The best humans on Mastodon.
John Kristoff
@[email protected]UIC PhD candidate | https://Dataplane.org | Netscout. Internet infrastructure (#BGP, #DNS) and #infosec. Bit mechanic. Also: #Blues / tfr / #fedi22
John Ripley
@[email protected]US+UK. San Francisco. He/Him.
Somewhat liberal/socialist/snarky.
Software/hardware/chip architecture, systems prototyping, generalist from silicon to apps, somewhat InfoSec. empeg/Diamond/Rio/etc 1999-2007, Google 2007-2009, Apple 2009-2025. Currently gainfully unemployed, but could be convinced out of it.
Carrying water for “AI” and fashtech gets you blocked.
Raptor's Nest (He/Him)
@[email protected]#palaeobiology #paleontology #dinosaurs #biomechanics #rstats #phylogenetics #samurai #datascience
I am an evolutionary palaeobiologist, focusing on evolutionary biomechanics and diversification of life through Earth history and across the tree of life over millions of years, with special interest in various groups of vertebrates including dinosaurs.
Ted M. Young
@[email protected]He/Him. Technical coach. All about Making #Java Code More Testable. #TDD #Refactoring #HexagonalArchitecture #JUnit #AssertJ
D. G. Marshall
@[email protected]A writer currently querying a two-book series set in a comic fantasy Australia. Harold is a failed alchemist, about to fail at dragon slaying. He is armed with a cheese knife. Princess Ruby has a stolen sword. She has it at Harold's throat. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
Shane Becker
@[email protected]Photographer, Rubyist, artist, author, archivist
DM for Signal handle 💬
I love you, in case I die 🖤
OtterForce
@[email protected]#Autistic parent, amateur #photographer, web designer, #WordPress fan, paid bookworm. From rural #NY.
Love #LEGO, #VideoGames, #photography, #mycology, #camping, #GlassBlowing, #writing, #books (particularly #SciFi).
Advocate, accomplice, and agitator. ✊🏼
🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤
Profile picture: Illustration of white person with sideburns, goatee, a tie-dyed shirt, and purple beanie.
Header: Person in linen bunny hood with rust overalls under a street light at night near a rail crossing.
Jonathan Hartley
@[email protected]Made out of meat.
Class III sentience. Singular biological manifestation. Mortal. Human. He/him.
Computer programming sparks joy. Linux lover. Test obsessed. Mostly wrangling Python.
Loving the science fiction as *symbolic* fiction scene, synthesizing the best of the ancient, modern, & postmodern views of our place in the world, to create a metamodern mythology - providing relevant meaning for contemporary life.
Fight the fash, smash the patriarchy, support all identities, be kind.
James Ross
@[email protected]He/him. Cis/het. I like #Data, #Trains, #Japan / #日本, and the Oxford comma. Professional computer whisperer. C#/DotNet/JavaScript. Southern England, UK.
I do not post much myself but will boost interesting and insightful posts from as diverse a range of others as I can manage.
Previously:
Joined 2018-09 https://en.osm.town/@twpol
Joined 2022-04 https://mastodon.online/@twpol
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
@[email protected]Hi, I'm Alice 🌹 Watson, a: 🌈 #Queer, 🦜 #Poly, 🍳 #Pan, 🧠 #ActuallyAutistic, ⚛ #Atheist, ⚧️ #Enby #Tomboy 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
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@[email protected]opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.
Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.
tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars
I drink Philz.
I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.
Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.
⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹
@[email protected]#crypto (means cryptography) #infosec #privacy | Support, love to #i2p #torproject | No his mind is not for rent, to any god or government | The corporate surveillance the world has so readily accepted enables the descent into fascism
Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦
@[email protected]On the open web since 1993, still writes HTML by hand. Day job at Open Education Global plus side crafter of SPLOTs, WordPress jamming, javascript web toys, silly mashups, long winded blog posts, and 75k flickr photos shared CC0.
I typo [often] therefore I am [human].
Images: Cartoon icon of a multi colored dog head inside a cog on background of the real dog named Felix in profile gazing out over an open prairie.
Heather Migliorisi
@[email protected]Coffee-first, web devsigner turned #a11y program manager that's passionate about creating great experiences for everyone. #A11yCat. Expert code janitor. Sometimes photographer. Professional cat herder.
:focus on
and vanilla 
Guillaume Ross
@[email protected]Security, poutine, movies and cars!
Lesley Lai
@[email protected]Computer Graphics & Programming Languages person.
I twoot about languages like C, C++, Rust, JS/TS, and OCaml.
I organize @graphicsmeetup
he/him
Rafael Pérez 🌱
@[email protected]I'm a software developer based in NYC.
I post mostly about software development in general, web app development in particular, web apis, and relational databases.
I am also interested in data visualization, AI, and CS related topics.
#developer #dotnet #webapi #sqlserver #postgresql #csharp #angular #typescript #javascript #html #css #webdev #softwaredevelopment #programming #ai #compsci
Tekchip
@[email protected]Career IT 👨💻 #Linux #CyberSecurity #IT #InfoSec
Video Games 🎮 #Xbox #PC #VideoGames #RetroGames #IndieGames
Space 🛰️ #Space #Science #Rockets
US Army Veteran 🇺🇸 #OIF
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
Brad L.
@[email protected]
An atheist Perl hacker with a background in InfoSec, Automation, and Observability. In my free time, I love volunteering in my community and working on bikes.
I dislike AI and believe it's going to cause irreparable harm to tech and society.
Mario Munoz
@[email protected]I like to code Python by night, which is what happens when there's not enough time during the day.