Geoff Batten @planetgb.bsky.social
Simon Rudd @paintingsbysimon.bsky.social Artist, seller of prints and stuff, Mexican wrestler, voted the best telenovela star of 1886, beard wearer, Angel fish groomer, space hopper tester, Miss America 1978, Second man to walk on the sun, Stunt double for Kermit the Frog, Coffee drinker...!
Steef @steefdeprouw.bsky.social The Hague. Interests: photography, art, cycling, train travel, music (\m/), online accessibility, languages, shenanigans
All pics by me, unless stated differently. Posts in English/Dutch.
Mediocre on another forum. So wow that's a neato what now right!
TECHknitter @techknitter.bsky.social TECH-niques to turn HOME MADE knitting into HANDMADE knitting
(+ sporadic forays into politics)
TECHknitting.com Written by a human since 2006
Access how-to index at https://techknitter.blogspot.com/2010/04/revised-unified-index-for.html
Carol Feller @stolenstitches.bsky.social CEO, Founder, & Knitwear Designer at Stolen Stitches.
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📌 Cork, Ireland
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Making Trouble Podcast @mollynaylor.bsky.social The creativity podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Hosted by Molly Naylor. New episodes every Monday.
Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering🏆
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social
Lucy Porter @lucyportercomic.bsky.social
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Suzie Edge @suzieedge.bsky.social Medical doctor turned writer. Gory tales of human bodies in history and dead king juice.
Books, TikToks, photographs and films.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
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Standard Issue @standardissueuk.bsky.social A podcast by women. For women. About everything.
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Caimh/CK McDonnell @caimhmc.bsky.social Author Caimh/CK McDonnell's page, home to The Dublin Trilogy, McGarry Stateside & The Stranger Times
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants contact@themasonsisters.com
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
He/Him
https://www.markthomasinfo.co.uk
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
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
Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social animator of weird stuff.
If you need to contact me directly here's my email:
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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social Audio/Video collagists. We made that Alan Sugar mash-up, and that Boris Johnson one, and that other Boris Johnson one
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk I'd offer you a beer but I've only got the six.
All manner of retro pop culture references to baffle anyone under 40 and occasional rants.
May make uninformed comments about the football.
#totp #coys
Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social Illustrations and genuine replies from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1899. (‘Girls’ at the time meant roughly age 15 to 29 years). Working back to the 33,000 followers I had in the other place! Caption contest every Sunday at 18:00 GMT
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
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Angela Barnes @angelabarnes.bsky.social "Comedian"
Mock The Week, QI, Live at The Apollo, HIGNFY
Host of The Archers Live at 75 tour - https://www.fane.co.uk/the-archers
Cold War and Mid Century Modernist nerd.
The Archers obsessive
Prone to inexpert F1 ramblings.
Swims. Naps. Bunkers.
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social I knit tiny nonsense.
There's also likely to be a fair bit of swearing.
Franklin Habit @franklinhabit.bsky.social Author, illustrator, photographer, designer, knitter. American in Paris. Textiles fanatic. Host of patreon.com/franklinhabit. Student of Latin, Roman history nut. Devoted fan of The Archers.
Xandy Peters @xandypeters.bsky.social Knitwear designer / stitch innovator
🧶Sieze the means of production, learn to knit.🧶
Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social Folklore, history, textiles ancient and modern, archaeology, nature, spinning and knitting teacher, dyer. Pretty keen on breadmaking too.
Yorkshire, UK.
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
Woolly Wormhead @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶 award winning knit Hat designer, tutor & author
⚙️ special interests: technique & construction
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Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates
Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social Illustrator, Trouble Maker and Teller of Tall Tales.
Website: https://collectedcurios.com/
Support via Patreon:
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DevArt Gallery:
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Sofie Hagen @sofiehagen.bsky.social Comedian. Author. Podcaster.
sofiehagen.com/newsletter for hot goss straight to your inbox.
Simon Britton MA @simonbritton.bsky.social Sculptor, illustrator, graphic designer. MA (Distinction) in Art & Design from BCU Birmingham School of Art (2021). Trainee PGCE+QTS Secondary Art & Design, University of Worcester 20224/25. Happy to be part of the X-odus. An AI-free zone.
