Elias the Extraterrestrial @eliasvarden.bsky.social I bring posts from outerspace
Macaroni @crypticmacaroni.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords 🐧
Big Puzzles: https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Macaroni
Little Puzzles: https://crosshare.org/macaroni
Endless rain, mac on, stirring pasta (8)
Cogs @cogsturn.bsky.social I set and talk about Cryptic Crosswords!
Solve the gentle puzzles: https://cogs-turn.com/
Solve the violent puzzles: https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Cogs
Watch me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CogsTurn
Ron James Hampton @rjhamptonjr.bsky.social Sharing music and bands you might have missed.
About me; Musician, Artist, Writer, Poet, Music Producer, Photographer, Actor, Former Radio D.J., Jack of many trades, Mountain Man & Hermit.
Let’s discuss anything related to the Arts, especially music!!
Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social Caffeinated forensic linguist researching deception in authorship style and faked (con)texts.Visiting Research Fellow, AIFL. 🇪🇺 🖖
Ex-archaeologist
#Humanist #ForensicLinguistics
Diana @witchyd.bsky.social early 30s white trans woman who's a bit of a shut-in- T thinklikeabee.bsky.social @thinklikeabee.bsky.social
- A Someone @aneuroticsomeone.bsky.social Profile temporarily semi-private for...reasons.
If we interacted in the past, you should have no problem associating an identity. DM if unsure.
Hopefully the storm will end soon.
Looking for friends, but booze recipes will do just as fine.
Rae of Sunshine @mmedebeauvoir.eurosky.social Lawyer linguist 🇪🇺 living and working in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. Knitter. Sewist. Baker. Cat lady. Socialist. Feminist. #LFC. European. Bad-tempered. Foul-mouthed 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇧🇷🇮🇹🇬🇷. Views are mine. Posts will be 98% #knitting, #baking, #sewing, and kittens.
Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy He/him/his. Writing code for a living for 35 years and counting. I've lived in England, Minnesota, and (currently) Aotearoa New Zealand :laserkiwi:.
Married with two […]
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💧🌿🐋Marie-Helene 😎 @mielmbah.bsky.social Bretonne in Australie. Work in a library. Love books, riding my bike on the rail trail, spoil my 2 grand kids. Slave to 20yo Oscar … bossy as😼
New to BlueSky and in search of kindred spirits 💚🐸🐋🌱🌿💧😎
I live in Bundjalung Country
Pozorvlak @pozorvlak.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Janeite STEMbro, relapsing mathematician, nervous mountaineer, abundance-pilled environmentalist. Fan of compilers, love/hate relationship with build systems.
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Tom M @tommessenger.bsky.social Head of Maths at a sixth form college.
Grievous Devious @furikake-pancake.bsky.social 
matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social Here for art, books, film, music, comedy, food, football, cricket, history, old newspapers, birds, mountains and more.
@gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social @gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social 
Bean N. Curling @beancurling.bsky.social Studied art in the Big Eighties
Afraid of DMs. Pennsylvanian.
The Yak Had Been Told Not to Talk Back.
It Can't Be Easy To Hang a Giraffe In a Cheap Hotel Room...
Available at Amazon.
Mohammed Miah @reftm.bsky.social Retired
Burrows @happyspacebunny.bsky.social Cryptic crossword addict and setter (MyC and Big Dave), writer and occasional software developer.
AKA happy little space bunny
Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social Programmer (sometimes games, currently mostly not) and former microbiologist. Brit in Germany. Likes cats, tabletop RPGs, and F1. Trans rights are human rights.
RR @rlrossi64.bsky.social Pack it up, pack it in; let me begin. Former teacher/school leader/SENDCo currently exploring Schrödinger’s retirement. Books. Cryptic Crosswords. Football.
JohnnyDcm @johnnydcm.bsky.social Guitarist in Ground Zero.
Instagram: @GroundZeroBlackpool
If you like my jokes, I will follow you. And you will like it.
Aspiring novelist. "Cube" out now!
