Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social Comedy writer & Author. Repped by JFL. Dead Funny History, Horrible Histories & Horrible Science! Loadsa R4 stuff! And more! Buy the Darkwood Trilogy or Rooks Trilogy or Cursed Under London! 🐝 with the 🫖. Avatar by Tealin!
Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social British.
England cricket team, Man Utd fan for 65yrs. Sports, politics, news and quirks.
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
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Brighton and Hove Wildlife Forum @bhwf.bsky.social An umbrella organisation connecting groups across the city of Brighton and Hove working to protect and enhance greenspaces for all. website: BHWF.org.uk
Horizontalsrich @richienb.bsky.social That bloke. You know, him.
Jo @jobowandarrow.bsky.social May mention #TheArchers (and very little else) - see my Starter Packs
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Nicki @cardiffbites.bsky.social Suspiciously Welsh 🏴 . Former food blogger. Quite sweary. Dysgwyr Cymraeg. Mainly talking about life with a toddler and my dinner. Obsessed with Vinted. She/her
Based in Cardiff, UK
Col can make YOUR workplace exciting @colken.bsky.social You're probably wondering why I've gathered you all here today. Human rights are cool, we should leave them alone. Very Scottish 🍀
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hsaqlh4nc4v5luci7oqusxuk/feed/aaaha5i5ewo2g
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social freewheeling renaissance man, music video maven, greedy boi, a good looking rebel who lives life by his own rules.
Knancy 🛸 @knancy.bsky.social Southern Nevadan. I like sarcasm, kittens, sarcastic kittens, naps, dogs, condiments, wild bunnies in my yard, PWHL, tv, foreign candy, the f-word, opinions. 🏳️🌈✡️🏜️👿🫂 "Live to see them die."
Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
Head to https://prospectmagazine.co.uk
Chris Worthing @chrisworthing.bsky.social Please do not follow me unless we've already interacted. I dislike Crypto. But I do like: History, Family & Royal; Politics; Whodunnits; Roses; Cats & most dogs. Diabetic living in Worthing, Sussex England
Damian R @damians78s.bsky.social 16-19 Maths and Further Maths teacher, lover of classical music, sci-fi and fantasy
music.damians78s.co.uk
Pat @maytce.bsky.social Retired doodler. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?
Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social Museums, Archaeology, Romans, Corduroy
All views are my wife's
#SundayHuxley
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social An idiot, but not one of the useful kind.
Lexx Clarke @lexxclarke.bsky.social Food, wine, books and gardening. In no particular order 😁
Julia 🐈⬛ @juliaann.bsky.social Easily distrac
Helen Gibbons @helengibbons.bsky.social Financial translator Dutch-English • PhD student – British identity since 2016 – University of Gibraltar • MA Cantab MML 🇪🇺🇬🇮🏳️⚧️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-gibbons-b0396b61/
RivermanRob @rivermanrob.bsky.social Homo viator, father, grandfather, story teller, F/friend, OBOD Bard /|\, labyrinth enthusiast, professional adviser in social care and health sector, Appreciative Inquiry practitioner. Interesting in arty things, folklore and the supernatural. FRSA
Dr. Uncle Beard 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social Doctor, author, podcaster, bear in Yorkshire. Dr Who crossword blog #CrypticWho https://crypticwho.com/, Podcast https://www.doctordilf.co.uk/(He/Him/His) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Crafty Cow Cat Sofas @craftycow.bsky.social Maker of Cat Sofas, owned by Banksy the cat. Here for general silliness and chat
Etsy shop https://craftysharp.etsy.com
Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social Gorgon girl, walking step by step into the deep dark woods
🔞 Contains adults-only content
Read my robot girl erotica, Spine., for a dollar ninety-nine: https://a.co/d/fA5Y5we
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social Mostly tediously twee nonsense. Sporadic enthusing about flamenco dancing and cycling to see Cardiff Bay's sunrises. Occasional passing references to being a weary, aging academic librarian.
