Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social Still holding out the hope that my life up to now has just been Derren Brown trying to teach me an important lesson. LAFTAS award winner. Books: Catbin Fever, Jeremy is Stuck
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social Terrible news, chums. Head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose!
Here Comes The Flood @herecomestheflood.com I write about music. Covering sonic treats since 2004. Excellent taste. O, and I run a rather good website about John Cale.
https://herecomestheflood.com/
https://fearisamansbestfriend.nl/
https://linktr.ee/hctf
#music #reviews #tourdates #videos
Just Dropped In @justdroppedin.bsky.social Record Store / Occasional 130
Cap Venue / Fargo Village Coventry : New and 2nd Hand Records.
Open: 11-4 Sun/Mon/Tues 11-5 Wed/ Thu
10-5 Fri/ Sat
Web :
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Liz Buckley @lizbuckley.bsky.social Head of A&R at Ace Records. Resident music guest for Standard Issue podcast. Also a cat owner, so it’s mainly records and cats here, to be fair.
Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com Sport news, comment, video and more from @theguardian.com
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The Leaf Library @theleaflibrary.bsky.social Drone/indie pop band from NE London and beyond. Matt posts.
Links: https://paa.ge/theleaflibrary
New album out now: https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain-strange-seeds
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social I'm only in it for the funny.
Middle distance punner and ukulele-botherer/'singer' with the multiple award-winning musical comedy idiots Plastic Jeezus.
www.plasticjeezus.co.uk
The Divine Comedy @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social The official Bluesky run by the nice folks at DCHQ
Live: https://thedivinecomedy.com/live
Website: https://thedivinecomedy.com
Album 'Rainy Sunday Afternoon' out now
DMs open on divinecomedyhq facebook & instagram
#thedivinecomedy #neilhannon
Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social WILD DONKEY. BROADCASTER. The Fall 78-83. Not a real Doctor. Met Bowie, Woody and Ronno. Ner ner ner ner ner.
COLOSSAL 🛎️end…
Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
Raves From The Grave @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social Independent Record Shop in Frome, Somerset
https://linktr.ee/RavesFromTheGrave
Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com
ko-fi.com/firstlastanything
Jason Narducy @jasonnarducy.bsky.social Bob Mould Band, Superchunk, Split Single, Verböten, Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and Friends
https://linktr.ee/splitsingle
Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels
#MDANT
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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
Ex-HMI and national geography lead
Once a teacher
Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else.
Posting on Education, Folklore, Dungeons & Dragons and music.
Chas Townley @chastownley.bsky.social Passionate about rights of way and represent Open Spaces Society in Gloucestershire Live in Coopers Edge suburb of Gloucester. #Stroudie in exile Hucclecote Parish Councillor. X refugee. 
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
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The Handsome Family @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social The oldest living band in North America.
"Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice."
—GREIL MARCUS
https://handsomefamily.com/
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com Author. Actor. Observer of everyday life.
https://www.mirandakeeling.com
My new book: https://geni.us/ThePlaceImin
My first book: https://tinyurl.com/ycz2hc94
My podcast: https://StoppingToNotice.lnk.to/podcastho
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mrxket5b
Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social Older than average PhD student, mum x 2, former English teacher, Green Party member, climate activist, japanophile. #freepalestine. Happiest outdoors. 🌳⛰️🚵♂️ 🍄🏞️
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/
Cheap Indie Vinyl @cheapindievinyl.bsky.social Hi, I’m Tom. I share links to sales and cheap vinyl records from independent record shops in the UK. he/him
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social Did a thing, probably
John Robb official @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social Official account of John Robb musician and writer. Upcoming memoirs and tour https://louderthanwar.com/john-robb-memoirs-and-spoken-word-tour-may-2026/
Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social Berk
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.
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People 🌈
🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner
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🍎 Lecturer in Creative Writing
📚 Poetry Book Society Selector
📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
Proper Working Class Northerner 💪
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller 🐴
Sometime dodo 🦤
Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social Creator of the popular #5albums music polls. Family, friends, music obsessive, real ale / craft beer, Potters / Bears, whippets #MDANT 🏅 #musicsky 🎶 ‘In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection’ 🎶
Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social 
Exeter City FC @officialecfc.bsky.social The Grecians, located in the ❤️ of our city | Proudly supporter owned | #ECFC 🔴⚪️ 🎟 tickets.ecfc.co.uk 🛍 shop.exetercityfc.com
Mike Mills ✌️🇺🇦🐶🇨🇦 @millsish.bsky.social We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files.
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies @theanchoress.bsky.social Songwriter/Producer 3x@musicproducersguild nominated. Management: sean{at}drownedinsound.org
Booking: lux@spideringtouring.com
Press: polly@completecontrolpr.co.uk
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social Band from Athens, GA, 1980-2011, made music, lasts forever.
Superchunk @superchunk.bsky.social Rock band since 1989. NC. Posts by Mac unless otherwise noted!
Tom Rank @tomrank.bsky.social Reflections on literature, education - and other ramblings. Was @literaryconnect in the other place 😀
http://www.literaryconnections.co.uk/
Hannah Peel @hannahpeel.bsky.social Composer, producer, synther, all the eerrrrs
Broadcaster on BBC Radio3 #nighttracks & 6Music #Instrumental // Mgmt: steve@randommusicmgmt.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
David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social English Primitive reinventor, Moonshake/Wolfhounds ranter, Swell Maps supply guitarist, nature writer. #MDANT
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
Robert Simpson @comicsandlit.bsky.social English teacher and artist, passionate about making literature more accessible. Visit my YouTube channel for illustrated GCSE study videos.
youtube.com/c/ComicsandLit
Dr James Shea @englishspecial.bsky.social Principal Lecturer Teacher Education | ITE UG & PG Portfolio Leader | Trustee The Pyramid Schools Trust | Author | Editor http://peerreviewededucationblog.com
James Durran @jdurran.bsky.social Teacher of English, media & drama for 24 years; now an adviser. Literacy, English & all things teaching. Views are personal. jamesdurran.blog
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social Captain of the Good Team. Artist, Visionary, None of your Businessman, and paperback writer for kids.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social Not a fan of free speech. linktr.ee/briangaar
Austin, TX
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Onion Inc Union @onionunion.bsky.social Organized workplace with @wgaeast.bsky.social
Nick Harvey @mrnickharvey.bsky.social Reformed Twitter addict
batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social my mom fucked a bat
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social sociologist of disasters
pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
(views aren't even my own) roll tide.
come on, come on, get down to goodison park.....wooh!
maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
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