Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social Feminist, Europeanist, political sociologist. Associate Professor at University of Birmingham.
#transrightsarehumanrights
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.
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social Irish Green socialist with a penchant for heavy metal, video games, horror movies and glorious silly nonsense.
Please don't repost twitter or government propaganda onto my timeline.
Mutes 'USA Vs Brit food debaters'.
No one cares, get a new bit.
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 Historian, feminist, academic (UCD) - #EYA Ambassador 2024-25 / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
James Walker @jameslwalker.bsky.social Political Reporter at The National | Other words and work with The Economist, France TV and Vice among others | Columbia Journalism alum
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
paul @ptfen.bsky.social white cishet middle class dad
🇵🇸 free palestine 🇱🇧 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
profile image: Jesper Olsen of Manchester United in 1984/85.
banner image: Eric Cantona ("The Ratio") kicks Matthew Simmons ("You")
https://upscrolled.com/@ptfen
@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social
Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social I wear an orange hoodie while laughing. Known to make replies go viral.
No way out of the billagarchy without torching 🔥
Give Resources to MN 🦾
Ill-treat transphobes 🏳️⚧️
📺 In Plain Sight 📺 The Riches 📺 The Shield 📺 The OC 📺 Bones
🎥 Something’s Gotta Give
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Robyn B @greenpepperz.bsky.social They/Them, Pokémon Nerd and Judge, 31
Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Author of: "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social Professor of European Prehistory (Rankin) Vice President, The Prehistoric Society
Archaeologist • digs hillforts, Celts • writes disciplinary history • resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Trauma-informed. Survivor focused. Relentless.
Breaking News and Politics
Substack: amberspeaksup100
Support: ko-fi.com/amberspeaksup
No DMs.
Signal tips, leads: amberspeaks.47
Upscrolled: AmberSpeaksUp
Leif Боднарчук 🍁 🇺🇦 @leifb73.eurosky.social Belfast & Larne via Toronto 🍁 Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Professional guitar technician. 🏍️ 🛠️
ADHD, smidge autistic.
He/him
David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social Anarchic history, queer defiance, cooking and — of course — fighting city hall.
@avlblade.bsky.social, @transnews.network Writer/journalist/editor. Eldritch trans dyke. She/They🏴🚩
Writing at:
patreon.com/DavidForbes
ashevilleblade.com
katie @supermathskid.bsky.social still not a real question
whatever my latest is: www.iflscience.com/dr-katie-spalding
Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social Psychotherapist | Dubliner | animal lover | lesbian | queer feminist | “Seems like the kind of person who carries hand sanitizer”
#SpéirGhorm
She/They 🏳️🌈
it's Lazzie B! once again!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social Designer & Audio Director at @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social: Roman Sands, Paratopic. Dread Delusion💀 ADHD! NSFW maybe!
Sound design, music, design.
Transfeminist illegal girl. She/Her
https://linktr.ee/lazzie_b
Wishlist RoSa here! http://bit.ly/3AcBy9G
Máirtín Mac @martymac25.bsky.social Béal Feirste
Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social “commsy wonk”
a little policy detail, as a treat
she/her 🏳️⚧️
Reclaim the Agenda @reclaimtheagenda.bsky.social Feminist collective that campaigns around 6 key themes; poverty, discrimination, domestic and sexual violence, healthcare, childcare, & equal representation.
https://www.reclaimtheagenda.com/
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth!
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Lush @lush.com We believe in safer socials, kinder communities and Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. 🫧
Leaving the world Lusher than we found it.
Customer care: lush.com
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social I take my cats on walks, work on housing, social inequalities and queering social policy, take action where I can, and knit socks.
📍Edinburgh
Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ @grayfaceghost.bsky.social Trans pan autistic woman socialist coder martial artist priest and anti-fash.
My existence isn't something to be two-sidesed. Labour supporters or other fash, DNI - you won't like what happens.
She/her
Fediverse: @grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
Concerned Person @concerned-person.bsky.social
ClaireHam @claireham.bsky.social I’m a woman with a PhD who has never hurt anyone and who just wants to live her life in peace, but unfortunately the UK Government has decided to persecute me, along with my siblings because we’re trans. I will not assist in my own segregation! 🏳️⚧️
Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org Working to change society and create a safer future for trans folk in Edinburgh and beyond.
https://rtie.org/
How to be trans-inclusive in 2026:
https://rtie.org/2026/06/04/staying-trans-inclusive-as-a-service-provider/
Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Cool Zone Media is a podcast network that doesn’t mince words: we are living through the collapse of the known, and the birth of a new unknown.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
Deborah Frances-White @dfdubz.bsky.social Writer, comedian, speaker. Host of The Guilty Feminist Podcast. New book - Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have out from Virago in 2025 Play - Never Have I Ever at Melbourne Theatre Company & Black Swan State Theatre Company W.A. 2025
The Guilty Feminist @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social Award winning comedy podcast on our noble goals as feminists & our hypocrisies & insecurities which undermine them from Deborah Frances-White
Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social Green Party member, used to be a councillor in Trafford. Teaching assistant in a primary school, and NEU member. My own views. He/him.
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
he/him
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home.
