Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
— Mark Twain
Writer / (Mostly) Former Cartoonist
A very silly Canuck who lives on Canada's 11th largest island
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
LESams @lsam22.bsky.social old man; opposed to trump and all other fascists
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social Pessimism of the intellect
Optimism of the will
Keep your eye on the donut
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Dublin
Franglaise @franglaise.bsky.social Franglaise. Languedoc 🇫🇷 Introvert. Shitposter. Pics: Calvin, dodgy food, sweary reno & random nice stuff I see (France). Prone to occasional ranty outbursts. Here for cats/floofs/nice views/cheese/daft shit. Fed up of AI & the smug anti-AI purists
Denise Carver @Sligogirl @sligogirl.bsky.social Irish #RejoinEU #Greenparty
Wife, Mum, Nana - lover of everything floral, food and nature, photography.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social North Yorkshire Councillor for Aire Valley. Green Party. Columnist for Yorkshire Post. Write for Yorkshire bylines. Former Head of Young People's Learning for Yorkshire and the Humber
Jim 🔥 @jim.chat Engineer, builder, father, investor, farmer …
I create @nourished.news and write http://ultraprocessed.news …
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War, and currently writing a book about it. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast. Personal account, views expressed are mine alone.
Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social Editor of The Local France, co-host of Talking France podcast. Paris resident, Yorkshire born, Castres Olympique 🏉 fan - emma.pearson@thelocal.com 
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Mthr Sian Clare Parker @sianclare.bsky.social Seeing through a glass darkly; trying to see face to face | erstwhile medievalist | interested in ecopoetics, theopoetics, and common or garden poetics | curate in Llandaf Diocese | Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg | queer | she/her
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
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Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
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 
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
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Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social The former Conservative MP for Dorset East.🇬🇧
Paul Brown @pbsportswriter.bsky.social Investigative reporter, freelance, specialising in sport and finance. You will see me in Josimar and many UK nationals
KENNNN @kenbensinger.bsky.social 
Matt Slater @mjslater.bsky.social I cover the business/politics of football & other global sports for The Athletic. In other words, I mainly do bad news.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/matt-slater/
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
University College Cork @ucc.ie A world-leading research university, dedicated to securing a sustainable future for all. Find the latest research, news and events here.
Kurt Vonnegut @kurt-vonnegut.bsky.social Satire, humanism and a touch of cosmic absurdity—quotes and passages celebrating the wit and wisdom of author Kurt Vonnegut.
Colin Millar @colinmillar.bsky.social Football news reporter and journalist for The Athletic. Author of The Frying Pan of Spain.
Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social Retired Lawyer, cook, Europhile, books, music, good conversations, gardens, walking. Bird site refugee 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
S.E. Cupp @secupp1.bsky.social I do stuff on TV, say stuff on pods, and write stuff in newspapers. Just looking for some peace and quiet!
CNN, NYDN, Off the Cupp pod at iHeart
Rob Cross @robcross247.bsky.social Author-Artist-Designer-Author
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Abby Martin @abbymartin0.bsky.social Journalist #EmpireFiles Films: Gaza Fights For Freedom, Earth's Greatest Enemy abby@theempirefiles.tv
https://linktr.ee/fababs
Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
soniasodha.com
Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social 🌟I’m a 73 year old Humboldt hippie, feminist, socialist democrat. Proud mother of two grown men. No grandchildren, 5 cats and 2 dogs plus 3 grand dogs with 1 grand cat. A Sagittarius put on this planet in 1952.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social Writer, freelance editor / nonprofit admin / web content person, walker, knitter, museum docent, mom. She/her. RTs=/=endorsements. Opinions are my own. jengrogan.com
Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social I've been here long enough where a lot of you don't even know where I come from and I kinda find that delightful.
But I'm glad you're here! How are you?
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at UCC. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Writing about Irishmen, education, and empire.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Cupán Tayla ☕️ @cupantayla.bsky.social Cackling through the chaos 🧙♀️ Limerick City's most right honorable pigeon witch 🐦 firm supporter of the return of the jort 👖🤏 she/her 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social On a mission to seek out women's histories, prehistories and mythologies and share our adventures. Interested in under-told stories of all women 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Check out our blog: http://thewildgees.com/
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social Artistically adjacent.
I work with artists & archives.
Live on Sherkin Island, West Cork, Ireland.
Laura Ballarín 🍒 @lauballarin.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Eurodiputada del Grupo S&D en el Parlamento Europeo
🌹Secretària de Política Europea i Internacional del PSC
Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social Illustrator. Cartoonist.
Vicky Ward Investigates @vickyward.skystack.xyz Investigative Journalist focused on the players in politics, finance, culture, the world.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org Evidence. Action. Hope.
CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social
Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social Shatnerologist
Daon-Phoblacht Corcaí 🇮🇪
Scrap the 27th Amendment
https://www.thejournal.ie/children-face-deportation-4295689-Oct2018
Big list of Irish Bskyers (click on 'People')
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@Cross_theIine @cross-theline.bsky.social The Human race has a serious Control Freak problem
@Cross_theline and YOU are going to resolve that
I support the Iranian people 🇮🇷
#EndWar #EndTyranny #Cross_theline
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Katie Stallard @katiestallard.bsky.social Writing about Russia, China and authoritarian politics for the New Statesman. Author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea (OUP). Former Wilson Center fellow. Based in DC. Previously Beijing and Moscow.
Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social Green Party county councillor for Parks (Oxfordshire) & sustainability researcher @ox.ac.uk
Books. Bikes. Buses. Trains. Cooking. Hiking. Nature. Climate. Inequality. Public Health.
She/her
Promoted by James Thorniley at 12A Merlin Road, OX4 6EP
Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social ....and Kim Novak, as the woman he loved!
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Fiona @fionasmall.bsky.social Irishposting, shitposting and seriousposting
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Red Indian Girl @redindiangirl.bsky.social Militant Haudenosaunee Nationalist. Lover of plants and growing things. Music snob. Cat admirer. Captive collector. #LandBack Ohswè:ken nitewakéno! Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
The Contrarian @contrariannews.org Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home. 
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social Sex blogger, audio porn producer, collection of atoms and stories.
https://www.girlonthenet.com
Rewilding Ireland @rewildingire.bsky.social Tweets about rewilding, and what it looks like in an Irish context.
Profile picture, print by @ciaraioch.
I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social Hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan 🎙️
linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Irish Association of Professional Historians #IAPH #Skystorians @iaphistorians.bsky.social The IAPH is the organisation for professional & graduate historians within and outside the academy. The #IAPH directory lists #historians and their related subject areas #Skystorians #History #AcademicSky #Speirgorm #Ireland #Research
Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social Oglala Lakota — Enrolled at Pine Ridge, S.D. — “The earth sings her revolution, she calls brave men and women to her defense.” — The only easy day was yesterday.
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
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Colin Byrne @misterbyrne.bsky.social I remember when this was all fields.
Irish (Singapore no-more) 🇮🇪 🇸🇬
Frenchie McFrenchface @frenchie.eurosky.social Real Alexa, Parisienne in the UK, mother of European Kids , Cat mama #Socialist #European #Chef #Yogi
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social art - design - activism
#DerelictIreland
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social The investigative football journal
Tips? Josimar1986@protonmail.com
Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
Signal: mcalladine.44
Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social Artist Activist Designer
#DerelictIreland
ffud.art
anois.org
Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.
UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co Real-time political news from across the UK
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine