Smersh Pod @smershpod.com The film podcast that does a bit of everything. hosted by https://bsky.app/profile/johnrain.co.uk
One of Esquire's 38 Best Comedy Podcasts Around.
https://www.patreon.com/SmershPod
https://shows.acast.com/smershpod
Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social Mayor of Southwark. Green Party Councillor for Nunhead & Queens Road ward, Southwark. Likes Crows. 🐦⬛ Promoted by Anna Crowley on behalf of Southwark Green Party, both c/o PO Box 78066 London SE16 9GQ
Author Stephenson & Kitbrick Stop-mo. @authorstephenson.bsky.social Reader, writer, reviewer, coarse angler, blogger, at StephensonHolt.com. Author of 33 mixed genre novels, teaching grandson about fishing. His site on Youtube is @KitBR1CK
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.
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.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Ben Hogwood @benarcanafm.bsky.social The music sounds better with you! Music rights for Naxos; editor of Arcana.fm website; writing for Electronic Sound, Presto Music and musicOMH. Dreams of forming acoustic band Good On Paper while supporting the Canaries #ncfc
Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social Common person. Comedy fan. Colossal nerd. youtube.com/pipmadeley
Plotloser @plotloser.bsky.social Aspirant crime novelist. Cheap watch aficionado. Exiled ex directory Sunderland fan. Expect Crime Fiction/Film, Music, Football, Art, Photography and the usual bollocks. Same name over the road.
Marlins Poet @marlinspoet.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Advocate. Secret weapon. #INFJ
Dr. Joanna Horrocks-Paschedag @joannahorrocks.bsky.social Writer, retired clinical & forensic psychologist. Currently a student in the MA Magic & Occult Science course, University of Exeter. 🏳️🌈 (she/her).
Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
Also: languages
PhD: gothic literature, family history
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
David Ryan @ryangenealogy.bsky.social Historian/genealogist. APG board member. Recently completed MA Public History and Cultural Heritage in University of Limerick. Passionate about heritage, oral history and anything that connects to our past https://ryangenealogicalresearch.com/
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
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
Stagger Lee @staggerlee68.bsky.social Just drinking margaritas at the mall
Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk I'd offer you a beer but I've only got the six.
All manner of retro pop culture references to baffle anyone under 40 and occasional rants.
May make uninformed comments about the football.
#totp #coys
To Live and Die in Lowestoft @livedielowestoft.bsky.social Writes about corruption in the British Criminal Justice System and conducting private criminal prosecutions. Particular interest in executor fraud.
Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social Won AGT15 Canada,3rd SOYTYCANS16, Coast Awards 2012-24, Profiled in Wall Street Journal & CBC, Wayne Knight stand-in, Canadian National Ed Wood Trivia Contest champion. Failed Politician. Host some cons He/him
Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com Lapsed New Yorker in Shakespeare's home town. I write and podcast about Apple, Scrivener, computer security, music, and photography.
kirkville.com
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Immigrant
Trap drummer
Vee 👋🕊☮️ @v-bee.bsky.social
Professional nap-taker
She/her
Wales 🏴
Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social Writing for a living, mostly about tech. Historian in a previous life. Politics, history, bikes, books, cricket, gardening, dogs, music. SocDem.
#FreeSafeLegal
Ireland/France/South Africa 🇮🇪 🇿🇦 🇫🇷
Fair warning: expect photos of dogs, France & cake
Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social Director RISE OF THE GUARDIANS, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE, LOST OLLIE, STAR WARS stuff…
MichaelJMcM 🇳🇿 @michaeljmcm.bsky.social Lover of Film 🎥
Player of Golf 🏌️♂️
Episode Number Nine @episodenumbernine.bsky.social Coming soon, a new monthly podcast in which we blather about sitcoms, brought to you by the people behind GOON POD
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Liz @lizsdebo.bsky.social 
Vince @vincexy798.bsky.social Centrist Honesty facts science are the foundation of democracy. We belong in the EU militarily, economically,politically.
Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social Biologist working in science communication (research: community involvement; practice: art-science and podcasts). Big fan of The X-Files and Star Trek.
#QueerinSTEM (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work: shaunoboyle.org
X-Files Podcast: heydannyitsmulder.com
Nikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
"This generation's Hugh Lamb" - Mike Mignola
"A valuable man" - Stewart Lee
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
e_knit @eknit.bsky.social What makes me the same person throughout my life, and a different person from you?
Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby 
Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social Campaigns on nature, climate finance and human rights.
Writing on European politics and the far right.
Insights, reporting and the occasional opinion.
Greek bearing GIFs.
yiannisbaboulias.substack.com
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Sallystardust1 @sallystardust1.bsky.social All the music,books, art,science, nature, gardening,shapes and feelings created in the Welsh mountains MD ant
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Chris Baker @chrisbaker108.bsky.social 🤷🏻♂️🫠🙃⚽️🏈🏒🧗🏼♀️
Human/internet moaning/bouldering & metal music/southerner in Yorkshire- M Mal @mal3gordon.bsky.social British horror fan. The only good X is certificate X.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
SKP Guy @skpguy.bsky.social Writer, Geographer, Traveller. Human human being
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Literary Agency.
Hunter Felt 🏳️⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social "Rachel Getting Married" LARPER. Writing about music, comedy, sports and pop culture (email hunterfeltblog@gmail.com). "Doll with problems." I'm my own Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Pic is a younger and cuter me. 18+
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect (2026). Actor. Director. Linguist. Cymbelinism and Other Things of the Imogenation, Stories of the Bundle and the Box, The Bread and Cloth Company (2027).
