Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social No longer a fed doing emergency mgmt or service design & accessibility, but still care greatly about both. Former Coastie. Fungi fan
Tracy Ensor @sciencetracy.bsky.social Applied scientist, systems thinker, ideator, implementer. Building capacity in programs and people in the Great Plains.
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Lisa @ghgby.bsky.social
Macaroni @crypticmacaroni.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords 🐧
Big Puzzles: https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Macaroni
Little Puzzles: https://crosshare.org/macaroni
Endless rain, mac on, stirring pasta (8)
Brian Reid @leicesterreject.bsky.social Editor, guitarist, East Midlands exile. Frequently changes might to may but rarely the other way around. OU student. Not a cat
Born at 324 ppm
Cogs @cogsturn.bsky.social I set and talk about Cryptic Crosswords!
Solve the gentle puzzles: https://cogs-turn.com/
Solve the violent puzzles: https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Cogs
Watch me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CogsTurn
Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social Freedom of information expert & consultant. Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College politics dept. Author, 'Freedom of Information: A practical guidebook', http://amzn.to/3L2tuKi. ExBBC political journalist & radio producer. https://rosenbaum.org.uk/
FreeheartBella @g69.bsky.social I love quiet mornings and honest people. I keep my heart open but my boundaries clear. Life tastes better when you slow down.
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Puzzle Patzer @puzzlepatzer.bsky.social Patzer: from German; patzen, 'to bungle' - usually used in chess for an inexperienced player.
Chess, sudoku, comics and other nonsense 😉
Caroline Stokes & John E Camm @johncamm.bsky.social Authors of sports biographies.
www.lulu.com
www.amazon.com
sportsauthors.wixsite.com/sports-authors
https://officialcarolineelwoodstokes.wordpress.com/
@sports-authors-ltd.bsky.social
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
Jon Owen (Jono/Jay) @jwmowen.bsky.social Crosswords aka Jay, Jono
Iain MacGilleBhràith @aeonmach.bsky.social I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony.
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
LRLR @lrlr.bsky.social Clues: minutecryptic.com
Crosswords: The Age, SMH, Saturday Paper
Grievous Devious @furikake-pancake.bsky.social
@gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social @gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social
Rebecca Bridge @rebeccabridge.bsky.social Writer, professor, poet, editor, cryptic crosswords, painter, screenwriter, metalsmith, mother, woodworker, and, you know, liver of life. Author of A Month's Worth of Instructional Poems & co-author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic. Pretty despondent.
Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud Web aficionado, Cloud inhabitant, CSS devotee, Svelte superfan
Damian R @damians78s.bsky.social 16-19 Maths and Further Maths teacher, lover of classical music, sci-fi and fantasy
music.damians78s.co.uk
Graham @redgremlin.bsky.social Briton living in the French Alps. Microelectronic engineer, nature lover, canoeist, amateur photographer and teddy bear enthusiast
Family, personal and professional interests in France, UK and US
Hates what is happening in UK - not the country I left.
Pat Cousins @patcousins.bsky.social Crossword solver on YouTube, lazy writer.
Abdul K. @abdvl.bsky.social Amateur cryptic crossword setter. Find my work at https://crypticsbyabdul.com/
Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social Programmer (sometimes games, currently mostly not) and former microbiologist. Brit in Germany. Likes cats, tabletop RPGs, and F1. Trans rights are human rights.
Burrows @happyspacebunny.bsky.social Cryptic crossword addict and setter (MyC and Big Dave), writer and occasional software developer.
AKA happy little space bunny
Duncan McGowan @demcgowan.bsky.social Dublin
Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
Dark Hi and Lois content now at @darkhiandlois.bsky.social.
Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social Game dev in Oslo. Formally of UK. Formerly of Snowcastle Games. Founder @ No Bad Weather
Jack Shepherd @lovefromjack.bsky.social Puzzle creator at Lil Snack. Formerly BuzzFeed. Big time cat guy. My newsletter about words and, like, grammar or whatever: https://onwords.substack.com/
Matt // metagloria @metagloria.bsky.social Amateur cryptic solver/setter/enthusiast
Baltimore, MD
Old puzzles at https://crosshare.org/metagloria
New and future puzzles at https://mycrossword.co.uk/metagloria
A Moveable Feed @talentx.bsky.social Moveable Feed: sharp, biased dispatches from Trump’s America and the AI future. Ex‑DC comms hack, still talking. Read + subscribe here → https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
@owlhill134.bsky.social @owlhill134.bsky.social
someguyinthefridge @someguyinthefridge.bsky.social
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
@duncanjwitham.bsky.social @duncanjwitham.bsky.social
George L. Jones @gljones1972.bsky.social I'm just a blue dot in a red state. Fighting for everything I believe in...
#BlueCrew🌊 #BLM✊🏾 #HerBodyHerChoice
🏳️🌈... LGBTQ+ Ally
🇺🇦... #SlavaUkraine
#DoNotObeyInAdvance
#MakeElitesAfraidAgain
#EatTheRich
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #ArrestICE
#NoKings
QueenKong👑💙🌊🦋 @queenkong24.bsky.social 🦋☮️🦋keep showing up Resisters.
-DEMOCRACY.
NO KINGS
@QueenKong24
#FBaRmy
#Texan
#resist #FBR
#DEMSCONNECT
🚫BOTS-🚫DMz
🦋☮️🦋
Clouve Inc. @www.clouve.com Clouve builds the bridge between great software and great business.
