Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social What fresh hell is this
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MichaelKupperman
Art 4 Sale: https://michaelkupperman.com/shop
Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social Acting Home Affairs correspondent at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
Prior winner, Paul Foot Award, 30Under30 etc.
Want to talk stories? DM or use yeomans.97 on Signal
Steve Baxter @bothererofcats.bsky.social Software engineer, pro-European, botherer of cats. Engineer on https://stopreformuk.vote/ and https://www.swapmyvote.uk/.
Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social Careers consultant. Still loves mountains, knitting, bumblebees, agus Gàidhlig cuideachd. #Archbiscuit of #TheBiscuitAppreciationSociety Inbhir Nis. #BeeKind
Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Not American.
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Nick @handpressed.net Servant of cats. Sniffer of books. Wrangler of WordPress. https://handpressed.net
WordPress advice, fixes and tweaks for coffee. https://ko-fi.com/handpressed
Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social Campaigner to support the BBC (not a BBC employee). It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs >49 pence/around 65 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social Welsh-Kiwi Japanese translator, chanoyu practitioner & host to a timeshare cat. Memorial Device ANT
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Tina Fawcett @tinafawcett.bsky.social Senior Researcher & Associate Professor, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Convenor, Oxford Energy Network. Fellow, Reuben College.
SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social Former teacher now temping. Proud mother of an autistic daughter. #CEV. Cat slave; bookworm; Doctor Who & Strictly fan. Unashamedly woke.
Same name on 🐦 and 🦣 She/her
🌍 South-West UK
Jo Hutchinson @jojohutchinson.bsky.social Director, SEND and Additional Needs @ Education Policy Institute. Former government statistician. 
Suzanne Kattau (tech editor & writer) @suzannekattau.bsky.social Freelance Writer in New York. Bylines at NYMag/The Strategist, CNN Underscored, PCMag, RTInsights, SiliconANGLE, SDTimes
suzannekattau@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/suzannekattau
muckrack.com/suzanne-kattau-1
authory.com/SuzanneKattau
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social Data & Graphics @ CNN. 📈👸
Priors: WSJ, ONS. Clearly a fan of acronyms. "Aggressive Door Opener".
Likes: Cats, maps, stats 🐱🗺️📊
Fair Warning newsletter: https://fairwarning.substack.com
Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social Columnist, board member, learner,
dreamer, scribbler, Gaelic Games fan, Left leaner, cat servant 🐈🐈⬛️
📍Mayo, Ireland
👩🦰 She/her
🔐 Views my own
Malc @p0ns0nby.bsky.social @p0ns0nby at the other place
Joe Burroughes AKA Vim Fuego @joefuego.bsky.social Retired Solicitor ( I did my twenty), retired rhythm guitar player (got a bad finger...) retired tree surgeon (got struck off for inappropriate relations with a Monkey Puzzle) retired divorcee (remarried to my high school sweetheart) lifelong music lover. 
Sarah @sarahg1705.bsky.social 
Uncle Wheaty @unclewheaty.bsky.social Big lover of all sports (apart from basketball which I find tedious) and music of all genres. Watch lots of films and good TV. Still working but hope to retire within 5 years.
@philpelling.bsky.social @philpelling.bsky.social Enjoys eating dogs and not using commas
The Pitts @bendypitts.bsky.social #psb #nffc my race is not run. Not yet. We carry forward.
David Weeks 〓〓 @skeewd.bsky.social Kernowyon in Bayern
#TheWordMassive
John Almond @johnaonline.bsky.social Aka Feedback File. Purveyor of songsmithery and ruminations on life and other flippant things
Tony Hunter @tonyhunterakajr.bsky.social Aussie. Music mainly African , reggae , funk, soul, blues, jazz and old school rawk. Weekly radio show reflecting the above.
https://southcoastfm.au/show/roots-rock-reggae/
Politics on the left but not blindly so.
Joe Mints @joemints.bsky.social 
John b @dudley6124.bsky.social 
MPolli @mpolli.bsky.social Elderly limping man with a degenerative health problem. An optimistic pessimist.
