Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player. 
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@chriswillis.bsky.social @chriswillis.bsky.social 
Dale Vince @dalevince.com Green Industrialist | Founder of Ecotricity, Skydiamond, Green Britain Foundation | Chairman of Forest Green Rovers | UN Climate Change Champion |
Media enquiries: press.office@ecotricity.co.uk
Weekly Podcast: Zerocarbonista
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.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com I write about technology politics. Please read Horrific/Terrific for anti-capitalist analyses of tech & society https://www.horrific-terrific.tech/
I also produce Computer Says Maybe: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast
georgiaiacovou.com
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
James @jamesg.blog Hello! I'm James (he/him/his) ✨
I'm a writer, art history student, and Taylor Swift fan.
Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?
https://dompates.medium.com
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social Leader and advocate for a different AI future which benefits everyone. CEO/MD of Our AI Collective. Failed astrophysicist. Film geek. Parent. Love a GIF
Andy Piper @andypiper.org Developer Relations @matrix
freelance technologist & #PenPlotter artist.
I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets
• co-runner of #Maker meetup 🛠️ […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://macaw.social/@andypiper, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Rick @ricksmith.co.uk I make things, with computers, sometimes.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
Alex Wrottesley @lexonic.bsky.social 📍 Maps, Data & Technology
👾 Games / SciFi / Tinkering
🛠️ Aiming for General Availability
He/Him https://linktr.ee/lexonic
Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social Responsible strategy, data & innovation consultant
Loves teaching
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Member, Society of Hopeful Technologists
#opendata #netzero
France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
Laurence D @laurencediver.net AI strategy at the FCA. Views mine and only mine.
Recovering academic (Legal {tech, philosophy}, hci, regulation, responsible innovation, and whatnot). Diver rhymes with river (it's an anglicisation of the Gaelic Duibhir).
tbh I'd rather be in Assynt
Alastair Wilcox @awilcox.chalmere.com IT by profession. Interested in education, politics, economics and sport. Based in South Oxfordshire, UK, originally from the Wirral.
@adastra8.bsky.social @adastra8.bsky.social 
Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
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Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social
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James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists.
Before: Head of Global Education Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children & Theirworld; advocacy at White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
Cat Cutmore @catcutmore.bsky.social Marketing & Events Manager at @Nexer_Digital
We run #CampDigital
https://www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital/2026/
Edinburgh-based
Tessa @tessaq.bsky.social Trying to make things better with digital. Always hopeful.
🌈💪🌊🦆🌱🏴
Gitika Saksena @gitika-saksena.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology at SOAS.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Society for Hopeful Technologists @hopeful.technology We are a solidarity network that: strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, demystifies tech, and makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful
Find out more: https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me UK-cit ES-res European, "dangerously continental". Federalist, inc UK → Schengen, €. en fr de ca es. #FBPE. M: @littlegravitas@c.im. lgrav24[a]privateum.net. ✔️ e2e 🚫 crypto! Signal. Kagi search. No non-friend DMs. I mostly follow back - and I block back.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
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."
Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social Immigration lawyer about town. Migrant. Queer. She/her. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/thoughtsonimmigration
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics/statistics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor @ University of Strathclyde | migration and diaspora history | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
John Milne MP 🔸 @johnmilnehorsham.bsky.social Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Horsham Constituency working towards a brighter future. Promoted by the Liberal Democrats, 1 Vincent Square, London SW1 2PN.
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
💫 Kerri Miller @kerrizor.bsky.social Staff engineer and lackwit gadabout at Gitlab. LD 🏍️ rider. Part 🦝, part 🦊. WIP.
Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social Coordinator at @mvtfwd.bsky.social (on sabbatical)
#GE2024
helped 1.5 million voters getting an extra 91 Tory MPs out
#GE2029
let’s use our millions of votes together to get policy
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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social Ageing futurist, still commits occasional fantasy. Novels, games, comics, streaming TV. Purveyor of bent moral compasses. "The High Priest of Violent Science Fiction" - Guardian
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
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.
EuroRust @eurorust.eu EuroRust is the conference for the European Rust community. We cover all things Rust. Presented by @mainmatter.com. October 14-17 2026, Barcelona & Online.
October 14-17 2026, Barcelona & Online
Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social Bi-Weekly Digest for Rustaceans | https://rustbytes.com | Amsterdam |
Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Luke Shrago @lukeshrago.bsky.social Broadcast journalist at France 24. I will quietly watch what you do and then tell the world about it.
Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social Tech investor ▫️Ex diplomat, econ & nat sec official, Fortune 100 tech VP▫️“Top” NYT▫️“Leading”Spiegel▫️“Senior” BBC▫️“Valued” FT▫️“Persona non grata” V Putin
AFK Twin @timexile.com Musical and technological adventurer. Survivor of bad things. Mostly optimistic, sometimes tired. Scapeshift, the generative groovebox that DOESN'T use AI is out now! https://linktr.ee/timexile
Nathan Human @thehumanish.co.uk Curious asker of questions for fun and work.
Sometime storyteller.
thehumanish.co.uk
Kenneth Reitz @kennethreitz.bsky.social Some guy. Creator of Requests, blah blah. These days, I care about mental health issues and how engagement algorithms systematically destroy human virtues.
Orual @nonbinary.computer Person who does electrical, computer, and music things.
Mother of machines.
they/she/it
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Kelly Weinersmith @weinersmith.bsky.social A big nerd. Co-author of NYTimes Bestsellers Soonish & A City on Mars. Co-host of Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe. She/her
www.weinersmith.com
Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation. 
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
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/
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Co-Director, British Election Study
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Ruth Aylett @ruthaylett.bsky.social (she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing
All views personal; likes/shares are not support
Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social Actor/Comic/Writer/Hot Dad
Tendency to show up for stuff. Put me in your thing.
Doctor Who:
http://bit.ly/3XeATtL
Rep:
@bccreativelondon.bsky.social
Spotlight:
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
@monktoberfest.com @monktoberfest.com 
xyflow @xyflow.com Creators of React Flow and Svelte Flow- flexible libraries for building interactive node-based UIs, workflow editors, static diagrams, and no-code editors
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social CEO @bestforbritain.org
Podcaster @quietriotpod.bsky.social
NED @RoSPA
Aeronaut @aeronautapp.com A Bluesky app designed and built for Mac.
Now available in the Mac App Store.
https://apple.co/4qHQW2Q
Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social Hey, everybody!
Not that kind of doctor.
Embodied cognition, AI and robotics, eating behaviour, flavour & the senses
Mostly cathartic ranting
Personal account
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Aubrey @aubrey.northsky.social Genderqueer, anarchist, autistic maker of pulp fantasy and strange instruments; practicing Erisian; a deserter from the trenches of tech; compelled to create. (they/any)
My fiction: https://readaubreyjones.com
My instrument: https://hyphasia.com
@vectorware.com @vectorware.com 
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Radicle @radicle.dev The sovereign forge.
https://radicle.dev
Switch Angel @switchangel.bsky.social I create high energy music with math and code
https://linktr.ee/switchangel
Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Jeremy Wentworth 🎧🎛🎚 @jeremywentworth.com Sound Designer, Field Recordist, Music Maker, VCV Module Developer of JW-Modules, Advanced VCV Patch maker, Trainer, Ableton User, Software Developer my whole life.
https://jeremywentworth.com
Leo kettmeir @kettmeir.dev Working at @deno.land, working on JSR, documentation generation, and web API stuff like WebGPU. I love animation & illustrations
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social Biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris.
jenn schiffer 🙂↔️ @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
worm-blossom @worm-blossom.org the development diary of the worm-blossom collective. We make https://willowprotocol.org and https://worm-blossom.github.io/bab/
Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca Simple tools, fewer abstractions—inviting everyone to tinker & build. What’s worth building? For me: empathy and reworking our urban environments for humans.
https://ndyg.ca / https://www.cross.stream
🌌 Milky Way, ☀️Solar System, 🌍Earth, 🍁Canada, Toronto
Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social the littl shynin man the Addom, he runs in the wud
Radiant Computer @radiant.computer A personal computer for the next generation.
https://radiant.computer