Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social Owner-operator of Liverpool's premier bijou editorial services provider, Bus Stop. Occasional bus traveller. Used to be a small deal.
Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com Sport news, comment, video and more from @theguardian.com
MapQuest @mapquest.com The OG of online mapping.
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Pardz AVFC 🦁 @pardzavfc.bsky.social Villa fan, dad, amateur WWII historian specialising in Eastern Front operations. Model builder. Still loving Star Trek DS9
Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social Taking action to stop the spread of harmful climate misinformation. Get involved: stopfundingheat.info
Birmingham Open Spaces Forum @bosfonline.bsky.social BOSF - A charity that supports Birmingham's open spaces and the incredible volunteers that care for them! https://linktr.ee/bosfonline
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Greig @artofcycling.bsky.social Artist, cyclist, artist of cyclists.
I'm painting what I love and I love what I am painting
www.greigleach.com, https://www.theartofcycling.blogspot.com
Sitter Crosswords @sitterxwords.bsky.social Cryptic clues posted most evenings, usually an anagram (cold-solve friendly) and often topical.
My (other) main hobby is wandering middle-class neighbourhoods on summer afternoons and shouting, "Alexa, set an alarm for 3am".
Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social We stand against the far right, in solidarity with migrant communities and against genocide. Together we will win the fight for climate and migrant justice.
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Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kingsheathunitedagainstracism
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TheDefense @thedefense.bsky.social South African media observer
Photography|Sports|Culture|Visual Storytelling
My Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/sabelomasemola
Substack: https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/
TheMedium: https://medium.com/@defensefilms
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
The Moseley Society @themoseleysociety.bsky.social 
PAJOS MASHUP @pajosmashup.bsky.social Aston Villa FC / Trance & Progressive / Ireland
▶️♻️🎶 https://www.youtube.com/@pajosmashup9711/videos
Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social Labour Peer, ex-MP for Battersea. Campaigner for refugees, especially children. Interested in human rights, asylum policy and Ireland. RTs are not endorsements.
D.T @cleanderek.bsky.social Hey Daddy-O, you don't dig our raddy-o, get off our patio.
Hove via Brighton via Luton.
UTV.
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/
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social 💚 Making hope normal again in Birmingham.
Promoted by C. Busuttil at Unit 3 Block 2, Wednesbury Trading Estate, WS10 7JN.
https://birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/
Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social Charity lawyer; charity trustee; transport campaigner.
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Paul Edwards @therealpaule.bsky.social Passion fruit and holy bread, Fill my guts and ease my head
Rebel scum
He/Him
Birmingham Forever
MandM💤 @mandmflem.bsky.social Liberal Left Capitalist
Long suffering AVFC obssessive, here for the good times, Home n Away!
Current Cat dad. Previous dog dad 🫶🏻
Actual dad, to a Villan, what else!
Soil Hill but travelling till I die 🌍
Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social Peggy Poole Winner 2022 |
Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice |
Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens
https://mickconley.substack.com/
Sue Mason-Burns @suemasonburns.bsky.social Proud Kiwi. Adopted Brummie. Wifey to @jayjayjjetplane, Mum to 4 who won't admit it in public. Massive #AVFC Fan. Opinions all bad but willingly shared
Tyler Damme @tylerdamme.bsky.social Long-suffering sports fan, history nerd, occasional video game player, person.
Alex Carson ☘️💅 @adcars.bsky.social #ndwbb Green Nails Newsletter: https://greennailsnewsletter.substack.com/
TWISTR Indiana High School Sports Ratings: https://twistrratings.com/
Cavs • Crows • Fever • Guards • Irish • Jackets • Villa
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
Black Country Radio @blackcountryradio.co.uk The best mix of music for the Black Country and Birmingham. Listen on our app, on FM and DAB, online or on your smart speaker 🔊 #ProperLocalRadio
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
James Mackintosh @jmackin2.bsky.social Writer of Streetwise column in the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/streetwise Here for FinTwit c. 2012. Ex FT
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Stephen 🥤 @stphnfllws.bsky.social 39 forever 🙂↕️ // gay and exhausted // aston villa 💜 // south east london baby 🥦
https://www.instagram.com/stephenfellows?igsh=NmFpMTNudnZidWo1&utm_source=qr
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for North East Scotland | Rector of Dundee University | Eco-Socialist & Intersectional Feminist | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/maggiechapman
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social Tired and barely functional.
Autistic et al.
[Long Covid]
Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky!
Alt Text for Header and Profile Pic = https://shorturl.at/DFMN9.
They/He. 30s. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 .
WARNING: I typo (bad hand) and repost A LOT.
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
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/
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social Scottish, Glaswegian, Comedian, ex-journalist, Gay, HIV+ (U=U). Back from the dead three times.
Listen to my BBC R4 series here:
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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).
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Guinevere 🎲🎲 @guineverecryptic.bsky.social Love cryptic crosswords, long time solver, now honoured to be a setter! ADHD and Mensa member - owning the wonderful US ’twice exceptional’ label 🥰 🏴🎲🎲
Dice: Guardian
Kybos: Times QC
Anonymous: Times
Guinevere: Most other places!
Rich Day @rich-day.bsky.social Here for the footy ...and by footy I just mean Villa
B6 1874
simon h @s1monh.bsky.social avfc etc
Kevin Chapman @chappersbrum.bsky.social Gaffer.Tea Drinker. #StrokeSurvivor thanks to Ward C21 New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton. #NHS @avwfc-official.bsky.social fan.
Views my own.
Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social Agricultural economist from South Africa
Blog: https://wandile.substack.com/
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@agriviewwandile
Email: wandile@agbiz.co.za
Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com The official Bluesky of Vanity Fair
Pixelhead @pixelhead.bsky.social Zeitgeist und 9. Kunst ... Klima, Comics, etwas Astronomie, FC Schalke 04, Aston Villa, Bonner SC, Bonn Capitals, Seattle Seahawks. Burrito und Pizza.
@pixelhead@mastodon.social
"Der Patriotismus verdirbt die Geschichte.“
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social Flee, all is discovered.
By @tanaudel.bsky.social. Automated, not AI. Same as old code, but via @bluebotsdonequick.com (so won't exactly mirror legacy posts).
Gothic (and other) art at tanaudel.redbubble.com
Patreon: patreon.com/tanaudel
The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social Birmingham's new quality newspaper: sending local stories to your inbox. Always looking for new writers & new stories.
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Koalatovmocktail @koalatovmocktail.bsky.social Cuddly koala & heroic underdog.
I love coming on here and reconnecting with my fellow #AVFC fans.
#UTV
He/Him
Up and not crying @specialtreatment.bsky.social A french provincial office or a book full of clippings.
Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social New book coming next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Reading: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/meandmybigmouth
Writing: https://meandmybigmouth.medium.com/
Selling: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmybigmouth
He/him.
EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk EveryDoctor is a not-for-profit campaigning organisation advocating for the safety and well-being of NHS patients and staff members and fighting for the future of the NHS.
Email: campaigns@everydoctor.org.uk
https://linktr.ee/EveryDoctor
The Stage @thestage.co.uk The Stage is the world’s oldest and best theatre publication 🗞️
Mark White @markwhite.bsky.social content editor at fourfourtwo, cat lover
Dani 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @avfcdani.bsky.social I’m @dan_villafan on Twitter. Love Aston Villa and all things football. Unapologetically Millennial. Apparently ‘woke’ but likes regular sandwiches. Proud Brit *and* Pro EU. Anti Elon Musk. #avfc
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social Professor of medical research leading global genomics surveillance. Director CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP at UKZN, South Africa. Views my own.
Trinity Road 78 @trinityroad78.bsky.social AVFC. Football. Cricket. Tailenders. Any other sport tbf
Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net Chocolatier. Also into photography, filmmaking, gardening, writing, and too many other things…
Greater London 🇬🇧 | AuDHD
Chocolate shop currently on summer break.
Angelo Guisado @voltairelaflare.bsky.social human rights lawyer and local peripatetic
noted Aston Villa supporter
FootNotes. @footnotesza.bsky.social FootNotes Media offers a view into events, shows, entertainment and more. Connect with us on Facebook, X & Instagram (@footnotesza).
TechCentral @techcentral.co.za Business technology news leader in South Africa
Carte Blanche @carteblanche.co.za 📺 Watch #CarteBlanche every Sunday at 7pm on M-Net, DStv channel 101
▶️ Watch it all at www.carteblanche.co.za
📢 Truth Brings Change
📧 Tell us your story - http://bit.ly/CBTipOffs
Lindsay Parry @lins-oz.bsky.social Retired Systems Analyst. Genealogy hobbyist. Facts and politeness please. A pronounced lean to port re politics. Kaurna Land 🏳️🌈
Andrew Raeburn @andrewraeburn.bsky.social Sports journalist/commentator. Radio producer/presenter. Podcast host. #AVFC fan. Trivia geek. Taskmaster obsessive. Views own, mitts off.
Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social President of @eminternational.bsky.social. #IAmEuropean🇪🇺
https://www.europeanmovement.eu/ 
David Crump @fitincubus.bsky.social Husband, father, grandfather, Villa fan, liberal, humanist, environmentalist, pro-European 💙🇪🇺🇺🇦🦁
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
KFM 94.5 @kfmza.bsky.social The MOST Music to make you feel GREAT!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Tony Iommi @iommi.com The official Instagram feed for Tony Iommi; founding member & guitarist for Black Sabbath. New solo album “From The Dark” out on 23rd October.
https://tonyiommi.lnk.to/fromthedark
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Dixie Normous @spikethedog.bsky.social I run a tight ship , play fair with me and I'll play fair with you AVFC
Matt Burton @mattburton72.bsky.social Husband and Father of 3 - Ex Guitar for 7th Son - AVFC & WCCC fan - Ex-Cricketer for FOCC - Auto Industry professional - Warwick Uni Graduate - Aston Uni MBA