David Irwin @davidirwin1987.bsky.social Former journo, left for pastures news. I enjoy good books, old footpaths, folklore, writing, watching wildlife and tennis and most geeky things involving goblins.
Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social Music producer, bass player, DJ. Soho Radio presenter. Weller band alumnus. Helped invent Britpop.
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Mounsey. @mounsey.bsky.social Assume it's Liverpool. Or on a bike. Or drinking beer.
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
@winerides.bsky.social @winerides.bsky.social
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc
Editor, The Teesside Lead
🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com
Moby-Dick podcast:
🐳 @thewhale1851.bsky.social
Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social Private Eye hack, author of Post Mortem
(@privateeyenews.bsky.social), Bean Counters (Atlantic, 2018), The Great Tax Robbery (OneWorld, 2013). Co-founder @taxwatch.bsky.social.
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
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
Phil Jones @phil-pja.bsky.social Engineer, transport planner, whatever. Sylfanwr www.pja.co.uk. Coming at you from Tŷ Bach Twt. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Easy on the palate. Toffs are reckless.
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social PROTECT THE NHS. SAVE LIVES. RIDE BIKES.
Fewer cars not newer cars!
A Moulton and Brompton riding linux-loving cyclist geek. Cos small wheeled bikes rock!
I block helmet compulsionists and evangelists.
Jon @jontafkasi.bsky.social Bikes, beer, piano, security, gaming.
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Dave Bagpuss Forsey ☕️ @bagpuss.org Welsh/Dutch bloke who makes games, videos and Photoshoppery. Friday night #TOTP botherer. Former CTO of WeTransfer, now freelancing.
Join me for a pint at bagpuss.org for a selection of my stuff.
YouTube: youtube.com/@bagpuss_org
Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social At @GeoTdF.bsky.social we answer your questions on landscapes and geology cycling races | see Geo-Sports.org for more information!
Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Podcast @shipwreckspod.bsky.social ⚓ Maritime history | Shipwrecks & Sea Dogs
🎙️ Hosted by Rich Napolitano
🌊 Weekly episodes
😊Ad-free on Patreon & Apple Podcasts
👇 Listen now
shipwrecksandseadogs.com
OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.
#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social ‘Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.’
No DMs… please. ⛔️
Actor/Director/Writer represented by https://alexpriestleytalent.com/
Redville Zoo @redvillezoo.bsky.social Definitely not a haunted zoo
Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social Not affiliated with the Greeneville Pet Cemetery
Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org
Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social Apparently, everybody's favourite. Him off Tech Diff. The begrudging second coming of Harry Secombe. Strong wahey energy. Funniest British Man (TM). The middle aisle of the Lidl of Light Entertainment. Professional Wondernaut.
Alison @finger-post.blog I write about the Franklin Expedition and the people who searched for them. I also enjoy petting cats in Victorian cemeteries.
Humanitarian. Sea lawyer. She/They. #MDANT. #NUJ. #NoTerfs.
https://finger-post.blog
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Faithful Defence Advocate @faithfuldefenceadv.bsky.social I know the end of the story
Tony Hancock @tonyhancock.bsky.social Official account of The Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. Join us at tonyhancock.org.uk. Known on that other place as @east_cheam_lad. Politics free zone
PODCAST - Very Nearly An Armful
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social Labour. Former BCC councillor and cabinet member. Know too much about bins. All views my own. RTs may not be. Work for Jess Phillips MP.
Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social Mechanised tramp.
Writer, snapper, occasionally TV & radio. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. Words & pictures in The Guardian, FT, Sunday Times & more
Insta: _lostlanes
What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
Greg Morse @gregmorsedphil.bsky.social Rail history, rail safety, rock etc.
Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Railway Operators.
Author of 'The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge'.
John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social Transport technology, Birmingham and some other stuff.
Occasional photos of Travel Basil to promote St Basils homeless charity that works with young people in Birmingham.
Graeme Pickering @pickgs.bsky.social Railway Magazine Senior Correspondent. Ex-broadcast journalist and news editor. Husband. 'Dad' to a Greek cat. Aspiring novelist. Ex-BBC, ITV and ILR journalist. Contact: graemepweb@gmail.com
Mark Hodson @mrmarkhodson.bsky.social That now retired traffic cop that did all that stuff that annoys the endangering problem group 😉 Member of the TheMPHCollective Transport and Policing Thinktank & butler to 2 very demanding retired greyhounds.
Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social research fellow @active-ata.bsky.social | active travel | public transport | crit dis | pedestrian every day, tricycling often | Trustee @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk | Ambassador for Activity Alliance | views are Frida's 🐕
https://linktr.ee/tricyclemayor
Kirke D.A. Elsass @kelsass.bsky.social Historian; writing on cement and its role in co-creating life in the U.S. by making the environments of prisons, sidewalks, & basements; developing publicly available curriculum for Yale Environmental Humanities; love being outdoors; he/him/Dada
Edain @d20yfx.bsky.social Sailor and geologist. Mostly here for the cricket.
She/Her
Talk to me about ships, rocks, lighthouses, cricket, gaming, cats, and general nerd stuff. #NoLGBWithoutT
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does.
Alex Nurse @alexnurse.bsky.social Reader in Urban Governance and Planning at the University of Liverpool.
Researching: Cities and City-Regions, Cycling
Spelling and grammatical errors are all mine.
Likes are usually bookmarks (or it might mean I like it!)
DMs not open.
Saintesky @saintesky.bsky.social Proud Sintelliner, Train Driver out of Liverpool, cursed Everton fan.
Michael Hutchinson @doctorhutch.bsky.social Bike racer. Bike writer. Bike broadcaster. michaelhutchinson.co.uk
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Chris Boardman CBE @chrisboardman.bsky.social Pedalling a people powered panacea since….well for ages
Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social Construction history worldwide. Materials, technologies, systems and people relating to construction in the past. Journal, members' magazine, conferences etc
To get a follow-back tell us your construction interests.
https://www.constructionhistory.co.uk
Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk Senior creative within rail. Design nerd. Posts about trains a lot. Harmless with it though. Often sad. This is my personal account. He/Him 🏳️🌈
radge mcbam 🦆✨️ @fullmetalducky.bsky.social just a girl who likes stuff the regular degular amount
everyone's favourite magical girl!
she/her
Jack Fifield @jackfifield.uk he/him, senior reporter @swns.com - but views my own.
bi cyclist. 🏳️🌈
bylines: Guardian, Mirror, Express, Star, New York Post, MEN, Bolton News, Manchester Mill, others.
📍London, UK
🌐 jackfifield.uk/contact
No.3417, ‘Gordon Pettitt’. @gordon3417.bsky.social The last operational 4VEP. Owned by the Bluebell Railway, restored & operated by the S.E.T.G. YorkshireTea approved & allowed to say #Smeg. #WomblesForever
Based at Strawberry Hill in SW London.
Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social old aeromachines. oddities. concepts. old tales. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. war. action. occasional flying animal, stellar, and terrestrial guest stars
Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social Journalist, author of Potholes and Pavements, cohost of @podstreetsahead.bsky.social
https://lauralaker.substack.com
Muted live on Julia Hartley-Brewer's Talk show
𝐉𝐢𝐦 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 @thatjimdavis.bsky.social Man. Usually in a seated position. Once a comedian. Garden Potterer and Train commuter par excellence. Left-handed and left winged. No, I don't have a podcast.
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social Yorkshireman. Train Driver. Coffee
Mostly photos of trains I’ve driven and the railway I work on, especially the old bits that really should be in a museum. And other things.
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk “Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
Bryn Buck 🏳️🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online ⛔ Road (and other) Signs | 🚲🛴🚏 Public & Active Travel | 🚧 Road Safety | 🏳️🌈 Bi/NB (masc: Bryn/femme: Gwen) | Some (re)posts may be NSFW | 🎥 YouTube: youtube.com/c/BrynBuck | http://showmeasign.online
Driver Potter @driverpotter.bsky.social Twitter refugee. Slightly involved with @Gordon_3417 - also available on Bluesky! Powered by tea & bad language. Fairly dull & surprised that people apparently listen to me.
Usual disclaimers about work and suchlike.
Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social Author. The Wolf That Chews Rocks, the Erin Callahan thrillers, and some politics nonsense. Wulferhampton interloper. Twat.
https://www.russelljonesauthor.com
The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
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