Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
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
sem smit @bitcoinnew06.bsky.social jjjjj
Liari @liari.bsky.social Crossword setter - as Liari (The Independent, Unch); Apus (Times QC); Potoroo (Telegraph Toughie); Pavo (Guardian); Myself (Telegraph, Bonmo and elsewhere).
Unch magazine editorial team.
Super-duper Independent crossword setter? (5)
Gary Male @gjmale.bsky.social Artist, dog-lover and avid reader. Or something. I teach maths
GeClef @geclef12.bsky.social Please donโt put me on a list. Lots of typos. ๐บ๐ธ
/s =Sarcasm
Musician
My poetry is mostly on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/gigie91173. Learning cryptic cxwd
Just because you can doesnโt mean you should. You are my Algonquin roundtable.
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
Henri @henriwords.com I have never disembowelled myself (5)
I start to drum, interrupting Ringo! (3)
I judge, like dad (5)
Crossword setter: Guardian, Times, Inquisitor, Gnomon, Unch, MyCrossword, henriwords.com and more. Puzzle editor at Unch. Rob Townsend, really
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Crossers @crypticcrossers.bsky.social Crossers.co.uk is a new site aiming to make it easier to set and solve cryptic crossword puzzles. It's got the set of tools I wanted as a setter to make it quicker to create puzzles. Keen to get some feedback from setters and solvers alike!
Derek Bowman @derekxword.bsky.social Crossword enthusiast, pixie ๐ง
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Kent Tayler @taylertoons.bsky.social Cartoonist, family man and nerd.
Buy signed A4 prints here, you lovely people: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Taylertoons?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
@sebdoubinsky.bsky.social @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social Lo-fi dystopian, noir and horror fiction writer, minor poet, reluctant academic and staunch anarchist.
"Tax the robots and A.I. as regular employees."
Coot @coot.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter in the Independent, the Times, the Times Quick Cryptic (as Loon), Unch magazine and on MyCrossword
PeterMF @petermoorefuller.bsky.social Crosswords - Chopin (mycrossword), Bard (Independent), Playfair (Economist) & Glyph (Guardian)
Scicomm (infohackit)
Music (peteplays12)
Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social Award winning (no honest) Cartoonist. Also an Illustrator, Designer... depending on what day it is.
Recently emigrated from Liverpool to Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/dinktoons
UCU University of Greenwich @ucugreenwich.bsky.social University of Greenwich UCU Branch. Supporting educators and staff members at the University of Greenwich. UCU is the largest post-16 education union in the world. Go to https://greenwich.web.ucu.org.uk/ for details on how to join UCU and get involved! 
Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social What is the self? Is it a story that we tell ourselves? In this podcast, we turn to philosophy & literature for answers.
๐๏ธScarlettBaron + AliceHarberd
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ae2RQYLbLop9oe10huOvp?si=6df3218256a24352
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social Printmaker, Artist & Human perpetually seeking wonder | Organiser of For the Love of Print | Printmaking Tutor | Commissions |
Shop etc at haggytea.com
@normanroots.bsky.social @normanroots.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ Grandpa of 9, genealogist, MS Access developer, economist
darkwise @darkwise.bsky.social 
CrypticBlah @crypticblah.bsky.social Rubbish German half back (4)
www.mycrossword.co.uk/Blah
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology @ucleye.bsky.social We deliver cutting-edge research and teaching in ophthalmology and biomedical science. Part of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences.
@strangertings5.bsky.social @strangertings5.bsky.social 
Roystoncartoons @roystoncartoons.bsky.social Royston Robertson, human cartoonist. Private Eye, Big Issue, Spectator etc, plus books, cards, live work.
๐ฌ Direct message or email roystonrobertson@gmail.com for cartoons made by a real person.
linktr.ee/roystoncartoons
Rory S โขโฟ @roryms.com humans are not illegal. US and Israel are terrorist states
cat mom, socialist, combat vet, asd, widow, atheist, latina, lgbtqia+
ะัััะฝ โ ะผะฐะปะตะฝัะบะฐ ััะบะฐ
she/her/ella
Sara M @rambling-redhead.bsky.social ๐ณ๐ฑ Moving this summer to get a Masterโs degree.
Adventure seeker. Voice actor. Widow. Show me beautiful things!
