Mark Whitworth @bringitonskippy.bsky.social Everton / Mr Bump / linguistics & phonetics / real ale & craft beer / jangle pop / pub quiz host / flowery shirts / trophy husband
📌 Loughborough via Runcorn & Barnsley
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social Arts writer critic poet artist. Wrote a book on concrete poetry. Words in lots of places (gregthomas.online). Poem objects: oo-press.com. Board member, Edwin Morgan Trust, comms manager, Humanist Society Scotland. Democratic socialism & dungeon synth.
Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social artists' books, concrete poetry, perception, slowness, quietness, circles & lines, grey, Japan, Agnes Martin, moon jars, green tea, bit of a minimalist www.juliejohnstone.com
Steve F. @essayeff.bsky.social Scouse exile in (occasionally) sunny Nottingham, Everton, politics, good music- Bowie,Radiohead, HMHB, you know the drill.....& UTFT & FTT. ESCEM member.
@gryffe.bsky.social @gryffe.bsky.social Celtic FC, Music of all stripes, but esp The Fall, Low, Post Punk, Bowie, Reggae/Dub, 60's Jazz, DBT, Electronic music in it's many forms. No Torys!
Chris Rand @chrisrand.com Ipswich, England.
"In a Venn Diagram of one" – The Guardian.
• "Chris The Site Owner" at the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project. #hmhb
• Supporter of Ipswich Town FC. #itfc
• Expect to see mainly stuff that amused me.
https://chrisrand.com
Mike @hemjefc.bsky.social 
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
Route @routebooks.bsky.social Route Publishing. Making connections. And books. https://linktr.ee/routebooks
Half Man Half Biscuit Information Service @hmhbinfo.bsky.social Irregular info, news, articles, images, vids and lyrics etc re: Wirral's finest musical satirists. Not official.
Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, Curiouser
https://linktr.ee/ColemanDesign
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social Visitor, scriever, ex-prof/-makar/-you name it, loser. Still seeking your poems for endlessly subdividing online/print projects: Ghost Furniture Catalogue; New Boots and Pantisocracies (Art Sonnet Chain); New Gude & Godlie Ballatis (Dundee Renga), etc.
Infinite Monkeys @infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social A home for fiction writers and readers, screenwriters and viewers. All the intel and advice they never tell you.
From Mark Chadbourn - novelist, screenwriter, journalist.
Here: https://infinitemonkeyshq.substack.com
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social ‘Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.’
No DMs… please. ⛔️
Actor/Director/Writer represented by https://alexpriestleytalent.com/
Ross Leslie Comedy @rosslesliecomedy.bsky.social Comedy. Promotion. History. Sometimes all 3 together.
https://linktr.ee/rossleslie
Mickeyundertone @mickeyundertone.bsky.social Should really catch myself on.
SimonJ @theslycat80.bsky.social 
MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social Football, music, telly
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com 👨🏻🎨 Wonky football doodles since 2014, by Alex & Sian
🛒 SHOP: noscoredraws.com
📕 BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/njnvr4hz
✊🏻 No Pasarán
Eric Douglas @ericdouglas999.bsky.social Punk/post-punk, films/movies and the beautiful game. Seeking a fairer society with a democracy that works in the public interest. 
Limmy @limmy.com Shop: limmy.com | Streams: twitch.tv/Limmy & youtube.com/@DaftLimmy
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social Writer fae the Black Isle.
Chris Butcher @chrisbutcher.bsky.social Music, films, art, books, nature, nonsense
dannyno @dannyno.bsky.social Excessively interested in The Fall-related trivia.
https://annotatedfall.thebiggestlibraryyet.org.uk/
https://dannyno.org.uk/fall/flickeringlexicon.htm
https://falldata.blogspot.com/
Ian Willey @ianwilley.bsky.social Artist, designer, technician and tutor, helping people of all ages to make things.
ianwilley.artstation.com
wastecraft.info
Shayne Tod Slaughter @shaynetodslaughter.bsky.social 'Notebooks out, plagiarists!'
"Currently cookerless due to continuing cable connection conundrum. Recent relentless precipitation problems persist, making baking bothersome thru waterlogged wiring..."
#MDANT
marcusa @marcusa.bsky.social Tech journalist, analyst, IT director and indie music and film fan. Up the Boro. Available for writing.
Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social Songwriter, illustrator, writer: three people, one heart!
Solo album 'Showtunes from the Shadows' out now on Tiny Global.
Bandcamp https://helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com
Website https://www.mccookerybook.com
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@mccookerybook
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
DerkHerkenbersh @dochackenbush.bsky.social Illustrator of Cute Stuff. Doodler of Silly Li’l Guys. Did the graphics for #Styscraper. Likes capybaras and cats a totally normal amount. He/Him.
