The New Cue @thenewcue.bsky.social A music newsletter delivered every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, featuring interviews, recommendations & more. From the former editors of Q. Sign up here and explore our archive here: https://thenewcue.substack.com/
Sub Pop Records @subpop.bsky.social Going out of business since 1988.
We’re not the best, but we’re pretty good.
www.subpop.com
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. 🇵🇸
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Untidy Radio @untidyradio.com Online radio station. If you have tracks or you'd like to be involved email: untidyradio@gmail.com
Any questions @untidymusic.com
No Gatekeeping - No Algorithm - All Music All Genres - All Styles
https://untidyradio.com
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
Plastic Mag @plasticmgzn.bsky.social Independent Music Publication ESTD. 2014
🎵 New Music Now
🇬🇧 London, UK
Explore the plastic world here: http://linktr.ee/Plasticmag
Eric Alper @thatericalper.com Freelance Music Publicist, SiriusXM Host, Shameless Idealist, I talk about music in the media. Eric@ThatEricAlper.com
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores
Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
Duglas BMX Bandits @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social Duglas T Stewart top pop singer and romantic fool.
Merge Records @mergerecords.bsky.social Independent Music since 1989.
https://bio.to/mergerecords
John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social Editor, MOJO. Ex-Editor, Uncut/Ex-Deputy Editor, NME. Jams etc. http://mojo4music.com
One Beat @onebeatpr.bsky.social Print & Online Music PR + Artist Management.
Sheffield / London.
https://onebeatpr.com
For The Rabbits @fortherabbits.bsky.social One of those outdated music blog things: https://fortherabbits.net
AnEarful @anearful.bsky.social Music obsessive, deeply engaged with an omnivorous array of sound. Keep up with it all, including the Discover Music podcast, at my Linktree: linktr.ee/anearful (He/Him)
Talkhouse @talkhouse.bsky.social Writing and conversations about music and film, from the people who make them; a home for all of your favorite podcasts.
molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social music enjoyer, blogger, connoisseur of torani flavoring syrups
https://www.ienjoymusic.net/
DIY @diymag.com Bringing music alive.
diymag.com / shop.diymag.com
Charlie Gunn @charliegunn.bsky.social Music + Culture Writer. Digital Director at Wallpaper*. Founder of music publication The Forty-Five. Former NME editor-in-chief. Ladbroke Grove + sometimes LA. Personal account. https://www.thefortyfive.com
Isaac Muk @isaacmuk.bsky.social Arts & Afters | Digital Editor @huckmag.com and writer elsewhere
isaac[at]tcolondon[dot]com / isaacmuk96[at]gmail[dot]com
THE LINE of BEST FIT @thelineofbestfit.com The UK's biggest new music discovery website | Follow our playlist for the best new music - bestf.it/discovery - and say hello AT thelineofbestfit.com
the_beka @thebeka17.bsky.social #musician https://x.com/the_beka https://thebeka.bandcamp.com/
What you look at is me, What you see is you.
UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social Founded in 1938, UGA Press currently publishes 60-70 new books a year, ranging from works of scholarship; creative and literary works; regional books; and digital projects. 
Gilla | Aly Gillani @djgilla.bsky.social A&R @firstwordrecords
Global Artist & Label Lead @bandcamp
Host - Bandcamp Selects Radio
Radio - Rinse FM
#COYS
Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social Gogledd-based writer | Senior Digital Editor at the Southbank Centre | popular STAND | Views not completely those of my employer, but we’ve time yet
Charlotte Krol @charkrol.bsky.social Twitter forced me here.... Associate Editor @MusicWeek | Previous ✍️ at DJ Mag, NME, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone UK & more | Previous video news preditor 📹 at CNN & The Telegraph
Laviea Thomas 🌹 @lavieathomas.bsky.social ✍🏾 Freelance Journalist. Words @ NME, Metal Hammer, The Quietus, Cone Magazine, Rock Sound and Guitar.com.
