Heidi James @heidijames.bsky.social Writer (The Sound Mirror, So the Doves)
Podcast (First Graft)
Academic
Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels
#MDANT
ortacpress.com/shop
Dan Paton @danpatonmusic.bsky.social Musician, Educator, Music Journalist, Part Time Cinephile, Politics/News, Whingeing about TfL
Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social Caenhill countryside centre, a charity supporting young people & rescuing animals in the south west of England. My name is Chris (Quish) I work with artist Caroline, singer Kirsty Clinch, Lorna, Kate & daughter Kara https://www.caenhillcc.org.uk/support/
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social Actor, Cinephile, Culturalist & Drummer posting stuff I like. buymeacoffee.com/mikewarburton
Wilton Square Books @wiltonsquare.bsky.social A home for authors that matter.
Publishing books that increase our understanding of the world and the people within it.
@eyebooks.bsky.social Group
Trashcan Sinatras @trashcansinatras.bsky.social Not a band, but a group. Scots West Coast Delta Blues.
www.trashcansinatras.com
David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social "I don't mean half the things I say/ So just ignore the half that you don't like"
All views expressed are personal, not those of my employer.
Writer of "Everybody's Number 1 to Someone", about NME Indie Chart toppers: https://indienumber1s.blogspot.com
CMAT @cmatbaby.bsky.social short irish woman who made those two amazing albums that everyone loves
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
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/
David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social Fine words butter no parsnips.
Once and future bookseller, currently based in deepest Nottinghamshire.
@Simplerdave on all decent social media - find me here, there and almost everywhere...
SCANNY @simonscanlon.bsky.social Loves his bangers and ballads! #scanny
Host of Scanny's Bangers on Madwaspradio' every Tues 8pm
BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social 
That Juliet @superjules84.bsky.social I do a lot of things. Pro: Law. (Very) Amateur: DJ, Podcaster @chartlifepod Radio Host, Quizzer. she/her 🏳️🌈 person 🏳️⚧️ ally. Very much my own views.
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social Winner of Wales Most Paranoid Man, 1998. As seen on Britain’s Saddest Fairgrounds, Giant or Dwarf, Bag of Wasps.
Note: My ALT photo game is STRONG BRO.
Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social 🎶Cream-colored ponies &
crisp 🍎 strudels
Doorbells & sleigh bells &
schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the 🌙
on their 🪽s
Bitchslapping 🪢🌊Nzis is
one of my favorite things🎵
"If equal affection cannot be
let the more liking one be me”
Downtown Boys @downtownboys.bsky.social New LP 'Public Luxury' out June 26 on Sub Pop Records. Pre-order and hear the first single "No Me Jodas" now: https://music.subpop.com/downtownboys_publicluxury
Nate Patrin 🎧 @natepatrin.bsky.social StP, MN | '77 born | he/him | enthusiast
as in "patron of the arts"
"The music began again and was much improved." -Kurt Vonnegut
'Versions and Subversions: the Cover Songs That Changed Music' out soon
https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/
Xylitol / DJ Bunnyhausen @bunnyhausen.bsky.social DJ, producer, wine mum, Josip Broz Tito stan, recording for @planetmurecords.bsky.social, my views are my own and not those of my employer / agent / record label / mum / etc
Kate @boofgal.bsky.social student at the Vaughn Bodē Institute for Enlightenment
boofgal.substack.com
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.
Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social It's books and music all the way down.
Niall Devitt @historyniall.bsky.social Author, tenacious historian and researcher, love all trains-Camelot, QPR, The Fall, opera, film and comedy, Warner Brothers cartoons, Will Hay and importantly, where to find the best doughnut in London and how to make the perfect pot of tea to go with it!
Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social The gentle rumble of distant dub thunder.
https://www.rob-chapman.com
The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com Satirical news by & for autistic people (poor things). Founded by Sara Gibbs & Elsa Williams; run by Sara Gibbs & Sarah Amero
It’s a Superpower?? is out now: https://allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower
www.thedailytism.com
www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism
Louise @louiseann.bsky.social Put the needle on the record
Host on https://www.lovewillsavetheday.fm/
https://www.mixcloud.com/loutoal/
Belfast (mostly)
Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.
Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com
ko-fi.com/firstlastanything
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social Fiction writer.
Also content designer.
Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social “There is a time for the evening under starlight/A time for the evening under lamplight/(The evening with the photograph album)/Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter”
Songdog LP Mirabilia Mundi out now https://orcd.co/mirabiliamundi
Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social UK television history and presentation mainly but other things as well, especially on here.
Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social Writes books. In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk out now.
Also: Under The Ivy; Small Hours; Themes For Great Cities &tc.
Web: www.graemethomson.net
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
A safe, fun space for pop enthusiasts to celebrate anniversaries of fucking records.
Any unnecessary abuse results in a block.
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Gulf Of Mexico Keir Hardie @scatterkeir.bsky.social he/him. cis. autist. my other places can be found at http://about.me/keirhardie
Superchunk @superchunk.bsky.social Rock band since 1989. NC. Posts by Mac unless otherwise noted!
william basinski @musex1.bsky.social artist, musician, composer, spaceman
Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social Simpsons, Tap, Derek, Le Show.
Jose Lopes @jsl3.bsky.social Music melomaniak, physics/chemistry/engineering teacher, green tech professional, thermodynamics expert but only if you pay me. Climate change mitigation as a mission these days
Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social Knitting, crocheting and ranting. Sewing too. Raving about music. Cyborg. MSc Physics. GradCert Green Energy. Climate Justice. Dublin, Ireland.
She/Her
https://bioniclauracreate.blogspot.com
Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social “…a very unsavoury-looking girl…”
Lizzie Speller @l1zz1e.bsky.social Tutor CW Cambridge. Ex Classicist.
Love poetry, water, ruins, churchyards.
Author,The Return of Captain John Emmett; At Break of Day, memoir, lyrics. Short-listed Forward Prize. Judge International Hellenic Prize.
Live Suffolk & Greek island.
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Emma Stott @stottemma.bsky.social Lead Practitioner of English, Author of Speedy Reading (John Catt) and Jimi Hendrix On Track; The Zombies On Track (Sonicbond). Love On Track out now.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Simon R @fadedglamour.com I like your questioning eyebrows
Steven C @stevenc63.bsky.social “If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct
There's nobody there …”
Co-host of Nothing Is Real … a podcast about The Beatles.
www.nothingisrealpod.com
Jezza Morgan ; @porpster.bsky.social Truth and Beauty
Caroline Collett Writer @collettwriter.bsky.social tyke, punk, writer, reader, watcher
www.carolinecollettwriter.com
https://www.instagram.com/caroline_r_collett/
Alan Connor @alanconnor.bsky.social www.alanconnor.com/log/
Author: 188 Words For Rain etc
Screenwriter: Borat 2, The Rack Pack etc
Compiler: Everyman, House of Games etc
Jokes: HIGNFY, Brooker etc
Editor: Guardian crossword 
Ioan Marc Jones @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social Writer in The Guardian, BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Spectator, McSweeney's, New England Review, etc. He/Him.
Commissions: ioanmarcjones@proton.me
Benoît Perrier @botperrier.bsky.social Journaliste musique à la RTS en 🇨🇭, je produis le magazine radio «L'Echo des pavanes» sur #RTSEspace2. Swiss #radio producer. I’m hosting a weekly show called “L'Echo des pavanes”. https://rts.ch/echo https://rts.ch/lam
Fip @fip.fr Laissez-vous porter 🎧 Écoutez-nous sur l’appli @radiofrance.fr et suivez notre programmation en direct via @fipnowplays.bsky.social
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
The French Republican Calendar @handle.invalid A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social Canadian singer/songwriter. 3 time Juno winner
Former kid detective. Idiot savant without the savant part. Dad. Lawn mower
Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social Journalist and author
SmilingPhases @5tunesaday.bsky.social “Have enough courage to trust love one more time, always one more time.”
“And when it’s done,
And all this is gone,
Just find the feeling, pass it on.”
