Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
David Watson @itswatson.bsky.social Educational Developer at University of Liverpool, Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE, Certified member of ALT & Shareholder of Real Oviedo.
frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social ✨💀✨ I make pictures, many of which are crow-adjacent
ORIGINAL ART & TAROT DECK ➡️ shop.frankduffy.co.uk
ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN ➡️ frankduffy.co.uk
🏴 Caerfyrddin
One of several people on this site who is not American
I block A/I & mansplainers
🏳️⚧️ they/nhw
Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social Poet and artist in triumphant distress • Reliquary archives a specialty • World's worst Catholic ❤️🔥 Problems merchant - international shipping
God stuff: allthehoursgodsends.wordpress.com
Strange essays & peculiar fiction:
natashakindred.co.uk
Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them
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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com Independent creators of content for the curious. cosmicshambles.com | patreon.com/cosmicshambles| youtube.com/cosmicshambles
Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social Paleontologist 🦴
Curator 🏛 Natural History Museum Denmark 🇩🇰
Prof 👨🏻🏫 University of Copenhagen
Biodiversity Superfan 🌍🦚🦉🦩🦖🦕🐊🐢🐍🐋🦬🦒🦇🦫🦣🐠🐡🦈🐝🐞🦗🦞🕷🪱🦑🐌🪸🍄🌲🌴🌾🌻
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social Freelance editor. Fantasy and romance author. Transsexual Fairy Princess. 🧚♀️ ☸️ ☭ She/her.
There is also love in the world.
Editing services: maypetersonbooks.com/editorial
My books: maypetersonbooks.com/books
Patreon: www.patreon.com/maypeterson
NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | UofG alumnus. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Good trouble, narrativity, duality, moral reasoning, biopsychology, nature, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, part-time sapphic, among other things. not Scottish, but it's complicated. (repped by Kurestin Armada; fiction and other work at www.generalist.org.uk/iona) (they/she)
newsletter: https://singlecrow.kit.com/f6f21b439b
Dr Maeve O'Dwyer @drmaeve.bsky.social Views my own. Academic developer, C18 art historian, SoTL, part-time lecturer & facilitator entrepreneurship & leadership, co-founder @thirdspaceHE SFHEA.
Jenny NTU @jennyntu.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, leading on student experience. PhD candidate exploring the autistic sexual experience. All views my own.
@good-noise.bsky.social @good-noise.bsky.social Sound engineer, allotment holder, enthusiastic home cook, cat friend.
The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/
published by @psychopomp.com, tweets by @feliciafm.bsky.social and @seanmarkey.bsky.social
VampFreaks @vampfreaks.com Vampire Freaks forum is a community for freaks and outcasts to be themselves, support each other and be weirdos together. https://vampfreaks.com/
Artist formerly known as rowanberries @amyalices.bsky.social Nerd. Grouchy about real life. Likes pretendy funtime games.
school bus sized squid @bus-sized-squid.bsky.social actually quite friendly
(hello I fell off social media completely in 2020 and am trying to remember how to interact with the world?? you might have known me as weaves 👀)
Ian Cameron (Picture a bunch of ace flags here)! @iantheimancameron.bsky.social I'm an ace, comic & geeky-things loving dude on the Autisim spectrum!
Uncle to one
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Will @willcouper.bsky.social Scottish. Writer of unwanted stories. Angry. Frustrated. Watches some films. Plays some games. Sometimes writes about both. Neither award-nominated nor award-winning. Writing enquiries: willcouperbooks@gmail.com
Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Alex B @alexdesignsit.bsky.social she/hers • queer • disabled • graphic design & illustration
EDS • Small Fiber Neuropathy • ADHD
a salty wet bag of molecules and electrical impulses
Wayne Rée (he/they) @waynereewrites.com Singaporean writer of prose, comics, podcasts, television, and even that one game. waynereewrites.com
(Banner and author illustration by @charsiewspace.bsky.social)
John Speakman @speakman.bsky.social And yet, here we are. I like data and technology, and therefore people and policy. Also unfunny jokes and mild snark. A bit of a political junkie, I’m afraid. Trying to let that go. Slightly American (or slightly British?). He/him.
