Freda Wallace @missfreda.bsky.social https://www.fredamedia.net
hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024).
Marx Freud Karaoke
Climate Emergency UK @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social We inspire and support UK council climate action, enabling communities and councils to reach net zero at the scale and pace needed - measured by our Council Climate Action Scorecards - https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/
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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social Waterboys singer / guitar player / Rock'n'roller / Freak flag flyer
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 ποΈ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Editorial Collective advancing Democratic Public Finance, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. Parliamentary candidate for the Clacton By-Election, 2026. Sane.
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social Journalist, policy wonk (transit, urban planning, EVs, climate, internet/media regulation), PhD (Media@LSE), dad, newly-adoptive Brightonian
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-beta/cosmic-music/9780306836169/
John Baldy @johnbaldy.bsky.social All views expressed are my own, personal views.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social UK independent scholar. Critical University Studies. Fascinated by US politics. Tweets mostly about Higher Ed issues. Open Water swimmer. Blog https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/
Carl Abrahamsson @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social Swedish author of 20+ books on (oc)culture and more.
linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. βPipe-sucking radicalβ --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Emily O'Brien @emilylincobrien.bsky.social Food systems geek
Green Party Councillor: Ouse Valley & Ringmer. Cabinet lead at Lewes District Council for Climate, Nature & Food
π₯ Consultant
Promoted by Anthony Shuster on behalf of Lewes District Green Party of Manor Barn, Kingston near Lewes, BN7 3PB
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. π³οΈβπ
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com Green Party councillor for Old Moat, Manchester. Active travel troublemaker. Wizened software engineer. Own views. He/Him
Promoted by Sean Duggan on behalf of Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party), at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester. M21 9PH
Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social 𧬠Biomed experts mobilizing scientists to fight transphobia through education π³οΈββ§οΈ
π beyondxandy.org
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Dr Fiona Tolan @fionatolan.bsky.social Reader in Contemporary Womenβs Writing, LJMU, UK. Contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, politics of cleaning. Posting in a personal capacity.
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 β How QAnon Contaminated The World. π³οΈβπ
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Andrew Teale @andrewteale.me.uk Quizzer. Clarinettist. Lancastrian. Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com https://andrewspreviews.substack.com . Edits the Local Elections Archive Project https://andrewteale.me.uk/leap/
Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social Anthropologist of care πΈ
MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens π³οΈβππ΅πΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
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Phil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social "Research fellow" (i.e. retired) at MMU, still writing. Interests: legal theory, folksong, real ale, the Left, cinema, Bowie, Aickman. Blogs: gapingsilence.wordpress.com & ohgoodale.wordpress.com .
If I was left to my own devices, I possibly would.
Vivek Thuppil @vthuppil.bsky.social Representative of Migrant Members on UCU National Executive Committee; Chair, UCU Migrant Members Standing Committee
David, in Brighton, in 2026 @davidbtn2.bsky.social Welsh, Brightonian, London librarian, writer (actively looking for a literary agent) and Queerguru contributor.
The G & Q in LGBTQ+ (he/him) π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
IG: davidbtn2
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: THE PARTY'S OVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THATCHER TO SUNAK | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
Carlos Garcia-Jane @carlosindex.bsky.social Indexer | Librarian | Bibliographer | PhD researcher @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Metaphor in Buddhism | Reviews editor 'Buddhist Studies Review' https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/index |βΈπβπ³βπ https://indexingcraft.wordpress.com
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Steve Fisher @stevefisher.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, University of Oxford. https://electionsetc.com
https://substack.com/@stevefisheroxford
Ace Records @acerecords.bsky.social 
Sanderling Editorial ππ¦π @sanderlingeditorial.com (I don't really use this, but I do check DMs sporadically. Email me if you want to talk!)
Bilingual (EN-SPA) copyeditor and proofreader | he/him | Not a fan of LLMs | Directly responsible for an amendment to CMOS 18th π
https://sanderlingeditorial.com/
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded βTwitterβs answer to Phileas Foggβ
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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @spellingmistakescostlives.com Darren Cullen
""Artist"" - Daily Mail
"Britain-hating anarchist who knows the value of nothing" - Johnny Mercer MP.
Hell Bus / Co-curator Museum of Neoliberalism
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com
www.linktr.ee/spellingmistakescostlives
Sara Hummingbird @sarahumm.bsky.social Dorky democratic socialist, feminist, artist, maker, & ally. Brighton UK
She/Her Mother of π³οΈββ§οΈ
#badart
Paintings & limited edition signed prints of satire available
Pinksky; https://psky.co/sarahumm
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. βDo you know what the sad part isβ¦? Iβm a very good tailor.β brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Christian Lane is my name not a preachy road @chrstianlane.bsky.social He/Him. Singer songwriter. Guitar player. Protector of felines Ollie and Liam. Dead, Fabs, etc Music producer of Behind The Song podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-song/id1437006895
Pete Sinclair @petesinclair.bsky.social Writer: Have I Got News For You; Mark Steel's In Town; Lead Balloon; Bad Move; Spitting Image; Never Mind The Buzzcocks; What The F*** Is Going On? podcast.
Political views are my own (or yours)
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social lecturer in modern & contemporary literature at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
author of _Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction_
co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social w/ @kdclewin.bsky.social
LNER superuser
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)π«
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry.
Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism. Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist. She/her.