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=an5FOn1ewei2zvEbELzoNc7iWelbGxeUrmark9VSNrD
Matt McQueen @matt-rarely-writes.co.uk Basketball Fan, Software Developer, Reader, Writer, Coffee Drinker. https://www.matt-rarely-writes.co.uk/
Jean Wood @jeanwood.bsky.social Ex UK language teacher now ITE tutor NPQLTD. Yorkshire born and bred but marooned in Lincolnshire. Remainer 🇪🇺. Interested in Education UK politics, cooking and eating. #FBPE Please don’t DM - it’s a block from me.
Fuming Soufflé 🇪🇺🇯🇵🐸 @fumingsouffle.bsky.social Usually fuming about one thing or another but occasionally deflates into a fluffy pancake.
英国ど田舎在住のはまっこです🐾
#Wülferhampton
Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social Used to be a somebody in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, conlangs, cribbage
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Stobswood Bellfare
(he/him)
Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social Game dev in Oslo. Formally of UK. Formerly of Snowcastle Games. Founder @ No Bad Weather
Jack Shepherd @lovefromjack.bsky.social Puzzle creator at Lil Snack. Formerly BuzzFeed. Big time cat guy. My newsletter about words and, like, grammar or whatever: https://onwords.substack.com/
Joyzzle @joyzzle.bsky.social Crosswords reimagined.
www.joyzzle.com/play
Matt // metagloria @metagloria.bsky.social Amateur cryptic solver/setter/enthusiast
Baltimore, MD
Old puzzles at https://crosshare.org/metagloria
New and future puzzles at https://mycrossword.co.uk/metagloria
Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social Music, puzzles, writing, politics I guess. Future former lawyer. Disdained as an "egghead" by Matt Taibbi. Banned from Great Clips 7/20/24. He / him. https://billingsgate.neocities.org/
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
Phil Wilkinson @philmorandi.bsky.social Frustrated artist. A life trashed by (very) late diagnosed AuDHD (ADHD + ASD). And misophonia. Angry and depressed by 14 years of destructive Tory rule. 
George L. Jones @gljones1972.bsky.social I'm just a blue dot in a red state. Fighting for everything I believe in...
#BlueCrew🌊 #BLM✊🏾 #HerBodyHerChoice
🏳️🌈... LGBTQ+ Ally
🇺🇦... #SlavaUkraine
#DoNotObeyInAdvance
#MakeElitesAfraidAgain
#EatTheRich
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #ArrestICE
#NoKings
QueenKong👑💙🌊🦋 @queenkong24.bsky.social 🦋☮️🦋keep showing up Resisters.
-DEMOCRACY.
NO KINGS
@QueenKong24
#FBaRmy
#Texan
#resist #FBR
#DEMSCONNECT
🚫BOTS-🚫DMz
🦋☮️🦋
Clouve Inc. @www.clouve.com Clouve builds the bridge between great software and great business.
Pat O'Leary @patoleary.bsky.social Engineer. Curmudgeon. Lover of lousy puns. Fighting a weakness for redheads. Fair weather sailor and proud of it
Graham @redgremlin.bsky.social Briton living in the French Alps. Microelectronic engineer, nature lover, canoeist, amateur photographer and teddy bear enthusiast
Family, personal and professional interests in France, UK and US
Hates what is happening in UK - not the country I left.
@harrygreaves.bsky.social @harrygreaves.bsky.social 
Janet Sparke @scintilla71.bsky.social Trying really hard to get better at setting cryptic crosswords.
Also a photography tutor, food lover and very slow runner
J S Docherty @jsdocherty.bsky.social Apparently Brilliant/Disturbing, bits sometimes on the Telly and Radio.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/james-docherty/
Crossers @crypticcrossers.bsky.social Crossers.co.uk is a new site aiming to make it easier to set and solve cryptic crossword puzzles. It's got the set of tools I wanted as a setter to make it quicker to create puzzles. Keen to get some feedback from setters and solvers alike!
@stemwinder @stemwinder.bsky.social Burrowing rodent fan, music lover, tune mangler. Thinks your playlist is derivative. #MDANT #UTV #vanguardista
Papillon Doré @papillondore20.bsky.social
LOVE MUSIC CHALLENGES & HASHTAG GAMES.
