Alex von Tunzelmann
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
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The Last Year On Bluesky
People who have made me laugh and/or think, and set the tone here
@matthewhodson.bsky.social
Shamelessly HIV+. Former CEO of aidsmap and Gay Men Fighting AIDS. Now speaking, writing, acting etc. These opinions, selfies and choices are mine but you’re welcome to them. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🌱
@minooframroze.bsky.social
Author, ‘Outlandish Knight’ & ‘Friends in Youth’. 1066-1746 hist (,) lit & lit hist w/ few forays into ancient world & 20th c writing. Recovering Jacobite, unreconciled Roryite
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement. https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@sjjphd.bsky.social
I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@jkaconductor.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
@libbybrooks.bsky.social
Guardian Scotland correspondent contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
@jreland.bsky.social
Research Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe. Looking at UK-EU relations, regulatory divergence and European politics.
@charlestallack.bsky.social
Director of Research & Analysis @HealthFdn. Ex-Whitehall civil servant & NHS England. Love ideas, numbers, analysis, evidence, debate and challenge. Views my own.
@archiehall.bsky.social
Writing for The Economist — mostly on the British economy with occasional forays elsewhere. Previous lives in macro investing and polling. Substack at: https://notes.archie-hall.com/
@kirstysedgman.bsky.social
Doctor of Audiences 🎭 🎥 📚 Author of #OnBeingUnreasonable with @FaberBooks: http://bit.ly/unrea. Agent JP Marshall, she/her, opinions: model’s own
@hexadecibelle.bsky.social
"…a mirror, reflecting life's vicissitudes, vagaries, ritual magic, and dreary reality." high value transsexual, annoying electronic music enjoyer, horror nerd, recovering goth, queer coder, lefty af, milf?, dollpunk, ♀ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 mystique was right 💯
@emilyoram.bsky.social
Fat middle aged bisexual, but good 🩷💜💙 Now get your fucking ass up and bring me back a wee surprise from the shop. ⚽️🔴⚪️🏳️🌈ENM
@tukohbin.bsky.social
Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London doing cosmology, gravity, astrophysics and string theory. GRTL Collaboration (www.grtlcollaboration.org). Views my own. Penang-lang. YNWA. https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/eugene.lim
@willjennings.bsky.social
Writer, artist, editor, curator Editor: recessed.space Director: Hypha Studios Teaching: UCL Bartlett & University of Greenwich Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when as a freelancer I am my employer
@captainlibatron.bsky.social
Ex parliament now runs a bar by the sea. Birder, gayer, occasional banjo player. Whitstable. Bird pics on insta same handle. she/sir LwiththeT
@ruthholliday.bsky.social
Professor of Gender and Culture. Interested in taste, bodies, intimacies, low-fertility cultures and East-Asia. #MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please
@michaelsavage.bsky.social
Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇 Michael.savage@theguardian.com
@shaunwalker7.bsky.social
Correspondent focusing on Central and Eastern Europe for The Guardian shaun.walker@theguardian.com
@damonyoung.com.au
Philosopher & author. Coming in 2025 with Scribe: IMMORTAL GESTURES. March (UK), April (AU), May (US). Representation: Zeitgeist & Alex Adsett. www.damonyoung.com.au
@cathyotten.bsky.social
Journalist, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at Rutgers. Director of the Journalism Initiative on Gender Peace and Security. Author 'With Ash on Their Faces' (OR 2017). Writing a new book. Mancunian.
@palvashay.bsky.social
full-time wastrel; part-time writer. words in Fence, Barrelhouse, MinorLits, QueenMobs, The Aleph Review, DAWN, Hybrid. you can find my fiction here ↓ https://linktr.ee/palvashay?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=50525991-8c9c-400c-87b5-e3d2dd3990
@henryjfoy.ft.com
Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times. Past lives in Moscow, Warsaw, London, Delhi and Mumbai. Get in touch henry.foy@ft.com https://www.ft.com/henry-foy
@andybounds.bsky.social
EU correspondent getting trade, Brexit and European politics done. Also Netherlands correspondent.
@bychrisbrennan.bsky.social
USA Today columnist writing about people, power and politics. Tell me a story: cbrennan@gannett.com. https://www.usatoday.com/staff/72269205007/chris-brennan/
@drfergusedwards.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
@hannahstrong.co.uk
digital editor @ Little White Lies magazine, future corpse. extremely online and incredibly anxious. wrote SOFIA COPPOLA: FOREVER YOUNG, COLORS OF WES ANDERSON oct 2025. YORGOS LANTHIMOS: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS due 2026. 🤠 https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@m-b-petersen.bsky.social
Auditing the challenges of democracy in the 21st century for the Danish parliament with a particular focus on social media, mistrust and political alienation. Political science professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
@nathantankus.bsky.social
President of Notes on the Crises Inc. (crisesnotes.com) Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books email: crisesnotes(at)gmail(dot)com Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting, not reader speculation) https://linktr.ee/crisesnotes
@devrimyavuz.bsky.social
Sociologist @CUNY @ Lehman College, author of Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey, currently spending savings from quitting smoking on records, films and olive oil
@lizzicollinge.bsky.social
Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
@leonardocarella.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College (University of Oxford). Former minor twitter celebrity/hate figure. https://www.leonardocarella.com/
@natashawalter.bsky.social
Writer, feminist, climate campaigner Books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life, The New Feminism Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL Founder Women for Refugee Women Currently working on book on feminism & climate for Virago
@adambonica.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | Pro-democracy
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast / i am probably not asking for cooking advice
@ddayen.bsky.social
Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
@katyphipps.bsky.social
Historian of sexuality and French colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol. Always nosy.
@hunterston.bsky.social
Made in Scotland. Retired film & TV props master, amateur musician, and old CPGB Marxist still getting off on art, music, politics, and utopian imagining.
@jbprestel.bsky.social
Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current project: Palestinians and the Radical Left in West Germany, 1956-1982
@orbette.bsky.social
SHE'S HERE, SHE'S THERE, SHE'S EVERY-FKN-WHERE, ORBETTTEEE, ORBETTTEEEE #UTV #TheHorrorsPersist #sheffield 🐾🐾