Kirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social European, Scottish and UK politics - and sometimes photography/nature/landscapes. Blogs on Europe & Scotland https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhughes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8ztbl
@gregorypeccory.bsky.social @gregorypeccory.bsky.social 
johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social Old school war reporter: author of 16 books inc Killer In The Kremlin, Murder In The Gulag and novel The Useful Idiot.
Co-host Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime?
Founder: VPDFO! Festivals
johnsweeney.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/c/JohnSweeneyRoar
Nick Barber @efsb.bsky.social Retired teacher. Author of educational books. Senior Examiner. Music promoter. Musician. Award winning photographer. Review writer. Seen Taylor Swift 11 times & photographed every one. https://nickbarber.zenfolio.com
Paul Sherratt @globaljukeboxer.bsky.social
Staying curious
maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Mike Transreal @miketransreal.bsky.social Owner of Transreal Fiction SF & Fantasy bookshop in Edinburgh since 1997.
I've not verified my age, so I can't use the Chat function.
Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Bury St Eds
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
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*
birch sap | sú beithe @birchsap.bsky.social Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️🌈 MFA in Creative Writing (2026) | MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism (2021) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: nancyforde.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
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/
Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social manipulative, over-emotional bitch
Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social he/him
chicken-brained biological disaster
as seen in VT
well knowne a Strumpet lewd
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, leggy blonde // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social An idiot, but not one of the useful kind.
Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social Programmer, infosec, co-founder of TurtleSec, parent, bi 🏳️🌈, NB, she/they, Norwegian 🇳🇴 dyslexic with no edit
Anti-Fascist ✊
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
Giving up is collaboration.
🐘: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia
🏡: https://patricia.no
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Board Game Addict UK @boardgameaddictuk.bsky.social Daniel Fullard - Board Game reviewer, content creator and fanatic from Sunderland, UK
This months sponsor is ‘Trilogy of 2k48’ - a card shedder coming to Kickstarter soon!
Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com www.aanpress.com/artworks
Todd Sanders @lackriver.bsky.social formerly of the other place. game/book/graphic designer/maker - publisher of Air and Nothingness Press - aanpress.com aanpress.com/artworks
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social Sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful, makes mistakes.
Husband, father, animal friend. Grumpy, old, gay, and many other things: proud of all of 'em.
Like and follow, 'k?
@jscottcory in the Meta ecosystem.
scory.blogspot.com
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.
Preservation, art, old tech.
18+ only
Something beautiful is going to happen.
(she / they)
Writing: antientro.pics
Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social Londoner escaped to Staffordshire.
✊ Political Activist
🏍️ Biker
🎥 Movies Freak
🖥️ Linux Geek
👹 Troll Hunter.
Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social Boosting our community's right to remain in the UK with dignity & humanity. Fighting injustice of asylum/immigration system #TheseWallsMustFall #NoOneIsIllegal
https://righttoremain.org.uk/
Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social Social Worker | Anti-Trafficking campaigner | Socialist
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
JenHenders @jenhenders.bsky.social Love walking & wild camping in the great outdoors, completed Cape Wrath Trail solo for a significant birthday! Love being out in my van, Louise & taking time to fill my memory box. (No DM)
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social We expose all forms of racism and fascism in Ireland and further afield. 
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Deepa Seetharaman @deepa.bsky.social tech reporter covering A.I.
Ping me on Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/SX-5fAfwgTQcgsbLtDC8E47LII_kSHE0PhkJgq-IdcaAZZvn4jxF67TNs80HUW4f
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social
Concept artist. illustrator. Indie game maker. Tired.
aficionado of biology, mythology, & horror.
Inundated by bot followers I do not want :/
Will block any AI/NFT
Prev: Finji,Netflix,Blizzard
Her/They
https://linktr.ee/charamath
Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com Stonemaier Games is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier Games’ top brands include Viticulture, Scythe, Charterstone, Wingspan, and Apiary.
UK Games Expo @ukge.bsky.social An annual convention showcasing the best hobby games including miniatures, boardgames, role playing games, collectable card games and family games. #UKGAMESEXPO #UKGE2026
Next UK Games Expo takes place between May 29th - May 31st 2026
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social 🌍🔮🌡️☣️🦟🏳️🌈 Prof. Medical Geography, Co-Director, FL Climate Institute, Assoc Dir, APPEX, building tools to anticipate climate-health impacts to prepare us for the future! Mum and wife, enjoyer of cheese. Rarely serious. She/her. Queer. All opinions are my own.
Cody Welton @cwelton.bsky.social Home And Away - A Sporting KC Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ip6NghZlkq72rud4XqMeZ?si=ztjwxeZ9QcOX6YbK8RUFMQ
https://discord.gg/aZGEVZeu
electrify my home @electrifymyhome.bsky.social One goal. One objective. One mission. Embrace the home energy revolution to drive down energy bills, motoring costs and pollution
www.electrifymyhome.co.uk
www.youtube.com/@electrify_my_home
Pegdeg @pegdeg.bsky.social Keep on keeping on.
Ex-X / Twitter
Aberdeen, and then North a bit.
@lowcarbondave @lowcarbondave.bsky.social Bit of an environmentally aware chap as well as a car enthusiast. Amidst a career change moving from Financial Planning to the green home energy transition sector.
