Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social Journalist. Sunderland Uni visiting prof. England's North East Riviera.
Richard Easterbrook @1easterbrook.bsky.social Producer/presenter on @wisemensay.co.uk, one half of @friedfriespod.bsky.social
Eddy Bamber Sunderland AFC @eddybambersafc.bsky.social Sunderland Fan
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Crap 90s Football @crap90sfootball.bsky.social A conduit to lo-fi comedic football mediocrity from the last decade of the 20th century (and more recently if it’s really funny). Your 4th favourite 90s football account.
Graeme Down @graemedown.bsky.social Art Editor, @mailsport. Ex-Sunday Times. Seaburn - Sevenoaks (via London & Brooklyn) #SAFC ❤️ Love summer. Shelley’s husband, Dad to 2 amazing girls
Chris Cummings Art @chriscummingsart.bsky.social Artist.
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Frankie Francis @frankiefrancis.bsky.social Music Officer-Broadcaster-Musician
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Michael Lough @mickylough95.bsky.social I write and talk about Sunderland in my spare time. Usually for the Wise Men Say Podcast. Also post a lot about a felled tree in Northumberland!🍀
Chris Fryatt @chrisfryatt.com Journalism, PR & photography. Comms Manager at Education Partnership North East and #SAFC and #Boro photographer for National World.
Wise Men Say Podcast @wisemensay.co.uk ⚽ Longest-running #SAFC podcast, EST 2013
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Michael Graham @captfishpaste.bsky.social Football journalist, Sunderland AFC fan, and Las Vegas obsessive.
Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social Football Finance Writer at The Athletic UK | Will write about money for football | Views are not someone else's
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Rory Fallow @roryfallow.bsky.social PA Announcer at Sunderland AFC
Graham @grahamfalk.bsky.social football writer. raptors fan.
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Andy Dawson @andydawson.bsky.social Participant in @AthleticoMince.bsky.social @TFTimeMachine.bsky.social and @unseriousdarts.bsky.social. My life is well within its usual frame.
Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social Chief Economist at The Data City. Formerly of Centre for Cities. Posting mainly about economics.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Phil Smith @philsmithreporter.bsky.social #SAFC reporter for the Sunderland Echo. Maybe some cricket and music and stuff, too. 
How’s Stat Podcast @hows-stat-pod.bsky.social A nostalgic and niche #cricket trivia podcast (in a #quiz format) appearing on your feeds monthly. Listen for test match statistical trivia, terrible puns and a touch of mirth. 🏏. Get in touch with round names/ideas or just to say hi 👋
bluefintees.com @bluefintees.bsky.social Can a middle aged man with a passion for cricket turn his back on his job and make a living creating and selling cricket T Shirts....?? WWW.BLUEFINTEES.COM There's only one way to find out..... Not averse to using (extremely) direct marketing :-)
We Own It @weownit.org.uk After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.
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Tom Rogerson @tomstyleo.bsky.social Totepool Gadji, connoisseur of sandwiches, ales and bad jokes.
Forty-summat Cricket watcher. Usually found on a racecourse or in a bad fettle.
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social Constantly battling between needing to be informed, and having a good day.
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GraemeAgain73 @sundertaker97.bsky.social Pro Wrestling and Sunderland AFC are my big passions. Also, I'm a big Charmed
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Robref @robref62.bsky.social Lover of all things safc❤️🤍
Vinyl music fan.
Safc since 1975
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Work for Royal Mail.
The Fire Station @thefirestation.bsky.social Sunderland's premier live music and performance venue. Home to the state-of-the-art auditorium. See what's on and book now at thefirestation.org.uk
Andkingy @andkingy.bsky.social #SAFC
Sunderland AFC @safc.com Home of Sunderland AFC on Bluesky.
SAFC Panini etc @safcpaninietc.bsky.social Documenting the world of Sunderland AFC stickers & cards, from Panini to Topps and whatever inbetween #SAFC #GotGotNeed
SAFC NASA @safc-nasa.bsky.social Sunderland AFC's North America Supporters Association. It's officially official....
SAFCsource @safcsource.bsky.social Sunderland AFC news from around the globe (since 2013), with link to original source. No 'ITK' gossip.
Sensible Sunderland @sensiblesafc.bsky.social Official Sky Social page of the Sensible Sunderland podcast!
