Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk Open is a Verb
Pride is a Riot
He/Him/They
Glasgow, Topical Paradise
Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social Current location: St. Leonards-on-Sea, England
Made in Scotland from girders.
Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum.
Blocklists are for Nazis.
https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com
(photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)
Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social Digital News editor for @bloomberg.com in London. Former NBC News, BuzzFeed News and was psmith on Twitter. SWFC and St Albans City fan. Mancunian. Likes memes.
Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social Guitar in psych-noise band, Black Arches. Author of Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life, Sunken Lands, Marshland & more. Psychogeography. Mythology. Ecology. Hastings.
https://www.instagram.com/black_arches_hastings
Tim Rose @timtum.bsky.social Retired. Travel a lot. Get angry with the world a bit too much. Can witter on endlessly about music and rugby à treize. Former longterm France resident now living in Abingdon.
L.A.Barnitz @labarnitz.bsky.social Author, beekeeper, piddler. Native of the Ozarks, and I do not do AI.
Debut fantasy novel = The Stonebound Heir, Latest novella = A Haunting at Bent Creek
https://labarnitzbooks.com/
https://linktr.ee/l.a.barnitz
🎂 🌈 Shiv (Leo Szn) @shivvy.blacksky.app S(ucka) F(ree) 🌉 ✊🏽☘️
Cat Mutha 🐈⬛ Clever Girl
Destress with me over at @detourdelights.bsky.social
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bosky.social | ex-Open Society Foundations | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
WinchesterLunch 🇺🇦 @winchesterlunch.bsky.social Work in IT but also write historical novels. #1 bestseller debut published by Harper Collins - https://amzn.eu/d/ceHuLT7
London Irish. You can take the girl out of Cricklewood but you can't etc
Richard @richd028.bsky.social 
JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social Community Worker, Tomato Grower, and Ageing Hippy/Biker. Works for Community Glue CIC (supporting local groups and individuals in #Oxford, UK) and part-time as an academic (social work, social care). Yesterday's centrist Dad, today's angry young man. 🌱
Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social Formerly with Dutch military intelligence (MoD) and counter-terrorism (MoJ)
Former optimist
(Opinions are mine, usual caveats apply, etc.)
Re-posting is not by definition endorsement
Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social Writer, editor, carer, a bit political 💚, quite geeky of course. Born @ 320 ppm. She, her. 🇬🇧
Oxfordshire @oxfordshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Oxfordshire (Oxon), UK - we originally started this on "the bird app" in 2012
root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social 🧿 Imperial Planetologist to Sol Ⅲ & its moon.
🇸🇧 http://www.sieiti.gov.sb/
Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social UK & US Politics and other stuff from the kitchen table, one tweet at a time.
Some say 'a totally undiscovered twitter treasure' apparently. Also tax. And law
Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social Techie, bad musician, SF fan (either Science Fiction or San Francisco.)
NorCal
He/They/Thou/Yo/Oook/Whatever
Not actually a crypto-owning selfie-taking copyright monkey.
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Give her a helmet and a sword, she'd look like a brave little Hobbit'
@bibliolicious.bsky.social @bibliolicious.bsky.social 
Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social Parliamentary Reporter at Press Association. Former news editor and occasional reporter at the Times. Have also written for the Guardian, Observer, Camden New Journal and Ham&High. Own views. Kidderminster Harriers fan.
A.S.L. @16leiba.eurosky.social Sois toi, sois fier de toi parce que tu peux être fais ce qu'on veut faire.
@whomtangclan.bsky.social @whomtangclan.bsky.social Style Icon (still)
BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social Improved, convalesced, slightly less unpleasant
... featuring the lovely Gina #DogsOfBluesky
(Gina's page: https://bsky.app/search?q=from%3A%40betterbert.bsky.social+%23DogsOfBluesky )
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Steve Corley @stevecorley70.bsky.social Gary Barlow, if he'd gone feral and living behind some bins
Scott Martens @scottmartens.bsky.social Antisocial media advocate. Attempted SF author. Text Monkey@Elastic/Jina AI. Canadian abroad. Kurwa bóbr.
(CHECK PINNED) Deer in Places they Shouldn't Be @deershouldnt.bsky.social I post images of deer where they aren't normally found| MERCH: deershouldnt.threadless.com
Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social 
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
London Centric @londoncentric.media A modern news outlet for London, covering the city in the old-fashioned way. Edited by @jim.londoncentric.media. Subscribe now for a 25% discount: www.londoncentric.media
diamond geezer @diamondgeezer.bsky.social East End blogger bloke (2002-2026) diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
DerkHerkenbersh @dochackenbush.bsky.social Illustrator of Cute Stuff. Doodler of Silly Li’l Guys. Did the graphics for #Styscraper. Likes capybaras and cats a totally normal amount. He/Him.
