Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist
Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Charlie Methven @charliemethven.bsky.social I set cryptic crosswords as Methuselah and Chameleon and write questions for Only Connect • charliemethven.com • he/him
matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social Here for art, books, film, music, comedy, food, football, cricket, history, old newspapers, birds, mountains and more.
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.social @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social Crossword-botherer, aka Amoeba, Weatherman, and Tango. Also anonymously in the Times and Telegraph.
I’m Dave Williams. You’re probably not @skirwingle.bsky.social Walking under the career ladder. Crossword clues, limericks, bad jokes, ambigrams, logos, fonts, passable cartoons.
norah sharpe @norahsharpe.bsky.social 2023 acpt e division champion, 2024 westwords beach champion, 2025 lollapuzzoola pairs co-champion, 2026 acpt pairs 2nd place, 2026 westwords pairs 1st place, 2026 lollapalooza 2nd pairs, that's enough dont we think
A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social Fish in a jaunty boater.
Posts not created using artificial intelligence. Or any other type, really.
Catnip @catnipxword.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter. Nepeta in the Independent or https://mycrossword.co.uk/Catnip. Lover of wordplay, silliness, awful puns, quizzes, etc. Part-time proofreader. Booklover. Bellringer. Accidental runner. I also have a day job.
Jack H Keynes @wearingcrocs.bsky.social conthinging, crosswording. https://jackhkeynes.co.uk
AL the editor @altheeditor.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader and picture researcher. SFF über-geek. http://bluebamboo.org.uk
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
Chris Evans @mpcryptics.bsky.social Maths teacher by day, cryptic setter by night (Umpire/Potoroo)
Moira Walsh @poetbynecessity.bsky.social Healthcare worker by day, poet by necessity. Read more at Linktr.ee/moira_walsh
San Tiago Caraíva @santiagocaraiva.bsky.social Livro “A INTER ETNIA” (2014): Uma coletânea de palíndromos com diagramação especial (páginas que podem ser lidas como um grande palíndromo).
Grupo no Facebook “Gerador de Palíndromos”: Criado em 2013 para divulgar criações de palindromistas.
Cats Are Better Than Men Because @catsbetterthanmen.bsky.social Retired teacher, who utterly despises anyone who think it's just fine putting a serial rapist in a position of authority over 180 million women and girls.
Martin Kroeker @kroekermartin.bsky.social Chemist drifted off into programming and mechanical CAD; Acting OpenBLAS maintainer. Always doing things I know too little about.
📍Germany
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
June @tilbuj.bsky.social Socialist, LabourMember, republican (not that kind), Daily Wordle Poet.
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Mr. Gottlieb @mrgottlieb.bsky.social Reinventat amb serrells.
JoHN MiLLeR @moduality.bsky.social Retired Computer Scientist, iOS Dev, glass art, recreational math - working toward a better world. PDX OREGON. (Was @MODUALITY on twitter)
Linda @lindal8a.bsky.social So here I am, following the exodus
Tom Duff @tomduff.bsky.social Retired computer graphics researcher
Grandparent
Musical tinkerer
Pen plotter enthusiast
@TomDuff.mastodon.social
Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social Mathematician. John J. & Ann Curley Chair in Liberal Arts at Dickinson College. Author of Tales of Impossibility and Euler's Gem. Coffee drinker. [Everything in the timeline before October 2024 was imported from my Twitter/X feed 2008-24.]
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Helen Evans @helen-evans.bsky.social Poet, and facilitator of "Poems for the Path Ahead". Published by Mariscat Press, and HappenStance Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social dumb jokes & occasional photos. no DMs please
manifesto: I am a dumb jerk with bad taste. I will not change. I will not improve. That is a promise
tat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social I play guitar, electronic, and noise. Chicago/Western Mass tatsongs.bandcamp.com he/him
Steve Downes @writerstevedownes.bsky.social Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
🏳️⚧️ vtiv 🏳️⚧️ @vtiv.bsky.social laying on a grass bed, flowers over my head
https://vtiv.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/vtiv/
i make music and program silly things and take photos
Woots @woots2621.bsky.social Average dag.
Renewables nutter.
Passive solar owner builder.
Australian plants and animals
Bicycles (recumbent!). EVs.
Much musics!
The standard no DMs unless we are established.
No need to bother with religious stuff. Solid atheist here.
Claire G. @lagrive-cg.bsky.social Multicurieuse, semi-geek
Dysgwr Cymraeg o Ffrainc
Anne Lipton, MD, PhD @annelipton.bsky.social Neurologist. Writer. Editor.
THE COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO DEMENTIA, PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION, THIS SIDE OF DOCTORING
Epistemic Literary Magazine.
