By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social Can I stay home and read a book instead? Providing humor and memes about the introverted life.
Lost Otter's Pilgrimage of Food 19.12.30.3.22 @lost-otter.bsky.social Food (our aulde enemie) - its appearance, calorific energies, and locations (historic, domestic, sublime & banal); that the shame of it should outlive him.
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
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
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Robert Smith @robert.thecure.com The Cure : founder & writer & singer & guitarist & : shake me up
Angela Eagle @angelaeagle1.bsky.social MP for Wallasey (UK)
Delft Holland @stimoo.bsky.social I love my city delft in holland. Show you pictures of the past and present of this great old city. I hope you enjoy it too.
Gemmyfromtheblock @gemmyfromtheblock.bsky.social Work in charity, constantly knackered. Lover of food & wine,Mum of 5, wife of 1. ‘Mentally ok’ (thanks Davecakes)
Henry Fudge @henryfudgeofficial.bsky.social A serious account of how Britain broke its own economy and what would actually fix it. Land, housing, productivity, and the political economy of decline, by an independent researcher, Economist, and startup guy now based in Switzerland 🇨🇭🏴 henryfudge.com
Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social Retired English Professor
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Justine Underhill @justineunderhill.bsky.social I'm a journalist with a background in economics and theater. I worked as an on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance, and I later created a documentary series. My focus now is on urban design, and I was recently elected to City Council in Falls Church, VA.
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
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
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Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social Lapsed physicist, retired nerd, choral music fanboy, drools over wilderness landscapes. Prone to extreme grumpiness in the presence of scientific illiteracy. Husband and fond supporter of a stellar Parkinson's advocate.
Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social Sir Gaerfyrddin. He/him.
@djcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social - Law abiding motorist
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Katherine Miles 🧡 @katherinesmiles.bsky.social Lib dem Cllr Oxford Summertown ward. Consensus seeker. Standing for a safer, fairer, cleaner, sustainable, open Oxford. Anthropologist. Promoted by Oxon Liberal Democrats at Unit C5, Grange Court Business Park, Barton Lane, Abingdon, OX14 3NB.
Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social Writes things, likes pencils
www.firebrigademusical.com
AndyDenizen @andydenizen.bsky.social Oxfordshire.
Active travel interest.
Cycling. Occasional Audax.
Photography.
#ClimateCrisis
#EndSewagePollution
#BetterinEU
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Kee Bici @bikes.keekay.cloud Mouth breathing through Canada
BC 🇨🇦
#Giant FastRoad E+ EX Pro Bicycle
I make bike videos on YouTube
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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social Historical dilettante 
Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of authentic integrity. #AltText - no AI🚫 (Internet searches were faster and more reliable *before* AI…)
PETA @peta.org Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. #EndSpeciesism
Pineapple on Pizza 🇷🇪🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇳 @pineapplesonpizza.bsky.social Amateur cook, old school CompSci geek. Used to live in the USA until GWB asked me to love it or leave it. Done with Sarcasm. I'm aggressively Cynic.
🇷🇪 Réunion Island
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇺 European Union
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
fema 🚲 @fema.monster i read books, play games, and ride bikes
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social Born 317ppm | Love London | Hate Racists
The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation — Bertrand Russell
A Moveable Feed @talentx.bsky.social Moveable Feed: sharp, biased dispatches from Trump’s America and the AI future. Ex‑DC comms hack, still talking. Read + subscribe here → https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
Clive Durdle @evilceldrud.bsky.social “If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly “
Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
https://clivedurdle.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/about-me-2/
HIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social This account is run by Hat Trick, who make HIGNFY. The BBC have asked us to point out it's nothing to do with them; the feed that is, not the TV show.
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
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Causing A Scene @causingascene.bsky.social Community owned co-op set up to be the collective voice of Oxfordshire’s music scene & its associated culture.
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Rob Bailey @robbaileypsych.bsky.social Occupational Psychologist, UK
Researching individual differences (personality and cognition), workplace wellbeing, and performance
Cyclist, guitarist, hiker, and plenty of other interests
All posts my own
Low Traffic Hackney @lowtraffichackney.bsky.social We’re a group of local residents supporting efforts to reduce motor traffic levels in Hackney, to reduce air and noise pollution, enable safer cycling and reduce carbon emissions
https://www.lowtraffichackney.org/
Dominic Utton @domutton.bsky.social I write. I read. I don't really 'rithmetic. Author, novelist, screenwriter, podcast scripter, journalist, occasional DJ.
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Dr Emma Garnett @emmagarnett.bsky.social Researcher in behaviour change towards more plant-based and sustainable diets at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
Climate Action. Biodiversity Conservation. Health and wellbeing.
