Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
@morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social Chief Policy Adviser at Labour Together
cones @coneshotline.bsky.social cones (elizabeth) | 33 | she/her | "a special kind of degenerate" - some guy on twitter
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social We are cats.
Count Binface @countbinface.osintnet.uk 🗑️ Intergalactic space warrior. Leader of the Binface Party.
Clacton-on-Sea's Bluesky impersonator bot & Farage accountability champion! </> https://github.com/indicaindependent/count-binface-bot
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social graphics/data journalist on the @financialtimes.com visual storytelling team
work: https://www.ft.com/sam-learner
projects: https://samlearner.com/projects
signal: samlearner.79
Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com Comedian, satirist, writer, actor
WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social 🇪🇪 Estonian blogger focusing on Russia/Ukraine | 18+ version: https://t.me/wartranslated | Glory to #Ukraine!
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social Guardian reporter and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social Immigration lawyer & cat dad
Facts care about my feelings.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social “Breaking Rommel” is now available for purchase.
“That's an impressive array of sources, but what are your credentials?"
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
www.rommelsriposte.com
Emma @emmatyping.dev Python Core Dev & Rust for CPython co-lead. mypy core team. Former quantum compiler engineer, now at NVIDIA working on Python & packaging. Opinions my own.
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https://emmatyping.dev
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Parody Zack Polanski @parodyzackpolanski.bsky.social Look into my eyes, don't look around the eyes... It's all about meeeeee! https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/798031/can-you-really-think-your-boobs-bigger/
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
BSides Leeds @bsidesleeds.bsky.social BSides Leeds 🦉- 13th of June 2026. Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK! ✨❤️
Elbsides 2026 - June 5th, 2026-Hotel Hafen Hamburg @elbsides.bsky.social Computer security conference in Hamburg/Germany, organized for the community by the community - in-person event.
Elbsides is part of the Security BSides network.
June 4th, 2026 - additional Workshop day @ Jungheinrich
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
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Network Rail @networkrail.bsky.social *Official account*
🚂 We own, operate and develop Britain’s rail infrastructure.
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.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 July 2027…
PyConES @es.pycon.org BlueSky oficial de la PyCon España 2025 🐍
De la comunidad para la comunidad 💜 #PyConES2026
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, podcaster, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. clubland.substack.com
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social Well-meaning liability.
British (derogatory)
Sexual swear words are those of my employers.
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/samwhytebluesky
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social Eurostar Train Manager, ale and photography fan. Posts when operational duties allow. Contact eurostar for customer support. Bon voyage! #TrainsNotPlanes
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Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social one of the london borough of lambeth's middlemost public intellectuals.
Patrick Arminio @patrick.wtf Strawberry GraphQL 🍓 / PyCon Italia - London
Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social CEO / Founder of https://textualize.io Hyperborean Python expert, author, humanist, husband, sometimes wildlife photographer. Carbonara aficionado. He/him. 
Lucie @grewn0uille.bsky.social 📝 WeasyPrint Maintainer
🍲 OpenSource Software Developer at CourtBouillon
✨ GDPR Consultant at Stella
🐍 Lyon Python meetup organizer and Former Chair of AFPy
> https://grewn0uille.fr
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Carl Meyer @carljm.me Engineer at #Astral, building Python tooling in Rust. github.com/carljm
Carol Willing @willingc.bsky.social Python is forever🐍
Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel @emilyemorehouse.bsky.social 
Brett Cannon @snarky.ca #Python core developer who also works on packaging; works on Python stuff at #Microsoft (although this is a personal account). Proudly #Canadian.
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal.com I program the programming program that other programmers use to program programs. Python Steering Council and core developer. Python 3.10/3.11 release manager. Deals with black holes and parsers. Attracts linker problems.
Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me Pythonista & PSF fellow 🐍🏆, Gopher 🐹, blogger 📝, speaker 📢, YouTuber 📺. ❤️ nuance & outcomes, 🗣️🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸
• https://hynek.me/
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• https://www.youtube.com/@The_Hynek
• https://mastodon.social/@hynek
• https://x.com/hynek
Ned Batchelder @nedbat.com Python, Boston, mathy fun, juggling, autism parenting. https://nedbat.com
Łukasz Langa @lukasz.langa.pl CPython Developer in Residence, Python 3.8 and 3.9 release manager. Gradual typing enthusiast, asynchronous programming proponent, creator of the auto-formatter Black.
He produces electronic music, which includes software and hardware of his own making.
Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev Python 3.14 & 3.15 release manager, core developer, Sovereign Tech Fellow, PSF Fellow, open-source maintainer, PEP editor, NaNoGenMo organiser, winter bicycler
Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science @bennettoxford.bsky.social Let's make better use of data, evidence & digital tools in healthcare & policy.
Becky Smith @rebkwok.bsky.social Software developer, recovering psychologist, aerialist, crafter. UKPA trustee. Big fan of dogs.
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Diego Russo @diegor.it Python Core Developer 🐍
Principal Software Engineer @developer.arm.com
Posts are my own. He/him/his. 🇬🇧
More active on http://linkedIn.com/in/diegor
Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social Failed musician. Plays bass in @rrrapidkool.bsky.social and makes unlistenable electronica with https://linktr.ee/simplecarpenter (he/him).
Judy2k @judy.co.uk Head of Python Ecosystem @ JetBrains; Comedy Python Programmer; PSF Fellow; Terrible Rust Programmer; Enthusiasm As A Service; He/him/they/them
Quantum Magazine @quantum-magazine.bsky.social Quantum Magazine is dedicated to confirming, verifying, and delivering accurate quantum news, cutting through the media storm to keep the public informed.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social Writer, talker, author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain.
https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Harry Shukman @harryshukman.bsky.social Researcher at HOPE not hate
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
Savannah Ostrowski @savannah.dev Python 3.16 & 3.17 Release Manager. Python Steering Council. Python Core Developer. Building @fastapicloud.com. Likes compilers, open source, film, physical computing + cats.
savannah.dev
github.com/savannahostrowski
@coredispatch.xyz
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
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/
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info