Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War, and currently writing a book about it. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast. Personal account, views expressed are mine alone.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
katie @supermathskid.bsky.social still not a real question
whatever my latest is: www.iflscience.com/dr-katie-spalding
Mary Harrington @maryharrington1.bsky.social
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social Artist, writer, crow friend, hugger of trees, saver of spiders. Encouraging dreamers and believing in fairies. https://bio.site/thehermitofeverything Also hosts @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
Davis X. Machina @ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social Curmudgeon. Retired pedagogue. Lapsed philologist. Maneiac.
Likes: Sparrows. bridges, cardboard boxes, curtain rods
'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced." W.E.B Dubois
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Pedr ap Robat @pedraprobat.bsky.social Teacher and writer. Only one pays, but I love both. I draw mountains on whiteboards.
Against Brexit and all who sail in her.
Against far-Right populism.
No political affiliation, instititional or ideological.
Not "woke".
Sceptic not cynic.
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Goldfinch liker @ruudboy.bsky.social I like football, wrestling and Cities Skylines. he/him
You 'angs a bit of that around your neck and you won't never suffer from the scringes no matter 'ow cold it be.- B Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social Electronic Engineer (rtd), Santa look-alike
Lives in Bourne LIncolnshire.
see also https://twit.social/@BobHarvey
see also https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8272
Mhairi Black @mhairiblack.bsky.social Writer, Comedian, Former MP….wild, I know. Loving trying new things and having a laugh 💃 🏳️🌈🏴🏳️⚧️
@sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social Journalist & Presenter | 📻 Formerly LBC ‘Sangita Myska 1-4pm Weekends ’, BBC @Radio4 Documentaries & 📺@BBCNews TV | @JSchofieldTrust | RTs not an endorsement
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
Maya Forstater @mayaforstater.bsky.social Here with my husband, we love Warhammer and especially nurgle!
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Vic @victbc.bsky.social
Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social Iconoclast. Abyss-starer. Low tolerance for people not acting in good faith. Possible space alien.
Unsolicited DMs will result in instant blocking.
Steve Bray @stevebraysodem.bsky.social Standing up to BREXIT
Gia Milinovich @giagia.co.uk Enlightenment values ftw.
Newsletter: https://giagia.substack.com/
The National @scotnational.bsky.social The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland. Read at thenational.scot
Helen Johnston @hj4euinspain.bsky.social British resident in Spain, translator, pro-EU, lefty, green. Human rights are not a matter of opinion.
Council member and newsletter editor @bremaininspain.com
Council member @grassrootsforeurope.org
Writer @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk Help us build a future in Europe.
Join European Movement UK today.
@helenvecht.bsky.social @helenvecht.bsky.social
David Murray @chartalist.bsky.social There are alternative economic stories where life/humanity is the hero and private business a trusty emissary.
Chartalism is the historical origin story to a better present and future.
Scottish Currency Group & Bylines Scotland writer
Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social There is no independence from Westminster without a Scottish Currency
🏴
We are planning for a Scottish Central Bank, payments system & regulatory structures for introduction of a Scottish currency on Independence Day
#scottishindependence #scottishcurrency
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
@annatelf.bsky.social @annatelf.bsky.social
Dave Budd @davebudd.bsky.social Retired- C Chris Eilbeck @chriseilbeck.bsky.social Engineer, reverse-engineer, bodger, kludger, designer, hacker, programmer, cyclist, flyer of things, sysadmin, rocket scientist
Victoria Smith @glosswitch.bsky.social Feminist. Author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-aged Women and Unkind: How 'Be Kind' Entrenched Sexism. Totally cheery apart from all that.
Liam @nicecuppatea.bsky.social Formerly @twigletsrool on Twitter. Leftie, old fart, (voluntarily) exiled Londoner. West Ham fan/sufferer. Technically a Cyclops.
Susannah @ladylord.bsky.social Pro EU and very anti-Tory leftie
Feminist supporter of LGB with the T
Cat and baby videos aaahed over
I do love a tote bag
She/her
Stephen Firth @dromozoan.bsky.social Ex Scientist, Ex Sailor, Ex Pharma
Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social Scientific expert: communication on sensitive /distressing /embarrassing topics especially how experts do it. + getting the evidence into training and real life.
@RealTalk_EoL
#PalliativeCare: professional & personal expertise
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social Retired research scientist. Retired Patent Attorney. Woke. EU. Gay. UK. Trans ally. cis. He/him.
Sonia T 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @soniaandree.bsky.social Ecologically-minded teacher in France, possesses a lefty mind, with a penchant for gardening, cooking and regular boardgaming sessions with friends.
Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social Dual national (🇬🇧 /🇩🇪 ). PhD in quantum physics. Ex-Hong Kong (32 years), now North Yorkshire. Interested in writing, physics, history, travel, aviation. OCD/bipolar. Published poet. Tries to be kind.
