Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social Composer based in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Research Fellow @guildhallschool.bsky.social. Weithiau yn Gymraeg.
Profile photo: Claire Shovelton
Artist website: https://rchrdbkr.com/
Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Independent, volunteer-run journalism project from Ukraine.
Fb: fb.com/MeanwhileUA
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Support: patreon.com/MeanwhileinUkraine
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https://ko-fi.com/meaninua
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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social Co-director PRIME Economics, author of "The Great Brexit Wrench" (PEF, 2019). Past: Gen Secretary of European & international local govt associations, CEO Camden Council, barrister, law centre founder, factotum at ABC tea-shop on Earl's Court Road 1966.
The Car Factoids @thecarfactoids.bsky.social Important/unimportant facts about older cars plus plenty of old ads thrown in for good measure…
He/him
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
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
Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of authentic integrity. #AltText - no AI🚫 (Internet searches were faster and more reliable *before* AI…)
Lewis Kingston @roadsidetypist.bsky.social Award-winning freelance motoring journalist, writer and author. Big fan of lightweight cars and forced induction. Often found trawling eBay for automotive oddities. Based in the UK.
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social UK/EU based photographer
#WomensRights #LGBTQRights #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #Cyclist #VaccinesWork #WearAMask Unsolicited DMs will result in a block.
Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education
FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University.
Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck
Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social Registered in Brighouse for tax purposes. He/they. "The man who gave us Fred Dinenage's 3ft long egg" - (@ChinnyVision)
Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social Food column + features, Suffolk News + others
Food slot @ Suffolk Sounds Radio
Food events @ Bury St Eds Lit Fest
Newsletter: Tales From Topographic Kitchens
GFW online food writer '20, F&M cookery writer '22
https://linktr.ee/nicolamiller
Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk Labour MP for Sittingbourne & Sheppey and former nurse. For help & support please email kevin.mckenna.mp@parliament.uk with your name and address.
Promoted by Lee Griffiths on behalf of Kevin McKenna, both at 29 Park Rd, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1DR.
Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social Emerita professor of German Aberystwyth Uni, Remainer, siarad Cymraeg, support #indyWales #annibyniaeth
AdviceUK @adviceuk.bsky.social AdviceUK is the largest network of independent advice giving organisations in the UK. All our members give free, impartial advice to members of the public and the community.
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
RuelFox @ruelfox.bsky.social Norwich City / REM / Old Labour
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social Archaeologist #roman #pottery #childhood. Ex NCT #childbirth educator. Join a union. UCL. My own musings. She/Her. 🏴 Current obession: these pots⬇️
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2478734#abstract
Gill Alexander @gillalexander.bsky.social Current affairs, cake baking, comms pro, cats. Hey, see how that worked out! Also plenty of snark but that would’ve ruined the alliteration.
The National Pro Bono Centre @nationalprobonocentre.org.uk The National Pro Bono Centre (NPBC) exists to support charities and organisations that enable and broker pro bono legal work.
🔗 https://www.nationalprobonocentre.org.uk/
lucindasoon @lucindasoon.bsky.social Lawyer, psychologist, socio-legal academic. Amateur photographer the rest of the time. All photos I post are my own. London based.
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #UrbanGaze #Architecture #Scape
Steve | Pentagram Motorsport @pentagrammsport.bsky.social Old Boy Racer
Leonard Sexton @brushpusher.bsky.social Fine Art Painting Visual Culture. Ireland.
Helbel 🌻☘️💚🤍🧡 @pudner.bsky.social Is the abysmal inhumanity ever going to stop?! I loathe Netanyahu,Putin, gobshite Trump, RefUKkers/ Farage. So disgusted with the Labour Party mps who ousted the best PM SKS.
Such a mess.
Kind only where kindness is due I'm not a feckin saint‼️😬😉
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Just trying to do a little more painting when not gardening. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. 🚫AI
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk Disrupting Britain’s broken media. A new journalistic force from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @Zeteo.com.
https://zeteo.uk/
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social Building conservation university teacher and practitioner.
Historic building materials, construction techniques, and architecture.
