Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk Freelance journalist and PR, Auracast evangelist, ex-local newspaper editor, indie news advocate, newspaper buff, typographer, bore. Tweets a lot about Doctor Who, TV listings magazines, Gillingham FC. Views my own – no one else would want them.
@zakmichaelkwaku.bsky.social @zakmichaelkwaku.bsky.social
Barbara Palczynski @barbarapalczynski.bsky.social Chief Executive @NYBofGB.bsky.social
All views my own
Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Taller than your dad
Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com Editor of FT Alphaville, co-host of The Story of Money and author of Trillions and A Fabulous Debt. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
*Music Therapist in forensic
mental health services
*Absolute Shower
📍Kent, UK.
Recordings of experimental improvised music:
https://sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com
When nothing goes right, go left.
Join a union.
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Kate Baucherel 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social Sci-fi fan & writer thereof | Mum standing up for 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | Dual national 🇬🇧🇫🇷 NE England & Vienne 86 | Sandan karateka 🥋 | Speaker, Author, Blockchain & Emerging Tech specialist | https://linktr.ee/KateBaucherel
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
LifuX @lifux.bsky.social The cats are in charge, we just document it. 😼
Chaos is our specialty.
Global nonsense headquarters.
Buy Me a Coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lifux ☕🐾
Store : www.teepublic.com/user/lifux
Margaret @benregis.bsky.social Music librarian, sometime musician and music teacher. Loves books, music (particularly classical), dogs, film, theatre, travel, and history. Living in the Fens, originally from dragon country in Wales
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.
Georgia (she/her) @georgialaurette.bsky.social DC-based grad student, knitting, houseplants, design, and the farmer’s market
Katie 🏳️🌈 🧶 @dyspraxicknits.bsky.social I have dyspraxia and I love to knit so that’s a fun combination
Dr. Death Metal @theunshored.bsky.social professor + heavy metal researcher. media studies. ballet. weird filmmaking. queer metal. I make heavy music in The Unshored and Sallah. he/him.
Susie @susiebutler.bsky.social SplitPrecision Photography 📸 | Ballet dancer 🩰 | F1 enthusiast 🏎️ | Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | 🇬🇧 ➡️ 🇺🇸
Formerly @Gymtertainment on Twitter #Gymternet
Nova @inkycats.bsky.social Talk with me about cats, baseball, ballet, yarn, the PNW, genx things you forgot about, artists you should know about, and books. Works in games but rarely ever talks about that.
Victoria @mrssteaches.bsky.social Deputy headteacher, y5/6 teacher, curriculum, maths, history, geography & music. #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD Christian. Love reading, ballet, piano and my cat.
http://mrssteaches.school.blog/
Gloria is here! @gloriasin.bsky.social Freelance Tech Reviewer, UX Writer, figure skating and ballet nerd.
Catherine Bruton @catherinebruton.bsky.social Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Jessie Trudeau @jessietrudeau.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Syracuse University studying crime, police, development. Formerly Brown University postdoc, Harvard PhD. Xword constructor, ballet dancer, aspiring naturalist
ballerino? @leballerino.bsky.social mirror selfies, tights, and random thoughts. ballet dancer/business owner Iconic Undies
📍 Dallas, TX
Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social computational cognitive neuroscientist (assoc prof
@unigroningen.bsky.socialc) studying mind-wandering using cogsci and AI techniques, also amateur ballet dancer and Tibetan buddhist
Sarah Horowitz @bibliowitz.bsky.social Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
Curly @curlybdancer.bsky.social Twitch and Youtube Partner | Ballet Dancer | Coffee Obsessed Nerd | proud member of Twitch Women’s and Pride Guilds | Business Inquiries: curly@sidequestmedia.com
Stream Mon, Wed, & Sat on twitch.tv/curly and https://www.youtube.com/@curlybdancer
Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.
Dr. Kiyoko Gotanda @photopidge.bsky.social Former ballet dancer. Ecology/Evolution/Behaviour. Associate Professor @BrockUniv @BrockUFMS Posts my own. she/her. Photos: http://pidgephotography.com Wear a mask
Anil van der Zee @anilvanderzee.bsky.social Former professional ballet dancer | Bed/sofa-bound M.E. patient | Using BlueSky to raise awareness for #MyalgicE | #IACC I #PAIS
#art2cureME #pwme #millionsmissing
@reisingerart.bsky.social @reisingerart.bsky.social Our paintings are the result of teamwork. Henriëtte envisions the concepts. She composes and chooses from a multitude of ideas the most potential ones. Roman paints, this technique enables him to paint realistically and in great detail.