Hazell Dean @hazelldean.bsky.social
Officially The Queen of Hi-NRG 💗 #RetiredAndFabulous
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
www.hazelldean.com
Oisín 🚩 @oisinofthehill.bsky.social Museum Worker, Marxist
Belfast / Fermanagh
Trad singing and Tabletop RPGs
Ecology without class struggle is just gardening
he/him/yerman
Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social #Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Ray Verschoyle @rayverschoyle.bsky.social The Arsenal
Alex @alexical.bsky.social Software/DevOps in the public sector. Non-binary trans (they/them).
Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social Lecturer in Human Rights Law at University of Manchester
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social
Ken Foxe @kenfoxe.bsky.social Author of Shining a Light: Information Access in Ireland | A practical guide to using FOI | http://kenfoxe.com
Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Prof of European Public Health LSHTM
Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy
Member Independent SAGE
Past President BMA & EUPHA
Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social Deputy Leader, Green Party of England & Wales. co-leader of Wealden District Council, Sussex. Spokesperson: Culture, Sport & Digital Inclusion. Founder of Birds Eye View int'l women's film festival. Friends of River Medway. Ashdown Forest conservator.
🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com I am a carnival mirror reflecting the world
you can tell I’m trans by how I post
Bold New Mancunian Future @dismalchips.bsky.social This is a place of honour. Highly-esteemed deeds are commemorated here.
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Iris Duane MSP 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @irisduane.bsky.social Green MSP for the Glasgow Region 💚
Socialist, feminist and trade unionist ✊🏾
Let’s make hope normal again!
she/her/hers
Views my own 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). LGBT+ rep for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social Tom Carter has been the source of a wealth of material & insight [on Leonard Leo] - Gareth Gore
Much of what we know about Leonard Leo is through the work of Tom Carter - Lisa Graves
Tom follows Leo the way other people follow the Mets - Greg Olear
Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social "The shitposting will escalate as the deadline encroaches"
Internet Governance, Tech Policy & Human Rights
Researcher & Analyst with @edmoireland.bsky.social
Would honestly rather be talking about movies.
(He/Him)
@fleask.bsky.social @fleask.bsky.social She/her
Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social The Barbara Woodhouse of llamas. Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com
BuxtonGooner @buxtongooner.bsky.social All astronauts are wankers
Ben Smylie @bensmylie.bsky.social Amateur human, ADHD, and a bit spoony. I could fill a book with what I can't fit in this box. I wonder has that been done before
Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social "noted Joel Dommett enjoyer" - @fuunsaiki.bsky.social (he/him)
Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social Scottish Green Party MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Contact me on kate.nevens.msp@parliament.scot
Content promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Kate Nevens, both at 19b Graham Street, Ed, EH6 5QN
Andrew Adam @andrewadam.bsky.social He/him, pragmatic radical. Opinions my own, likes ≠ endorsements. Scottish Greens candidate for Mid Scotland & Fife, 2026.
Promoted by Pete Morrison on behalf of Andrew Adam, both c/o Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN.
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social ⚧
Wife to @anneb
Mum to Bowie
🚀engineer, console engineer,
lousy musician, student. she/hers
Opinions my own.
Ex-pat Floridian. Newly minted Chicagoan.
Yes, I launched Artemis 1. And Artemis II
Well, helped launch it.
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
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
Aida @aidap.bsky.social Your local angry transmom and a former Bristolian. Now a girl of Valencia 🥳
I usually follow back if you've engaged with my shitposting, more so if you are trans or trans adjacent :P
https://www.instagram.com/aidaa.paul/
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Germander Speedwell @germanderspeedwell.bsky.social Gatherer of lost knowledge
Explorer of Thames foreshores
Assembler of obscure collections
And observer of flora and fauna.
London, England
www.germanderspeedwell.org.uk
No direct messages sorry - I can't access them; please email me (see my website).
@jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social Am I doing this right?
Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Queensland.
Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social She/Her/Elle 🇫🇷
I will NOT have my life defined by other people’s hate; not by the government, not by the NHS, and DEFINITELY not by the courts, or the EHRC.
Bucket list:
1. Move to a beach.
2. Have no regrets. ✅
3. Drive a Land Rover. ✅
Sam Woodcock @samwoodcock.eurosky.social | Husband | Father of 2 boys | #MUFC | Crusaders | Northern Ireland | Dyslexic | Rugby |
Shel 🏳️⚧️ @shel56.bsky.social Retired genius playgirl, missing the lots of money bit. Confident, single, pan & looking. Considered an elder at 66 these days & 26y transition, although my mind is stuck at 25, my bodily particles misbehave. 🏳️⚧️ 🏴☠️ UK
Nicola 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social If someone tries to rain on your parade, poke them in the eye with your umbrella.
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space Professor Bimbo, Astronomer, #SFF Author.
She/They, Trans, Poly, Queer, ADHD.
Repped by Liverpool Literary Agency.
THE POTENT SOLUTION, my debut fantasy novel, IS OUT NOW!!!
Linktr.ee/drashleynova
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/ashleynova
Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social Scots expat in 🇮🇸. Former record store geek. DJ & host at Repeater Radio. Dilletante Doctoral researcher of esotericism/occultism, technology and /acc. skeets full of spelling errors, BUT I WILL NEVER DELETE THEM.
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social Trans humanist
https://screedvault.neocities.org/
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
@keith-dover.bsky.social @keith-dover.bsky.social
Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social ✍️ Journalist (Belfast Telegraph)
☘️ Gaeilgeoir
🔵🟡 Hurler (Rasharkin GAC)
📩 liam.tunney@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
🏛️ Omagh coverage: https://linktr.ee/liamtunney3
Aidan @bigforg.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida.