Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social Churning out mid-quality content before AI replaces all of us
Johannes Jakob @jojojakob.bsky.social commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia
Martin Henry Guitar Tech Scotland @martinhenryguitar.bsky.social Guitar maintenance / repairs / modifications
Classic valve amplifier servicing
Custom pickup building / rewinding
SMS/WhatsApp: 07347289870
Email: martinhenryamps@outlook.com
Collect/return available on request
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
@improbableatlas.bsky.social @improbableatlas.bsky.social 
Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social Cynical Canadian bibliophile/writer guy into music, sports (lifelong Caps/Jays fan), contemporary literature and poetry, foreign film and used bookstores and booksales. Not much else.
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
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
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
Gil Greening @gilgreen.bsky.social retired scientist, kiwi in Oz - Ngunnawal Country, avatar from Iceland, aurora australis from sister in Dunedin. #nzpol Vaxxed to the max. Greenie moll.
Mostly just a lazy reposter.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Tim @t-bd.bsky.social Just want conversations that don't devolve into insults and slurs.
Oh and I automatically follow Tim's. Not in a weird stalker way of course.
Geezer Deluxe @geezerdeluxe.bsky.social Newly retired dabbler. Friend of cats. Speller and punctuator.
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
PettyAF 🎩 💔 🎸 @stevemyers91.bsky.social Budget Analyst by day, singer in a Tom Petty tribute by night.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social one chance out between two worlds
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. Parliamentary candidate for the Clacton By-Election, 2026. Sane.
Promoted by Count Binface, at PO Box 818, Tonbridge, TN9 9YF
Blind Cat Carlos & Friends @blindcatcarlos.bsky.social Discover My Beautiful World:
🖤 Blind Cat Carlos 🐈⬛
💕 Polly Pepper 🌶️
🌸 Balou the Teddycat 🧸
🐰 Bunnie Crew 🐇
If you enjoy it, follow for more
Peter Donoughue @peterdonoughue.bsky.social Former MD of publisher John Wiley Australia. Now retired but still engaged.
Book reader and reviewer.
Muppet GIF of the Day @gifs-of-puppets.bsky.social Adding more puppet mayhem to your feed one day at a time! Run by @essaeem.bsky.social. (Not affiliated with Disney, Sesame Workshop, or The Jim Henson Company)
https://gifsofpuppets.wordpress.com
Incognita Nom de Plume @shiralee.bsky.social Collector of dust, bones and regrets. Fan of cemeteries, museums, and ruins.
I block anyone posting AI slop.
Jenny Hayes @jennyhayes.bsky.social Seattle writer, former '80s Berkeley teenager, punk rock wine mom. (she/her)
lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social Recovering music writer, hardcore filmnerd, boxing fan and reader of those book things.
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
My Chihuahua has seen things @bkbirge.bsky.social Dad, Brother, Friend, Photographer, Record Producer, Aerospace Engineer, Cook, Handyman, #BoycottSpotify bkbirge.bandcamp.com
Wadepool @wadepool.wtf TOITŪ TE TIRITI
Nerd of the highest order, whether it’s guitars, amplifiers, or the cyberz. Learning something new every day.
Tāngata Tiriti.
https://youtube.com/@theaotearoaguitarshow
https://www.youtube.com/@wadepool.productions
Daniel Pirone (He/Him) @dpirone.bsky.social Escaped Delaware in 1990, cosplayed a scientist at Santa Fe Institute, Human Interface Technology Lab @ UW, got tired of being broke, practiced software engineering, radicalized by independent music and the bravery and resilience of my LGBTQIA+ friends.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Decided to not have a bio and just say "read this" as it will be a better guide if you're trying to decide whether I'm worth bothering with: https://www.tom-cox.com/the-village-message-board-2/
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Howard Walter @howardwalter1.bsky.social Melb, Australia. Beach, cinema, country walks, home cook, music & pizza lover, road trips, theatre. Bespoke, curious, eclectic, gobsmacked, livid, optimistic, pedantic, sarcastic, witty, young @ heart. Middle-class boy, middle-class schooling. Go Pies!
Maria Blackman Creates @mariablackman.bsky.social She/her
Artist 🖌️
Writer ✍️
Reader 📖
On Noongar Whadjuk Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia)
Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au trade unionist | greenie | columbophile | father
Often ignore and/or block anonymous accounts
danielcrute.au
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social Professor of translation, University of Geneva. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France, Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c, Translating Books for Publication. Occasional literary translator.