Buy my cool merch here! 👇🏻
https://www.redbubble.com/people/dochackenbush/shop
In Common @incommon.bsky.social Grass-roots community, culture and arts website, based in Southampton.
www.in-common.co.uk
Interested in promoting community cohesion, equity, a fairer society, celebrating diversity.
Anthrodiva Bot 2026 @anthrodiva.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist, vulgar Marxist, sloppy empiricist, crackpot phenomenologist. Lives in WV.
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
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social Part-time Londoner: woke liberal socialist, empiricist. Likes food, dancing, gardening, interested in politics, economics, environment. Likely to block bigots and denialists of any stripe; will block crypto bros etc.
Signal: ejoftheweb-57
Buckinghamshire @buckinghamshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Buckinghamshire, UK (Bucks) - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social 
Nils 🥚 @1wayoranother.bsky.social Disability, accessibility, Higher education. AFC and AWFC fan. Lives with UC and ADHD. Any pronouns 🏳️⚧️
Currently in Lewisham, London.
Languages: 🇬🇧 native, 🇪🇸 B2, 🇳🇴 A2, 🇩🇪 🇨🇳 A1
Von Hitchofen ™⍼☈♅ 🛩👹😬 @vonhitchofen.bsky.social Redundant Scandroid.
Another hard shift at the keyboard factory.
From an obscure body in the S-K System
it's a little souvenir of a terrible year
I like aeroplanes and em dashes.
Team Crap Dad.
Charles M. A. Thomsen @cmalmskou.bsky.social Danish Historian with a love for Danish football, English churches, German Fankultur, American sports and antique mosaics.
More Methodist than methodical.
Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social European. Interested in linguistics, politics, science, humour. Good to be here.
Has a Reform MSP been suspended yet? @harmbsy.bsky.social An account which tracks whether a Reform MSP has been suspended yet.
John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social 📚 Author
👻 Ghostwriter
Find me at
📺 youtube.com/@JohnGVibes
🔖 johnvibes.substack.com (no paywalls)
📖 raveoutlaw.com
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Midsomer Murders plots @moremidsomerplots.bsky.social The continuing (and randomly generated) investigations of Britain's most murderous county.
Content created by @patrickstokes.com and Anonymous. Generate your own: midsomerplots.net
Paul Kavanagh @thewynoh.bsky.social Grumpily cynical political geek, apprentice carpenter, bad guitarist. Politically left of centre by some distance. Like rugby, judo, rock, atrocious puns and my cat. He/him. Late diagnosed ADHD.
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org Editor and director, Carbon Brief
https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org
Alastair Dunlop @arcturustourist.bsky.social Films, music, video-games, pop culture ephemera
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Kayla Allen 🏳️⚧️ 8x💉 @kaylaallen1965.bsky.social She/Her. Proof that it’s never too late to become yourself. I started at 59.
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu World-class research and academic institution focused on informing solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems.
📍University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
🌎 https://www.soest.hawaii.edu
Warren Tarbiat @wtarbiat.bsky.social Left of Centre Soc Dem with Geoist tendencies, 'Rejoin Realist' | #ActuallyAutistic, Dyspraxic, Hypermobile| Entertainment & Tech Alt Blue Sky: dangerman1337.bsky.social
David Stansell @daves1412.bsky.social (Green) politics, tech. Trying to answer the question “How?”
Accessible in fediverse as @daves1412.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Please note: Highly unlikely to respond to DM's, unless I know you in the physical realm!
Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social #ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá #BoycottTrump
🌶️👼🏻😈 dubdobdee 😈👼🏻🌶️ @dubdobdee.bsky.social i deciphered the voynich manuscript it says you suck
National Energy System Operator @neso-energy.bsky.social Creating a world where everyone has access to reliable, clean and affordable energy.
Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social Literature academic type| she/her | Likes crimes (fictional) and dogs (real) | Unprofessional capacity
Jo Malley @realmarciehatter.bsky.social Wife, mother, whovian, EBU hater - not necessarily in that order...
Gary Young @gdyoung.bsky.social Journalist, videographer, film, music and history (especially Roman) fan. All views are my own.
Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social Oxford-based writer and editor, working mostly in digital and mostly for non-profits. Former music journo. Autistic. Memoir 'Atypical Girl' published by Polygon. https://linktr.ee/pennykiley
UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social
JOEMUGGS.UK
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Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
#MDANT
bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com
joemuggs.substack.com
theartsdesk.com
mixcloud.com/joemuggs
rovr.live/#/curator/joe-muggs
etc
AJRed @ajred.bsky.social Gentleman slacker. #TOTP botherer. Public service shitposting.
Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social Everything that can be electrified will be electrified. Electrochemist at Ironic Metals Ltd - developing low carbon iron production. Post about science, climate, London, cycling, kids, Spurs and politics.
Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
London exhibition 14 Aug - 6 Sept
Tickets here:
https://trk.email.moderntoss.com/l/01KWRXD733ECG51A6RXZF81E13_10
www.moderntoss.com
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social Byzantium, Renaissance humanism, battery materials, apiculture...or any combination of the above.
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.
Nik Horne @nikhorne.com Autistic person with fibromyalgia and type 1 diabetes. Bad pun reply guy. T-shirt grifter. From Saltburn (the town, not the film). Mostly harmless, I hope. Retired BBC online engineer. (He/him.)
http://nikstshirts.com
https://beebthings.redbubble.com
Simon MacEwan @theblastedheath.bsky.social Hopeless dilettante
Picker-up of unconsidered trifles
Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social One of the world's biggest sound projects, covering more than 130 countries with 2,000+ contributing artists. Remixing the world, one sound at a time. www.citiesandmemory.com
Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social Lib Dem based in Oxfordshire
County Cllr for Kidlington North & Otmoor; Cabinet Member for Economy and Environment
Elected Member of Federal Policy Committee
Promoted by Oxon Lib Dems at Unit C5 Grange Court Business Park, OX14 3NB
Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk Broadcast engineer
Creator of https://nmsceefax.co.uk
(predates & not associated with employment)
ENQUIRIES EMAIL info@nmsni.co.uk
https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/
filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social Film is Fabulous! is an initiative to preserve vulnerable film collections held privately in the United Kingdom.
FaceBook Page https://rb.gy/owgxjr
United Kingdom filmisfabulous.org.uk
Melanie Dymond Harper @meldh.bsky.social Digital certificates, crypto (that's _cryptography_, not anything currency-related), drumming, singing, photography, foxes. She/her. All opinions mine.
R @ersquare.bsky.social 
Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew.
London-based. Film, television, games, politics, Charlton Athletic Football Club.
He/him.
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Savannahmarie @scevannwm9815.bsky.social a bay area native ♡ 27yo in el cerrito
@benjaminthatcher.bsky.social @benjaminthatcher.bsky.social 
Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social shadow hedgie, very small language model 🏳️🌈
Migrant in London, citizen of nowhere
geriatric millennial & terminal shapecel, like everyone else here
I just post to get the thoughts out of my head, follow at your own risk
he/him
Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social Novelist, poet, tutor, DJ and so on. Very polite.
My novel 'The House on Utopia Way' is out now - https://www.stefmo.co.uk/product-page/the-house-on-utopia-way-paperback
New poetry out with Broken Sleep 31st July - https://tinyurl.com/4yzf7amd
Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social Don’t mourn, organise. Not dead yet.
Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social Public policy ( #climate / energy policy, more specifically ) & IR prof (but also ex-🇨🇦 trade diplomat). PoliSciSky 🗺️, EnergySky 🔌💡, & GreenSky 🌱. Cf. same handle on also-ran microblog-sites.
Book in banner now available: link.springer.com/9783032245755
@fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social I love being ‘woke’. It’s much nicer than being an ignorant fucking twat.
Kathy Burke
@jim-manning.bsky.social @jim-manning.bsky.social 
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social I help people understand things and change them, with data. Views here my own.
"I can't quite work out whether you're a tremendously silly man, a tremendously serious man or, as I suspect, a rather unholy combination of both."
dougclow.org/contact
TJ Sabula (in tribute to) @yorkiesteak.bsky.social Education. Science. Urbanism. Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool. HS2. Fearful for the free world. Slava Ukraine.
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
More Corgis @morecorgis.bsky.social Call me Corgs. DCS Viggen main. ADS-B enjoyer. Where’s my NATO flag emoji? 🇺🇦
Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social Digital marketing type, European politics bore, language enthusiast, one of those gays you hear about, Eurovision nerd, that guy in the window seat. Next trip: 🇫🇮
Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
My book, Contemporary SF and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, is available here: https://tinyurl.com/4p55avcy
Another Disappointing Day in The Obituaries @deadlyvices.bsky.social Nottingham-based Old Welsh Git. Big & Ugly. Chemistry Ph.D. I like science, history, politics, growing things, classical music and ducks. And food. And beer.
Maitre D' at the Ratio Café.
Repost != endorsement
https://www.chem4word.co.uk/
Pete Ashton @pete.social.coop.ap.brid.gy Stirchley, Birmingham UK. Got the post-covid chronic fatigue bullshit and figuring out how life works now, online and off. Keeper of rabbits. Middle-aged autistic diagnosis […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@pete, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social There's very little we know about how people would have voted if things had been different
Recovering philosopher
West Riding the A63 East
*Bring back the Internet*
Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social Solicitor who promoted eDiscovery/eDisclosure in England and Wales and elsewhere. Now retired to my photographs of places, birds, and the dog. In Oxford.