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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki 
Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social Freelance journalist living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine
BBC local radio freelance reporter, sometimes heard on LBC radio
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FIDE - North America @north.america.fidemocracy.org We advance Citizens’ Assemblies to collectively solve public problems and build trust between people and government
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social Scientist: physics, energy systems, maths | researcher @PIK_Climate | prev PhD physics @Cambridge_Uni | deliberation & sortition expert @SortitionNow | Website: philipp.verpoort.online
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social 🍏 Green MP for North Herefordshire and leader of the Green Party MP group in Parliament. Mum, activist, optimist!
Marcus Brigstocke @marcusbrig.bsky.social An absolute thundering great berk.
Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
Own views; Adult language
Rugby columnist, author & therapist
Trustee of charity Women in Sport.
Current affairs, culture, sport, & sarcasm
Pre-order The Second Half https://linktr.ee/TheSecondHalfBrianMoore 
Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy. Frazzled mom. Owner of 2 🐕🦺
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social Mediamedia comms boss, Quiet Riot podcast bod, media trainer, PR adviser ... you'll find me anywhere I can play with words and pictures. Cars, whisky, mountains, cats also welcome
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social ✏️ Comics writer and artist
🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD!
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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social Minnesotan. Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica. Previous bylines at ExtremeTech, Android Police, Wirecutter, NY Times, PC World, HotHardware, Android Authority, and more.
Sortition Foundation @sortitionnow.bsky.social Sign the petition: www.858.org.uk/house-of-citizens-petition
It's been over 858 years since King Henry II introduced juries.
Finish the job: Replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens.
www.858.org.uk
www.sortitionfoundation.org
Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net Resist Rebel Revolt! Anti-Fascist. Author. Philosopher. Dog-Mom. Utilitarian Democrat. Existential Activist.
https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
Organized 3 Abortion Marches
Past President of Women's Non-Profit
Past Secretary of LGBTQIA Org
@tseofpb.bsky.social @tseofpb.bsky.social Deputy editor of politicalbetting.com, I like politics, and I like to bet,
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social Tyrants are my enemies | Si vis pacem para bellum |🇩🇪🇪🇺| Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen |Military & History
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Thomas House @tah-sci.com Professor of Mathematical Sciences, working mainly on epidemiology although partial to a bit of non-commutative algebra, social science and basic biology.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com Developer of Internet protocols, especially cryptography.
Builder of daleks.
Woke Pride
Aurich | 𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍 @aurich.bsky.social Creative director for Ars Technica. Graphic designer. Maker of things. Candy cab gang. Hella cats. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally. He/Him
𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍 𝕬𝖗𝖈𝖆𝖉𝖊
Rocky Linux @rockylinux.org Rocky Linux is a community-driven Enterprise Linux distribution, for HPC, AltArch, and beyond. | 🐘 @rockylinux@fosstodon.org | 🏛️ @resf.org
Linux Matters @linuxmatters.sh Linux Matters Podcast 🐧 https://linuxmatters.sh
All the Linux Matters that matter, with your hosts:
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Hannah Rose 🏔️🌲✨ @wildrosemage.bsky.social Professional nerd • Cofounder & Editor-in-Chief at Wildmage Press • Other work includes: Worlds Beyond Number, Dimension 20, Wizards of the Coast, MCDM, Darrington Press, Critical Role • Game designer, editor, art director, druid enthusiast • she/her
Elizabet Oliveira @elizabet.dev A designer who codes aka Design Engineer @clickhouse.com
Open Sourcerer. Retired rapper.
elizabet.dev
Matt Parker @standupmaths.bsky.social That maths guy from the internet.
Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org Developers fighting self-serving restrictions imposed on the web by tech giants.
Help us end #AppleBrowserBan & make web apps 1st-class. https://open-web-advocacy.org
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org Builds stuff for computers, advises other people how to do so, plays PBP D&D, makes the occasional solo game, eats sandwiches. Part of Open Web Advocacy. Runner of the Critical Role transcript search. In the People’s Republic of Brum. https://kryogenix.org
Martin Wimpress @wimpys.world Long-time #Linux user, developer, and community builder 🐧 Flake wrangler ️❄️ Maker 🪛 Aspiring game developer ️🕹️ Linux Matters podcast presenter ️🎙️
Alan Pope @popey.me Developer Relations at Tessl
Podcaster on @linuxmatters.sh
Previously at Anchore, Orcro, Axiom, Canonical.
Calum @calumah.bsky.social AI @ UNDP | Previously Global Digital Advisor, UNDP | Churchill and CSaP Fellow | Data + digital in development and govt | Posts my own. Likes = for me to read later.
