Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online "Meaningless to heaven, and of no interest to hell." | literary translator | feral philosopher | becoming inimical | Fulbright Scholar ๐ต๐ฑ | FLAS Fellow ๐บ๐ฆ | BDS | LGBTQIA+- P Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social Giving this another try...
Teaching at the University of Stirling.
Stuff at https://crowdedmouth.com/ and https://abolitionscifi.org/
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social PhD at Cambridge University on 'Outsider music,โ listening, intimacy across time & radical creativity - convenor of Ambivalent Archives - queer utopian & abolitionist always ๐ต๐ธ
They/them
Jimena Gorrรกez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social Publicist, Daunt Books Publishing
Sophie Fennelly @sophiefennelly.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of Leeds exploring literary representations Black British mental health under Hostile Environment. I also talk about chronic illness and disability. She/Her
paula is finally here @pllcy.bsky.social digital sociology, critical tech & virality studies
london/cambridge
Sandy @sandyd68.bsky.social Pro abortion
Trans rights are human rights
No borders
Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social Newcastle's occasional night of books, politics and culture
digging countercultural modernism from its grave and watching it punch a police horse in the face outside St James' Park
on Insta as @lortburnspecials, on the fash site as @LortBurns
Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social ECR, Visiting Scholar at Uni of Leeds. Feminism, modern & contemporary lit, affect, activism in literature, env hums, med hums, place writing, transnationalism. She/her
Rachael Gilmour @rachaelgilmour.bsky.social Professor of English at QMUL. Literature, language politics, and social justice.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/gilmourr.html 
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Martin Reed @iammartinreed.bsky.social Plant-based, leftist, cyclist, northernist writer. Angel Caging (2017). What You Do With The Trees (20??). Troll muter. Views mine. He / him.
Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Clare Fisher @claresitafisher.bsky.social *Writer of novels, short stories, & creative nonfiction ๐
*Creative Writing Lecturer, University of Sheffield
*Rep. Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary
* https://clarefisherwriter.com/
*They/she ๐
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
Get music recommendations and ponderings in your inbox ๐จ drownedinsound.org ๐ฆ follow @drownedinsound.org
Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad, gardener
Maya Caspari @mayacaspari.bsky.social Ideally writing or napping. Lecturer @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, working on memory, touch & ethics/politics of representation in contemporary writing, among other things. Sometimes poet. Based in London/York. Here v sporadically. www.mayacaspari.com
Lucy Rebecca Cannon @queerarchivist.bsky.social Marxist feminist, ESRC PhD on women, social reproduction and the aids crisis at Warwick university. Fan of my 3 cats, Austen & pistachio
Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
ellencph.co.uk
Susanne Ferwerda @susanneferwerda.bsky.social Assistant Prof Comp Lit, Utrecht University. Researching anti-colonial oceanic imaginaries and the blue/environmental humanities. Dutch, queer & feminist. She/they.
Ramzy Alwakeel @journoramzy.bsky.social Deputy editor (news and investigations), @hyphenonline.com. How We Used Saint Etienne to Live out now. Propaganda account for pop music, social housing and local news. He/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
nathan ma @nthnm.bsky.social Senior lecturer and design critic in Berlin: FT, Dwell, Kinfolk, and all the rest
Diyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social work in progressive comms, occasional journalist and writer ๐ฟ
hothouse bookclub co-organiser
email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com
website: diyorashadijanova.xyz
she/they
Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
www.ryanvance.co.uk
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
She/her
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social ๐ GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
โฆ good books โฆ murder โฆ swearing โฆ
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) ๐ต๐ธacademic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Oisรญn McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author โ mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Pratyusha (she/her) @pairedaeza.bsky.social writer, poet, reader ๐ฟ southbank new poets collective / ledbury critic ๐ชป ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ pratyusha.co.uk
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Azad Ashim Sharma @azad-ashim.bsky.social Writerly Poet and Director of @the87press.bsky.social.
Based in SW London. Free Palestine.
Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social Poet, Essayist, Ungovernable.
She/Her/Hers.
