Toby Ord @tobyord.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
tobyord.com
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
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.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on bluesky via sarcasm.
Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com Writer. Comics include Bananaman for the Beano and various for 2000 AD. Books include Create Your Own Comics, Peaches’ Creatures, Science of Marvel Superheroes & Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things.
Pic by Wayne Thompson.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Has a Reform MSP been suspended yet? @harmbsy.bsky.social An account which tracks whether a Reform MSP has been suspended yet.
Kenny Hemphill @kennyhemphill.bsky.social Writer. Copy editor. Scot. Optimist. Trade unionist. LFC.
Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social Retired from Sch. of GeoSciences, Uni. of Edinburgh, UK. Still works a bit on https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ . Walking, singing, Linux, bellringing, astronomy, geology, geophysics and meteorology. Dislikes extreme right or leftwing politics and nationalism.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
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citizensandtech.org
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
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https://ko-fi.com/happytoast 
George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social Journalist.
Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Political History. The Labour Party and other currently lost causes.
“'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”
Purple T Jacqui @purpletea280.bsky.social SE Londoner, woke, veggie, #CAFC
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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.
Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social Actor, comedian and entire Indie Band.
Derry Girls, No Worries If Not!, Lunchtime with Michael Fry
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James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
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Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
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Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Dom White @domw.bsky.social Chief economist at Absolute Strategy Research in London. But all of the nonsense I spout on here is mine and mine alone. RTs are not endorsements unless they are.
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
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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
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social 25 | ✝️ 🏳️🌈
Monica Lennon @monicalennon.bsky.social Former Scottish Labour MSP for Central Scotland (May 2016-April 2026)
Free Period Products Act and Ecocide Bill 🏴
Adam Tomkins @proftomkins.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Glasgow. Latest book: On The Law of Speaking Freely (Hart, 2025). Now writing about Enlightenment, democracy, and decline.
Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot Land campaigner, former MSP, forester, author The Poor Had No Lawyers. http://andywightman.scot & http://whoownsscotland.org.uk
David Hamilton 🏴🇺🇦 @da.vidh.scot Scottish Information Commissioner.
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The Ferret @theferret.scot Scotland's award-winning investigative news and fact-checking co-op.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social The political home for everyone who wants to be part of a much more equal, democratic and sustainable future. Powered by members.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social #Labour4PR Official Twitter of:
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Stevie Martin @5teviem.bsky.social I’m a comedian and writer and hello hi hello
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Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social I like to wear flares and do the jokes. Bit of a woke prick. He/him. 
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social Comedy, Music, Improv, Writing.
Latest book “Introducing Mrs Collins” out Nov 6 / available to pre-order now
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
Dan Schreiber @schreiberland.bsky.social Host of QI’s No Such Thing As A Fish / Author of The Theory Of Everything Else / co-founder of BBC’s The Museum of Curiosity
UK TOUR: ‘This Changes Everything’ starts this October
Danny Wallace @dannywallace.bsky.social Books, mags, radio, telly, scripts, live, voice, games.
United/3Arts
"The Important Broadcast" podcast // Radio X
Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social Berserker!
Out now from all good bookshops, and bad ones, and ones in between.
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
Marcus Brigstocke @marcusbrig.bsky.social An absolute thundering great berk.
Al Murray @almurray.bsky.social Tickets to my brand new tour on sale NOW via my website!
Charlie Brooker @charliebrooker.bsky.social Underwhelmist.
Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social I do standup and also write all manner of things. At the moment I'm very much doing this: @murderbastard.bsky.social
Simon Blackwell @simonblackwell.bsky.social Screenwriter/showrunner: Breeders, Back, Veep, The Thick Of It, Peep Show, In The Loop, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Four Lions
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
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This account mutes killjoys.
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
William Isaac @williamis.bsky.social Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
Geoffrey Irving @girving.bsky.social Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Resolution. Alignment will be solved eventually, but not necessarily in time. Previously UK AISI, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
FAR.AI @far.ai Frontier alignment research to ensure the safe development and deployment of advanced AI systems.
Glen Darroch @glendarroch.bsky.social Not everything needs to be a binary culture war.
We can get through this. Most folk just want to live peaceful and productive lives. Let them.
Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social Scottish Labour has in the past been a great champion of LGBT+ rights. It can be again. Transphobia has no place in the Labour Party. We need to root out the bigotry that has taken hold.
Signal: slabcampaign.38
Jeremiah Bullfrog @p-orbital.bsky.social I mostly lurk, read and occasinally reply. I try to be constructive unless I'm in a bad mood.
helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social earning ££££££££££ from cultural marxism for being gay, ASK ME HOW!
Tyron @tyron.bsky.social Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and whatever sticks the landing on the bit.
Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social Democracy is a rare and precious gift. Either we defend it or leave the world to tyrants and oligarchs. #FBPE #NAFO #RejoinEU
Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social Author of Galactic Keegan. Relentless worrier. Be Traist. Keep passing the open windows.
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social Working for gender identity and gender reassignment equality and rights in Scotland. Part of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
https://www.scottishtrans.org/
Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social 
Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social I like data, Lego & Star Trek! Also interested in education, politics and athletics. Live in Worthing, UK, originally from Yorkshire!
Post positive things our Labour government do!
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Ged Killen @gedk.bsky.social Proudly woke husband and dog da 🐾 🏴 🏳️🌈
Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social Real time comments about UK politics, media & news.
https://politicsintheuk.substack.com/profile/posts
Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social CEO, the biggest brain on LinkedIn
Contestant on ITV's #GeniusGame
https://linktr.ee/kencheng
Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek.com I write threads about how Labour is fixing Britain. Councillor and ex-political journalist.
Centre on Constitutional Change @ccc-research.bsky.social Leading research centre for the study of constitutional change and territorial politics in the UK & beyond.
Researching the issues. Informing the debate.
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European Movement in Scotland @euromovescotland.bsky.social We are the foremost and longest-established pro EU, pro Europe, non party political campaign organisation in Scotland. Join us at www.euromovescotland.org.uk/
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Dr Catherine Preston @docp67.bsky.social Welsh historian
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Westy @westy44.bsky.social Cats cars snowboarding f1 and cybersecurity
David @davidnmaisie.bsky.social Scottish, dyslexic, lefty, woke, carpenter 🪚. Married to MrsW. Wee dug called Maisie. Food,travel, wine and not taking myself,or others too seriously.