James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! ๐โโฌ
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social Protecting wildlife and restoring ecosystems across Scotland's land and seas.
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/
#WordsOfTheWild
The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social A view on politics at home & abroad, while bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably with Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell. Powered by Fuse Energyโก
https://linktr.ee/RestIsPolitics
Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill ๐จ๐ฆโ๏ธHiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ช๐บ. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Astronomical Society of Edinburgh @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social We love sharing our passion for astronomy. We've been holding meetings in Edinburgh since 1924. Come to one of our meetings, in person or online - visitors are always welcome.
#astronomyedinburgh #edinburgh #scotland
www.astronomyedinburgh.org
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
๐ค๐https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
Cult MTL @cultmtl.com Love for Montreal culture. https://linkin.bio/cultmtl/
Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Opening 16.01.26, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Amphora Levee @amphoralevee.bsky.social I live, work, play, write and make good trouble in New Orleans.
paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social Born 317ppm | Love London | Hate Racists
The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation โ Bertrand Russell
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotlandโs Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! ๐ช๐ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Codfather #FBPE ๐ซ๐ท๐ช๐บ @codfather.bsky.social Technologist, Atheist, rationalist, empiricist and non-believer in unicorns, virgin births or Brexit. I Love Linux, Science, Wine, Philosophy,the Arts, climate science, renewables and silly Jokes :-)
@codfather@fosstodon No DM's
Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social Co-leader of the @scottishgreens.org ๐
West of Scotland MSP
'Windmill-worshipping eco-communist'
he/him โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Promoted by the Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham St, Edinburgh
Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens.
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland and Lothians West.
Charity costumer. Star Wars enthusiast.
Posts sometimes by staff.
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie ๐ณ๐ฑ living in Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ See: deadgoodreading.com 
๐ชฆ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ชฆ @cemeteryclub.bsky.social Cemeteries are museums of people! Exploring places of rest as social history. By public historian Sheldon K. Goodman (he/him). โฐ๏ธ ๐๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Old Weird Scotland @weirdscotland.bsky.social Forgotten Stories, Science, Language, History, Art, People, Poetry.
https://linktr.ee/weirdscotland
Old Weird Scotland supports trans rights.
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social The Friends of Warriston Cemetery was founded in 2013 to safeguard the heritage of the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh. We always welcome new volunteers. www.friendsofwarristoncemetery.com
Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social Archaeologist and photographer. Found in cemeteries or near water.
๐ชฆ Home of #31DaysOfGraves
๐Liverpool, UK ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ She/her
https://linktr.ee/annafn
Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social Cemetery Researcher. Proud Brummie. Never clocking out of Coffin Works, usually found in the JQ Cemeteries. #BLM๐ค ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฉท๐๐she/her
Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social A long term project to engage the community and sensitively conserve the previously neglected Victorian Wardsend Cemetery, on the banks of the River Don.
Louvain Rees โฐ๏ธ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist โ๏ธ๐ป
Death, Wales and Psychiatry ๐
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum ๐ง
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy ๐ง
๐ฅBBC History Extra '30 under 30' ๐
๐Cardiff | views are my own โข she/her
๐ www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social Registered Charity responsible for the offical national memorial to our UK Covid dead. Account run by bereaved volunteers.โฅ๏ธ
www.nationalcovidmemorialwall.org
Britainโs War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britainโs war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
๐ฅ๐ชฆ @graveyardgirly.bsky.social I walk amongst the stones not to mourn,but to witness love that has nowhere to go but back to the earth.
All photos in media are my own.
Alt text friendly.
Dr. Robyn S. Lacy โฐ๏ธ @graveyardarch.bsky.social PhD in Archaeology
Mortuary Archaeologist, Adjunct Prof, Researcher, Associate Editor โจ๏ธ
I like graves, the C17th, landscapes, & protective magic. I preserve gravestones, write books, & paint pictures (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/RLacy
The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old โฐ๏ธ OPEN 7 DAYS, 11am to 4pm ๐ FREE entry!
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone.
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Rude mechanical. Nobody gets out of here alive.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
www.youtube.com/@poorfrankraw
Trustee of salivaryglandcancer.uk
The Grave Muse @thegravemuse.bsky.social Haunted by the beauty of decay. Taphophile, cemetery wanderer, and occasional grave robber of forgotten stories.
Blog: http://thegravemuse.wixsite.com/my-site
Graveyard Dandelion @graveyarddandelion.bsky.social Graveyards, old things, overgrown things, & other moody places ๐ชฆ๐ค
Iโm Dree | she/her
I have merch ๐ https://www.redbubble.com/people/designsbydree/shop?artistUserName=DesignsByDree&collections=4159333&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=relevant
Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social Hourly images - 3 minutes early - of Scotland's capital city (and beyond) in all seasons, all sorts of weather & even its foulest mood. Run by Tom Duffin, @TomDuffinPhotos.bsky.social, www.tomduffin.com, and weekly newsletter tomduffin.substack.com
Paula Smith @paulasmith.co.uk London based freelance photographer working to capture lifeโs moments. Still crazy for #filmphotography and vintage cameras. Starting to dabble in painting and alternative processes.
www.paulasmith.co.uk
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. Hooklander.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/ and also here https://www.redbubble.com/people/TattercatStudio/shop
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Oor Blaze fae Skye ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ @blazespage.bsky.social Maker of wooden things,son to an auld man and brother tae a numpty. Author of Blaze Dog Detective books.
