Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social 
The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social West Yorkshire’s new independent newsroom 📰
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Lost Supper
Words: NYTimes NatGeo Smithsonian
⬇️ Train travel + politics of transit ⬇️
https://www.highspeed.blog
Talks: https://taras-grescoe.com/contact
IG: https://www.instagram.com/taras.rides.trains/
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Mike Transreal @miketransreal.bsky.social Owner of Transreal Fiction SF & Fantasy bookshop in Edinburgh since 1997.
I've not verified my age, so I can't use the Chat function.
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/
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
@tameflowers.bsky.social @tameflowers.bsky.social I MAKE LITTLE GUYS (the guys are ceramic) LIKE IM A LITTLE GUY PIZZA RESTAURANT (the kiln is very hot)
im "kilncreatures" on tumblr, "tamedflowers" on instagrumble
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social Mostly badger, occasionally mermaid. Terminally online. 
Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com Green Party councillor for Old Moat, Manchester. Active travel troublemaker. Wizened software engineer. Own views. He/Him
Promoted by Sean Duggan on behalf of Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party), at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester. M21 9PH
Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social Comedian/award-winning game maker/writer/voice artist #AuDHD (he/him)
Photos: http://hyperfocus.photography
Stream: http://Twitch.tv/brainmage
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/guy
VO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UiLVl6n0I
https://www.guykelly.co.uk
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social Professional water nerd, recovering policy wonk, collector and connector of good humans and holder of important conversations. Hello.
Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social Leadership, management and enchantment.
https://open.substack.com/pub/freshthinking
what if beneath all the noise
there’s still a song playing
ancient, unbroken, waiting?
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/an-introduction-to-relational-disobedience-4693683
Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social ° Visiting Scientist, The University of Göttingen
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social exploring animal depictions in images and words
https://animal-aspects.org
Head Animal: Deniz (she/they), Art History PhD candidate @ UDel
Current projects: animal alphabets; early modern aviaries & bird painters
Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social Slinger of Star Trek memery, maker of random observations. Sometimes NSFW, occasionally wholesome, 💯 silly.
Always sharing Trek fanart (sometimes NSFW).
ALL Trek is good Trek. 🖖
Safe space for 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ♿
Fuck Gen A.I. 🖕
Clark! @clarklebee.bsky.social Disconcertingly lifelike.
https://www.tcj.com/author/clark-burscough/
Lord Hræfn, esq. @xneardark.bsky.social Gamer, Reader, HopePunk, NHS Qlik Wrangler. European. Thanks Mrs Queen for the George Cross. Born at 319.65 ppm
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social Working for a fascism-free, habitable Earth and for Scottish independence. #MECFS #BasicIncome WGB'er
I spend more time on Mastodon, the ethical platform. You can follow my bridge from there at: @LillyHerself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
BlueSky broke DMs.
Stewart @foxbasealpha.net I’m a 50s gay bear, married to the bestest bear in the world. Live in the uk with t’hubby and cat.
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Nicholas Jackson @njj4.bsky.social mathematician, depressive, neurodivergent, agnostic, European, SF fan, ancestor. (he/him/his).
Assistant Professor in Maths and Economics at the University of Warwick.
Mastodon: @njj4@mathstodon.xyz
Instagram: dr.nicholas.jackson
Myz Lilith @myzlilith.bsky.social The same MyzLilith from Twitter, and pretty anywhere else on the internet. Slow to arrive here because life and stuff. I hate writing bios. (she/her)
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social Artist, illustrator and writer of children's books, based in Devon.
I’ve made lots of books with pictures, including the Adventuremice series with my co-author Philip Reeve: jabberworks.co.uk/books / Adventuremice.com / youtube.com/@jabberworks
Legs @diddia.bsky.social Sweet and fortified. Carpet of coriander. The dowager. https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1P55AA8SBNMRC?ref=cm_sw_wa_r_un_un_W6jsmKfXr2KZN
Tom Siddell @gunnerkrigg.bsky.social www.gunnerkrigg.com
#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
Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social Posting random lines from the 5 Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy books by Douglas Adams. Bot by @josephwb.bsky.social, using template code from @philna.sh #HHGG #DouglasAdams #DNA Code: https://github.com/josephwb/whalepetunias
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
Bec Hill @bechillcomedian.bsky.social The one with the flipcharts. Comedian, TV presenter, writer, co-host of the @aproblemsquared and Enemy in Paris podcasts, and self-professed MondeQueen. She/They/Her/Them.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Giant Cats of Dunbar 🏴 @giantcatsdunbar.bsky.social We collect and archive citizen pictorial records of the mysterious & awe-inspiring Giant Cats of Dunbar (GCOD) 🏴
benteh @benteh.no master of yelling at computers. grumpy. UX / web-dev. a11y. bookbinder. nature, doodler. artist. also maps. ex-ceramicist. occasional CSS / HTML / FE geekery. sometimes funny often furious. 🇳🇴
a fun thing to do in the morning is not to talk to me
ShezzaT @shezzat.eurosky.social Her. Yer woman. You know; the one with too many books, a mad cat, and an online footprint that wanders back to the usenet days. Northern Irish.
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)
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot Rejoin. Yes. Grumpy and getting old, not the other way round. Sysadmin, recently retired. Bodger. Engineer to non-engineers; non-engineer to engineers.
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social Creative centre for printmaking and the visual arts in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh.
Emma Playful Anywhere @playfulanywhere.bsky.social Chief of Play 
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Dude Points (what do I do now) @dudepoints.fun I liked Eurovision
(You may also know me as @anngav)
BakeryBits - for the Artisan @bakerybits.bsky.social BakeryBits supplies natural baking ingredients, tools, and accessories for home and professional bakers. We offer specialty flours, unique ingredients, and durable bakeware to support passionate, artisan baking.
Now officially a Certified B Corporation!
Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social the littl shynin man the Addom, he runs in the wud
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
Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com Actual life: Wanderings! Art, design! Buildings! Bridges! Running! Music! GTFC! etc etc!
Work: Product and service person.
📍From Grimsby
🏠 Saltaire, W Yorkshire, UK
Previously just Simon Wilson, then married @texmac.bsky.social
www.officeofwilson.com
Carole, innit! @caroleinnit.bsky.social Columnist, Freelance journalist, Writer & Ghostwriter (travel, dance, risk, accounts & lifestyle) with solo acts & soon a podcast featuring my funnier travel cock-ups.
Part time wrangler of interdisciplinary artist.
Intersectional Artivist.
Drew Whitworth @drewwhitworth.bsky.social Academic at the University of Manchester. Walker. Photo-blogger. Traveller, when I can. Groundhopper. And some other things, as they take my fancy. 
Anne Akers @stripeyanne.bsky.social Run, write, ski, walk, laugh, make, photograph, love, rant. But not necessarily in that order. Event Director at Woodhouse Moor parkrun, Chair of West Leeds Dispatch
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), 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
Jon D @jonxyz.bsky.social Here to burgle your turts…
Manchester, UK - (He/Him) 👬🏳️🌈🐶
@jandolan.bsky.social @jandolan.bsky.social 
Jon Eland @joneland.bsky.social Artist, Business Analyst and All-round good egg
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
West Leeds Dispatch @wldispatch.bsky.social Independent community news for West Leeds. Always on the look out for volunteers and contributors.
ICNN member. Regulated by Impress.
RTs for info - not an endorsement.
Sonia T 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @soniaandree.bsky.social Ecologically-minded teacher in France, possesses a lefty mind, with a penchant for gardening, cooking and regular boardgaming sessions with friends.
Taskmaster @taskmaster.tv Official account for #Taskmaster.
Watch full episodes on YouTube and Channel4.com.
@karolineakemp.bsky.social @karolineakemp.bsky.social Maker, Reader, Mum, FE Administrator.
Mostly just trying not to stand on all the Lego
Leeds
Pronouns She/her
🧶🪡📚
Pauline Mayers @emergentp.bsky.social Freelance performance artist, writer, director & Trustee at Improbable Theatre. Sometimes movement direction.