Exposing the Labour Right π₯βπ΅πΈ @labourrightwatch.bsky.social The Labour right wing in all their glory, from Mandelson to McSweeney. The staffers, the lobbyists, the revolving door. See how they lobby for privateer corporations, cash in via disaster capitalism etc π₯
β labourrightwatch.wordpress.com β
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer |
www.marcchamberlain.net
PVermeulen @pverm23.bsky.social Literature scholar @KU Leuven
www.pvermeulen.com
Mark Strong @markinqueenspark.bsky.social Local community campaigner in #QueensPark #Brighton
Green Party candidate for Queen's Park ward, 2023 @brighton-hove.gov.uk
Member #JewishGreens β‘οΈ
#ActiveTravel πΆπ§πΏβπ¦½π΄ lead @greenparty.org.uk Transport Policy Working Group
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/ 
Talis KimberleyπͺπΊ @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & Β£. Re-enchantment is resistance.
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.
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC, TPM. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: letsgomathias@protonmail.com. Buy my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social Social worker. Straight-talking working class trade unionist. UNISON General Secretary.
Join me: andrea4gs.org.uk
TTW Digital @ttwdigital.bsky.social Green Party members working together to deliver secure, scalable, low cost Canvassing Software for the May 2026 election and beyond.
https://ttwdigital.co.uk/onboarding-request
Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Dr David Clarke @davidwclarke.bsky.social Folklorist and Journalist. Associate Professor, Sheffield Hallam University. Project lead, AHRC National Folklore Survey. Views expressed entirely my own. http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/
Blog: https://drclarke.substack.com/
Lloyd Russell-Moyle @russell-moyle.co.uk former Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP.
lloyd@russell-moyle.co.uk Twitter/X: @lloyd_rm
"retweets"/βlikesβ are not endorsements theyβre highlighted views (sometimes disagreeable).
Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social For the community, by the community π³οΈββ§οΈ
Visit | https://www.essehouse.co.uk
Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social βNotes on Nowβ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
Joe Peacock @brumgreenjoe.bsky.social Green Party councillor for Billesley, Birmingham. Promoted by A.M Okole, both at Unit 3 Block 2, Wednesbury Trading Estate, WS10 7JN. He/him
Sarah Viktoria π¬π§π³οΈββ§οΈβ§οΈπ¦ @sarahviktoria.bsky.social Trans humanist
https://screedvault.neocities.org/
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen
Dr C B Rose @rosiewomble.bsky.social Retired researcher (PhD in psychology/flood risk management); folk musician; inland waterway enthusiast; LGBTQI+ ally. Getting back into gardening and sewing now my time is own! She/her. Not interested in anime/manga or porn.
π§ββοΈTheWitchOfTheWoodsπ³ @thewitchofthewoods.bsky.social Mother, crafter and pet lover. Creator of a burgeoning mystical, mountainside, woodland garden. Ally to those who need it.
Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social CEO Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. Nature recovery, rewilding, nature-based solutions, systems change, advocacy & campaigning to reverse the climate & ecological crisis. ENDS Power List 2025.
www.hiwwt.org.uk
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator ππ (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social π Book Editor, FrβEn Lit Translator, Educator
π½π Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, contemporary realism, IF, comics
β Teaching and coaching editors and writers
π Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
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π«AI
www.TanyaGold.com
Ezra Cohen @drezracohen.bsky.social Green Party Councillor, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Promoted by Anthony Shuster on behalf of Ezra Cohen & Lewes District Green Party, all at Flat 3, Mountfield House, Mountfield Rd, Lewes, BN7 2XA
PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social Onetime freelance writer & journo. Currently learning Old English, reading poetry and getting used to Linux. Leicester, UK.
@richiebryan.bsky.social @richiebryan.bsky.social Green party member. Palliative care physiotherapist. Rejoin the EU and plant more trees π²π²π²
Dylan.FM @dylan.thefm.club Deep on Bob Dylan. News, Events, Images, Comments. https://thefm.club/links/
Shireen Taylor @om-ma.bsky.social 
Alex Mace @alexmace.bsky.social Green Party City Councillor for St Stephen ward, Worcester
Co-Leader of Green Group, Worcester City Council
Published and promoted by Clare Wratten on behalf of the Green Party, both at 40 Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1EE
Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social Teacher, knitter, widower, Phish head, provincial park, strategy puzzle video game, type of volcanic crater, electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, species of moth of the family Tortricidae, ...
Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social Writer. Film: Framing Agnes (2022). Book: Boys Donβt Cry (2022). Podcast: One From the Vaults. Capricorn. UK.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
ZoΓ« Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social β’ political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social β’ βinternet shepherdβ of Bluesky β’ covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ β’ X: @zoenora6
π London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Ciara Alleyne @greenciara.bsky.social Young Greens Membership & Inclusion Officer ππ±
Albion Life @albionlife.bsky.social We are a Community group dedicated to getting people together with a Voice, a Hub and a Garden. A resource of information and activities for residents of Albion Hill, Brighton UK
Avatar image 'Composition 2' is a creation of our resident 'BN2 Arts' group
Sophie Rebecca π³οΈββ§οΈπ©° @sophiedancer.co.uk Adult Ballet dancer (less so now Iβm a mum!), Wife, Trans mum to a 2 year old, tech CEO
Leeds UK
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/dance-of-identity---getting-the-film-out
#Transkidsdeservebetter #transrightsarehumanrights
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. MSNow columnist. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.