Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Damon Beres @damonberes.com Journalist focused on the effects of technology on people and the planet, senior editor at The Atlantic //
Writing EASY MODE, a book on tech, humanity, and the value of friction, for Scribner
SIGNAL: Damon.63
📨 dberes@theatlantic.com
✴️ damonberes.com
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️ @graceonfootball.com Football writer, from the newsletter with the same name and occasionally elsewhere. Non-football stuff @gemofamara.com.
https://www.graceonfootball.com/
Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social Soccer nerd. Sometimes I even do soccer poasts.
Samuel @samuel.fm claudethropologist @ bluesky
📍 the posting mines
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com 👨🏻🎨 Wonky football doodles since 2014, by Alex & Sian
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social Backup Lumumba -
"Stop gooning and learn ball" - Jeff Passan
Hire me, I need a full time job
You can pay me to do this for your site
https://account.venmo.com/u/cjzer0
Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social ⚽️ MLS and USMNT Insider for The Athletic, CBS Sports Golazo Network, Soccerwise and more
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social The official @SickosCommittee soccer/fútbol account. Follow us here as we Park the Bus and track all the Red Cards from around the world. Watching as many of the games no matter the league. All our Committee Links here - https://linktr.ee/sickoscommittee
Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social the finest content on the internet @channel6.bsky.social
newsletter: https://channel-6.ghost.io/
podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4RnuFiR6Q2AJovur2vLTvE?si=_-fvsbYKR-KgjtUF0JPBgw
If you don’t follow me, I don’t care. Nice peach. 3 Dollars Please.
Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social Journalist covering politics, policy, and economics for CNBC. matt.peterson@cnbc.com. personal site: mattpeterson.me
Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social Cubs beat writer at The Chicago Tribune. Previously: The Athletic. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumna.
LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social 405 ‘til I die.
Proprietor of The Internet's Worst Matts List, the Internet's only ranking of Worst Matts since 2018, now presented exclusively on Bluesky.
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social stop your cryin' it's alright
texas culture reporter for @chron.com
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Muppeturgy @muppeturgy.com A The Muppet Show Rewatch Podcast
www.muppeturgy.com
or wherever you get your podcasts
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social John Stoehr (he/him). The Editorial Board. Subscribe! http://editorialboard.com.
The Contrarian @contrariannews.org Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/
Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social News you can use.
paris martineau @paris.nyc investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
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George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu Climate monitoring, climate research, and climate services for Colorado.
Based at the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. https://climate.colostate.edu
Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social Football writer, analyzer, podcaster. Sportsball good. Enjoyer of Bowie. Millennials are the Greatest Generation.
Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social
5'10"
37 years old
https://www.patreon.com/SecretBase
https://youtube.com/@secretbasesbn
Large Johnson @flytyingguy.bsky.social Yes, they are Nazis | Ex-Fly Fishing Guide | Writer at heart | U of O alum | Always trying to do the right thing | Marketing Nihlist | Grew up in a very rural place
Brendan Quinn @bfquinn.bsky.social I write stuff for The Athletic
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/brendan-quinn/
Detroit now. Philadelphia forever.
TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com Trusted by maritime insurers, oil producers & traders, finance, governments and top news orgs to track down oil shipments. Vessel pronouns are she/her. Got it?
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
Support us: http://LNI.media/membership
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy @followers4algernon.bsky.social I’m haveing a accident
Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social Born Thomas (Elmer Addison) Pain - July 4th, 1976. Lover of democracy.
David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social Contributor @washingtonmonthly.com. Bylines @theprospect & elsewhere. Elected DNC Member from CA. Progressive reformist. Dad of two. I run a qualitative research firm.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
siskel & eBird @bennygesserit.bsky.social ain't i a stinker (they/them)
nature photography alt: @birdygesserit.bsky.social
A. Chill @atchill.bsky.social ᴀꜰʀᴏ/ʙᴏʀɪᴄᴜᴀ 🇵🇷. ʙ-ʙᴏʏ. ʜᴜꜱʙᴀɴᴅ/ᴅᴀᴅ | ʙʟᴇʀᴅ | ᴘᴏᴏʟɪɢᴀɴ | EX: IGN, Machinima & CraveOnline
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Andrew Feinberg @andrewfeinberg.com White House correspondent for @theindependent.bsky.social and human slave to a corgi named Ginger. Tell me secrets: andrew.feinberg(at) the-independent.com or protonmail.com
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
I'm also @steventdennis on the other places. Opinions mine. Email: sdennis17@bloomberg.net
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(🙎)/2(🐈⬛). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard; eerily immune to shame. NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Kyle Thiem @kylethiem.bsky.social • Father, Husband, Goofball
• Test & Eval Met @ Fire Wx Testbed
• Student of Severe, Radar & Fire Meteorology
• ❤️ Mother Nature & Scientific Exploration
• Cursed to care about football & politics.
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com flat fantasy and rpg illustration by some queer in the hills of western NC
commissions open - shaferbrownillus@gmail.com
shaferbrown.com
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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social Artist ✭ history, politics & fantasy illustration, especially world-famous #sovcat art ✭ left, ex-PhD ✭ rpg, boardgame lover ✭ working cats of the world unite https://linktr.ee/nathannun
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social Founding editor, The Recombobulation Area. Exhausted Dad. Milwaukee person. BUCKS FAN.
George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social IT/Cloud/SRE/PE, rockets & missiles, nukes not going bang, space, CS, ships. YIMBY & amateur transit geek. Part time adjunct @ miis.edu teaching Missiles & Missile Defense. I speak for myself only not $DAYJOB. V95.45XA I do #OSINT against nuclear missiles.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social On here way too much. Political scientist at Georgia State University. Congress & elections. My feed is mostly politics but you’ll get some sports takes and terrible dad jokes along the way.
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social Founder MPP (yeah you know me), UT Austin Prof, former chief economist various financial firms, Fed economist, Prez NABE. Passionate about family, macro, cats and freedom
The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com Utah's essential news source since 1871. Free to read since 2026.
Snowden St. @snowden.st A scholar with a slight flaw in my character. COan. Cannabis regulatory analyst, poorly-fit Lutheran, Constructive Postmodernist. Go Blue, Ski-U-Mah, Nuggets/ABA loyalist. always thinkin’ bout sports, religion, history, weed, and beans.
https://snowden.st
Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social I write about college, Olympic and other sports for @wsj.com. Graduate, Minneapolis South High School. I sometimes post about old-timey sports. rachel dot bachman at wsj dot com.
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
Too sarcastic for my own good.
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud "an upbeat atmospheric science professor" -- theverge | sometimes it snows in April | Fort Collins, Colorado | personal account
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist. 
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov Defending freedoms. Advancing equality. Ensuring justice for all. News from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member @durbin.senate.gov.
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social CBC Sports Senior Reporter. The Curling Group. Plant dad. Coffee lover. Born in Saskatoon. Live in Toronto. Taking you to the heart of the story.
Bluesky’s Golf Guy @cparish.bsky.social "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~Thoreau, and everyone who's ever 3-putted. Inside Sports Network golf contributor.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social 
Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social Adventure Cartoonist. Emphatically not a raccoon.
Previously: BAGGYWRINKLES, 100 DEMON DIALOGUES. Next: SEACRITTERS!, a swashbuckling animal caper w/ Kate Milford - March ’27.
Heck the feed, send me mail: PO Box 734, Ojai CA 93024
lucybellwood.com
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social Aviation journalist, especially on Alaska. Never met a federal database I didn't love. "Probable Cause" newsletter is here: https://colleenmondor.substack.com/
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.