HK Hemlock @hkbiglychee.bsky.social 
Steve @stevedunthorne.bsky.social Yeah, that one!
David Cairns @dcairns.bsky.social Film maker, film critic, film teacher, film lover, fool for film
Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
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#SpéirGorm 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Jim MacMillan @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator, researcher and social innovator. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Recently relocated to Cork. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. JimMacMillan.com | DuffyMalone.ie | Signal: JRM.353 | He/him | Pax et Lux
Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social Architect+Art, SF in both its incarnations. Life embracer. Founder @art_slope. Climate eyer. BC survivor. Shaper of spaces, carver of light & air. Local radio http://radio.garden/visit/san-francisco-ca/LbmJqSyY 🦋Feed https://shorturl.at/6XVt3
Douglas Herbert @dougdecodes.bsky.social World Affairs Commentator at France 24, public speaker and media trainer. Beyond just “fighting disinformation”, I seek ways to promote the acceptance of #facts. Journalism lecturer at Université Paris Panthéon-Assas & IJBA
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
Thar Barr Superstar @wildstate.bsky.social 
Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine and Human Shields
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social Thinking.
Dak @dak.bsky.social Goal for 2026 is ‘Cooperative health’.
Feeder: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:piswk46uuf4lsb2ms7lu2b76/feed/aaaihct52zljg
Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social Full Professor UCD Politics. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Member of the Academia Europaea. Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative minipublics https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell he/him. Personal account.
Lenny Abrahamson @lennyabrahamson.bsky.social Filmmaker, Dublin
Paul Hosford @hosford.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor for the Irish Examiner. Dimestore Saint. True Scene Leader. Tiny Change enthusiast. 
Michael O’Toole @mickthehack.bsky.social Crime and Defence Editor, Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star. I’m a crime novelist in my spare time. I’m a linguist, too: 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇸🇦. I don’t do opinions, and it’s great. #MCFC OK
Naoise Nunn @naoisen.bsky.social Food, Boats, Festivals: http://mindfield.ie at Electric Picnic | Kilkenomics | Kilkenny Animated | Wild Atlantic Law | Chair , Dublin Youth Theatre http://schweppecurtisnunn.com
Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social 🎨 Illustrator / Designer
🌎 Clients: NIKE, Adidas, PGA Tour, MLS, WhatsApp, Topps, LFC
⚽️ football ARTicles substack
https://linktr.ee/danleydon
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Renaud @rhaccart.bsky.social 12 years in Hong Kong, relocated a year ago in Geneva. Father, occasional runner, aging metal head and all around curious person.
oftosa @oftosa.bsky.social A change in the weather is known to be extreme
Archie Rhind-Tutt @archiert1.bsky.social Freelance | On-the-ground Bundesliga reporter for ESPN.| All views mine
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Just published a book about anarchists at war in Spain, Kurdistan, and Myanmar, previously wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics.Para todos,todo✌️
https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
Robert @jstckr.bsky.social Tokyo-based amateur pinguinologist & black belt in Mudita. Literary translator・Japanese, English & German. 
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Eugene Brennan @eugenebrennan.bsky.social https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/issue/123/2
Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen.bsky.social Taipei-based journalist. Author of Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025).
@brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social Historian, podcaster 'Dirty War in Dublin' & 'Brothers in Pain'; it is possible to disagree in good faith, but let's be honest we won't do it.
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
François Picard @francoisf24.bsky.social Host, The France 24 Debate
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
Barry Chapman @bchpmn.bsky.social Pharmacist in Edinburgh.
Special interests: substance use, harm reduction, health inequalities, reducing stigma
Irish. Partial to European train adventures and dissonant music.
Personal account. All wafflings contained herein are my own opinion
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Agence France-Presse @afp.com L'AFP: d'abord les faits 🌍
https://u.afp.com/liens
Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam.bsky.social @kevinkfyam on Twitter.
PhD candidate, Melbourne Law School. Senior Fellow @georgetowncal.bsky.social. Activist/ex-lawyer, #HongKong. Cricket tragic. AFL Hawks fan. Foodie. Views my own.
Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social @mongabay.com Past: @hongkongfp.com HKU @factcheck.afp.com @time.com @nytimes.com Storyful, @cnn.com, SCMP, etc. 🐦: yennikwok 🧵: yenni_kwok
UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social Reporting the latest updates from Downing Street and Prime Minister @andy-burnham.bsky.social. Here until Downing Street setup an official account.
