Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social Writeroonie
Twonks @twonks.bsky.social Cartoons and comics by Steve Nelson.
Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com
https://linktr.ee/twonkscomics
History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social Professional scientist. I like reading books about history. Editor of the Bluesky edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
http://historybooksreview.co.uk/
https://beautyscientist.github.io/GSDIANOZAS/
Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times),
MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Jason Selvig @jasonselvig.bsky.social
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
Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social Improbable Co-artistic director, member of @comedystoreplayers.com, real name Len.
Neil Mullarkey @neilmullarkey.com Speaker on communication, collaboration, leadership.
Forty years with #ComedyStoreplayers. (recognised by Guinness World of Records). Author of ‘In The Moment’ neilmullarkey.com.
Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social Host and producer of the Junk Filter podcast. Toronto born and raised.
patreon.com/junkfilter
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
New Scientist @newscientist.com The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org Links to vaguely pop, vaguely culture articles over on Dirty Feed. www.dirtyfeed.org ISSN 2754-2807
Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social Green Party, Greens Organise Steering Committee, Democratic eco-socialist, Internationalist, intersectional class politics, NHS, Unison, Villa. Views my own. he/him.
Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social Raleigh-ish, NC.
I’ll procrastinate later.
Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
linktr.ee/common.wealth
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Kevin Eldon's Speakers @kevineldonspeakers.bsky.social A monthly dose of magnificently produced twaddle and guff.
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social Content Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dance 10, looks 3
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “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
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social
C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi 🫡 Noisy Introvert
🤖 Contrarian Techologist & Ai Ethicist
📝 Writer of Books ➡️ https://trainor.fyi/books/drawn/
📕 Collector on https://comicvault.cc
🔴🔵 CPFC Fan 🦅
➕ Posts about Comics, Ai & Music.
❌ Blocks Trolls
⚡️Don’t do things better, do better things 💫
Kat Knight @katkni.bsky.social Comms/brand/strategy. Fast walker. Pro-woke. She/her.
@adambrichto.bsky.social @adambrichto.bsky.social
Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social Award-winning author of books on Boulez, Satie, Boulanger and Dutilleux/ Visiting Reader in French Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/
Contributing writer at I Care If You Listen/ https://linktr.ee/carolinepotter
@grotdog.bsky.social @grotdog.bsky.social
Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social Twitter addict, having a go with this lifeboat. May contain mention of horses and/or niche soft furnishings knowledge. No notable achievements, until napping is added to the Olympics. (She/her; Hampshire/West Sussex UK)
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Miles Ellingham @milesellingham.bsky.social Senior Writer: @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Contributing Editor: Dispatch Media
Work in: The New York Times, Financial Times, Prospect, The New Statesman, Rolling Stone etc -
miles ellingham(at)gmail(dot)com
📖 @rcwlitagency
Laura Bee @writerlaurabee.bsky.social Tragically unhip Dutch-Canadian stranded in the Netherlands. A little bit writer, a little bit rock & roll. A lot ADHD. Boomer, but not the kind with money. 🚫 AI.
#SoA
One of Pamela Des Barres' Electric Ladies! https://tinyurl.com/mruve4cw
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apex’s Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. Fighting for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
@harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social Writer.
Guardian. The Quietus. Vice. Record Collector.
Author of Monolithic Undertow.
David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social English Primitive reinventor, Moonshake/Wolfhounds ranter, Swell Maps supply guitarist, nature writer. #MDANT
https://davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/down-to-the-marshes
David Tinson @sharkgrappler.bsky.social SOUND DESIGNER
London
Sound to picture recording & editing. System designer. Stage ~ live sound events.
🏴 🇪🇺 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🦉 👽
1/2 Scottish - Dad - Aquarist - Small Dog Owner - Zappa - Classic horror/Sci films - Comedy - animation
Arsenal FC ⚽ Harlequins RFC 🏉
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators
Miss Appropriated @distantduck.bsky.social Kiwi in the UK. Sweary leftie into travel, books, geeky wee moments, coffee, gigs. Ex-fundie. Cis ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Curious about the green slimy thing looking over your shoulder as you read.
Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" (Raymond Williams)
Watching a lot of films this year, recovering lost time.
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/doublesqueeze/
Elaine Wyatt @elainewyatt.bsky.social Dogs, cats and wildlife.
Memes, cheese, tea, real Ale,
Politics and Law, Arts and crafts,
Books and writing, Technology, History and Sciences,
Brain fart and typo owner. I'm Wales in the UK.
Did I mention cheese, tea, animals and memes?
Dr Áine O’Brien @aineclareob.bsky.social Planetary scientist at the University of Glasgow. Mostly studying meteorites and Mars. Frequent hiccougher. She/her 💫☄️
Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social Health policy and research.
Passionate about social, economic, health, and disability justice.