Huge @zumbruk.bsky.social Grumpy retired atheist. Ex biochemist and IT Security geek. Speed freak. SF fan. Radical centrist.
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
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.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Eric Jarvis @eric-jarvis.bsky.social Old lefty muso thesp in Brixton
Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social Microbiologist. MSc Oil recovery. Researcher. NHS activist. Yes to Scottish Independence
Former Chair of Scottish Currency Group Campaign Team and member of Scottish Currency Finance & Banking working group. Author @ Bylines Scotland.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Woodstock Taylor @woodstoque.bsky.social Something and nothing. Mostly nothing.
Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social He/Him
https://mastodon.social/@happybusman if it comes to that
@vermisstpfarrer @vermisstpfarrer.bsky.social 18th century citizen of nowhere.
Expert in pedantry and nothing.
Interests in Medieval & Electronic musics, Christian Theology, International Trade, EU Pols.
"Ah, the good old days when they were dropping bombs on us and we were all half starving"
Robbie Irvine @robbieirvine.bsky.social Just a bloke who likes movies, computers and isn't keen on watching sport
ShezzaT @shezzat.eurosky.social Her. Yer woman. You know; the one with too many books, a mad cat, and an online footprint that wanders back to the usenet days. Northern Irish.
Nomme @nomme1.bsky.social Err... Been around a bit. Likes beer, comedy and having a laugh.
Alan @two-cats.com Northern Irish, but Cambridge is home. I work in tech with strong opinions on agile and engineering management. Also into government - especially the local kind. Skiing, gym, gin, and video games. 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪 🇬🇧
Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social Engineer. Recovering Xitter user.
Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change.
Posts may contain traces of withering scorn.
Slava Ukraini!
Iain Mackay @philtrum.bsky.social Person. Relative. Employee.
Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social It was the charliebrownhadhoesest of times, it was the nohedidntthatisnttruest of times
In the words of Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when he is a colossal dumbass.
Angela @angek.bsky.social Sport-loving sixth form biology teacher with a serious travel bug. Union rep once upon a time. And a medical history as long as your arm.
Simon Gray @simongray.bsky.social I'm the real simon gray - you may know me from places such as Twitter, Facebook, and Usenet. I make post-jazz-rock-dub-persian-indian-techno with a santur, a trumpet, and Ableton Live. And things for the internet.
Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social Programmer. Photographer. Ambulomancer. Occasional amateur occult researcher. Non erratum sed designatum. #Bristol
Matt Craddock @mattcraddock.com Research Software Engineer at The Alan Turing Institute, UK. Former cognitive neuroscientist
Stephen Gower @sjgower.eurosky.social Oxford. Mostly gets around by bike.
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social Purveyors of rambling stories with no point. 55.95N, 3.18W, ish.
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social Mostly badger, occasionally mermaid. Terminally online.
Linzk425 @linzk425.bsky.social Gen X knitter, mother, wife, friend, retired. Not in order of importance.
You may know me from original social media such as bulletin boards, Usenet, LiveJournal. All of them moribund now, but I don’t think that’s my fault…
LNR @lnr.bsky.social Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer, she/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html
Trans rights are human rights.
Andrew Norman @ajnorman.bsky.social Going to and fro and walking up and down.
Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social Classical double bassist - lots of chamber music, orchestral, and operatic experience - always looking for more musical fun; occasional oboist & cellist ditto.
SQL Server DBA, working for Coeo.com supporting many clients and the team.
Leeds, UK
Mark Goodge @markgoodge.com Professional Internet nerd and part time political cat herder. Internationalist, localist, communitarian, democrat (in the English sense), pro-freedom, pro-science, pro-responsibility. Sometimes these conflict. Grown-ups can handle that.
Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com Writer, rep @LiverpoolLit| shortlisted Costa Short Story Award, Dinesh Allirajah Prize | Volunteer CPWF UK (formerly Sea Shepherd UK) | Sunderland.
https://iainrowan.com. Also write weird fiction https://mapsofthelost.substack.com
Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social Children’s Rights are Human Rights. Feminist. Disabled. Knitter. Opinionated. LLM student. Opinions my own etc. Retweets not endorsement. 🇳🇿🏴
Marc Wilson @znep.uk Tech geek. Bibliophile.
Like mountains, but doesn't have one at home.
Willy Eckerslyke @willyeckerslyke.bsky.social Mooching, flitting, not paying attention
Also, old Rovers, mine exploring, and wandering the beaches with partner and dawg.
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
Carl Williams @carlkwilliams.bsky.social I quite like cheese.
Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social Woman of a certain age. PhD researcher exploring discourse around learning disabilities. Open University Associate Lecturer passionate about inclusion and lifelong learning. Building knowledge & advocating for respectful representation
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook
All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
Marcus Houlden @mhoulden.uk Biker, software engineer, not into right wing culture wars. He/him/oi you
Shatner's Bass @shatnersbass.bsky.social Old School
Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker.
Francophile/phone.
Quoad ultra denied
[Clackmannan, Scotland]