Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
@davidbell.bsky.social @davidbell.bsky.social Bored, with enough free time to be on Bluesky
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/) 
Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸 @stitzch.bsky.social Fit like. Bandcamp Da
He/him
Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social West Yorkshire’s new independent newsroom 📰
Backed by readers. Built for the region.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Holly Bruce MSP @hollybruce.bsky.social Member of Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Southside
Scottish Green Party Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice
Alison Thewliss @thewliss.bsky.social SNP MSP for Glasgow Central
Promoted by Angus Millar on behalf of Alison Thewliss, both at 68 St Vincent Terrace, Glasgow, G3 8DX
redrichie @larichierouge.bsky.social Oh no, not again. He/him
Iris Duane MSP 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @irisduane.bsky.social Green MSP for the Glasgow Region 💚
Socialist, feminist and trade unionist ✊🏾
Let’s make hope normal again!
she/her/hers
Views my own 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
Eris Young is Eunuchmaxxing @erisyoung.bsky.social https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/eris-young/hunger-in-the-blood/9781035095346 pre-order HUNGER IN THE BLOOD Tor Nightfire 05/2027❣️👄🩸🦷🧛♀️
Rep: Alex Cochran, Greyhound Literary
Fiction Editor, Shoreline of Infinity
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Neil Drysdale @neildrysdale.bsky.social I’m looking for new writing projects to embrace. The more eclectic the better! Contact me at: Neil694@btinternet.com
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
This Is Our Battlefield @tiob.diy A DIY record label in Glasgow, Scotland.
www.tiob.diy
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social The Comics in the Golden Age Podcast. And sometimes the Platinum Age. Celebrating comics books & comic strips of all genres & their creators (ESPECIALLY THEIR CREATORS) from the 1930s to the 1950s, & other comics history!
Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social I write novels.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social BPS Chartered Psychologist & Senior Lecturer in Psychology (stress, burnout & well-being). Host of the EightyPercentMental Podcast. Occasionally writes things. Sometimes smiles.
Some stuff here, innit: https://linktr.ee/PeteOlusoga
Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social arm the scroungers
Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art • Support our work at www.patreon.com/proteanmag • www.proteanmag.com/
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Scott Chalmers @achilliooo.bsky.social Daddy of Clyde and Aria 🐕 Study Molecular & Cellular biology at University of Glasgow 👨🔬🔬 Gay and always with the T+🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Supporter of an independent Scottish Republic.
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com Yr blowsy goth auntie. Life without buildings, Whin, Even Sisters & solo. He/him | https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com | https://whin.bandcamp.com | https://musicians.today/@rdg_music
Euan @euan.bsky.social ah to be young again! and also a robot
(he/him)
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
joe @joeyp.bsky.social Registered Bowsie
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk Independent Journalist/Writer. Songwriter. Cat lady 🐈 🏳️⚧️ she/her
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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
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Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social Deputy Leader, Green Party of England & Wales. co-leader of Wealden District Council, Sussex. Spokesperson: Culture, Sport & Digital Inclusion. Founder of Birds Eye View int'l women's film festival. Friends of River Medway. Ashdown Forest conservator.
Riyoko @riyokoshibe.bsky.social PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at the history of BP and petrochemicals in Grangemouth. they/them.
Ewan Robertson @ewanrobo.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher, Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh (https://www.project-spark.net/)
Focused on the Spanish and Catalan parliaments | PhD in Social Policy
Exec member & comms at the UK Social Policy Association
Marc Geddes @marcgeddes.uk Political scientist mostly based at the University of Edinburgh and sometimes found at the Institute for Parliamentary Research in Berlin.
Joshua @joshuaconnell.bsky.social Behavioural science, political philosophy and ethics
Gallivanting on the mainland
pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social just another angry glaswegian leftie
she/her
The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Read: TheNewWorld.co.uk
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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk out now, published by New Modern.
Also: Under The Ivy; Small Hours; Themes For Great Cities &tc.
Web: www.graemethomson.net
Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social One of the world's biggest sound projects, covering more than 130 countries with 2,000+ contributing artists. Remixing the world, one sound at a time. www.citiesandmemory.com
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social I edit The Mill
ophira@millmediaco.uk - there's no dot between 'media' and 'co'
Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social We are a grassroots campaign group led by sex workers, trade unionists & feminists. We fight for the full decriminalisation of sex work in the UK.
Take action: https://linktr.ee/ukdecrimnow
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
padmé amygdala @ali1m.bsky.social we are all bourgeois now [he/him]
FreedyBee @freedybee.bsky.social Actor, poet, mum. Gàidhlig, BSL learner, sea chanties.
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social BBC News in Westminster
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social Ross. Writer. Poet. I believe in repetition and Carly Rae Jepsen. Refill the Nor Loch! All hail the sun! He/Him
Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot 🏳️🌈 activist in 🏴
Views entirely my own
Co-founder @endconversiontherapy.scot
Serial political policy author
(he/they) ↙︎↙︎↙︎
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social Climate and energy politics | Postdoc at the University of Sussex researching fossil fuel phaseouts @suspol.bsky.social | Visiting Fellow at LSE | PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh | www.lukasslothuus.com
WG Saraband 🏴🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social Portuguese turned Scot. Artist. Pro-indy Scotland. 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+. Husband. Books. Games. MA Medieval Islamic History. Sweary. Owned by 2 cats. He/Him
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
My artwork: wgsaraband.com
Radical Glasgow Tours @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social Walking through the radical histories and present-day struggles of the city of Glasgow.
radicalglasgowtours.com
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. Author Forgotten Places: Barcelona&SCW. Also Iberian wildlife+landscape. Latest book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" Now researching next book about Iberian wolves
www.thespanishcivilwar.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Debbie Ball @debbieball.bsky.social Design features doctoral researcher currently in social media rehab. Eternal music fan.
Data and Society lecturer at University of Westminster. Music pr at Create Spark, representing Big Joanie, Andy Bell (Ride), Soft Cell & more.
Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social Children’s author, mediocre footballer, internet transgender || he/him #COYG
Le Monde @lemonde.fr « Le Monde » est un journal français fondé par Hubert Beuve-Méry en 1944. C'est aussi un compte Bluesky qui poste l'actualité en continu de façon automatisée.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Harry Shukman @harryshukman.bsky.social Researcher at HOPE not hate
Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Editor.
tinabrown.substack.com
sirharrysummit.org
Aproxima Arts @aproxima.bsky.social Independent Glasgow Arts Collective working in the public realm
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Daniel Carey @danielmcarey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher. Former journalist. Media history. Oral history. Currently researching the (Catholic) Standard newspaper (1928-1978). Funded through the Research Ireland Government of Ireland scheme. Based at Dublin City University
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!!
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net