Vincent Schmalbach @vschmalbach.bsky.social Senior AI-first software engineer for SaaS and business apps. Laravel/Vue is my strongest client stack. Available for freelance work. Founder of Vroni.com.
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.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
showgirlsaday.bsky.social @showgirlsaday.bsky.social A slow close reading of Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls. One shot per Day.
https://showgirls.bearblog.dev
Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social Lover of gin, tea, Sunday roasts and curling up with a DVD box set
Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
🌐: mattashby.com
Dennis @obrhoff.de Berlin indie developer.
Creator of bbybike for iOS, DaftCloud, Recordfy and Daft Music.
Available for contract work.
https://obrhoff.de
#berlin #iosdev #indiedev #startrek #germany #politics #gaming #retrogaming #vintagemac #swift #golang #vinyl
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social Marketing strategist (weekdays), award-winning author (weekends), Eurovision stuff (seasonal). She/her.
Duncan Newmarch @duncannewmarch.bsky.social BBC TV Announcer / Radio Guy. Hear my 80s radio show here: https://soundcloud.com/duncansstuckinthe80s2/stuck-in-the-80s-4-the-last-time
YoavCodes @yoav.codes Technical founder. Building new stuff at my startup lab https://blackboard.sh | 20+ years in early startups | prev: 7 years at webflow
You might have met me as Jeff, Joab, or Larry.
#startups #ziglang #typescript #bun #electrobun #webflow
Margot Ousby @magscribbler.bsky.social Cat loving, novel writing, British woman of a certain age.
Ben Edwards @benedwards.me Web dev and Brighton resident. Mainly here for the politics bit of the old tweeter. Also on Masto @benedwards@mastodon.social for other stuff.
Simon Elliott @sje.bsky.social 
Nick Way @nickway.bsky.social 
Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social founder https://cha-nge.com, https://cogapp.com and https://projectmagpie.org, editor of https://elephant.earth
Tom Parslow @almostobsolete.net Acceptable code typer. Sometimes-ok food cooker. Brighton liver-in. SaaS company haver. Staff member for two cats.
Was @almostobsolete on Twitter before all that stuff. Am currently @almostobsolete@mastodon.me.uk on Mastodon.
Graham Lally @scribe6.bsky.social Longer-term tech: Software systems health and sustainability. Games and society. Rituals and mysteries.
ex @6loss on x.
https://groundlake.org
https://exmosis.net
Jack Tracey @jacktracey.co.uk Azure Landing Zones, Subscription Vending and Azure Verified Modules - Technical Lead @ Microsoft.
bio.link/jacktracey
Jonathan Markwell @jot.is Product at Urlbox
Advisor & Supporter of B2B SaaS in Sussex, UK.
Coworking at The Skiff
Newsletter: Brighton Dynamic
Building my next SaaS on Rails.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
Looking Glass Solutions @lookingglasssols.bsky.social Commercial Directors on demand for successful passion led SMEs with a focus on tech. Founded by Alice, obviously!
Commercial and contractual strategy support from planning to implementation.
Elliot Taylor @ejntaylor.com ejntaylor.com
Dave PG @davegurnell.bsky.social https://cartographer.io 🗺️, https://spacecat.io 🐱, http://github.com/davegurnell 🧑🏻💻, probably not ready for another social network
Cassie Evans @cassiecodes.bsky.social 
jhugman @jhugman.com 🦀 Software guy
🦄 Brighton chap
🇪🇺 European fellow
Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com Lewes, UK. Software guy. blog: mikehadlow.com. TS, C#. Author of guitardashboard.com and easynetq.com. Book reviews etc at https://owlbadger.com. Talk to me about: code / tech / guitar / science / history / progressive-rock
Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com Exhibiting digital interactive artist for hire (scrollytelling + more)
New digital stories - old tech.
Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie.
Into> misusing tools, narratives, what is human, digital witchcraft
http://www.carolinebeavon.com
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Richard Tonkin @richt2.bsky.social Data, statistics, policy and cats. Brit in Bangkok.