💚 Socialist 🌹 trade unionist ✊ metalhead 🤘 (she/her)
Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop The party of the UK's co-operative movement, in partnership with The Labour Party. https://party.coop
Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London doing cosmology, gravity, astrophysics and string theory. GRTL Collaboration and UK Numerical Relativity. Views my own. Penang-lang. YNWA
MsB @lastof5.bsky.social Cats, wildlife and the joy of old things...
UK
Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social I'm a happily retired former software developer from southern England, who plays Ingress and Pogo.
I mostly read SF and Fantasy, with a particular love for the works of Terry Pratchett, through which I met @bellinghwoman
Oh, and I love cats
Chandos. @chandos64.bsky.social Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
Law, leaseholds, property valuation, and Oxford commas.
European. Lagomorphs, bees, tea & cake.
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social
Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social Apparently, everybody's favourite. Him off Tech Diff. The begrudging second coming of Harry Secombe. Strong wahey energy. Funniest British Man (TM). The middle aisle of the Lidl of Light Entertainment. Professional Wondernaut.
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
donna enticknap @auuop.bsky.social
A self that touches all edges.
Alternative photographic processes, printmaking, found sound and motion picture.
https://www.donnaenticknap.com
@judymatheson.bsky.social @judymatheson.bsky.social
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc). Was a Booker judge in 2025.
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.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis
Ed Parnell @edparnell.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, mysterious shadowy figure.
edparnell.co.uk or www.edparnell.com
These dark times will make madmen of us all.
Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social Associate director in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Michael Holden @michaelholden.bsky.social Words for pictures, words for papers.
http://michaelholden.net/
Also https://reluctantcarer.com/
But now more at https://preciseinstructions4everydaylife.substack.com/
Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social Kilmarnock-born Edinburgher, civil servant who likes a lot of music, niche trivia and funny stuff
Andrea Hacker @ahacker.eurosky.social Listening to all of J.S. Bach. Learning French. At home on campus. Itinerant baker. Subversive librarian. Living in Alderaan. "In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as f*ck. Be punk as f*ck". She/her
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
@scatatkins.bsky.social @scatatkins.bsky.social
Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social scots. telly writer/director he/him/his
first show: "the rockford files" 1994
last show: "mobland" 2025
next show: "slow horses" 2026
i'm against ai owned by billionaires.
i purge my posts but meant what i said.
a: hobo
b: chimp wi' a megaphone (getty)
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
DisMember @dismember.co.uk http://dismember.co.uk/
Hansard: Cheat Mode Activated
Everything interesting MPs said since 2010, easily searchable, sortable, sliceable.
We also uncover interesting moments from the entirety of parliamentary history and share them regularly here.
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again.
Son of immigrants. Not integrated. East, east, east London.
Some photographs: https://t.co/B0HT8DtgRg
James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social Author/annoyance from The Bird Site
wendyjane @wendyjane.bsky.social wife, 3adult kids, 1 grandson 1 cocker spaniel NHS nurse for 46 years and still standing..park running or if not a village idiot 5k run, book reading lefty Archers fan.Born and bred in Essex now in Wiltshire COYS
Trees For Streets @treesforstreets.bsky.social Charity led national street tree sponsorship scheme. We help residents work with their councils to plant more urban trees. Let’s fill our streets with trees - https://treesforstreets.org
John O’Farrell @johnofarrell.bsky.social Author/comedy scriptwriter.
Mrs Doubtfire musical (UK tour now in Birmingham), Just For One Day, the Live Aid Musical (tour starts early 2027) Chicken Run, Dawn of the Nugget. Most recent novel ‘Family Politics’. New non-fiction book out next year.
Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Mick Hodgkin @mickhodgkin.bsky.social Puzzles Editor, cryptic crossword setter, limerick writer, former TV news producer. Only Connect semi-finalist 2015-16.
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social Moodle/Totara developer
Love travelling (41 countries so far), silly jokes, Marmite
Brummie, Remoaner, bit of a nomad, fact finder
Mostly post about climate, Brexit, health, poverty, UK politics and comedy
🌍💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🍉🗿🐧
Pellicle @pelliclemag.com We’re your favourite ~award winning~ independent drinks, pubs and food magazine/podcast. The joy is the point.
Reader supported, proudly free to read.
https://www.pelliclemag.com/
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
@liamnoble68.bsky.social @liamnoble68.bsky.social
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
@guylc.bsky.social @guylc.bsky.social I have a great future behind me.
@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social I've written a memoir - YOUNG ONCE - pre order https://linktr.ee/YoungOnceBook?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=0834039d-2d9b-4846-9d5c-8a761e0e32be
Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social Born at 314 ppm CO2. (We are now at 427.8 ppm CO2)
Founder and presenter on the Everything Electric Shows.
That bloke from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge.
Info@unitedagents.co.uk
WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social 🎨 👺
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