Smylers @smylers.uk Ilkley Christian geek board-gamer puzzle/quiz/crossword fan and parent
#WomensArt2 @womensart2.bsky.social Celebrating ♀'s art & creativity, curated by autist @tidbit.bsky.social & art nerd @brainchain.ca . Images © to respective owners. WA2 actually welcomes all followers, art from diverse communities/cultures, even 🏳️⚧️
Pfp cred @pianta.bsky.social
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
Tom Staniford @tomstaniford.bsky.social fCMO | Writer | Speaker | Consultant |
Para-Cyclist | double amputee | deaf |
Team Bottrill Nopinz • Trek Bikes •
BromptonBicycle • Albion Cycling
www.tomstaniford.com
Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social Tech, research, law, teaching & AI - plus a lot of other stuff.
M.Ed, PGDL, LLM, (looking for alt online LLM+tech)
UK/FR
@katyavdgk@mas.to
@katyavdgk.bsky.social
**NO REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS PLEASE**
@jaj991.bsky.social @jaj991.bsky.social Where's the beer? Reposts aren't endorsements. Cycling around Coventry mostly, might have a camera or three.
Pippa Heylings 🔶 MP for South Cambridgeshire @pippaheylings.bsky.social Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy Security & Net Zero
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Gwendolyn Corvid @gwendolyn-corvid.bsky.social Autistic, ADHD, trans woman, shitposter, sweetie, memelord, photographer, artist, engineer, recovering pedant, traveller, trophy wife, doting parent.
I'll post news stories related to trans and other gender non-conforming topics, also oc photos and memes
Petit Wallaby @petitwallaby.bsky.social She/her. Crocheter, digital artist, nature lover, NoAI
Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social A bricolage of things. Nature, creativity, community, kindness…
Unbothered. Moisturised. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
Profile picture: me in a pink jumper smiling
Header image: me in a purple hat taking a picture of myself in a broken mirror
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.
Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social Erstwhile researcher in human computer interaction/tech, accessible environments, sociology, politics, transport/urbanism and rare diseases: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oSEzsOoAAAAJ&hl=en
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. ✅
Simon Huggins @shufgy.bsky.social Geek in Reading into birding, cryptic crosswords, walking, beer, GIS 🌈
Transparent Action @transparentaction.bsky.social We are parents of trans loved ones, united in love and action for dignity, safety and equality for all trans people.
✍️ Sign our pledge: tinyurl.com/TransparentAction
Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social Documents, markup (https://xml.silmaril.ie/), typesetting (https://latex.silmaril.ie/) • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket • Recipes: https://xml.silmaril.ie/recipes/ ☘️ 🇮🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social
Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social glamourphonic electronic disco baby ❤️🏳️🌈
Neurodivergent queer trade unionist yarn fan gamer I guess!
✨♾️🌈✊🧶🎮
Community Garden Radio Wiki-lover
Nisaa (she/her) @nisaak.bsky.social #Acupuncturist , #Photographer , #Beltalowda , #Hopepunk , #Whovian, #Catmom , #Queer , #Bisexual , #Witch , #SoloRPG ,
#SoloJournaling , #TurkishBathLady , #SCAdian name: Nisaa Karahisari
SF Bay Area.
📷 Denisecicuto.com
📍 cicutoacupuncture.com
@richmurley.bsky.social @richmurley.bsky.social
Sarah Jackson @sarahijackson.bsky.social Working in mental health doing peer support and other things. Writing speculative fiction extremely slowly. She/They.
https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/
Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social Author and bookseller in Chicago. Owner of @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social.
Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social Scientist, cyclist, kayaker, triathlete, wild camper, immigrant, flaming liberal. 🏳️⚧️
Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow
WIP: Old Nows
Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Waggermama @waggermama.bsky.social Short, AuDHD, pet keeper, collector of things (she/her/they)
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
Trans Liberation Cambridge @trans-lib-cam.bsky.social Building trans community and trans power in Cambridge
https://linktr.ee/translibcam
@diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social Cassandra of the Latter Days. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Meanwhile, bikes.
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.
