David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot @claypotter.bsky.social Social media super genius. Common sense independent. Moved here because Elon is a shitbag clown.
Delia (she/any) @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social Transfemme
Utopian Scholastic historian.
Very Marmite
Raconteur of things.
Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️⚧️ @rendle.dev rendle.dev - mother of daemons
Keeper of the Profane Keywords. Coder. C# and Zig for profit and fun. Really Good at talking. @linebreakers.band bassist. PubConf World Champion. Chaotic Good. she/they
DJ Mac 🍁 @ccedjm.bsky.social Vinyl Records (Daily Reviews from Collection), Lifelong Learner, Books, Guardian of the Game, Golf, Michigan Wolverines-Go Blue, Jays & Cardinals
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Semble @semble.so A collaborative space for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge. By @cosmik.network
🌐 https://semble.so/
Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com memory safety / Rust, #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more.
🧔🏼♂️ general words: alilleybrinker.com
🦀 rust words: possiblerust.com
Principal Engineer at MITRE (opinions are mine) · he/him
Andy @eastlothianhare.bsky.social Photographer of hares and useless collie wrangler.
Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm a teacher 🇺🇸 of English living in Slovakia.
Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social In a world of disaster capitalism, be a rebel: ride a bicycle and buy your clothes 2ndhand from charity shops.
Also, all the best people have trees in their bio.
Now tell me, where will your next bike ride be?
https://www.WillCycle.com
Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social Audax, underbiking & velomobiles. Occasional tallbiking. Genius who brought you SPD Crocs, inventor of the Meths Martini & no longer allowed unsupervised lab access. Still successfully passing as human.
Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social Fragments of a man loitering at the intersection of art, cycling, and eco-socialism.
The son and heir of nothing in particular.
He/him. 🌳 🚴♀️🚶♀️🚶♂️👩🦽 🌳
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
kenny brown @kennybrown131.bsky.social Edinburgh, Scotland. Enjoy music, sport (dundee united), bit of politics (Scottish republican), Cold War history (particularly Berlin), maps. 🏴🇮🇪
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social Prof of Child Health (retired)
Interests: art; history; children’s rights; 🏴.
🏳️⚧️ & 🇵🇸 rights are human rights
Banner: 1 of our dogs contemplating his existence in a shaving mirror
Profile: the other pretending to be Rousseau’s tiger🐅
No DMs: I can’t access
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.
IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social Chair Planning Democracy; board member Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre; volunteer with Spokes; Hon Fellow Scottish Env LINK, worked for Ramblers Scotland before retirement.
Walking, cycling, mountains, Scottish politics, CND, climate change, gardening.
Michael Hutchinson @doctorhutch.bsky.social Bike racer. Bike writer. Bike broadcaster. michaelhutchinson.co.uk
Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
daughterofmrandmrss @nosregis.bsky.social "Don't touch the ravioli, it's garbage".
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Radial Pro Cycling @radial.racing We're building a service to help fans follow professional cycling.
Follow our feeds and get the app: https://radial.racing
by @kris.to and @derek.bike
Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social Food + drink mostly, but also sport, culture, cartoons. Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚👩🍳📝
Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social Building the world’s best bike directions at cycle.travel
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Osweena @osweena.bsky.social Art lover, Gin drinker, European 
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz AramZS. he/him. Privacy Engineer. Tech for journalism. Ad Tech. Prev: Fullstack, strategy, econ/game journo, storytelling, altac. Views are only my own. NYCer. https://aramzs.nexus/
Get Me Zarniwoop @martinmorrey.bsky.social Atmospheric Physics PhD, working in IT during the day, climate intervention in the evening. Centre-left, green, parent, songwriter, joiner of dots. #RejoinEU #ClimateEmergency. Edinburgh, UK. Normally FB
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social 1. Scottish Labour MP for Edinburgh South West.
2. Civil Engineer
3. Parkrunner.
Newsletter Sign-Up: http://tinyurl.com/EdSWNewsletter
The business starter kit @robbuildsbusiness.bsky.social Is the idea good or bad? How can you find out? What can you do to get started?