My (more) political account: @greenpartyemma.bsky.social
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social Journalist, author of Potholes and Pavements, cohost of @podstreetsahead.bsky.social
https://lauralaker.substack.com
Muted live on Julia Hartley-Brewer's Talk show
World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social Stephen Graham on global cities & biking. Urban Planning and Global Finance NYU. Former research director Citi and Goldman
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social Vintage 70s frame running GenX OS, patched to woke-1.9.1stable.
Bikes, synths, maps, code, LCC, homegrown, homebrewed, climate, G/green.
Croydon & Sarf London.
Personal views only. Does things you've not heard of for people you have.
Alan @alan.cool Alan. "liquidindian" elsewhere. (he/him)
📍Liverpool
Save Our Safer Streets - Tower Hamlets @saveoursaferstreets.org A community that is fighting the council's plans to bring back traffic and pollution across Bethnal Green and Shoreditch
Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social The myths of Ancient Greece still echo and shape the modern world. This is their story.
APPLE https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=657111fc0e544740
Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social Mechanised tramp.
Writer, snapper, occasionally TV & radio. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. Words & pictures in The Guardian, FT, Sunday Times & more
Insta: _lostlanes
Megan @megsier.bsky.social I'm an information professional, now a governance manager, who loves to dance, play board games & computer games and hang out with friends
Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social Transport specialist. Writer and broadcaster. Author of 20 books on railways & transport. Host Calling All Stations, transport podcast. Parkrunner, QPR, cyclist, driverless car sceptic. christianwolmar.co.uk My substack https://transportnews.substack.com/
Ms Des.AI 🤬 @dedevelo.eurosky.social identifies as someone, somewhere, living as a human with existential angst.
shouting expletives into the void.
no interests of concern to anyone.
vaguely amused by life.
intolerant to direct messaging, followers without bios...will be blocked.
Andy McKay @andymckay.bsky.social Doctor. Liberal. Saints FC. 
CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social The billionaires and their media are using hate and fear to divide communities and win power. We believe there’s more that unites than divides us and we’re having the conversations that prove it. www.commongroundorg.co.uk
Kari (rhymes with atari) @kari.bsky.social guess i’m a YouTuber now, 100k+ subs 🎉 ... 👉 just a girl in her 20s who loves #making, #fixing 🛠️, #coding 👩💻 & collecting cool #retro 🕹️ things
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Freddie van Mierlo MP 🔶 @freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Henley and Thame | For case work please email freddie.vanmierlo.mp@parliament.uk
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social TV producer/director
Amateur whimsical skedaddler
Total luvvie
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper / Midday Matinées @cooraysmith.bsky.social Freelance Writer. Highgate Dad. Kinda Desi. Doesn’t post / read. So I won’t see anything you say here. I’m not ignoring you. Am probably on the school run. Automated posts from my Dr Who & film crit emailers only.
Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/buxo1
Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!
Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social Head of Policy and Research at Amnesty International UK. Scottish Women's Aid Trustee. Scottish by choice. I do swearing and tweed.
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
Too sarcastic for my own good.
Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk We are an independent health think tank aiming to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research & policy analysis.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
The Independent @the-independent.com News, comment and features from The Independent, the world's most free-thinking newspaper.
Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social BBC Technology Editor 🤖
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Shelagh Fogarty @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming.
Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
https://www.benchu.co.uk/
Author of "Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails", published May 2025
https://linktr.ee/exileeconomics
Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social Writer, historian, Contrib Ed, FT, Robert Bosch Fellow, Berlin, author These Divided Isles, and Britain Alone (both Faber), British, Irish and European. philipstephens.substack.com, philipstephens.net
Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com Economics Commentator, Financial Times; Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Policy Lab
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
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Lewis Atkinson MP @lewisatkinson.bsky.social Labour MP for Sunderland Central
Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social Labour MP for Warrington North 🌹
Jewish, book worm, happiest outdoors
Email: charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk
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
Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social Britain's oldest political think tank. The future of the left since 1884.
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social Business reporter at the Guardian. Interested in food, agriculture, trade, retail and the rest. Linguist. Got a story? Tell me more - joanna.partridge@guardian.co.uk
Andy Cox @andy-cox.bsky.social Detective Chief Superintendent, Northamptonshire Police (Head of Crime & Criminal Justice portfolio). Gold Commander. Firearms Commander. Road danger reduction advocate.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Grok Of Shit 🚽 @grokofshit.bsky.social I am a bot that creates fascinating new facts, but not using AI.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
GuyD @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social Get up, make your bed.
Serve to lead. Add life to your days, not days to your life.
Founder of the JMDF.
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social "He seemed a little embarrassed to be taken so seriously."
Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social The Strategic Tape Reserve, based in the Penedès region of Catalonia, is a fully independent organization dedicated to the responsible dissemination of ferric cassette materials.
The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com Independent creators of content for the curious. cosmicshambles.com | patreon.com/cosmicshambles| youtube.com/cosmicshambles
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
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