MapQuest @mapquest.com The OG of online mapping.
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“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
~ Charles Baudelaire
MaGicBic @dirtysubstrata.bsky.social 🌲🌱🍄🌍💚
Stratified, not stirred.
Trees, plants, fungi, natural world. Love and /s. Light & Dark. Honer. Closest thing to having control is having Today.
Fade to starlight (mints)✨
Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
Siobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social Writer, doodler, former editor & publisher at Space Cat Press. She/Her. Currently VP of Leicester Writers Club, a lovely writers community. Dabbles in Art classes for joy.
https://spacecatpress.co.uk/
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social I used to write comics professionally; now I occasionally write and publish novels and other stuff just for the hell of it. lepusbooks.co.uk
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Alex Langstone @alexlangstone.bsky.social Bodmin Moor, Kernow. Writing about place, and the strange and unusual that reside upon and within 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/alexlangstone
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Political WatchDog @politicalwatchdog.bsky.social Anti trump anti fascism
@quaybooks.bsky.social @quaybooks.bsky.social 
Martina Matijević @vientoverde.bsky.social Croatian poet-artist.
Born from a dyslexic child’s imagination.
Remember, you are loved.
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.
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.
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
The Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social I'M THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK. IT'S WHAT I DO. He/him
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Jess Brown-Fuller 🔶 @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester.
Wendy @perfectrose2024.bsky.social Enjoy other's art, photographs & literary efforts. "In the know" re: pandemic. Enjoy TV series such as Will Trent, Tracker, 911. A longtime viewer of the daytime drama, The Young & The Restless. Have met many of the cast in Vancouver at events here. 
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Virginia Preston @coughingbear.bsky.social Likes: social history of the Royal Navy, children's lit, SFF, cats. I also make pots. She/her.
Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights.
No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Emerald Publishing @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social Now more than ever we need research to help solve societal challenges. Let's work together to make real change happen. Are you in?
Libby @nettlemaycare.bsky.social 🌸 D.C./NoVA, 🇺🇸-🇩🇪
📚 Mostly talks about books
🖊️ Also sometimes writing
🌎 Living in 🇬🇧 until late 2026 #MAWFYP
George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social Painter from Staffordshire, UK
g.outhwaite@hotmail.com
https://www.patreon.com/outhwaite
https://ko-fi.com/georgeouthwaite
Alan Wylie @alanwy.bsky.social Library Worker, Trade Unionist & Activist.
Paul Vintin @paulvintin.bsky.social Ex-designer, apparently. Musician (amateur). Gardener. Enjoys nature. Reads books. Interested in things generally. Sheffield.
https://pvintin.bandcamp.com/
Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
https://enfolding.org/
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk The Dales has many moods; wild, windswept, calm, peaceful, with valleys of hay meadows, dry stone walls and barns. One of the country’s most picturesque places. The official National Park Authority BlueSkySocial account
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Littleoldladywho +Angie Scarr @littleoldladywho1.bsky.social 'Lefty de-influencer'. 'Keynesian' Snarky but benevolent 'Minister for Too Much Information'. Nonfiction author - As 'LOLW'-The Frugalist, Bladder Cancer Stories & Oh FFS! As Angie - Mini food flowers & craft business books. https://www.angiescarr.com
Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social A writing prompt to inspire poems and stories, thoughts and wanders. Tag #thingstowriteabout. Hosted by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social #writingcommunity
Caroline Venezia @caroline-venezia.bsky.social Happily retired, reading, eating, drinking, snoozing. Author's wife, cat's mother, she/her.
🇪🇺 Still European, proud new Italian 🇮🇹
🏳️🌈 Ally of all good-hearted people 🏳️⚧️
Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social These days I read & write haiku with the amazing BlueSky community. I also do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI.
Evtim G @evtim.bsky.social Engineer, tinkerer, cycling, nature, mushrooms, growing things
Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social Northern artist & storyteller | Creator of Harrowden | Sootpunk | Ind. folklore, decay & resistance.
Website : https://r3n.io/
Rowan Bell @rowanpoetry.bsky.social Writer living in North Yorkshire. Poetry in The Friday Poem, Púca Magazine, Wishbone Words and Spelt. Regular blog in 'Moodscope' https://moodscope.com. Poetry and art. Poetry as therapy.
Alma @reverenceforlife1.bsky.social I love being in nature, reading, writing, movement/dance and rhythm, singing despite of my deafness (I am late-deafened), quietude, mindfulness, meditation. I believe the most important thing in life is to grow spiritually.
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Still working on 4th debut novel.
Chooser of images at @rathergoodart.bsky.social
Curious Notes collected here - https://notesforthecurious.com/
Archaeological things here - https://www.digitaldigging.net/
Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social rules are meant to be broken and words are meant to be played with
"freedom's just another word for nothin'left to lose"
party with weirdos!
💜🪩🧶🧟♀️❄️🐻❄️🥳
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
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.
Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Poet. Touchstone nominee 2022-2025. Haiku 2026 Anthology. Red Moon Press Anthology. Business Systems Analyst. Host of #SenryuSunday writing prompt.
@deborahsnell.bsky.social @deborahsnell.bsky.social Artist - illustrator, printmaker, installation & music videos. Works at The Crack Magazine - gig lover & reviewer. @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
George Poles @georgepoles.bsky.social Writer. Story consultant. Involuntary long covid expert. The password is "Finland Red, Egypt White". Repd by Jean Kitson at Kitson Press.
