad cat lady. (Dr/ PhD) She/ her
Bob McMinn @bobcatgoldfish.bsky.social Nebulous blob of autism and pizza