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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Rufus Hound @rufushound.com He/him/us/ours/lovely/jubbly
Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social Born at 314 ppm CO2. (We are now at 427.8 ppm CO2)
Founder and presenter on the Everything Electric Shows.
That bloke from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge.
Info@unitedagents.co.uk
Reveal @revealnews.org The Reveal podcast is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX.
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social I write novels.
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-crowd-pleaser-9781784634148?srsltid=AfmBOorCYZJ6lmoKe-phK0MiJM31iJceQf9neNV_Wc8uXeFHiVbQj0tB
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social Learner, Stargazer, Godless Tea-sipper, Cat-owned Ginger, Soul whose intentions are good.
*soul not included
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Canterbury Christ Church University @canterburyccuni.bsky.social Official account for Canterbury Christ Church University #CCCU
Midori @planetmidori.bsky.social Author. Educator. Seggsologist. Coach.
Classes, Writing, & Creating on Patreon.
Live with Confidence & Joy!
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https://linkin.bio/planetmidori
Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it.
Let me know how you are and how I can help.
https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social More passion. Less shouting.
A Cooler Heads podcast by Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social, Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social, and Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social.
Support us on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social CEO @bestforbritain.org
Podcaster @quietriotpod.bsky.social
NED @RoSPA
Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org Evidence. Action. Hope.
CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social
Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
He/Him
https://www.markthomasinfo.co.uk
Red Imp Comedy Club @redimpcomedy.bsky.social Big names in an intimate venue Ye Olde Rose & Crown Hoe St Walthamstow E17
Our summer venue is Trades Hall www.redimpcomedy.com all tickets https://wegottickets.com/RedImp
Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social 
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social ⚖️INQUEST is an independent charity combining specialist support for bereaved people following a state related death, with campaigning for justice and change.
🎙️ Creators of the Unlawful Killing podcast
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Sam Lake @samlakewrites.bsky.social Writer. Director. BAFTA nominated actor.
Max Payne. Alan Wake. Quantum Break. Control.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social linguist, discourse/pragmatics
podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social
author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com
singer with the Wild Lilacs
https://www.instagram.com/thewildlilacs?igsh=MXJqOXZ6NHpoOXRrYg==
she/they
substantively unserious
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @priestleycentre.bsky.social Bringing together climate experts from across the University of Leeds to develop innovations, deliver education and inform policy for a better future.
Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social Scientist and engineer. Expert in climate change impacts, extreme weather events, extreme rainfall, flash flooding, droughts. Climate resilience and adaptation
Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social Climate Scientist at Met Office and University of Exeter. Author of Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 physicist, philosopher, lead https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/, author of Climate InJustice https://greystonebooks.com/collections/current-affairs-politics/products/climate-injustice, she/her
Royal Meteorological Society @rmets.org Leading independent expert in weather and climate.
Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org Climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE | Views own | https://edhawkins.org
Warming Stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info
Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social Climate scientist, University of Exeter & Met Office. Expert Adviser to Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee. Lead author IPCC AR4, AR5, AR6 & AR7. Live music lover, supporter of grassroots venues. Cycles a lot, rock climbs occasionally.
Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Flups @flups.bsky.social Chief spokeswoman for the ‘Campaign To Get C*riander Sent Back To From Whence It Came; The Fiery Yet Soapy Buttocks Of The Devil Himself’.
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
Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social Writer. Blogger. Truth-teller from Donbas🇺🇦
PayPal: angelica.shalagina@gmail.com
💛Friends, please beware of fakes - only these links mine👇
https://linktr.ee/angelica.shala
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Cool Zone Media is a podcast network that doesn’t mince words: we are living through the collapse of the known, and the birth of a new unknown.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
Tomey Bones @tomeybones.bsky.social YouTuber @ Smosh & Tomeybones
SERVING C**T SEASON 2 - SOON!
Shayne Topp @shaynetopp.bsky.social gonna be a little silly here
Damien Haas @damienhaas.bsky.social Voice actor, twitch streamer, you may also know me from Smosh.
