Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info Engineering manager at GitLab. Formerly Economist, BBC, Guardian etc. Music nerd, cyclist, tired dad. Run a 20+ year old music webzine and still blogs sometimes, too! https://mattandrews.info/
Pete Ashton @peteashton.com Syndicated from https://notes.peteashton.com/
Also at https://social.coop/@pete (Mastodon)
Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social Publisher of The Notable (coming soon.)
💙💙💙
🟠🟢🔵 https://boxd.it/6oHmx
📸 https://instagram.com/damionmatthews
Ian France @gooner4270.bsky.social Not a vicar in Johannesburg. Not the commissioning editor for Sky Kids programming. Not a bowls player from Cumbria.
Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
Likes Character Design, Gamedev, 90’s, Cooking, Sharpies, Beetles, Raccoons, Wrestling, The FGC, Baki, Capcom, Boardgames, DDR
Sounds Local @soundslocalcic.bsky.social We make stuff for screens so you’ll leave the house. That’s where the best snacks are. And the weirdos. And also the joy. Go on. Bump into someone.
https://soundslocal.co.uk/events
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com- P Nick Booth @podnosh.bsky.social I'll let you know what I'm up to when I figure it out!
dum spiro spero @adamamyl.bsky.social technologist, privacy, cyber, digirights, music, politics, civil libs. one of them.
Isidor @isidor.rs I make Extremely detailed music! Immerse yourself into my futuristic soundscapes, I am a boundarypushing synthwave producer at #NewRetroWave Your own music guide!
Supported by Reveal Sound!
DM for mix and master!⬇️
My music
https://hyperfollow.com/Isidor
Julia Higginbottom @gabysslave.bsky.social You can find me @croft_22 on TikTok
or on Signal
Social Butterfly @social.syah.in Follow to get a Follow Back :)
Undo @handle.invalid The podcast examining productivity methods and myths through history, to help you tell the brill from the bonkers so you can work your own way.
The Haunted Stacks @thehauntedstacks.bsky.social Horror novels and spooky sundries live (dead?) from Birmingham, UK.
Next market Sat 20 Sept, Stirchley Community Market https://www.stirchleycommunitymarket.com/
Brumguvnor @brumguvnor.bsky.social #Xenophile, #bibliophile, #ecosocialist, #idiotophobe, #antifascist, #antiracist, #feminist, #GreenParty member and activist, proud #Brummie and #GeekDad to 2 mixed race boys.
The greenest guvnor in #Brum.
Kev Adams @kevadams.bsky.social Time passes, listen, time passes.
Here for music, synths, film, TV, astronomy, motorcycle and book chat #MDANT
Guitarist in a past life
Left wing. Aneurin Bevan was right ✊
@ KevinAdams in “the other place”
Jason Thibault @jasonthibault.bsky.social An avid observer of how art, cinema, culture and tech intersect.
Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk Idiot from the Black Country with ADHD. Used to be crazygibbon on twatter a thousand years ago.
Ben Neal @psiconlab.bsky.social Arts-focused freelance Creative Technologist, Digital Artist, programmer, games/gadget builder, educator. Making technology-infused Immersive Art experiences.
www.displace.org.uk
www.psiconlab.co.uk
Liz @rougeforever.bsky.social One octopus missing.
Robert Sharl @sharl.bsky.social Rated PG for occasional adult themes, and some mildly upsetting scenes. Director at Cine Excess. Designer at Futurilla. UX lecturer at BCU. Occasional composer.
Gerry Keogh @gerrykeogh.bsky.social Living in Birmingham from Glasgow
#Celtic
Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk Graphic recorder and ex-cartoonist. Married to the lovely @mazzaclazza.bsky.social and co-run @drawnalism.com as @alex.drawnalism.com
https://alexhughes.co.uk
ballerina X @ballerinax.bsky.social I don't have a podcast. I often quip to cope. I Follow leash laws, you should too.
@ballerinaX
on most other places.
urbanfly @martinfearn.bsky.social
Lizziebeth @lizziegolucky.bsky.social
Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com Exhibiting digital interactive artist for hire (scrollytelling + more)
New digital stories - old tech.
Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie.
Into> misusing tools, narratives, what is human, digital witchcraft
http://www.carolinebeavon.com
Juniperific @juniperific.bsky.social Human. Fleshy form wrapped in a T-shirt. Likes photography, drones, fun, and still (perhaps forlornly?) hopes the world might get better. Journalist, author, and reviewer. Lucky husband of @arianesherine
Andy1875KRO @doctorsloan.bsky.social Birmingham City fan living in Shropshire #BCFC #KRO #FEA
Stephanie Migot (MsMigot) @msmigot.bsky.social Wannabe polymath. Hangs out at justthetalk.com. Posts may contain swears. Allergic to emojis. Reposts ≠ endorsement. Can be bribed with gin, cheese, cold cuts and trash telly.
🇰🇪 in Disunited Kingdom
Tom Lennon @tomlennon.bsky.social Irish-Brummie in Mexico. Sculptor of nonsense. Freelance writer specialising in funny/geeky stuff.
Laura Creaven @lauracreaven.bsky.social
netbanshee @netbanshee.bsky.social Art, Design, UX, Film, Gaming, Politics, Fatherhood, etc.
Newtasty @newtasty.bsky.social Stee V, draws stuff, takes photos of Black Mekon and is strangely never around when they're in action.
