North Somerset Council @northsomersetc.bsky.social 🔗 Report issues to us at https://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/connect
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Charles Anthony @spoonrefuter.bsky.social Software developer, actor and shortarse
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
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Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder. 
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social Iconoclast. Abyss-starer. Low tolerance for people not acting in good faith. Possible space alien.
Unsolicited DMs will result in instant blocking.
Mike Cummins @mikelcu.bsky.social Cook
@helenvecht.bsky.social @helenvecht.bsky.social 
Nicky Coates @fauxkie.bsky.social Songwriter, reader, knitter, Quaker, MC for Old Plough Folk Club at the Greenbelt Festival 
Sarah Gretton @sarahgretton.bsky.social Biology/Natural Sciences Professor, cyclist, allotment holder and housing co-op member.
She/her
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Brompton Bicycle @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social For 50 years we’ve been expanding horizons and redrawing maps, so you can go where you’re always welcome.
Brompton. #LifeUnfolded.
Contact our CS Team Online https://www.brompton.com/s/contactsupport
DMs not monitored
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social BPS Chartered Psychologist & Senior Lecturer in Psychology (stress, burnout & well-being). Host of the EightyPercentMental Podcast. Occasionally writes things. Sometimes smiles.
Some stuff here, innit: https://linktr.ee/PeteOlusoga
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.- C Chris Eilbeck @chriseilbeck.bsky.social Engineer, reverse-engineer, bodger, kludger, designer, hacker, programmer, cyclist, flyer of things, sysadmin, rocket scientist
Dave Budd @davebudd.bsky.social Retired
Liam @nicecuppatea.bsky.social Leftie, old fart, exiled Londoner. West Ham fan/sufferer. Ailment collector. Technically a Cyclops.
Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social Children’s Rights are Human Rights. Feminist. Disabled. Knitter. Opinionated. LLM student. Opinions my own etc. Retweets not endorsement. 🇳🇿🏴
Elaine Axten @elaine4queen.bsky.social Dog, seaside, words, pictures.
Native 🏴🇬🇧
Learning 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇫🇷
Huge @zumbruk.bsky.social Grumpy retired atheist. Ex biochemist and IT Security geek. Speed freak. SF fan. Radical centrist.
Sonia T 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @soniaandree.bsky.social Ecologically-minded teacher in France, possesses a lefty mind, with a penchant for gardening, cooking and regular boardgaming sessions with friends.
Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com Writer, runner-up Costa Short Story Award, Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short `Fiction | ocean activist with CPWF UK (formerly Sea Shepherd UK) | Sunderland.
https://iainrowan.com.
Also write weird microfiction https://mapsofthelost.substack.com
Willy Eckerslyke @willyeckerslyke.bsky.social Mooching, flitting, not paying attention
Also, old Rovers, mine exploring, and wandering the beaches with partner and dawg.
Mark Goodge @markgoodge.com Professional Internet nerd and part time political cat herder. Internationalist, localist, communitarian, democrat (in the English sense), pro-freedom, pro-science, pro-responsibility. Sometimes these conflict. Grown-ups can handle that.
Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social Woman of a certain age. PhD researcher exploring discourse around learning disabilities. Open University Associate Lecturer passionate about inclusion and lifelong learning. Building knowledge & advocating for respectful representation
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot Rejoin. Yes. Grumpy and getting old, not the other way round. Sysadmin, recently retired. Bodger. Engineer to non-engineers; non-engineer to engineers.
Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social Classical double bassist - lots of chamber music, orchestral, and operatic experience - always looking for more musical fun; occasional oboist & cellist ditto.
SQL Server DBA, working for Coeo.com supporting many clients and the team.
Leeds, UK
Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social Programmer. Photographer. Ambulomancer. Occasional amateur occult researcher. Non erratum sed designatum. #Bristol
Simon Gray @simongray.bsky.social I'm the real simon gray - you may know me from places such as Twitter, Facebook, and Usenet. I make post-jazz-rock-dub-persian-indian-techno with a santur, a trumpet, and Ableton Live. And things for the internet.