Studying Roman construction and writing a book on Historic Floors
UK/Italy
Philippe Clement's Stylist @robotcanary.bsky.social I'm going nowhere, Lynn.
Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social Sociologist. Musician. Technologist. Dad.
Current side project: randomthebook.com
"Someone called Matt Ballantine"
New Scientist, June 2026
@highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social 🎶I love to ride my bicycle! I love to ride my bike.🎶 Usually a late adopter of new things. Likes cake. Speaks fluent sarcasm.
Chiarra Sue @chiarra.bsky.social Data Engineer. #AI Smart Policies. Dev. Digital Artist. Writing about the future.
Good Ethical AI believer.
https://medium.com/@chiarrasue
https://taxtheshorties.substack.com
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social Freelance journo/researcher.
Bylines: Guardian, Mirror, DeSmog, Byline Times, Computer Weekly, Democracy for Sale, AOAV, The Nerve, Citizens, Good Law Project, Dawn etc.
Email:mcfoiareturns@proton.me
Tim Wilson @erasuretim.bsky.social Proudly "woke", left-leaning, sort of Green, Norwich City FC, Speedway, Trekker, Esophagectomy, achalasia, vintage clothing, Military surplus, mid-century, ceramics, art and mental illness sort of person.
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social Freelance creative/project originator/business developer. Previously in academia. Now, elsewhere.
Lover of literature, creative endeavours, silliness, exploring, language, visual/material culture. (Also sometimes hospitality & humanitarianism.)
No DMs.
Frank’s back @frankhopper.bsky.social Return of the linguist
Affable biker - W800, CB750, CBR1000RR
RPM and BodyPump
Parkrunner 300+
Serial punner
Supporter of good causes
Resisting retirement and check-out
Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social Evolution: it's nothing personal. (Sorry if I ask too many questions... Share nicely!)
I'm here because you're here.
http://pabloredux.wordpress.com/
(Profile photo: a faint shadow of me cast across a weathered lichen-marked stone wall by the sea.)
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Suffolk @suffolkuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Suffolk, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now happily here on Bluesky - Updates from the county include Ipswich, Woodbridge, Bury St. Edmunds, Stowmarket, Lowestoft, Sudbury, and more
Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life. (DMs are open.) Email tips to: pecksniffsdiary@gmail.com
Diarist for eastangliabylines.co.uk
@callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social "For Britain to withdraw from Europe would be to retire into "an old people's home for fading nations...I do not much like the look of some of the prospective wardens".(Jenkins) This always makes me cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
@lawofprotest.bsky.social @lawofprotest.bsky.social Legal adviser @Amnesty (right to protest & civic space); Visiting @UEALaw; @OSCE_ODIHR Panel on Freedom of Assembly & Association
Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social Tech, research, law, teaching & AI - plus a lot of other stuff.
M.Ed, PGDL, LLM, (looking for alt online LLM+tech)
UK/FR
@katyavdgk@mas.to
@katyavdgk.bsky.social
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org We investigate Britain’s foreign policy, military & intelligence agencies and corporations. Please support our work - https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/
Ifan Hughes @ifanghughes.bsky.social Physicist interested in: Quantum mechanics; atoms, lasers and big magnets; data analysis. Author of Opticsf2f and Measurements and their Uncertainties. Cymro oddi cartre.
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social Formerly Grand Thrift Auto on YouTube, but closed indefinitely on there.
My name’s still Martin though, and I’ve still got too many scabby old cars.
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.
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Justin Bates KC @justinbates.bsky.social Housing lawyer, editor of the Encyclopedia of Housing Law, co-author Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act and Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act. 
Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Psych at
Stirling University
Trumpet player
Statistic-ist
Grandpa
BA PhD FRSE
https://wattstuff.wordpress.com/
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Fay Calderone, Employment Lawyer & Author of Broken to Safe @brokentosafe.bsky.social Employment lawyer and author of Broken to Safe & Rise Up empowering leaders to build safe and inclusive workplaces 💫
Robert Ley @astrocanary.bsky.social Data Scientist | Gen X | FRAS, MInstP, MBCS | Follow/like: Science, Mathematics, Tech, Sport, Music | 😇 Saints 🏉 | #NCFC ⚽
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Sarah A. Sutherland @parallaxinfo.bsky.social Digressions on the world, legal data, and information. Author of “Legal Data and Information in Practice” with Routledge Press. Humour may be attempted.