โค๏ธ Adventures chronicled here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ramblingredhead?r=prl0u&utm_medium=ios
Jamandham, LLC @jamandham.bsky.social CREATING PHENOMENAL WORD GAMES!
jamandham.com
Ann Crawford @anncrawford.bsky.social ๐
winning, bestselling fiction author with book #11 on the way. ๐ traveler: all 50 states, 75 countries. Love laughing, coffee & tropical sunsets.๐ด๐
linktr.ee/anncrawford
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 โฌ๏ธ
I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!
Joseph Long @joseph-long-piano.bsky.social Concert pianist and piano teacher
Marti Lawrence @marti-l.bsky.social *NO DM! Blocking offenders
Retired humor author, caregiver, ally, old hippie, wife, mother, grandmother. #KCChiefs fan, lover of life, cooking, barbeque. #Jeopardy aficionado
#Google+Refugee
Posts a lot of funny memes. ๐
Kansas City metro area.
goof lagoon @innajiffy.bsky.social itโs cool to be kind โ๐ฝ theyโก๏ธthem, a gendy nooch if you will
#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social Navy veteran. Retired businessman/and educator. Roasting Republican politics since 2009 with snark, receipts, and zero patience for bullshit. DMs closed.
Daily Word @wordsdaily.bsky.social A word a day, to help your mind stay sharp and slay.
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
Pisces Potatoes @piscespotatoes.bsky.social a passion for potatoes. an enthusiasm for eggs. hugs for bugs (but never for spiders). sporadic posting of unhinged content in a chaotic world!
Rosaleen OโBrien @drrosaleenobrien.bsky.social Freelance Qualitative & Health Services Research Consultant based in Scotland (former academic Medical Sociologist). Health experiences and evaluating health/ social care interventions & services| Website: https://rosaleenobrienresearch.com
Stephie Steph Jo Bef @stephaniefry.bsky.social Friend , Part time Philosopher, Singer , Poet and I have a โday jobโ.
Sophy Boyle @wyvernandstar.bsky.social ๐๐๐พ๐๐๐๐๐ฟ ๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐๐
In the stillness @awedaud.bsky.social My channel: youtube.com/@Earthtonehz
https://linktr.ee/earthtonehz?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e3b41241-2901-4803-870b-ee77fd320b8f
A place to see my stuff
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fibr5y7fteftklvnk4oed3gl/feed/aaaifshdtqh62
Zaibatsu @zaibatsu.bsky.social ๐ Exploring #SocialMedia, #Tech, #AI, and #CyberSecurity
๐ก๏ธ Championing #Democracy & Digital Integrity
๐จ Passionate about #Art, Innovation, and the Future ๐๐
@anuragpuzzling.bsky.social @anuragpuzzling.bsky.social Puzzling, Questioning, Reading, Solving, Thinking
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social Author of two dozen books. Writing stories for 70 years. I've been editor, novelist, Russian translator, parttime spy, Internet evangelist, and ebook entrepreneur. http://www.seltzerbooks.com https://www.amazon.com/One-Family-Richard-Seltzer/dp/1959621211
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จ @marytreads.bsky.social Mom/GG. 40ish. Cannabis monster. Weird on purpose. Chronically-illin . #LupusBlows
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2luhye4tn44wgisfwglcaz53/feed/aaagcmwhcb732
James McClure @pfadge.bsky.social Relocated Texan in the Midwest. Spouse, Dad, Longhorn, Product Manager. Sometimes actor. Bachelor of Fine Arts.
"I know things and I have cats"
Capt. Sharkpants @sharkpants.bsky.social Purveyor of sarcasm, inanities, & a diagonal, upside-down perspective. Competitive blood donor. Unapologetically human. (she/her)
JC Morgan @jcmorganauthor.bsky.social Retired carpenter who wrote a few novels - jcmorganauthor.com
USAF vet from the 60s; kindness counts; luv music, movies, well told stories & people.๐๐ฉตโฎ๏ธโฏ๏ธโ๐ซhate.
Kraig the Pathfinder @krovensky.bsky.social ๐ฅGlobal Brand Ambassador for @drinkthepathfinder // โ๏ธ Lumberjack of @lifeonmarsseattle // A Bitters Guy at @amoryamargo ๐ฅ
Gigi @gigi728.bsky.social I am a wife, a mother of two grown daughters, and a grandmother of five precious grandchildren (whom I can send home if they get on my nerves).