Sniff the air @snifftheair.bsky.social For unclogged streets, fewer fumes, and healthier happier people. Not affiliated. 
National Grid @nationalgrid.bsky.social Connecting millions of people to the energy they use every day, while seeking ways to make the energy system clean, fair and affordable.
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
Nigel Smith @nigelsmith.org 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 Technology, politics, and culture; working with ML and AI in maritime software - currently using Elixir, Kotlin, Python and friends to solve problems
inkle @inkle.co Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink; home of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope podcast..
Games: TR-49, A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery, and Pendragon.
🔗 inkle.co
Maf’j Alvarez @limbicfish.bsky.social UK-based visual artist, UX designer, and creative technologist from Brighton. I produce poetic VR works in Unity3D at Root Interactive and founder of Inkibit Immersive.
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things. 
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social #BehaviouralScience, Professor of Health Psychology, University College London. Director of Centre for Behaviour Change https://www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/centre-behaviour-change (also on BlueSky). Research on health, environment & AI potential.
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Liz Fearon @lizfearon.bsky.social Associate Professor in infectious disease epidemiology at UCL. Interested in transmission dynamics, health equity, networks, HIV, sexual health, epidemic response.
Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social CEO / Founder of https://textualize.io Hyperborean Python expert, author, humanist, husband, sometimes wildlife photographer. Carbonara aficionado. He/him. 
Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me Pythonista & PSF fellow 🐍🏆, Gopher 🐹, blogger 📝, speaker 📢, YouTuber 📺. ❤️ nuance & outcomes, 🗣️🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸
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• https://www.youtube.com/@The_Hynek
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Trey Hunner @trey.io Python & Django team trainer
I help folks sharpen their Python skills with https://PythonMorsels.com 🐍🍪
I also blog at https://treyhunner.com & run https://Whereabouts.Earth
PSF Fellow. YIMBY. 95% vegan.
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Lynn Root @roguelynn.com Staff Engineer / ML infra @ Spotify. Adjunct Professor @ Columbia. Chair of PyLadies Global Council. PSF and DSF member.
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• mastodon.online/@roguelynn
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Ned Batchelder @nedbat.com Python, Boston, mathy fun, juggling, autism parenting. https://nedbat.com
Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social Cat owner, Release Manager for Python 3.12 and 3.13, Meta employee, Python Steering Council member. (He/him or they/them.) Primarily on Mastodon: @Yhg1s@social.coop.
Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social Symmathecist, in the medium of code.
Software, systems thinking, observability, process philosophy, enactivism. She/her
Python Bytes @pythonbytes.fm A Python podcast covering recent developer headlines. Hosted by @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social. Listen to all the episodes and subscribe at https://pythonbytes.fm/
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Glyph @glyph.im Gender: he/him
Writer: https://glyph.im/
Programmer: https://github.com/glyph/
Maintainer, Founder: https://twisted.org/
Streamer […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@glyph, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ned Letcher @ned.sh Data science, AI/ML, analytics, visualisation. Naarm/Melbourne @thoughtworks, #dataBS, #Python, #NLP, #DuckDB, & assorted whimsical miscellania
Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com Writes at daniel.feldroy.com
Use to work for NASA and kraken.tech 🌎
Co-Author of Two Scoops of Django 📚
Husband of Audrey Roy Greenfeld https://bsky.app/profile/audreyfeldroy.bsky.social 🍪
Father of Uma 🧸
Russell Keith-Magee @freakboy3742.bsky.social Not really here. Just ensuring that my handle isn't squatted.
🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social Lead Software Engineer, Author
testandcode.org
leantdd.com
pytest courses: courses.pythontest.com
#Python #pytest
Jim Salter @jimsalter.bsky.social I'm the Jim Salter that writes about Linux, FreeBSD, ZFS, Wi-Fi, and so forth. You may've seen my stuff at Ars Technica, Wirecutter, Smallnetbuilder (RIP) or wherever there's nerdery afoot. Much more active at: https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter
The Housing Forum @housingforum.org.uk A Quality Home For All -
The cross-sector, public & private #ukhousing industry membership body representing 150+ organisations.
RT ≠ endorsement
https://housingforum.org.uk/
Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social Founder of Trade and Borders. Customs and Trade Facilitation. Brexit veteran
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
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.
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Natalie Martin @drnataliemartin.bsky.social Ex-BBC, now @NottsPolitics. Democracy and security inc. disordered information in TR, GB and EU. Journalism is NOT a crime. “Her yer Taksim, her yer direniş"
RTs not endorsement https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/natalie.martin1
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social Solar and clean power analyst at BloombergNEF, goose keeper. Author of a book, "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon". Opinions all my own.