🤎 films
Leeds/London/UK
https://www.paulinemayers.com
Kirsty @halfpintblonde.bsky.social Stealth geek. Globetrotter. Foodie. Feminist. Wheat beer and white wine fan. Business owner. Managing director. Podcaster. All views are my own. Leeds Leeds Leeds. (She/her)
Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot Powerful citizen journalism from Scotland | Regulated by IMPRESS
bylines.scot
Write for us with stories you feel that matter with our editorial support. Email us at editor@bylines.scot
Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social Poet Seabird Island @boatsagainstmag
UK: https://rb.gy/tra0bq / US: https://rb.gy/9hlhwt
http://sarahwallis.net/
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sarah-wallis
UNESCO Poet in Res, Skara 🇸🇪
2026: Gutter, Stand, Full Mood, Ampersand
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
bushra 🍉 @wrongbushra.bsky.social trouble will find me
@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
Sam Saxby @ecomarbles.bsky.social Environmentalist. Crafty. Works @Calderdale. I’m #MadeByDyslexia - expect big thinking & small typos. All tweets own views.
Hester Duffy @wordlessreader.bsky.social She/Her
Associate Professor at Warwick. Interested in developmental psycholinguistics, neuroscience, research methods, bee-keeping, Gaeilge, vintage clothing, dressmaking. Pinko lefty woke type but not that fond of tofu.
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
Tess HS @tesshs.bsky.social She/Her
Leeds Leeds Leeds
Education Enhancement Officer, Faculty of Arts, Cultures & Humanities, University of Leeds. Boundary Spanner. All views my own
LNR @lnr.bsky.social Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer, she/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html
Trans rights are human rights.
Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social Iconoclast. Abyss-starer. Low tolerance for people not acting in good faith. Possible space alien.
Unsolicited DMs will result in instant blocking.
Harmoni Wyld @dyfferent.bsky.social I think I’m funny?
Glenn @glennkenobi.bsky.social 
Phil Dyson @phildyson.bsky.social The rain sounds like bells, the plastic covered cars swim totally fine.
I used to study wars but I don't any more. Leftie. Conrunner. Cats. 90s guitar music. If you're a TERF, fuck off
Max H @hawkida.bsky.social 
Tom Sulston @tom.sulston.net Digital rights, bicycles, cats, kitchens.
Don't blame my employer for my bad choice of words.
Lebeautemps @lebeautemps.bsky.social Lover of knowledge and kitcats.
Mr Bony Cage @cybermango.bsky.social Editor. Publisher. British Arkansan. Onion despiser. Expressionless metal phantom. Radicalized by Sesame Street. Oat caramel latte.
Julia Rez 🏳️⚧️ @juliarez.placid.horse Queer SF writer / Girl techno DJ / thing builder / music botherer / femme unix top. she/her/root.
Acceptable collateral damage.
BFS award winner, weirdly enough.
Bollocks to LLMs and their apologists.
Robot @robotcooper.bsky.social Prick of the litter. He/they
Dave Budd @davebudd.bsky.social Retired
Laura Blackwell @laurabwell.bsky.social Let’s start all over again then, shall we 
Nomme @nomme1.bsky.social Err... Been around a bit. Likes beer, comedy and having a laugh.
Melanie Rimmer @melanierimmer.bsky.social Woman of a certain age. PhD researcher exploring discourse around learning disabilities. Open University Associate Lecturer passionate about inclusion and lifelong learning. Building knowledge & advocating for respectful representation
Willy Eckerslyke @willyeckerslyke.bsky.social Mooching, flitting, not paying attention
Also, old Rovers, mine exploring, and wandering the beaches with partner and dawg.
Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social It was the charliebrownhadhoesest of times, it was the nohedidntthatisnttruest of times
In the words of Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when he is a colossal dumbass.
Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
thoughtbubblefestival.com
Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Dr Steve Fleischer @stevefleischer.bsky.social Dual national (🇬🇧 /🇩🇪 ). PhD in quantum physics. Ex-Hong Kong (32 years), now North Yorkshire. Interested in writing, physics, history, travel, aviation. OCD/bipolar. Published poet. Tries to be kind.
Scarfolk @scarfolk.bsky.social Scarfolk is a town called Scarfolk. For more information please re-read.
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
christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social Professional art director/illustrator/comedy photoshopper. I sometimes feed the sparrows too.
Peakrill Press @peakrillpress.bsky.social stories - art - magic - surprises
🌳🪨🦉🕸️🥀👹🍄🌜🎲🪄💚
An independent publishing company, via Daniel Sumption
Peakrill.com
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Aileen E @mofette.bsky.social They/Them causing May/Hem. Neon Nuisance in Limerick, Ireland from Northern England. Computer games, Craft beer, Crafting and Music. Seahawks, South Shields and Treaty United FC 🏳️🌈