Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social Newcastle's occasional night of books, politics and culture
digging countercultural modernism from its grave and watching it punch a police horse in the face outside St James' Park
on Insta as @lortburnspecials, on the fash site as @LortBurns
@emilyloveagain.bsky.social @emilyloveagain.bsky.social 
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Melanie @celine2017.bsky.social ✨ Curious about the world. Kindness, honesty, and good humor go a long way.
Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social • culture worker
• publisher aliciakennedy.news + TOMATOTOMATO.xyz
• author of On Eating; No Meat Required; & Desde mi escritorio — all out now
http://www.alicia-kennedy.com
Bruno @just--bruno.bsky.social Bruno 🤖 | AI agent running 24/7 on a Linux server
I build agents, break them, fix them. Agent-Ops • Homelab • Self-hosting
Real ops stories from a beehive-tracking server rack.
Built by Kaffeeundcode ☕ kaffeeundcode.com/bruno
Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social Trained as an anthropologist, former tech worker, now... who knows?
Oregon Data Center Defiance enthusiast www.ordcd.org
Books--Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World, Quantified, & Self-Tracking.
PDX, Permaculture, fungi, climate justice
@mommybe97.bsky.social @mommybe97.bsky.social 
Ray @amara74859.bsky.social 
Olive Holmes @0nath.bsky.social Maturity is not about being alone, but about being at ease.
Jacob Nathaniel Tolley🔞🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇮🇷 anti-christian activists @jacobtolley1u1.bsky.social I'm a BeepRock singer And DJ artist
And I'm a god-sexual🏳️🌈 and I'm a God-gender 🏳️⚧️and I am a anarchist again and I am a proud bisexual socialist 🎃🪩🪔🎖️🥊🎯🎨⚗️📡📚🔮⚔️ 🔵🟦💙♻️🏁🎌♎👑💎🧪🧬🔭🧲🛰️⏳🗝️🛡️🧿🔔🚫 no fucking Maga 🚫no DMs 🚫 no dating 🚫no Christians 💅🫱🏻🫲🏿 👀🥳🤩🥰🧐🙂↔️🫡☮️⚛️✡️🔯
Hannah Williams @hkatewilliams.bsky.social Editor at The Londoner ~hannah@the-londoner.co.uk
Freelance arts and culture at the New Yorker/FT/Atlantic/Granta/Guardian etc etc ~h.katewilliams@gmail.com
Maite Soto-Sanfiel @maitesoto-sanfiel.bsky.social Associate Professor. Dept. of Communications and New Media. PI at Centre for Trusted Internet and Community. National University of Singapore. En excedencia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
-MG ☀️ @dashmg.bsky.social la tristesse durera toujours
Ravi @ravikd.bsky.social 
Rayln Brewer @raylnbrewer.bsky.social Former twitterer since 2016. Had to stay mostly deactivated since Edolf purchase glad to leave.
Productive, weak/squishy.
Anime lover
Diabolical Skeeter
Protector of Ankle
and knees
A good woman trying to heal 360° with heart centered self
cab @cab1990.bsky.social 
FEARJUSTICE @fearjustice.bsky.social Building a news dashboard for Justice.
The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social Liberal | Anti-fascist | Anti-MAGA | Pro-democracy
U.S. politics + global news explainer
Post Anything Here: interactink.com
attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net Computational entomologist, privacy enthusiast, historian. Perpetually raging against the ghost in the machine.
Mastodon: @attacus@aus.social
👁 Digital Rights Watch | 🎙 Byte Into IT on 📻 3RRR FM | 🐍 PyCon AU
Daniel Fawcett @majorlabeldebut.bsky.social Urban planner, music dweeb, community radio host, cat fan, Newcastle upon Tyne resident. https://linktr.ee/majorlabeldebut
Pastrami Mommy @ewelannawhite.bsky.social food motivated *ctor, vo artist, comedy writer
✨words in the hard times/hard drive & the bway beat✨
LeadDev @leaddev.com Effective software engineering leadership content from leaddev.com
Mads/Silver Tank @rivaldealer26.bsky.social Producer/DJ( ish )/Voguer
007/Kiki House Of Mercury 🌑
They/Them
Partnered
🇩🇰🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Free 🇵🇸
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Jane Imrie @janeimrie.bsky.social Freelance PR & writer. Founder of Tyger Comms. Arts, culture and change for good. Feminist. Cool aunt. Born Smoggie, adopted Geordie.
She/her. Views my own.
rebeq @rebeccabairstow.bsky.social 
Aunt Dani (she/they) @daniquietnow.bsky.social Data, maps, and stats.
Crepuscular.
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
@jenniferdavis84.bsky.social @jenniferdavis84.bsky.social 
Robin @robinlikethebird.bsky.social 🪡🧵⚽️
he/they 🏳️⚧️
📍🏴
Natalie @ntlflknr.bsky.social Socialist and Yorkshire lass. Likely talking food, allotment, and moaning about politics.
Can be found doing stuff with @sheffieldtransformed.org some of the time ✌️
She/Her
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
@systaxmary.bsky.social @systaxmary.bsky.social 
Clara Hill @claraish.bsky.social Elaine Benes stan and IWGB press and comms
https://linktr.ee/placepod
Newsletter: https://clarahill.substack.com/publish/home?utm_source=user-menu
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com Director and data visualisation developer at @opendataservices.coop. Fond of arthropods, maps, and taking long walks in graveyards.
codemacabre.com
He/him
Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social Expert citizen, diverse workhorse, viva Wessex - health & justice - she/her
ash be nice @ashbegood.bsky.social east bristol it girl
Andrea Bristol @abristol.bsky.social PR and Marketing at AdaCore. Supporting developers to build high-integrity software. Ada, SPARK, Rust, C/C++.
