Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social Former BBC foreign correspondent reporting from
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, N-Ireland, Pakistan, India, South Africa.
Book: http://hughsykes.substack.com
Biog: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pnq3d
Archive: https://soundcloud.com/hughsykes
Joanna Cooksey @msfennybentley.bsky.social Welsh Librarian at Oxford Brookes University. She/her. Libraries, books & poetry. Super cycling fan.
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social Eldest Sister. Childless Cat Lady. Italian Jew. Witchy Woman.
I’m from N-E-W Jerz
The Reykjavík Grapevine @rvkgrapevine.bsky.social The Reykjavík Grapevine is your essential guide to Icelandic life, culture, music, travel and more.
#rvkgrapevine
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social 🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
Ben @safers.bsky.social Bit of a rotter, will work for food. Owns way too many shoes. He/him (fe/ei 🏴 )
I try to be a good ally
Tell your cat I said hi.
(Previously known as @safeasfuck)
Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social New Zealand writer/artist living in the UK. Comics, storyboards, commissions, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Website: https://www.scott1gray.com/
Art prints for sale: ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57
https://linktr.ee/Scott1Gray
Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social Astronomical optics, get 'em while they're cold
@suearcher69.bsky.social @suearcher69.bsky.social 
Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social I am screaming out loud all the time I write which takes off my attention rather and I hope will excuse mistakes. Moira Redmond in another life
Blog at https://clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/ 
Sue Archer @suearcher.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy Womble, maker of things out of junk, drinker of tea. Dysgwr Cymraeg #MakersHour on Twitter
[bridged from https://toot.wales/@suearcher on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters & #NaturesMemory. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni. President of the Society for the History of Natural History. Australian mammal nerd. He/him. Own views.
Profanity Embroidery Group PEG @profane-embroidery.bsky.social Collective of absolute twats who are excellent at swearing and alright at sewing. When we can be arsed we'll update this bit with better shit.
Feel free to knob over to our website
https://pegwhitstable.co.uk/
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social Stonemason in Ottawa, Canada.
YouGov @yougov.co.uk YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviours from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks. Join now: https://account.yougov.com
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Dan De’Ath @deathcardiff.bsky.social Cardiff Councillor | Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Strategic Planning & Transport
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Glamorgan / Morgannwg @glamorganuk.bsky.social News and updates from Glamorgan / Newyddion a diweddariadau o Forgannwg
@shepherdjo.bsky.social @shepherdjo.bsky.social Shepherd by the sea. Works with a commercial flock and own small herdwick flock. Getting by with 🥃 and dogs. Land owning dreamer.
If you're lucky enough to live by the sea, you're lucky enough. 🌊🌊
Pat @maytce.bsky.social Retired doodler. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?
S4C 🏴 @s4c.cymru 🏴 Cynnwys gwreiddiol o Gymru
📺 Original content from #Wales
Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social At @GeoTdF.bsky.social we answer your questions on landscapes and geology cycling races | see Geo-Sports.org for more information!
Dr Mand @mandapen.bsky.social Memorial Device “Alternative National Treasure”. Let’s have a brew. I like ScandiNoir & The Vaccines. DuoLingo boasts. Enthusiastic novice at drawing. Workplace selfies for OOTD.
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
Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc..
Standards have fallen; my value has dropped.
https://danrhodes.co.uk
Welsh Ornithological Society @birdsinwales.bsky.social Promoting birding, the study and conservation of birds in Wales for over 30 years. Hyrwyddo adara ac astudio a chadwraeth adar yng Nghymru am dros 30 mlynedd
Will 🏴🏳️🌈 @willdv2002.bsky.social ESRC Funded PhD student in Politics at Cardiff University, studying electoral reform in Wales
(personal account)
Research profile: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/daviesw18
Glothy @glothy.bsky.social 
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Professor, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Amanda Tuke @amandatuke.bsky.social Nature writer, urban naturalist, 30-minute Birder columnist in Bird Watching Magazine. Author of #WildPavements. Order here https://lnk.to/WildPavements
Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social Passionate Welsh naturalist & photographer fighting for a wilder World.
