The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social 🏴🇪🇺 When the people of Scotland have no democratic route to achieving Scottish independence ,then this is not a union, it’s a british Prison🇬🇧
🏴🍀🇮🇪🇪🇺
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
dog botherer @dogbotherer.bsky.social it ain’t what is not til it isn’t what it ain’t not
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social Human rights geek | 'might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' |
ProperNeko @properz.bsky.social Saved by my Imagination
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/
@mad4fev.bsky.social @mad4fev.bsky.social 
nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social “Special engagements or first-class companies only”
Sometimes engineers, sometimes DJs, irregularly bakes stuff
Back in Scotland 🏴 the long way round
Will discuss anything with anyone so long we all play nicely
#jazzsky #scotsky
🏴 🇮🇹 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺
Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social Artist and stuff
b3ta @b3ta.com Funny, original pics & projects made by the B3ta community & weekly newsletter. Sub to newsletter: https://b3ta.com/subscribe/
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Mairead Fearsithe @scottishprincess.bsky.social I make things and sell them.
Fierce supporter of Scottish independence and rejoining the EU.
One of those damned #50swomen.
Proud to be woke. Just be a nice person. RLS
Not a fan of Trump, Musk or MAGA.
Trying to learn Finnish and Scottish Gaelic.
Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.eurosky.social Cork, Ireland based.
We're not related.
Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social Recently retired Primary Teacher in 🏴 teaching since 2009 in a wide range of roles & schools. Hoping to make you smile, increase your positivity & find your focus.
Often answers to Sarah, Mum or coffee
My views.
#EduSky #ScotEdu #UKEdu #EduSkyPrimary
Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
*Music Therapist in forensic
mental health services
*Absolute Shower
📍Kent, UK.
Recordings of experimental improvised music:
https://sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com
When nothing goes right, go left.
Join a union.
@sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social Journalist & Presenter | 📻 Formerly LBC ‘Sangita Myska 1-4pm Weekends ’, BBC @Radio4 Documentaries & 📺@BBCNews TV | @JSchofieldTrust | RTs not an endorsement
Margaret @kismuil.bsky.social Scottish granny. Long time SNP supporters. Want what's best for the grandbairns. Big Snoopy fan. No DMs please. 🏴🏴🏴
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social Filmmaker and consumer activist. Life‘s work archived by US Library of Congress. transgendermap.com / andreajames.com
National Yes Network @nationalyesnetwork.eurosky.social A party-neutral body connecting Scotland's independence network. Working with Yes groups across Scotland for an independent Scotland in Europe.
Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social Sincerely Anonymous • Open mind • Robust disputation • Politics/History/Economics/Art/Sociology/Human Rights • Gaeilge nó Béarla • Éire💡🕊️
📕📖📚 Read the essays:
🔗 https://forlouth.medium.com
Kevin (Des) @jambodes.bsky.social The internet was like this when I found it*, and you can't prove otherwise.
*Maybe not that bit.
🇱🇻⚽ #HMFC ⚽🇱🇻 |
🐯 #Bengals 🐯 | #RunningPunks |
✊🏾♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷💙✊🏻 |
⬛🟥 Antifa ⬛🟥 |
💚💚 Green Menace 💚💚 |
He/Him | Just be nice, OK
Woodbrooke @woodbrooke.bsky.social Woodbrooke provides opportunities for Quaker learning, research and worship across the world - offering adult education since 1903.
www.woodbrooke.org.uk
Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist and professional nerd. Asst Prof, University of Alaska Anchorage.
queer af, they/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️
jfmclaughlin.org
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
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
Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social Very left republican socialist, No longer party affiliated, Believes in an Independent Scotland🏴 A unified Ireland & Solidarity with Palestine . Disability advocate, Celtic/Liverpool #YNWA
One time chef to the stars, Refused a job with G. Ramsay
@siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social NHS Doctor (1983-2019). Aspiring Eco - Warrior/poet/singer-MDANT 🏅
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
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Brookie Shields 🏳️⚧️ @j3zz-g.bsky.social Biological trans woman
"Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible." -Monique Wittig
Scarlett Freya Starck @scarlettfreya.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️⚧ Green fingered Orchid Witch 💚 Yoga / Gym 🐰, Fox mum 🦊💕, Cook, Sister to many ❤️ Star Wars Fan obs 😂, She / Her. Straight / Queer / Pan.. oh i don’t know its complicated 🏳️🌈
VAMO
Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social First we mock them, then we gang up on them, then we fight them, then we win
Every Day is Midgley Day
Gemma 🌸 she/her @gemma71.bsky.social Living in Scotland 🏴
Quietly becoming the woman who was there all along. 🏳️⚧️
Learning that softness can be strength and letting things land.💋
Accounts sending unsolicited DMs will be blocked 🚫
Morna @morna6.bsky.social Queen of Ireland, only Wikipedia keeps deleting my amazing history of great achievements...they should be deported.