Tom MacInnes @tommacinnes.bsky.social Interim Director of Policy, Citizens Advice. Policy stuff, data, graphs, that kind of thing. 
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
FintanTheWrong @fintantwrong.bsky.social Ragwort fight starter. Rambler (in both senses). #TheArchers shitposter.
Unofficial spokesperson for the pipe smoking community. Tilts at AI windmills
Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social Curious ghoul.
‘This confused worker’ - the Daily Mail
‘On the short side, dressed in black’ - my dad
CAUTION: May contain the Devil.
#COYS
Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com
Amy Plackowski @linguistihawk.bsky.social High school ELA & linguistics teacher. A justice-centered, culturally responsive pedagogy must include the study of linguistics. hslinguistics.com. LSA, NEATE, NCTE. Venmo: @AmyPlackowski
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social London. Book-related (sells, reads, hoards, writes). Macaroni cheese. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die. Redhaired stepchild. Proud slop despiser. Punch up.
https://www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/news
https://www.thebksagency.com/lucyfisher
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
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.
Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social & @fritinancy.bsky.social
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social Velocipedestrienne, flâneuse, solivagant, bibliophile, needlesmith. #RosamundiWalks and #VignettesFromTheBikeLane. Swans. Cricket.
If I'm talking about politics, it's probably British politics.
Language Science Station at Planet Word @langscistation.bsky.social We do language science research and engagement with the public! Find us at the Planet Word museum in Washington D.C., and here: https://go.umd.edu/LanguageScienceStationAtPlanetWord 
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
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
Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social Short For Bob. Naval & Maritime Historian. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Council Member: Society for Nautical Research. C18th Naval Ordnance & Personnel Nerd. Rower. Owned by a Greek Dog 🐾
katejamieson.co.uk / IG: katejamieson_
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social Popular, with friends
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
Support me on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times
Emma Christie @emmachristie.bsky.social Barrister at the 36 Group (36 Public and Human Rights)
BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏 and the 80's. imposters get blocked and reported, and I never DM re crypto (which is the ultimate moron 'asset').
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social FT features writer, focus on work/workplace/whatevs
Insta @emmajacobsfinancialtimes
Aura Everitt @qubyte.codes Software engineer and one-time quantum information scientist. Brighton, UK. PhD. she/her
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk “Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Richard @d6y.bsky.social Brighton, UK. Hangs out with Jane and also a terrier called Breezy.
Fan of #cogsci, #ethology, #rustlang, #biology, #ai.
✏️ https://richard.dallaway.com
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Juliet O @jsoosty.bsky.social Mulish
diamond geezer @diamondgeezer.bsky.social East End blogger bloke (2002-2026) diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
Tom Scott @tomscott.com I make things. They’ll probably come back to haunt me in a few years’ time. https://www.tomscott.com/
Zoe Margolis @zoemargolis.bsky.social Girl With A One Track Mind author; writer; runner; birder; gardener. Previously: AD, films. I was there / I’ve never been wrong / I’m losing my edge.
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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/
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk
Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social Born at 314 ppm CO2. (We are now at 427.8 ppm CO2)
Founder and presenter on the Everything Electric Shows.
That bloke from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge.
Info@unitedagents.co.uk
b3ta @b3ta.com Funny, original pics & projects made by the B3ta community & weekly newsletter. Sub to newsletter: https://b3ta.com/subscribe/
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Paul Silver @paulsilver.bsky.social Freelance web developer living near Brighton (UK) with a minor old VW obsession and major notebook addiction. Runs the @brightonfarm.bsky.social freelancers meet ups.
Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social Founder of the ‘Globalisation in one country’ movement.
Economic policy and politics
Ex Facebook
Ex LinkedIn
Ex Labour Adviser
#efc… Posts are all my own views.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social Editor in Chief of @politicshome.bsky.social and @thehousemag.bsky.social. Exhausted.
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)