Franjelica @missfranjelica.bsky.social Goth.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Tracy Saunders @tracysaunders.bsky.social Quality Assurance Consultant, Chief Wine Ponce and Baking Ninja! Also an enthusiastic amateur artist. Based in the beautiful Garden of England!
Sparkling Abject @chloehstewart.bsky.social
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk Just a protocol droid from a galaxy far, far away... fluent in over six million forms of communication...
(Huge Star Wars fan but also real person, London, Irish, pro-EU, LibDem, design, retail, LGBTQIA, arts, wanting to relocate to France.)
One Song A Day @iml.bsky.social No politics, no sport, no religion, no comments, just music I like.
Enjoy.
Hatch the Tudor Dog @hatchthedog.bsky.social Former ratter on Henry VIII's Mary Rose, these days I live at the Mary Rose Museum. Doggy opinions my own. Woof.
Caz 💖💜💙 @wabbits.bsky.social PFP: 2 housebunnies snuggling.
She/her.
Librarian, currently in disguise as a registrar. Hooman staff to 2 housebunnies. Knitter. Fan of DragRace, Strictly, GBBO & living in Scotland. 🏴 Estou aprendendo português! 🇵🇹🇧🇷
#AdoptDontShop | #BWithTheT | #BLM
@dogearedtatty.bsky.social @dogearedtatty.bsky.social Bookworm, ballet fan, likes a good detective story. Now with the NHS. All views my own. Goodreads and NetGalley user.
Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social In a world of disaster capitalism, be a rebel: ride a bicycle and buy your clothes 2ndhand from charity shops.
Also, all the best people have trees in their bio.
Now tell me, where will your next bike ride be?
https://www.WillCycle.com
@clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social Retired db admin and software developer. Musician for clog dancing, calls and plays (not necessarily simultaneously) for barn dances, ceilidhs. Anarcho-syndicalist tendencies but will settle for anything to keep Reform out
ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social It’s all just rather a lot lately. Tell me to post some nice pictures if I’m getting boring.
Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk The Dales has many moods; wild, windswept, calm, peaceful, with valleys of hay meadows, dry stone walls and barns. One of the country’s most picturesque places. The official National Park Authority BlueSkySocial account
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social Courts, cats and cars; she/her
Chef Digo🔪🍷🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @wendigo.bsky.social Mum, culinary arts graduate, chef, alternative.
Currently causing mayhem in South London with @jamed.bsky.social
She/her
Making Trouble Podcast @mollynaylor.bsky.social The creativity podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Hosted by Molly Naylor. New episodes every Monday.
Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social Wurzel • Canuck • Norfolker
Newly qualified Biomedical Scientist.
I cycle for transport with a helmet camera.
I don’t eat animals.
Ali King @aliking.bsky.social Data botherer & code tinkerer in Edinburgh. Queer Code Scotland organiser, support diversity in tech as I live here. Opinions model's own. They/them
Mastodon: ali_king@blahaj.social
Twitter (deleted): @ali_king
@ebon-hawk.bsky.social @ebon-hawk.bsky.social
Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social Christian, Tertiary (TSSF), Verger, ASNC PhD, linguist,
MaryM @mks-mary.bsky.social Lady physicist. Opinionated nerd.
Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
@marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social
Pebbles @marbledpebbles.bsky.social Londoner, nerd, procrastinator
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Juliet Kemp @julietk.bsky.social Queer non-binary SFF writer in London.
https://julietkemp.com/ - occasional newsletter with WIP snippets and other news at https://julietkemp.com/newsletter
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social PROTECT THE NHS. SAVE LIVES. RIDE BIKES.
Fewer cars not newer cars!
A Moulton and Brompton riding linux-loving cyclist geek. Cos small wheeled bikes rock!
I block helmet compulsionists and evangelists.
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
Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social AKA the accidental ecologist
Fine Artist living on a rewilding farm in Pembrokeshire commissions undertaken worldwide.
Website LizaAdamczewski.art
LJ Winter @winterlj.bsky.social Bookworm, scientist, self-propelled outdoorsy type (run/walk/bike/climb). Occasionally writes things. Rarely short of an opinion. She/her.
Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social Bothers wool. Thinks animals are ok.
Reads a lot.
Dreams of boats and land trains.
Might one day get my shit together.
Like some felt art?
https://woolbotherer.sumupstore.com/
Fuck AI
She/her
@denisbloodnok.bsky.social @denisbloodnok.bsky.social
ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social Oh hello! Come in. Don't sit down, you're not staying long. I draw things, I am autistic, I drink Yorkshire Tea. Is that everything? I think that's everything.
(He/him)
Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social Children’s author, mediocre footballer, internet transgender || he/him #COYG
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Sarah Parker-Shemilt @seps.bsky.social geek. 🏳️🌈. parent. coffee addict. gin lover. gets stuff done. dreamer.
Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social Cambridge photographer behind 'A Cambridge Diary' - 5,000 continuous daily pictures at www.cambridgediary.co.uk.
Published by https://cambridgebooks.co.uk
Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor, Green Party, UK. Loves cycling, trees, circular fashion, car-sharing, local business, community initiatives.
(Obligatory political imprint: promoted by David Newman at 12A Merlin Road, Oxford OX4 6EP).
badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social Swish swish motherfucker.
AuDHD | alphabet mafia 🏳️🌈 | rugby player 🏉 | scuba diver 🤿 | cis | she/her until something better comes along.
🇵🇸 ✊🏿
There's probably something funny in the alt text.
London & Liverpool, UK
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social WhimsicalFu[cke]ry
Dog dad
They/Them
Thrice viral but not internet famous
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Nile @hairyears.bsky.social Archetypal Geek, perpetrates puns and Limericks, did a bit of Aikido.
My profile pic is a male Green-Eyed Flower Bee; the profile header is a female Orange-Tipped Mining Bee: both were photographed close to home on Wanstead Flats, in suburban East London
Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk Runs Biscuit: Advocacy, community and support for bi+ people in the UK.
Not interested in middle class comfort or correcting my dyspraxic typos. Very interested in amateur academics (kidlit and social history) and lovely shoes.
linktr.ee/we_are_biscuit
Eleanor Rose @erhs.bsky.social High Peak | 20 with 12 years' experience | Keen but clumsy gardener | "Working" in education | Masters student | Owned by four cats | Spare money goes on travel and/or wine | 🏳️⚧️
Nick Gibbins @nick.gark.net Computer science lecturer, film and SF geek, gaming nerd (particularly the #TravellerRPG), manned spaceflight aficionado (but nothing Musky). cis, he/him. Born at 327.5 ppm.
Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!)
But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. Will never be persuaded that empathy is bad. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
Agatha Grimke ✒️📚🏺🫏🟦🐈⬛️🦆🌹 @agathagrimke.bsky.social Someone positively pleased with the wonders and mysteries of the universe, a good book, cats, and hot cocoa. #WritingCommunity
She/her
Very pleased to have a story included in:
https://www.amazon.com/Howlin-You-Werewolf-Charity-Anthology/dp/B0DCK7ZHY3
sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social Active travel, planning, politics, waffle etc. #mentalhealth Typos. Madness, absurdity and foolishness. (iykyk.) Pronouns: none. Just use soundandfury, please. UK. (Avatar: PENGUIN by Shaun Meintjes on Unsplash.) Always read the label. DM's OFF.
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Julia G @julialynne.bsky.social Union General Secretary and trans woman. 🏳️⚧️Activist, wife and maths student.
I’m too old for this sort of stuff!
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Jonathan McDowell @noodles.earth.li He/him. Confused software person who likes to annoy hardware people. Debian developer. Not a lawyer. Likes to build things, but nothing to show for it. Left Northern Ireland, but came back.
meadowyarn @meadowyarn.bsky.social Dyeing yarn and telling stories in the Suffolk countryside
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
@yendraws
@readatmidnight
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social Socialist, trade unionist, anti-fascist, archivist | UCU | rs21 | he/him
daniel @dnl.ink writer in somerset
dnl.ink