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
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Arr David @arrdavid.bsky.social Dark humour. 22 years working in serious crime. Single dad to 3 children. Dr.Forensic Science. Forensic Video & Photography analysis expert. Photo restoration stuff. Some art stuff. 3D modelling stuff. Weird forensic stuff occasionally.
Karen Trewern @ktrewern.bsky.social Photographer based in Torquay, I've exhibited at Artizan Gallery, Torquay and Glasgow Gallery of Photography with inclusion in forthcoming exhibitions, next one is in November
Check out my website
https://www.karentrewernphotography.co.uk/
#aofoto
@paulgiv.bsky.social @paulgiv.bsky.social My photos:-
www.giverin.co.uk
Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social Stories behind museum objects. Art, weapons, jewelry, sculpture, textiles from open collections worldwide.
Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social Active-travel advocate, renewable energy professional, cargo bike riding dad. Lapsed geologist.
John Watson @docjwatsonmd.bsky.social Doctor 🩺 British Army vet 🇬🇧 Podcaster🎙️
https://linktr.ee/sherlockpod
LadyFluffyOrca 📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social Animal lover, owned now by only one cat🥲, atheist, antitheist,vegetarian, gardener. Blocked by Rosindell, Fabricant, Delingpole,Owen Jones, Hoey, Hannan in the other place.
#Pigoneer #Wülferhampton #Tokitae #PalmOil #FBPE
Barbara Ridhiwani @barbaridhi.bsky.social UK based. Anti-tyranny. Pro-peace. Africa supporter. Quaker. Pro PR. Pro NHS. Sick of techbros and genocide.
Richard H Merchant @rhmerchant.bsky.social Bit of brass playing and that
Petit Dictionnaire @petitdictionnaire.bsky.social Divorce warrior, uncloseted romantic, language teacher, bookish mum of three boys. From 🇳🇱 living in 🇫🇷. Definitely not single.
Studying 🇸🇪. Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Yakhunt @yakhunt.net Everything is shit, except my cat and my Rickenbacker
Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com YouTube word nerd. Host of RobWords and Words Unravelled.
@randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social Military veteran with the belief of equality for all… I’m kinda addicted to tattoos… I love wine..I believe U2 is one of the greatest bands ever… and I’m probably way too much into Batman
@angels4peace.bsky.social @angels4peace.bsky.social 🕊️🌍🏳️🌈🧙🏴☠️✊🇵🇸♿️♾️✊🏿🏳️⚧️♻️🖖
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it”. Zora Neale Hurston
Patrick @pjos.bsky.social Born Snippy.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Commuter cyclist @smallfoggyhouse.bsky.social Cycles for commuting. Active travel enthusiast. Bad driving/bad infrastructure unenthusiast.
Kaye McElle @kayemcelle.bsky.social Former Virginian. Connecticut newbie. Easily bemused.
Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social We are Scotland’s national cycling charity. Working with others, we get more people cycling, more safely and easily in a better environment. Charity no SC029760
www.cycling.scot
Miranda @appleandroidapp.bsky.social #TheArchers, spaniels, food, gardens, humour, books and astute reasonable political comments😉
Not here for dating, financial opportunities etc.
Build Like an Ancient - Podcast @buildlikeanancient.bsky.social Each season, we dive into the materials, methods, and the people behind ancient history's greatest - and not so greatest - buildings, along with their builders.
From the Greeks to the Egyptians, the Inca to the indus.
Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social Pharmacist in Sheffield, UK.
Cycling for transport.
Still use my car when appropriate.
Bikeability instructor (used to be called Cycling Proficiency). Kidical Mass organiser. Choir singer. Rock climber. Occasional knitter.
She / Her.
Festival of Europe Scotland @festivalofeurope.bsky.social Festival of Europe Scotland 2027 will take place from May 5 - 16. Centred around both Europe Days -May 5 & 9 - this annual festival celebrates peace, democracy, freedom and connections. https://festivalofeuropescotland.org Photo: KEVA
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol Life is weird - let’s laugh at it before it eats us. Not waving but drowning.
@trickster187.bsky.social @trickster187.bsky.social Just your friendly neighbor trickster from the Great White North!!Always up for a laugh,a good prank or a spontaneous adventure.Lover of poutine,maple syrup and all things Canadian . #Trickster vibes #canadian
Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social PhD student researching working class identity, 'deindustrialisation,' & deficit narratives.
Also: writer, photographer, docu producer (@lonelytower.bsky.social), general annoyance.