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
roterote @roterote.bsky.social I post about politics 🏛️🌹 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇫🇰
My focus is the EU, UK, US and Far Right.
Chair of the Democracy Conference aka DemCon 🌟
https://linktr.ee/roterotemedia
https://www.tiktok.com/@roterotemedia
www.thedemcon.org
Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social Fine Art / Illustration
https://linktr.ee/tarabushart
She/Her
🚫 A/l
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
The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
an online journal of unexpected music + culture → thetonearm.com
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer.
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Marco Rosenkranz @marcorosenkranz.de 'You need some Beauty to face the Ugly in the World.'
Taking Pictures for 40 Years. Living near the North Sea\Wattenmeer.
Twitter Archiv: https://bsky.app/profile/rosenkranzarchiv.bsky.social
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
@gerardfotos.bsky.social @gerardfotos.bsky.social Dutch, but been living in South Africa for many years. This account is photo centric. I post mainly about my adventures with the Fujifilm xhalf, according to many the worst camera of 2025.
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Two obsessions: the biodiversity of Earth's largest habitat, and why body size varies across all of life. Science communicator, ocean's weirdest animals daily.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art ᚌᚂᚐᚄ ᚇᚓᚂᚌᚅᚐᚉᚆ Nature/fantasy/creature art maker (and enthusiast) . Housebeast. Cat Person. Naturalist and weather nerd.
🇨🇦|🏳️🌈|40s|T(he)y/Them|🦓
🫀 Hushroom= @mycotae.bsky.social
#noAI
Dr Lindsay de Wal @drlindsaydewal.bsky.social BA,MA,PhD|UK’s 1st NHS Humanist Head of Chaplaincy|Director Humanist-Existential Care [EHSN]|Head of Pastoral Care [NRPSN]|Thoughts are my own|Published Author|
W: https://living-your-values.com
W: https://humanist-existential-care.trainercentralsite.eu
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
W Social @wsocial.eu We believe in the need for a global, trusted social media platform owned, run, and hosted in Europe. W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy, and free speech.
https://wsocial.eu/
@clarecaulfield.bsky.social @clarecaulfield.bsky.social 
Alison Herman @aherman2006.bsky.social tv critic at variety. aherman at variety dot com
Tim & Kat's Green Walk @timwaskett.bsky.social Mostly making YouTube videos about green tech and our zero carbon home
https://www.youtube.com/@TimAndKatsGreenWalk
Michael Marten @mmarten.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Photographer. 🏴 and 🇩🇪
I spend most days trying to reimagine life in all its fullness, hoping to resist and subvert the impending dystopian doom that threatens to engulf us.
Eat the rich (in a vegetarian-friendly way). Free 🇵🇸.
Antiqueight @antiqueight.bsky.social I don't remember what I said over there. Here I am really just me to people who know who I am already.
Pronounced Auntie Kate
She/Her Engineer Irish
History, Feminist, STEM, Wikipedia & SFF
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Angela @j-beanz.bsky.social Democratic supporter. Dog mom. Fed up with the impact of Trump's policies on our people. I love my blue state.
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
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.
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social Stop Trump. Stop Trumpism. We still resist.
https://stoptrump.org.uk/
Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social Conservation biologist @idiv/UFZ. Focus on EU's Common Agricultural Policy & Nature Restoration Regulation. Agri EU Projects Agroecology-TRANSECT, LAFERIA.
Butterflies & citizen science projects: VielFalterGarten, UNP+, BMS-IL. Father of 2.
BUND, S4F, SCB
Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social 🔞 Political Commentary & Social Sarcasm.🔞
Verified Satirist - Snopes/Reuters/Fullfact etc
Also: Fact Driven Articles on Substack & For Central Bylines
https://politicalsatirical.substack.com/
Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social Artist in the PNW. She/Her. Previous clients: WotC, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com, Macmillan Publishers, Llewellyn Worldwide, Dark Horse Comics
jdillon82@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/juliedillonart
Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Clarke Award, BSFA, Kavya & Saltire Awards finalist | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com A documentary on Newgrounds.com & its significant impact on the internet. Directed by @littlbox.newgrounds.com
RAISED $100K ON KICKSTARTER. IN POST-PRODUCTION.
Banner by @pkettles.newgrounds.com & @hibachi.newgrounds.com
https://newgroundsdoc.com/
Andy Kingdon 🔶️ @andygeology.bsky.social Lib Dem Councillor, Bramcote Ward Broxtowe BC. Scientist, father, atheist, cyclist. Middle age fat bloke.
I block racists, bigots and idiots. If I block you choose your category
Views mine and do not relate to my employer.
Sarah @skarabara.bsky.social 📷 I take pictures.
🏳️⚧️ Safe with me.
✊🏻 I have friends everywhere.
🩷 Breast cancer survivor.
🌈 Ally for life.
🫂 Will hug you (apologies in advance).
😆 Embarrassingly loud laugher.
Blaire Squiscoll @handle.invalid Author, book trade event attendee, Negroni drinker https://ullapoolism.wordpress.com/blaire-squiscoll-author/
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social no time for your shenanigans.
fuck ai. i block that shit on sight.
this be the art/art appreciation account of @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
i website poorly @ https://upfromsumdirt.wordpress.com/visual-art/
skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry