Rachael Scotson @rachaelscotson.bsky.social Making it up as I go.
MAWYP @BathSpaUni.
@bathnovelaward.co.uk and The Bedford Competition longlistee. Book reviewer, librocubicularist, wobbly pot thrower and owner of “officially” the prettiest dog.
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
Robin Connolly (He/Him) @robinlikecrazy.bsky.social I draw sometimes. I love movies and my beautiful wife. Political to the max. 👍
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social Author of "The Architect of Nowhere"
📖 bit.ly/architect-nowhere
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com
Susan E Barsby @susanebarsby.bsky.social Writer, reader, runner, mum, knitter. I like coffee, cake and conkers. I miss the sea.
True Wax Tales @truewaxtales.bsky.social Buying vinyl. Calling it a personality.
Documenting the decline.
Martin | London 🇬🇧 | Comedy writer
Instagram: @truewaxtales
Jon Von @pnumechomppsky.bsky.social Inheritor of a mispent life studying media. Horror movies, 80s music, books. I still get the chills when the synthesizer kicks in. Goodreads http://bit.ly/3nhZA7L
Ape Milk Buddha @apemilkbuddha.bsky.social Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaave
Arca-tech-sha
https://youtu.be/y7FYMUshlAQ?si=tLUNCH55pYdP-rNy
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Rich Squires @squizmatron.bsky.social Musician, cinephile, papa, spouse, biped.
Music: https://richardsquires.bandcamp.com;
https://animalsintheformofspheres.bandcamp.com
Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" (Raymond Williams)
Watching a lot of films this year, recovering lost time.
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/doublesqueeze/
Dave Law @davelaw.bsky.social Socialist. Clogher. MDANT.
Lukas Busch @lubu1992.bsky.social 33 / Osnabrück
Filme / Bücher / Musik
https://boxd.it/7oGP
Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
Preston @prestomit.bsky.social writer, loves film + music | boxd.it/1hOLZ |📍dallas
Luke P @owenleftchat.bsky.social Working on debut novel, 'Owen Left the Chat', a millennial coming-of-age story and satire of 00s-10s pop culture.
🟠 substack.com/@owenleftchat
Jack @winonastryder.bsky.social 
Matthieu Touvet @matttouvet.bsky.social Rachel McAdams love account
Mostly cinema
Letterboxd https://boxd.it/aFd0L
FUCK A.I. in all of its forms
Grant McGaheran @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social From Sheffield, in Tokyo since 2000.
Books, walks, modernism, records, cats. 
__________ @jenbren.bsky.social Starring in alphabetical order, Yodellin' Zeke, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan & Ernest Borgnine. Dubliner in Yorkshire. Lead singer of Beastie Girls, Geto Boyz & Napalm Death. Pube=pub in my religion. Politics/47th-obsessed accounts=blocked. She/Her/Yer Wan.
Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social “Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. And I’ll tell you right out that I’m a man who likes talking to a man that likes to talk.” DD Dad 3x. Profile pic: Bleuler, coined “autism.”
Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social Bookdragon. Educator: NYC History, Movies. Dancer past. Citizen of a hijacked "Democracy". ai abolitionist.
Photography my own, unless otherwise noted.
Norman Records @normanrecords.com UK vinyl specialists. The best music, the best service, the best prices.
https://www.normanrecords.com
Niho the cat @ackneyladd.bsky.social I'm Niho, very friendly tabby who likes dreamies, sponge cake, cheese, chicken & anything else uncle Jim spoils me with, been visiting him for 6 years now. Reform, Tory & Trump apologists can go fuck themselves.
Anne Laakso @annelaakso.wsocial.eu Marketing and communications professional from Finland. I spend an unreasonable amount of time at gigs, share my home with two dogs, and am musically impossible to categorize: metal, prog rock, jazz, Icelandic indie, and almost everything else gets a turn.
Zutroy @scsynth.bsky.social Siempre voy a los entierros de los demás, porque de lo contrario ellos no vendrán al mío - Lawrence Peter 'Yogi' Berra
Reakythèque @reakytheque.bsky.social Waiting for the gift of sound and vision. Unpopular spin-off from @reaky.bsky.social. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4RrIH
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
@serena666.bsky.social @serena666.bsky.social 
Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social Academic, writer, book reviewer of Russian/East European/FSU immigrant literatures
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog about literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w/ Olga Zilberbourg
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social Avid reader, book reviewer & amateur book photographer. I write about books on my blog Radhika’s Reading Retreat. Love art and travel too.
Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social modular synthesist | 💫 (she/her) | linktree.com/loulayorke
Kayla Painter @kaylapainter.bsky.social Experimental musician & producer | Lecturer | Ambient Owl Core | Tectonic Particles out now via Quiet Details.
https://www.kaylapainter.com/instagram
Plotloser @plotloser.bsky.social Aspirant crime novelist. Cheap watch aficionado. Exiled ex directory Sunderland fan. Expect Crime Fiction/Film, Music, Football, Art, Photography and the usual bollocks. Same name over the road.
Tim @sailert.bsky.social Acts on stage. Reads books. Watches things. Walks my dog. Rural Minnesota.
IG: @sailert
Newsletter: dazzledgratitude.substack.com
Anthony Pash (he/him) @anthonypash.bsky.social Academic librarian in Nova Scotia, union negotiator, avid reader, movie buff, news junky, ally, and lover of food and gardens.
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social Art, nature, writing woes. Sometimes funny, often intentionally. New Yorker by birth, Londoner by practice.
Story ‘Nothing Compared to You’ out in the Book of Witty Women : https://bit.ly/3Q72ug0
johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social “Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide"
Likes: Old movies, old music, old books
Dislikes: Fascism, Zionism, Centrism, Racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny, Monday
Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social Well versed in both the politics of dancing and the art of parties. Songwriter and vinyl bore. Wild #LFC fanatic and chant-crafter. Proud nephew to two beautiful uncles.
Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social Lover of the North Wind. Former DJ at WZBC. Interests in all things
More to follow 
Deer Shed Festival @deershed.bsky.social 3 days of the best in music, arts & science for the whole family, set in beautiful North Yorkshire parkland 🧡
25 - 28 July 2025 🦌
Tom @baloobas.bsky.social I watch movies, read comics, buy crap I don’t need and go to the pub but I have weekends off and I am my own boss.
Cassie 🌸 @cassiecharlotte.bsky.social Just a human at sea ⚓😎
OOW Unlimited
2nd Officer
@clubathletica /CAS-SEA10
🚢🌊☀️🌎
Exploring life one step at a time. Kindness, growth, and real conversations matter to me
Stephen Reid @stephenreid1874.bsky.social Drifting in the soup. Long suffering fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C. Adopted by Ireland. Don't DM me or follow me if your account is dodgy pics of you as I'll block instantly.
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.social Film, music, TV, books. Blog on it all
https://boxd.it/14C8b
https://nexttotheaisle.blogspot.com/
manes @michaelanes.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University
Cog/neuro/science, gender, race, 🎵, 🇵🇱
US Fulbright Scholar '10-'11 | Witt in Poland '13, '18 | Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad '24 in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
Eric Passaglia @spaceisagrail.bsky.social marchand de nuages
Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social king of the escalator, makes weird music(incl. Shaun Of The Dead), films.
Generally happy camper.
https://youtube.com/@NebulaRasa
https://thesonsofsilence1.bandcamp.com/music
OpenYellowCircle.bandcamp.com
Marco @marco-place.bsky.social Bi-coastal culture vulture: 20th century movie maven, opera queen, ballet buff, art appreciator and book reader [prose]. Exploring the world and loving animals. 🏳️🌈
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Susan McCallum Smith @susanmccallum.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher.
Bertie @bertie-peacock.bsky.social Left of centre Celtic supporter from the North of Ireland.
OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social Official account for Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author of Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, The Mouse and His Child, Frances the Badger, etc. https://russellhoban.org/
Maintained by:
@daveawl.bsky.social
@thoughtcat.com
Anthony @timesflow.bsky.social Rootless cosmopolitan | Reading wildly | 'Obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes.' — De Quincey
https://timesflowstemmed.com
Matt Weimer @mattweimer.bsky.social Present in San Francisco. Past in theater. Future unknown.
Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social “...a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.”
economics, public policy, art and literature, philosophy; Rice owl; recovering full-time college adjunct
(you may have known me as “tex” in the other place)
Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social avid reader w/focus on womxn writers • virgo sun sagittarius moon • my library is an archive of longings • feminist #NYRBWomen26 #SundaySarton #AContinuation
Pacific Coast • joiedevivre9.com
Vault Artist Studios @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social Artist led studios ✏️ Inhabiters of unused buildings *until we get our own!* 🏚 140+ strong 💪 Bedford St, Corporation St, Shankill & East Belfast
www.vaultartiststudios.com
Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social Interests are photography, chess, reading, history. Intolerant to bigotry, racism & other idiocy. Dabbles in selling nice old things. Clinomaniac.
Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social "This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social Knitting, crocheting and ranting. Sewing too. Raving about music. Cyborg. MSc Physics. GradCert Green Energy. Climate Justice. Dublin, Ireland.
She/Her
https://bioniclauracreate.blogspot.com
Saint Vespaluus @saint-vespaluus.bsky.social Cambridge alumnus; vegetarian; voracious reader; humanist; Spoken Word artist and Everton fan!
Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social Books and Film | The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast with @bibliopaul.bsky.social | 2017 Best Translated Book Award Judge
Jason Kincade @jasonkincade.bsky.social Partner at Parson Weems. Sweary Gay. Semi-sentient mirrorball. Book slinger, occasional DJ, Balearic bod, rave veteran, disco enthusiast.
Emmanuel Goldstein @emmanuelgoldstein.bsky.social I'm on a quest to save the world from people who are on a quest to save the world.
_____
Check out my Substack: https://emmanuelgoldstein1984.substack.com
My channel on Youtube: youtube.com/Supenmanu
Ben @mrbenjm.bsky.social Film 🎞️ : horror 🕸 , sci-fi 🛸 , cult 📽️ , everything interesting!
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mrbenjm/
Likes plants 🪴 and books 📘 too!
UK 🌍
Stace @stacethehippy.bsky.social Switch/PS5 Gamer 🎮
Witch 🔮 Gardener 🌷🍃
Current obsession: Whittling/Wood carving ✨️ DnD Newbie 🐲 UK
A bit sweary.
I'll follow back if you pass the vibe check ☮️
AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social Busy keeping head above water. Favourite means: books (warning: includes lots of poetry)/ music (mainly classical)/ arts/ yes, that annoying/ films / stuff
Alison @gothblairwaldorf.bsky.social Literature, film, and music snob (er…fan). World’s slowest short story & screenplay writer. Actor. Goth. Roommate to two cats. Interested in history, folk horror, and kindness.
Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
After Octavian @afteroctavian.bsky.social Sintesa. Bibliophile. Lieder Enthusiast. Operavore. Balletomane. Gourmand. Oenophile. Eavesdropper Extraordinaire. She/Her They/Them
Edward Denniston @pausesilence.bsky.social Poetry: 'The Point of Singing', 'The Scale of Things',
'For Crying Out Loud', 'VITAL'.
Other: 'Interacting' (Drama), 'Word To Image' (Exhibit), 'Hospital Voices', 'Entry & Exit Wound (Texts for composers)
Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social Norn Irish mental health nurse in Hertfordshire.
Mainly here for books and cats.
@dcozy.bsky.social @dcozy.bsky.social https://afterblockhead.blogspot.com/
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
@longsightblues.bsky.social @longsightblues.bsky.social Ol’ Bertie Bastard
It’s a Hip Hop world, son. Keep up or get out of the way
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
The Vinyl Constituency @vinylconstituency.bsky.social Player of #vinylrecords, watcher of old #films and #television, reader of #books, taker of #photographs, drinker of #coffee, builder of #Lego, walker of #beaches, and lover of the niche, arcane curios of yesteryear. Can be recycled at a large supermarket.
christina500 @christina500.bsky.social Stave off mind-hunger with books, movies and food; heliotrope into museums & mountains. Who dat! 
Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social Yooperprof. British historian. Occasional actor. Jet Set Chet. Reader of books. Likes opera. Also beer. LGBTQ club member. He/him. 
TheBobCentury @thebobcentury.bsky.social Kentucky, Navy brat, former sergeant, math degree, like history, science fiction and fantasy, literature in general, work in IT security, feeling a bit lost after this election
James Anear @jamesanear.bsky.social Speculative litfic writer working on deconstructing American culture with queerness | Published in Westwind Magazine, Stone of Madness Press etc. | Represented by Kelly Karczewski at UTA publishing | Read my writing ➡️ jamesanear.net
David Fisher @davidlfisher1997.bsky.social Musician from PacificNW, interested in philosophy, cultural theory, and anthropology. Also a bit of a computer nerd.
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
Richard Bates @discript.com Publisher – fiction and non-fiction. Friend to writers. Dementia carer. Cyclist. Activist. Cat parent.
Liberal Democrat 🔶 politician elected to Chichester District Council and West Sussex County Council.
Rosie Meek @rosiemeek1.bsky.social A bit of this and a bit of that.
https://substack.com/@rosiemeek?r=68z1x3&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=light
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. Novella forthcoming with @regalhouse.bsky.social. #authorsguild https://lawrencecoates.com/
Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social Every time I reread Virginia Woolf’s The Waves I love it even more.
Also a fan of Sam Shepard, Kerouac, Dickens, Steinbeck, Capote, du Maurier, Willy Vlautin, Donna Tartt, the Backlisted podcast, film noir, Twin Peaks, Columbo & folklore. Portland, OR
MadameBibiLophile @madamebibi.bsky.social I like books and I blog about books I like at https://madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/
Elizabeth says ‘they called me a witchy vamp so i became one’ @ohthatelizabeth.bsky.social In the last months of a PhD researching audience autonomy and labour. Autistic and queer? Hell yea. She/ her. Buy me a meal first.