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@data.ft.com
The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories. https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@financialtimes.com
The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis. https://www.ft.com The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
@theradr.bsky.social
Rabbi/award-winning author. 🌱Sacred + justice newsletter (100% NAZI-FREE!): LifeIsASacredText.com Newest 📚ON REPENTANCE & REPAIR: MAKING AMENDS IN AN UNAPOLOGETIC WORLD. 💥Collective liberation or bust. she/her
@ap.brid.gy
Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse, follow this account. To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.…
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
@aedwardslevy.bsky.social
Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
@danirabaiotti.bsky.social
Dr of Zoology Data Scientist Science feed co-creator NYT bestselling author of #DoesItFart🐢💨
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
An unofficial bot of BBC News (World). RSS: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots maintainer: @tmaehara.bsky.social
@davidbflower.bsky.social
Astronomer and Astrophotographer. Pictures of space appearing in posts, magazines and on the telly.
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Founding executive editor of Heatmap News. Contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@nigella.bsky.social
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@martin.kleppmann.com
Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
@kendrawrites.com
What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that. Climate reporter based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@jaz.bsky.social
Jaz Gender Nomad IRC made me gay Backend (Go) & Infra @ Bsky Does musical things and computer things 27. they/them 🏳️⚧️ BSky Stats- https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://github.com/ericvolp12
@aaron.bsky.team
Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety. Email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz for more complex issues. Priority notifications active, so I don't see mentions. abuse = block
@volts.wtf
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
@bnewbold.net
dweb, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects. protocol engineer @bsky.app. formerly archive.org elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
@annettedittert.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent ARD German TV London • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
@rudyfraser.com
Founder & CEO, @blacksky.app Building community networks and technologies blackskyweb.xyz + wethepeople.nyc move fast and break chains; revolution now; not tomorrow—now. 🏴☠️ 🔗: https://linkat.blue/rudyfraser.com
@mackuba.eu
Indie Mac/iOS & web developer. Building useless things using Swift & Ruby and wasting time. Sometimes I randomly get red laser glow in my eyes and shout "To the moon!" for no reason whatsoever. 🐦 @kuba_suder 🦣 martianbase.net 🌍 Kraków, Poland 🇵🇱🇪🇺
@drjennings.bsky.social
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
@rabble.nz
Hacker, anarchist, troublemaker. Currently: https://verse-pbc.org, nos.social, protest.net Previously indymedia.org, odeo, twttr, center for civic media, affinity.works, etc…. Personal site: https://Evan.Henshaw-Plath.com (they/them)
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching unbreaking.org
@jim.londoncentric.media
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@nigelslater.bsky.social
A cook who writes. Observer columnist. Author. Gardener. Books: The Kitchen Diaries, The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book, A Thousand Feasts. Instagram.com/nigelslater
@politicshome.bsky.social
Fast, informed, comprehensive coverage of UK politics. With debate & insight from Parliament via The House magazine. Subscribe to our podcast: http://bit.ly/3M8d963
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@davidho.bsky.social
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, @cworthy.bsky.social; Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
@chrismessina.me
😬 Man of the internet; generalist. 🆕 App updates and snark. 🫡 Twitter sober since April '23. #️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
@michaelfoster.bsky.social
Co-founder @newsmast.bsky.social. Discovering things, paths, people, ideas. Driving change through the social web. “A secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.” https://newsmastfoundation.org