Jane @localnotail.bsky.social local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant
English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.
Fair Witness.
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Ben Hogwood @benarcanafm.bsky.social The music sounds better with you! Music rights for Naxos; editor of Arcana.fm website; writing for Electronic Sound, Presto Music and musicOMH. Dreams of forming acoustic band Good On Paper while supporting the Canaries #ncfc
Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social 'Self-hating white fool.' Sociologist or thereabouts. Not the Light: The Image in the White Racial Frame (Bloomsbury Philosophy, 2027)
Leaded Petrol Sommelier @trainshagger.bsky.social Back at it again on this stupid site
She/her
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social festive seasonal homosexual, tinned fish enthusiast, citrus enjoyer, los angeles evangelist, he/him
made @fionaapplebot.bsky.social
🗡️🦐✨
7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social 🚀...🪐
minimalism 'n' microtones
music for you
davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com
Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social I love good books and bad movies. Trying to raise healthy and kind humans on the South side. Overrun by pets and projects. (she /her) Free Palestine.
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
By @joesondow.bsky.social
Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social Incoherent views expressed are my own
He/Him 🏴🏳️🌈
Слава Україні🇺🇦
My photo alt 📸:
https://bsky.app/profile/afilmphotographer.bsky.social
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social Author, book http://Amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KR127TN?
Preview here https://archiveofourown.org/works/47902108/chapters/120770212
I #followback
Hare Lockwood @harelockwood.com Comedy writer, producer; queer autistic nerd; spreadsheets enthusiast. She/her.
Pet hamster 🐹
Free, monthly zoom gig: @coherentcomedy.com 🍓
Writer, etc. for @thedailytism.com
Hire me for comedy things via my website.
Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating. Looking for small amounts of paid work.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social 
Douglas Murphy @entschwindet.bsky.social I spend my days in an architecture school
I've written some books
Chatting about music, culture, politics etc etc
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social Novelist, poet, tutor, DJ and so on. Very polite.
My novel 'The House on Utopia Way' is out now - https://www.stefmo.co.uk/product-page/the-house-on-utopia-way-paperback
New poetry out with Broken Sleep 31st July - https://tinyurl.com/4yzf7amd
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social Speak truth to power
Laura Lexx @lauralexx.bsky.social Comedian, author of Klopp Actually and Pivot, always wants some distraction…
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. #4BD. Fight for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Captain Cabinets @samebattime.bsky.social A fixation with TV, Film and Horror nostalgia and creating images to amuse myself and others of a like mind
Erika Balsom @erikaaaa.bsky.social www.erikabalsom.com
King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social pub manager at The Queen's Head, Stratford (E15 not upon Avon) 🏳️🌈 alewife, she/they, gay. used to write about cars https://buttondown.com/behind-the-bar/archive/
S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld
Lewie Pollis @lewispoll.is Dog dad. Cheesesteak enthusiast. Data scientist (not the evil kind). He/him
Words on sports, food, and politics here: https://www.thelewsletter.lewispoll.is/subscribe
Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com Composer-Ringleader • darcyjamesargue.com • With Every Breath I Take out now on Nonesuch Records
tiny cats @tinycats.bsky.social i’m just saying things (she/her)
Ekaterina Shengeliya @ekesa.bsky.social Designed in 🇺🇦🇬🇪, manufactured in RU / GW'23 / KCL ‘25 / daughter of a 'foreign agent' / RT & follow ≠ endorsement
Reflector Dish 📡 🇵🇸 @eccentricks.bsky.social I have a very shiny head that now reflects a calmer place. Bigots can still fuck right off though. He/Him
Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social Free Type of Guy on the Land // Muad'dib Amddiffyn Cymru // Third Generation Cod Wars Survivor // Falkland Islands Defence Force Valour Thief // Four-Dimensional Tiddlywinks World Champion 2003 // Boyfriend of Last Resort // István Blaskó 1828-1894
he/him
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Niall Anderson @elvisbunuelo.bsky.social Some people can't be told you know. They have to learn the hard way.
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social Ginger Viking Librarian Trade Unionist Cricket Fan
K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer & Chair of Resonance FM
@blauesstrange.bsky.social @blauesstrange.bsky.social 
Henry Fudge @henryfudgeofficial.bsky.social A serious account of how Britain broke its own economy and what would actually fix it. Land, housing, productivity, and the political economy of decline, by an independent researcher, Economist, and startup guy now based in Switzerland 🇨🇭🏴 henryfudge.com
CHASE Creative Writers Network @chase-cw-net.bsky.social CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-East England) network open to all PGRs interested in creative writing, regardless of research focus.
Updates currently posted by Imogen @birosmudged.bsky.social
Joel Veitch @rathergood.bsky.social Rathergood creator and Bad Dinosaur wrangler 🦖🦕 Crab of Ineffable Wisdom 🦀
Misan Harriman @misanharriman.bsky.social 
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social Opera, Monteverdi & Bach fan with a HIP habit. Lurks around theatres and museums. Can, but doesn’t, read (enough). Also: coffee. ”Und in dem Wie, da liegt der ganze Unterschied”, i.e. #Antifascist
Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com Full time composer of vibey music for cool games and your stereos 💖
Lead composer for PROMISE MASCOT AGENCY and many more coming soon
“One of the best soundtracks in a video game, period”
- VICE
Need hot sounds? acysynth@gmail.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat
cultural history of the atomic bomb and nuclear age, screen media, opera
views my own etc. etc.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
BMcG @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social British, wordish, girlish, nerdish
🌱 📚🐘
she/they
Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social “commsy wonk”
she/her 🏳️⚧️
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Claire Valdez @claireforny.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-7 (Western Queens, North Brooklyn). Union organizer, Assemblymember and democratic socialist. Solidarity forever.
Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com UK-based songwriter and broadcaster (b.1950). Rock Against Racism, Glad To Be LGBT+, Sometime DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music https://linktr.ee/tomrobinson
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social “Lesbian consultant.” “Your favorite poster’s favorite poster.” “A good argument, just miles outside the scope.” Union girlie powered by iced tea and Carly Rae. I will never watch a video. Please be normal in my mentions.
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social
I can explain
https://howardmittelmark.com/about
Claudia Conway @ukseennotseen.bsky.social She/Her. UK Jewish Elite Woke Tofu-Juggling Lizard Woman Space Laser Owner. LGBTQ+ safe Mum. Amateur soprano local choir diva. Peace & freedom for 🍉
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social A project powered by a network of aviation enthusiasts hunting for interesting cleartext ACARS messages. All posted messages are delayed & have identifying information removed. Most messages are very undramatic.
acarsdrama.com | jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social ✦ UK Indie Dev & Co-Founder of Robust Games (@robustgames.bsky.social) • Made Loco Motive - a train based murder mystery game! • Pixel Artist, Animator, Writer & Designer • IGF Award Finalist 2026 • BAFTA Member
🗡️ Buy: s.team/a/1709880 🌐 robust.games
Where Seagulls Dare @redtim.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood seagull enthusiast.
Author of a poor design.
(He/him)
Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social Music teacher. High Five. Half of microtonal rock duo Body Breaks. Member of Quinton Barnes' Black Noise Ensemble. Suns fan. Montrealer.
IG: @mattlegroulx
All of my music is at: https://phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com
Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social MS-DOS gaming enthusiast, YouTuber, admirer of cats, RU in NY.
Ask me about DOS games! Tell me your DOS game memories!
I repost and swear a lot.
(He/Him)
YouTube: youtube.com/dosnostalgic
Web: dosnostalgia.com
Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social Posts a line from Robocop every 30 mins
made by @cheersderek.com more film script bots at https://bsky.app/profile/cheersderek.com/lists/3lalsqpl2h32q
Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social Director of the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as a Director at the UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Fellow at Bellagio, Notre Dame & Bosch. Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Writing a new book.
Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾♂️ @drryder.bsky.social 🤖 Digital anthropologist. Interested in politics & platforms in the UK. PhD on social media in Sri Lanka. Work @ Uni of Munich. Based in London. craigeryder.com
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social Could you take the flight free challenge? Visit our website for information, inspiration and to make your #FlightFree2026 pledge: www.flightfree.co.uk
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com 3D artist, animator & illustrator. Click & hold #art to see some of my work
>>🦆WATCH 'DUCKS'🦆>> https://youtu.be/L8vZbIeAdAw
moonjam.com
instagram.com/moonjam3D
ducksfilm.com
https://ko-fi.com/moonjam
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
Laura Parker @lauraparker.bsky.social Countryside writer, sheep keeper, drystone wall lover. Features for Country Life mag on the fun and the fascinating. Lives in Cotswolds, from Scottish Borders. Late of ChipLitFest, which is now sadly an ex-LitFest.
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social South London born, still learning the job after years at the Bookseller Crow on the Hill in Crystal Palace, chippy
Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social my son is also named bort
words about the music and the arts in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social, @vanmusicmag.bsky.social, @redpeppermag.bsky.social and @newsocialist.bsky.social
he/him
timjl.substack.com
linktr.ee/TimJL
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Network Rail @networkrail.bsky.social *Official account*
🚂 We own, operate and develop Britain’s rail infrastructure.
Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire.bsky.social Maire de Paris
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social Long girl in wrong century. Compromise candidate. Bit of this, bit of the other. I like mustelids and I cannot lie. 🇺🇦
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc, often for @oaklandreviewofbooks. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Dr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social Hymie Tungjorps. Hungie Bopboops. Hingy Tingus. Hyro Bingbip. Hingus Dalp. Jangly Hinghops. Tarmie Wingwas. Tempie Hemphouse.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social I do comedy, lecturing, journalism, radio and writing. I like beaches, books and buildings. Probably writing a bit too much about ovarian cancer at the moment because of reasons.
Taskmaster @taskmaster.tv Official account for #Taskmaster.
Watch full episodes on YouTube and Channel4.com.
Martin McQuillan @mgmcquillan.bsky.social Blue Sky’s first media baron | senior entertainment correspondent at Research Professional News | The Lonely Arts Club podcast | Director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise, Edge Hill University | Twenty-One Media
Prof. Justin Vickers, A.Mus.D. @justin-vickers.bsky.social justinvickers1974@substack.com
Distinguished Professor of Music • Illinois State University • Musicologist • C20 British Music Specialist • Author of “The Aldeburgh Festival: A History of the Britten and Pears Era” (Boydell, fc) • www.justinvickers.com
Peregrine falcon fan @nrgsrhc.bsky.social a gritty dose of reality from some idiot who doesn’t know anything