Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com Financial Investigations Editor at the Financial Times.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social Actor, Cinephile, Culturalist & Drummer posting stuff I like. buymeacoffee.com/mikewarburton
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com Independent creators of content for the curious. cosmicshambles.com | patreon.com/cosmicshambles| youtube.com/cosmicshambles
Gina Rippon @ginarippon.bsky.social cognitive neuroscientist; sex/gender activist; autism researcher; science credibility campaigner; member of Neurogenderings network; proud Essex Girl.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social Journalist, writer, unlicensed epistemologist. Brookings and The Atlantic. Please be sane, BlueSky.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social Texas Medical Center (TMC) Pediatrics Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas, Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science Technology, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social The pro-EU society ⭐️ affiliated to the Labour Party 🌹 Standing for Labour, Standing for Europe 🇪🇺
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home. 
Zanny Minton Beddoes @zannymb.economist.com Editor-in-chief at The Economist
UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social Reporting the latest updates from Downing Street and Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Here until Downing Street setup an official account. I also run @royalfamilyuk.bsky.social.
Sci-FI-Ireland @sci-fi-ireland.bsky.social A literary magazine bringing you the best new Science-Fiction from the Island of Ireland. EIC - mark-the-writerpractor.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Colm Peelo @cpeelo.bsky.social BioInnovate Fellow
PhD Clinical Medicine, finding my niche in MedTech.
Brain🧠 neurodegeneration🧠 health🏥 heart failure💔 environment🌍 tech💻 mountains⛰
Wannabe nerd 🤓
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader.
Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
Humanists International @humanists.bsky.social Humanists International is the global representative body at the heart of the humanist movement. Visit our website to find out more https://humanists.international.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov United States Senator for Maryland.
RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social Mischief maker. Freelance work horsing at www.scampmedia.ie
R Del @delexical.bsky.social Veering westerly. Strong coffee, salt water, heather-bedded hillside.
Europe West
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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
www.instagram.com/doniecnn/
Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social Was giving Trump a daily raft of 💩and had a substantial following on TWITTER (it will always be Twitter), until The Elon silenced me into oblivion. I’ve been searching for a home ever since. Is this it? Dunno.I’ll perch here for a bit and find out #Pinks
Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social 
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social Chief writer of An Irish Diary, The Irish Times
The Journal FactCheck @factcheck.thejournal.ie A project by @thejournal.ie to tackle misinformation in Ireland.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social Money, Lies, and God & other books
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks
Media & speaking requests contact goodnewskatherine@gmail.com
Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women @brigitdublin.bsky.social A city-wide celebration of women past & present inspired by the Celtic goddess Brigit, Fri 29 Jan - Mon 1 Feb 2027. #BrigitDublin
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Government of Ireland @gov.ie News from the Government of Ireland. RTs not an endorsement.
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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social Social Democrat TD for Dublin Central 💜
Sinéad Gibney @sineadgibney.bsky.social Social Democrats TD for Dublin Rathdown
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/
(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com Lawyer, and occasional writer about the law and related matters. Nothing I say here is legal advice.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social Check out the amazing handcrafed gifts made by my daughter at www.idlehandmade.com
You know you want a Holy Grail bag, or that guitar bag, owned only by me and Micky Dolenz. Updates coming shortly...
Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds
catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
leftinthelurch.net | thesundae.net
Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com 🇺🇸🇪🇺American by birth, European by choice
Buy my book: www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
Read my Substack: https://DaveKeating.Substack.com/
Watch my reporting: www.DaveKeating.net
Coinnigh Clé | Keep Left @coinnighcle.bsky.social 
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social Illustrator. Cartoonist.
James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social Lecture in geospatial archaeology at the University of Glasgow, interested in landscape archaeology, GIS, remote sensing, hillforts, causewayed enclosures and anything big on top of a hill
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social Writer/fancy ape
damienowens.com
Latest book, Duffy and Son: https://shorturl.at/6oF6O
David Baddiel @realbaddiel.bsky.social On here too
American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social A voice for the nontheist. A problem for the religious right.
For more humanism 👇
https://linktr.ee/americanhumanist
Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social Humanist. Midlander. Liberal. Xennial. Quondam Classicist. Chief Executive @humanists.uk | Ambassador @humanists.bsky.social
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Councillor Donna Cooney Dublin City @donnacooney1.bsky.social I'm an Artist, Activist, @greenparty.ie spokesperson on Arts and Culture
@dubcitycouncil Councillor and former Deputy Lord Mayor. Bicycle Mayor. #ClimateAction #Nature #Heritage #History #socialspaces #SocialEnterprise
Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
Rachael K @rachk.bsky.social An advocate of social justice for all. Living with ME/CFS/ Long COVID. A lover of science, nature, music, the arts, life, the universe & everything. From Ireland, living up north of England. She/her.
Seána @grantsana.bsky.social Interested in law, human rights, healthcare policy, shiny things, millinery and the occasional crown.
Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social Author of At Least It Looks Good From Space. Columnist for The Journal. Your Sunday clothes don't fool me.
Buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/AtLeastItLooksGoodFromSpace
Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social
Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social Writer.
Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social @FinancialTimes.com science editor. Ex-Nigeria, UAE, Thailand, Belgium & Japan. Latest book: What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) - https://linktr.ee/whateveryoneknowsaboutbritain. Author of The Fabulists and A Swamp Full of Dollars.
Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at UCD Dublin; Dundrum Methodist Church; Royal Irish Academy; Azure Forum, IDSA and Gym Dad. Mix of Mayo, Kerry, West Virginia and suburban Maryland.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Kevin Cunningham @kevcunningham.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics | Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society | Fmr Targeting & Analysis @uklabour | @OULightweights | Chair MA Journalism @wearetudublin |
LiveDrive @livedrive.dublincityfm.ie LiveDrive uses over 500 traffic cameras to provide live travel updates for Dublin during peak hours, broadcast live on 103.2 Dublin City FM. 🚶🚴🧑🦼🚉🚋🚌🚗🛵⛵️ Posted by a small team of people, not AI.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social Twitter migrant. Dublin City Councillor for Clontarf. Also on mastodon, but rarely: https://mastodon.ie/@karlstanley
Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop | D’Olier St, Dublin 2
Bookshop open Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5
Café open Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30; Closed Sunday & Monday
Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social Jumped through the cake in the November Rain video
The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ all views my own except those im paid to express by the global jewish conspiracy, obvz
Polling stuff: irishelectionprojections.com
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
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Freethink @freethink.com Exploring the collision of technology, business and society. Curious / Thoughtful / Open / Constructive. Changing media with @bigthink.
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com adventurer
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Emmet Kirwan @emmetkirwan.bsky.social Playwright & Actor
Reps. Writing: Curtis Brown. Acting: United UK & Lisa Richards IRL
https://linktr.ee/Emmetkirwan?fbclid=PAAaat-_vsdAnFapXO9hCuc6FR70ksrDJw7l-m7w4
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