Paul Howard @paulhoward5.bsky.social Family stuff, music stuff, techie stuff, cryptic crosswords, Oxford commas, and total nonsense. Not always in that order. All posts are my own views. Grew up in the 1980s.
Holos Discover @holosdiscover.discover.holos.social.ap.brid.gy Fediverse search engine that respects user privacy and consent.
We only index public posts from users who have enabled indexing (indexable=true).
We respect #nobot […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://discover.holos.social/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Flickytwit @flickytwit.bsky.social Coat of many colours, mind of many squirrels, always up to some sort of creative broadcasting/TV/event/props/stage shenanigans.
Thomas Adam @thomasadam.bsky.social Only here for synchronicity. My main posts are over on Mastodon.
I mostly post crossword-related things here.
Oh, and developer of fvwm/fvwm3, tmux, got, x11cp
@pecabite.bsky.social @pecabite.bsky.social 
Pat Cousins @patcousins.bsky.social Crossword solver on YouTube, lazy writer.
Flipturns 🏊♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.social 🏊♀️ swim teacher , 🐕 animal care tech, 🎸 musician/music therapist, 🧠 mental health tech, science &k elementary Ed. I care about people, animals, and the environment. Dealing with genetic diseases. I refuse to let them still me. 💙 JUST KEEP SWIMMING 🏊♂️
Dick Horn @tsuno85.bsky.social Born before WWII, But not silent,raised on a farm during Jim Crow days, too young for Korea and too old for Nam. Enjoyed the 60’s especially Grad school in the Bay Area pastored for 35 years 25 in Japan. Hate fascism,MAGA. 🇺🇸Resisters!
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Abdul K. @abdvl.bsky.social Amateur cryptic crossword setter. Find my work at https://crypticsbyabdul.com/
Fishupahill @fishupahill.bsky.social Formerly many things. Now missing, but not gone.
#pwME, #pwLC and #Lyme.
someguyinthefridge @someguyinthefridge.bsky.social 
bram stroker @bsky.probablyfine.co.uk Average at software, bad at games, uiuaboo. Bi 🩷💜💙
Interested in:
✅ TDD
👥 Ensemble development
🔄 Continuous delivery
🖥️ Extreme programming
Not interested in: coriander, liquorice, cucumbers
Also @probablyfine@tech.lgbt
Harry Smith @harry-smith.bsky.social 
Pat @maytce.bsky.social Retired doodler. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?
@rkempley.bsky.social @rkempley.bsky.social 
Karol S @karolszym.bsky.social Crossword nerd. Composer in real life. (Yes, we still exist.)
Composer of a thousand songs needing no introduction (5,1)
Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social Health #MECFS, sport, history & current affairs, puzzles, language, law & humour #Celtic 🍀 #LifeWriting at
merrydholl.wordpress.com 🏴
Simon Bazalgette @simonbazalgette.bsky.social A few of my obsessions: Family, Brentford, The Fall, Horseracing, Roundhouse and leaving the world a better place. How hard can it be?
Matthew Kaner @mattkaner.bsky.social Composer. Teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Also into carpentry & cryptic crosswords
linktr.ee/matthew.kaner
Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social Amateur astronomer - Astronomy for Everyone show since 2009 https://www.youtube.com/c/astronomyforeveryone
Have dogs. Tell jokes - I used to tell dad jokes. Sometimes he'd laugh.
Something with computers for a living.
Really don't DM.
Peter Williams @mathsimpact.bsky.social Secondary lead practitioner, teacher of maths and computer science, lover of puzzles, spreadsheet fanatic, proud geek.
#EduSky #UKTeaching
Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social -2005: Leeds
2005-: Dublin
Films, music, crosswords, #CalendarMaths, swimming, #lufc, stuff - may contain puns.
Professional data wrangler. Amateur cat wrangler.
Not fitting every concern into CHAR(300).
Not an owl.
GeClef @geclef12.bsky.social Please don’t put me on a list. Lots of typos. 🇺🇸
/s =Sarcasm
Musician
My poetry is mostly on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/gigie91173. Learning cryptic cxwd
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. You are my Algonquin roundtable.