Renee Ruin (she/her) @reneeruin.bsky.social Writer. Blogger. Melophile. Poet. Horror/Sci-fi fiend. Podcaster. Cinephile. Mental Health Ambassador. Anti-social socialite.
Melb/Naarm, Aus.
BSocSc (Psychology, Sociology), BA (Hons)
https://linktr.ee/reneeruin
Fran @whingewhingewine.co.uk Escaped from The Bad Place with a Labrador and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.
www.whingewhingewine.co.uk
From the 96% of the world that isn't the USA.
Joel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social Writer and independent political analyst focused on the intersection of class, the state of the nation, and Australian independent policy.
https://www.boganintel.com/
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia.
https://independenthistorians.org
Beth Driscoll @bethdriscoll.bsky.social 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. Ullapoolist. Researching contemporary book publishing and reading practices. 
Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social (Socio)linguist at TU-Dortmund: military-adjacent linguistic landscapes in the KMC, Germany
Virtual breathing spaces for minority languages
Language Policy | Ethics
Jewish and nonzionist. Maxim flouter. Full of boundless enthusiasm. She/Her
Chan @changv.bsky.social Survivor. Feminist. Social justice. Human rights. Love animals, nature and the arts. Gen X.
Daniel Lucas @daluc.bsky.social PhD in Philosophy, working on ethics (esp. Bioethics, Ethics of Medicine). Politically frustrated. Horrible taste in movies; too many typos.
William in Nevada 🚌🏫✏️📚🖍️✒️🍎🤓 @william-in-nv.bsky.social Retired elementary schoolteacher and Episcopal priest. 🐈 Loves cats, reading, cello, writing, 🖋️fountain pens, and coffee! Wait, did I mention the coffee? ☕
Marie Geist, Baby Guitar Hero @mariepgeist.bsky.social Full-time student of Japanese language; sometimes translator for hire. Dale Cooper's imaginary girlfriend; electronic music nerd. Land back. ACAB includes SWERFs and TERFs. Why TF was Link banned again?
AuDHD. She/her/彼女
Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social Writer, AWGIE-winner, dog dad.
Scriptwriter for TV / film.
Flibbertigibbet, will-'o-the-wisp, clown
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Bastet Bravo @bastetbravo.bsky.social I love cats and culture, and I long for the days when the internet was about friends and family instead of hustle culture algorithmic crap.
Dienw Neb @bareroot.bsky.social Writer of odd books
https://noshelterbooks.com/
Reposting & posting unpolished thoughts as I work on my current project.
Pete Davies @pete-davies.bsky.social Guinnarcho-syndicalist/
Class struggle 👍 party politics 👎/
Cardiff City FC/
Chair Cardiff County Unison/
Books (mainly SF)/
Plant eating cat butler/
Da bedeirgoes, drwg dwygoes/
Save pubs FFS!
The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social Once described in HuffPost as “one of the brightest minds on the planet”… (true) but I’m pretty sure that journo was high. (also true).
Democracy | Speaker | Poet | Author | Archer | Dilettante Polymath
📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.
ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au News and analysis from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
@garybutler.bsky.social @garybutler.bsky.social Guitar teacher. Melbourne.
Making Music Grate Again
Don't bother sending DMs, because our government doesn't think that I'm mature enough to use social media responsibly.
assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social parent to a transgender young'un. active at reddit r/cisparenttranskid. throwback memes. pretty woke.
I block bots, brigaders, and bullies (including crybullies) with zero hesitation or notice
RunningRedLights @runningredlights.bsky.social Music twice, Tech once. Priorities sorted.
Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social Author • Literary Agent • Creative Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social ✊🏼🌳🦜🦈🐝🍄🥔🌈🎧🇦🇺🇸🇪🇫🇮
lutruwita / Tasmania
excitedly running around in this off-leash park sniffing bums
Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social 1st Am lawyer
Ph.D. Pre-modern Chinese Literature
Korean/Indian American
Bach, Radiohead, classic movies, Star Trek
Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social Retired book editor, terminal bookworm, first-time author of THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. I like movies too.
Tadahiro Ishisaka(石坂忠広) @tishisaka.bsky.social Computer programmer.
@audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social 
Political Gadgets @politicalgadgets.bsky.social Machinery for democracy in Australia. Lift the lid on votes, money, lobbying, and more. Reach your own conclusions.
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
@herberteast.bsky.social @herberteast.bsky.social Lefty woke support the people
Smash capitalism free the worker
Horror movie junkie
Video games junkie
Physical media Forever
Reader of horror paperbacks
Love action movies
Asian cinema Rocks!
Just an old nerd at the end of the day.
nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social James Hillier ✍🏼 Visual Artist (he/they)
For all order/art commission inquiries, please email me: nordacious@gmail.com
Turrbal Country/Brisbane, AU
Kelanoa 😷 @kelanoa.bsky.social Aussie, AuDHD, lefty boomer, tax FF properly, fix NACC, protect whistle-blowers, legislate Truth in political advertising. LNP never ever. Voted Yes to Voice. Anti genocide. Novid mask wearer. Begging/donations=Block
Splice @thisissplice.bsky.social www.ThisIsSplice.co.uk
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
Against: fascism, corporate rule, AI boosting, cynicism. For: old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels.
Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
@tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social 
Stevie Burns @stevieburns.bsky.social Berlin | He/Him | 🏳️🌈🖤
Richard Langston @rubbasoul.bsky.social Author of The Clean: in the dreamlife you need a rubber soul (Auckland University Press and Feralhouse.com). Six books of poetry, publisher Cuba Press, Wellington, NZ.
Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social Law Assoc/Prof @AdelaideUni. Judicial Studies/Courts/JusticeTech/Pseudolaw/Dad Jokes
Dr Caitlin Vincent @caitlinvincent.bsky.social Librettist & lyricist. Author of OPERA WARS (Scribner). Senior Lecturer @UniMelb and ARC DECRA Fellow 2025-2027. Opinions own. She/her. ✍🏼👩🏻💻🎶
Jay Spencer Green @jayspencergreen.bsky.social “Everything went downhill after the invention of the wheel.”
Dublin-based writer, Dadaist, and layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social Roman historian in South Australia. Current project: “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic breakdown in the 1st century BCE”. Husband and father. I’m the one who set cats and dogs against each other.
Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear.
(senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social Indolence capable of energies. I teach and write about various things, mostly stuff on screens. McGill, English. He/him.
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Jeff Hart @mifor.me
Progressive, humanist, reader, music fan, technologist
Founder of the Mayhem Institute For Ontological Research
E Pluribus Unum
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
Mike Funnell @mikefunnell.bsky.social Former SysProg moved on to being a payments specialist - and now trying to fully retire. — @FunnellMike over with the pachyderms & on what might still be Twitter (sort of).
Sydney, Australia.
Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social Astronomer, Monash academic, Conversation writer, cycling commuter or mamil.
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/michael-brown
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Claire Parnell @claireparnell.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Rory Carroll @rorycarroll72.bsky.social Guardian Ireland corr. Previously LA, Caracas, Baghdad, Joburg, Rome. Author of upcoming A Rebel and a Traitor. Previous books: Killing Thatcher. Comandante.
Angela Savage @angelasavage.bsky.social Award-winning author, library lover, 80s pop tragic, bird nerd. Commissioning co-editor of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. Crafter of #literarycritters
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'.
Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social Random Restaurant bot on Bluesky using code created by @friendo.bsky.social, bot engineered by Turbo Dong 420
3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social Yes it’s that 3wombats Retired costume maker. Gardener. Music lover 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Friendly 🦘🐨(Need wombats emoji) Also 3wombats@Mastodon exTwitter
Anti Zionism is not Antisemitism🍉
NO DMs from total strangers thank you
Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social Sydney's original online review of books, established March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell. We are a free and independent site for book reviews. Find us at https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/
On Gadigal land. Posts by LF. 
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Endorsed Legalise #Cannabis Party candidate for the Secret Harbour by-election.
Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social I’ll protect you from the hooded claw.
Bec @becadroit.bsky.social Probably not a cat. Part poet, storyteller, & artist crammed into something warm. But not too warm. Introvert insomniac. ND. MA. Naarm, Australia with words that have gone places.
Writingbec.com
Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social "Better-looking than Peter Jackson." - Bobcat Goldthwait