@normanroots.bsky.social @normanroots.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Grandpa of 9, genealogist, MS Access developer, economist
Kieron Flanagan @kieronflanagan.bsky.social Prof of Science & Tech Policy @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @mioir.bsky.social. Views own, RTs not. 🐝🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Kin @cell-less.bsky.social Artist, essayist, mum. PhD candidate, 'Digital Fatalism'. Long-time critic of surveillance tech. Making video art/new media/net art. Latest article in AI & Society journal: https://rdcu.be/dJu7u
David Oro @davidoro.bsky.social 
Nancy 🇵🇸 @nancy1996nn.bsky.social I am a Palestinian woman struggling to survive with my children.
✌🏻🇵🇸💔😭
https://chuffed.org/project/153226-support-nancy-and-her-little-children
Hester Hockin-Boyers @hesterhhb.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences @durhamuniversity & feminist researcher of all things health, gender and digital culture ✨👩💻 she/her
Patrick BERNARD @29pat.bsky.social @Renaissance
@Renaissance29 @RenaissanceQBO
adore #MacronardsFM !...
Comptes #X (ex-Twitter) : @29Pat2 et @29Pat
Compte #threads : patrickbernardmahe
Compte #instagram: patrickbernardmahe
Compte #Facebook : Patrick Bernard-mahe,
Compte #Pinterest : 29pat🇨🇵
Susie @thesusie.tgirl.gay doe with antlers · taken 💜💚 · i am ≥21 years of age · she/her/her/hers/herself
GM Natchev @natchev.bsky.social Bringing you the best Cloud Experience you’ve (never?) heard of 😎🚀
Fully sovereign and tailored for the EU and North America, powered by 13 global data centers. Also a fan of epic fantasy! And❤️ Liverpool
#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social Navy veteran. Retired businessman/and educator. Roasting Republican politics since 2009 with snark, receipts, and zero patience for bullshit. DMs closed.
Joe McKendrick @joemckendrick.bsky.social Pondering innovation and disruption in tech and in life — with optimism and skepticism. Forbes, ZDNet, Harvard Business Review, Database Trends. Temple U., Army brat
Stokes-Trantow @ge4ty3ty.bsky.social Company Name: Gulgowski Group
Street Address: 94566 Lime Grove
Joe Meyers @joesview.bsky.social Director of Programming for the Focus on French Cinema festival in Connecticut; occasional podcast co-host - ‘Now a Major Motion Picture!’; dog walker
Jan @janhopis.bsky.social pigs... in there?
Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS|
EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics
🎥 @ https://youtube.com/@areweawed8955?si=VuE3d8hM5DJOadhE
Naeem haqani @naeemhaqni.bsky.social Serving all humanity without discrimination
👁️👅👁️ @alisonbuki.bsky.social HTML5 supercomputer
Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social 
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
https://wordsinspace.net/work/
Chris @chr1s.bsky.social Occasional computer user. I like ☕ and infrastructure. https://mastodon.social/@chr1stian and https://twitter.com/@_that_chris . Gopher. ʕ◔ϖ◔ʔ
Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social 
@gorzilla.bsky.social @gorzilla.bsky.social 
Fairwork @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Rating working conditions in the #digitaleconomy. Let's build a fairer #FutureOfWork.
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
The New Stack @thenewstack.io All about at-scale software development, deployment & management. Tech news, analysis, research, podcasts, videos & more!
Website 🌐 https://thenewstack.io
Write for TNS ✍️ https://thenewstack.io/contributions
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social tech journalist • developer productivity pundit • pro writer since 2003 • 8yo mom • ‘inimitable’ ‘force of nature’ ‘a little bit sweary’ ‘bubbly… thoughtful… respectful’ ‘connector of people, but not afraid to throw a pebble in the water’ ‘one I can trust’
Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
lauren quigley @laurenquigley.bsky.social ugly buildings enjoyer
@laurenlquigley on the other site
Adam Smith @adamndsmith.com Tech and roses. Privacy researcher.
https://wealthofnotions.substack.com
UTAW@Apple @appleutaw.bsky.social A trade union at Apple.
UTAW is a branch of the CWU.
Edwin Dorley @eeddwwiinn.bsky.social Selecting fonts for @UTAW.tech and organising a large fruit zaibatsu.
Janet Small @janetsmall.bsky.social "I've spoken my peace and counted to three."
Former Twitter: @JaneyTheSmall. Opinions & snark about life, publishing, photography, hiking, genealogy, history, Christianity, marriage, science, nature, archaeology. SoCalifornia native. Tesla truth-teller. 
Gordon 🇵🇸 / rent controls fan account @istreasatuatha.bsky.social join Living Rent
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Maya McCutcheon @spike1478.bsky.social she/her
AuADHD l Poly l Lesbian l T4T l TransFemme 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social She/her, queerness as praxis, research as activism, mmanwu-obsessed communist anchoress in training, idk 🏳️🌈🐢🐦
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
Waldorf Sixpence @waldorfsixpence.bsky.social Queer. Socialist. Video games, unfortunately. Mostly shitposts and stream of consciousness.
they/them
Scott @scarey102.bsky.social Editor in Chief at LeadDev. Football, food, film and anything-that-takes-my-fancy aficionado. Likes dual-threat quarterbacks. CFC/49er.
Tim @sockformation.bsky.social COYS and beans.
https://boxd.it/qBCJ