Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com YouTube word nerd. Host of RobWords and Words Unravelled.
HAL David 9000 @lubes.bsky.social Content accessibility, love is love, music is music, Luddite, tax the rich, vote Green for rent controls. “My god, it’s full of stars” 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🐝
United Humanists @unitedhumanists.bsky.social Humanism, news & more.
Without empathy we're NOTHING.
Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️💪🏼🏳️🌈 Law Professor, Woke, anti-growth, lefty lawyer. 69yrs of which 50yrs as Proud Trans Man, Activist. No reply to anonymous accounts. Wife & 4 great grown up kids. he/him/his
If you follow me I will usuallly try to follow you, but I dont chat
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Front End North @frontendnorth.bsky.social A welcoming one-track, one-day conference for developers and designers who work on the web. Returning for 2025.
🧭 Location: Sheffield, UK
🎟️ Date: 10th July, 2025
👾 Social: National Videogame Museum
frontendnorth.com
Lisa Matthews, PhD @poetech.bsky.social Poet & Creative Writing academic • Asemics & sculpture • Deer @ copper.hart • Collage @voila_ici • @Tine.Studios co-founder • Latest book “Hartsongs” with BlueprintPress. UK civil servant by day, digital content designer, UX writer and ND-inclusive #UCD.
Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive.
https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social People+planet-centred Service Designer / Product Manager
Service Manual & Service Standard, GDS, DSIT
Woke
he/him
@budgie-48.bsky.social @budgie-48.bsky.social 
Northern UX @nuxuk.bsky.social #UX #CX #IA and Design community with monthly #nuxuk events in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, York and Sheffield. Next big UX conference hopefully soon.
Clearleft @clearleft.com We are Clearleft – strategic design partners.
https://clearleft.com/
Proud to be #EmployeeOwned 🫶 Also, proudly responsible for
https://uxlondon.com and https://leadingdesign.com/
Izzy @izzyrizinti.bsky.social Cis Lesbian. Queer AF. Feminist, gives good resting b/tch face. I snark occasionally and I swear a lot so, ya know, be prepared. She/Her
Sam Dub @samdub.bsky.social Head of Product, GOV.UK AI
a:gender network ☂️ @agender.org.uk We’re the Civil Service network for trans and intersex staff across the UK. You can find us at www.agender.org.uk. Friends and allies welcome! Reskeets ≠ endorsements
@yemmynisting.bsky.social @yemmynisting.bsky.social 
Saorsa-Amatheia @saorsa-amatheia1.bsky.social Woman with a trans history, feminist, trade union activist, lesbian, and proud Goth/Steampunk
Do what you will: but harm none.
PCS Proud @pcsproud.bsky.social Self-organising voice of LGBT+ members in @PCSUnion.bsky.social
https://www.pcs.org.uk/equality/lgbt
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
TransLucent @translucent.org.uk https://translucent.org.uk/ 🏳️⚧️ Trans News, Research & Human Rights ⚧️ Winner LGBT Organisation of the Year (National Diversity Awards 2022). Portsmouth, UK.
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Helen Gaskell @helengaskell.bsky.social Witch made out of twigs. I collect stories. Currently writing the GOV.UK Service Manual 9 to 5 for cash-money.
Literary rep: The Soho Agency
Lizzie Cass-Maran @lizzie-cass-maran.bsky.social Queer, disabled, neurodivergent human living in Scotland. 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Expect posts on accessibility, content design and social justice. And sometimes chickens.
they/them
FOSSILHEADS: CLIMATE CRISIS CABARET! @fossilheads.bsky.social Lesbian climate angst is your new favourite musical genre. Funny (to me) environmental songs and memes. Putting the "ooh" in "existential dooom"
#LwiththeT #CeasefireNow🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/fossilheads
@jo-scho.bsky.social @jo-scho.bsky.social Content design and strategy.
Hannah Horton @hannahhorton.bsky.social Design leader. Dance mom. LGMD2I. Tired.
We all did the best we could with the information we had available at the time.
Content Teatime @contentteatime.bsky.social We're a bunch of content designers and strategists based in northern England. We run in-person, hybrid and online meet-ups for anyone interested in content, design and user experience. Come and join us.
Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social Fascinated by good design – not necessarily digital. Content strategist, lead and project manager. UX author, online course creator. Wrote the Readability Guidelines wiki. Run #UCDFreelancersDirectory. Books, films, hikes, objects.
cakeconsultancy.com
Laura Parker @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social Senior content designer in UK government. Creator of accessiblenumbers.com. Dyscalculia Network adult advisor. Writes and talks about living with #dyscalculia and maths anxiety.
Work with me. lauraparker.design
Stonewall @stonewalluk.bsky.social We imagine a world where all lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, questioning and ace (LGBTQ+) people are free to be themselves 🌈
Linda RIley @diversityriley.bsky.social Founder of www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com
Robyn Ochs @robynochs.bsky.social 💖💜💙 Global speaker, educator, advocate. Editor of Bi Women Quarterly + 2 bi anthologies: Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World: & RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men. 💖💜💙
Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk Runs Biscuit: Advocacy, community and support for bi+ people in the UK.
Not interested in middle class comfort or correcting my dyspraxic typos. Very interested in amateur academics (kidlit and social history) and lovely shoes.
linktr.ee/we_are_biscuit
Graeme 🦋 @fatherhilarious.blog Long distance cyclist, analytical chemist, juggler and priest in the Church of England. I'm an intentional trip hazard on the road to hell: taking 35mm photographs along the way
www.fatherhilarious.blog
He/Him
Design Justice Network @designjustice.bsky.social The Design Justice Network is a home for people who are committed to embodying and practicing the Design Justice Network Principles. Learn more at https://designjustice.org.
