Sowmya Ramkumar @somsram.bsky.social Puzzle Editor @Amuselabs Cryptics for #minutecryptic, #the_hindu, #Hindustantimes, Minis on #theindiamini Author - #crypticcrossroads Vol. 1,2 & 3, CFA
Charterholder
Not Sure @grumpypedant.bsky.social
Mung the destroyer of biscuits @wingfoil.bsky.social He's just this guy, you know..? A wannabe hoopy frood who lost his towel a long time ago...
Twonks @twonks.bsky.social Cartoons and comics by Steve Nelson.
Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com
https://linktr.ee/twonkscomics
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Naomi Frei🎵🎤🪗👗🔥 @naomifrei.bsky.social I'm a gothic folk, dust-bowl folk singer, if these are genres IDK but I'll take em! I'm also a sapphic nude model. So expect it all from me!
My nude modeling can be found here https://www.fanvue.com/katt.frish
Music here: kattfrish.com/naomi-frei/
Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social Unionite, Retired Toolmaker,
Master Machinist, Active Curmudgeon
Born when TV (and the world) was B&W
www.mjlegel.com
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Andy @andyllandeilo.bsky.social
trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social Captain of the Good Team. Artist, Visionary, None of your Businessman, and paperback writer for kids.
Grace in Nature @grace5677.bsky.social Snap photos wherever I go.📷
Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social News and research from Bristol University Press Journals
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals
Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social A not-for-profit scholarly press based at the University of Bristol. Home of Policy Press. Publishing on the global social challenges.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Dan Dickens @brockwellgrecian.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter. Grecian in the Independent and Brockwell in the Guardian.
Hamburglar Humblebrag @plantpotonassis.bsky.social Carer who likes gardens, wildflowers, guinea pigs, cats, supernatural fiction and films where Nicolas Cage finds a treasure map.
@the-grumpus.bsky.social @the-grumpus.bsky.social I am a breath of stale air.
Rebecca Ore @rebeccaore.bsky.social SF and F writer. Latest book from Aqueduct "Writing's writing." Have been living in Nicaragua since 2010. Also take photos for Alamy, a stock agency in the UK. Interested in watching foxes follow cats into self-domestication.
Geology Wonders @geologywonders.bsky.social Want to learn more about the mineral world? visit earthwonders.com
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Opera Rara @operarara.bsky.social Rewriting Operatic History: Lost and Forgotten Operas Restored
Artist family: Carlo Rizzi, Ermonela Jaho & Michael Spyres
Next up - Summer Stream Concert Series (YouTube)
🔗 linktr.ee/operarara
Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social Technologist, Atheist, rationalist, empiricist and non-believer in unicorns, virgin births or Brexit. I Love Linux, Science, Wine, Philosophy,the Arts, climate science, renewables and silly Jokes :-)
@codfather@fosstodon No DM's
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
@gregorypeccory.bsky.social @gregorypeccory.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.
@riksredguard.bsky.social @riksredguard.bsky.social "An aging leftie who revels in misery". Cycling, MUFC and Political ranting.
Andrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social Political economist, campaigner & author. Co-author the original Green New Deal, devised Earth Overshoot Day & jointly, the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty. Co-director New Weather Inst, other roles: https://www.newweather.org/about-us/andrew-simms/
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
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre @charmouthhcc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre.
Registered Charity No. 1105386
Charmouth, Dorset, UK.
Visit our website: https://charmouth.org/chcc/
Book a fossil walk: https://charmouth.org/chcc/events-calendar/
mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social NC. 3rd wife material. Jokes in the skeets, active in the community. Sewing my own tragedies. Huge tinfoil hat. $4 to Goog it for you. $500 to be mean to you $meantomyself
Skeets: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7bv2ca3yawj662o7qxd5xyt7/feed/aaaoms63lvrkk
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
The Arthur Ransome Society @tarsociety.bsky.social Arthur was born in 1884 in Leeds. The Society was set up to popularise his many books (not just for children) and encourage research into his life and work.
https://arthur-ransome.org/
The Kingdom of Nonsense @kingdomofnonsense.bsky.social Satire for a better world along with some other stuff.
