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Leonard Sexton @brushpusher.bsky.social Fine Art Painting Visual Culture. Ireland.
Loretta S Gowins @anitmate.bsky.social What can be, unburdened by what has been.
Aua @aksaya108.bsky.social An azure sky paired with a beautiful sea of flowers—life is truly worth living.
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social The usual: books, newspapers, music, radio. All passively. Wasting sweetness. They weren't all equally bad, but
Eastern Ireland A Still here.
Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social ONLY AN EYE, BUT MY GOD WHAT AN EYE!
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social Historicus/a (adellijke vrouwen, identiteit, diplomatie) - sinds kort podcaster van 👑 Vrouwen des Huizes 👑 @vrouwendeshuizes @treesandhistories op Instagram
@charbelm.bsky.social @charbelm.bsky.social Building a cozy corner of like-minded friends. No crypto, no financial pitches, and absolutely no creeps. RTs are just for sharing, not endorsing. ☕✨
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social 'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and @thewhale1851.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer |
www.marcchamberlain.net
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
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Maytree Books @maytreebooks.bsky.social Inspirational books for freer lives and a healthier planet. / Llyfrau ysbrydoledig ar gyfer bywydau mwy rhydd a blaned iachach. https://maytreebooks.com
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Sarah Taggart @redrosesarah.bsky.social Hi. I'm a Wife, Mum, G-ma & retired college lecturer. Loved politics til it turned poisonous. Language, birds & music are my things. Oh, and I'm co-writing a screenplay...it's pretty bloody good!
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
@hpponde.bsky.social @hpponde.bsky.social
@sophaa06.bsky.social @sophaa06.bsky.social
Andy Kesson @andykesson.bsky.social Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
Lilzeejnr @victornnamdi47.bsky.social I'm a hardworking person.kind.caring and loving
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Author, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan. Author of the famous novel titled THE HIDDEN FACE
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social Freelance writer, full-time reader, commission-me-anytime reviewer. (For many, most of the places you'd imagine, plus some you might not. That's the joy of freelancing...) susiemesure.com
Mr. Minister @jahiggins.bsky.social The ribald laughter of the philistine
les aristocrates à la lanterne!
"Leading edge of leathality"
Ray @amara74859.bsky.social
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Tom Demeulemeester @tdemeule.bsky.social Interested in fairness in operations research, matching and algorithm design. Assistant professor at Maastricht University.
www.tdem.be
NeuroWinter @neurowinter.com Reformed #AI & #MLOps tinkerer turned #SRE, now keeping #opensource databases alive.
Long-time #AppSec enthusiast, accidental sysadmin, and fueled almost entirely by espresso.
Blogging sporadically at NeuroWinter.com
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 🏴 @johnbarnes.org I’m a freelance who reads the network news on BBC Radio 5 Live and the 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & morris dancer.
Former academic but still a geek.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Pure @purewater.bsky.social Inspired by art & photography
Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart.bsky.social Hi, I'm Charles Anthony Reyna, Abstract Visual Artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My inspiration comes from nature as well as urban areas. Please visit my website at: https://www.ebay.com/usr/artbycharlesreyna
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
ProudlyHuman™ @proudlyhuman.bsky.social As AI outputs become increasingly indistinguishable from human creations, ProudlyHuman™ gives you the information you need to choose human.
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
Regina Kantorowicz @rkantorowicz.bsky.social freie Lektorin, mit einer großen Liebe zur Literatur, aber auch zu modernen Kommunikationsformen, interessiert an dem, was man 360° Publishing nennen könnte
John Haffenden @johnhaffenden.bsky.social Author & editor; FBA; FRSL; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London; editor of the letters of T. S. Eliot. Chocoholic.
Halcyon Phase @halcyonphaseband.bsky.social Halcyon Phase is a collaboration between veteran singer-songwriter Frank Smith (Sills & Smith) & legendary producer Phillip Victor Bova (Bova Sound). New album Critical Misunderstandings On The Precipice out now! https://halcyonphase.bandzoogle.com/home
Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social The writings of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, pure metaphysician.
DB Dowd @dbdowd.bsky.social dbdowd.com | Professor of design at Sam Fox School, WashU StL. Faculty director of DIRA (Dowd Illustration Research Archive) WashU Libraries. New book Reading Pictures: A Cultural History of Illustration coming from Princeton U Press April 2026
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Cardigan Enthusiast @cardiganenthusiast.bsky.social Cardigans, cats, baseball, bikes, music.
I work from home and on work days I post the first record I listen to that day.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
@smithbenner326.bsky.social @smithbenner326.bsky.social
Rebecca Yearling @beckyyearling.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University. Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, etc., early modern satire, violence, and audiences. All opinions my own.
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Bestselling award-winning author. Art historian, public lecturer. Art, books, music, climate. Suffolk and London.
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
In Your Mind - The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono @yokoono-inyourmind.bsky.social The ultimate biography and guide to Yoko Ono’s life and work.
Read the true story of the woman John Lennon loved.
inyourmindbook.com
Now in…
• The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library
• The Beatles Gift Guide
• Acclaimed by Ono’s friends & colleagues
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'Provenance: early modern books in time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social sounds & ultrasounds | traditional, radical, experimental | a feminist record label | spinstersounds.com