Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
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Michael Clark @clarkmichael.bsky.social “May the gloss in Ross be a good gloss”
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social Freelance food & drink writer and photographer • founder @pelliclemag.com • columnist at The Mill, Ferment, What’s Brewing & lots more.📍Stockport
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
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Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
David J Court @davidjcourt.bsky.social Author/Software Developer/Husband, passable at 2 out of 3. Cov Kid, freelance writer for Ginger Nuts of Horror, presenter at NoiseBoxRadioUK, ex Slash film. RPG'er, gamer, poet, playwright, voice actor (+ official silly old weasel).
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
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NationCymru @nation.cymru News • Politics • Culture • Sports 🏴 By the people of Wales, for the people of Wales http://Nation.Cymru
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social British news without the spin. The Daily Britain delivers straight-talking headlines, sharp opinions, and stories that keep the nation informed and unfiltered.
CheapShow @cheapshow.bsky.social A weekly madcap, surreal and sometimes scatological podcast celebrating the fun in the frugal and looking for the treasure amongst the trash!
Hosted by Paul Gannon & Eli Silverman
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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social A podcast guiding you through the UK TV we watched in decades gone by
A STATE PENSIONER @statepensioner.bsky.social If you're under 60, fuck off.
EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social Once a Beatles podcast. Now a jaunty stroll through 1960s music magazines with a pot pourri of delicious guests. (But probably mostly a Beatles podcast to be honest)
Hosted by @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him. https://sites.google.com/site/aidanmcglynn
The Crazy World of Arthur Brownlow @wazzock.eurosky.social Here because there's nowhere else to go now. And you know what? I'm rather enjoying it. See pinned post regarding what makes me tick and if you're going to follow me, POST SOMETHING!
Follow farmers and "Gazan" bots can GTF.
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social Ex-medical student
Petit Pied @petitpieddessin.bsky.social ✏️Auteur de BD
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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social Writes, talks, listens, reads. Not always in that order.
Writer for BBC, Big Finish, Obverse Books, RiffTrax, Jim French's Imagination Theatre and money.
Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social 📊🗺🗳 Poll aggregation and election analysis in Europe #EP2029
📧 contact@europeelects.eu
Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social 
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Timmy Mallett @timmymallett.bsky.social Utterly Brilliant itsy bitsy entertainer, artist, adventurer, cyclist, TV, radio. Colourful. Easily spotted! Find me here https://linktr.ee/timmymallett
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
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Columnist at The Guardian.
Rachel Sullivan @sullivanhealth.bsky.social 🔹OT and Health Consultant
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🔹Learning Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health cheerleader
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Chicago Tafia Welsh Society @chicagotafia.bsky.social Cheeky immigrant Welsh group, join us for rugby, bands, and whatever else we are up too in the Windy City and beyond.
#ChicagoWelshHistory #WelshHistoryUSA #Cymru #Wales #ChicagoWelsh
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Saint Vespaluus @saint-vespaluus.bsky.social Cambridge alumnus; vegetarian; voracious reader; humanist; Spoken Word artist and Everton fan!
The Chaser @chaser.com.au By reading these tweets you agree to grant us power of attorney. Way more content over at chaser.com.au
Everyone’s Favourite Jim @jimmeruk.bsky.social Jack of all trades in digital media, creative, wannabe author, owner of a small human. I sometimes stream my bird feeder. http://linktr.ee/jimmeruk
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
b3ta @b3ta.com Funny, original pics & projects made by the B3ta community & weekly newsletter. Sub to newsletter: https://b3ta.com/subscribe/
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Blouse @superblouse.bsky.social Queen of parallel parking
ZXVintage @zxvintage.bsky.social A wave of ZX Spectrum magazine nostalgia.
Metadata from the ZXDB database, which is mostly-accurate but expect oddities.
Completely unofficial!
Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social The Drinking Studies Network is an interdisciplinary and international research group that connects scholars working on drink and drinking cultures. We are free to join and welcome all. More info at https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/
Mr Scarymole @scarymole.bsky.social Not (very) scary and not a mole. A Londoner living in Shropshire, who puts stuff onto your telly
Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social Berk
Katie Dancey-Downs @katiedd.bsky.social Freelance writer & journalist on freedoms, the planet and culture at BBC News, New Internationalist, Resurgence, the Independent, i News, Eurovision & others | Ex-deputy editor @IndexCensorship | She/her
www.katiedancey.co.uk
Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. Lives in Glasgow. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org
33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social Short books about legendary albums and music genres. 📚 🎶 Published by Bloomsbury.