Xie Jinhao @xiejinhao.bsky.social found in poetry 
Memoona Zahid @memoonawrites.bsky.social poet ; ledbury critic ; ma in poetry from uea ; goldsmiths grad ; london ; free palestine
https://msha.ke/memoonazahid- S Dr Safiya Kamaria Whitaker @safiyawhitaker.bsky.social Dr Safiya Whitaker | Cultural Studies Scholar | Ethnochoreologist | Choreopoet & Author
lkiew.bsky.social @lkiew.bsky.social Poet, accountant, dancer. Debut collection MORE THAN WEEDS out with Nine Arches Press. https://linktr.ee/lkiew
Courtney Conrad @courtneyconrad.bsky.social ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ง Poet| Cave Canem Fellow| Book'I Am Evidence' @BloodaxeBooks|2022 Eric Gregory Award @Soc_of_Authors |2023 Michael Marks Award| Instagram - @courtneyconradpoetry
Website: http://www.courtneyconradpoet.com/
Pascale Petit ๐ฟ๐
๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฆ @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),โTiger Girlโ shortlisted Forward Prize, โMama Amazonicaโ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel โMy Hummingbird Fatherโ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Essays. Nature geek & speaker addict. Author Top Doll 2024. TS Eliot Prize Shortlist. Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA. FRSL. Teaches at Goldsmiths. Faber Academy. ๐ถ๐ฟ๏ธ ๐ช
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Devjani Bodepudi @dbodepudi.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
@dzifabenson.bsky.social @dzifabenson.bsky.social 
Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Poet and Author
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Dreamer. Racial Equity at Corra. Communities. Chai for the win.
Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social Anthropologist of care ๐ธ
MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
https://linktr.ee/QManivannan
Hannah Lavery @hannahlavery.bsky.social Poet. Playwright. Performer. Director. Dancing in my kitchen. hannahlavery.com
Msiagirl @msiagirl.bsky.social Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
Asim @asimk.bsky.social poetry / ecology 
Rushika Wick @rushikawick.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Books - Afterlife as Trash (Verve 2021) Highly Commended in Forward prizes, Horse (Broken Sleep 2024).
Hanan Issa @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social National Poet of Wales @litwales ๐ ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.comโจI donโt read work-related DMโsโจ All views my own. Repโd by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ author and activist in ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books
(he/they)
๐๐๐
https://tgraywrites.carrd.co/
Harry ๐ @harryedmundson.bsky.social queer muppet. books, music, pop culture ๐ค
marketing and publicity @ flying eye books !!
ma contemporary lit, culture, + theory grad ๐๐ต๐ธ
he/him. views own.
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
The Cigaverse @thecigaverse.swifties.social Reliable news source
Main: @cigs.blue
JL George @jlgeorge.bsky.social Author of THE WORD and various other things. She/they | hi/nhw. http://www.jl-george.com
http://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-word
Guy Gunaratne @guygunaratne.bsky.social writer & other things, author of In Our Mad and Furious City and Mister, Mister
editor @jhalakreview.bsky.social
Natasha Brown @natashabrown54.bsky.social Managing Editor | she/her | opinions very much my own . . .
Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian , writer etc โ but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
๐๏ธ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
โ๏ธ http://hauntologies.net
Peter Scalpello @pscalpello.bsky.social Mirrorstage // Limbic @cipherpress.bsky.social
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social The Original (2025). Briefly, a Delicious Life.
nellstevens.com
Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social Developing 'gloriously unearthly' anticapitalist RPG @allwillrise.bsky.social. Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Games, mystery, transformative politics. Singer @terzijdehorde.bsky.social & @sunlightaltar.bsky.social
Vivid Void @vividvoid.bsky.social I believe in everything. Nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing. Everything is sacred. 
