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Koen Sebregts @dorsalstop.bsky.social Into pop music from 1989 and assorted other years | Manchester via Utrecht | 🚴🏼| pronouncer of things for auntie | he/him
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork.
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j-e-l @jelbugle.bsky.social Occasionally enthusiastic about GoBots & Transformers
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social Slowly leaving
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Bob McCarthy @heckler-spray.bsky.social Rochester New York, Screwed Up Eyes and Screwed Down Hairdo
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idca @ilikethishouse.bsky.social nothing less than cordial
Iain Mew @superchartisland.com Writing a British history of popular video games one UK sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 1988. Also into pop music and writing on The Singles Jukebox. He/him. http://www.superchartisland.com
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Claire Bennie @clairebennie.bsky.social Advisor on Housing Design and Development
wearemunicipal.co.uk
Also: art deco flats; choral music, cryptic crosswords (Ruskin)
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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social Fan of music, cargo bikes, the #EastBay, and humor. Not a fan of the seemingly inexorable slide into fascism. #ShoupPilled. Follow me if you want to have far too many song-a-day #MusicChallenge posts sliding into your timeline.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
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Courtney Miller @comill.bsky.social I’ll create if it’s the last thing I do (she/any)
Panthera @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social Fiend in feline shape. Mostly cryptics, sometimes other puzzles. Still not panthchesh. they/he hella gay 🏳️🌈
Puzzle Patzer @puzzlepatzer.bsky.social Patzer: from German; patzen, 'to bungle' - usually used in chess for an inexperienced player.
Chess, sudoku, comics and other nonsense 😉
Perry De Wynter @perrydewynter.bsky.social I'm here for cheese and crosswords.
CranberryFez @cranberryfez.bsky.social Cryptic crosswords - Cranberry barred thematics, Fez at mycrossword.co.uk/Fez
Matt @wyrd.systems 📖 Publishing Unch, a cryptic crossword magazine: unchcrosswords.com
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🪑 Sitting on benches
☕️ Drinking coffee
🌍 Lewes, UK
Twm @twm-barlwm.bsky.social Michael Lloyd-Jones
Twit lacking appeal, male crossword setter (3)
The Telegraph (anon and Light)
The Independent (Deri)
The Times (anon)
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Kybos: Times QC
Anonymous: Times
Guinevere: Most other places!
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Song vs. Song
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#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
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Mini nature documentary every Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/gettoknownature
Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social Bioacoustician & PhD candidate using sound to study baleen whale movement ecology 🐋 Wildlife photographer, birder, nature nerd 🪶
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social Engineer by day | Nature & landscape photographer | Birds, bugs, spiders | Friend of animals that scare people | Be decent & kind | she / her | IG heyjencross
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著者
aka Kelly Brenner
@nudibranch.bsky.social
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. Man't. They/Them (she/her even, if you're not creepy about it)
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social Haleakala Observatory/NASA T4 Laser Ranging Project (opinions mine)
Photographer/Astrophotographer, birder, conservationist, SCUBA diver, Zen philosopher-idiot. Husband of Wendy Hatch and proud Cat Dad to Kittywampus. : ) https://www.myhawaiianimages.com
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Birder K @birderk.bsky.social She/her Just another broke girl w/binoculars. Will answer bird feeder & bird ID questions!
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social Naturalist, writer, artist, and educator with a Ph.D. in Ecology. I make interpretive signs, illustrations, murals, and books. Sometimes, I chase polar bears and belugas. #scicomm #sciart http://www.discoversecondnature.ca
Dave Bryant 🇪🇸 @davebspain.bsky.social I try to photograph nature, mostly birds & I'm having fun with it.
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social Writer & nature photographer, especially macro photography of arthropods. Board member, Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee (conservation nonprofit). Fan of California, Montana, the rest of the planet. Photo website: https://www.tomastlephotography.com/
Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social Photojournalist, striving to show the beauty of the little things in life; one arthropod at a time. Always happy to help with critter ID! Become a Patron to get to know Crawlies I post about up close and personal!
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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social past life of limnology & aquatic ecology |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
“pathologically optimistic” |
“irredeemable nerd” |
always a scientist |