Haiku Poems @haikupoems.bsky.social Welcome to the haiku poems collection ๐โ๏ธ
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
Donate; http://liberapay.com/ballotboxscot
Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social Guardian First Edition writer
contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com
insta: @libbyjbrooks
extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
Poet Miranda @poet-miranda.bsky.social I write poetry. I read poetry. I share poetry. I talk about poetry. I think about poetry. It's all about poetry.
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea!
www.portobellobookblog.com
Nick Ray @nicklifeafloat.bsky.social Youโll find me in the wild. Exploring Scotland's beauty, one adventure at a time. Advocate for mental health awareness & suicide prevention. Embracing nature's healing touch.
Waylon & Elephant Journal @elephantjournal.com We share inspiring, helpful, challenging articles. And quotes, and whatever I care about. You can write & get featured on Elephant at elephantjournal.com/post
Elephant: about The Mindful Life, since 2002: elephantjournal.com/best (free) to stay connected.
Steve Parks @steveparks.me Geeking out about writing, entrepreneurship, journalism, food, tech โ or ideally a combination.
European, living/writing in France & running a business in UK.
https://www.steveparks.me
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. โ๏ธ๐
Haiku Poetry @haiku-poetry.bsky.social Haiku Poetry (written by myself)
๐Switzerland
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldnโt.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. ๐
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Nirmal @nirmaldevkota.bsky.social 
Michael sisto @sistosterone.bsky.social Weird Comedy person ๐จ๐ปโ๐ฆฑ
If anything here offends you blame your parents for raising such a dooshnozzle. Tell your friends
Malibu, Ca / Guantรกnamo Bay, Cuba
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
https://www.instagram.com/sistosterone/
Steven Thomas Photography @stevenbrigode.bsky.social Wildlife/Nature photographer living on the Susquehanna River in upstate new York. Spending time in nature capturing images of all the beauty it has to offer. All images are mine. Fine Art page at www.steve-brigode.pixels.com
Daryl McLeister @darylsfad.bsky.social Family Inclusive Practice Development Officer
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs
daryl@sfad.org.uk | training@sfad.org.uk.
http://www.sfad.org.uk
Views my own.
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social ๐ธ Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera ๐ธ
๐ https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com ๐
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
๐ฃNEW SUBSTACK ๐
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https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Bluenose Collectibles @bluenosemontreal.bsky.social Bluenose Collectibles has been in the heart of Montreal's collectibles industry for 50 years and counting! We are located in the Pointe-Claire Plaza!
Buying & Selling
Coins - Stamps - Video Games - Trading Cards - Comics
BluenoseCollectibles.com
Rachel Smith @rachelmsmithnz1.bsky.social Writer, librarian, climate activist
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling ๐จ๐๏ธ๐ผ๏ธ
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Kate Smith @milliethepoet.bsky.social Poet/childless/dyspraxic/owned by cats.Sheffield, England. Debut pamphlet 'Imprint' out now from https://fawnpress.co.uk/ (as Kathryn Millington)
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. ๐ https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert Waterstones bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 87/100
๐ Twisted Pike
๐บ Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
Dogwoof @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social The home of documentaries.
Out now: #HangingByAWire, #Lomu,
Coming Soon: #TheCycleOfLove
linktr.ee/dogwoof.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
Gallery365 @gallery365.bsky.social Daily community photo stories , bringing people together via photography.
Worldwide participation.
Creativity ,friendship ,wellbeing , and community through shared support in daily prompts and practice.
#365in2025
#Gallery365dailyprompt
#Gallery365
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs @scottishfamilies.bsky.social We are a national charity which supports anyone affected by someone elseโs alcohol or drug use in Scotland, whether they are still actively using substances, are in recovery, or you are bereaved.
Helpline: 08080 10 10 11
www.sfad.org.uk
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May โ25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Oliver Artist @oliverartist.bsky.social Art & Music
Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social Poems on the Underground offering poetry old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, to three million daily travellers on Londonโs Underground system since 1986. www.poemsontheunderground.org
Grim Art Group @grimartgroup.bsky.social #GrimArt - the beauty & value of the everyday, the ordinary & the overlooked; industrial landscapes, whippets & wastelands, red bricks & rust. #art #photography
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social โข Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
โข Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
โข Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet ๐
free ๐ต๐ธ
she/her
Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - Defiant, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam
๐ North East England
Nebo Peklo @nebopeklo.bsky.social Glasgow based illustrator under the pseudonym Nebo Peklo / Public sector worker 9-5 / Maw 24.7 / #MDANT / Views are my own
www.nebo-peklo.co.uk