#Satire #Wisdom #Humor #SocialJustice #SelfImprovement #Inspiration #SocialCommentary #NaturalBeauty
Ken Worpole @kgeorgew.bsky.social
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Carmen Harris🇿🇦 @carmenharris.bsky.social An open and curious mind is the key to endless discovery; it sees the world not as it is, but as it should be.
South Africa
PokemonGo 540273735190
𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social Fugitive warlord. Indicted crypto kingpin. Disgraced former intern. Artisan cheesemonger.
He/him/his
Fitzy’s Funtastic Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eeuovmdmopwss5bsf7el3ra7/feed/aaabi4hywtg5g
Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." Extroverted Introvert. Progressive. #AnimalRights #SaveThePlanet
I've got a good heart, but, oh, this mouth...
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Twm @twm-barlwm.bsky.social Michael Lloyd-Jones
Twit lacking appeal, male crossword setter (3)
The Telegraph (anon and Light)
The Independent (Deri)
The Times (anon)
Henri @henriwords.com I have never disembowelled myself (5)
I start to drum, interrupting Ringo! (3)
I judge, like dad (5)
Crossword setter: Guardian, Inquisitor, Times, Gnomon, henriwords.com and more. Puzzle editor at Unch. Rob Townsend, really
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Sick & tired @sickandtiered.bsky.social United we stand. Divided we fall.
Bloomsbury Digital Resources @bloomsburydigital.bsky.social From Brecht to Bollywood and Nietzsche to Knitwear | Digital research hubs providing excellence and originality in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Book Defender @saveourlibraries.bsky.social Reading is life. Read!
""Even if no one is listening, that is no reason to remain silent." - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social Not an MP.
I’m going on tour: https://www.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-holt
John The Scot 🏴 @johnthescot.bsky.social One of the 8 Billion on the planet. Atheist. Software developer. Scottish. Peace not war.
Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social Does this look infected?
Just My Nonsense:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cz6x3e7thlqjc5cxa2hnbsn/feed/aaab3yqtmpox2
My Least Worst:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cz6x3e7thlqjc5cxa2hnbsn/feed/aaadpxkw36ag6
Grrrantifa, Team Cheeseburger Squad Leader @grranola.bsky.social I’m just me, living every day.
Desert dweller but still NOLA to the bone.
Fluent in canine.
Counting on the triglycerides.
#ThankYouTG
⚜️🌵✌🏻💙
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
Buy the Profanisaurus or Subscribe here: https://lnk.bio/vizcomicofficial
John Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social Crosswords. Quiz. Ale. Classical Music. Cricket. Cornwall & Yorkshire.
@coyart.bsky.social @coyart.bsky.social
@anuragpuzzling.bsky.social @anuragpuzzling.bsky.social Puzzling, Questioning, Reading, Solving, Thinking
The Ghost of Mark Twain @ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social Back from the dead...and really not happy about what is happening today.
As I once incorrectly said “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”.
Nope. We have seen this before...
This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social I post daily about something that is “this many years ago”. This account is a hobby project. Time zone is GMT+2.
Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social Poet, digital image maker, PhD candidate. Emotional cartography and the poetics of migration.
Guinevere 🎲🎲 @guineverecryptic.bsky.social Love cryptic crosswords, long time solver, now honoured to be a setter! ADHD and Mensa member - owning the wonderful US ’twice exceptional’ label 🥰 🏴🎲🎲
Dice: Guardian
Kybos: Times QC
Anonymous: Times
Guinevere: Most other places!
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
Nigel Nunn Flies @nigelnunnflies.bsky.social “A good fish will always take a dry fly.” Independent fly tyer and pattern designer. Member of the Alternative Tackle collective.
