Michael Taggart
Wallfacer, Swordholder, and Humanity’s Final Gravekeeper. Seriously though, I half-own and fully manage MDTea, the Brighton-based purveyor of fine teas (www.mdteashop.co.uk).
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Tune into the mutter in the gutter from the nodes of news you need to know in Britain’s finest city. (NOTE: excludes football-related accounts. Soccerball deserves its own starter pack)
@stuffer.bsky.social
High functioning introvert. Author of The Financial Wellbeing Book, The Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellbeing, and founder of the Institute for Financial Wellbeing. Plus 3 novels (so far). Lover of music, cricket, and joyful things
@madelainehanson.bsky.social
Aspiring dictator and monarch. The greatest artist, writer, and composer in a 10m radius. #SlavaUkraini
@richardlittler.bsky.social
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system. https://www.richardlittler.com
@nevillehobson.xyz
Strategic Adviser on AI & Communication | Writer & Podcaster | Social web: @neville@nevillehobson.io | Work: virtual, hybrid | Life: Somerset, UK | Connections: https://linktr.ee/nevillehobson
@eatmyseagull.bsky.social
#BHAFC for over 40 years, husband for 30 years, father of three boys, love #travel, #sport, #history, #books, #pets, #beer and #wine, and also wine, and of course wine, and did I mention wine? Am @FitzySeagull on X but someone's nabbed that on here 😂
@jimconnolly.com
creative · problem solver · 🇬🇧 and 🇮🇪 citizen · londoner · arsenal · sober since 1986 · christian · type 2 diabetic https://jimconnolly.com
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social
New York Times opinion columnist; MSNBC contributor; author.
@jase120.bsky.social
Connected to my acting, faith, yoga, ale & other communities in Brighton, UK
@fadahjassem.bsky.social
Head of Data Visualisation @TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi #Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists) (Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
@ramijarrah.bsky.social
Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
@acarv.in
Former managing editor and director of research, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, occasional conlanger, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
@ayoub.bsky.social
I do @thefirethesetimes.com + co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com +Editor shado-mag.com + affiliate fellow @post-growth.bsky.social + Newsletter @ Hauntologies.net + @syriapodcast.bsky.social @thestartrekpod.bsky.social From 🇱🇧🇵🇸 in 🇬🇧
@thomasvlinge.bsky.social
Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
@hhassan.bsky.social
Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
@idreesahmad.bsky.social
Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
@marklittle.bsky.social
Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
@janinedigi.bsky.social
Executive Director /CEO The Reckoning Project, war crimes unit in Ukraine, soon Middle East and Africa. Academic @Yale; war reporter of three decades and 18 wars; Guggenheim Fellow; CFR Murrow Fellow; nine books. Mother and Human Rights Defender. Paris.
@leilashami.bsky.social
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War' Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social & co-host @thefirethesetimes.com Member @thepeopleswant.bsky.social Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
@maitelsadany.bsky.social
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
@rashaaqeedi.bsky.social
Storyteller and occasional provocateur Mesopotamian from Mosul,Ninewa Other interests include: Art, Culture, Pop Culture, Kale Smoothies, and Seneca 105K followers on X and heartbroken
@amermatar.bsky.social
Syrian journalist, filmmaker, director of the ISIS Prisons Museum @alshare media foundation. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018). https://isisprisons.museum
@faredalmahlool.bsky.social
Freelance Syrian conflict reporter and researcher, bomb survivor, covering the ongoing crisis in Syria. Previous research assistant @columbia. Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
@ajaltamimi.bsky.social
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
@azelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com
@joannestocker.bsky.social
Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense.
@rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social
Global Security Editor for ITV News. Before that, UK Editor for ITV News, and before that, Africa Correspondent for ITV News and NBC News. RohitKachrooITV@protonmail.com IG + X: @rohitkachrooitv
@qusaynoor.net
❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) ) 📸
@aronlund.bsky.social
Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
@kshaheen.bsky.social
Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
@sakhr.co.uk
🎥Executive Producer @ajplus.net 🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011 🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni ✍️ Social justice | Arab World
@rawya.bsky.social
Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
@rawanssa18.bsky.social
Human rights and tech @Amnesty| Ex @UN @TheSentry_Org @Bellingcat | Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen | Open-source and IHL/Human Rights | views my own
@maherakraa.bsky.social
A narrative may color reality, but truth is colorless. Design Researcher & Journalist | PhD Student at University of Zurich | Research Associate at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).
@carolinefiennes.bsky.social
Director of Giving Evidence: helping donors make decisions based on sound evidence. (www.giving-evidence.com) "Charmingly disruptive" - Nobel laureate Richard Thaler. U.Cambridge visiting fellow. Former FT columnist. Irrationally exuberant. Church nerd.
@emilyrrogers.bsky.social
Kent based PR, specialising in financial services, legal and reputation management.
@secretsandspies.bsky.social
A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
@robshore.bsky.social
Charlton Athletic and Baltimore Ravens obsessed, not too bad at FPL and fantasy football sometimes. Data lead for Bradford’s HDRC: interested in data science, wider health inequalities & how we communicate findings for the public & tackle misinformation
@gonuj.org
The NUJ chapel for the Guardian and the Observer. Thank you for your support. Please follow and share 🙏 https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/guardian-observer-journalists-strike-nuj-hardship-fund.html Also on: X | Instagram | Facebook | Threads
@valko665.bsky.social
Supporting Ukraine & Israel 🇮🇱 Love my dogs,motorcycling,Scotland🏴, EU federation saboteur, atheist, love prog.values & Blair, #NAFO #FBPE #NHSLove #RejoinEU
@jowolff.bsky.social
Jonathan Wolff, Political Philosopher. Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford Wolfson College President The Royal Institute of Philosophy THFC supporter in 'only talk to me about the Europa League’ mode #academic
@cathhaddon.bsky.social
Programme Director for IFG Academy @instituteforgov.bsky.social + history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J
@lemoustier.bsky.social
Archaeologist, word-witcher 📚 author of KINDRED (PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize 2021). Science consultant. Current 🖋️: MATRIARCHA: PREHISTORY RE-IMAGINED. 🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool 1/4 @Trowelblazers.bsky.social Rep: PEW Literary
@robertsaunders.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
@miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Peckham Minister for Energy Consumers Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.