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social Well I guess I'm a trans woman then. Late to the party but I made it eventually.
Early in my transition so probably wrong about everything.
she/her, British immigrant in France
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social Never forget to fear the kraken.
BBC EPG scheduler and spelling making righter-er. Doctor Who, Nigel Kneale, M.R. James etc. He/Him
Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social Soprano, scientist, sewist, servant to cats, photographer. She/her
Episcopalian. Safe space for LGBTQIA+ people.
Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
99-vLj @mstoodley.bsky.social beauty, friendship, novels, kitchen and garden. A no-politics zone. We're blue dots.🕊️✌️☮️🎶
Fi KP @curlywurlyfi.bsky.social weirdy little monster (Alanna Lauder, Feb 2026)
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Hangry Menace @hangrymenace.bsky.social Bookseller and teacher. Resides in the Cacophony of Woke, raised in the city of cakes and waltzes 🇦🇹 Join a union today ✊ support your local indie bookstore 📚 and pet all the kitties 🐱 Random French content as I move to Dali’s centre of the universe.
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
Andrew Haglington @andrewhaglington.bsky.social #Author #Scifi #Fantasy 📚 Andrew Haglington
#Environment #Climate #SocialNetworking
#Photographer #Artist #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #Progressive
Cathy Haglington @cathyhaglington.bsky.social 📚 #Book #Editor @CathyHaglington
Music Classic Rock 🎸#Rush
Environment Gardening Snorkel Swim #RejoinEU 🇪🇺
#Dartmoor #Devon
Helen @helenm40.bsky.social UK cisgender feminist. Fuck TERFs and transphobia.
Jon Reed @jonreed.bsky.social 📚 Writer and digital content consultant. Mostly here for #TheArchers and other nonsense.
Flo Fflach @flofflach.bsky.social plants~birds~tywydd~weather~môr~sea~artist (words-movement-photography-domestic-textile)~quaker crynwr~social justice & equality~peace~a bit of cricket~public transport user
@eilrach.bsky.social @eilrach.bsky.social 
Chris Forkbeard Booty @c0rm0la1n.bsky.social Still trying to remember that I'm not a librarian any more.
Saint Vespaluus @saint-vespaluus.bsky.social Cambridge alumnus; vegetarian; voracious reader; humanist; Spoken Word artist and Everton fan!
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Stace @stacethehippy.bsky.social Switch/PS5 Gamer 🎮
Witch 🔮 Gardener 🌷🍃
Current obsession: Whittling/Wood carving ✨️ DnD Newbie 🐲 UK
A bit sweary.
I'll follow back if you pass the vibe check ☮️
Jane Duke @janeduke.com Fine art printmaker from York, England. Dapple scrumper. Sometimes found loitering in a restored medieval townhouse and talking to strangers. Solar powered (dormant in low light).
Printmaking stuff here: https://linktr.ee/janeduke
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Linda @lindalee.bsky.social Lover of life... 🥰
... and everything interesting!
AuDHD? Naturellement! ✨️
And believe me... it's a trip! Love it!
#Archaeology #Prehistory #History #Bronzeage #Ironage #Medieval
#Accessability #Actuallyautistic
Chris Kendall @ottocr.at Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | personal capacity
jonny toothpick @jonnytoothpick.bsky.social Inventor of the internet. I think in my pajamas. Anti-evil. (All opinions are my own or subconsciously pirated from 60s television.)
jonny’s toothpicks: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:63wytfb2epym3xtpysvadht6/feed/aaadthb5tphxe
LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social Usual Twitter transfer. Dog walks, photo's (OM1 + phone), dad puns, education, some politics, some family stuff, trying to maintain a 600 year old house.
Please excuse the typos.
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Isle of Wight @isleofwightuk.bsky.social News and updates from the Isle of Wight - we originally started this service on the 'bird app' in 2012 and now prefer here on Bluesky
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!
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social Music, Art, Books, Wildlife, Films.
Joined November 2024.