Sophie Green @sophiegreen.bsky.social Artist.
All posts are the property of me and so are the people who view them.
https://linktr.ee/sophiegreenfineart
Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social Cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New Statesman, The Guardian and more. My debut graphic memoir Cry When the Baby Cries is out now.
@flyflicker.bsky.social @flyflicker.bsky.social My happy place: Beside a clear stream in the forest with a dry tent and a small fire close by. Show me facts, not ideology. Automatic Block if you only allow replies from your buddies
BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social Life's a big banana sandwich
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2188080
Ultra Vires @counterintuitive80.bsky.social Currently recovering from a stroke. But not feeling sorry for myself.
I have to put a mask on to just get through dea ling with the general public in my job.
Here I refuse to. Up with this i will not put. Copious amount of foul language. So be warned.
Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk Guardian crossword setter & teacher of aspiring word-fiends. Two books of puzzles & the stories behind them: see website for signed copies or to sign up for masterclasses or to commission bespoke puzzles: boatmancryptics.co.uk
Tootlefish @tootlefish.bsky.social House Dad.
Fretful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social Lost to almost everything but a vague sense of jam and idleness.
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social Arts journalist (comedy specialist), Times Scotland (Alba) and Metro mainly. Scotsman comedy reviews during Edinburgh Fringe. Wanging on about birds all year round.
North Berwick, near Edinburgh. She/her
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering🏆
Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social Swedish dude that pets cats at every given opportunity.
Ally 🏳️🌈
Suffolk Detectorist @sdetectorist.bsky.social A random look back at 30 years of metal detecting in Suffolk.
A mix of common finds, and some special.
Enjoy.
Also
@sdetectorist on Instagram.
Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social Anonymous opinions written by YOU - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and often niche. Edited by @robmanuel.b3ta.com - add yours: https://bit.ly/addanonopin
Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com Writer, Field Maneuvers boss, PT, comedy, 50+ ultra marathons, west Wales knotweed farmer
I was the Secret Tory
Substack: https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/henrymorrispt
Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social The latest news on the #SoundStudies and #MusicBooks we're publishing for lecturers, students, researchers & music lovers. 🎶
www.bloomsbury.com/academic/music-sound-studies
Ian Leslie @ianleslie.bsky.social Author. Latest book: 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'. Available now: https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/introducing-john-and-paul-a-love
SoNiceInParis 🇺🇦 @soniceinparis.bsky.social Étrangleur à Paris 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀
Caroline Lewis @singfoodie.bsky.social Artist, choir singer, retired deli owner, retired X user, cat lover, nature, Yorkshire, left leaning 🌹😻🎶🦊
www.carolinelewisart.com
Stuart Arthur @stuartarthurwrites.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Fascinated by the history of Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. Has quite possibly explored more abandoned and derelict buildings than you have.
Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social Biglaw appellate lawyer, #FlyFishing angler, orchidophile, native Texan & erstwhile NewYorker, public school supporter, Birdie’s Mom & Bonus Mom to 2 awesome teens. Speaking for me not my firm, not your lawyer. #AppellateSky ⚖️ #Orchids #LadyLawyerDiaries
Sophie Plowden @sophieplowden.bsky.social Author. Painter. Freakishly tall child prodigy.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
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
Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Morag Mitchell @moraghm.bsky.social Wife, mother, grandmother. Socialist morally and politically. No DMs. Delighted to see the end of the Tory government. Terrified at the start of another Trump administration. 🤬
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
British Heart Foundation @thebhf.bsky.social We fund vital research into heart diseases, stroke and vascular dementia, and their risk factors like diabetes.
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Culture Critic @culturecritic.bsky.social
Steve Blair @steveblair.bsky.social NI comedy writer for TV, Radio, Stage, and Print. The Now Show, The Skewer, DMs Are Open, Breaking the News, NewsThump... Also do some stand-up, but mostly I sit down.
Own eyebrows.
East Neuk of Fife