Robin Ince’s starter pack
A haphazard gathering of people I like
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@robinince.bsky.social
@vaun.bsky.social
TV Actor, comedy, up, north yorkshire via Boro. Vic and Bob, The other one, mash report, The Cleaner. https://linktr.ee/vaunearlnorman https://youtu.be/2lAhtUhY1vA?si=m_Dhdpz_57ux_aPv
@shinyshep.bsky.social
Green Party and community campaigner. 2024 Green GE Peckham and Lambeth & Southwark GLA candidate and CoFounder Nunhead Knocks also market research field queen. Likes crows.
@rosiewilby.bsky.social
Comedian, podcaster & author (The Breakup Monologues, Is Monogamy Dead?) Twitter: @rosiewilby IG / 🪡: @breakupmonologues TikTok: @rosiewilbyauthor 📚 ✍️ 🎤 🏳️🌈 🎭
@londonbessie.bsky.social
Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
@sophiemac.bsky.social
"There were so many ways this didn't make sense that no one quite knew what to say." "Like reflections in water, the movie light ripples across her face." "A dark omelette on bleak toast." Settings - Accessibility - Always require ALT text #210,729
@romatheengineer.bsky.social
Engineer 🔩 Author 📚 Broadcaster 🎙 IVF mama 🧒🏽 Crafter 🧶 London
@patrickkincaid.bsky.social
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL. Novelist, editor, teacher.
@barrowmember.bsky.social
Love nature, writing, arts & crafts, music, community, books, #SciComm, play & growing. Editor Ciadish.co.uk (for chronically ill and #disabled [CIAD] writers & the readers who love their books). Co-founder CripCoop.co.uk mutual support network #CripCoop
@williampotter.com
Writer, editor, comic-book character, bass player in CUD. https://geezerblimey.bigcartel.com
@nikeshshukla.bsky.social
Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
@jengupta.bsky.social
Professional Space Nerd. Emo kid at heart. Expect astronomy, physics, science, sci-fi, outreach, public engagement, dogs, parenting, emo, pop-punk & general geekiness. Own views. She/her.
@lucynichol.bsky.social
Writer. Flunked punk. Serial catastrophiser. 📚 WHEN SALLY KILLED HARRY (03/25 HarperCollins) PARKLIFE, THE 27 CLUB, NO WORRIES IF NOT! (HarperCollins) SNOWFLAKE (Hachette). Rep: Jo Bell, Bell Lomax Moreton Newcastle via Hull https://linktr.ee/LucyNichol
@johnhiggs.bsky.social
Writing dad's Christmas present since 2012 - https://linktr.ee/johnhiggs
@sarahoconnellshow.com
Host of YouTube.com/SarahOConnellShow - Subscribe! Comedian • Celebrity Interviews • Film Critic • Actress BAFTA Connect member • Artist • Animator • IG/FB/Threads/TikTok: SarahOConnellShow • Twitter @SarahO_Connell
@simonjamesgreen.bsky.social
Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more! www.simonjamesgreen.com
@johnnymains.co.uk
The UK's foremost horror anthologist. “Johnny Mains is the Herbert van Thal of our age” – The Independent AuDHD. Got the morbs.
@cosmicshambles.com
Independent creators of content for the curious. cosmicshambles.com | patreon.com/cosmicshambles| youtube.com/cosmicshambles
@hedgehoghugh.bsky.social
Author of nine books so far (not all about hedgehogs), ecologist, photographer - and spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society
@christinamartin.bsky.social
The Viz one AKA Evie Council worker and writer Both jobs death related Ashes to Admin out now Book two in the works https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
@shaunoboyle.bsky.social
Biologist working in science communication (research: community involvement; practice: art-science and podcasts). Big fan of The X-Files and Star Trek. #QueerinSTEM (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Work: shaunoboyle.org X-Files Podcast: heydannyitsmulder.com
@leerandall.bsky.social
Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge.
@cheeseford.bsky.social
The same old bollocks really from the artist formerly known as Louis Barfe. He/they. "The man who gave us Fred Dinenage's 3ft long egg" - (@ChinnyVision)
@laurenelkin.bsky.social
Author of Flâneuse, No 91/92, Art Monsters, Scaffolding Translator of Simone de Beauvoir, Michelle Perrot, Colombe Schneck, Constance Debré, Lola Lafon, et al London <> Paris she/her
@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
@helleborezine.bsky.social
Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.bsky.social. 🌍 Now shipping worldwide from www.helleborezine.com
@gregpalast.bsky.social
Investigative journalist/author of the bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: https://GregPalast.com Did voters or voter suppression decide the 2024 election? Watch my award-winning documentary: https://WatchVigilantesInc.com
@soapachu.bsky.social
Swish swish motherfucker. AuDHD | alphabet mafia 🏳️🌈 | novice egg-chaser 🏉 | scuba diver 🤿 🇵🇸 London, UK. There's probably something funny in the alt text.
@jambookshopuk.bsky.social
Made UK's only regular #illustration reportage in @privateeyenews.bsky.social 2011-2020. Created @smallpressday.bsky.social in 2016 & Jam bookshop in 2022-2025. Also a freelance Editor-at-Large. Still draws stuff:
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Reader. Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
@nhcooper123.bsky.social
Scientist at Natural History Museum London. Senior Editor Methods Ecology and Evolution. Biodiversity, macroecology, macroevolution, R, PCMs, comedy, theatre, books, fun animal facts. she/her
@garwboy.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/theneuroscienceofeverydaylife
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social
Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@jnraeside.bsky.social
📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out NOW. juliaraeside.com Broadcaster/Writer - iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio. Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
@leahmoore.bsky.social
Comic writer (Morrison Hotel, Motley Crüe The Dirt Declassified, Conspiracy of Ravens, The Complete Dracula, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Doctor Who, Raise The Dead, Damsels) Allergy mum,Pet Portrait Artist and TBI survivor.
@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
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
A step by step booklet for you to get your game on track and not your wig pushed back. Buy my live stand-up special at www.gofasterstripe.com/bet
@edmorrish.bsky.social
Leeds man & audio/comedy producer. Work stuff @leadmojo.bsky.social My posts, since you asked: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhglb2ub3qwkn2kpxlwekst3/feed/aaaaqszrsfcwo
@sheencr.bsky.social
Immunologist and science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome. Member IndependentSage person most likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom #ImmunoSky
@belledejour.bsky.social
It's a woman wearing a papier-mâché mask of Bernard Natan
@carolinepennock.bsky.social
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
@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
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@soozuk.bsky.social
"Comedian". DOOM in @bbcdoctorwho. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social Acting: The Foundry Management Comedy: Gag Reflex VO: The Joneses she/her www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs
@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
@mckelvie.bsky.social
I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@indyfromspace.bsky.social
Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
@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
@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
@xkcd.com
@astrokatie.com
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@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
@philplait.bsky.social
Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
@robinince.bsky.social
Latest book - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal out 1st May Robinince.com