Parami @parami2u.bsky.social Buddhist, vegan(mainly)
Scottish Independence (it's gonna happen - hope it's in my lifetime). Football - Glasgow Celtic, LFC and Barça
I try to be kind but don't always manage
Love Glasgow
She/her
Ben casper @beldaz78.bsky.social Social work. Progressive. Pragmatic.
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, photography, flippancy, unions.
Audi alteram partem.
Leeds, UK
Founder at @jointogether.online
@craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social Retired NHS. Socialist. Knitting. Crochet. History. Dark sense of humour. Grew up in Yorkshire.
She/her
Stephen Lingwood @sjlingwood.bsky.social Radical Christian community minister. Queer. Unitarian. Anti-capitalist. Aspiring to be Welsh. Likes naps and cats.
Tyla Smith @tylaevon73.bsky.social Multimedia Artist | Mother | Art Therapist | Writer | Human Rights Advocate | Small Business owner @ Waterfall Sanctuary (www.waterfallsanctuary.com) | Bibliophile Photographer | Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fan | Spoonie | Fiber Artist
Will follow back after vetting.
@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social Did a thing, probably
Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social Writer and translator from Buenos Aires, Stockport and Sheffield, and a bit of Concepción del Uruguay. I am the 41st-best Scrabble player in the world in Spanish, which isn't all that much. I have a wife, a dog, and a daughter, in order of appearance.
Eric Z. @ericzieg.bsky.social Stage, songs, walks, and stuff.
Barry M @barmas.bsky.social Maker of Kertelreiter cider & perry. Planter of orchards. Perry pear freak, wannabe pomologist, cider historian, ex-homebrewer. Editor & writer at Cider Review. Certified Pommelier. Irish in Germany. Owned by a border collie.
Tina Hoggatt @thoggatt.bsky.social Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie.
Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
Irish Place Names @irishplacenames.bsky.social Unusual and interesting Irish placenames #speirgorm
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
WhatTheTrans.com
Navigation: #Podcast #Article #Opinion #Analysis #Interview #LiveReport #Protest #Action #Fundraiser #Research #Photography #UK #US #Japan #World
Karol S @karolszym.bsky.social Crossword nerd. Composer in real life. (Yes, we still exist.)
Composer of a thousand songs needing no introduction (5,1)
Audrey Jarvis @audreyjarvis.bsky.social Volunteer - tree planting, Swift monitoring, wildflower surveys
Aria Argenta 🏳️⚧️ @ariargenta.bsky.social ESP // ENG
(She/Her) Transitioning into mad creative. I write the code that gives imagination its pixels BTW.
The best nerd memes from this side of the BlueSky… I promise.
Lewes Urban Arboretum @lewesarboretum.bsky.social Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes - planting trees and looking after them - for us, for wildlife and to improve resilience to climate change. We are an accredited Arboretum Town!
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Mark GJ @brokentv.uk It takes a village of dozens to hold me back
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Current project: Auntie's Favourites - The stories behind the BBC's 250 Most-Broadcast Programmes.
Current progress: Finding all the bad bits in first draft
https://brokentv.uk/
@littlestormcloud.bsky.social @littlestormcloud.bsky.social I make typos, many, many typos. I’m trying to come to peace with it. I will never come to peace with TERFS, racists, or fascists.
Daffodil @growing-daffodil.bsky.social Just a silly little middle-aged, queer, trans man who is thrilled that the modern era brought him a camera with unlimited ‘film’. Mature student, aspiring writer/visual artist, and music-obsessed.
@brenked60.bsky.social @brenked60.bsky.social Cinephile and music nerd. Retired film lecturer.
Seeking shelter from the Storm.
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row.
Rejoin the EU NOW!
COYS
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
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Saffermaster 🏆 @saffermaster.bsky.social Cohost of the Kinky Cocktail Hour podcast, lifestyle kinkster, connoisseur of single malt scotch whisky and lifetime Arsenal & the Springboks fan. Dedicated foodie and mixologist. I smite bots and trolls.
https://kinkycocktailhour.buzzsprout.com