👩🏾💻 Temporary Weekend Editor @ Metal Injection
Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social Swedish-Italian in Stockholm
Languages
Literature
Books
Baking
Food & wines
Cats
History
Nature
Photos
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social Freelance Writer.
Dream Smotherer.
London Library Emerging Writer.
Words: Resident Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp etc
https://pacificbeliefs.journoportfolio.com/writing/
Lammbi @lammbi.bsky.social He/They | Enthusiast, Consumer, Writer | FURRY ON THE MOSHPIT | Baalines: TFL, @listencorp.org, @mgrmagazine.bsky.social, @post-trash.bsky.social, @northern-trans.bsky.social, @thelineofbestfit.com, @treblezine.bsky.social, ReviewSideDocket | 24
Alan Pedder @neverdoneing.bsky.social Freelance hat stand
Writer/features ed @ thelineofbestfit.com
Newshound @ theneedledrop.com
Mostly found in rural Sweden
alanthology.com // 🇸🇪🏳️🌈🐕🇵🇸🇱🇧 (he/him)
Europinion @europinion.bsky.social Independent voices | Daily opinions, analysis | Media literacy and policy advocacy | For open, honest discourse
Beverly Ochieng @beverlyochieng.bsky.social Obnoxious literary fiction reader | Sahel coups watcher | Russian paramilitaries stalker | Associate Director, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | occasional typos, usual disclaimers | so-called "Western puppet"
Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social Research Director for Greenpeace USA. Lapsed astrophysicist, previously UCS.
Focused on climate, energy, environmental justice, science policy. Views are my own.
I'm @quinn43 on the birdsite. Also on Mastodon @timdonaghy@fediscience.org. he/him
Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social Journalist. Al Jazeera. Drilled.
Previous: ABC (Australia). IPS UN correspondent.
www.lyndalrowlands.com
Nicola Smith @niccijsmith.bsky.social Foreign affairs and defence correspondent at the Australian Financial Review. Previously in 🇰🇷, 🇹🇼,🇮🇳for the Telegraph and Sunday Times
Joy Powers @thejoypowers.bsky.social Host & Producer, "Lake Effect" on 89.7 WUWM, Milwaukee's NPR. Owns too many animals and draws sometimes. 
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
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
John Glaser @johnglaser.bsky.social used to think at a tank
Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social Foreign and national security Advisor to 22nd Prime Minister of Canada. Director of Policy for two Foreign Ministers. NatSecurity, nuclear, energy, and climate.
Mark Fitzpatrick @marktfitz.bsky.social Grandpa. Ex-expat in UK. Former State Dept.
Soul Park @soulpark.bsky.social Lecturer in IR @politicsuea.bsky.social | previously @National University of Singapore | PhD @University of NotreDame | IR, security and foreign-policy analysis.
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
Kelly Grieco @kellygrieco.bsky.social Senior Fellow StimsonCenter, Adjunct GeorgetownCSS, Non-Res Fellow The Krulak Center
Foreign/defense policy, alliances, airpower, and mil ops. Proud Bostonian
Robert Ralston @robertralston.bsky.social Lecturer (assistant prof) at University of Birmingham. Grand Strategy; Politics of Decline/Declinism; Civil-Military Relations
https://sites.google.com/view/robert-ralston/home
William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social Europe/Mideast Bureau Chief for Stars and Stripes, an independent newspaper by and for the US military
www.williamwgallo.com
David Sterman @davidsterman.bsky.social Deputy Director, New America Future Security program
“All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror” https://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Wars-Twenty-Five-Americas/dp/1324124067/
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia.
Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods.
Past: RAND and CPOST.
Wolves. Lynx.
www.erikemueller.com
Kimberly Marten @kimberlymarten.bsky.social Professor at Barnard College, Columbia U; interested in Russia, international security, climate change.
Jesse Conrad @jesseconrad.bsky.social My life consists of North American Politics & Real Housewives 🏳️🌈
Currently: Brooklyn Museum
Prior: Berger Hirschberg Strategies, The Advance Group, Freedom House, The Netherland-America Foundation
Reading, PA → Brooklyn, NY
Views & opinions are my own
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social Senior reporter and podcast host for The Media Leader, a trade publication focused on all things commercial media.