Tyler Alterman @tyleralterman.bsky.social Venture culturalist (Connecting ideas & people in the name of truth beauty goodness & clowning). Substack: lalachimera.com. Campus: fractalnyc.com
Rosa Lewis @rosaclewis.bsky.social Being Buddha Nature | rosalewis.co.uk | Founder of imaginaljourneying.com | Posts attributed to the Universe ๐
River Kenna @riverkenna.com All I want is a simple life of love & valor โข
& to be a renowned scholar-poet of mythodynamics โข
Who is wealthy โข
& jacked โข
Like a hot Jung โข
http://RiverKenna.com
Cassie Robinson @cassierobinson.bsky.social www.cassierobinson.work
๐ณWealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition.
๐ฎErotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
Keri Facer @kerifacer.bsky.social Futures, Time, Sustainability, Stories, Transitions
Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Urban Futures Studio, Utrecht University | Artistic & political ways of transforming collective imagination | Musician | Blogger @ Utopian Pulses โ experiments in social dreaming
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts โฆฟ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk โฆฟ Designโธปimaginationโธปclimateโธปfutures โฆฟ http://imaginari.es โฆฟ he/him โฆฟ Not employer's views
Elena Lake ๐ฟ is in the forest of dangers and wonders @relicradiation.bsky.social โงยท๏พ: *massage therapist & forest spirit *:ยท๏พโง โก emotional health collab @JamesMayfield_ โก past: ML @meta, math/physics/CS @MIT โก via: dance, ritual,loving touch
Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social Distinguished professor of Urban Futures & Futuring at Urban Futures Studio and Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University. Latest book: โCaptured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politicsโ, written together with Jeroen Oomen, Oxford UP.
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL๐ฅWILL๐ฅRISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics ๐+๐น liberation
Stephen Duncombe @stephenduncombe.bsky.social 
roy bendor @roybendor.bsky.social I study how design can open up alternative socio-ecological possibilities. I like music. And hockey.
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Associate Professor of Critical Design, and Director of Design for Interaction masters programme at Delft University of Technology, NL
Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social South African sustainability scientist. Prof in Sustainability Transformations and Futures at Global Change Institute, Wits University and researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre. IPBES expert, Earth Commissioner and general academic traveller
Vince Fakhoury Horn @vincehorn.space Co-founder BuddhistGeeks.org and PragmaticDharma.com // Palestinian-American // Unfollow for less reality
๐ vincehorn.space ๐Swannanoa, NC, USA
Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social Philosopher, writer.
Marijam Didลพgalvytฤ @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic โ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis ๐ธ๐ด
marijamdid.com
Karsten Schulz @kas.eurosky.social Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation @ University of Groningen | Climate Governance | Sustainability & Digital Innovation | Energy Transition | Geopolitics
I have a background in Geography and Political Science
Maria Ferentinou (she/they) @mariafere.bsky.social Yet another communications person๐โโ๏ธ | EU Project Manager | Food systems, Bioeconomy, and Sustainable Manufacturing | Art, nature, movement and finding wonder in the most mundane things | Diary of my Brussels life ๐ง๐ชโจ๏ธ
Jan Kuiper @janjkuiper.bsky.social Sustainability researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre. 
Grace (okanaga) @okanaga.bsky.social ๐งโโ๏ธCurious human
Design Futurist & Researcher
โจ Experiential and Participatory Futures
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซ Design Futures @iberodiseno & @iberocentrus
Co-founder @futuresspace
https://linktr.ee/okanaga
Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social Author of Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene (Bloomsbury). Working in design & energy & ecological transitions. Canadian in the UK. Speak up against genocide and white supremacy while you can. https://ecolabsblog.com
Dr. Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @jesswestbrook.bsky.social ๐ฆจ~ postnormal social research > data-driven speculation > critical design > liberatory tech / Founder Queering Futures Research Studio + Identity Research Lab / prior Channel TWo [CH2] new media art&design / tenured prof / MFA+PHD / T1D cyborg / #Chicago
Jane Ng @janeng.com Director of Doing Nothing. Used to build game worlds and now builds studios. Prev: Ops @ Gardens, Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
๐ฑ http://www.janeng.com
Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com.
Project Lead: https://10fconsortium.org
Author: โHow to Futureโ (2020) and โFuture Culturesโ (2023)
Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com