Sorry, I don't do DMs. In fact, they're deleted immediately, unread. 🌊
Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry.
Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism.
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional 💜🤍💚
Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist.
She/her.- K Kirsty Blackman @kirstysnp.bsky.social SNP MP for Aberdeen SNP Chief Whip. Gamer. Aberdonian to my core. she/her 🏳️⚧️ kirsty.blackman.mp@parliament.uk for casework
Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social Sitting on the sidelines is for Waldorf and Statler. Promoted by Tim Dexter on behalf of Labour both at 23 Orford Rd E17 9NL.
Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social Dr. Awkward, Prof. of Pedantics at Wokeborough University
https://www.thetranslobby.com/
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social Commercial Airline Captain 😎
#Democrat 💙 #BlueCrew 💙 #BlueResisters 💙 #AntiAIPAC 🧐 #Feminist♀️ #LGBTAlly 🏳️🌈 #TransAlly 🏳️⚧️
#ProChoice 🤔 #Green ♻️ #3E ✊️ #Gamer 🎮
#GoodTroubleSquadron 🛩️
American in London 💂
USA & UK politics
No DMs (Auto deleted) 🚫
Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social Londoner interested in politics and reproductive justice. Fan of #QuietRiot
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Helen @helenm40.bsky.social UK cisgender feminist. Fuck TERFs and transphobia.
Haley @haleyel.bsky.social they/she
💚 Val she/her 🏴🏳️⚧️🇪🇭 @scribblingval.bsky.social Published poet. Lefty supporter of Scottish independence, trans rights, Palestine. Ungagged. Anti fash. Fiddler. ****No DMs! Immediate block***. Animals 🥰. Ultra woke, be warned
Ian the socialist @ianmcewan.bsky.social Ex coalminer, politics,socialist, save the NHS, hate animal cruelty, love history, art, choose peace not war, ✊ join a union, Northumberland, England. No Dm, retweet are not always endorsements. don't know if I will go to heaven, I'm scared of heights.😁
Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social Glaswegian (born in Campbeltown)
SociableLoner: MusicLover: PeaceWithin: Socialist: ScottishIndependence🏴ChildProtection: Philosophy: TheArts: Politics: AnimalLover: Nature: MentalHealth: UBI
Away wi’ the Faeries 🧚
NO DM’s
NO BITCOIN
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Classic & Sports Car @candscmagazine.bsky.social Britain’s best-selling classic car magazine, founded in 1982
Mr. Elias @theeliasrework.bsky.social Thanks for your support. Vote.org
Register to Vote https://vote.gov/
🏳️🌈 QAF
Retired M.A./Nurse 15yrs
Remixer/Producer/singer 25yrs+
Yes that Señor e LIAS
https://soundcloud.com/the-elias-rework
Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social Perpetually bemused | Occasionally amused | They/them | 🏳️⚧️🇩🇪🇪🇺
Vagina Coastguard 🏴 @intergeri.bsky.social Scottish, female, LGBTQ ally. Equal rights for ALL. Huge horror fan. Work for the NHS due to crimes committed in a former life. Lived in Edinburgh my whole life.
TIP: I swear a lot.
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
His Royal Huwness 🏴🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social Author(struggling), HUWmourist, poet
Some of my work at huwmilitypress.wordpress.com
With Marx(Groucho) on clubs & Isms
Ex: butter juggler, physicist, systems analyst
Future: ?
Working class
No Bitcoins, Sex, Fascists
NEVER AGAIN
Don't follow I'm lost
CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social Astronomer, science communicator, over-thinker extraordinaire. @AucklandUni space person @AucklandSpace. Autoimmune illness. 🇳🇿🇺🇸
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
Stephanie Lynnette @stephanielynnette.bsky.social #maycontaintransfats
Trans+ Healthcare Worker | LGBTQ+ Activist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Event/Project Manager - London Trans+ Pride
Founder/Director - Ask Awareness
enquiries@stephanielynnette.co.uk
c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge..."