Exsanguinator @exsanguinator.bsky.social Editor turned crofter & aspiring beekeeper. Being the change I want to see OR doing what @gabysslave has planned for me. New Scot 🏴 living #vanlife on the island of Great Bernera, Lewis
MegaSlippers @megaslippers.net Just this guy, you know?
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@cybrum (cyber-Birmingham) @cybrum.bsky.social Birmingham (UK), culture, art, theatre, architecture, built environment, media, tech, Android, Civ6/7, Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, coffee, food, beer, promoting local independent businesses, LCFC, WCCC/Bears, SF49ers, GenX, he/him
Owain @randomletters92.bsky.social NHS biomedical scientist, gaymer and geek living and working in London. He/Him. 🏳️🌈🏴
Kirsten Amy @kirstenp.bsky.social Writer (agency copywriter plus own nonsense). Owned by a spaniel. Sussex.
Substack: https://inbetweengirl.substack.com/
Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social The books are free!/pay whatever! <https://ko-fi.com/travishedgecoke/shop>
Mixed disabled intersex enby from North Carolina. So many spectrums. They/she/ze/xe/something polite. <https://linktr.ee/travishedgecoke>
Karmadillo @karmadillo.bsky.social Sas | Yorkshire lass in Brum | home zookeeper | ex-nurse | carer | @b31voices | photographer | general idiot | wonky
Bearwood Parish Council @bearwoodcouncil.bsky.social Official account for Bearwood Parish Council. Not in Birmingham.
Hazz, lackey of a dead god @glupshitto.bsky.social Hello. I am Hazz. he/him (cis). FUCK THE TORIES AND LABOUR
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Warty Wall Gecko @priddy.bsky.social Herding cats, for beers.
Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social Things get more interesting at the edges and boundaries. We can do better than this. Brum-based; charity/social justice sector; music; environment & nature; church and politics.
Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social trying not to fuck the planet or anyone else up… enjoying beer, music and wildlife along the way. Optimist that we’re finally past peak-right-wing-arsehole?
Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social Word spiv, cunning-man, queer cyborg crip. 5+ years Long Covid survivor.
REALLY Not for the Jesus-Man. No fash, no terfs, No Pasaran.
It Isn't AI and it's worse than useless.
Writing occult memoir, NEW GODS AND MONSTERS.
Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk Man of many talents—some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA.
Everything is interesting.
Simon Whitehouse @siwhitehouse.bsky.social
Emma Wright @editorialgirl.co.uk No longer an editor or a girl. Probably taller than you were expecting.
Chris Downing @littlecd1975.bsky.social Mostly playing semi incompetent guitar or just noise, green, brum, love ghost stories and horror. Watches bad films so you don't have to. Formerly Brumcast, D.N.P, Dub Not Pop
Brownhills Bob @brownhillsbob.bsky.social Telling the truth, but telling it bent.
Ranty, hyperactive, in love with everything.
Local pariah, occasional blogger, amateur historian and lover of music, geeky things, old tech and the outdoors.
https://brownhillsbob.com/
catnip @catnipmusic.bsky.social Mainly at @catnip@mastodon.online (on BSky, follow https://bsky.app/profile/catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy to see my posts here). You can edit your typos on Mastodon!
If you’re on BS & Masto, I’ll follow you there.
She/her. Cis woman. 🏳️⚧️ ally. AuDHD.
Mark Steadman @hellosteadman.com Building websites and apps to get you off your goddamn screen.
SneezingWithWetMascara @wetmascara.bsky.social Twitter Rabble, Cats, Alf, Butts, Clusters, Hellthread, Chaos. For your insolence, you have each been awarded one additional strike.
theaardvark @theaardvark.bsky.social Town & District Councillor for Burntwood, Staffs, UK.
He/Him/His.
Local politician. #UKLabour #Labour #Lefty #Progressive
#ADHD #AuDHD #ASC1 #LongCOVID
VAT manager by day. Sometime interweb DJ by night.
Loves to chat online.
https://paultaylor.online/
A Monitor Lizard @monitorlizard.bsky.social Reptile.
Socialist. Green Party voter.
Marathon Runner
How strange it is to be anything at all.
✨Ƥαηɗα🌙 @pandathecelestial.bsky.social I’m just a little bird, in a sea of monsters🌙
✨Stay Feral✨
Underwater River @anamilgram.bsky.social Mass of Queer Shifting Tentacles
Sometimes with Plastique Fantastique
They/Them
anabenlloch.net
aasgroup.net
Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com “People have only interpreted Birmingham, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Editors @bounder.info & @jonhickman.bsky.social Formerly Birmingham: It’s Not Shit.
http://paradisecircus.com/
Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social he/him
chicken-brained biological disaster
as seen in VT
well knowne a Strumpet lewd
Craig Hamilton @craighamilton.bsky.social Music, Football, Dogs. Phd Popular Music Studies now doing tech/data stuff + music projects.
Culture Lead on #AVFC Fan Advisory Board (https://avfcfab.org/)
My website: https://www.popmusicresearch.org/
Benji W 🏳️🌈🇬🇧 @benjiw.bsky.social Live/work in Birmingham, UK. Kent @ Canterbury & Goldsmiths Alum. Bright/Breezy. Books. Queer Christian. Living with cancer.🌹🏳️🌈