📍United Kingdom
David Marquez @davidmarquez.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/Davidmarquezcomicart
Comic Creator. THE UNCHOSEN, Uncanny X-Men, Miles Morales, Iron Man, Batman: KillingTime, Batman/Superman, The Joyners in 3D, Sinister's Six
GREEN LUNG @greenlungband.bsky.social 𝔉𝔬𝔩𝔨𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔢, ℜ𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔏𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫 👹
https://greenlung.bfan.link/necropolitan
Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Sue Pears @digitalsuep.bsky.social Trying out retirement.
Former information scientist and digital practice adviser. 
@mrsimonpowell.bsky.social @mrsimonpowell.bsky.social Dignity, always dignity. And #cats #heavymetal old & new #horror #classichollywood #laurelandhardy #threestooges #drwho #Simpsons #steelers Birmingham, UK #FuckAI
Dr. Keir Harper-Thorpe, SFHEA @keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social Deputy Director of Curriculum & Progression, at Study Group's ABERDEEN International Study Centre. Educational Developer, Manager, Author. Any views expressed are my PERSONAL ones rather than those of any institution I am associated with.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social Exorcizamus te, omnis immunde spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica...
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
TerryIriomote @terryleopard.bsky.social Software Developer. Cobol dodger. Wildlife and Travel Enthusiast. Non writing author. Bean Goldilocks.
Jemma 💕🦇 @jemmacdraws.bsky.social she/her. 18+ discussion, likes and content. 💖💜💙 mostly stranger things. all twt art threads on linktree. shop and links ➡️ https://linktr.ee/missxdelaney
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
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
Amy Tessitore (barefootbreeze) @barefootbreeze.bsky.social Moodler, educator, instructional designer. EdTech nerd. Equity and inclusion advocate. Sometimes I travel, a lot of times I start home improvement projects. #SlavaUkraini
Allison 📚☕️ @allisonannotated.bsky.social Mainly here for #booksky
StoryGraph: @allisonannotated
Pixelfed: https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/allisonannotated
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
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
Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social Warhammer, Transformers, Tabletop RPGs, assorted nerd stuff. I wanted to be a Social Justice Mystic Theurge, but turned out a Social Justice Commoner.
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
Sign up for our politics newsletter: http://tnvge.co/PZWnEym
Postdigital Science and Education @pdse.bsky.social Official profile for Postdigital Science and Education journal, book series, and encyclopedia.
Curated by Petar Jandrić. 
Emma @variantvalkyrie.bsky.social Just your regular gothy cosplay leftie liberal
Dermot Donnelly-Hermosillo (he/him/his) @dd-h.bsky.social Professor of ChemEd. Fresno State, California.
Posts on scied/chemed, edtech, & learning sciences.
Author: Playful Physical Science https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/playful-physical-science-phenomena-kids
Research Group: ddonnelly5.wixsite.com/dhcerg
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com Artist in the Pacific Northwest. Ceramics, wood firing, and bronze.
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
confusing the polarity @djcati.bsky.social a fan of anything with "star" in the title | they/them
Jos @josbees.bsky.social Likes clouds
Viv @vivienbee.bsky.social She/her, fandom old, tired and on yet another social media site… for the love of Pete, I just want links to Wangxian fic. And kitties. But I guess I have to fight for democracy now.
Jeannelle @jeannellewrites.bsky.social Writer, queer person of unusual size, semi-professional last responder. She/her. 
@theclaram.bsky.social @theclaram.bsky.social 
Misha is: a box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social Your new therapist approved crush 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
ko-fi.com/howlietee
silveraspen @silveraspen.bsky.social She/her. Over 21. Fannish. Also at: https://linktr.ee/silveraspen
Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social A podcast about the works of Diana Wynne Jones, with Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow.
Website: https://www.eightdaysofdiana.com/
Bing @atgkry.bsky.social Fanboy dork with delusions of grandeur.
she/her/Captain.
Nonpracticing, however assigned Karen at birth.
"If you allow yourself to be a token,
they will use you as a pawn."
N 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎼⚾️🏒📺📖 @notmissmarple.bsky.social Nothing much of consequence to say.
Queer in gender and queer in general.
FKA darthrami on the bird app.