📍NE England |🤸♀️ she/her | MDANT 🏅| 🔗https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social Film critic, Catholic deacon, theology teacher, father of 7. Not in that order. NYFCC member. Please follow/subscribe at greydanus.substack.com! Also at decentfilms.com
Austen @austenpaulh.bsky.social Gibbous loon writing and researching
Miss Defiance @cybersaff.bsky.social Lecturer ¦ feminist ¦ scribbler ¦ photoArtist ¦ tea drinker ¦ Mother ¦ Prints X @IWasHereArtfor1 IG @cybersaff_photoart. I may not answer DMs.
Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social An abandoned heritage asset amongst the jagged peace lines of North Belfast - support our #BackToLife efforts as Carnegie Centre for Weaving!
Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social Poet/Performer/Author. Winner: People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. Loves lemurs. Dowload my debut poetry book for adults, for free: https://archive.org/details/the-relationship-expert-by-joshua-seigal
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
Scotty Boy @scttyryn.bsky.social Almost retirement age Minnesotan.
Very against Mango Mussolini and his regime.
Love reading SF(SciFi), playing, and recording music.
Picture is Bella, one of our rescued kitties.
Bob Hitchcock 〓〓 @tamarphotography.bsky.social Mainly #Landscape #Documentary #Photography SW UK. Left libertarian, jazz/classical, writer
All photography my own except for reposts. #NoAI
#EastCoastKin Arts Member
Coordinator #aofoto & @aofoto
tamarphotography.co.uk
tamarphotography.substack.com/
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social Cartoonist
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
ACH @nibus.bsky.social glass artist / unprolific musician / shitposter / haribo composting machine / amusing insult comedian / still getting up to mischif
Cornwall, UK | www.firescribe.co.uk
Starkey Comics @starkeycomics.bsky.social I mostly make images about language and interesting maps.
ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social J'ai deux amouuuurs 🎶, le vélo et Paris 🚲
Snopes @snopes.com Official Snopes profile
@peggheinrich39.bsky.social @peggheinrich39.bsky.social
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social Cyclist, bike madness, rider, two wheel explorer and cycle fixer. Sometimes I get to walk a dog. Writes software. Studied economics. Vote for communists, get free stuff. Vote for Tories get robbed of societal structures.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Gofod Gwag (empty space) 📸 @gofodgwag.bsky.social All photography shown is my own.
Welsh photographer in London.
Mostly Ricoh GR IIIx, sometimes iPhone.
Other interests:Art, music, film, games, pubs.
🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴 🏳️🌈
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social Scholar & Writer ✍🏻
Ph.D. NYU Comparative Literature
I write on archive, nature, memory, and layers of Polish, Jewish and German heritage in my native Lower Silesia.
Words in The Brooklyn Rail, Triangle House Review, CEU Review of Books, Apofenie, etc
Meg Bertera-Berwick @megberteraberwick.bsky.social Writing about land & memory. PhD in post-colonial stuff. Shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2023. Glasgow. Free 🇵🇸
On insta: @meg.berteraberwick
Newsletter: https://podbypod.substack.com/
Represented by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social An Eddie some way behind the magnificent Mair, Vedder, Izzard, Marsan, The Eagle, and Munson. #Boro #UTB
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social busy writing sketches about problems I can’t solve
Gravestones of New England @gravestones-ne.bsky.social Examining the artistry of 17th, 18th, and early century gravestones in New England
Patreon.com/gravestonesofnewengland
Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social The official account for Jimmy Kimmel Live with Jimmy Kimmel on ABC! We have fun. #Kimmel youtube.com/@JimmyKimmelLive
Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com adventurer
Kev Beachus @kevbeachus.bsky.social Retired Archaeologist and Environmentalist.
Please no DM's. I don't buy, I don't want digital currency. Ladies, I'm really too old for you and not really interested!
You can take the man out of archaeology but not the archaeologist out of the man..
Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm a teacher 🇺🇸 of English living in Slovakia.
@mcgonnagoal.bsky.social @mcgonnagoal.bsky.social
Richard Bates @discript.com Publisher – fiction and non-fiction. Friend to writers. Dementia carer. Cyclist. Activist. Cat parent.
Liberal Democrat 🔶 politician elected to Chichester District Council and West Sussex County Council.
Old UK Print Ads @oldukprintads.bsky.social Newspaper and magazine ads
Also
@OldUKPrintAds7890s.bsky.social - 1970s/80s/90s ads only
@OldUKPrintAdsXmas.bsky.social - Xmas ads, from Sept 16th
@OldInPrintAds.bsky.social - International ads (non-UK)
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE @barheys.bsky.social A woke, leftie accountant who loves NUFC and is interested in politics and economics. A proud Sikh, Francophile and committed European who stands with the people of Palestine.