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Vati @xxxvatikinsxxx.bsky.social Life support system for the mo´
Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social I write about pop culture. Credits include The Scotsman, The Big Issue, Radio Times, Classic Rock, Doctor Who Magazine and BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoons show. Co-creator of the So Disappointed podcast. Black cat enabler.
paulbwhitelaw.blogspot.com
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Tiffany Aleman @tiffanyaleman.bsky.social
Horror-Comedy 👻 Jokes, one-liners, irony, hyperbole, quips, observations, fictional narratives, bits and pieces from books, poems, reference to actual persons is purely coincidental, fodder
Writer | Comedian | Baker
no stalkers
Rob Stewart @robstewartwriterq.bsky.social Writer and lover of all things creative. Hoping we all grow up and stop killing each other and the planet.
You can get my first book here, ‘Addict’ by Rob Stewart:
https://rb.gy/n5h6il (US)
https://rb.gy/mr0rfu (UK and Europe)
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social A trilogy of books about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s, from public information films to nuclear war!
Buy our books: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Patreon: bit.ly/3Rfo1Xz
Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Jacqueline @jac2024.bsky.social Cat whisperer, East Riding of Yorkshire
MuddyFunster @fuddymunster.bsky.social Weird pervert, junk movie lover.
DracoHarry🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👻🏴☠️ @athen4.bsky.social Stop targeting Muslims!
Epstein Mafia
Dark money is v dangerous
Calling the RNLI traitors? outside influence
Education and media
Hmz try and protect 🇬🇧 institutions
Yeah radicalisation is very sad
Islamophobia
Hate never wins
Just so you know
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Cinema Sleuths @cinemasleuths.bsky.social Cinema Sleuths is what happens when two crime authors and pop culture connoisseurs embark on investigating the films and tv shows that define us!
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Mickey Revenaugh @mickeyrevenaugh.bsky.social Author of SCHOOL'S OUT: Why Families Are Choosing Unconventional Education. Writer, wanderer, ed tech fangirl. Proud member of #5amwritersclub, follower of #Edusky.
https://linktr.ee/mickeyrevenaugh
Mark Blackburn @markblackburn.bsky.social Writer. Final Approach: My Father and Other Turbulence publ. @claretpress.bsky.social
Winner: Heathrow 70 and 2024 South Hams Lit Fest prizes.
Steve Sheppard @shepauthor22.bsky.social Thrillers and comedies with twists. NEW: False Connections. PLUS: A Very Important Teapot; Bored to Death in the Baltics; Poor Table Manners (the Dawson & Lucy Series). ALSO: Lazytown. #booksky
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Vidar Winje @vwidar.bsky.social Prøver bare å være en ok dude.
Dette er en "best of Vidar" konto
Joseph O. Doran @josephodoran.bsky.social www.JosephODoran.com
Fantasy author of Lorelei the Slayer 🗡️ The Child of Silence ☄️ & Empire Under a Dying Sun 🏰 WIP: Lorelei the Tyrant
Lover of all things Nintendo, Pokémon and JRPG.
Try my books (for free!): https://www.wattpad.com/user/JosephODoran89
@penelope-merrell.bsky.social @penelope-merrell.bsky.social LESFIC Novella Award winner for "Takes and Tales." Illustrator and author of a number of children's books.
Books on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/author/penelopemerrell
Geoff Dutton @perfidy.press Naively thinks that putting out good stuff causes people to take notice.
Novelist, social commentator, anti-capitalist and anti-fascist.
Supporter of human, animal, and environmental rights.
Kindness is a social adhesive.
See what I write at perfidy.press
Jim Sullivan @jdsullivan1960.bsky.social I read and write poetry, love books and art. Small town lefty. That's my late llama Accie in the picture. Spouse, parent, gardener, retired community college English teacher.
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Cary Davis @carydavis.bsky.social Senior Fellow Carnegie Council
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Steve Shilstone @steveshilstone.bsky.social octogenarian dadaist writer [Vineyard's Children (hippie novel) Chance (baseball novel)] and admirer of Jimmy the Joyce, Ginnie the Woolf, Sammy the Beck, Gertie the Stein, Lew the Carroll, Ed the Lear, etc and so on for quite a long list indeed
J.B. Lyle @jblyle.bsky.social #BlueCrew, retired lawyer, woke, cis/straight, arts, history, science, love travel and languages, friend to animals & most non-MAGA humans. Dem. politics.
JFatton @jfatton.bsky.social Writer, blogger, editor (in reverse order), spouse the past 40 years to Dr. Rose Antonelli-Fatton, animal advocate, chief feral wrangler at Blue Rose of Hope Animal Sanctuary. Cannabis activist. Springer, NM.
Sylvia Woodcock @ta-b3ntal3s.bsky.social Often writing, drawing and painting in order to alleviate the obsession with reading absolutely everything, especially long and little-known novels by women.
Ian Nathaniel Cohen @incspotlight.bsky.social Author of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLACK FLAG | Current WIPs: THE SHERWOOD GAMBIT and CENTURY OF SWORDS| former (?) film/comic review blogger | unrepentant punster | he/his/him
iannathanielcohen.weebly.com
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social Author of The Doors Examined, The Lion Communique finishing The Third Day. If you want to know more abt me, you'll find me in between the lines of my stories. www.jymsbooks.com
@wildswimmer.bsky.social @wildswimmer.bsky.social