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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social Community Worker, Tomato Grower, and Ageing Hippy/Biker. Yesterday's centrist Dad, today's angry young man. Also @jonglue.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy - follow @ap.brid.gy and interact🌱
Yakhunt @yakhunt.net Everything is shit, except my cat and my Rickenbacker
favoured asymptote @kennymacleod.bsky.social GenX. He/him. Nerd.
Rusted-on #Java developer.
Very amateur geologist.
Semi-proficient in long division.
Born @ 330ppm CO2.
Melbourne.
@policybloke.bsky.social @policybloke.bsky.social
Rhymer Rigby @rhymerrigby.bsky.social Journalist (FT, Times, Guardian), author and copywriter.
Lives in SE London, with wife, daughters, cats. Likes hipster film photography, cooking, good vibes
@chimpman.bsky.social @chimpman.bsky.social What is this place?
British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social A bot randomly posting images taken from films made by British Transport Films, a government film unit active from 1949-1986. 3 posts a day. Expect trains.
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Augh @augh3d.bsky.social I'm doing art don't touch me.
🔞No minors go away.🔞
they/them
Hannah Sheppard @hannahlitagent.bsky.social Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social
#WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction.
Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE.
https://cramptonmoorhousepublishing.blogspot.com/
https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social WWII Historian, Battlefield Guide and former soldier, sharing his deep knowledge on glider operations, the Army Air Corps, and the Mighty Eighth.
Colin Howey @colinhowey.bsky.social Once upon a time birds would land on a gentle little boy. Then life intervened and the boy hid behind a blizzard of fists and rage. He thought he'd be safe back there - but it was a lonely, desolate space. Now, I aspire to be a Gentle Man...
@leearizuno.bsky.social @leearizuno.bsky.social
Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social An artist, illustrator, crafter (and now voice actor?!) who once met Johnny Ball while dressed as a giant caterpillar. Neurodivergent. She/her
Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social We are Enrichment Through Archaeology. We provide school workshops, manage community heritage projects and offer guided tours of the Peak District. Interested in Neolithic, museums & religion and rapidly learning about early medieval agriculture!
Cartwheelcaff, disco hoofer @cartwheelcaff.bsky.social
Matt Cross @matt-cx.bsky.social Interested in art, music, the environment, NCFC 🔰. Used to know a bit about local government. Man of Kent living in Norwich. Views my own.
Laragh @laragh.bsky.social Transatlantic sequin mule, mum in black, and time lady. Once obsessed with Eurovision, but now? Pining for Canada. Old enough to have visited Leningrad. Lives on Premise Beach. She/her.
Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social Artist, Norfolk UK.
Government Art Collection | Norwich Castle Museum | Sainsbury Centre Visual Arts | Cold Paradise | NEAC | Firstsite 23-24 | Royal Academy
Pete Blanchard @peteblanchard.bsky.social Proud father, hispanophile, history buff, once-competent bass player, ex-Fordie, pro-European.
Oh, and Janey Godley was right.
Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social #Author Titan, Black Library, Aconyte, Rebellion. 25yrs commercial geek marketing, now #bookseller, #Manga and #comics. Re-enactor, gamer, #cat mom. #NoAI. Views my own.
James Kinsley @unclekins.bsky.social Writer/published author/berk.
It's Hard to Tell You This out now from Deixis Press!
Also self-publish sci-fi as Ray Adams.
https://linktr.ee/unclekins He/him ✝️
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social Investigating, exposing fascists, racists & far right since 1975. Website: https://searchlightmagazine.com and at https://x.com/Searchlight_mag and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586620263602
Olli Wolf @owolf.bsky.social Geek, Nerd, Teacher, History, Politics, Miniature Painter, Movies, Warhammer, FDGO Ultra, vereidigter Antifaschist
“Newly appointed member of the Triumvirate High Council of the Imperial Guard, High Censor of the Enlightenment Bureau”
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social Cycling round Wiltshire and feeding the ducks (and playing records and building little aeroplanes).
Twai @twai.bsky.social Loves building scale Models, Stickbugs and sometimes drawing pictures!
Currently living in the Zone ☢️
Professional bread collector
#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #NAFO 🇺🇦
Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.
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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook.
Edmund Lee @edsrlee.bsky.social Retired #digital #archaeologist. #Solarpunk, stubborn optimist. Posting a lot about UK electoral reform. Would be #TTRPG game designer and grower of apples. Amazed by ancient DNA. LibDem 🔶
@ORCID.org | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-0878
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodlemonger | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪
📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com
🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social Yorkshirewoman pestered by a guardian devil!
