Stranger Than Paradise Records @strangerthanrecs.bsky.social Vinyl only Record Shop in Hackney, E8. We stock the best new releases & reissues. 24/7 mail order or 'click-n-collect' service.
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The Long Play Sessions @kingsofliam.bsky.social The Long Play Sessions at ICMP is a curated series with contemporary writers who help us understand creativity, identity & the world we make art from.
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Pigsinpie @pigsinpie.bsky.social Indie low fi band from Chihuahua México--
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John Rooney @johnrooney.bsky.social Academic / Designer / Manchester School of Art / Europe
https://www.johnrooney.co.uk
Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social Fan account of Catalan artist Joan Miro (1893-1983), whose work has been interpreted as Surrealism. #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social My mind it ain't so open that anything could crawl right in.
To Nkroachment: Yarbles.
Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social Lover of the North Wind. Former DJ at WZBC. Interests in all things
More to follow 
Carolyn Hardwick @carolynhardwick.bsky.social Editor and proofreader. Music, football (Sheffield Wednesday, Spurs, fpl), books, red wine. 'Neartheclocktower' in some places. Barcelona based.
Keith Cameron @keithcameron2.bsky.social Contributing Editor, MOJO magazine.
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers out now. keithcameron.co.uk
Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social now: co-founder @thenerve.news before: deputy editor, Observer New Review
thenerve.news
Talk ’90s To Me @talk90stome.bsky.social Dive deep into a wild decade of chaos, creativity and hedonism with Miranda Sawyer, every Monday 💕🎸
Listen to the podcast ➡️ https://linktr.ee/talk90stome
Rob LaMorgese @weirdegg.bsky.social writer
tv: Suits, Suits LA
co-host @getmeanotherpod.bsky.social
Beggars Banquet Records @beggarsbanquetrecs.bsky.social The catalogue department of the Beggars Group of labels. Find us at beggarsbanquetrecords.com + listen to our States Of Independence Podcast at https://pod.link/1836129705
siân pattenden @sian-superman.bsky.social stuff
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Philip King @junkshopper.bsky.social Indie Zelig
Miki Berenyi @mikiberenyi.bsky.social Bands: MB3/Lush/Piroshka
Book: Fingers Crossed
Website: mikistuff.com
Gigs: UK/EU: julia.wasielewska@roamartists.com
US/RoW: bowen@teamwass.com
PR: UK: duncan@bellaunion.com;
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Sean McArdle @sjpmcardle.bsky.social Came from over there to over here.
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Beggars Group @beggarsgroup.bsky.social The Beggars Group is the home of 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Ian Jones @jonahjjones.bsky.social Music mainly. Britpop, Indie, Soul and a nod to Mod. England and Middx cricket & QPR and Uxbridge FC.
Litter On The Breeze @litteronthebreeze.bsky.social 'Litter On The Breeze'. Career-spanning and topic-loaded Suede podcast. All episodes so far available on all pod platforms
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2438248
This podcast starts and ends with you!
Get in touch via litteronthebreezepod@gmail.com
He/Him
Pan Macmillan @panmacmillan.bsky.social We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
Chris Barton @chrisbarton01.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Music, mental health and wellbeing
Phil Alexander @philalexander.bsky.social Creative Director at Echo Velvet among other things…
I like records…
Alice Hutton @alicehutton.bsky.social Bylines Guardian US, Sunday Times (of London), RTE, BBC Radio 4.
John Schofield Trust Fellow '17/18 | IJP Fellow '18 |
Author of newsletter, 'What Ties Us Together' on chosen families, LGBT+ parenting+adoptee voices'.
🌈 https://alicehutton.substack.com
Nick Ohler @nickohler.bsky.social 
On-U Sound @onusound.bsky.social Disturbing the comfortable, comforting the disturbed.
→ https://on-usound.com/
John Brewin @brewin.bsky.social Freelance journalist, semi-regular at Guardian Sport from Macclesfield, Cheshire in London, England. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-brewin
Collected writings from the distant past at https://johnbrewin.substack.com/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Akashic Books @akashicbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher in Brooklyn dedicated to reverse-gentrification of the literary world.
https://linktr.ee/AkashicBooks
Sister Ray Records @sisterrayrecords.bsky.social Selling quality new & second hand music in the heart of Soho. For the latest Pre Orders/New Releases visit http://sisterray.co.uk 02077343297 We buy your vinyl!
