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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry.
Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism.
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional 💜🤍💚
Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist.
She/her.
@beaforrester.bsky.social @beaforrester.bsky.social 
West London Welcome @westlondonwelcome.bsky.social Community centre run for and with refugees, migrants and people seeking asylum. Classes, activities, advice, advocacy, food and friendship.
www.westlondonwelcome.com
Paul de Gregorio @pauldegregorio.bsky.social Somerset. Napoli. London. he/him. Rally. Digital. Mobilisation. People Power. Activism. TOX26. Obstreperous. Geekish.
Increasingly facing the South West. Which is best. Obvs
Web https://www.pauldegregorio.com/
Links. https://linktr.ee/pauldegregorio
Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social Journalist, doing the hyperlocal newsletter thing @folkestonedispatch.substack.com. On the terraces at Folkestone Invicta. Love football, food, drink, travel (by train, ideally), history, podcasts and naps
Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social Journalist and editor (https://danielfahey.contently.com).
Commission: Lonely Planet. Write: Positive News, The Independent, Nat Geo, The Telegraph, Time Out, and more. Finalist: The Times AA Gill Awards.
Currently undergoing cancer treatment 🙄
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social Professional doom scroller
Niki Groom @nikigroom.bsky.social Illustrator. Mostly using this space for my work in reportage / community art.
www.nikigroom.com
CMCAFC @cmcafc.bsky.social 
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Kit Bradshaw @kitbradshaw.bsky.social Political Correspondent
ITV News Meridian 📺📡
📍Westminster | My views
Jim @jimllmixit.bsky.social Love animals. Autistic.
Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social Writer/Journalist/Storyteller/ On an adventure. Bylines featured on The Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC, The New Humanitarian, New Humanist. Podcaster and Newsletter Writer at Have You Thought About. Public Speaker and more. www.dhrutishah.com
James Foster @jamesefoster.bsky.social “What we dream of is already present in the world.” - Rebecca Solnit, ‘Hope in the Dark’
@ovendenlaura.bsky.social @ovendenlaura.bsky.social I teach children and I read children’s books.
The Handsome Family @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social The oldest living band in North America.
"Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice."
—GREIL MARCUS
https://handsomefamily.com/
MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this).
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
https://linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MandalayBook
Tony Dog @tonythestaffy.bsky.social Jumped the Twitter ship! Mum runs this account and she loves Music, Politics, and Dogs - #Lefty #wokeasfuck #UBI #funkybasslines
Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social Former member of Bellingcat - Berlin, Germany
Avery Schmitz @averyschmitz.bsky.social Open-source reporting @cnn.com
Views my own | avery.schmitz@cnn.com
Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social Doctoral researcher focusing on right-wing extremism @helsinki.fi | ex-Bellingcat Volunteer
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Brenna Smith @brennasmith.bsky.social WSJ visual investigative reporter.
Past: Baltimore Banner, New York Times, & Bellingcat.
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator.
http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social Digital flâneur | Open Source Researcher| GEOINT| Bellingcat GAP Project | Research 中国 & Central Africa | drinks wine & writes stuff |Views are my own |RSs ≠ endorsements
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV).
Extremely Online at http://discord.gg/bellingcat
CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.
Gabòr Friesen @gaborfriesen.bsky.social Freelance Open Source Researcher.
Studying Research Architecture @Goldsmiths
Geo-&Chronolocation/3D Modeling/CNNs/Social Media Analysis and Remote Sensing
Previous collaborations: Al Haq, Al Jazeera, Airwars/AFP, Bellingcat, CIR, CNN, The Washington Post.
Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring 
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars.
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Attacks on Civilians with Small Drones: A Global Picture @littleflyingrobots.bsky.social Documenting, analyzing, and mapping the growing global problem of attacks on civilians with small drones, from @faineg.bsky.social. View the map of global attacks here: https://map.faineg.com/public/index.html
Miguel Ramalho @msramalho.bsky.social Investigative Technologist @bellingcat.com
Data, Tech, Human Rights, Conflict & Financial Investigations
Signal @miguel.351
https://github.com/msramalho
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Michael Sheldon @michaelsheldon.bsky.social Senior Investigator @ CIR
Formerly: Bellingcat, DFRLab
Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social Investigator & trainer at Bellingcat
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Hisham Almiraat @almiraat.bsky.social 
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. New York via Amsterdam and Oregon.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Annique @annique.bsky.social Just me..
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Aldo McAldo @aldomcaldo.bsky.social Measure twice, cut once. Swear! Get a new bit of wood...