Viva La Crap! @vivalacrap.bsky.social Death Enthusiast
https://tripwreck.com
KDOrgGetPOd @kdorg.bsky.social ๐ Awake & aware. Former public school educator, still a teacher. Pro-science, pro-facts, pro-humor-that-uplifts, pro-just-let-them-exist, pro-people-over-money. C(A-Z)O of too many thingsโฆ
MarcusVulpes @fearnot2.bsky.social *audi, vide, tace*
Bewildered, befuddled, beguiling, begat
Absolutely delicious, per millions of 5โญ reviews.
๐ต Blue ๐ต
๐ซMAGA๐ซCRYPTO๐ซ
Devin Anderson @devinthered.bsky.social Lives in SLC. Utah State alum.
Fan of BYU, Jazz, Jets, Tigers
Golfer / Skier
The Subtext @truesubtext.bsky.social 
Laurie Biagini ๐จ๐ฆ @lauriebiagini.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ B.C. Songwriter/Musician, Sunshine-Pop, SFU BSc. ๐ Earth/Atmospheric Science Nerd๐ฆ๏ธ, ๐๏ธ Italophile ๐ฎ๐น, Introvert, GenX, Cat-mom ๐โโฌ #HashtagGames
Lauriebiagini.Weebly.com
EmoG @emog.bsky.social Not an expert. Just tired and observant.
๐ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i3c2rnlkimjf7ffom5ksffq6/feed/aaamtc74aonoe
It's a small world after all! @xirgonc.bsky.social Trying to work some magic in video games / Puzzle and riddle fan / It's a small world, after all... / She/Her/Elle
Gregory Breitenbach @quinella1966.bsky.social Antioch College
no DMs please, unless I know ye
Pete @petesky.bsky.social #SaveTheArts CATSโฆ books, movies, music, art, gardening, cooking, poetry & drama CANADA โข Guelph โข Toronto
Ray Butler @raybut.bsky.social Security focused seasoned IT Pro, Husband, Father, Dog Dad, regular guy who loves technology ๐ป, movies ๐๏ธ ,astronomy ๐ญ and Star Trek. No DMs.
Colwicksince2009 @colwick2009.bsky.social Owner of a misfit cat. Forest Green Rovers fan. Work in the internet, part time web developer. Love Northern Soul and anything funky. LFC. Biker. No DMs unless I already know you. ADHD. European ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ
Viresh Ratnakar @viresh.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter "Gussalufz" (The Hindu, The Browser, 1 Across, Object, IXL): https://gussalufz.com.
Open source crossword web apps: https://exolve.app, https://exet.app.
Engineer at (A) Large (Company). Intergalactic Interconnectedness Medium.
Feral Kittee @feralkittee.bsky.social Gaymer, owned by cats.
UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social UCU University of Kent
Fighting for a better Higher Education - staff working conditions are student learning conditions.
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/ucuuok/
https://www.instagram.com/ucu.kent?igsh=MWRuZnZ5Y3k1ZXlhNQ==- K KC01 @kencam.bsky.social
Views my own.
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
https://quietriotpod.com
Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social The toast in the machine. NHS librarian, crossword compiler (Angel), Unch magazine editorial team, poet. Weekly crossword streams on Twitch @ crypticsunday. I like crime fiction, telly and cold water. She/her.
Matt @wyrd.systems ๐ Publishing Unch, a cryptic crossword magazine: unchcrosswords.com
๐บ Streaming on Sundays: https://twitch.tv/CrypticSunday
๐ช Sitting on benches
โ๏ธ Drinking coffee
๐ Lewes, UK
Crazy Cracker @crazycracker.bsky.social Hate the Tories with a passion. Glad they are gone! Labour supporter! #ToryScum #FBPE #Socialist
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
๐ง๐ป www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL (โA wistfully entertaining romantic comedyโ Jonathan Coe). Workshops for Prisoners for Stratford Literary Festival.
Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword compiler for The Indy & The Blizzard (as Knut), The FT (Julius), The Daily Telegraph (Toughies as Hudson), The Times (QC as Bjorn), The Observer (Calypso) and The Guardian (Hat)
Location: Freiburg, Black Forest
Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.
Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social Signal: andrewleland.99
Email: aleland@fastmail.com
Writing about disability, language, technology, art, culture, ladybugs in sweatpants, etc
Low vision, long covid, bad faith, good times
https://www.andrewleland.org