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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
A Stranger Wrote @astrangerwrote.bsky.social Behind a screen, people say what they cannot say out loud. We bring those hidden stories into the light.
Laura Camacho Tango Project @athenstangoproject.bsky.social Tango ensemble led by Argentine bassist and composer Laura Camacho. Currently pursuing a PhD in Ethnomusicology at the Butler School of Music at UT Austin, TX.
Bandcamp:
https://lauracamachotangoproject.bandcamp.com/album/todo-tiempo-pasado
MyBibliotheca | Reading Tracker @mybibliotheca.org https://mybibliotheca.org/
A quieter place for your books. π Import from Goodreads or StoryGraph, track your reading, and keep your library private by default. No ads.
T.E. Bean @tebean.bsky.social lit-sci-fi novel βΎοΈ ππππππππ πππππ ππππ βΎοΈ arriving Nov 2026 from Black Spring Press (UK) + via Simon & Schuster (US/Can) rep: Katharine Sands
β ππππ, ππππΏππππππΏ (Beacon Press) Autumn 2027 https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/T-E-Bean/269958332
Bepo @eldoleo.bsky.social Author of "Genesi di un hacker". I write where tech, hacker culture and the occult start leaking into each other. Sometimes in Italian.
Kakuriyo ι γδΈ @kakuriyo-lofi.bsky.social lofi from somewhere that isn't on the map.
ι γδΈ β the hidden world.
rooms between rooms, stairs to nowhere, 3am.
two new mixes every day π
youtube.com/@kakuriyo_lofi
works.stacklifelifemod.com/kakuriyo
Bookshelfie βοΈ @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
Aftertaf @aftertaf.theknowingbelievers.com UK then, Normandy now.
Virility is not a quality, guys.
@wulfhelm never liked me (π
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Twatophobic, Occasional writer of songs.
Gives a shit but takes none. probably woke.
A bit of a mess.
https://aftertaf.social
https://aftertaf.mont-gargan.fr
#subvert.fm
kazuki @gh-fg.bsky.social Japanese.
Coffee enthusiast β
Music lover π§
Here for good conversations.
π· instagram.com/miyako_stamp
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
SKP Guy @skpguy.bsky.social Writer, Geographer, Traveller. Human human being
British Birds @british-birds.bsky.social Official BritishBirds.com Bluesky account. For those who love British Birds. We welcome all those with a passion for Wild birds from wherever you live in the World!
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
Martinic @martinic.com https://martinic.com Audio software developers with a passion for accurately modeling classic electronic instruments and effects to the highest possible quality
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ββFace of the Establishmentβ. Sane.
Roberta Warner @robertawarner.bsky.social Fantasy writer of characters who sometimes happen to be neurodivergent.
Currently querying my debut (historical fantasy + romance) and drafting the next book (contemporary fantasy).
Writes true stories that didn't actually happen β¨
Dr. Omega π¦ @theomegageek.bsky.social Writer (alt history fantasy, Victorian occult), PhD in psychology, trauma researcher. Shorter than you might expect. He/him. Trans rights, ok?
@uesp.net @uesp.net 
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt⬠| Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer π³οΈβπ Trans ally π³οΈββ§οΈ Intersectional feminist β Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Joelle McTigue π· @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social Rockfort, Concrete Gazebo, Personal Reasons. He/Him
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.social Music journo/critic who wrote for every publication you used to read.
CABBAGES is my hip-hop newsletter + rapper movie podcast.
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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Hannah G @hannaheg.bsky.social writer on art, places, relations
~ memory-work ~
editor of nonfiction & experimental lit 
Zara Hedderman @zarahedderman.bsky.social Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTΓ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
π©: heddermanzara@gmail.com
Newsletter: The Bad Arts
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 β27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Will Salmon @evilrobotbill.bsky.social Super falling star. Words at SFX magazine, The Quietus, Wyrd Science, GamesRadar+, and more.
Modern Aviation (@modernaviation.bsky.social here and @musiqueparavion at the other place) doing tapes & that.
Tabletop stuff: unremembered_empire on IG.
Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others.
Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow. 
Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social 'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground' - a MOJO, Uncut, Prog & Shindig book of the year. www.daysoftheunderground.com.
'Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van der Graaf Generator' out now. www.rockandrole.net
Cal Cashin @calcash.in Mercurial music writer. As seen on @thequietus.com, @sonemic.com, and beyond.
Complete works: calcash.in
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario
Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social Write about music & culture & various things for various places, mainly the Guardian. Based in Sheffield. danieldylanwray@gmail.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-dylan-wray
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First π Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner βοΈπ³οΈβπ
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
https://linktr.ee/jahduran
Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // cult classic, not best seller
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
Help support independent cultural journalism & get perks by becoming a tQ subscriber here: https://steadyhq.com/thequietus
Mike Vennart @vennart666.bsky.social Electric Guitar Player and Singer. He of Oceansize, Cardiacs, Empire State Bastard, Vennart The Band, British Theatre and other things of that nature. Recently diagnosed autistic which explains a lot.
The Trudy @thetrudyband.bsky.social βThe Trudy are the coolest UK cult pop band youβve probably never heard of.β - Louder Than War
Making independent music since 1979.
https://thetrudy.bandcamp.com/
Cardiacs @officialcardiacs.bsky.social 
The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate.bsky.social Exploring, amplifying and presenting jazz music.
James Kirk @basswampus.bsky.social Musician | Bassist | Cat lover π| Student of Life | Ornette Coleman | AACM | Sun Ra | Conducting | John Cage | Choral Performance | Lover of Democracy | Anti-Fascist | Pacifist | Blue Water Sailor β΅οΈ| Session Musician | Jazz | World Music |
Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social Curating Jazz Music from the 50βs, 60βs, & 70βs
β’Literary Fictionβ’Photography-Art
"Jazz has always been the music of protest, equality, and inclusion"
πππ
#JazzSky #Music #BookSky #ArtLover #Photography #BlueCrew #Resist
Ted Gioia @tedgioia.bsky.social Ted Gioia is author of 12 books, including The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. His newsletter is The Honest Broker (www.honest-broker.com)
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
CΚΚΙͺs Sα΄α΄ΙͺΙ΄ @chrisstein.bsky.social Guitar with Blondie 50 years. Wrote those songs. Writer, photographer, animist etc
'Of what is past, or passing, or to come' π
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
The Independent @the-independent.com News, comment and features from The Independent, the world's most free-thinking newspaper.
π¨π¦ πΊπΈ ZoΓ« Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
She / her | current Detroiter, forever New Yorker, child of the Garden State
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social musician, arts administrator; Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" β @doodlyroses.com
"Fancy with an element of surprise" β @dalanie.bsky.social
Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social Pushing back against Tories, regardless of what colour tie they wear.
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
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
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social Gilbert & Sullivanβs DRACULA
24th/25th October, Circle & Star Theatre Hampstead
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/circleandstar/2409942
πΉ sharon su @doodlyroses.com Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her
Website: sharonsu.com
Biweekly newsletter: https://buttondown.com/doodlyroses
One of the βThree Musketeers of classical Blueskyβ
β @violanorth.bsky.social
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
12tone @12tone.nebula.tv Something something music theory.
they/them
Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social Writer | Presenter | Historian
I write about music, women's history & cultural history.
QUARTET out now at https://linktr.ee/leahbroadwriter
Substack: http://leahbroad.substack.com
Website: http://leahbroad.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/leahbroad
Arvo FΓ€rt @arvofart.bsky.social award-losing composer | lapsed saxophonist | please commission me to write a Hellraiser opera | he/him
https://linktr.ee/aidanramsay
ποΈsaac ποΈo @eyesack.bsky.social they/them | composer | accordionist | electronicsist | professor | parent | autist
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer β’ assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College β’ βexperimental yet still catchyβ β New York Times β’ repost = π
willmasonmusic.com
Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
π
Patricia Wallinga π @pwallinga.bsky.social Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense. Adequate approximation of a teacher, if you squint | she/her | midwesterner in π
Bob Stanley @rockingbob.bsky.social The Bee Gees: Children of the World. Penderyn Prize winner 2023. Let's Do It. Yeah Yeah Yeah. Excavate. Ace Records. Saint Etienne. Non league, soft rock. Also in the Record Room at patreon.com/bobstanley
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social Plays guitar. Hates fascists. Just confused by life.
Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
Alison Mero @alisonmero.bsky.social Director of Clemson University Press. PhD in musicology. Big fan of university presses, classical music, kids, cats, and dinosaurs.
dr worldwideβ’οΈ @imanimosley.bsky.social your favorite musicologistβs favorite musicologist.β¨
music/cultural historian at the University of Floridaπ, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (π¬π§) is strong π
she/her π³οΈβπ https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
TracyK @perlalaloca.bsky.social Indie, swearing, churches.
Wounded nerd, as are all the best people.
#MDANT
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dat file recorrdsδΈ»ε¬ | εΉ»ζ³StorageδΌη»δΈ»ε¬ | εδΊΊι³ζ₯½ | VRChat
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https://linktr.ee/mochiya00
Scottish Post-Punk @scotspostpunk.bsky.social Nae bams or fascists!
Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social I make music and help others make the music they want to make. Composer, co-AD of New Amsterdam Records. Western MA based. He/him. Pic drawn by my now-11yo. None of us are free until all of us are free.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music β geekery β media and comms β more random musings than you can handle β DC vibe checks & street photography β somehow has a PhD β opinions all mine β once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social Artist/Writer of such comics as Griz Grobus, Habitat, Jan's Atomic Heart, Prophet, and more
Find my sweet comics here:
https://linktr.ee/simonroy
Michael Brachman Author π @mlbphd.bsky.social 16 hard sci-fi novels. Explore thrilling adventures & timeless human connections. Experience a meticulously crafted future where science & imagination collide! P.S. These stories are true, they just haven't happened yet.
http://www.michaelbrachman.com
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
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Jennifer ππ§β£οΈ @jdawson001.bsky.social βΏοΈπ³οΈβπAmerican SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
π³οΈββ§οΈ rights = human rights.
John F Leonard @johnfleonard.bsky.social Freelance writer and #author of #darkfiction & #apocalypse stories - basically, I mess with words and like scary stuff : )
Books available on #KindleUnlimited #Audible - linktr.ee/johnfleonard