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
Maysiebug @maysiebug.bsky.social 
huw @huwareyou.bsky.social david essex apologist
words for shindig! magazine
NME 1980s @nme1980s.bsky.social Posting pics of NME / New Musical Express from approx 1980-85.
Not ‘official’ or linked to NME. Archive (currently) on ‘the other site’.
Sounds Clips @soundsclips.bsky.social Articles from Sounds Magazine 1975 - 1980
Archivist, Steve "Stig" Chivers.
Gavin Culloty @gculloty87.bsky.social Music, TV, Film, Comedy, Football and anything else to do with Popular Culture.
Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social Sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.
Music | TV | Food | #nufc | etc
https://open.spotify.com/user/bbell99?si=qjFItZx_TXGK62wvzepj7A
mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social this is mark sinker's professional account
(trying since 2015 to be less unprofessional)
Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social Bothers wool. Thinks animals are ok.
Reads a lot.
Dreams of boats and land trains.
Might one day get my shit together.
Like some felt art?
https://woolbotherer.sumupstore.com/
Fuck AI
She/her
Disco Stuart Hall aka Foucauldian Funk (ABD). @kurosarakokuou.bsky.social History PhD candidate researching the appropriation of urban subcultures. HNIC of Rotating Souls Records. Afrofuturist DJ. Kurosarakokuou on socials. Founder of Krog Codex Graffiti Digital Archive. @krogcodexofficial.bsky.social
Krogcodex.org
Andrea Gibb @gibbzer.bsky.social Short Scottish Screenwriter. Fidget. Ne'er do well #MDANT🥉
'Mayflies' 'Elizabeth Is Missing'
'Miss Austen' on BBC and iPlayer now.
Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social Writer, ideas person, loather of people who think you like their dog as much as you do. Audio previewer for Sunday Times Culture; comment for The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/author/clair-woodward
PerpetualNervousness @perpetualnerves.bsky.social Music, books, films, Celtic, Glasgow. One minute up and one minute down. MDANT.
Eliza Bennet @elizabennet.bsky.social It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single post in possession of up to 300 characters must be in want of a like.
Jill Loves Jazz @jilllovesjazz.bsky.social #Jazz DJ 📻5MBS 99.9FM SthAus
Recovering ex-MSM & travel journo
SEPT #jazzmusic programs
#JazzLunch 12-2pm
Sat 12th, Wed 02, 16, 23rd
STREAM LIVE http://stream01.sigile.net/5mbs-128-mp3 🎷
LISTEN ON DEMAND to replay programs https://5MBS.com 🎺
🕊*my views*
Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social Cynical Canadian bibliophile/writer guy into music, sports (lifelong Caps/Jays fan), contemporary literature and poetry, foreign film and used bookstores and booksales. Not much else.
@elizabeth241072.bsky.social @elizabeth241072.bsky.social 
Stewart Smith @drstewartsmith.bsky.social Writer: jazz, improvised, experimental, Scotland & the avant-garde @ The Wire, Bandcamp, The Quietus, We Jazz, Guardian. Associate lecturer Newcastle University. Musician. He/him. 🇵🇸
Brian Spurrell @ebstatto.bsky.social Erith & Belvedere FC director/historian/statto. Popmaster runner-up and Sausage Sandwich Game winner.
@glumdalclitch.bsky.social @glumdalclitch.bsky.social 
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Dorian Cope @doriancope.bsky.social Oh Shangri-La, Shangri-La la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social Former NHS Doctor - Bestselling Substack Writer - Political Commentator. Sign up here! http://Linktr.ee/jujuliagrace
George Quail @gquail.bsky.social Glaswegian nerd, with particular interest in RPGs, wargames, board games & nervous breakdowns. Yes, the sideburns are real. He/Him.
ProdnoseAsWas @lordshortcake.bsky.social Formerly famous fat head & farceur, inventor of the Zeelman Flay (pat. pending) and one half of Danny Kelly's Performing Rat Wonderland. Sole Ambassador for Threadgold's Thorough-Grip Garterettes
Currently kicking the legs up here: patreon.com/dannybaker
Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com Composer-Ringleader • darcyjamesargue.com • With Every Breath I Take out now on Nonesuch Records