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stuart roy clarke @stuartroyclarke.bsky.social Creator of "Cumbria Surrounded"...of "The Homes Of Football"...of "A Day Spent With You"...of "Glastonbury All Mine"...of "Ukraine I Miss You”. I live in the English Lakes. Can travel www.stuartroyclarke.com
Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
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DorsetSAFC 🇬🇧 🏴 🇺🇲 @dorsetsafc.bsky.social I'm a life long Sunderland AFC fan.
Love my dogs, music, walking, reading, food, travel, people watching, football, Miami Dolphins, UK and foreign politics and spending quality time with my wife.
I like TV and movies about crime, murders and UFO's
Pete @quakerpete.bsky.social #FBPE • #KTTO • #NeverVoteConservative #Rejoiner • #JoinAUnion • 💙 NHS 💙
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
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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.
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc
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Moby-Dick podcast:
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Ava Santina @avasantina.bsky.social Editor and superloop fan @politicsjoe.bsky.social
Dom Smith @mrdomsmith.bsky.social Football Reporter for The Standard.
On X and Instagram: @MrDomSmith
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Damilarree @damilarree.bsky.social 📉Unstable humor. Brands love it.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social Pro-Europe #socialist #RefugeesWelcome. Warning - I swear a lot because the world is on fire!
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
Glasgow West End Today @glasgowwestend.bsky.social Celebrating Scotland’s greatest city in words and pictures, and our 10th anniversary in 2026.
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Leah Nugent9 @leahnugent9.bsky.social Mum, wife & full time, organiser of others! 🏴 person living in 🇦🇺, 💚 football and is a fabulous Mortgage broker too!! 💚🍀
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Lawrence Booth @boothcricket.bsky.social Editor of Wisden and cricket correspondent of the Daily Mail
Richard Jolly @richjolly.bsky.social Senior Football Correspondent, the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/author/richard-jolly
@almacma.bsky.social @almacma.bsky.social Sunderland AFC and family, not necessarily in that order
Everyone knows the investment required to fix our country, but no one wants to pay for it.
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
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Martin Emmerson @martycricket.bsky.social Journalist of 30+ years.
Cricket commentator for BBC Sport covering Durham CCC. Presenter/reporter on BBC Radio Newcastle for 28 years. Sunderland. Cycling. Cricket. North East England. Roker Riviera.
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JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social 'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP. 
dom @domkni.bsky.social #SAFC 🔴⚪️, pro screen time, anti elon
Keir @solarinstaller.bsky.social Sunderland AFC, England Cricket, Music, Politics
Graham Dunbar @gdunbarap.bsky.social Sports writer, Associated Press, Switzerland.
Skubtits Gabór @ordellini.bsky.social Junkie, boozehound, Democratic Socialist Yorkshireman in Northern Ireland. I work with homeless people, shelter is a fundamental human right. Long suffering supporter of Sunderland AFC.
A Mackem in Mokum @mackeminmokum.bsky.social Sunderland by birth & till I die (Ryhope), Amsterdam for life, Ajax season ticket holder, ❌❌❌ 🇬🇧🇳🇱 FTM.
Danny Kelly @dannykellywords.bsky.social Trans Europe Express (show AND pod!), H&J on @Talksport. @vftlpodcast Spurs pod via @theathleticuk. Ex-editor NME, Q. Fast and bulbous! Located: Kilkenny and the Canyons Of My Mind
North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk We are a not-for-profit citizen journalism publication. Our aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of interest to people in the North East and beyond.
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk 
Iain Martin @iainmartin1.bsky.social Director of the London Defence Conference. Engelsberg Ideas editor. Weekly newsletter at Reaction on Substack. Author.
Tides of History @tidesofhistory.bsky.social Commentary on Labour History, British Politics and Working Class Culture - Author of Hope & Glory
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
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Paul Widger @widger123.bsky.social Talk alot of rubbish, normally about SAFC, haway the lads!!!
90s Football @90sfootball.com The 90s were brilliant, weren't they?
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
SAFC Tactical @novocast.bsky.social ⚽ SAFC Tactical Hobbyist
🔴 Analysis of Sunderland performances, tactical trends, and technical issues
✍️ https://substack.com/@novocast
John Kerr @developkerr.com Over 15 years of building software in start-ups. Hobbyist game developer. #SAFC until it kills me.
https://developkerr.com
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https://boarded.app
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James Copley @jamescopley.bsky.social ✍🏻 Digital Journalist at National World
⚽️ Cover #SAFC for The Echo
❤️ Boyhood Sunderland supporter
💪🏼 All views are very much my own
RichBrewis @rbrewis.bsky.social Husband, father, old git who likes travel, comedy and all sports, particularly Sunderland AFC