The Aesthetic of the Ordinary @aofoto.bsky.social AO is a not-for-profit initiative for the appreciation of the often under-appreciated beauty of the everyday environment.
Website: https://AOfoto.art
Steve Palmer @stevepalmer.photography 🌿 Nature and wildlife photographer
📸 Award winning glimpses of nature
📷 Sony A7RV
👋 Come explore with me!
Matt Henderson @matthen.com Maths animations, dialogue systems research
Research @ PolyAI, previously Google, Apple, Reka. PhD Cambridge
Edinburgh, UK
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4.
Got a story? C4Nstories@itn.co.uk
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Substack: https://channel4news.substack.com
Website: www.channel4.com/news
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Channel4News
Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social Political cartoonist for The Guardian.
You can read more abt the process behind my cartoons on insta: @ella_baron
Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social BECOMING DUCHESS GOLDBLATT (HMH, 2020).
Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician. 
CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social The TV listings you never did know that you didn't not need, in glorious teletext several times a day. GSOH. Non-smoker preferred. Ring top bell. Your home is at risk if you store dynamite in it.
NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social Fan page of Ernie Bushmiller’s legendary comic strip Nancy.
This year is the 93rd. anniversary of Nancy’s first appearance(January2,1933)
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
@janvadehe.bsky.social @janvadehe.bsky.social Mathematician based at LSE. Interested in all things combinatorics (and coffee).
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account. To un-bridge, block this account.
To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.
More info: https://fed.brid.gy/docs
Kadir @candidframe.bsky.social Photographer
Shortlisted – British Photography Awards
Good food good mood , Fenerbahçe 💛💙
https://www.instagram.com/pizzaandphotography/
W Social @wsocial.eu We believe in the need for a global, trusted social media platform owned, run, and hosted in Europe. W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy, and free speech.
https://wsocial.eu/
@a3minutewonder.bsky.social @a3minutewonder.bsky.social Son, Sibling, Husband, Father. All photos are my own unless noted.
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
Nancy Kerr @nancyannfolk.bsky.social Musician singer composer educator researcher
Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk John Spiers. Squeezebox player with Gigspanner Big Band, Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, Peter Knight & John Spiers, Jackie Oates & John Spiers …
I'm English ... not an American.
Bath Astronomers @bathastronomers.org.uk Lovely bunch of amateur astronomers in and around the historic city of Bath, Somerset, UK. Rescuing telescopes from dusty cupboards, sharing how-tos, and inspiring minds with outreach are our things. Registered Charity Number 1215572.
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Cheryl Fury @tudorwench.bsky.social Historical Gangsta. Aspiring meme queen. Hangs with salty dead English guys from the Tudor-Stuart era & tries to avoid scurvy. 🇨🇦⚓️ early East India co voyages. Holocaust educator. Teaches whatever needs teaching.
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social Baroness/Actress/Writer/Campaigner. Best known as iconic presenter of Playschool and Play Away
Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social Mathematician, wife, mother, addicted to math
John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social Mathematical physicist
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social Labour and Co-Operative MP for Manchester Central | Deputy Leader of the Labour Party🌹| Secretary of State for Education
lucy.powell.mp@parliament.uk
The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social Stories that connect people & planet 🌱
#WainwrightPrize
🦆 2026 SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED!
linktr.ee/wainwrightprize
The Watercress Line @thewatercressline.bsky.social Heritage railway in Hampshire
https://watercressline.co.uk/
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social 
Spoken Nerd @fotsn.bsky.social Live shows, recorded shows, A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail. UK science comedy phenomenon with Steve Mould, Helen Arney & Matt Parker. Posts by Sam. Pic by @idilsukan.
NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com Media platform covering global conflict zones. Focus on the Ukraine-Russia war. Consider supporting us once via buymeacoffee.com/noelreports or by becoming a member via patreon.com/NOELREPORTS.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
Pascal Junod @cryptopathe.me applied cryptographer - certified nerd god - head of cryptography & research at duokey - founder modulo p - ex-Snap - co-founder ex-strong.codes - has-been professor - trail runner - aidjolat
Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Minister for Women & Equalities.
Chair of the Labour Party.
Proud MP for Houghton & Sunderland South.
Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social Official account • good cats being workers • unionized • mascot: Jobert the cat • Business/credit/removal: translatedcats@gmail.com • Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/translatedcats/
Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social I like to wear flares and do the jokes. Bit of a woke prick. He/him. 
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Kate Rusby (Official Page) @katerusby.bsky.social Often hailed as 'Folk Royalty,' Kate Rusby has played a pivotal role in bringing traditional English folk music to a contemporary audience.
*Tickets for 'The Springshine Tour’ ON SALE NOW* katerusby.com/gigs
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Joost Markerink @joostmarkerink.eurosky.social "Zen Master"
https://joostmarkerink.nl/
@wokinglibdems.bsky.social @wokinglibdems.bsky.social Promoted by W.Mullins on behalf of Woking Liberal Democrats both at 20 Orchard Mains, Woking, GU22 0ET
https://www.libdems.org.uk/privacy
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social Trains, travels & beers mainly with speedway during the season .
