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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social Charlatan, solo artist, producer, DJ, coffee drinker, author & award winning radio presenter.
EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social Arcane facts, dubious insights and unjustly confident opinions on Leeds United Football Club.
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
Trilly C @trillyc.bsky.social Head of Product Management @nhsengland. Audiophile. Serial hobbyist.
Guy Moorhouse @guymoorhouse.com https://guymoorhouse.com
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Tommo @lufc1992.bsky.social Be more dog • Husband • Dad • Road Tripper • LUFC STH
MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social Football, music, telly
LeedsAllOver @leedsallover.bsky.social A site by Leeds fans, for Leeds fans |
@leedsallover on Instagram and X | leedsallover.com
Rob Conlon @robconlon.bsky.social Writer of words, talker of shite — @thesquareball.net, @realclass.co.uk
Subscribe to the free Real Class rugby league newsletter and podcast http://realclass.co.uk
Simon Rix @simonrix.bsky.social Bassist in kaiser chiefs
LUFC podcaster
@amnestyuk Ambassador
Hyde Park Art Club
President LUFC Trust
Artist mgmt Holy Moly MGMT
Launchpad Ambassador
The Scratching Shed @tsslufc.bsky.social The Scratching Shed #LUFC blog
Isaac Johnson @isaacjohnson.bsky.social Leeds United reporter for LeedsLive
Leeds United - unofficial @lufc-unofficial.bsky.social Posting LUFC content on Bluesky as there is no official account
ALAW 💛💙🤍
Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social Political cartoonist
Leeds, That! @leedsthat.bsky.social Ultimate Leeds United podcast. Weekly episodes of #LUFC football fixtures & major breaking news at Elland Road, Est 2016. Presented by James, Rocco & Darragh
God Is In The TV Zine @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social The music and culture webzine established in Cardiff in 2003. www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
Nath Brudenell @nathbrudenell.bsky.social Hi, How Are You?
Drowned in Sound | Newsletter & Podcast & Community @drownedinsound.org DiS is one of the original music blogs and online communities, founded back in 2000. Its back as a weekly newsletter about the future of music and as a podcast hosted by founder Sean Adams. ⚓︎ http://drownedinsound.org
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social WILD DONKEY. BROADCASTER. The Fall 78-83. Not a real Doctor. Met Bowie, Woody and Ronno. Ner ner ner ner ner.
COLOSSAL 🛎️end…
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
JETFURY ii @jetfury.bsky.social PORTISHEAD/BEAK> / Ex Machina / Civil War / Black Mirror / and now for something
Very different.
Beren Cross @berencross.bsky.social Leeds United writer with The Athletic.
Fabrizio Romano @fabriziorom.bsky.social ©️ Here we go!
📨 fabrizio.romano93@gmail.com
👇🏻 All my channels
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano
https://youtube.com/@FabrizioRomanoYT
https://instagram.com/fabriziorom/
https://tiktok.com/@fabrizioromano
FB Away Days @fbawaydays.bsky.social Building up a photo and video collection of football fans on away days.
368k on X
Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod.bsky.social The No.1 podcast for the Championship. New episode every Thursday, Friday & Sunday. Business email: secondtierpod@gmail.com
BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social I am warning you with peace and love
HLTCO @hltco.bsky.social Creating podcasts on Crystal Palace FC & football generally every weekday morning by 8:30am, delivered direct to your inbox.
Subscribe to HLTCO: www.Patreon.com/HLTCO
Football Between The Lines: https://podfollow.com/football-between-the-lines
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social Content Creator 🤓
Photo Video & Drone Pilot 🎥
Entrepreneur & Tech Geek 🤖
Food & Chocolate Judge 😋
And now news as frustrated 👀
Better together: 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺
AskUs@Implausibleblog.com
Andy Callow @andycallow.bsky.social Husband, Dad to 3 lovely lads. CDTO for Nottingham University Hospitals. Into digital stuff, Boston United, books, cycling, learning. Personal account. Views own
Blog at: https://andy-callow.medium.com/
LUFC Trust @lufctrust.com Leeds United Supporters' Trust. Providing a voice for #lufc fans, supporting community & heritage projects. Visit our website to become a member for just £10.
https://lufctrust.com/membership
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Afsa Akbar @afsa.bsky.social 💛💃🏽🏔🏝 proud laalo, 🌍 explorer, tranforming public services in the UAE, creating memories one adventure at a time 
Liam McMurray @liammcmurray.bsky.social design
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Matt Edgar @mattedgar.bsky.social @mattedgar@social.coop is my home in the #fediverse, with a verified link to my homepage https://social.coop/@mattedgar
Bridged posts to Bluesky: @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Tom Morgan @tsmz.bsky.social Designer working in Gov. Digging, mapping, making and iterating. Putting users first. Welsh-ish. Dad x2. Inveterate doodler. Comedy geek.
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Jesmond Allen @jesmonda.bsky.social Human-Centred Designer. Mum. Sporadic knitter. Co-author 'Smashing UX Design' book. Not a suburb of Newcastle.
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy #Digital director in the #NHS, #SocialHousing non-exec, and history botherer in my spare time. I quit newspapers for new media in 1997. "You can always come back," […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@mattedgar, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Jeffrey Allen @jallen300.bsky.social I evangelise service design at the UK Ministry of Justice and work with policy teams to apply user-centred design to complex challenges. I care about #servicedesign #govdesign #media4good
Rob McCarthy @robjmccarthy.bsky.social Dad to some young'uns. Also doing some Lead Interaction Designer stuff at Ministry of Justice UK. Working on the MoJ Design System.
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Andrew Travers @andrewtravers.com Designer and researcher working with the UK's public sector. I wrote ‘Interviewing for research’ once upon a time. Occasionally blogging here: andrewtravers.com
Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Independent service design and digital transformation lead.
Mainly works in public sector.
Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.com/
Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Co-Host of The Trawl Podcast https://linktr.ee/thetrawlpodcast | @TimesRadio | @jeremyvineon5
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Joe Donnohue @joedonnohue.bsky.social Football @ FourFourTwo | views mine
Graham Smyth @grahamsmyth.bsky.social Yorkshire Evening Post chief football writer. Views all mine. 
Phil Hay @philhay.bsky.social The Athletic FC newsletter writer.
And podcaster.
And Buckfast enthusiast.
Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com Daniel Chapman • writer • #LUFC • Leedsista
Writing for Leeds fans who love reading about Leeds
📘 100 Years of Leeds United, 1919-2019
🎬 Do You Want to Win?
🎙️ was at The Square Ball
🪩 now Leedsista.com
New things to read and hear 👉 https://leedsista.com
ODDY @oddytsb.bsky.social Work in an office at The Square Ball.
James Brown @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social Unlikely to complete course. Likes reading, travel, football, water.
LUFCDATA @handle.invalid 📈 Leeds United data | 👤 Founded and run by Chris Taylor | 🔬Leeds United Researcher and Historian | 🗓️ Est. 2012 | 📧 Media enquiries: lufcdata@gmail.com #LUFC
Tommy @tommy-lufc.bsky.social Be a believer, believe everything
You’ll be right half the time
Dan Moylan @dan.thesquareball.net Yorkshireman from @thesquareball.net. Ao Tanaka stan account. Dog person.
Michael Normanton @michaeltsb.bsky.social Bloke from the podcast. Smaller than you expect.
The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social Every football story that matters. Breaking news. In-depth analysis.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic
Adam Crafton @adamcrafton.bsky.social ✍️ I am a journalist at The Athletic
🏆 British Sports Writer of the Year
🇺🇸 Recently relocated to NYC
The Square Ball @thesquareball.net Leeds United fanzine, podcast and merchandise. Est. 1989.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Matt Stibbs @mattstibbs.bsky.social Technical product person. Love data, interop, tech plumbing ❤️. Organiser of @nhshackday and @ukhealthcamp
Also at @mattstibbs@mastodon.social and @mattstibbs@x.com
Matt Harrington @mattharrington.bsky.social Director at Public Digital. Ex GDS, Dept of Health, NHS Digital, Doctorlink and accuRx
Karl Goldstraw @karlgoldstraw.bsky.social Taking a break from social media
Joe Julier @joejulier.bsky.social User researcher in the NHS. Also worked at the FT, on Universal Credit and at futuregov. Here to recommend you TV shows you've already seen.
Imogen levy @teppie.bsky.social Head of Product @NHSEngland. Passionate about designing and building stuff for people. All views my own. Plus OOUX strategist, printmaker, live kidney donor- I @ianroddis.bsky.social @ianroddis.bsky.social
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things
🏴 website: Neuromantics.net
📨 signal: paulpod.404
Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social I’m a designer who loves working in healthcare. Increasingly frantic arm waving.
My dog is my best friend, but I'm not sure he agress with this statement.
demotive.com
Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com Actual life: Wanderings! Art, design! Buildings! Bridges! Running! Music! GTFC! etc etc!
Work: Product and service person.
📍From Grimsby
🏠 Saltaire, W Yorkshire, UK
Previously just Simon Wilson, then married @texmac.bsky.social
www.officeofwilson.com
Dean Vipond @deanvipond.bsky.social Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social Designer and occasional product person. Endlessly talking about how great you are.
James Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social Head of Product for NHS App at NHS England. Expect digital health + culture + cricket + games + low-res puns. 
Rochelle Gold @rochellegold.bsky.social Head of User Research @NHSEngland
(formerly @NHSDigital) and Head of UCD for Digital Primary Care. Cancer and genetics awareness advocate and patient representative..
Views my own.
She/her.
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her