(from the film 'Serenity', 2005)
JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social Historical Fiction author writing about the medieval period. I love Scotland and its fight for independence. Also hiking, gardening, and my Westie. (I do not accept messages in Chat) You can join my mailing list and receive a free novel at @jrtomlin.com.
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
+ blogger.com/profile/02224647895500543757
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Adrian 🌎☮️ @glassonion1.bsky.social Ex Green party member
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk
https://friendsoftheearth.uk
https://suttacentral.net
https://earthjustice.org/
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
Ken Shirriff @righto.com Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social Playing video games since 1976.
Writing about them since 1983.
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Claudia Tyler-Mae @claudiatmuk.bsky.social Sparkling somewhere on the trans-spectrum.
Supportive, but cynical. Prone to hyper-fixation, impractical adventures and spending years hiding under the duvet.
Only interested in people who get it, not people who want it.
Bridie Macdonald @bridiemacdonald.bsky.social I make stuff (images, words, things). Magic is everywhere. Curiosity leads to great treasures. Yes to collaboration rather than extraction! Yes to #biophilia #bluecrew #love — I didn't vote for this chaos machine. 👉DMs blocked unless I know you
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.
IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social Autistic consultant and writer with a Masters in Neuroscience.
white, nonbinary. they/them Opinions are my own. #SayNoToABA
www.AutisticSciencePerson.com
Mayor of Greater Manchester @mayorofgm.bsky.social Official account for the Mayor of Greater Manchester. This account's not fully up and running yet (bear with us), so we may not see your comments. Give us a follow and we'll be here soon.
Rachael P 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 @rachael-p.bsky.social Suffolk-based retired Cambridge physicist. Born 313.2 ppm. Trans woman.
Catless mad catlady (she/her)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachael_p
Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social IRN BRU Anarchist > Champagne Socialists.
I cant access the Chat feature, so don't bother.
they/them
Gillian Ashton @ladystardust31.bsky.social Proud Scottish Lass 🏴| Kicked Bowel Cancer’s Ass 💙 | Widow | Peace, Love & Music 🎶 #MDANT
#Bowie #BowieForever 👩🏻🎤★ ⚡️✨
Lee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social Graphic Designer. 41. He/Him. Ex Daily Star designer (TV supplements). Lover of Kate Bush. As a hobby, I create toy figure illustrations based on pop culture. LGBT+ Insta - LeeWilliamDesigns
Etsy page - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeeWilliamDesigns
Sparkles✨ @ironicsparkles.bsky.social She/They. Admin on @rustynutsrust.bsky.social - Twitch Mod. Also help run @alert_gc on bird site.
Human rights person #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #nohatehere ko-fi.com/ironic_sparkles
Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social 
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.
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
Glen Darroch @glendarroch.bsky.social Really quite close to losing all interest. Something you don’t really want vs something you really don’t want isn’t any kind of positive choice.
TACC @tacc.org.uk TACC is an intersectional organisation dedicated to advocating for trans rights, addressing transphobia, and unofficial EHRC watchdog.
❤️Donate: http://alturl.com/ipg2h
🌴 https://linktr.ee/tacc_uk
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional
Jenni Milward 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🦓♿ @jrmilward.bsky.social Writer | VO actor | OU BSc (Hons) | AMRSB @RoyalSocBio | Lefty/Social justice | LGBTQ+ | EDS Zebra | Disability/chronic illness | Tomb Raider AoD PotBA novelist | Woke AF | She/Her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🦓♿
jrmilward.com
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- J Stephanie @jillynomates.bsky.social Cat Lover. Biker. Now retired. LGBTQ+ friendly. Somerset, Terf Island.
Sarah Murray 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @sarahjuk.bsky.social 
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk
👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Emma Roddick MSP @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social SNP candidate for Inverness and Nairn 💛 | she/her | ♿️🏳️🌈 | Caley Thistle fan, Whovian & feminist | Owned by a cat 🐈 | Some posts by staff
david sylvian @davidsylvian.bsky.social artist
https://linktr.ee/davidsylvian
instagram.com/davidsylvian258
Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk Faith community grounded in stillness. We believe in working together to create a more just, equal and peaceful world.
Quakers in Britain, Friends House, NW1 2BJ.
www.quaker.org.uk
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
Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Discrimination Barrister, Railway, Car and Flying Nut. Trans woman.
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’