Read my adventures: #ThePriceOfTime #TheEveningLands #TheTwistedGrain #Fiction
#Fantasy #SciFi #Prosopagnosia #Tea
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
Lol @loltype.bsky.social lingering on decaying street corners
⋆˙⟡ 🏚️ ⟡˙⋆
she/her
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
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
Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social Archaeologist studying lots of things (mainly bones) ‘cos I’m cursed with curiosity. I like cats, crafts, bears and fungi. She/her. Own views.
Claire Titley @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social Archivist. Shropshire lass in Leytonstone. Interests include London history, books, hills, art, architecture. 🐈⬛ 🇵🇸
Pamela Devine @pdevinee.bsky.social Visitor guide/historian at the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon. Available for talks on the Chapel's history, its medieval wall paintings & historic graffiti. Book: Writing on Shakespeare's Walls https://www.youcaxton.co.uk/writing-on-shakespeares-walls/
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry.
Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism.
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional 💜🤍💚
Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist.
She/her.
Sarah Deaves @sarahdeaves.bsky.social Bewildered widow. Ageing pop kid. Sci fi fan. Chippy lefty. Lazy birder. Liverpool FC. JFT97. http://macsandthemardi.co.uk Aortic dissection fundraising https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/paulhughesllanidloes
@panels10.bsky.social @panels10.bsky.social Panel basher and part time model maker
Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social Songs, book chapters, and journalistic pieces. Nature, 2nd-generation Irishness, melancholy & joy! Survived the great All About Eve miming disaster.
David Seed @davidseed.bsky.social Artist, West Countryman, leftie, ex-social-worker, sometimes sweary. Cap'n Haddock's older brother. He/him. ASD.
Click the bell icon to get notified of posts!
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www.davidseedfineart.co.uk
Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social Trying to find traces of WW2 in Berlin and other places but also interested in other historical remnants. The long-term goal is to the read my city like a book.
Usually my own photos.
Also into genealogy.
Michael Day @bindonlane.bsky.social Change ringer. I will mostly post about work (digital preservation, libraries) and on occasion about bellringing, the First World War, the city of Bath, and other topics
Alun Lewis @alunlewis.bsky.social PhD Researcher UK Central government
Helen Price @helenpprice.bsky.social Professor of Parasitology, Research Director at Keele University, UK. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), stigma, NTDs. Co-lead of ECLIPSE. President of British Soc Parasitology. (she/her). Views my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-4390
Jess @partmermaid.bsky.social @Part_Mermaid in the bad place - love dogs, sunshine, the outside.
Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social Award-winning active travel campaigner
Stockport and Manchester
JazHowe1968 @jazhowe1968.bsky.social Leftist. Wednesday fan. Northerner.
Oh and fuck the fash- sometimes antisocial, always antifascist... #NoPasaran
"We carry a new world, here in our hearts"..Durruti
Beatles, Pink Floyd, Flaming Lips,John Steinbeck,Akira Kurosawa, Studio Ghibli,Dredd
Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social Writer. Relatively chirpy. Stockwell Park Orchestra series, and sometimes poetry.
isabelrogers619 on instagram
https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series
isabelrogers.org
Greg Shaw @zenmousegreg.bsky.social (he/him) Physicist, software engineer, atheist, vegan, Zen practitioner, prog/dub/metal/punk/silence type. Englishman, pro-EU (UK needs to Rejoin ASAP). Oh, and cats. Definitely cats.
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
Red Dog @red-dog.xyz Professional curmudgeon, lover of film, music, comics, politics, books, RPGs and just about everything else.
He/him
A website, of sorts: https://www.red-dog.xyz/
yesandMissHavthisham @steenyswank.bsky.social Movie collector for ~39 yrs: Pre-Code love. Dead--but I'm not dead yet--language familiarity. Demi-horticulturalist. Car-free commuting since 1977; internal combustion is loud. Forever masker. Will write Alt Text for food.
Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social gardener, amateur naturalist. neurobiologist. mennonite.
Views my own. All photos mine. May include predator-prey interactions, spiders, and snakes.
https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com
Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social Eingebürgerte Scottish lass in Germany. Writing. Translating. Riesling. Not all at the same time.
Maddy Goodall @madeleineog.bsky.social heritage.humanists.uk
XeaglepissX @xeaglepissx.bsky.social Music
Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social That dude from that place. Posts about Games, Movies and general Bullshit.