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
theubergroup.org
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
Dr Cinnamon Remote @cinnamonremote.bsky.social Lapsed environmental entomologist. She/her they/them, Bean Ultach, cailleach na luatha.
Dr Lesley McLarnon
Academic, not medic…
Lady Perinelle of Rockall in the SCA
There will be typos… so many typos…
https://linktr.ee/cinnamonremote
Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social Sweary ginger designer with side hustle drawing naughty but niche greetings cards to shove up yer post boxes. Also #kittyditties
Naughty but niche cards/prints: Dippyfishcards.etsy.com
Art: ArtOfNote.sumupstore.com
Misc/tips: https://ko-fi.com/dippyfish
Unseen Crafts @unseencrafts.bsky.social The thoughts and art of Lisa Blackwell-Dickinson. Scruffy ol’ hippy/mother/home-edder who burns stuff and saves pigeons. Arting through fibromyalgia, EDS, ADHD and perimenopause! She/her
gabliotecaria @gabliotecaria.northsky.social She/her. B with the T. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social I know my library card number off by heart. She/her
@grannyrose58.bsky.social @grannyrose58.bsky.social Mother, Granny, photographer, working in social care. Love nature, wildlife, books, living by the sea and kindness. 🌹
#Scarborough
Dave @railraptor156.bsky.social Train Driver & Birder
Kat =^•^= 🫶🏻🦖 @dazzlinggeek.bsky.social ✨Curating a cozy life, one adventure at a time✨
📚Book Nerd • Craft Supply Hoarder • Hiking🌄
📸IG: dazzlinggeek #PokémonGo Trainer Code: 849785515049
tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social sr. game producer @ scopely, soccer mom, minivan fan, bookworm, lover of all things cozy. I mostly talk about parenting my two boys and MNUFC.⚽️ Minnesotan in SoCal #AbolishIce #BlackLivesMatter 💙
mark smith @gcu-grey-area.bsky.social Still owned by a cat. Graphic designer-ish/illustrator, mainly within the model-hobby industry. Cow-botherer. Somerset badlands, twixt Bridgwater and Glastonbury. Am GCU Grey Area on theafterword.co.uk forum/blog.
Russ @russsayin.bsky.social Chiefs
Cincinnati Reds
Warriors
Cats
Cooking
Cardiac Sonographer
Do unto others…..
BrownEyedGirl @browneyedgirlmc03.bsky.social
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social Former UK diplomat. Neglectful gardener, baker, and maker. There is one planet. We pass through and are supposed to take care of it. Politics, as well as random observations on other stuff. No unsolicited DMs.
TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social 🇩🇪🏴
Friendly & wordy. Work-from-home knitter. Kind, not stupid. Ally of decency.
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Team Science. Team Democracy. Team Diversity.
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Based in Germany. In love with Scotland. At home in more than one place.
Henriette @sollenbum.bsky.social Cat servant to Masha and Mirah 😺 Teach English and German, dance ballet, sewist and lover of crafts in general 🌸 Lover of CDrama.
Casper, Pumpkin, Poe, Ozzy, Autumn @casperpumpkinpoe.bsky.social Casper 👻 wht/grey, 7
Pumpkin 🎃 tabby, 6
Poe 🪶 orange, 4
Ozzy 🦇 tabby, 5 mos
Autumn 🍂 tortie, 5 mos
mom & dad: childfree! Metal loving & horror obsessed. To be Married 10/31/26 🦇
Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social Misanthropic idiot. Personal assistant to small dog. Manchester. You might have heard me on Radio 4.
Liz Perry @lizpy.bsky.social Art, music, family and friends, France and things French, running. Sheffield and Brittany.
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. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Sally @s411y100.bsky.social Cats😻😻baking🧑🍳cooking 💚gardening 🌱tea🫖walking 🐸nature🌿 yoga ☺️NHS 💙🏉🏏Yorkshire🐏Worcestershire🍐 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇫🇷
Eileen O'Neill @eileenoneill.bsky.social Indexer, gardener, avid reader
Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net Chocolatier. Also into photography, filmmaking, gardening, writing, and too many other things…
Greater London 🇬🇧 | AuDHD
Chocolate shop currently on summer break.
di @dimajor.bsky.social Artist, teacher. Loves laughter. Beloved of dogs. Helper of horses. Impressed by those who follow their bliss. More impressed by people who are kind. She/her
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Graeme LF 🇺🇦 @graemelf.bsky.social Slightly foxed. Lancastrian. Obscurist. Goonatic. Beatle nut. Christian. Quondam and eventual jazz pianist, I hope. Massively over-sensitive. Kiboshed by ME. Hobbies: leaning against the sideboard gasping for breath.
Simone @frauchen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (🇩🇪🇺🇦) She/her; decidedly liberal and socialist. I work in an independent bookshop, so I like offering up reading suggestions based on books I’ve enjoyed.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Frances Hioki @franhioki.bsky.social Religious left, nonviolence, interfaith. Historian of Buddhist-Christian dialogue: the Jesuits and the arts, Maria Kannon, diaries of Beatrice Lane Suzuki, Asian art history (IUB), art and religion (GTU).
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social Author: The Green Hill, a memoir about the sudden death of my son Felix. Rock Idols, a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors; various wild swimming guides.
Co-organiser, Dartmoor Tors Festival 1-4 May 2026
https://linktr.ee/sophiepierce
Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social I do comedy, lecturing, journalism, radio and writing. I like beaches, books and buildings. Probably writing a bit too much about ovarian cancer at the moment because of reasons.
mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social poet, musician, singer-songwriter, environmentalist, animal and human rights advocate, adoptive mum to naleku at sheldrick wildlife trust, book lover, librocubicularist, vegan, love baseball, recovering anthropologist, carbon-based lifeform, peacenik. 🕊 🇨🇦
Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. Watch the videos on TikTok: https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Heather Collins 💀🧬⚕️🎓♿️ @variola13.bsky.social Scientist, lecturer, lefty, gamer, book nerd. Sarcastic individual, into silliness, medicine, anatomy, & forensics. Wears odd socks. Death positive 💀 #ME NB: often inappropriate. ENFJ.
She/her.
DMs welcome if we have had some kind of interaction on here.
Allen Sale @astralaudio.bsky.social I'm a former Technical Support Specialist, AEW fan, horror film reviewer, and podcaster. Blind, bookworm, gamer, and Christian. Currently live in Mississippi. Here for bringing joy, friendships, learning, and unraveling the artform of storytelling.
Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social Mending clothes & creative sewing projects. Church of England priest, community worker, spiritual director, and playing with the overlap of creativity, prayer and story telling.
Fan of #TheArchers
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Jill S @outseide.bsky.social Tea drinker, Seattleite, queer femme, erstwhile writer, dilettante, librarian, birder, renter, traveler. If you reply-guy me, I will block you. Pronouns: she/her
www.slowbloom.com/blog
David Collins @daicollins.bsky.social Exec Director Northern Ballet, here for cultural content, cycling, running and rugby
William Dawson @willdawson.bsky.social Leeds based. Mainly digital #art at the moment. A bit of #classicalmusic original composition. Also writing a novel
Check Instagram http://instagram.com/willdawsonart
Andy Horton @fechtbuch.bsky.social Librarian, gardener, gamer.
Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social Teacher, observer of people and the natural world, wife, cat mom, leaning waaay left, queerdo, neurodivergent in normie drag. Obsessed with the analog, particularly film cameras, typewriters & fountain pens.
Photoblogging at shutterprof.com
Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a must-visit for art lovers, showcasing over 8,000 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt & Vermeer. ❤️
This is the official account of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
www.rijksmuseum.nl
Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
Jill's Book Cafe @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social A 60+ Yorkshire lass now residing in Cheshire. Ex librarian, bibliophile, book blogger & breast cancer thriver. Sorry unable to handle review requests. Blogs at jillsbookcafe.blog
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Miriam Endersby @miriamendersby.bsky.social Soprano, linguist, houseplant nerd ✨
She/lei/elle/sie 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🏳️🌈
Mod of the Opera Feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tarr7xdvnsp7bn4fw4bplikg/feed/aaabpau6tq5qu
Dawn @dawndenise.bsky.social Books, films & music lover. Nuts about nature, green spaces & my garden. Tree-hugger, head in the clouds, chasing butterflies. Here for photos, laughs & interaction.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social Worked at RHS Wisley, now retired and a happy and proud volunteer there. Passionate about Wisley, plants and gardens. Also a quilter, embroiderer and beader. Proud to be Woke. 'Woke just means you give a damn about other people’ Jane Fonda 2025
Catherine @goldenfinch.bsky.social Love life in general - dogs & outdoors in particular…
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
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Roger Ellis @ellisroger.bsky.social Like photography, football, travel, cricket, food & drink, history, music, opera, art. Dislike populism, conspiracy theories, climate deniers, queues.
ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
Lucy Calkins' #2 hater
Play it fucking loud.
Liz Webster 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social Founder of Save British Farming, campaigning to reconnect Britain to the EU Single Market and Customs Union to Save British Farming and British Food.