Voices: Laios (DinD), Ryoga (R1/2), Van Arkride (Trails), Kiyoka Kudou (MHM), Shez (FE:W3H), many more
Courtney Miller @comill.bsky.social I’ll create if it’s the last thing I do (she/any)
Play Watch Listen @playwatchlisten.bsky.social A YouTube podcast network featuring game devs (Play, Watch, Listen), actors (We’re Voice Actors), and film fans (MovieHaus)! Entirely independent, supported by Patreon: https://m.youtube.com/@PlayWatchListen/videos
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
James Blunt @jamesblunt.com Yeah, that guy. Cockney rhyming slang for the good stuff; Proof that one song is all you need.
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Coco Khan @cocobyname.bsky.social Host, Pod Save the UK; freelance writer (mostly Guardian). Books: The Good Immigrant (and more). Repped by: Aitken Alexander(📚) and Soho Agency (🎤🎬)
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
RESIST @resist4unow.bsky.social World Citizen, Advocate for Human Rights, Climate Activist, Seeker of TRUTH & WOKE AF 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇮🇷💙🇨🇦🇺🇸 As a Humanist, I say it’s time to integrate ethics, ecology, and governance into a new political party - dedicated to PEOPLE - https://www.peoplesunitedparty.net/
💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social “The goal of Marxism is not to predict the future, but to understand and change the world.” -AG
Mutual Aid, i feed the homeless.
Listen to Clara: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHGpFIIOlVY/?igsh=NWNjcGlmZDkwbDR3
Read theory: https://www.marxists.org
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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social NASAWATCH.com - Unofficial Space News Since 1996
NASA Webb Telescope @nasawebb.extwitter.link ⚠️ MIRROR OF twitter.com/NASAWebb
⚠️ If you own the original account and want to claim this, please contact @twttr-mirrors.bsky.social
Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Godmother @watchgodmother.bsky.social A ritualistic indie thriller film. Coming soon.
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Coyote vs. Everybody / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the artist/writer/stabby guy. | Psychology nerd. Victim advocate. Domestic abuse & cyberstalking survivor. Neuroscience, wildlife, trees, night, canids, corvids, coffee, cats. They/them.
Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social comedian, podcaster + writer | hosts: Trashfuture, Masters of Our Domain, Glue Factory|
come see me live:
www.linktr.ee/milo_edwards
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social Reading, writing, researching, editing.
She/her.
Pacific NW person living in Sussex.
www.alexiswolf.co.uk
Alice Vernon @alicevernon10.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. NIGHT TERRORS (Icon 2022). GHOSTED (Bloomsbury Sigma 2025). Writes about ghosts, the paranormal and spooky sleep. Represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Harvey Downes @harveydownes92.bsky.social Arsenal Man - Opta Data Editor
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social Comedian and maker of nonsense.
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social Author of the Rivers of London Series
InRangeTV @inrange.tv InRange is a media and community building project that is actively anti-racist, pro human liberation and LGBTQ+ rights.
We cover firearms, history, and the sociological impact of these topics with a focus on empathy and humanity.
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social Conspiracy theory journalist, expert witness, TPM contributor, author of JEWISH SPACE LASERS, THE STORM IS UPON US, and ZERO CONTAINMENT (Fall 2027). rothschildmd@protonmail.com for tips, speaking opportunities. Not related to the Rothschilds of Frankfurt.
Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning
NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot.
Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️
I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social Reader | Cardiff University
Sociologist (Disability | Health and Illness | Reproduction | Stigma)
Co-Editor in Chief of 'Sociology of Health and Illness'
He | Him | His
Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
I tend to tweet at night ....mostly
Follows Back Like Buffalo Bill With A Tub Of Lotion
Dr Ashley Rogers @drashleyrogers.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social Emeritus Prof (criminology) @open-university.bsky.social, trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social, love @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social Justice after Grenfell? Marx, Spurs, Reggae, Gramsci, The Clash, Social Harm, Luxemburg (Rosa)- not necessarily in that order
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
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Enna/Bonus Noise @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social Lesbian folk devil (she/her). Cooper, you remind me today of a small Mexican chihuahua. London, UK
https://www.instagram.com/hiddenbonusnoise
https://letterboxd.com/bonusnoise/
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
Patreon 🔞 https://www.patreon.com/c/girlsamwhyte/posts
The Bad Apple @thebadappleid.bsky.social Yo mama so old, she invented wheels.
You know Etsy? Yeah, I've a store there: https://thebadappleid.etsy.com.
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani