Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social Something new comes in on each daily tide, and who knows what digging will turn up? Native Tampeño. Vanderbilt and Financial Times alumnus. European. Londoner. Opera. Figs.
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
Mark Byrne @markobroin.bsky.social Dir of External Affairs at Centre for Cities. Irish in London. Politics, policy, books, cats. Yimby. Trustee at Stonewall Housing 🏳️🌈
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
Andz @andz.bsky.social Dad. Too multidisciplinary engineer. Central Jersey exists. He/him.
Steven Rich @datab.ae just your average deaf narcoleptic man
data for @nytimes.com
wood for databae woodshop
stan for philadelphia
email: steven.rich@nytimes.com
signal: @databae.01
Ryo Namiki @ryonamiki.bsky.social Financial Times / Newsroom Engineer, Enterprise Reporter in Computational Journalism Team on secondment from Nikkei
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
Steph Boland @stephanieboland.bsky.social Alright in a sort of a limited way for an off night
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Kazuhiro Kida @kazuhirokida.bsky.social Data Editor @nikkei.com @asia.nikkei.com | Newsroom AI Initiatives Lead | The Lede Program @columbiajournalism.bsky.social alum
https://linktr.ee/kazuhirokida
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
The Palacetician @glad-all-over.bsky.social Crystal Palace fan since 22 April 1967.
Matches Played: 5,279;
Major Trophies Won: 3 (FA Cup 2025, Community Shield 2025, UEFA Conference League 2026)
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Christian Panton @pa.nton.cx OSINT Specialist @ DR Verificerer (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
Prefers Signal over DM/chat: panton.01
Personal, long form, seldom updated: https://christian.panton.org/
All posts and views are my own, and might contain traces of nuts.
@annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social 
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social AI slop cannon
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
🚢 ships
🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social NHS Acute Hosp Dr 37 y. GER/GIM. Ex DH Nat Clin Dir. Lapsed Academic. Policy Think Tanker. Ex BGS/RCP Pres/VP
Med Journalism. Byline: @BMJ_latest. Columns: health press newspapers. @mjauk
Manc-in-South. MCFC. Craic, Schlock, Sharing, Learning, Friends
Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social scottish law lecturer, TV viewer, accidental mental health advocate.
Interested in legislative interpretation and Columbo (but proper Columbo - you know the stuff from the NBC years, and more infrequently ABC episodes)
Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Ruth @bouledenerfs.bsky.social The black and white cat is called Penny
Views from my own brain and not my employer's
Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social Posts when a Federal US .gov domain is added or removed. The Wayback machine can help you browse deleted sites: https://web.archive.org/
NOTE: A website can be unresponsive or show a 404, but this bot will only trigger when the domain itself is removed.
Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social British social democrat, here for UK/US politics. Masochistic Arsenal, Fiorentina and SF Giants fan. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social Dubliner in London. Sports nerd (and general nerd). Views described as "top bilge" by award-winning journalists
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
R Del @delexical.bsky.social Veering westerly. Strong coffee, salt water, heather-bedded hillside.
Europe West
These conversations have been edited and condensed for clarity and brevity.
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social Everything’s going to be just fine. Now go upstairs, pack your bags. We're going to begin a new life under the sea
I sometimes write things: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/07/menopunkapalooza-menopause-festival
Signal: @lisatozzi.44
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy.bsky.social Belfast based spreadsheet guy
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social Nurse by training. Vagabond by nature. Imposter by syndrome.
A Habermas-influenced English pluralist, if that's a thing. An organiser of things, which are definitely things.
He/him/ally
Agnes Crawford @understandingrome.bsky.social Qualified Rome guide specialising in personalised tours. 23 years experience. Native Londoner, naturalised Roman. (Instagram: understandingrome)
Libby @captainlibatron.bsky.social Ex parliament now runs a bar by the sea
Instagram same handle
Lesbian of the parish of Whitstable
Weird little guy
Quite deaf
She/her
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Andrei Soldatov @andreisoldatov.bsky.social Author of The Compatriots, The Red Web, The New Nobility, Senior Fellow at CEPA, King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, editor of http://Agentura.ru telegram: http://t.me/agenturaru
Emily Herbert @emilydherbert.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/frogandtoadbot.bsky.social/post/3m4pwll64f42a
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social Lack of Influencer
Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social 🌹 Economist MP who loves the pub
Department for Business and Trade PPS
jeevunsandher.substack.com
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."
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
POPULAR FRONT @popularfront.co 🔥 Live from the frontlines
www.popularfront.co
Skrub @skrub-data.bsky.social skrub is a Python library to ease preprocessing and feature engineering for tabular machine learning.
Our long-term goal is to directly connect database tables to machine learning estimators.
https://skrub-data.org
https://discord.gg/ABaPnm7fDC
@timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social Sport-obsessed lawyer. Pinotiste par larmes versées. All views personal.
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Cork." 1 Corkonians.
Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social PRC and DPRK strategic forces analyst with CNA. BA Reed College, MA Middlebury Institute. NSF GRFP. 
Futebol Clube @futebolclub10.bsky.social Página de esportes do Brasil, Notícias das Principais Ligas: Bundesliga, Premier League, Lá Liga. Apenas os jogos das Grandes Equipes!
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Need a secure way to contact me? Signal username: word_builder.20
Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social NatSec/cyber/OSINT editor @ Haaretz ➡ http://htz.li/natsec
■ Prev: editor-in-chief @haaretzcom
■ I also follow planes
Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich | Minister of State for Housing and Planning | Email: matthew.pennycook.mp@parliament.uk
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Mike Petersen @michaelbpetersen.bsky.social Russian military and warfighting analysis at the Center for Naval Analyses; Senior Non-Resident fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute; former Senior Advisor to US Navy CNO; former director of Russia maritime studies at U.S. Naval War College.
Gabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
Landsbergis.com Bookings: agent@championsukplc.com
Sam Macrory @sammacrory.bsky.social Director of Communications, Institute for Government 
David Sheppard @oilsheppard.bsky.social Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social Fellow | Economic Studies | @brookings.edu
Associate Director | @hamiltonproject.org
Board | @mazonusa.bsky.social
www.hamiltonproject.org
Working to end hunger in America
laurenhlb.01
Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social I'm just this guy yknow. All opinions entirely my own, and probably wrong
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Anthony Cormier @anthonycormier.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News
Signal, SecureDrop on request. Opinions my own.
Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News. "FOIA terrorist." Subscribe to my newsletter, FOIA Files and my FOIA podcast, Disclosure.
Signal: JasonLeopold.666
http://swap.fm/l/O8A3zzBKsGWpqLtjzLSF
https://www.bloomberg.com/foiafiles
Ezana Ć. @ezanac.occrp.org Product Manager for Data Platforms #OCCRP | Head of Digital Education, Literacy, and Advocacy #FemLabBH
@corinnevella.bsky.social @corinnevella.bsky.social 
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation @daphne.foundation
Light after darkness 16/11/2017
www.daphne.foundation is a non-profit fighting for truth & justice. We started @PILN.bsky.social to support public interest litigation & @amphoramedia.bsky.social to make investigative journalism more dynamic & resilient.
Aiden Reiter @aidreit.bsky.social Journalist at POLITICO. Formerly the Financial Times. Opinions are my own.
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/
I like human rights and French cuisine.
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
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.
Planet @planet.com We see things from a different angle. 🛰️🕊️
Public Benefit Corporation on NYSE $PL
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Polly Billington @pollybillington.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, East Thanet,
Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social 17 years as an energy market analyst, now working on asset transactions and investment advice across the energy industry. All views are my own.
More background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-haddon-62aa7642/