J.D. @tropes.bsky.social Formerly bae_huaisang on the tweeters; fandom old; bisexual garden witch
Richard Coen @mixmasterrickyc.bsky.social Programmer in the Games Industry and a Leeds United Supporter. 
#13MorbidMondays @morbidimagining.bsky.social Join Morbid Imagining in counting down to October with #13MorbidMondays, featuring weekly prompts and chat questions to showcase dark fiction, art, folklore, and other work inspired by death and dying, hosted by @braegrosz.com
No A.I.
Lei @surrealium.bsky.social - music lover and neuro spicy person
- on Facebook more than I'm on here
Fiona MacNeill @fmacneill.bsky.social I build meaningful interactions for learning and doing. UX Researcher/Designer, Learning Designer, and Technologist #UX #FHEA
Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social Author, mostly m/m fantasy romance
www.leewelchwriter.com
Max D. Stanton @max-d-stanton.bsky.social Horror writer • Morbid oddball • Pocket full of 20-sided dice • Bloodstream and brain full of toxoplasmosis parasites • Proud Philadelphian • Author of A SEASON OF LOATHSOME MIRACLES and FRANKENSTEIN ENTERPRISES
www.frankenstein-enterprises.com
Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
He/Him
https://www.markthomasinfo.co.uk
You’re Wrong About ADHD @ywaadhd.bsky.social Award-nominated podcast exploring a late #ADHD diagnosis. Old mates Sam and Katie share their experiences and get expert help along the way. Hosts @breathwick.bsky.social and Sam Pittis https://linktr.ee/yourewrongaboutadhd?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaarWS
Rusty Quill @rustyquill.com A multi-award-winning production company and podcast network. Home to The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill Gaming, Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later and more.
Scandinavia and the World @satwcomic.com Read the comic here: https://satwcomic.com/
Union Jackal @theunionjackal.bsky.social Geek, gamer, beer sampler, space enthusiast, Star Citizen (referral STAR-MFW5-PQT4), scribe, Bird App Expat (@unionjackal). GM: Daggerheart RPG, League of Free Agents. He/him.
George Robinson @supergeorge.bsky.social Senior Learning Technologist at University of Sussex, fascinated by Playful Learning, AI and Digital Accessibility 
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social The UK-based vintage paperback book subscription box and online bookshop.
Find our subscriptions and books for sale at https://prudenceandthecrow.com - and shop our art prints and stationery at https://mymble.com !
Dana Bui @theeddesigner.bsky.social Educational Designer in the Higher Ed sector. SFHEA. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Mental Health First Aid. Empathy and reflexivity. She/her living on unceded Bunurong lands. 🩷💜💙
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Dr Lee Fallin EdD @leefallin.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 EdD SFHEA FRGS FRSA #MIEExpert
💼 Lecturer in Education @ UniOfHull
❤️ #HigherEd #EdTech #AI #loveLD #Inclusion
🏫 JLDHE Section Editor & School Governor
🏷️ #AcademicSky #Geographer #Education
🔶 Liberal Democrat #LibDems
💭 Speaking for me, not my employer
@hillfort.bsky.social @hillfort.bsky.social Rural Wessex. Apples, chickens, archery, local history, the usual. Former seafarer and aero engineer
Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social #Whitby #Goth #Gothic #GothicRock #Gothcore #GothicHorror #PostPunk #industrial #SynthPop #EBM #darkrock #darkwave #HammerHorror #Dracula V''''V #BramStoker #Folklore #Krampus #FolkHorror #Steampunk #Frankenstein #altrock #newwave : ste@8b-all.com
Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷
non-fiction, translation, dark lore, art, music & weird niche stuff
I run #dailyspooklore & #swampsunday (feel free to join me).
Also, I often post about vamps #vampiresweekly
@silmaruk.bsky.social @silmaruk.bsky.social 
Andy / FluffyFreak @fluffyfreak.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer. He/Him. I make games. Gameplay, networking, rendering, tools, optimisation. Generalist parachuted into projects for 20+ years.
Green party member 💚 bit of a lefty.
https://Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rebuilding an old sailing boat
Richard Lucas @rl761.bsky.social 
pfh @pfh1.bsky.social Learning Technologist in North-West England.
Blogging at https://peter-beaumont.blogspot.com/.