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Jamie Robinson @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social Manager of the Rylands Heritage Imaging Lab
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Kayla Painter @kaylapainter.bsky.social Experimental musician & producer | Lecturer | Ambient Owl Core | Tectonic Particles out now via Quiet Details.
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Sulk Rooms @sulkrooms.bsky.social Luminescent electronica. Yorkshire. I run a label called Frosti and play in the band called Pijn. Licensing/composing - Domino Publishing.
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social Head of Policy and Research @powertochange.org.uk - former co-operator and community wealth builder. About growing power ⚡ and plants 🌱 (she/her) All views my own.
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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social Anthropologist, research fellow at University of Cambridge Pembroke College Cambridge & non-resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, writes about AI and war in Israel & Palestine
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Reynaert Vosveld @reynaertvos.bsky.social Visual Artist & Filmmaker
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
UMAW @umaw.bsky.social UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.
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Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social Scots-Italian writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect 2025
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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social aka Max Alper. Composer, sonic arts educator, and audio worker with opinion. “The Nadia Boulanger of Ableton weirdos.”
Founder of @klangacademy.bsky.social.
Co-host @criticallistening.bsky.social. Based in Hudson Valley. peretsky.xyz
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
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Fire Draw Near @firedrawnear.bsky.social Music podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms. 
Mathew Lawrence @mathewlawrence.bsky.social Founder & Director @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
https://www.common-wealth.org/
Co-author of Planet on Fire & Owning the Future
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
Zachary Lipez @zacharylipez.bsky.social Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter. 
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