Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Tullia @tulliatulliola.bsky.social Retired librarian with eclectic interests.
xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social Politics, cats, psychotherapy, queer stuff, horror movies, comics, plants, books, dogs, and anything else fun and ridiculous.He/him. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🔻
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk
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.
Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social “Et in Arcadia Ego” - Interests: Bob Dylan, Elvis, RHPS, Reading, Shakespeare, Fin de Siècle, Weimar Cinema.
Check out my website filled with #bookreviews
https://vocal.media/authors/annie-kapur
Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social Former bookseller, I now work at a nature center on the shore of Lake Michigan. And I still like talking about books.
Shirley Enticott 🦋 @saenticott.bsky.social Life long Dolly Parton and country music fan. Love reading books, and visiting castles and places of historic interest 🏴
Judy @judetheconfused.bsky.social 🇮🇪 📚 Old: Irish; tries to be green🍀 and woke but tends to fall asleep; any further education via WEA & Radio 4
Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social My mind it ain't so open that anything could crawl right in.
To Nkroachment: Yarbles.
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social Art, nature, writing woes. Sometimes funny, often intentionally. New Yorker by birth, Londoner by practice.
Story ‘Nothing Compared to You’ out in the Book of Witty Women : https://bit.ly/3Q72ug0
Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social Philosopher (emeritus prof) of language, art, and metaphysics, plus Plato and Wittgenstein. Also interested in music, visual art, photography, and walking (when fit).
Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social texpat in philly, librarian/archivist working in digital collections and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. she/her 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾 emilyhiggs.github.io
John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social Hospitalist in Boston. FIDSA. Is Ceanadach mé. An Seanduine Liath. #IDSky
Nancy Nall Derringer @nderringer.bsky.social Writer, editor, lifeguard, semi-retiree. Detroit.
Snigdha @snig.bsky.social Shameless Hack. Food, music, politics. Views mine, don't threaten to email my boss. (She/her).
Mini blog http://snigskitchen.tumblr.com
Main blog https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com
Hare Lockwood @harelockwood.com Comedy writer, producer; queer autistic nerd; spreadsheets enthusiast. She/her.
Pet hamster 🐹
Free, monthly zoom gig: @coherentcomedy.com 🍓
Writer, etc. for @thedailytism.com
Hire me for comedy things via my website.
Libby Morse @libbyr.bsky.social “Pragmatic and somewhat buzzy”— The New York Times
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social Very unlikely, but almost certainly.
Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Roger Rimbaud @rogerday.bsky.social Mostly cats and dogs
Painting and sculpture. Poetry. Photography
Renaissance and Late Medieval History
Military History and Intelligence
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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: rachelvorona@gmail.com. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
Fagatha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social Francie doesn't like coffee ice-cream (he/him).
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social London, UK. Sociologist at University of Exeter. Medical sociology; critical public health; academic publishing; methods, esp qualitative; mobility & transport; equity. Co-editor Journal of Critical Public Health. And here for random stuff.
jmbg @jmbg.bsky.social gay, lawyer, former poet, into french fries/wine
Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
indradas.com
Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960.bsky.social Curator, Fortean Times news editor, science communicator, author of Haunted London and the forthcoming Little Book of London Lore, cognitive dissident and discontent provider. Also, Grumpy Quaker socialist with cat - all opinions are my own
Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com Founder and Futurist @ refuturing, Bourbon Enthusiast, Recovering Political Theorist, Former Musician, Kentuckian, Hi-Tech Low-Life. Have you ever jacked in? Have you wiretripped?
Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social "Some stranger, somewhere, still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was."
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social 🇱🇧 It's pronounced SAHR-uh (she/her)
🧠 AuDHD ✍ writer 🖌occasional painter 📷 amateur wildlife photographer 🐱 cat mama 🌺 vegan
🔗 http://www.sarahnourwriter.com/
Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social Książki, kino i muzyka.
#TeamLewitacja
#MusicChallenge #BookSky #MovieSky
Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social I'm curious about a lot of things. Never enough books. Love b&w photography and art. Oh, and by the way, I have a thing for lighthouses. NO POLITICS 🚫
Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social
D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social Dad»Writer of fiction&poetry»🦻🏻»Utopian socialist»Catholic Woke Marxist»Chicago boy»Inland emperor»He/him
https://dahosek.com
Erica @pickledintime.bsky.social Doctoral researcher. SU trustee. Nerd. To select audio navigation, press enter now.
Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social Manager at Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy.
Mother of twins. Reader. Footloose fanatic.
Contributor at Dig With It and No More Workhorse
Blogs about having too many books at www.746books.com
Daniel Silva @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social Friend of Gabriel Allon, also a father of twins. Trying to impress @jamiegangel. The writing always the writing.
www.danielsilvabooks.com
@killiemesoftly.bsky.social @killiemesoftly.bsky.social I’m a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of edam.
Love Telly, Film, Comics and Music (not necessarily in that order)
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Stagger Lee @staggerlee68.bsky.social Just drinking margaritas at the mall
Juanita Dark @mrvivianbadlook.bsky.social Your kind and supportive friend
FionaMullenCY @fionamullency.bsky.social Fiona Mullen, #Cyprus geek: economy, fiscal, energy, #natgas, banks, #cyprob, northern Cyprus, Director Sapienta Economics https://sapientaeconomics.com/about-us/ and on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/sapienta
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Mistol's In Charge @mistolsmama.bsky.social Lawyer, poet, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally, neurodivergent human who knows exactly how we got into this mess & hopes we get out of it. #resist #fuckthatguy
DMs are off. I don't need Jesus; my car warranty is fine & I don't give 2 💩💩 about crypto. I do want to punch nazis.
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social Writer, critic, translator. Street cat photographer. President of the Great Clown Pagliacci fan club. Enjoyer of posts and content.
https://linktr.ee/dialhforhagai
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Amber Elizabeth @amberelizabeth.bsky.social P5 teacher, reader, baker (not candlestick-maker). 🌈 (she/her)
Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social Intelligent cultural criticism and literary analysis intended for the reading public.
Pittsburgh, PA.
http://www.pghrev.com
🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social @beneprism.rip's pre-wife and clean n' scrub girl in the killerwhaletank
Semiotics, Assyriology, Kuhn, literature, writing, and border collies.
Liberal. Words mean how they're used. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
Ben @mrbenjiweb.bsky.social Live Laugh Lobotomy 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Steve K 🎃 @skleinedler.bsky.social Editor. Erstwhile lexicographer. Queer. Widowed. Lives with their cat.
Submissions Coordinator - Salem Horror Fest
Horror, New Queer Cinema, Czech New Wave.
https://letterboxd.com/stevekl/
bradluen @bradluen.bsky.social https://bradluen.substack.com/
Doug is ONLINE @dasmunch.eurosky.social Bskyer no.450334; now entering my 20th year of churning out the big-hitting #content
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/YVA1YPMBTPB3?ref_=wl_share
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social Love books, cinema & music #freePalestine #climatecrisis. #organise #solidarity 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸#libraries 💜
https://substack.com/@garethavonb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=291zl
Tom Hogg 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tomhogg.bsky.social Edinburgh based Partick Thistle fan. Member of the anti-growth coalition. I like football, beer, books, & active travel. Trillionaire, for what that label is worth.
@bookluvvr.bsky.social @bookluvvr.bsky.social 100+ pages an hour, 5+ hours a day = an expensive book habit to feed! Maximalist fiction championed by Steven Moore to popular novels hated by Harold Bloom. Top 3 = Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest.
Matt Gilbert @richlyevocative.bsky.social Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry links https://richlyevocative.net/articles-reviews-first-published-elsewhere/
Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social Proudest of the posts I didn’t send.
Reinhart @mrpatrickreinh.art Bookish. Trying to find time for creative pursuits while working a very uncreative full time night shift. Also @curiouser.house
BooksyBoff @bookcboff.bsky.social Reader, cyclist, runner, alotmenteer
Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!)
But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. Will never be persuaded that empathy is bad. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social Crabby, dopey, fussy, grumpy, lazy, messy, nosy, pesky, queasy, rusty, sneezy, teasy, wheezy
Jude @quineonline.bsky.social Reading, drinking, snacking, napping.