Matt Lewis @mattdlewis.bsky.social Mostly maths teaching here, some cooking, growing, art and odds & sods. PhD candidate at CEML Loughborough Uni. Asst Director at NCETM, interested in maths teachers doing research
@Superleggera - who's awesome? That would be me 😊 @superleggera.bsky.social Pricing analyst, interested in music, films, fairness, and justice. Not interested in crypto or investments. At all. Don't follow me if that's your bag 🙄. Will only follow if we've had some interaction.
Living in Shropshire. aka Andy
Leeroystarr @leeroystarr.bsky.social Facetious Prick.
only ever joking, calm down dear!
I'm only here to make up the numbers.
Dropped on my head as a child.
Before you block me can I at least say...Bye
*Witty retort a specialty
Ash2 I Voted Yes Australia Slava Ukraïni @ash202324.bsky.social Democratic Education. Literacy. Psychogénéalogie. Restorative Justice #NAFODinoDivision
Benny Davis @bennymofodavis.bsky.social Will I get more followers if I put The Axis of Awesome in my bio
Evidently not
Dmitry Adamskiy @michpunk.bsky.social i live in sandwich.
cryptics, orienteering and allotment
@jwharington.bsky.social @jwharington.bsky.social 
Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social Physics teacher 🦄 Former electronic engineer and chef. Graduate of UMIST and NTU.
Milo @milo-xwords.bsky.social Has plenty of time, so filling it with quizzing, crosswords, and the like.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/Milo
David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social Crossword maker. Evenings host ABC Vic. Writer, and Wordplay columnist SMH & The Age. Verbaholic. My views only davidastle.com 
Alys Cummings @alyseliza.bsky.social Makes documentaries 🎥 loves crosswords 🖊️ reads novels 📚 writes ✍️ New Writing North Emerging Creative Associate ⬆️
Debut novel Murder Most Cryptic out
October 2026 Penguin Michael Joseph 🇬🇧🐧🇬🇧
February 2027 Minotaur 🇺🇸🐂🇺🇸
Lives North East 🌊🌅
Andrew @andrewt.net I am: Andrew https://www.andrewt.net • The Cell Tower guy https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/ • Polymath on MyCrossword https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Polymath
Simon Ferris @simonferris4234.bsky.social Climate issues, Maths. Crosswords. Here to get away from X.
Rick @natureskid.bsky.social “Opinions are all I have here!”
PLEASE NO DM’S , THIS IS NOT A DATING APP ❣️
Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social Professor of energy and administrative law, crossword setter, music and fútbol lover. LeoNessie on My Crossword (mycrossword.co.uk). Posts are not endorsements.
Wildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk Amateur cryptic person, blinded by the lights.
Crosswords @ https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Wildvale
Ramblings @ https://www.wildvale.co.uk
Creator of https://cryptick.wildvale.co.uk
A!Kat ai @a-katai.com We make custom AI Assistants/Companions/Instructors/etc with heart! 🩷
https://a-katai.com
https://ko-fi.com/akatai/shop
Woman-owned ♀️ LGBTQ+-owned 🏳️🌈
Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social Ex UK gov econ incl 2 years in Euro Parl econ & monetary cttee. Normandy. Semi-veggie. UTV
EN & FR (DE after beer). Views personal etc. Welsh. And French
Born at 325ppm
alex @dude.computer dude of computer. curious, both definitions.
atx -> stl
Greg Dobbins @thatgregdobbins.bsky.social Would-be children's writer, full-time idiot.
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social Post other people's funny, gags from pro comedians, my own tat, and support the work of outstanding investigative journalists.
Champie @champierth.bsky.social Gamedev & okayish bass player.
Follow for "Daft social media bollocks"
Assume any post is sarcastic and you won’t go far wrong.
A like doesn’t mean I agree, or understand.
May contain British spellings, and Oxford commas.
Pic:@beancurling.bsky.social
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
David JeremysIron @davidjsiron.bsky.social UK FE library worker, neurodivergent, he/him. Also a (very) amateur cryptic crossword setter at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/ as JeremysIron.