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Eli Mallon @iame.li (it spells "i am eli")
Trying to solve video for everybody forever at @stream.place, I livestream dev almost every day
Seattle via Minnesota, he/him
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Progressive Economy Forum council member. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics.
https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social News of the graphic novel adaptation of The Worst Journey in the World, abundant Terra Nova facts, and Antarctic interests more generally. worstjourney.com
Angela Mills-Bannon @genkigalcycling.bsky.social The Bicycle nerd
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social Mechanised tramp.
Writer, snapper, occasionally TV & radio. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. Words & pictures in The Guardian, FT, Sunday Times & more
Insta: _lostlanes
Gouach Batteries @gouach.bsky.social The smart electric battery that's safe and easy to repair. Let's fight planned obsolescence, and create a more sustainable future!💪
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social Journo, author,* Scot. Glasgow Wheeler. Big fan of Accipitridae. Cycling, moto, politics, music. And burrrrrds, obviously.
(*The Medal Factory [2019], The Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish cycling history, [2023] EPO, the drug that saved cycling [2020-?])
Philippa York @pippayork.bsky.social I’ve looked at clouds from both sides and these blue skies are so much better. Biologically Glaswegian 👹
Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
VanDerPollo @vanderpollo.bsky.social Hear nothing, say nothing, see nothing
Anarcociclismo & punk hardcore
NO MUSICA DI MERDA
Gattolico praticante
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
Deborah Mancino @debsmooth.bsky.social Pixel-stained-technopeasant-designer-photographer. American based in Scotland. Ancient god (self-diagnosed)™. ©2026 D Mancino All rights reserved. She/Her 🚫 NO AI 🚫 NO DMs 🚫 NO!! DMs!!!! 🚫
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Guy V @blooblazer.bsky.social Left field music, architecture.
SE London.
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social Author, historian, cyclist, hiker, occasional climber, idiot adventurer with unrealistic goals and expectations.
Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social FT features writer, focus on work/workplace/whatevs
Insta @emmajacobsfinancialtimes
Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
🚢 ships
🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu Philosopher of mind, perception and cognitive science at @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social. Father of #LittleHuman. Former programmer and sound engineer. Curates #philosophy feeds, lists and @philosophy.eurosky.social. #LongCOVID
🌐 keithwilson.eu 👤 he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 
Feargal McKay @cycologies.com Reviewing cycling books and writing about professional cycling's mythological past and the reality behind the stories told and retold by cycling's duff historians
cycologies.com 🇮🇪
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Simon Christie @thebonnieloon.bsky.social Edinburgh, cyclist, cycling without age pilot, cook, gardener, music, trains, canals, climate justice. Can we just accept Tr*ump & M*usk are bawbags and post about nice stuff?
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Vicki White @violaoutside.bsky.social Working in (and for!) active travel. I like running. Also here for animal content.
Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social Dutch | Talks and writes about guys and girls on bikes | Supported by SRAM, Kalas & Trek | multilingual 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸
researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social 'To thine own self be true.' 🇬🇧. Academic, mother, wife, carer, 🐱 mum, tree-hugger. Interested in politics, democracy & civic rights, books, history, disability rights, music, gardening, plants. Follows & RTs not endorsements. No DMs.
Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social Senior editor at New Scientist
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Ultra Damo @ultradamo.bsky.social GB ultrarunner (NNormal), coach, author, activist, tea addict, @thegreenrunners.bsky.social +Into Ultra co-founder,
https://www.ultradamo.com/
Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social Making clean energy work against poverty, inequality and injustice. Believer in big ideas. Working class bairn at heart.
Scottish/UK, climate, energy, people power, class and justice.
Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social Ageing biologist (aren’t we all?)
Author of https://ageless.link/
Presenter of https://www.youtube.com/DrAndrewSteele
Founder of @thelongevityinitiative.org
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Kate Birrell @kamabi.bsky.social Born one of Scotland’s many creative engineers. R Feynman is a hero and an inspiration. Not always obvious.
Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social So far, our grassroots movement has organised Takedowns in:
❤️ Bristol
🩷 Edinburgh
🧡 Exeter
💛 Glasgow
💚 Leeds
🩵 London - 3 locations
💙 Manchester
❤️ Norwich
💜 Nottingham
💛 Portsmouth
🤎 Winchester
Can you help us add to the list? 🫵
Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social Global CTO, CPO, CMO - strategist, technologist, innovator, communicator, author, cyclist, cook, skier, traveler ...
Was @andimann on the bird site.
Personal account. My work is on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/andimann
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44