English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Head of Visual and Data Journalism @financialtimes.com; Honorary Prof @UCL Social Data Institute. Views expressed are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
dreaming of protocol level sovereignty
head of protocol @ bsky 🌅
writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @followthecrypto.org • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Lapsed Glaswegian / born again Berliner.
"Sometimes a bit fancy"
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ The Guardian
"In the 1% of bacteria that are good"
⭐ ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ People's Friend
"Sent from my BlackBerry®"
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Pravda
https://mixcloud.com/BryanBlessed
Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.
A transatlantic spy podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
The contemptible Tim Onion.
Sharesify is a retail investor content resource set up by former members of the Shares magazine team aimed at making investing easier for everyone
pragmatic optimist and well-known email author
views are mine alone
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
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White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
Everywhere he went, including here, he did against his better judgement.
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow. Plot twist: not from Åland. 📸 Stas Kartashov
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
An idiot, but not one of the useful kind.
Tired, cynical, and jaded. Corporate finance (desk jockey), market commentary, die hard band wagon fan, assistant to the minority leader of the people’s republic of Colorado, and other bad posts. 🔧🔧🔧
Go padres go broncos (we suck again…but maybe not!)
Investing/stocks. Ex. HF seeking ideas, contacts & capital. I may be long/short names mentioned. @LibrarianCap on Twitter. Also Substack https://librariancapital.substack.com/
Freelance Data Visualization Developer. Based in Berlin. https://www.kristin-baumann.com
Lawyer. From Hampshire. Retired from private practice, now supervising solicitor in the University of Portsmouth General Legal Advice Clinic.
Law - photography - music - stuff.
I was @HampshireLawyer on X/twitter, but left that place in 2023.
Comedian/co-host of Evil Men (thesonarnetwork.com/evil-men) and Long Distance, Bit Weird (tinyurl.com/4z8brwk5). Album MICHAEL 1, COMEDY 0 here: songwhip.com/michaelbalazo/michael-1-comedy-0
PhoneShop, Inbetweeners, 15 Storeys High, Bravo Two Charlies. Rep United Agents, Sue Terry Voices. Oh and Southend United.
Son of immigrants. Not integrated. East, east, east London.
Some photographs: https://t.co/B0HT8DtgRg
shadow hedgie, your favourite reply guy's favourite reply guy 🏳️🌈
Migrant in London, citizen of nowhere
geriatric millennial, like everyone else here
I just post to get the thoughts out of my head, follow at your own risk
he/him
Jerome Powell Defense Association
KCSI is a diverse group of leading intelligence scholars & practitioners working together to better understand the evolving global security landscape. https://kcsi.uk/
Equity Analyst @ Global Value Fund
Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
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Editor of Bearly Politics. Author. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Lapsed historian, having the best mid-life crisis. Personal account: all the stupid opinions expressed are entirely my own, and nobody else's. he/him
Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Posting things from the UK's finest periodical. Chris Donald, Simon Donald, Graham Drury, Davy Jones, Alex Collier, Cat Sullivan, Lee Healey, etc.
Buy Viz every month: https://viz.co.uk/
Account run by @stuartgipp.bluesky.social
Cartographer, full-time north-easterner, SAFC, James the Band, Doctor Who, old telly, beer, football etc. Chairman of a football club, no really. Has a knackered back.
A walking corpse that won’t play dead.
News person. The usual stuff.
this is a low flying panic attack
emotional support peacock
tiny dog guardian
fragile software development™️
modular synthesizers & acoustic guitars
he/them
Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
The Fast Show fan account. I don’t own content. Now primarily posting on Instagram @thefastshow
Comedian. The Field Trip and They're Coming to Get You podcasts. It’s satire.
Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
A radical yet peaceful interface for Bluesky and ATmosphere-based social media.
Contains moths, drafts, an edit button, and many other features you won’t find anywhere else.
Step inside: anisota.net
Made by @dame.is & @atpota.to in Appalachia ✍︎
marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶
Western suburbs of Paris
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
Owner, QVR. Derivatives and volatility. @benegotherit.bsky.social 's ex financial advisor (fired and replaced by @kchoudhu.anserinae.net)
Host of Local News International
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A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Haute-Savoie, ex-Bristol. EU and UK citizen. Crypto-sceptic. One united democratic, liberal Europe please.
Comedian. Musician. Writer. Dad. Stepdad. Husband. Friend.
Unofficial account of the Tour de France Hommes, which mirrors posts from @LeTour on the other site
For assistance contact @stadio.top
📅 4 July - 26 July
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Aktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Auswärtigen Amt
Impressum, Datenschutz & Netiquette: t1p.de/jkm1
Propaganda scholar; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow Bard College; Associate Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk & signal: Emmalbriant.44
Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, University of Cambridge
Research in: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks & harms
Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Taoist bricoleur. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Fellow, Center for Security and Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit und Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI
🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau
CEO Whisperer & Professor of practice in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Disinformation, Propaganda, Democracy; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com • Eng Fra 中文
Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff. Opinions are not my employer's.
free speech, digital justice, civil rights | now: senior counsel @freepress | past: US free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU.
www.norabenavidez.com
Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
Political Science, Information Warfare, Political Communication
Historian of political and psychological warfare; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center at Salve Regina University; co-host of the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast and host of “You May Have Heard,” Army and Navy vet, and proud University of 〽️ichigan grad.
Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Evolving Information Warfare (2025). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT, researching the rise of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com.
Dr Paul Lashmar, Investigative Journalist, author and retired Associate Professor at CityStGs UoL. Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism. New article on space, time, memory, and influence in VR: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241283895
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters - Gramsci
Gardener. Reader. Artist.
Magan-djin/Brisbane.
Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University.
Sr. Researcher @citizenlab.ca, Disinformation & Harassment. Fmr. Meta. Trainer: find & expose covert influence. I like doers. Opinions my own.
Exploring the forces shaping misinformation and institutional trust: uncovering the incentives, disincentives, and impacts driving systemic challenges. Notre Dame research scientist.
Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
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Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social 🕵️🛰️📡 · Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk · Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po - Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 📚
Website: https://clementrenault.com
Personal account
Head of Threat Analysis @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
Assistant Professor of International Relations & International Communication @inalco.fr
▪️Russian Politics & Media
▪️Influence, Foreign Policy & Authoritarianism
Co-founder @coruscant-eu.bsky.social
Previously Research Fellow @irsem.bsky.social