Dr. Zoë Marriott @zdmarriott.bsky.social PhD, novelist, RLF Fellow at Uni of Lincoln & Lincoln Bishop Uni. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Proud to be rep'ed by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE 2025, from @headlinebooks.bsky.social. No dms pls.
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
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
Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social Sir Gaerfyrddin. He/him.
Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove.
https://linktr.ee/runningthegoat
Find Marnie at her personal account: rtgbooks.bsky.social
Helen Jones @hfj0108.bsky.social Upper KS2 TA. Trying to encourage a love of reading and maths.
Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social No wealthy ❌ No poor ❌ Just everyone living comfortably ✅
For all things #inequality related, plus a bit of politics and current affairs. #TaxTheRich #VoteTacticallyToStopReform
Find us also @radicalscribe.bsky.social
Supporting the charity #MissingPeople
Daily Poetry Prompts @dailypoetryprompts.bsky.social A daily writing prompt for poets to help exercise the mind and get into the habit of writing a little each day. Curated by: @ryleaanderson.bsky.social
Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social Academic editor & freelance film & book reviewer. Ex-lit academic. Has written sci-fi novels (see ‘The Hathor Diaries'). lethallexicon.wordpress.com
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Indie Voices · Authors & Books @metareelz.com Notes from the margins of the book world.
Indie stories, wandering writers, soft recommendations, quiet conversations.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1281628-indie-voices-authors-books
Tumblr:
https://www.tumblr.com/communities/indie-books
ShellsLies @shellslies.bsky.social #Shell 's PR is full of lush forests & “nature based solutions.” Meanwhile they're busy destroying our planet alongside others in the fossil fuels industry.
#ClimateAction #NetZero
#ClimateLitigation #EndFossilFuels #EndPlasticPollution
Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social Writer of #haiku, #senryu, and #haibun.
💻 herbtate.com
📚’No Longer’ (2024); ‘Way Longer’ (2026)
Jim Russell 🏴. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social Former paperboy then, after training, 32 years in scottish NHS. Scottish Independence supporter. Currently treasurer of a local charity.
Ian The Daily Nature Photo Man @lawnmasternotts.bsky.social One nature photo every single day since July 1st 2022
4 years of consecutive days and counting
Years 1 and 2 in book form, with book 3 ready to go
Sharing colour, calm and perspective
No negativity
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
NYC Midnight @nycmidnight.bsky.social Inspiring challenges for storytellers. Next up is the Rhyming Story Challenge on September 15th at https://nycmidnight.com/rhyme.
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social Green Party county councillor for Parks (Oxfordshire) & sustainability researcher @ox.ac.uk
Books. Bikes. Buses. Trains. Cooking. Hiking. Nature. Climate. Inequality. Public Health.
She/her
Promoted by James Thorniley at 12A Merlin Road, OX4 6EP
Lisa Wells @lisawellswriter.bsky.social Writer and multimedia artist. Author of The Fire Passage (Fourway Books, 2025) and Believers (FSG, 2021)
Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social Sharing some of what scientists find in the deep sea. I do my best w/ IDs. Help if you feel like it. NOT AI
Raine Szramski 🌻 @rainesz.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, writer. Past the half-century mark.
Ace, she/her. 🖤🤍💜 Originally from NJ, but lives in Arizona now.
🇺🇦🌻
Laugh hard, run fast. BE KIND.😎
My Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/T6T4HDZ8
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/raineszramski
Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social Author: The Green Hill, a memoir about the sudden death of my son Felix. Rock Idols, a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors; various wild swimming guides.
Co-organiser, Dartmoor Tors Festival 1-4 May 2026
https://linktr.ee/sophiepierce
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social London based filmmaker working on folk horror, weird shit, punk sci-fi satire and stuff that exudes a cosmic darkness. Progressive humane human. Obsessed with phantasmagoria, perpetually dreich. Sometimes a numpty, always the odd one out. He/him.
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Alice B Toeclips @judyjrj.bsky.social music, motorcycles, art, nature, sports, Vermont, CAD, CAM, UG/NX
I am an adult. taken.
Christopher @parliapics.bsky.social Gen Z. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Patreon.com/JustChristopher
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Tanja @joypops.bsky.social Where there's a princess, there'll be a story. — Jingzhi Zou ✨️
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
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 ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social Church crawler with a penchant for cathedrals and medieval wall paintings.
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social Keep Your Head Up ☀️
https://buymeacoffee.com/arealmofwonder
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social Crosshatcher with a variety of other problems.
Books: Vers le Sud, The Night Tent, The Envious Siblings, and The Hunting Accident.
https://bio.site/landisblair
Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Coldmoat • 📺 Trotters' Flat
Chris Ward @mostxlnt.com Writer since I was 6. Earned my living writing for 25 years. Now teach for a living & write for fun in the South of France. @mostxlnt everywhere. mostxlnt.com for longer meanderings.
Naive art, landscapes, beaches, opera esp. Mozart, cook, pride. 
Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books.
Fellow of The English Association.
Contact me for support for routes to ambitious English for all.
www.searchingforexcellence.co.uk
The Kemptown Bookshop @kemptownbookshop.bsky.social Brighton’s Oldest Independent Bookshop 📚🌈
@8-1-8.bsky.social @8-1-8.bsky.social 
Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/