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@alechanleybemis.bsky.social
Check out my mixtape delivery service: alechanleybemis.substack.com Founded Brassland.org. I help artists—and manage & curate creative projects. Current stuff at http://linktr.ee/a_h_b Be brave & be kind ❤️🔥
@annarafferty.bsky.social
Londoner. This is personal, likely to be books, kids, entertainment, play and positivity.
@annahiggs.bsky.social
🎭 MD of Character 7 🎞 Chair of Film @BAFTA 📝 Columnist @creativereview + Q&A host B4: 👩🏼💻 @meta @casarottoramsay 🪄 CD @NOWNESS 🎟 EP @film4
@rli22.bsky.social
professional scientist; amateur artsy person; http://youtube.com/watch?v=92JExD… she/her
@jkempenergy.bsky.social
Energy analyst, public policy specialist, amateur historian. Welcome constructive debate. Zero tolerance for trolling
@ericawgnr.bsky.social
Writer, reader, journalist, cook, friend, lover. Editor-at-Large, Boundless. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. You can find me in the old place with the same handle. Podcaster for Boundless, Chanel, Vocal.
@katepullinger.bsky.social
Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
@simonpulleyn.bsky.social
Read LitHum at Balliol. Former Lecturer in Classics at Merton. Honorary Research Fellow at Dept of Greek and Latin, UCL. Solicitor (nowadays non-practising). Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. 🌈 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/simon-pull
@karriefransman.bsky.social
Created comics for UN, Penguin Random House, Guardian, Times. Creative Director @posnegorg. Gender Swapped Fairy Tales/Greek Myths (Faber & Faber). Member of The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC). https://linktr.ee/karriefransman
@cnlester.bsky.social
Multi-genre musician: voice/piano/composition/improvisation Artistic Director Transpose PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life ’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ various critical intros, 2 current trans historical WIP they/them www.cnlester.com
@alexheminsley.bsky.social
Author, broadcaster, journalist & future secondary school teacher. Still taking commissions where time & studies allow 🤓 📞Sophie Lambert @cwagencyuk
@clarered.bsky.social
CEO of Watershed, a home for culture, technology and society. Also Chair of Wise Children and trustee of RSC. 🏳️🌈 Queer, nature loving, anti racist.
@mariephillips.bsky.social
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor. Free newsletter at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
@mayeroflondon.bsky.social
Author, journalist, activist, serial co-founder, reluctant music biz participant. Novel TIME/LIFE out now. New nonfiction Send Them Victorious in 2026.
@marshdavies.bsky.social
Writer & illustrator. Former head of creative writing at Mojang. Making horrid TTRPGs about cursed pies, hogmen and worse. https://teethrpg.itch.io/
@funambulism.com
Narratives, games & philosophies. Art. Currently: Min/Max, ???, Tides of Tomorrow. Previously: ???, ZEPHON, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, Absolver, Quote, books, mags, photos... Funambulism.com
@stellduffy.bsky.social
Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
@hollygramazio.bsky.social
Writing, games, etc. Adelaide, London. My novel “The Husbands” is out now. book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly website: http://hollygramazio.net ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/ pic by Diana Patient
@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social
Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
@harvey1966.bsky.social
Game director, designer, writer. Deus Ex, Dishonored, others. 🕹️⚔️🐉🖤👻🏳️🌈
@molleindustria.org
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. he/him
@dukope.bsky.social
Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
@thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social
Advisor and consultant to various, esp creative sector. Shadow Sec of State Culture,Media&Sport 23-24. MP 2015-24. art, books, writing, roses, music, languages (I struggle but it’s worth it)
@jamesbarr.bsky.social
I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA. More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org Signal - jamesbarr.62 Currently reading: Ed Conway / Material World
@petefrasermusic.bsky.social
London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm. “One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
@jeremydauber.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. AMERICAN SCARY out now!
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
@dinahrose.bsky.social
President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
@questingvole.bsky.social
[indistinct chatter] @spectator lit ed. Author of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
@mkonnikova.bsky.social
Mostly I write things. Sometimes I play poker. mariakonnikova.substack.com
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist✍🏻 NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: Pre-order now for September 2025. Posts by N and team. https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
@adamwagner1.bsky.social
Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner
@stephmerritt.bsky.social
Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Formerly of The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
@gralefrit.bsky.social
Writer & highwayman. Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
@kameronhurley.com
Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (2026) | patreon.com/kameronhurley | venmo @Kameron-Hurley | kameronhurley.com
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@v21.bsky.social
hello again made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use also i have a website: v21.io
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
@laurenbeukes.com
Novelist, TV writer, comics writer and recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV) Zoo City and multiverse-lost-mother-thriller, BRIDGE - out now
@okwonga.bsky.social
In between daydreaming in cafés and on trains, I write books, I talk about football, and I teach in schools. Blog: https://okwonga.substack.com Books: https://www.musaokwonga.com Poems: https://www.instagram.com/okwonga/ Podcast: https://stadio.football/
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. Founding member of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her) blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽 Prettyokmaggie.com
@kitdewaal.bsky.social
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@mrsambarlow.bsky.social
Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him NEXT! → PROJECT C (@blumhouse.com) and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
@rhi.bsky.social
Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
@aliettedebodard.com
Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/Her. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile: @yendraws @readatmidnight
@pimlicat.bsky.social
CEO @bestforbritain.bsky.social Podcaster @quietriotpod.bsky.social NED @RoSPA
@tadethompson.bsky.social
Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw, shorts, screenplays. Arthur C. Clarke Award winner. Hugo nominated. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Etcetera Opinions mine. He/him
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@planetoffinks.bsky.social
Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead, Unlicensed, also several books. All you fascists bound to lose
@tiffanycli.bsky.social
Tech, Privacy, & AI Law Professor 🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli 🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li 🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli TiffanyLi.com if you insist
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
@nnedi.bsky.social
*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
@sarahweinman.com
Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. Next nonfiction book (November 2025): WITHOUT CONSENT http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
@amalelmohtar.com
Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War. Next book: The River Has Roots, March 4, 2025. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
@columnist.bsky.social
‘The view from the column is ever distant’ (Anon, early 21st century) Befuddling mix of politics, art, literary theory, philosophy, financial markets, international relations, cooking, and…dog photos… ‘Wow just wow what a skeeter’ ‘Such a cute dog’
@golikehellmachine.com
antifa warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS. loud. also writing DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS now, i guess. direct complaints to https://golikehellmachine.com/
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@akivamcohen.bsky.social
Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
@aptshadow.bsky.social
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
Honorary Ziegfeld Girl Honorary IATSE Local 1 Jersey girl banner 📸Christopher Calkins
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
@jonnelledge.bsky.social
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
@maryrobinettekowal.com
Hugo-award winning author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. The Martian Contingency is available where books are sold.
@newsagents.bsky.social
Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond. With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player. .
@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
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@nigella.bsky.social
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
@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
@eladn.bsky.social
Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@barristersecret.bsky.social
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@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
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@xychelsea.tv
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.bsky.social / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball