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B3ta.com starter pack
B3tans posting freely on this app, that is people who are regular b3tans now, or the diaspora who used to post in the past.
@simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […] [bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@punpages.com
PunPages.com is the internet’s best resource for the punniest businesses and organisations around the world. Silliness from JimmerUK
@samjordison.bsky.social
Mad as hell. Not going to take it any more. Journalist. Galley Beggar. 3AM Magazine Anti-Royal Correspondent. Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/ Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
@edsaperia.bsky.social
Dean of The London College of Political Technology https://newspeak.house
@terribleman.com
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
@duncanrobinson.bsky.social
Write Bagehot column for the Economist. Comment writer of the year at British Journalism Awards 2024
@robingissing.bsky.social
Perpetual innovator. Always seeking out a great big beautiful tomorrow. Used to be in HE, now in R&D - skepticism does not imply pessimism - all views my own and not my employer 🏴
@stuefewtrell.bsky.social
Fan of Doctor Who, Adrian Mole, and the Beatles, amongst other things. Oh, and trains!
@kevinsargent.bsky.social
Composer for screen things: The Hour, Wrong Mans, Beaker Girls, Mapp & Lucia, Ordinary Lies. Newcastle/London. Half-baked opinions entirely my own. Thrashed Dove.
@wildebees.bsky.social
The digital policy strategist you didn’t know you needed—using terms like 'sovereign data assets' as casually as most would say 'hello'. Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy. Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Author of Villager, 1983 and 13 other books. LP recommendations. Folklore. Psychedelic countryside pics. Sheep & cattle-based nonsense. Essentially a thinly disguised attempt to persuade you to subscribe to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
@ians.bsky.social
writer/editor/researcher/producer/but not a dog, don't believe the pfp / @iansteadman on the bad site / also @iansteadman@mastodon.social
@foone.bsky.social
Hardware / software necromancer collector of Weird Stuff maker of Death Generators. she/they
@mansfieldvonrank.bsky.social
Hardboiled defective. Freelance writer and editor. New York Review of Books, Harper's, London Review of Books, Financial Times, Guardian etc. Robert Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism 2025.
@katbrownwrites.com
Freelance journalist/editor (Independent, i, Stylist, Times, Telegraph etc) & servant to extremely entitled animals. I have books out on adult ADHD diagnosis and infertility grief, but am 99% fuelled by The Archers, dogs and horse riding. 📍 London, UK
@20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk
Writer/musician/comic. Pratchett biographer.✏️: Guardian, New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent, Radio Times & more. Used to work at Twitter. Always writing a book. NIRVANA — A detailed guide to the band changed everything OUT NOV 30! He/Him 🏳️🌈
@robynwilder.bsky.social
Journalist and recovering columnist. Been away. She/her. https://linktr.ee/robynwilder
@bechillcomedian.bsky.social
The one with the flipcharts. Comedian, TV presenter, writer, co-host of the @aproblemsquared and Enemy in Paris podcasts, and self-professed MondeQueen. She/They/Her/Them.
@rachel-33.bsky.social
@hotdonkeybear.bsky.social
Artist Management. Uni Tutor. Hot Donkey. Film Podcaster. Aspiring Author. He/ Him. #NowWatching #NowListening #NowReading
@trubshaw.bsky.social
Long girl probably in the wrong century. I row (boats not words). Bit of history, art, old comedy. Bit of the other. I like mustelids and I cannot lie.
@helenczerski.bsky.social
Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Associate Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski
@snig.bsky.social
Food, music, politics. Views are mine: don't threaten to email my boss. (She/her). Mini blog: http://snigskitchen.tumblr.com Main blog: https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com
@comedysteve.bsky.social
Marketing specialist. Run a comedy club. Lib Dem candidate 🔶. Father of three. Love funk!
@laurabarton.bsky.social
@angelabarnes.bsky.social
"Comedian". 2025 TOUR "ANGST" - ON SALE NOW - MORE DATES via angelabarnescomedy.co.uk. Cold War and Mid Century Modernist nerd. Prone to inexpert F1 ramblings. Swims. Naps. Bunkers.
@paulweedon.bsky.social
Music and gaming person. Bristol-based freelance Creative Copywriter, Journalist, Strategist and PR. Bylines: RA, Rolling Stone, DMY, Clash, Creative Review, LWLies, Vice, MusicTech, GamesTM, Restart. @paulweeedon everywhere else.
@profbriancox.bsky.social
Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
@jakazid.bsky.social
euphoric rave music producer, banger conduit and occasional mischief maker. 夕やけの作者。 enquiries/bookings/promos: info@jakazid.com #ukhardcore #jcore #rave #music #dj
@swearclock.bsky.social
Throw away your watches - they are obsolete. A bot by Rob Manuel. Add your suggestions here: bit.ly/swearclockform
@yorecomputer.bsky.social
Publishing pages selected at random from old British computer mags. A bot from Rob Manuel. Source URLs in ALT text. Support https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
@jamesmarshall42.bsky.social
jamesthemarshall.com / Original music cobaint.com / NIRVANA tribute squidbeaks.com / Nobody knows
@davidault.bsky.social
Voice acting since 2005, embracing being called a 'veteran'... NoSleep, Shadows at the Door and many more. www.davidault.co.uk
@psmithjournalist.bsky.social
Breaking news editor for nbcnews.com in London. I cover US news while America is sleeping. patrick.smith@nbcuni.com SWFC and St Albans City fan. Mancunian born. Likes memes.
@coxness.uk
Lives in Brighton, likes old tv, music & history, despairs at writing his own wretchedly trite biographical details, fat, still for some reason typing this, sighing, stopping now.
@vizcomic.bsky.social
Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979. Digital Sub: http://shop.viz.co.uk/subscription/d… Postal Sub: http://subscribe.viz.co.uk
@samparker.bsky.social
Digital Director of British GQ. Writing a book on the upsides of anger, out with Bloomsbury June 2025.