Stray cat wrangler and bunker aficionado.
Other places:
Masto: @Hippyadam@mastodon.social
XBL: hippyadam_uk
PSN: hippyadam
Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social Artist & purveyor of obsessive projects. Scots bi feminist with MECFS. Had arse cancer, it was tedious but it's fixed now. Cis/her. No terfs or fash. Insta: kirstyhallartist/
Eloi Taste Tester @aylwin.bsky.social Aspiring dosser / emerging Art abolitionist / Corieltauvi separatist
He/Him
Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social 2 hypooneiric 2 curiolatrous
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
R Grahn @spruce65.bsky.social Humanist who likes science, cacti, music, books, ocean, birds and pickles.
Lurker.🇸🇪🇦🇺🏴☠️🖤
Linda @lindawhisky.bsky.social Interests include art,gardens/gardening,medicine,science,history and general ’stuff’.
Jac Magpie @thehawthornpath.bsky.social You may remember me from that other place as lapetitepie. You may not remember me at all. I am, for the most part, looking for something I have just mislaid.
Another Disappointing Day in The Obituaries @deadlyvices.bsky.social Nottingham-based Old Welsh Git. Big & Ugly. Chemistry Ph.D. I like science, history, politics, growing things, good reading, classical music and ducks. And food. And beer.
Maitre D' at the Ratio Café.
Repost != endorsement
https://www.chem4word.co.uk/
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social Independent scholar: research interests in hermeneutics, textual criticism, and the classical tradition; aurum in stercore
(I don't use Chat)
Stephanie Kolonko-Weet @stephkolonkoweet.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian
Typesetter - The Prehistoric Society's PAST
RQG | IHGS
Married to @ckolonko.bsky.social
Likes cats, vintage, A24 horror, coffee
Norfolk, UK | She/Her | 🏳️🌈
https://stephaniekolonkoweet.substack.com
Justine Harvey @justineharvey.bsky.social Music, books, cinema, theatre and outdoor swimming
Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc New Yorker by habit and practice, Minneapolitan by the grace of G-d. used to do weird theatre, now mainly ornitherapy in the North Woods. ex-ev, post-media, ad operator operating correctly. he/him/his. Trans folx are folx.
Ian Cox @chevington.bsky.social Lover of good things to eat and drink, good company, old things, good manners. Despiser of emails.
🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social Aka Ruth Blackett. Aka, far too many internet pseudonyms. Aka onions.
I want to see your unusual postboxes.
Birdfeed @birdfeed1.bsky.social Potato, wine, and book lover. Trying to tread softly.
Chris Ponting @chrisponting.bsky.social Swansea born, Gloucestershire bred. Cheese, beer, tripe.
The world leading authority on Mr Arthur Hirst.
If you’re looking for Professor Chris Ponting of the University of Edinburgh, you’ll find him at @cgatist.bsky.social
Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
Christine, making stuff… @christine-1953.bsky.social Old Crone, Remainer, Lefty, Hate Trump. Love books, old stuff, sowing seeds, textiles, and dogs, obviously. Learning to paint. Trying not to eat crisps…
She - her
@pouduciel.bsky.social @pouduciel.bsky.social Recovering bass player, historian of C19 Military weapons and enthusiastic haunter of archives.
Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social Lapsed historian, having the best mid-life crisis. Personal account: all the stupid opinions expressed are entirely my own, and nobody else's. he/him
Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social I'll see you, maybe, on Judgment Day
After midnight, if you still wanna meet
I'll be at the Blackhorse Tavern on Armageddon Street
- from 'My own version of you' (Bob Dylan)
Cymru 🏴
Snickerless @snickerless.bsky.social Alumna of Uni of Portsmouth, MSc Criminology & Criminal Psychology. Fan of F1 and NCFC. Book lover, runner and artistic roller skater. Blood runs blue.
Jenny Collins @radioheadjen.bsky.social Norwich City, Haringey Borough, England cricket, gardening, singing, film especially horror, poetry, history. Wife and mother, blessed to still be a daughter. Charity data gal. Old school lefty and feminist.
Sugar Thief @sugar-thief.bsky.social Hawaiian by birth, Californian by choice. Flowering Cactus Farmer. 2013 April Fools Day TPIR Showcase Showdown winner. Ringer of the NASDAQ closing bell
GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social Yes, yes, I know, amusing/informative description goes here, I'll get round to it at some point.
#PostSlopGetABlock