GOTO 10
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Jesz✨ @jyoolz.bsky.social your da is a pure ride
Glesga
she/her
Keith @lordsidcup.bsky.social Magazine editor living in Sheffield- M Margaret Kearton @margaretkearton.bsky.social Lover of history, classical music, environment. Translate to maintain the above. Based in Modena and nearby mountains.
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Phil Riley @philriley.bsky.social Isle of Man based Evertonian looking to escape the madness of the other place… Tim Tam lover. Darts fanatic. Iliman Ndiaye fan club member. UTFT!
Sandeha Lynch @sandehalynch.com #Europa, #Earth
MSc, BA Hons, PGCE - Photographer/Sculptor, Language/Literacy, IT/FR, Atheist, PR. He/they. Images©Copyright
Selfie: http://www.sandehalynch.com/
Video on camera mods and builds: http://youtu.be/Yk6zhCOIrrg- N @nickcomino.bsky.social @nickcomino.bsky.social
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social Returned to Uni - now European Studies MA (KCL). Euro integration Political Economy UK and EU
Career Qual researcher, listening ears on.
Very sensitive to pronouncements based on single focus groups
John Barnes @slowcookedgoose.bsky.social Custodian of slowcookedgoose and Below The Salt @ The Splott Shamanic Graft Loft.
John Petersen @gadgerz.bsky.social Lefty, virtue signalling, snowflake with woke aspirations. Overwhelmed by the state of the UK, USA, and our planet. Easily distracted by dog videos.
Alison Gordon 🇺🇦 @alisonmgordon.bsky.social Ex-Greater Manchester economic devt/regen policy, funding and delivery pro. Keen to learn with interests in politics, rejoinEU, environment and nature, creativity and whippets.
Gill @tisi55.bsky.social Geek with more than a passing interest in Operational Research, SF, photography, EQ2, cartography & Norwich Printing Museum. Trying to tame and produce food from our large garden. Occasionally waves tennis bat around
Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social Green Party member, Arsenal AND Orient fan. Pro-EU.
Paul Sagra @paulsagra.bsky.social #FBPE #GTTO. Brexit and Tory hater in any order you like.
Still Thanking Grannie for an Irish passport.
Suffolk and Denia
@PaulSagra in the other place
Not keen on God botherers
John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social Journalist, financial, mostly I have opinions on many things.
Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader
QTs closed, replies open
@nicolaschampi.bsky.social @nicolaschampi.bsky.social Follow me at your own risk, for I also am lost.
Genetics, law, politics, and bagels.
John Davies @stsikel.bsky.social Interested in building bridges.
Ben Lyford @benlyford.bsky.social Here's looking at Euclid.. Late to the party but moving through my OU Econ & Maths degree. Economists and comedians with a side order of food are the focus
Jill Segger @quakerpen.bsky.social Quaker.Writer.Editor.Slow poet. NUJ. FRSA.Some recent work at archival site of @ekklesia.co.uk
https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/author/jillsegger/
My book #WordsOutofSilence is available here https://www.ekklesiapublishing.co.uk/books/words-out-of-silence/
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social UK based writer / teacher / CPD provider / presenter. I help to run a preschool. I love gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers.
Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social Just a small town boy in the city lights
The best was yet to come
Then lonely days turned to endless nights
The best was yet to come
(He/Him)
Ruth Stokes @ruthstokes.bsky.social Campaigns Lead at Norfolk Community Advice Network. Views and jokes quite specific to me.- R Richardsonaitch.Bsky.social @richardsonaitch.bsky.social
ealdominicb.bsky.social @ealdominicb.bsky.social Head of EAL. All views and opinions are my own.
(He/His)
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
Tamlyn Monson @tamlynmonson.bsky.social Researcher: migration | mobilities | housing | social diversity | inequalities 
Adele @theartofcharts.bsky.social Screenwriter specialising in tense thrillers. Nicholl Finalist with NO GHOSTS TONIGHT. Page finalist with DUST ON DIRT. Available for commission.
See my work at: https://artofcharts.com/screenplays/
Frank @frankspicer.bsky.social Oh, I don't know. Maybe...
From Dusk till Prawn @prawnagain.bsky.social evil = wrong x really really
Roger Rimbaud @rogerday.bsky.social Mostly cats and dogs
Painting and sculpture. Poetry. Photography
Renaissance and Late Medieval History
Military History and Intelligence
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Cassandra @wecassandra.bsky.social Open water swimmer, feminist, dog-lover, snooker fan, lackadaisical ecogardener, transfriendly, frequent napper. Embroidery novice. Originally from California, now in UK.
Snigdha @snig.bsky.social Food, music, politics. Views mine, don't threaten to email my boss. (She/her).
Mini blog http://snigskitchen.tumblr.com
Main blog https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.