PhD student studying #seabirds
Often found running in the mountains ⛰️ 👣
https://www.benporterwildlife.co.uk
#StubbornOptimist | #GenerationRestoration
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴 @spiderbill.bsky.social Scot now living in Slovenia. #ScotsAbroad Semi-retired internet consultant, chess player and administrator, landscape photographer, guitarist, Dorothy Dunnett commentator.
http://www.dorothydunnett.co.uk
Rhys Owen @rhysowenjourno.bsky.social Gohebydd Gwelidyddol - Political Reporter
@Golwg.360.Cymru
https://golwg.360.cymru/aelod/rhysowen
Dandelion Appreciation Society @dandelionappre1.bsky.social Championing dandelions and all the other under appreciated wild things.
Gillian Darley OBE @gmdarksky.bsky.social Writer, reader, perambulator, observer.
www.gilliandarley.com
Max @maxharvey79.bsky.social I'm a double threat (puns and portraits). Arty things are here: instagram.com/zincportraits. Puns are on this place, the OTHER place and in books: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GQXHHXNS
Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social Beer hack/International beer judge of mystery/Bad cricketer/Worse fisher
Order my books here http://tinyurl.com/z9jd2ru or http://tinyurl.com/da95798b/
Loathe Scampi Fries but any other hate has no home on this timeline. https://linktr.ee/MelissaColeBeer
Matt Rosser @matt.cymru Welsh media functionary.
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Regula Ysewijn @regulaysewijn.bsky.social MBE, Belgian James Beard Award winning author of 7 books, Food writer, Culinary Historian & Photographer | history of baking in UK and Low countries | Latest books: #DarkryeandHoneyCake #Bridgertoncookbook regulaysewijn.com
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, cat lover,CAMRA member since 1975
Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social The official Bluesky thinking page of the Icelandic Cricket Association. Birthplace of cricket (911 CE). Merchandise: https://s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
Website: krikket.is
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Cardiff Civic Society @cardiffcivicsoc.bsky.social Ymgyrchu dros adeiladau a mannau gwyrdd | Campaigning for Cardiff's buildings and green spaces. https://t.co/AhIWUifiyy
Josh @saltedjosh.bsky.social Writer. Filmmaker. Culer. Metro Detroiter. Apprentice Guillotine Builder. Nazi Hater. Demon Whisperer. Bidet Evangelist. https://deadline.com/2023/02/climate-change-fellowship-pamela-adlon-dorothy-fortenberry-roxane-gay-mentors-nrdc-caa-black-list-redford-
Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social Name shouter
Second slip🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social Retired Nurse. Collector of rocks after studying with OU. Like to walk alone in remote places. Do knitting, sewing, embroidery, tapestry, watercolours. Read voraciously. Bit of a petrol head. My garden is my bit of paradise. Lived in France 15yrs, glorious
Henry Zeffman @hzeffman.bsky.social BBC Chief Political Correspondent
Instagram: @hzeffmanbbc
Learning Disability Today @learningdisability.bsky.social News, articles and debate for professionals working with people with a learning disability and autistic people.
https://www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/
Learning Disability Wales @ldwales.bsky.social Working to make Wales the best country in the world for people with a learning disability to live, learn, love and work. RTs are not endorsements.
WikiVictorian @wikivictorian.bsky.social Sharing random stuff from 1800 to 1920s: fashion, stories, art, and a compilation of faces and cultures that coexisted then ✨
Grev Williams 〓〓 @grev.bsky.social Cornish drive-by opinion haver. Reality enthusiast.
“Would drink with again ★★★★★"
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
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social Much-loved and popular funster
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru @librarywales.bsky.social Llyfrgell i Gymru a’r Byd
A Library for Wales and the World
Fretful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social Lost to almost everything but a vague sense of jam and idleness.
perryguitar666 @perryguitar666.bsky.social Guitarist with Pendulum by night.
Cycling commentator and pundit by day. 
CattleBat @cattlebat.bsky.social Cats, Animals, Nature, Life, Music (Alt, EBM, Electro, Industrial, Punk, 80s, Darkwave, Goth).