Principal consultant at https://www.parallaxinformation.com/.
📍 Vancouver and Edinburgh
Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social Lake District landscape, literature, history and culture. #GrasmereDialectPlays Fell-walking, landscape photography, geology. #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Twitter: @sue_wilkinson
Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social Retired. 41 years in the law. MCFC
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Lisa Quattromini @lisaq.bsky.social Verdazurine 📚🇪🇺🐕🐕💛💚⚽️🏏🎾🐝🐈⬛🐈⬛🎶🏛️ complicated 🇮🇹🇮🇪🏴🏴
paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social Born 317ppm | Love London | Hate Racists
The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation — Bertrand Russell
Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social Follow us for immigration updates, campaigns and stories!
Find all our other content here: https://linktr.ee/RMJustice
What do we do?
📍 Immigration advice & representation
⚖️ Take government to court
🎤 Centre lived experience in our advocacy
Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory
Former Head of Department of Government and PVC Education
London School of Economics
Author Against Post-liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left, Polity Press 2025
Rich Tea 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 @earlgreytea220.bsky.social Retired graphic designer. Art/music/photography/cooking/plants.
Photos & pics my own unless otherwise specified.
A bit north of the Alps. Wide awoke. I have MAGA intolerance. Our democracy is under attack.
GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social Irish migrant living in Switzerland.. Post mostly about brexit with an Irish/European slant.
Pseudonym, for work reasons, is a deliberately misspelt hat tip to Brian O Nolan, the Irish novelist, playwright & contrarian.
Time person of the Year 2006.
Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social Former producer/reporter at BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera. Shortlisted for the Emerging Author Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association. Represented by Tom Cull at Cull & Co Literary Agency. Interests: politics, writing, travel, London, rugby and cricket.
Suffolk Sue @ruralsuffolk.bsky.social Migrated from the hell hole and found it much better for my mental health here. I live a quiet retired life in rural Suffolk, UK with Himself who is finally working part-time in the wind down to retirement, 12 yr old arthritic dog, 2 cats and 7 chickens.
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Lindsay @lblankley.bsky.social Cat servant. Book lover. Enjoy crafting. Norwich City FC 
Alex Goy @a1goy.bsky.social Creative Director at DriveTribe. I make things about cars. I also like tea
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social A playwright without a theatre is just a poet with a split personality. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. https://www.brennanartists.com/
Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social Experienced Higher Education professional, blogger and commentator. Personal views on higher ed stuff, rankings, regulation, #ncfc & True Crime on Campus. Also podcast: https://audioboom.com/channels/5093607-my-imaginary-university
Michael Ford KC @michaelfordkc.bsky.social 
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social I placed my onions
on the floor,
under the window
by the door.
The layers of nuance
caught their eyes,
the day I won
The Turner Prize
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Kinship Works @kinship.works We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
JD Burgess @blacktopmagazine.bsky.social https://www.flickr.com/photos/191549530@N04/
rbnc @rarebutnobodycares.bsky.social Satirical reviews for cars and bikes no one cares about.
Outer Temple Chambers @outertemple.bsky.social A civil and commercial barristers' chambers with offices in London and Dubai, with associates all over the world.
Our wide range of expertise, diverse team and our collaborative approach makes us one of the leading sets for client service and results.
Richard @canaryworf.bsky.social Big Dad Energy
Runner (5k 18:37 10k 40:36 HM 1:33:19) Ex-BBC
He/him
Suffolk for Europe @suffolkforeurope.bsky.social A branch of the European Movement based in Suffolk. We campaigned tirelessly for the People's Vote and now we're out, we won't stop until we're back in the EU.
Get in touch: suffolkeu@gmail.com
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.
Victoria Anderson-McCann @vandersonmccann.bsky.social Reputation management and privacy lawyer by day. CEO of a social mobility charity, @acceptedcharity.bsky.social / 'BVL' by night. All views my own
Email me: victoria.anderson@accepted.org.uk