The best humans on Mastodon.
Pat Allan
@[email protected]Community-focused web + Ruby developer, occasional events organiser. 🍦🥞🎶📚👨💻
Projects include:
• Staff Engineer at https://covidence.org
• Work/life balance for your calendars: https://calmcalendar.com
• Managed Sphinx for Heroku apps: https://flying-sphinx.com
• Buy albums to support musicians via your streaming habits: https://supportact.app
Previously:
• RubyConf AU 2015 and 2019: https://rubyconf.org.au
• Trampoline https://trampolineday.com
Scott Williams 🐧
@[email protected]Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?
Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22
Hoosier currently living in California.
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
@[email protected]Hi, I'm Alice 🌹 Watson, a: 🌈 #Queer, 🦜 #Poly, 🍳 #Pan, 🧠 #ActuallyAutistic, ⚛ #Atheist, ⚧️ #Enby in 🌲 #Seattle. 🙅🏼♀️ #NotAGirl
ALTs: a bunch
Founder: @AltAfterDark
🩷💛🩵
🥰 Yay:
🌈 #LGBTQ+
🔏 #DataPrivacy
🕵 #InfoSec
🧠 #Psychology
🔓 #Locksport / #Lockpicking
📸 #Photography
😸 #Cats
🦯 #Accessibility
🤘 #Punk
✅ #fedi22
🤬 Nay:
👮🏼♂️ #Fascism
💰 #Capitalism
🤡 #Bigots
🔫 #Guns
Pensador Louco
@[email protected]
Cara estranho, anarquista, entusiasta de FOSS, escritor e podcaster responsável por cometer o Teatro Escuro do Pensador Louco. Siga-me por tua livre e espontânea vontade.
Arthurr
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@[email protected]
chats, chiens, sieste, lune, sieste, linux, sieste, moto, promenade, sieste, glande, chats, sieste, livres, lessive, sieste, séries, potager, sieste, postgresql, cuisine, sieste, cocooning, cheminée, sieste.
La photo de PP : c'est pas moi, c'est la cocker
"chat qui vomit à moitié dans ton lit" <-- ça me fait rire.
Toutes les photos sont prises sans aucune intelligence artificielle ou naturelle.
Ma dernière performance : "On divorce ? Avec plaisir"
Peter Pappas
@[email protected]Creator of “The Forgotten Files: Because the past is still teaching." Fueled by jazz, biking, books, film, garlic. AI curious. #Apple Distinguished Educator #AI #Histodons #History #Teaching #Education #EdTech #PDX #RCTID #eBikes #BikeTooter
Ian Campbell 🏴
@[email protected]Security ops engineer for DomainTools, DT Investigations threat researcher, writer, voracious reader. he/him. Fan of good trouble. Opinions here mine only. No LLM content from me, all flaws detected are human-generated. Autistic/depressed/anxious/hungry.
#infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
Brian Davis
@[email protected]An #open-source and #decentralization advocate.
Interested in #linux, #programming, #python and #rust #backpacking, #gardening, #cooking, #diy, #scfi, #fantasy.
A dad, a wanderer, a thinker, a human. A decided optimist.
People deserve compassion.
"The world's vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes." - Ursula LeGuin
Note: unpinned posts autodelete after 30 days.
Brendan Halpin
@[email protected]Sociologist in Limerick
Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes
Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python
Linux on the desktop since about 1997
tootfinder searchable
Chris Merle
@[email protected]The #polycrisis is here! #Stoicism, #Solarpunk, #Python, #craftBeer, #mezcal, #Scotch, #donuts, #fountainPens, #ᏣᎳᎩ. #rompecabezas #Allerdings!
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Passive/Aggressive Stoic
Living on historically Tohono Oʼodham land.
I like learning languages. I speak none fluently, but I have fun doing it. #Gaelic (#Gàidhlig), #Spanish, #Japanese, #German, #Ukrainian, #Cherokee
Okay, I’m a semi-retired freelance web developer not taking new clients. Citizen of the #CherokeeNation.
Lori Olson
@[email protected]Retired software developer, mentor and trainer with 40 years of experience in C, C++, C#, Java, and Ruby (that I’ll admit to😉). Pronouns she/her. Has opinions and not afraid to express them. Hobbies include writing iOS apps, 3d printing, laser engraving, CNC milling, and silversmithing. Owned by two little dogs. Married to a retired sysadmin who keeps changing his Masto handle and server 🤷🏻♀️
Jonathan Carroll
@[email protected]#rstats primarily but learning #haskell, #julia, #rust, #python, #APL, #lisp, and many others

Also learning Japanese 🇯🇵
Happy to also talk #chess, #woodwork, #biotech, #physics, and lots more
Working remotely from Adelaide, South Australia
Scott Starkey
@[email protected]I'm a #magician / #mentalist, #Clojure / #GroovyLang / #JavaScript developer for #PurdueUniversity, a #gameDeveloper / #illustrator, and I speak #Esperanto. Living near #LafayetteIN
@ScottStarkey is my #gamedev & #Protospiel account.
Esperanto stuff at @Jekrac
#fedi22
Brandon Mitchell
@[email protected]Docker Captain, OCI maintainer, and Go developer, working on software supply chain security.
Big ol' nerd. Interested in electronics, reverse engineering, open source, repairing things, cooperatives, bikes.
Variously part-time as: MicroPython maintainer, embedded systems consultant, EV reverse engineer, patter of good dogs.
Stefen Auris 🖖
@[email protected]This account features my thoughts on Technology, Science, and other thoughtful topics. I will endeavor to provide thoughtful discourse. This is, after all, a vessel of exploration in my banner!
My name Stefen is a portmanteau of Steven and Fennec, but it's still pronounced like Steven :3
My last name Auris is Latin for ear. Fitting huh? X3
Friendly DevOps Tech Fen here!
Open source advocate. Linux lover. Amateur Archivist.
Sci-Fi: Star Trek, Doctor Who
🖖🏳️🌈
James Waples
@[email protected]#rustlang, #ethercat, #electronics and #cnc enthusiast.
Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Robert W. Gehl
@[email protected]Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press late 2025.
Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping run AoIR.social
he/him
Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.
Jeff Triplett
@[email protected]🦄 @djangoproject president, 🌋 @defnado cofounder, 🏝 @djangocon organizer, 🏎 @revsys consultant, 🐍 @Thepsf former vice-chair + treasurer, 🏀, ✨, 💪, 🏃♂️, 🤖, Oh Mai.
If you are into #django and #python content, please follow @djangonews
Dave Lester
@[email protected]Developer tools and open source ecosystems. Product @ Apple. @swiftlang📍 San Francisco
- Once and future retro computerer
- Have twice had a wordle-in-one
- Not a rev. revmem is mem backwards
- First unix-based mallet(t), so it is said
- Not insane
- Searching for the least significant bit