@lettercolor.bsky.social @lettercolor.bsky.social
@harrygreaves.bsky.social @harrygreaves.bsky.social
Paul Howard @paulhoward5.bsky.social Family stuff, music stuff, techie stuff, cryptic crosswords, Oxford commas, and total nonsense. Not always in that order. All posts are my own views. Grew up in the 1980s.
Janet Sparke @scintilla71.bsky.social Trying really hard to get better at setting cryptic crosswords.
Also a photography tutor, food lover and very slow runner
Joyzzle @joyzzle.bsky.social Crosswords reimagined.
www.joyzzle.com/play
Crossers @crypticcrossers.bsky.social Crossers.co.uk is a new site aiming to make it easier to set and solve cryptic crossword puzzles. It's got the set of tools I wanted as a setter to make it quicker to create puzzles. Keen to get some feedback from setters and solvers alike!
Simon Tall @simontall.bsky.social A tall musician and writer from Norwich UK
Thomas Adam @thomasadam.bsky.social Only here for synchronicity. My main posts are over on Mastodon.
I mostly post crossword-related things here.
Oh, and developer of fvwm/fvwm3, tmux, got, x11cp
@pecabite.bsky.social @pecabite.bsky.social
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
@stemwinder @stemwinder.bsky.social Burrowing rodent fan, music lover, tune mangler. Thinks your playlist is derivative. #MDANT #UTV #vanguardista
alex @dude.computer dude of computer. curious, both definitions.
atx -> stl
Pat @maytce.bsky.social Retired doodler. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?
Harry Smith @harry-smith.bsky.social
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
@rkempley.bsky.social @rkempley.bsky.social
Daniel Peake @quizzydan.bsky.social Deputy Puzzles Editor at a UK newspaper, picture researcher / question writer for Only Connect.
I stream puzzles and games a few evenings a week at: twitch.tv/quizzydan
All views here are my own and not those of any of my employers.
Karol S @karolszym.bsky.social Crossword nerd. Composer in real life. (Yes, we still exist.)
Composer of a thousand songs needing no introduction (5,1)
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
Andrew @andrewt.net I am: Andrew https://www.andrewt.net • The Cell Tower guy https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/ • Polymath on MyCrossword https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Polymath
Qathryn @cathryneap.bsky.social Librarian. Boardgamer. Runner. Occasionally quizzes, okay fine, more than occasionally. She/her.
Fuming Soufflé 🇪🇺🇯🇵🐸 @fumingsouffle.bsky.social Usually fuming about one thing or another but occasionally deflates into a fluffy pancake.
英国ど田舎在住のはまっこです🐾
#Wülferhampton
GeClef @geclef12.bsky.social Please don’t put me on a list. Lots of typos. 🇺🇸
/s =Sarcasm
Musician
My poetry is mostly on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/gigie91173. Learning cryptic cxwd
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. You are my Algonquin roundtable.
Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social Rare books, manuscripts, special collections. Also allotments, nature, etc.
Matthew Kaner @mattkaner.bsky.social Composer. Teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Also into carpentry & cryptic crosswords
linktr.ee/matthew.kaner
David JeremysIron @davidjsiron.bsky.social UK FE library worker, neurodivergent, he/him. Also a (very) amateur cryptic crossword setter at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/ as JeremysIron.
Steven Anthony Whiting @sawhiting.bsky.social Creative bureaucrat, withering artist, aspiring picture maker.
Staying optimistic in the face of recurring apocalyptica.
www.sawhiting.com / www.sawsnaps.com
Toto @7ot0.bsky.social
TodaystheDay @mulattoanalbino.bsky.social Photographer Maurits Sillem
http://www.maurits-sillem.co.uk
See Rizzoli’s ‘Anti-Glossy: Fashion Photography Now’; ex-V&A, RCA; reads Don Delillo, Olga Tokarczuk, Clarice Lispector, Jean Genet; Arsenal silver; researching ‘Campo de’ Fiori’.
Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social Spotify playlists, occasional photos, and luke warm takes.
Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Ben Collins @bencollins01.bsky.social Yes
Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social Obtained by Contexte. Managing editor for energy. Previously Euronews, CoinDesk, MLex and general policy wonk. Brussels-based. Tips? https://about.contexte.com/eu/secure-contact
Tom P @tomp-46.bsky.social Arsenal fan, Block 9
Average FPL player ⚽️
Jon Bishop @jonbishop81.bsky.social Senior Medical Statistician. Dad of two, mostly fuelled by coffee and hope. Likes: Running/Cycling/Tennis & Reading.
Lissy Lovett @lissylovett.bsky.social "I do not easily believe that another President would have thought that statistical-distribution-shaped plush toys could possibly be one of the highest-turnout events of the year."
(Profile photo - Pamela Raith)
Chauman @chaudman.bsky.social Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat.
Jon Fell @jonfell73.bsky.social Corsica, Article 36, charities, pedantry.
Nick Croom @nickcroom.bsky.social
Keith Williams @clubcrosswords.bsky.social Editor @ The Crossword Club - solver and setter of thematic barred cryptics
Caroline Hardman @carolinehardman.bsky.social Still not a literary agent…
@astonvilla1.bsky.social @astonvilla1.bsky.social
spiced pudding @spiced-pudding.bsky.social very cringe
Financial Media Group @financialmedia.bsky.social Financial Media Group offers full digital marketing turn key solutions for small to medium sized & publicly traded companies.
Tom @tclancy.bsky.social Try to remember, they’re locked in here with us. Bring back Connolly’s Citizen Army.
Ash2 I Voted Yes Australia Slava Ukraïni @ash202324.bsky.social Democratic Education. Literacy. Psychogénéalogie. Restorative Justice #NAFODinoDivision