Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
POST | Aberdeen Culture @postabdn.com Celebrating Aberdeen's rich culture, creative community, and remarkable people.
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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social manipulative, over-emotional bitch
Casement’s Leftovers @casementsleftovers.bsky.social Not your mother’s Irish Socialist Republican podcast.
New eps on intermittent Thursdays.
Calton Books @calton-books.bsky.social The Best Wee Radical Book Shop in the World .
People’s Republic of Glesga
Luke Turner @luketurner.com artist // writer // defeated crypto billionaire-funded neo-Nazis in "the free speech trial of our age" // hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨
🔗 luketurner.com
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social Host of Tangible Vibe Shift
Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff.
internet weblog: https://edjefferson.com/blog
Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Kill the boy, and let the woman be born.
If I detatched your quote, it’s because you annoyed me but I didn’t want you to be dogpiled
(30 | trans | British | left-liberal | disabled | she/her)
https://backloggd.com/u/Julianna/
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Microplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social Delicious and healthy for you.
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social go to mastodon
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Sabot Media @sabot.media Your Friendly Local
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Mastodon kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312
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@OldUKPrintAdsXmas.bsky.social - Xmas ads, from Sept 16th
@OldInPrintAds.bsky.social - International ads (non-UK)
Lanyardian Jihad @dismalchips.bsky.social This is a place of honour. Highly-esteemed deeds are commemorated here.
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social Scholar of race, politics and performance. https://linktr.ee/tomsix
Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social Shamelessly HIV+ actor, writer, public speaker based in London.
Former CEO of aidsmap and Gay Men Fighting AIDS.
He/him. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🌍🌱
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
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I Know What You Did Last Shera @shera-marley.bsky.social andy murray statue agitator
when there's only one candidate, there's only one choice
Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social Well-meaning liability.
British (derogatory)
Sexual swear words are those of my employers.
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/samwhytebluesky
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social CND works to scrap Britain's nuclear weapons, campaigns for global nuclear disarmament, and promotes genuine peace and security for all. Support our work 👇
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social Political economist @ LSE, currently visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study | benjaminbraun.org
Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth wickedproblems.earth
Shar pei with opposable thumbs. Climate tech in the streets, crime fiction in the sheets. Around since 327 ppm. Writer, podcaster, strategist. GreenSky, EnergySky. MAGA delenda est. Pronouns: y’all/yer man
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU 
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Paul @katamaridumassy.bsky.social British leftist
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
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social Artist, researcher, exposing the corporate takeover of the UK via Special Economic Zones, Freeports, and AI Growth Zones. Green Party member. https://ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social “commsy wonk”
she/her 🏳️⚧️
Gareth Newnham @garethnewnham.bsky.social Freelance writer of things. Thoughts are mostly intrusive.
Muck here https://muckrack.com/gareth-newnham
wurk/ pr enquiries to g.newnham'at'wasduk.com
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
Richard @richd028.bsky.social 
Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social I've lost just what it takes to be honest | he/him
Mark Ames @markames.bsky.social Radio War Nerd patreon.com/radiowarnerd
Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social trying to enter the main stream and just kick back and relax baby
I am not from the USA.
he/him cishet
handsome autistic washed unc
Jude @judeinlondon.com Writer, Campaigner, Loudmouth. Please hire me I need to pay bills.
Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social But who is the dreamer
Stewart Smith @drstewartsmith.bsky.social Writer: jazz, improvised, experimental, Scotland & the avant-garde @ The Wire, Bandcamp, The Quietus, We Jazz, Guardian. Associate lecturer Newcastle University. Musician. He/him. 🇵🇸
Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social Professor of Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University. Joint General Editor, Public Law.
Douglas Murphy @entschwindet.bsky.social I spend my days in an architecture school
I've written some books
Chatting about music, culture, politics etc etc
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social Belfast, PGR Film Censorship 1932-1937. Interests: 1930s History, Film, Queer Activism. #AlwaysAntiFascist #NoBorders #NoPasaràn #ShutDownLarneHouse #LWithTheT My own views. she/her sí/í
Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social Boring nobody with obvious, common-sense views: communist, permaculture, LUFC, Wales. I enjoy to block. Probably ADHD. Impatient, angry.
Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social 25 | ✝️ 🏳️🌈
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social Poet and artist in triumphant distress • Reliquary archives a specialty • World's worst Catholic ❤️🔥 Problems merchant - international shipping
God stuff: allthehoursgodsends.wordpress.com
Strange essays & peculiar fiction:
natashakindred.co.uk
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
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
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
The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Libby @captainlibatron.bsky.social Ex parliament now runs a bar by the sea
Instagram same handle
Lesbian of the parish of Whitstable
Weird little guy
Quite deaf
She/her
Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social Trade union economist. Views my own, and not of some defunct economist.
Gordo! @posting.fan this guy are sick
Bob @bobappleyard.me reject states, markets and other gods
embrace your neighbours, your families, your futures
bi/pan he/him
Spyro the Antifascist Dragon @antifaspyro.bsky.social Living in the imperial slagheap known as Britain
They/Them
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social Broadcaster on Emblem Digital and Superdrug FM. Leader of Revorce. Hard centrist. Landlord ally. yarisandy@blueyonder.co.uk
RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social Sometime writer interested in
-Devolution and Celtic nationalism
-Empire and anti-colonialism
-International Relations
-Climate change and biodiversity
-Gàidhlig
-Palaeontology
All views are my own | he/him 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱
Renomed @renomed.bsky.social Has the BBC repeated something old and potentially interesting? I'll try and let you know. @edjefferson.com made me.
Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
ash (ᯟ︿ᯏ) ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 @reactiveashley.cat Cat furniture, cool auntie, and algorithmic witch. Digital rights, and IP law.
Personal account and talks about everything. I usually follow back if you reply or like my post.
Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social Polish-Scottish woman, Glasgow/Brussels. Lampshade. Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary. (she/elle/ona)
Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social South African in Scotland. Will probably post about politics/movies/tennis/rugby/gay nonsense.
https://letterboxd.com/JordanP/
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Guy De Launey @guydelauney.bsky.social Balkans Correspondent
📹 🎙 BBC, DW, CBC
🖋️ Monocle Magazine, The Observer, The New World
Presenter 🎙 Monocle Radio
Moderator ⚖ at large
Tadej Pogačar's mountain domestique
No Abba
https://monocle.com/contributors/guy-de-launey/
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social Brit living in Toronto. Politics, books, jazz, Doctor Who and many more 
Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social #ARTWank (A.C.A.B)/ DiskoTechno Co-Op (Binary School)/ Discrimination Free/Uncool 2013/Domestic Extremists 1991/ Anti Semites 2023/ Antifa terrorists 2025
Music - https://www.mixcloud.com/aberdeencityartsboard/
Art - https://arts-board-shop.bigcartel.com
𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @devononearth.bsky.social Themme Fatale. they/them.
Host of Kill James Bond Podcast/ Streams at https://scren.ch every monday and thursday!
Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social hello i am a podcast :)
https://praxiscast.podbean.com/
https://www.patreon.com/praxiscast/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Euan @euan.bsky.social ah to be young again! and also a robot
(he/him)
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social Wandering philosopher. Purveyor of Platonic heresy, Kantian computationalism, and Hegelian minimalism. (he/him/it which speaks)
https://deontologistics.substack.com/
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social Immigration lawyer & cat dad
Facts care about my feelings.
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Democratic Left Scotland @demleftscotland.bsky.social www.democratic-left.scot / Radical - Green - Feminist A non-party political organisation offering space for people to come together to discuss ideas & take action and progressive steps forward
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
stuart @stuartp.bsky.social do not explain anything to me
I am probably recycling content from the other place here
you can find me @punished_stu on elons paedo submarine