Explore the 33 1/3 hub! ⬇️
www.bloomsbury.com/33-13-hub
Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk I’m a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, music, cricket, London - was @phowax on Twitter
Involved with @hopeful.technology
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Need a secure way to contact me? Signal username: word_builder.20
Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social Edited 24 editions of CAMRA Good Beer Guide. Founder British Guild of Beer Writers. Twice winner Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year. 20 plus books including Family Brewers of Britain. West Ham fan
protzonbeer.co.uk
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social Welsh-Kiwi Japanese translator, chanoyu practitioner & host to a timeshare cat. Memorial Device ANT
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Radical Left Congestion Pricing Jihadists.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social Still writing Stuff for Things.
interestingmedia.blog
Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk Broadcast engineer
Creator of https://nmsceefax.co.uk
(predates & not associated with employment)
ENQUIRIES EMAIL info@nmsni.co.uk
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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com We’re your favourite ~award winning~ independent drinks, pubs and food magazine/podcast. The joy is the point.
Reader supported, proudly free to read.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social Author & photographer Luke Agbaimoni's project capturing stations & stops on the London Underground tube map.
Tubemapper.com
💰 Book,Prints & Calendars
✉ luke@tubemapper.com
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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
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social Creator of the Sturdy Wheelbarrows podcast and the grandson who continues to be persecuted for wearing jean shorts to his grandad's funeral :(
catsinfrance @catsinfrance.bsky.social NW France. Cats. Sewing. Sci-fi. Pro EU. Anti-Tory & the far-right. Anti-Brexit. Irish/British dual national loving life in France.
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social The official podcast account. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
https://500songs.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey
Merch: https://500-songs.teemill.com
Simon Ward @drrubberfunk.eurosky.social Musician. Make music & play records as Dr Rubberfunk. Occasional co-producer of Olympic Cyclone Band. Founder member of Mr Güder.
‘Ectopic Beats Vol.1’ out now on Limited Edition Cassette.
https://linktr.ee/drrubberfunk
https://drrubberfunk.bandcamp.com
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social Not actually a Pussy-Owl.
Ian King @twoht.bsky.social Podcaster, (association) football writer, copywriter, $ubstacker. Writer for Football League World, also seen on Fotmob, When Saturday Comes. Come on in, the takes are *toasty*. London-born, Sussex based. He/him.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
XTC Listening Party @xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Account created for the 2026 monthly XTC (and The Dukes of Stratosphear) Listening Parties. Run by @mealygarage.bsky.social. #XTCmusic
Next Listening Party: SKYLARKING on Wed 26 Aug @ 9 PM (BST)
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social Low Quality Facts written in arguably lower quality handwriting.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Paul Cuff @cuff76.bsky.social Member of the reality based community. And yet also a Bristol Rovers fan.
Nick S @holgate.permanent.red I am so tired of writing profiles / june carter cash appreciator / late night music nostalgist / my only remaining talent is in finding stuff on the wayback machine
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social Wit, raconteur, bon viveur. He is none of these things. A purveyor of cheap mummery and piffle since 1976. Throws random words at a screen for Set The Tape. Bluesky’s foremost Biggles: Adventures In Time aficionado.
Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social Cartographer, full-time north-easterner, SAFC, James the Band, Doctor Who, old telly, beer, football etc. Chairman of a football club, no really. Has a knackered back.
A walking corpse that won’t play dead.
Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social so hard to photograph but
incredible to see
DFT @dftpnk02.bsky.social hack the planet
Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social Waffle man
🍀🍀🍀
Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social It’s all pop records and cats round here.
Mariaje Pérez @mariajeperez.eurosky.social From Spain with love since 1997. | Posting about music, retro TV, Linux and other topics I find interesting. | Posts (mostly) in 🇪🇸 and 🇬🇧. | No bots, no politics, no crypto stuff. | Banner created by @kecskebak.bsky.social
Dan McPainInOneSpecificKnee @danmckee.bsky.social HALF NAKED, GIN IN HAND AND CORONATION STREET LOOMING ON THE HORIZON.
AJRed @ajred.bsky.social Gentleman slacker. #TOTP botherer. Public service shitposting.
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) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social The world is bad enough as it is, and you have no right to make it any worse.
Queen of tarts.
Mostly communicating in memes, because my brain is shit.
Rob Corp @robcorp.bsky.social I’m a journalist, because as Terry Pratchett said, it’s indoor work with no heavy lifting
Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk From (in order of height): The Cuban Boys, Rikki & Daz, Eurovision 2006, Spray, Helen Love, Pound Shop Boys amongst others.
ALFsplaining: @alfsplaining.bsky.social
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg0GIhxvZitldPsZKvgmbIylxanx9rLP1&si=b7B6AM8jfRI_Xar6