Agamemnon When @agamemnonwhen.bsky.social Artist, MC, compere, first generation Steampunk, sci-fi nerd, avid reader, fencer, and lover of things. He/him.
Richard Whyley (DJ Rich) @richard-whyley.bsky.social
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social comics about tiny animals and political justice - polisci phd candidate @UCDavis - @BrennanCenter alum - rat verified - watching too much tv (he/him/his)
https://www.patreon.com/TinySnekComics
https://twitter.com/tinysnekcomics
Sam Crawshaw @samcraw.bsky.social
Randy Rainbow @randyrainbow.bsky.social 4X EMMY® and GRAMMY®-nominated comedian, actor, singer, producer, NYT Bestselling author. TeamRainbow@wmeagency.com
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
HappyToast.co.uk
patreon.com/HappyToast
redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/explore
https://ko-fi.com/happytoast
Trevor Ship @trevypoos.bsky.social I am a person who sometimes writes, performs and makes comedy stuff.
I am either very close, or very tall.
I am neurodivergent with anxiety, depression and ADHD.
Excelling at mediocrity
https://trevorship.co.uk
Carl @badmungo.bsky.social The tidiest hobo ever.
Not sure what this is, but it looks familiar....
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Rebecca Fryer @beowyn.bsky.social Socialist Busdriver from Sheffield. I love moon Photography, Arts & Crafts
Gill @gill01.bsky.social Always left. Then a bit further left.
Enjoys history, books, cats, food, gardening and chickens.
Blackpool Grand Theatre Official @grandtheatrebpl.bsky.social Blackpool Grand Theatre’s official page. #Blackpool No.1 #Pantomime Venue! #theatre #arts #culture #entertainment www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Aston University 🧠 ; UKRN Local Network Lead 📊; AE of #RegisteredReports for PCI & Addiction Research & Theory 👩🔬. Author of: "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology".
Pauly & Nukhas @handle.invalid 🧑💻Full Stack dev ✌️Liberal 🤞Optimistic 🖖Geek 📝Dyslexic Wordsmith 🐶#BFF w/my Nukhas 💚 Mellenial Hippy 🧠 Mental Health & 🍂🇬🇧 uk 420 advocate
Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social Latest special Late Bloomer is on Netflix (not UK & IRE) & Channel4.com (UK & IRE) now.
Also part of the Standard Issue podcast team
Replies ending TSM are by my team.
https://linktr.ee/thesarahmillican
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Evelyn Murray @evelynmurray.bsky.social PhD candidate at Aston University researching social media use styles and the effects on wellbeing.
Loves coffee, crochet and puzzles
She/Her
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Martin Edwards @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social Crime novelist and book hunter, fascinated by detective fiction's heritage as well as its present and future. Latest novel, Hemlock Bay. Diamond Dagger, two Edgar awards, President and archivist of the Detection Club. Do You Write Under Your Own Name? blog
Janice Hallett @janicehallett.bsky.social Bestselling author of The Appeal, The Christmas Appeal, The Twyford Code, The Mysterious Case of The Alperton Angels, The Examiner and The Killer Question 🍻
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent
From Glasgow.
More here: abirmukherjee.com
and here: https://www.amazon.com/author/abirmukherjee
Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter
Find me at ruthware.com
Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Crime-writer
Caroline Crampton @cacrampton.bsky.social I write books — The Way to the Sea (2019) and A Body Made of Glass (2024) — and I make the Shedunnit podcast. I'm not on this app much, though, I'm mostly on my blog/newsletter at carolinecrampton.com/blog
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Taraaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh Zombies @theblueststar.bsky.social She/Her
Award Losing Radio Presenter.
Same size hands as Joe Pesci.
Bisexual. Trans Rights are Human Rights.
Leslie Grantham blocked me on The Bad Place and now he's dead.
#PUSB
Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social Novelist, playwright, webmonkey, T1 diabetic. Fiction represented by David Grossman Literary Agency.
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
the cinemile @thecinemile.bsky.social 🍿we record our walk home from the movies
📺 TV talk usually on Patreon
🥇British, Irish, and Independent Podcast Award winners
The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social Podcast of adventures in language with @helenzaltzman. theallusionist.org patreon.com/allusionist