Lover of music, art and photography.
Alan M @alan-m-1.bsky.social Book and CD hoarder, incurable affliction for West Ham & Somerset cricket. Aka Fortuneight.
Mike Harrison @mike-h-bsky.bsky.social Old fart at play.
(Retired)
Take me to the cheap jazz gigs.
(and buy me a beer)
salwarpe @salwarpe.bsky.social I am a sheep. Also a Quaker.
I like puns, politics and permaculture, not necessarily in that order.
I love music. Laurie Anderson and The Sisters of Mercy are at the apex.
Seuras Og @seurasog.bsky.social From back down a retro path, a lone groover lurches, blinking……. Still writes bollox about music. No longer doccing.
Kevin O'Donnell @landocakes.bsky.social Off-duty counsellor and de-frocked scientist. Personal and professional interest in Spina Bifida and the stigmatisation of disability. Not keen on the politics of othering. Keen on music, books, gardening, Edinburgh (other nice cities are available).
Mark @mark0510.bsky.social Still better at thinking about doing things, rather than actually doing things
Great at hopping
Johnsey @grahamdjohns.bsky.social Now we dolly back. Now we fade to black.
Paddy Hoey @paddyhoey.bsky.social Craigavon/ Lismore Comprehensive/ Armagh GAA/ Celtic FC. 'Top tier tarrier'. Media/ Politics and football activism scholar. Adopted Scouser - pronouns: lid/ la.
http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114259/
Martyn Roberts @cuckoolane.bsky.social Retired history teacher. West Wales. Music and books. 1 dog 2 cats.
@steve285.bsky.social @steve285.bsky.social 
Ivan @navi226.bsky.social Solicitor, Coeliac, cider snob 🇮🇪 #paddystinian
Co. Roscommon
Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead.
Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press or me. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".
https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
Niall Brannigan @niallb1.bsky.social I write about London recording studios, the people who worked there and the music they made:
willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com
Spurs; Woking FC; Red Sox; Big Big Train; Danny Camp, Frost*; live for live music.
Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social Mostly music, art, film & photography. Likes writing about all of these: formerly on the ‘Specs’ blog, now part of the ArtMuseLondon team.
Reno Dakota @renodakota.bsky.social A bundle of vague sensory perceptions 
Drakeygirl @drakeygirl.bsky.social Music/book/film-inhaler, ex-rugby player, mum of 26-year-old with Prader-Willi Syndrome, greyhound owner
Doods @doods.bsky.social Former Yob
Performative male (dares to read books in public).
Block early, block often.
Sequoia @sequoia79.bsky.social a humble artisan
MJ @melaniejane.bsky.social Introvert. Likes dogs a lot, less keen on humans but willing to make exceptions. Located sort of west of London.
Not great at joining in.
Mr DaveDogFacedBoy @davedfb.bsky.social Gig goer, music physical media obsessive, film watcher, pop culture bore and faithful friend as any hound
UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social
JOEMUGGS.UK
--
Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
#MDANT
bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com
joemuggs.substack.com
theartsdesk.com
mixcloud.com/joemuggs
rovr.live/#/curator/joe-muggs
etc
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land. 
michael blurbflyski @blurbfly.bsky.social Makes strange nether bleeps as half of Kilim Mosh, translates, fiddles with computers, squints a lot. Bit blurry at times.
music: https://linktr.ee/kilimmosh
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
alanbenzie @alanbenzie.bsky.social blah blah architecture, rah rah rah fonts, blah blah ginger beer, doof doof doof Acid House, rah rah rah dogs
Donna Rees @donnarees.bsky.social Sometime actor, full time autism Mummy, lover of theatre, film. music and comedy.
Mark Williams @markw06.bsky.social https://www.dailypost.co.uk/all-about/taste-test
Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social Songs, book chapters, and journalistic pieces. Nature, 2nd-generation Irishness, melancholy & joy! Survived the great All About Eve miming disaster.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Abbie Headon (she/her) @abbieheadon.bsky.social 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Free-range editor and writer. Editor-at-Large, Calon Books. Campus Community Manager, BookMachine. Bookseller Rising Star. FRSA. #TransLivesMatter
Kristin Hersh @kristinhersh.bsky.social musician, author
Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave
Stephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social Writing | Games | Escape Rooms | Running | Family | Books | Education | Stoma
I run www.enigmailed.com
who3words:creative, inventive, original
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
@andrewfaloon.bsky.social @andrewfaloon.bsky.social 
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Jeremy Duns @jeremyduns.bsky.social Author of novels Free Agent, Song of Treason, The Moscow Option, and Spy Out The Land, and non-fiction Dead Drop (Codename: HERO in the US). Website: http://www.jeremy-duns.com
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI
When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.
https://theslowai.substack.com/
Jason Good 🌻 🇺🇦 @jasongood.bsky.social No, it wasn’t me.
Ironic & silly.
Politics, cycle racing, movies, TotP, Strictly, Traitors.
Strong LGBTQ+ ally, atheist, INTJ
Posting my own views in my private capacity.
X-ile
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
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Todd Kendall @alpinemigrant.bsky.social EU and UK citizen. Mountain Dweller. Formerly Alpine Migrant - Author of "The Star and The Pincer" published on Amazon in paperback & Kindle formats - perfect beach/flight reading! TK is not my real name.
https://vsn.to/c2u4rr
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.
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Dan Thornton @danthornton.net Self-employed writer, marketer and SEO for 20+ years, avid sim racer. Interests: sci-fi, motorcycling, classic cars, film, freelancing, tech, music and playing guitar. Co-founder: Digital People in Peterborough / Peterborough STEM Festival
Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
Get in touch with tips: trucker3@pm.me
Martin Bright @martinbright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Journalism at University of Essex, Editor-at-Large at Index on Censorship, founder of Creative Society
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Sophie Bane @sophiebane.bsky.social Usually to be found in a book, wishing I was in a book or attempting to write a book. Proud Brummie. She/ her.
Rob Berends @roboberends.bsky.social Founder (1981)/co-owner/agent/booker/promoter for live music at Paperclip Agency.
Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social Journalist writing about media for the Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. taraconlan.com
Amy L Crow 🐦⬛ @itsamycrow.bsky.social Lapsed writer and filmmaker from Essex, Blighty.
I like the arts, music and festivals quite a lot. Arsenal supporter. Essex Cricket and England supporter. Supporter of glasses containing rum.
Be aware: I have cats, and I know how to use them.
Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social 
Duncan Seaman @duncanseamanyp.bsky.social Music correspondent for The Yorkshire Post
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/
MDANT 🏅
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social ugh, who invited this guy 
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Making sense of our political hell every Tues and Fri. From Podmasters UK.
Listen: https://linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
Back us: http://patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Posts without signatures from the production team.
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Who would have thought my shriveled heart
Could have recovered greenness?'
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
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
iain morris @iainkevanmorris.bsky.social inbetweeners co-creator but actually also loads of other stuff thanks very much. i also bang on about QPR a lot. too much?
Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social Pilgrim. Seeker. Struggling to exist in the 21st Century. I run @peakrillpress.bsky.social
Wangleberry @wangleberry.bsky.social www.chickenscratch.co.uk
Artist, Warrior, Professional Idiot
Doing a PhD in English for the sheer hell of it
Henri @henriwords.com I have never disembowelled myself (5)
I start to drum, interrupting Ringo! (3)
I judge, like dad (5)
Crossword setter: Guardian, Times, Inquisitor, Gnomon, Unch, MyCrossword, henriwords.com and more. Puzzle editor at Unch. Rob Townsend, really
we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social she/her. sorry about my face, an animal licked it
honored east portlander, oregon treasure quest ranger, OSU extension service master food preserver and master composter, mother of multiples, peasant
USDA zone 8b/9a