Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk Ex Merchant Navy officer and now Merchant Navy teacher and creator of online training courses.
Author of the Series "The Hormuz Crisis" - Volume 1 The Illusion of Open Seas e-book on Amazon now.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-oro
https://ashoro.co.uk/
Richard Hermer @richardhermer.bsky.social Former Attorney General for England and Wales | Before that, human rights lawyer | Always a Cardiff boy
BossSaru @bosssaru.bsky.social Social researcher, videogaming nerd, and regular runner (he/him)
Mairéad "Maisie" Ó Dorchaidhe @modorchaidhe.bsky.social Game developer.
Previous credits incl SSE @ Diablo 4, Destiny 2, EA Sports, Frostbite. Now micro-indie (@odorchaidhe.games)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBéal Feirste.
🟢 Gaeilge, English, 日本語
🟡 Magyarul, Español, Français
🔴 everything else
HackmanHartley @coolhandcombs.bsky.social Apparently I blog now
https://medium.com/@HackmanHartley
LGBTQIA
Pro-EU
Free Palestine
Truck Frump
Public services should be publicly owned
Free NHS
Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social Reporter at the Financial Times https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com.
Bits of UK retail, markets, bits of market structure, bits of crypto or mix of all of them.
If you've been spammed in your DM with a crypto scam, it's not me.
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social Soccer nerd. Sometimes I even do soccer poasts.
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️ @graceonfootball.com Football writer, from the newsletter with the same name and occasionally elsewhere. Non-football stuff @gemofamara.com.
https://www.graceonfootball.com/
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social machine god cultist
Chris @turnerchris.bsky.social Here to learn, laugh and maybe make the world a tiny bit better. Proud father of a trans woman. That's my Viszla, Zula, with me. She has her own Insta, she is that cute. 🏳️⚧️
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social Political economy & place‑based policy
Fellow of things at Teesside University
That's not Teesside in the banner photo
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social Housing, Rugby, Gym.
Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social Notoriously tired.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
@nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social 
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Jaimie Kaffash @jkaffash.bsky.social Editor in chief of Pulse magazine during working hours. Full time Arsenal fan
Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social a guy
Nicola 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @nicclesb.bsky.social If someone tries to rain on your parade, poke them in the eye with your umbrella.
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Andy Twelves @twelves.bsky.social writer, drinker, limebiker. views my own and not ChatGPT’s.
Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | Teaching methods and stats in social science
Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Paul McNamee @paulmcnamee.bsky.social Director of @LCEFUK. Woolyback, baker, board game geek
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social "Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social BBC News in Westminster
Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social Moodboard of late empire. Friction is foreplay for the strategically inclined.
Dr./ma’am
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Robert Loveridge @makingsawdust.bsky.social Anaesthetist, wood-worker and gardner/allotmenteer.
Optimist/Realist/Pragmatist/Cynic.
Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social Acting Home Affairs correspondent at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
Prior winner, Paul Foot Award, 30Under30 etc.
Want to talk stories? DM or use yeomans.97 on Signal
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Making sense of our political hell every Tues and Fri. From Podmasters UK.
Listen: https://linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
Back us: http://patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Posts without signatures from the production team.
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social There was a bio here. It's gone now.
He/him.
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social 
Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: THE PARTY'S OVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THATCHER TO SUNAK | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social Writer, historian, Contrib Ed, FT, Robert Bosch Fellow, Berlin, author These Divided Isles, and Britain Alone (both Faber), British, Irish and European. philipstephens.substack.com, philipstephens.net
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social BBC News Analysis Editor, The Media Show, 'The Art of Explanation', 'Communicating...' podcast, squash enthusiast, DJ. Agent:
Sophieclaire@miradorgroup.co.uk
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social We are cats.
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Elthampug 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @elthampug.bsky.social 
Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴🏳️🌈 🚀🛰
Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n
“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social Autonomous vehicle. Self-assembly required. May contain traces of critical theory. Retweets not necessarily a WTF
Blog: fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.co.uk
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
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social European political economy and geoeconomics commentator. Publisher of the Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @TheTimes. Runner, cold water swimmer, aspiring chef.
https://nixons.substack.com/
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
Internet Hooligan...
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Kevin Jackson @iamkevinj.bsky.social Just a person. Photography, wildlife and aviation are my things. Full time carer.
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social 
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University College of Law. Previously Chicago-Kent; Yale Law & ISP. Working primarily on the First Amendment, constitutional law, and constitutional / democratic theory.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Dr Emily Backpain @limeyemily.bsky.social Birds. Socialism. AFC Bournemouth
Are you mad at me?
Professional lieologist
she/her
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social Former North of Tyne Mayor. Socialist, Dad. @majorityuk
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
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/
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
David @sparkydjm1.bsky.social Historian, writer, Good Guy Gamer, PlayFriend, baby queer
Working a Light Novel in the background.
Pfp and banner by @hiperbolicart.bsky.social
Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS).
No General But Ludd, No Ipswich #10 but Chaplin
Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social Self-employed Design & Interaction Developer at Elastiq Ltd.
Independent researcher exploring color perception, palette tools, and interface design through prototyping.