West Midlands, UK.
Previously worked in Law.
Retired = Enjoying the freedom and time to walk in nature.
Unable to receive direct messages.
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social Exposing Reform UK.
UK Snow Map @uksnowmap.com A real-time map of where it's snowing in the UK - https://uksnowmap.com - a project by @benmarsh.com
Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social He/Him. B3ta QOTW person and programmer at http://www.millerhare.com. This is my personal a/c - at the moment I don’t have a separate work a/c. I’m also at @chthonicionic@mastodon.online
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/
Second Mentions @secondmentions.com The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social 
Sir John Soane's Museum @soanemuseum.bsky.social The extraordinary house & museum of Sir John Soane, renowned architect and collector. Open Wednesday to Sunday. Entry free.
PressReader @pressreader.bsky.social Giving curious minds access to stories that matter to them.
Learn more about what everyone should be talking about.
📲 https://www.pressreader.com/
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social Devolution anorak, parliamentary history nerd & recovering academic. Any views expressed are not those of my employer (yada yada etc passim)
Academic work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Evans-11
New Scientist @newscientist.com The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social Illustrator. Specimen.
My shop: www.infinitebacon.com
Stickers: https://www.infinitebacon.com/stickers
Tees: https://www.infinitebacon.com/tshirts
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
Living Refugee Archive @livingrefarchives.bsky.social The Living Refugee Archive (www.livingrefugeearchive.org/) provides access to archival collections focusing on the lived experiences of migration. Linked to the University of East London Archives.
Hiraeth - Welsh Politics @hiraethpod.bsky.social Cartref gwleidyddiaeth cyfoes Cymru
The home of modern Welsh politics
www.walespolitics.com
Carlton Kirby @carltonkirby.bsky.social LMCJ - Lively Mind.... Creaking Joints
Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social BSc MSc
Media Advisor & Senior Operational Meteorologist UK Met Office
Parent to 2 mini daxies
Love running
Views & opinions my own
@Petagna on X
Liminal Spaces @liminalplaces.bsky.social 
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Rituals in the Making @ritualsinthemaking.bsky.social An NSF-funded project at George Washington University examining changes in religious, funeral, and commemorative practices during COVID-19 pandemic. E-mail: ritualsinthemaking6@gmail.com
OrkneyBoreray @orkneyboreray.bsky.social Our Community farms rare Orkney Boreray sheep for mutton/products & saving the breed
Book, The Lost Flock, @chelseagreen
orkneyboreray.com
++welfare, nature #agroecology
Orkney, Scotland
LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social Registered in Brighouse for tax purposes. He/they. "The man who gave us Fred Dinenage's 3ft long egg" - (@ChinnyVision)
Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social The Alpine Club Library - devoted to mountains, mountaineering and the history of both. Part of @alpineclub.bsky.social
Open to visitors & club members on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social I write about food, mostly. Did I tell you I live in France now?
deborarobertson.substack.com
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social CNN national security correspondent. Send tips/pics of your dog(s) to Natasha.bertrand@cnn.com
Signal: Natashabertrand.12
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/natasha-bertrand-profile
BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏 and the 80's. imposters get blocked and reported, and I never DM re crypto (which is the ultimate moron 'asset').
Fran @musefanfran.bsky.social Cornish Maid & Introvert 🌸
Lover of baking, walking, cats, films, books, music, food and sunsets 💖
Always be kind 😊
The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Read: TheNewWorld.co.uk
Join: TheNewWorld.co.uk/subscribe
Buy merch: shop.thenewworld.co.uk
Molly Conisbee @mollyconisbee.bsky.social I research social histories of dying and death. I like dogs and books and wine. No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality (Profile/Wellcome) out in spring 2025.
Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social Please look after this Bee. Cymraeg a Saesneg, fel y mynnoch. Was Dyddgu elseweb. Ei/Hi. She/Her
Signal -> https://signal.me/#eu/p-v5DrC5-xRE_oL2kkAN_8Txhbp3p5q7YIHFXT7jB8a0wOpn7mRFza5I5q80veGU