🪯 | 🇬🇧 | 🇮🇳 | 🇵🇸 | 🇪🇺 | 🇮🇪 | 🇫🇷 | 🌍
Girvan Traditional Folk Festival @girvanfestival.bsky.social The 51st Girvan Festival is on 1st – 3rd May 2026!! See you there!
girvanfolkfestival.org.uk
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social She/her, trainer, mum, coach, INFJ, owner of 0.01% of a Colin Dexter sculpture that doesn't exist yet. Nearly a black belt. Often found in libraries, museums, lecture theatres or churches. All views & art either my own or credited appropriately.
Toilets With Threatening Auras @scarytoilet.bsky.social oh no scary toilet
Reposting from the original account.
@elimuann.bsky.social @elimuann.bsky.social Yorkshire marmite: likely to elicit strong reactions. Currently politically homeless but left of centre. Love to visit different places.
UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 @uofgunescorila.bsky.social UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language, and Arts (RIELA) #AyeWelcomeRefugees Migration is beautiful linktr.ee/UnescoRIELA
Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social Seamus Heaney
it’s time to swim/out on your own & fill the element /with signatures on your own frequency/echosoundings,searches, probes, allurements/elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea
Socialist
☆no gods☆no kings☆no fascists☆
#whatwoulddollydo
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
Dreamboat Annie @soulwithoutaking.bsky.social retired scientist, wannabe wanderer. fond of run-on sentences, no caps, & lots of em dashes. and bikes. always bikes. same shitposting as on the hellsite but much higher-toned.
Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research & other museumy shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder. She/Her
AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social Author, comic, broadcaster and tired person.
Usually UK based, but who knows... Member of the Leguminati, kayaker, friend of ravens.
Peter Warne @pzwarne.bsky.social Food, cycling, swimming, music, books - the usual. Liable to post in languages other than English. Lausanne.
Dirk Voletrouser @dirkvoletrouser.bsky.social I like food. And art. Also dogs.
Nina Wilson @ninawilson.bsky.social Former electronics engineer, now focusing on trying to make the world a better place. Special interests - Volcanoes, Ukraine, physical and mental health. Skills - mapping and geolocation, statistical studies.
DMs OK but no personal chit-chat.
Alex CofC @bqosbear.bsky.social Flawed woke omniphile. Former human / veterinary toxicologist. Now a writer / narrator / charity trustee director. Dog walker / sitter & cat sitter. Lifelong opera-addict and chorister. Voracious reader. Bit of a foodie - but loath pineapple. 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏴☠️ #FBPE
Grumpy-ish Brian🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social A Liberal dogs and cats owner, love walking, Motor Bikes, my Landy, Photography and Travel. Happily Married. An eX exile as I’ve had enough of the crazy! If you insult. Ill block , disagreement is fine.
Also I'm dyslexic, there will be typos . 1789 rules
Bicycles Recycle @bicyclesrecycle.bsky.social #BicyclesRecycle - helping make the world a happier, healthier place to live. With bikes. And #cycling.
Some things in life deserve a second chance. A #bicycle is one that does.
(Bikes are still considered one of the best inventions, ever.)
Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social Cartref Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Bangor
Home of Bangor University's Archives and Special Collections
https://t.co/Hmxgl2Kns6
Chris Wade-Evans @cwadeevans.bsky.social #FBPE left leaning semi retired sound engineer, after forty something years travelling the world, now interested in expanding my horizons from the comfort of my room in West London!
Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social Old bag. Still, at least I can now get a ‘flu jab. Plagued by impending sense of doom and a small haughty cat called Daphne Whitethighs.
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
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. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Clonehenge @clonehenge.bsky.social Stonehenge replicas. That's it, since 2008. We have endless lists of them, large and small. !!DON'T SEND THE BUTTERHENGE!! Your homemade henges are welcome though and will be enthusiastically retweeted or launched into the blue sky or whatever
Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
Govanhill Go! @govanhillgo.bsky.social Govanhill Go! is a place on the internet for positive content about the area past, present and future. N.B trolling is banished.
richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford
#aofoto AOfoto.art
John F @johnfar.com A "Photographer" who dabbles with silver & light, regularly seen stoating about with a camera.
Avid user of pinhole and panoramic cameras.
I have a drone, I am not very good at it.
Find me on the Lensless & lo-fi podcast.
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words; husband, father, generally curious
https://substack.com/@jembenson
📍 Leicestershire, UK
Emeritus Grump WC, CD, GF, RTFM, 💜 @suzman.bsky.social 👉 theblue.report 👈
🇪🇺🇬🇧 Married to Suzanne.
🚫 unsolicited/begging msgs.
MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS
"I keep six honest men serving me. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What, and Why, and When, and Where, and How, and Who."
Rudyard Kipling.
Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social Publisher of The Notable (coming soon.)
💙💙💙
🟠🟢🔵 https://boxd.it/6oHmx
📸 https://instagram.com/damionmatthews
Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social Ex arranger and installer of fine art exhibitions.
Still an obsessive picture straightener.