#KidLitChuckleChallenge champion, #SpringFlingKidlit winner, #FallWritingFrenzy winner
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social Hedgewitch in the Netherlands 🌿🖤
Runs 't Gooi en Vechtstreek Heksencafé
www.WitchcraftAndTea.com
Alex @alexsippel.bsky.social Senior lecturer in British intellectual/economic/social history, early nineteenth century. Maître de conférences en histoire intellectuelle/économique/sociale britannique, début XIXe. Je poste beaucoup (trop) de bêtises, et un peu de boulot.
GeClef @geclef12.bsky.social Please don’t put me on a list. Lots of typos. 🇺🇸
/s =Sarcasm
Musician
My poetry is mostly on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/gigie91173. Learning cryptic cxwd
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. You are my Algonquin roundtable.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Jeanine @jmb3.bsky.social Dog's (Jasper) human; art; poetry; out of doors; New Mexico; UK photographers&painters, paleoarchaeology.
Please follow me on https://www.instagram.com/jborree5/
I block bots, porn, Maga and accounts with no or few posts and those who do not engage
Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social Writer of short stories at the Book of Days project: https://www.patreon.com/BookOfDays
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
Danielle Langlois @langwa.bsky.social Writer. Actor. Problem Solver.
Pro-democracy. (Call your elected reps!)
Deadpan Humor Apologist.
Anti-Tribalism. Anti-Fascism. Anti-Fashion.
Pro-Empathy. Pro-Habitable Climate 🌍
#RankedChoiceVoting ❤️Show More Love❤️
https://linktr.ee/daniellelanglois
Judge Nick @judgenick.bsky.social I’m me!
Liga Ágil @ligaagil.bsky.social Associação Brasileira de Palindromistas
Presidente: Fábio Aristimunho
Vice-presidente: Cassie J
Secretários: Ulisses Kaniak e Pablo Alsina
Tesoureiro: Andre Araujo e Edson Kanashiro
Contato: ligaagil.abp@gmail.com
LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social Usual Twitter transfer. Dog walks, photo's (OM1 + phone), dad puns, education, some politics, some family stuff, trying to maintain a 600 year old house.
Please excuse the typos.
Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social Poet living in Withernsea.
Founder of Pebble Of The Day.
New Book - https://tinyurl.com/3rhajmz2
New CD - https://tinyurl.com/mpwyh728
DeanWorld.org
Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social rules are meant to be broken and words are meant to be played with
"freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
party with weirdos!
💜🪩🧶🧟♀️❄️🐻❄️🥳
@cindyee.bsky.social @cindyee.bsky.social 
Hardy Perennial 🇵🇸 🕊️🍉 @hardyperennial.bsky.social Left wing politics, lame jokes and The Archers.
Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.eurosky.social collagist & bricoleur 🗡️ rudimentary bookworks 🏺 flimsy pages 🔮 cruddy archives ⚖️ papery
https://paulhearn.neocities.org/
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Tony Frobisher @ateafilledpoet.bsky.social Poet & Teacher
Occasionally witty,
We can and should do better.
frobisherenglish.com
🚲 🏃♂️
Photographer 📸
Vegan Ⓥ
Cricket 🏏
Green 💚
Tea ☕️& books 📚
IG @teafilledpoet
📌 Worcester 🇬🇧
Robin @incompletecricket.bsky.social Quiet field notes of consciousness, passing through the day.
Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social Cat mom and somewhat nerdy. Ex-engineer now doing business things. She/her.
London-Bangalore-Delhi. Posts are personal opinions.
Ian Hagues @ianhagues.bsky.social Books and creativity. You matter.
Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social @AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic)
art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers
🧿 Nya 💙 @seranyabeck.bsky.social 🧿 Seranya Beck ✌️ Artist | Author | Cosmic Architect
Building @-Social™ — creators keep 100%, forever → https://at-social.social/
🦋 Write What I Want
🌛 Dream of the Cosmos
💃🏻 Dance at the Pyramids
📖 Leone Nor 💙
✍️🎨📸©️ #ArtBySeranya #CubistPoet #Seranya
Stephen Kerr @kidcobbler.bsky.social Lapsed writer. Through a series of unfortunate events I have been handed the gift of time. 
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Rebecca G. Aguilar @rebeccagaguilar.com Writer | Reader | M.Ed. | Texas Master Naturalist | https://rebeccagaguilar.com/
Expatsy @expatsy.bsky.social Expat, lifelong Dem from reddest of states, painter, artisan. Primarily posting and reposting articles Very few comments without profanity
. Call your reps - write - get on the streets - just to piss them off. Do it for yourself - and your children.
@phantomgirl7.bsky.social @phantomgirl7.bsky.social Once Upon a Time, X files, Star Trek, LOTR, The Untamed, Interview with the Vampire, Ghosts, Buffy
Taylor Swift
Kindness only Zone. Gen x.
No racists. Safe space. No hate.
Also a Mum.
♿️ disability advocacy. ❤️
Australia🇦🇺🍉🕋 Muslim. 
