30 nice decent interesting people
Most starter packs are much too big. These are 30 people I would count as friends and as good company. You should follow all of them.
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@pauliewaulie.bsky.social
@twlldun.bsky.social
If I could be for only an hour If I could be for an hour every day If I could be for just one little hour Cute in a stupid ass way
@nigelstanley.bsky.social
London based photographer, walker and bass guitarist. Retired from trade union comms and pensions geekery. Labour insidery - a distant memory. Lack of influencer.
@bickerrecord.bsky.social
Past: Nurse, aid worker, social entrepreneur, councillor, governor, charity treasurer (NEON, Medact), famous blogger/essayist Present: Community energy generation schemer, well being organizer, ignored Blueskyer Future: Prophet of the New Enlightenment
@johnwood.org
#Labor geek. Adoptive Londoner. GenX stereotype. #digitalunions & innovation in UK trades unions. He/him.
@kcorrick.bsky.social
Strategy, data & capability building | Founding partner of Corrick, Wales & Partners @corrickwales.bsky.social | associate at Icebreaker One | Interim CxO #netzero #data #culture #collaboration Based in France. https://kathryncorrick.fr
@worklesshard.bsky.social
Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
@willperrin.bsky.social
Trustee at Indigo Trust, CarnegieUK. Formerly Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/ 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
@paulclarke.com
The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape. paulclarke.com
@d4nf0x.bsky.social
All my own work. Comedy jokes for the new age of descent. Dad. Jewish. Blue-&-white hoopish. Mudlarker. Never knowingly underbold. #COYRs
@flipchartrick.bsky.social
Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
@thebriefwriters.com
Politics, policy, music and blah. Partner at thebriefwriters.com, ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.
@radiobeartime.com
Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire. “Squalid, not a true Brit” - Keir Starmer Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji “O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?” Was @marxculture on Twitter
@billt.bsky.social
Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
@jonworth.eu
EU politics and sustainable transport, especially railways. Brit who became German and lives in a village in France. When he's not escaping it on a train or a folding bicycle. Teaches at College of Europe, still writes a blog, photographs with a drone.
@peterryley.bsky.social
Published writer on anarchism. Unpublished writer of other stuff. London born, lived longer in the north. Hence supporting Crystal Palace Football Club and Swinton Lions Rugby League. Now based in Greece. Hate Brexit with a passion.
@anthonycox.info
Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance. Educationalist. Researcher. Pharmacist. Male Homo sapien. https://www.anthonycox.info
@trabimechanic.bsky.social
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
@martinbright.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Journalism at University of Essex, Editor-at-Large at Index on Censorship, founder of Creative Society
@paul-anderson.bsky.social
Journalist (ex-Tribune ed, ex-New Statesman dep ed, ex-Guardian sub), author, retired hackademic (LCP, City, Brunel, Essex), libertarian socialist, Ipswich Town
@padraigreidy.bsky.social
89up, Little Atoms, Paul Foot Award, sad novels etc. The Susan Sontag of the 90s
@anthonyzach.be
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
@sharonodea.com
Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder Lithos Partners, DWXS and 300 Seconds. Gym bore. Takes too many photos of Amsterdam.
@bobfrombrockley.bsky.social
Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Commentator on law and policy. Own blog/substack, but also Prospect, FT, elsewhere. Liberal constitutionalist; Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England. (Account deactivated when not used.)
@pauliewaulie.bsky.social
Representative Democracy ultra. History & economics-related posts. Also film/TV policy, workplace & unions. Some posts = conversational gambits. Views mine only. NFFC & Mayo GAA. (Banner quote: Nein Quarterly). Substack: https://pauliewaulie.substack.com