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Michael Hudson @michaelwhudson.bsky.social Pulitzer-sharing journo + author
current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS
prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times
linktr.ee/michaelwhudson
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
#artscouncilsupported
Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social Cat valet, etc. Awaiting the sixth extinction in Dublin. Here for the witty aperçus and cat photos.
For vintage crime fans my Oxford World's Classics edition of E.W. Hornung's _Raffles_ :
https://tinyurl.com/2p9tv5pf
badaude @badaude.bsky.social does things with words
writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
852dude @852dude.bsky.social Will shill for toy soldiers or samosas
Banner by Jerry.
Reskeets =/= endorsement
David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social Michael Jackson Beer Writer of the Year (2023 and 2025). Beer book of the year Desi Pubs (2023). Journalist and Substacker: https://davidjesudason.substack.com
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social "Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night."
Irish journalist based in Stockholm, covering the world. 
Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social Taiwan, China, social theory, ideology, politics, foreign policy.
Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social Award-winning Beer Historian & Author | PhD | Writing About Beer, Folklore, History, & Power| Author: FILTHY QUEENS & THE DEVIL'S IN THE DRAUGHT LINES Order Filthy Queens: https://tinyurl.com/Ninebeanrowsbooks
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
China Historical Photos @chinahistorypics.bsky.social China’s story in pictures (1850–2010)
Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social Irish Times Investigations Reporter
Author: Is Ireland Neutral? (Gill)
Email: conor.gallagher@irishtimes.com
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/vFjX_wFsoQvTxoBy_ZAqCY0U0axHI36uAuKVPIMx-EIDfetOPixH_J7tuEnJCXkB
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social Hong Kong Jewy
Torn between writing about ridiculous things in Hong Kong and ridiculous things in America.
Time Zones may vary.
Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie An authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture from the Royal Irish Academy.
Sign up for our quarterly newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/d44f57115e53/royal-irish-academy-communications-sign-up
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Jeff Yang @originalsp.in TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin
Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America
Pic: thx @gregpak!
Kevin McGee @jigtime.bsky.social Dublin. Writer, drummer, fumbler at a tenor banjo. Ojalá sea pronto.
Denise Wu @denisewu.bsky.social Pro-democracy, Taiwanese-American not Chinese.
Ó Raġallaiġ ᚑᚏᚐᚌᚆᚐᚂᚂᚐᚔᚌᚆ @reallynahreilly.bsky.social Bréan de bholgán aonteangach an Bhéarla
日本語でもオーケー、最近使っていないけど
Sé/é/彼
Is fearr méim ná míle focal
Stanaimid Takeru Hokazono sa teach seo
Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social Variously, "Overly ernest"; "Policy nerd"; "Award winning writer"; "Deliberately annoying prick"; "That fucking guy 🙄"
Take your pick
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Eris @erislovesmovies.bsky.social Irish. NW. Blessed mother of Whiskey ❤️ Mother of Monstro. Pro-Palestine, anti-terf, antifa. Fuck AI. Delenda est RSA. Guillotine enthusiast. Goddess of chaos. Obsessive blinker. Fiscally impudent. #TransRights. We were both very stupid and irresponsible.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social University of Leeds Music. Dubliner. Bohs and Wycombe Wanderers.
https://beyondthespelloflabour.wordpress.com/
Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop | D’Olier St, Dublin 2
Bookshop open Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5
Café open Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30; Closed Sunday & Monday
Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights. Head of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social (opinions my own, obvs.)
Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u
Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social & editorial board @cpcs.bsky.social
Chuck D @chuckdpe.bsky.social RapARTivist GET OUR Culture APPS at RsTVapp.com RapCentralStation.net
Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social Photographer and digital storyteller roaming the streets of Washington, DC. Documenting civic life and current events. Also posting on Instagram at aletakesphotos.
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social Cover tech and geopolitics for the New York Times. Email pmozur at nytimes.com. Check out my past work at https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur 
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
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.
CFHK Foundation @thecfhk.bsky.social The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation supports democracy & the rule of law for Hong Kong, campaigns on behalf of political prisoners and fights China/CCP interference #FreeJimmyLai #HongKong47
Media inquiries: media@thecfhk.org.
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore
Follow me on IG: @ilariamariasala
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
@ibnkafka.bsky.social @ibnkafka.bsky.social Raja, Lens, Hammarby, Liverpool, Union Saint-Gilloise, Livorno, St. Pauli in no particular order. Law, politics and similar delusions. Skriver för sällan på svenska.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Irish Abroad @irish-abroad.appspot.com Statistics and live updates for Irish football players around the world
#COYBIG #COYGIG