Buy my cool merch here! 👇🏻
https://www.redbubble.com/people/dochackenbush/shop
@grumpybollocks.bsky.social @grumpybollocks.bsky.social 
Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.
https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
Jillian @bookworm17.bsky.social Glaswegian
David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social Writer. Mr Agreeable in a previous life. Author of, among others, Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero) and Different Times: A History Of British Comedy (Faber)
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social Wit, raconteur, bon viveur. He is none of these things. A purveyor of cheap mummery and piffle since 1976. Throws random words at a screen for Set The Tape. Bluesky’s foremost Biggles: Adventures In Time aficionado.
William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social Also on the X hellsite, but maybe not for long.
Used to write To September & Beyond, a political blog on Scottish independence that was hilarious, sometimes intentionally.
Sulidae @sulidaepoem.bsky.social Songs and poetry.
an invincible summer…. Kitchen Sink Dharma
Poet in Residence RSPB Lochwinnoch, Scotland.
www.bobbymotherwell.com
Trumpton Fire Brigade ultra @captainflack.bsky.social Smiling in the public eye but in a lonely room I cry.
fka all-bran @nubigprinz.bsky.social Generally cheerful. Constantly afraid. Cautiously pessimistic.
𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social British comedy record spinner and dissipated bon viveur.
Glenda Young, Author @glendayoung-author.bsky.social Love writing. Sagas & Cosy Crimes published by headlinebooks.bsky.social Rep'd by RCW Literary Agency. Fun, weekly soap opera Riverside in The People's Friend magazine. Ed: corostreetblog.bsky.social Visit glendayoungbooks.com
Grumpelstiltskin @maxwellshabbsby.bsky.social Voted Best Newcomer - 2017, 2018, 2024 & 2025
#AFC
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Cerys Matthews @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Food.Action.Music.Books. Happy on the end of a rope.
Programme BBC radio shows -write books, make music and get out and about.
Jay Richardson @jayirichardson.bsky.social Freelance journalist writing on comedy. Bylines include the Scotsman, Guardian, Sunday Times, i, Telegraph, BBC, Channel 4, Independent, Irish Times, Metro, Herald, Vulture, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Chortle, The Reviews Hub, British Comedy Guide.
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social https://scotlit-iassl.org | Promoting Scottish literatures globally
DouglasHartley @douglashartley.bsky.social Music/Family/Sport/LFC/MDANT/ 🐕
Strings of Fife @discopath.bsky.social He can surely turn the tide
He can push the tempest by
Fiery Mark @fierymark.bsky.social Who needs actions when you got words.
Books music beer hills Leith.
Paul Tonner @paultonner.bsky.social Illustration, writing and comics. Sometimes all at once. 🏴🇪🇺
The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
Cloudland Blue Quartet @misterquartet.bsky.social Music/Art/Podcasts
Listens/writes/records/podcasts/photographs/performs/paints
Bandcamp (songs/soundscapes) https://cloudlandbluequartet.bandcamp.com
Podcasts https://www.mixcloud.com/CloudlandBlueQuartet
Website crispycat.co.uk
John Higgs @johnhiggs.bsky.social Writing your dad's Christmas present since 2012 - https://linktr.ee/johnhiggs
Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social Scottish, ready for mischief 😈
Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social Award winning (no honest) Cartoonist. Also an Illustrator, Designer... depending on what day it is.
Recently emigrated from Liverpool to Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/dinktoons
Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Always looking for the heat around the corner
TMBGdotLOVE @tmbg.love 12 HOURS OF TMBG ON THE RADIO BY GLOBAL REQUEST ~ Nov. 13, 2026, 6am-6pm Central ~ KMSU 89.7 FM
Mike Boyle @trueseadog.bsky.social Seaman retired, Granddad und Opa, Beer Drinker, Angler, Argyle fan.
Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social Funniest Joke Edinburgh Fringe 2019-2022. Comedian, kids book author, illustrator, Art person. All my stuff is here: https://linktr.ee/Ofalafel
Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social Writer. Geek. Mononippled gadabout.
I made SWEARDLE http://sweardle.glitch.me You're welcome.
Listen to or read the play what I wrote http://erislabs.net/stu/nigel/
I am hagbardsapple on B3ta.
Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social animator of weird stuff.
If you need to contact me directly here's my email:
https://cyriak.co.uk/animation/contact/
https://www.youtube.com/user/cyriak
birdshite stalactite @birdshitestalactite.co.uk 
Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social Terrible news, chums. Head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose!
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Tony @tony.eurosky.social I draw. I write. I sculpt. I clean.
Link in bio - https://links.fans/r/htrmav4
Ali Hancock @alihancock.bsky.social Nerd with too many hats. Real ones and metaphorical ones.
Comedy writer, comedian, voice actor and miscellaneous artist.
https://www.alihancock.co.uk/
Barbarossa⚡️ @barbarossa69.bsky.social Left-handed.
My favourite shapes are hexagons.
Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social Novelist, playwright, webmonkey, T1 diabetic. Fiction represented by David Grossman Literary Agency.
Dave @sheepfilms.bsky.social Maker of animated and visual effect things
I'm also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheep_films/
Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social Author, journalist, hero, dad, sleepy etc. He/him. Cambridge, UK. Please buy the fun, funny books I write for children and grown-ups.
mikerampton.com / interestingskull.beehiiv.com
Mal Franks @merseymal.com Data Analyst since 2023. IT Supervisor/SysAdmin 1997-2023. Computer tinkerer/gamer since 1982. Console gamer since 1977. Tea drinker since 1974. He/him.
Loves telly, music, comics, movies, games and tea.
Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social Anonymous opinions written by YOU - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and often niche. Edited by @robmanuel.b3ta.com - add yours: https://bit.ly/addanonopin
LNRModels @lnrmodels.bsky.social Model maker
Marvellous Miniature Workshop
starts 2pm December 1st BBC One and BBC iplayer
- follow me on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@lnrmodels
dng @dng.bsky.social i make things occasionally
https://accumulationofthings.com
Jansen Mann @hellojansen.com Web stuff, UX, IA, SEO, photography, marketing and all that jazz. 🎷
Still a bit miffed about Brexit.
Paul Curry @cr3ative.co.uk I trick computers in to doing what people want. I skeet badly, and only in a personal capacity.
https://www.cr3ative.co.uk
JustHere4Coffee @justhere4coffee.bsky.social A.K.A. Justie or JH4C
Not actually a fan of coffee but this has been my name for over quarter of a century, so why change now?
Crypto and Finance Bros, AI evangelists, heavily pro/anti-religion, and "just-asking-questions" types need not apply.
sarah / pixie @chocofungi.bsky.social Queer, autistic, crafty, pagan. Would probably prefer to be asleep at any given time. She/any
Alexis (Taylor’s version) @lexistwit.bsky.social Photoshoplifter. Twimmigrant. Still figuring this out.
Lone survivor of @mockeree.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/lexistwit
Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social Writer, parodist; punster; puzzler; potty-mouth; penner of odes; podcaster; free thinker; synth tinkerer; dad; hat fan. Also jimjar on Twitter
Jon Morter @jonmorter.com ▪️ Christmas No.1 - 2009, 2012
▪️ “Social Media Hellraiser” ~ NY Times
▪️ @jonmorter in other places
▪️ Hard Rock Hell DJ
▪️ Digital Communities/PR
▪️ Public Speaking
▪️ stopthetories.vote in #GE2024
▪️ He/Him
AndyLXNEN @andrewlxnen.bsky.social I make electronic music as LX NEN lxnen.bandcamp.com
I am Pageholder 39/400
I have an Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number of 11
I was founder & former leader of the Pirate Party UK
I finished in last place in FPL 23/24
AJRed @ajred.bsky.social Gentleman slacker. #TOTP botherer. Public service shitposting.
Mark @vbloke.com I can make birds suddenly appear every time you are near. £10/hour.
He/Him
Never stop punching nazis.
Wool Hidden 𓅿 𓆑 @tubbycustard.b3ta.com Living life on the hedge
Dave Bagpuss Forsey ☕️ @bagpuss.org Welsh/Dutch bloke who makes games, videos and Photoshoppery. Friday night #TOTP botherer. Former CTO of WeTransfer, now freelancing. I do not have a podcast.
Join me for a pint at bagpuss.org for a selection of my stuff.
YouTube: youtube.com/@bagpuss_org
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social QTV, Quentin Smirhes
https://linktr.ee/seanreynard
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot Land campaigner, former MSP, forester, author The Poor Had No Lawyers. http://andywightman.scot & http://whoownsscotland.org.uk
HawaiiWorms @hawaiiworms.bsky.social Not from Hawaii. Not a worm. He/him. New EP "Input : Meaning : Joy" out now.
Bass and synths and ghostrock:
https://linktr.ee/HawaiiWorms and https://linktr.ee/Flangecircus
John Dowie @johndowie.bsky.social A towering giant on the British comedy scene once passed me on Hampstead Heath. I write about it in my book, Before I Go. It can be bought here and nowhere else, at least not yet. https://poniesandhorsesbooks.com/shop/
Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social My mind it ain't so open that anything could crawl right in.
To Nkroachment: Yarbles.
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Cheekysaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness.
Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social Pop culturist. Credits include The Big Issue, Classic Pop, Classic Rock, Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Times, The Scotsman. Co-creator of the So Disappointed podcast. Black cat enabler.
paulbwhitelaw.blogspot.com