@roberthiley.bsky.social @roberthiley.bsky.social
Susan McCallum Smith @susanmccallum.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher.
Ricky McAllister @rickymca.bsky.social Husband to Jenny - dad to Ethan, Holly, Micah, Benji & Annie - Man U fan for 40 years - Music & film - coffee - Reader of books but a failed novelist - SEN teacher - lover of a fine stout/porter.
Sarah Deaves @sarahdeaves.bsky.social Bewildered widow. Ageing pop kid. Sci fi fan. Chippy lefty. Lazy birder. Liverpool FC. JFT97. http://macsandthemardi.co.uk Aortic dissection fundraising https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/paulhughesllanidloes- I Ilkley Book Fair @ilkleybookpbfa.bsky.social FREE ENTRY: 2 rooms full of books for sale in this annual fair. Fri 24 July 2026 12- 6pm, Sat 25 July 2026 10-4pm. Kings Hall & Winter Gardens Ilkley LS29 8HA More details: https://bit.ly/485cbUm Profile pic @dbderbzbooks.bsky.social
Andrew Szmelter @szmelly.bsky.social I can’t decide whether or not I like gazpacho
Miko @mikomayer.bsky.social Quit all social media years ago… dabbling again in this new place.
She/her, artist in Scotland, human made of Canadian, British, & Japanese components.
🚫AI
Photography (Canon AE1, 5DmkII&mkIII):
https://flic.kr/ps/qTrHm
Art:
https://cara.app/mikomayer
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Nicholas Orvis @nsorvis.bsky.social Dramaturg, director, critic, and scholar working at the intersection of theater and games.
Co-creator @dndramanerds.bsky.social. Opinions my own.
Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian | Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Stephen Greenhorn @sgreenhorn.bsky.social Word Monkey
Edinburgh
Passing Places. Glasgow Kiss. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. Dalgliesh. Around The World in 80 Days. Dept Q.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114104/
Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social Jackdaws flitting through the echoing halls of an ill-furnished mind.
Editorial/admin @bibliorefuses
Paradoxography at sites.google.com/site/paradoxography/
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀέλπτως κραίνουσι θεοί·
καὶ τὰ δοκηθέντ᾽ οὐκ ἐτελέσθη,
τῶν δ᾽ ἀδοκήτων πόρον ηὗρε θεός.
Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴 @katelaity.eurosky.social Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • x💀SLAC Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson| https://linktr.ee/katelaity
Dave Appleby @daja57.bsky.social Obsessive reader: reviews on https://davesbookblog-daja.blogspot.com/
Writer of Motherdarling, The Kids of God and Bally and Bro.
https://linktr.ee/daja57
Theodora Goss @theodoragoss.bsky.social
@sturmyarcher3.bsky.social @sturmyarcher3.bsky.social Cycling, active travel and that
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social I got a PhD and somehow I ended up live streaming Dark Souls. Living the dream in west London. He/him and Welsh.
(Profile pic is a Maine Coon cat’s face. Not my cat.)
Chris Winwood @chrispywindy.bsky.social Camp old nonsense, vintage telly, wide ranging music tastes, centre-left politics. Brought to you by a middle aged middle class gay who responds well to snacks.
Dr Matt Crofts @mattcrofts.bsky.social Literature researcher. PhD on #Gothic Tyranny. Interests: Dracula adaptations, the #Flashman papers, rats, apocalyptic wastes & Castlevania. Black cat fan 🐈⬛
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social Books, radio, newspapers, magazines, music. Nineteen followers. Not posting is the shorter and saner route to the same result.
Still here
AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
🤴🏽📚🤓📖📝🌍
Obsolescent isolate losing hearing & sight at the end of this brief life.
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
David Robinson @davidrobinson58.bsky.social Biology professor, retired. Airlie, Scotland. Previously Thatto Heath, Rusholme, Stockport, Chorlton, Broomhill, Pitsmoor, Crookesmoor, Toxteth, Banchory, Alyth, Sydney, Aberdeen.
Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social Father, husband, carer. Occasional music attempter. Green party member, but all views my own. Trans rights are human rights. AI twats and bigots get blocked without debate. Mastodon: https://mendeddrum.org/@ThatIdiotMonro
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.