Will Forster MP @willforster.bsky.social Liberal Democrat MP for Woking
www.willforster.co.uk
Peter Mugridge @peter-mugridge.bsky.social Artist, photographer, travel fanatic, astronomer... and still moaning at the increasing inability of people to do their job properly these days!
Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Still working on 4th debut novel.
Chooser of images at @rathergoodart.bsky.social
Curious Notes collected here - https://notesforthecurious.com/
Archaeological things here - https://www.digitaldigging.net/
Twonks @twonks.bsky.social Cartoons and comics by Steve Nelson.
Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com
https://linktr.ee/twonkscomics
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Lance Ulanoff @lanceulanoff.com Journalist. Tech Guy
Graham Smyth @grahamsmyth.bsky.social Lead club journalist Leeds United. Ex Yorkshire Evening Post, Derbyshire Times/Sheffield Star, Worksop Guardian. Dad of 4 (four). Views mine, all mine.
Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social Facts, Information, and Images related to Space and Astronomy.
Copyright with respective people and organizations shared for educational purposes.
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social Nothing but #fintwitter headlines to get you started on blue sky.
Natasha Tara Petrović @ Baltimore Comic Con B18 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social Illustrator + Comic Artist
🦇 Portfolio: www.1000deaddraculas.com
✉️ Email: 1000deaddraculas@gmail.com
🩸 Webcomic: severandpierce.com
⚰️ Patreon: patreon.com/1000DeadDraculas
🛒 Shop: theyetee.com/1000DD
Rejected Petitions @rejectpetitions.bsky.social Skeeting every UK Parliament petition rejection.
A bot by @jonty.bsky.social.
Fediverse: https://bot.country/@rejectpetitions
Petitions: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=rejected
Dave Blazek @loosepartsguy.bsky.social Reuben Award-winning syndicated cartoonist. Creator of the single panel comic Loose Parts. Purveyor of mirth.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
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
enclose.horse @enclose.horse Build a pen around the horse by placing walls on the grid. Click on a grass (green) tile inside the grid to place a wall.
Play at: https://enclose.horse
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Agatha Grimke ✒️📚🏺🫏🟦🐈⬛️🦆🌹 @agathagrimke.bsky.social Someone positively pleased with the wonders and mysteries of the universe, a good book, cats, and hot cocoa. #WritingCommunity
She/her
Very pleased to have a story included in:
https://www.amazon.com/Howlin-You-Werewolf-Charity-Anthology/dp/B0DCK7ZHY3
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Tuatha @tuatha.ie Explore Ireland with us! Visitor guides, itineraries, courses, events — created by archaeologists for people who really want to get under the skin of Ireland.
Start your Irish archaeological adventure:
https://www.tuatha.ie/
(pics all our own work)
Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator
My book, Drawn to the Chaos, is out this November and available to pre-order now: https://linktr.ee/drawntothechaos
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social UK News Editor, @resprofnews.bsky.social.
Mostly #researchpolicy, #researchfunding, #highered.
British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
Tip? robin.bisson@clarivate.com
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social A new political movement focused on growth, opportunity, and listening to people and business.
Join us: www.prosperuk.com
Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social Mostly works in marketing. Mostly.
Author of gaming books including Aliens: The Video Games, the first complete history of Alien/s games, available now.
#saintsfc
Sara Tasker @saratasker.bsky.social Pontins Connect Four Champion 1996
UK & France
instagram.com/me_and_orla
Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social Newspaper and magazine ads from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Also
@OldUKPrintAds.bsky.social - 1700s onwards
@OldUKPrintAdsXmas.bsky.social - Xmas ads, from Sept 16th
Print quality is very variable - remember this is mostly ancient newsprint, so VERY low-tech
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social Comics, music, books, film, photos, paintings & cartoons! Humanism & ASD too. A Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure. Hurrah!
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social Deeply unwell, deeply mossy, wheelchair user, Dartmoor photographer, old book lover and hedgehog whisperer. 🦔🦼📖 have been a photographer for 35 years.
https://thegreenlanesshimmer.etsy.com
Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social Cambridge photographer behind 'A Cambridge Diary' - 5,000 continuous daily pictures at www.cambridgediary.co.uk.
Published by https://cambridgebooks.co.uk
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
crecyrail.bsky.social @crecyrail.bsky.social Focusing on the railway titles of one of Britain's leading special interest publishers, covering Crecy's large range of railway books including the OPC, abc and Southern Way imprints, as well as sharing occasional images from our archives. Crecy.co.uk
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social Patron saint of holy fools! And puppeteers. Pitied by Mr. T. Sillier than thou.
Loss leader in Chaos Theology. Due to circumstances beyond our control. Are you criticizing my beans?
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him