René Walter @rawx.bsky.social i learned more from a three minute record than i ever learned from a large language model.
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
bertolt rekt @voidwarbler.online Bi cyclist (emphasis on the ' '). Silly-voice-doer. Affable eejit.
He/him.
Icon by the inimitable @chuckdrawsthings.bsky.social
Banner is a Tandberg TCD-310 aka the zenith of tech design, a peak humanity will never attain again
Jennifer Lee Noonan @nnnnoonan.bsky.social SID MEIER'S MEMOIR on shelves now, Damn Interesting Week podcast on speakers now. Winner of the NYT Sidney Award, loser of many other awards.
Lana Lawrence @msfocused.bsky.social Retired photoJ (exhibited: Lib of Congress), Pub: WaPo. Ex-journal editor, trauma survivor/advocate c. early 1980s. Papers at Brown U.
Walked the Edmond Pettus Bridge w/ John Lewis.
Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social Prof Emeritus Spelman College, Adjunct Prof SETU, Ireland. Board Gathering 4 Gardner. Curator Annals of Irish Maths. Author "Mathematical Card Magic" AKP/CRC Press
Linda Fitzjarrell @lindafitzj.bsky.social Halfway retired. Full time heartsick about current events.
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social selective synthesist
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
tpg @tpgrammar.bsky.social A billion things could be wrong, and aren’t. 👍
I set cryptic crosswords at MyCrossword.co.uk
*support the site here: https://ko-fi.com/mycrossword
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
William Snow @willsnow8.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter - Bluebird (Independent), Solomon (FT) and Conto (elsewhere). Currently benefitting from limiting my social media use.
Janine @j9-j.bsky.social Love nature, novels, interesting ideas. Looking for a little humor.
Mo @iremgo.bsky.social Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Irish ☘️ Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses (Nabokov). You do you, shine bright!
Ps - AI has a real value but only if done in concert with human and environmental impacts
Michael Tobis (mt) @mtobis.bsky.social PhD atmospheric/oceanic sciences 1996 but a bit rusty.
Opinionated.
Main topics: climate, sustainability, Canada, AI and ML, journalism.
Also: roots music, art, healthy plant-based food.
Please think like a planet!
https://initforthegold.blogspot.com
Stuart Barnes @stuartabarnes.bsky.social Poet (Like to the Lark, Upswell Publishing; Glasshouses, UQP). One quarter of Hell Herons (The Wreck Event) 📚🌳🪩🌈
stuartabarnes.com
Joe For America @makeitunclear.bsky.social I'm old school; I'm new wave
Bluesky's only Orlando Magic fan
Sharon McTeir 📚 🐈 @sharonmcteir.bsky.social Creative Publishing Services
Book design, picture research & rights.
Currently learning Norwegian.
www.sharonmcteir.co.uk
Melrose, Scottish Borders 🏴
📚🐈
Nick Dodd @ngdodd.bsky.social Writing about Romanticism, sleep and insomnia 
Melissa Hartman @mssemicolon.bsky.social Editor of a higher-ed magazine. Loves: science, words, live music. When in doubt, delete it.
Donald H. Sanborn III @donald-sanborn-iii.bsky.social Central NJ-based Theater Reviewer, Freelance Writer, and Copyright Specialist. Composer/Arranger/Lyricist. Church choir bass (baritone) and sometime trumpet player. Animal lover and punster. Happy husband and father. donaldhsanborniii.wordpress.com
Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social Writer, trained in Archaeology. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy’ for adults,& historical fantasy/paranormal adventures for young people.
If it's old, I'm interested.
https://linktr.ee/MindforestBooks- F Sarah Watkinson @festuca.bsky.social Poet and mycologist
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Zach @zhackry.bsky.social Progressive, gay and outspoken. Nurse to be. Michigan native. Politics.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💚🤍❤️🖤🤎 Safe with me!
Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social 🇬🇧 ♠️ An oft' anxious yet optimistic nihilist, eclectic dyscalculic and ND nerd
🍊🐲
Poetry Dabbler: 3Lines/Tanka/Ekphrasis
🖋️📖🍿🎮🎧🎭
Ailuro-Biblio-Historio-Logo-Melo and Mythophile
✨💀
My posts: https://tinyurl.com/4xhe3r4x
☕ https://ko-fi.com/kumquat90 ☕
words @words.bsky.social dad-pilled millennial californian
play language & living universes
tess @tessishere.bsky.social my games are at beekie.itch.io
my life is lived elsewhere
they/them
Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
Dark Hi and Lois content now at @darkhiandlois.bsky.social.
Rasmus A @rockballe.bsky.social Kommunikationstype. Leger med bogstaver, ord og hele sætninger. Aktiv i det københavnske musikquizmiljø siden 2006.
My music lists: https://jeglaverlister.wordpress.com
lililimonada @lililimonada.bsky.social 
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.