Carl Williams @carlkwilliams.bsky.social I quite like cheese.
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do. 
Shatner's Bass @shatnersbass.bsky.social Old School
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Eric Jarvis @eric-jarvis.bsky.social Old lefty muso thesp in Brixton
Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social Engineer. Recovering Xitter user.
Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change.
Posts may contain traces of withering scorn.
Slava Ukraini!
Iain Mackay @philtrum.bsky.social Person. Relative. Employee.
Nomme @nomme1.bsky.social Err... Been around a bit. Likes beer, comedy and having a laugh.
Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social Dual national (🇬🇧 /🇩🇪 ). PhD in quantum physics. Ex-Hong Kong (32 years), now North Yorkshire. Interested in writing, physics, history, travel, aviation. OCD/bipolar. Published poet. Tries to be kind.
Robbie Irvine @robbieirvine.bsky.social Just a bloke who likes movies, computers and isn't keen on watching sport
glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social Egypt was robbed. Never forget.
This is the way.
Linzk425 @linzk425.bsky.social Gen X knitter, mother, wife, friend, retired. Not in order of importance.
You may know me from original social media such as bulletin boards, Usenet, LiveJournal. All of them moribund now, but I don’t think that’s my fault…
Language was a mistake @kwaktrap.bsky.social Also @kwaktrap@octodon.social.
Deixis Press @deixispress.bsky.social Independent publisher, award-winning books. EIC: Angel Belsey. Hello Booksky!
https://deixis.press
https://linktr.ee/deixispress
James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Nothing should be inferred from the absence of unnecessary disclaimers on this profile.
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Ewan @ewanm.bsky.social London UK, was Naarm, before that Pōneke, originally Edinburgh, he/him
Kerry @kerrypolka.bsky.social known to one and all as a guy who is just around.
she/her, us/uk, london n19. movies, theatre, books, civitas. previous lives: the bay, pdx, pōneke, naarm melbourne. cities are good! 🚆🕎
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
Jo @qosephine.bsky.social Hello!
Mr Bony Cage @cybermango.bsky.social Editor. Publisher. British Arkansan. Onion despiser. Expressionless metal phantom. Radicalized by Sesame Street. Oat caramel latte.
Goldfinch liker @ruudboy.bsky.social I like football, wrestling and Cities Skylines. he/him
You 'angs a bit of that around your neck and you won't never suffer from the scringes no matter 'ow cold it be.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social When not reading, often writing. Represented by @litagentfran.bsky.social
Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Writes about Joyce, Beckett, Modernism. Quondam New Yorker. Co-author of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses http://bit.ly/3Gngb2L He/him/his
Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social 🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
(https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social Content Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dance 10, looks 3
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Andrew R @excelpope.net Shortly to be replaced by Microsoft Co-pilot
Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social Birder, Beatles, bogs, fen-dweller, tries to finish books but drifts off into…whatever, runs The Fens feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:emtwh7ecdoazomcrvs4rbfdl/feed/aaafa74ch6fxy
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance.
I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground.
Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Matt Craddock @mattcraddock.com Research Software Engineer at The Alan Turing Institute, UK. Former cognitive neuroscientist
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
LNR @lnr.bsky.social Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer, she/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html
Trans rights are human rights.
Mr. ‘Teasy Weasy’ Raymond, Stylist to the Stars @bisonfish.bsky.social "As I said," Merrier took up again, "I have too little faith to be an anarchist, but I have too much to believe in religion."
ShezzaT @shezzat.eurosky.social Her. Yer woman. You know; the one with too many books, a mad cat, and an online footprint that wanders back to the usenet days. Northern Irish.
Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social It was the charliebrownhadhoesest of times, it was the nohedidntthatisnttruest of times
In the words of Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when he is a colossal dumbass.
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social Mostly badger, occasionally mermaid. Terminally online. 
Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social He/Him
https://mastodon.social/@happybusman if it comes to that
Angela @angek.bsky.social Sport-loving sixth form biology teacher with a serious travel bug. Union rep once upon a time. And a medical history as long as your arm.