#DesignJustice
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Sarah Winters @escmum.bsky.social Founder and CEO of Content Design London
Cat person with a dog. (And a cat, horse, hamster and fish.)
Really hoping this takes over from the other place. 
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
Kate Ivey-Williams @kateiw.bsky.social Head of Service Design for the Open University, ex GOV.UK. Van life, plants, dancing etc.
Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Katherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social Helping organisations create better customer and colleague experiences through service design and digital transformation.
Senior Design Director at public.digital. Ex Co-op Digital, BBC.
katherinewastell.com
Amy Everett @amyeverett.bsky.social Runner. Lead user researcher in NHS. Living in Sheffield with my wife and our two silly greyhounds. 
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
Chris Thompson @mrcthompson.bsky.social Director of Digital at Northumberland County Council. Cyclist. Purveyor of trees. I draw.
Shaun @sconner.net 
Nikola Goger @nikolagoger.bsky.social Head of Design at Ministry of Justice UK
She/her 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺
Blogging at https://medium.com/@nikolagoger
Rebekah Barry @rebekahbarry.bsky.social Content and strategy consultant.
Author of Considerate Content - How to make your content more inclusive and accessible, with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions.
https://contentdesign.london/shop/considerate-content-by-rebekah-barry
Content Design London @contentdesign.london We work with organisations, big and small, to transform their content and help them succeed. Not more content, smarter content.
Consultancy, training, books, and all things content design.
www.contentdesign.london
Rochelle Gold @rochellegold.bsky.social Head of User Research @NHSEngland
(formerly @NHSDigital) and Head of UCD for Digital Primary Care. Cancer and genetics awareness advocate and patient representative..
Views my own.
She/her.
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…
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Philippa @philippanewis.bsky.social Director at Public Digital. 
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Amy Noss @theamynoss.bsky.social Senior content designer creating UK GOV service content @Kainos. Ex GDS. Cats, coffee and content strategies ❤️. Spain, Spanish and South America 👌.
Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales
Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her.
Check your boobs. Views mine.
https://medium.com/@niacampbell
CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social UK charity. Providing free courses, resources and networking opportunities to help charities and social impact organisations harness the full power of digital and AI. Also working with funders to create an environment of support. See www.wearecast.org.uk.
Lisa Jeffery @lisajeffery.bsky.social Hello. I'm a public sector connector and digital human. Always learning. I'm interested in design, culture and change 🌱
Anna Hepburn @annahepburn.bsky.social Content design leader, currently Head of Content Design at Justice Digital, previously Head of Content on GOV.UK, Head of Digital Engagement and Creative Content at Defra and Head of Digital Communities and Channels at DHSC
Leading Design @leadingdesign.bsky.social Nurturing design leadership through inspiring events, retreats & community.
www.leadingdesign.com
Brought to you by @clearleft.com
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Service Design @servicedesign.bsky.social All things Service Design and Service Design adjacent. UK based but globally intrigued
Dan Howarth @danhowarth.bsky.social Ally in training. Generally curious. Rookie dad. Into hills, indy mags and #designjustice. Content strategy and IA in UK gov.
Neil Fazakerley @neilfaz.bsky.social Plenty of nonsense, occasional content and service design and strategy.
Kelly Jones @kmjones.bsky.social Editor at Rightsnet | Advised on social security since 2010 | Life experience includes poverty & parenthood | Love reading stories, enjoy little adventures & genuinely curious about how aaaaanything works
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Rachel Edwards @rachelanne.bsky.social Content designer, gardener, baker and bad crafter. Badger mad. My dog is my best feature.
Clare Hussey @cjhussey.bsky.social 
Angela Hilton @ange2.bsky.social Doing Product things in the wild.
Currently working on joining up public services, making data better and probably a slide deck.
Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design. 
Clare Brown / ink klub @inkklub.bsky.social Queer, Interaction Designer, Graphic Designer and Illustrator + mentor on ADPlist.org
Matt Hall @matt-hall2510.bsky.social Content designer, public servant, girl dad of 2 and avid reader of children’s fiction.
📍Bradford, West Yorkshire
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Cal Laird @designwithcal.com The ramblings & musings of a Service Designer at NHS 24. Neurodivergent and proud · Dundee, Scotland.
Design. Volvos. Tech. Music. Nature. Travel. Swimming. Plus the odd rant. Views are my own. 🏴🏳️🌈🧠
designwithcal.com
TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social Tech's growth should benefit everyone. We're addressing how tech intersects with the most consequential areas of the economy: housing and labor.
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Colin @htmlandbacon.com Front-end developer working in Government.
Inclusive design advocate, html and taco fan.
https://htmlandbacon.com/
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social CEO of Citizens Advice
Stephen Mounsey @stephenmounsey.bsky.social Easily led astray, expect Agile, Gov, Systems and much more
Debbie Blanchard @debblanch44.bsky.social Dreamer of dreams, lover of theatre, drinker of gin...
Government Product Person and community builder
Volunteer @guidedogs.
Tailender.
School governor, Enterprise Advisor
She/her
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Andy Jones 🏳️🌈 @andyjones.bsky.social Head of Design (Content, Service and Interaction Design) - Dept for Education.
Ex-Dog dad, plant dad. Lover of coffee, cake, all things Scandinavian, design and architecture. Neurospicy, ADHD and colourblind.
Can’t get messages.
Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
hilaryonline.bsky.social @hilaryonline.bsky.social Interests veer wildly from pop culture and TV/film nostalgia, to LGBTQ+, Eurovision and digital inclusion. Cumbrian, in Stockport, working in human centered design for Sweden via Macclesfield. Wife, kids, whippet 🌈
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up