Tim Gallagher @rusticolus60.bsky.social Award-winning writer, editor, and wildlife photographer. Author of six books and numerous articles.
Alban Low @albanlow.bsky.social artist / jazz cover art / sketching and drawing / Director at Sampson Low publishers / radio presenter / naturally curious
Tom Stroud @tomstroud.bsky.social Music, radio, writing.
David Andrako @davidandrako.bsky.social Photographer - Brooklyn
www.davidandrako.com
@wilko69.bsky.social @wilko69.bsky.social 
Rachel Handler @rachelhandler.bsky.social features writer @ new york mag/vulture
just here so i don’t get fined
Lee ‘Grimmers’ Grimshaw @leegrimshaw.bsky.social Mostly Spinout Nuggets, The Spinout Revue and others.
Spinout Nuggets @spinoutnuggets.bsky.social A record label releasing the records you didn’t know you needed.
@martincowan.bsky.social @martincowan.bsky.social 
Nick Levine @nick-levine.bsky.social Fintech, Accounting & Music
Lucy Aitken @lucyaitken.bsky.social Editorial Consultant
Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social Writer. Author (THIS PARTY’S DEAD). Playwright (Stockroom, Slackline). Journalist (Guardian). Writing tutor (CityLit).
Social media director (Tupelo Press). Creative Writing PhD. Late-diagnosed AuDHD. Writing a novel but I’m ok.
@BretsTypeWriter 📚✨ @bretstypewriter.bsky.social "I'll know my song well before I start singing." - Bob Dylan
#BlackLivesMatter | #BookSky 📚 | #WritersOfBlueSky 📝
📍 Admiring Berkeley Square 
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
Bill Brewster @djhistory.bsky.social DJ, writer, idiot.
Bookings: ryan@thepool-london.com
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
Hannah Jane Parkinson @ladyhaja.bsky.social ✍🏻 Journalist: The Guardian, Observer, elsewhere
📖 Buy: The Joy of Small Things amzn.to/3EBFgqz
🗣️Posting: politics, arts, mental health, media, ⚽️, 🏳️🌈
📧 Your emails can find me well at: hannah.jane.parkinson@theguardian.com
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social Writer 📚romantic comedies & 🍏📺 writers room Slow Horses Series 5 ✍🏻 Meme slag. Lover of cats. Prosecco goblin. Old Hollywood enthusiast. Don’t trust me with Google Maps & we should be fine.
https://www.mhairimcfarlane.com/
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk News about the world of news.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice. 
Miranda Sawyer @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies @theanchoress.bsky.social Songwriter/Producer 3x@musicproducersguild nominated. Management: sean{at}drownedinsound.org
Booking: lux@spideringtouring.com
Press: polly@completecontrolpr.co.uk
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
Helen Pidd @helenpidd.bsky.social Host of Today in Focus, the Guardian’s daily news podcast. Former North of England editor. Nominated for best host at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. Contact me in confidence helen.pidd@theguardian.com
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com 🗞️ The best of our journalism
👉 https://www.thetimes.com/
Variety @variety.com The business of entertainment.
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
ITV News (Official) @itvnews.bsky.social Original news from across the UK and around the world. Available on ITVX 24/7. National news: ITV1 weekdays at 1:30pm, 6:30pm and 10pm. Regional news: ITV1 weekdays at 6pm.
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Tortoise @tortoisemedia.bsky.social Slow news, without the noise 🐢
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social Exclusive stories and insight from Westminster via PoliticsHome and The House magazine. Read our reporting at https://www.politicshome.com and subscribe to The Rundown podcast: http://bit.ly/3M8d963
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social Writeroonie
Kasimiira Kontio @kasimiira.bsky.social Founder of Kontio Comms, working across music, art, culture, books, events internationally 🪩
💻: kasimiira@kontio-comms.com
https://www.instagram.com/kontiocomms
Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social Typist.
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
The Independent @the-independent.com News, comment and features from The Independent, the world's most free-thinking newspaper.
The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
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