Writer, journalist, American in London.
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Joseph Dempsey @josephhdempsey.bsky.social Research Associate for Defence & Military Analysis,
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Former Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. Chaotic Good. @RFERL
Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
julia reinstein @juliareinstein.bsky.social ✏️ theskimm
prev. @thecut.com, ABC News, BuzzFeed News
💌: julia.reinstein@theskimm.com
https://www.julia-reinstein.com/
RAND @rand.org We arm leaders with the information they need to tackle the toughest policy problems. Nonprofit, nonpartisan. 📥 Get our newsletter: https://bit.ly/4haSUVK
www.rand.org
Dave Schmerler @schmerler.bsky.social 
Dave Brown @davebrown.bsky.social Deputy Managing Editor for Global Security at Politico
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threat, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc
QUEER
multiply neurodivergent
RP/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
patreon.com/nuclearanthro
paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://OSF.io/46sfd/
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Dan DePetris @dandepetris.bsky.social Syndicated foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Kadri Liik @kadriliik.bsky.social Professional focus on Russia, other interests many and varied.
Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Layna Mosley @laynamosley.bsky.social Political economy of finance; supply chains & worker rights; Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab. @princetonpolitics.bsky.social
Co-editor of International Organization. Recovering trail runner, very amateur rower. https://laynamosley.scholar.princeton.edu/
Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social Ex-CIA, Ex-RAND, ex-historian. I post on things related to defense, national security, Africa (esp. the Sahel), and all things French military. Sometimes troll antisemites.
Emma Ashford @emmamashford.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Stimson Center, Columnist at Foreign Policy, and Adjunct Prof at Georgetown CSS.
Research on US grand strategy and energy security. Working on a book about US foreign policy in a multipolar world.
All views mine! 
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com 🇺🇸🇪🇺American by birth, European by choice
Buy my book: www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
Read my Substack: https://DaveKeating.Substack.com/
Watch my reporting: www.DaveKeating.net
Bruno Tertrais @brunotertrais.bsky.social Deputy Director, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique.
Non-Resident Fellow, Institut Montaigne.
Geopolitics, strategy and stuff.
Personal account.
b.tertrais@frstrategie.org
Books: tinyurl.com/bdzbxnyx
ericfarns @natsecguy.bsky.social Global strategist with a Western Hemisphere vibe. I once watched the movie Air Force One while flying on Air Force One.
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Midwest Political Science Association @mpsa.bsky.social The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science. Visit our website at www.MPSAnet.org to learn more.
Katy Powers @kepowers.bsky.social Political scientist at Dartmouth. Research interests: International relations, political psychology, foreign policy, public opinion. Non-research interests: cheese, rugby, mountains. Book: http://bit.ly/3lTTScD
Jess Moody @jessmoody89.bsky.social Author of Life After War (forthcoming) @Bloomsburybooks; Research Consultant - political risk and peacebuilding, #WestAfrica. PhD from @warstudies on #CIV225
World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social In-depth news and expert analysis on global affairs. Subscribe here: https://wpr.pub/subscribe
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Vip Articles @viparticles.bsky.social Ahmed Jalali, a Moroccan author and journalist with 25 years of experience behind me. I am still learning every day.Life is the real university.
Susie Madrak Ω @susiemadrak.bsky.social Art school dropout, former journalist, and one of the original political bloggers. Yellow dog Democrat, Philly born and raised. Blogs at CrooksandLiars.com and Suburban Guerrilla @ www.susiemadrak.com
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social The internet's grim conscience. OG blogger. Blue Blaze Irregular. Coiner of the phrase #DumpsterFire. Also podcast w/ Blue Gal -- @ProLeftPodcast -- https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/
I AM the motherf*cking shore patrol!
Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social OG Liberal Blogger (BooMan): worked for ACORN, Democracy for America and Washington Monthly. Founded Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Was once internet famous in India. Podcasting the Progress Pondcast. https://martinlongman.substack.com