Dutch gov OSPO | Open Source | GovTech | Digital Sovereignty | IT nerd | 🇪🇺🇳🇱

Advocate for open, ethical alternatives to big tech. Posting on a personal title.

One of Fosstodon's admins. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈&🏳️‍⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉

Free software (#FOSS) - vegan 🌱 - sustainability - #OneRights - finance - environment - transparency - Linux - freedom - fairness - politics - NL - 🐷 - 🤍❤️🤍 - 💙💛 - 🍉

I write free software. Firmware troublemaker.

communities person 💗💜💙
technologist & #PenPlotter artist.

I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets

co-runner of #Maker meetup 🛠️ @hackwimbledon

one-third of a weekly #Podcast 🎧 @gamesatwork_biz

#3DPrinting #MicroPython #PlotterArt #LEGO #OpenSource #DoctorWho #fedi22

Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founder/Editor of @briefecology | Featured in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Area, Literary Geographies, and elsewhere

Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #biodiversity #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball

Longtime open-source user, advocate, and contributor. I’ve been working with and writing about Linux and open source since 1999. Now writing for LWN.net (@lwn). Become a subscriber here if you're not already! https://lwn.net/subscribe/

I post about Linux, free and open-source software (FOSS), music, cats, politics, writing, and anything else that comes to mind. Hates gen-AI slop.

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain

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.

Writer about all things open source, as well as music and politics. Once upon a time host of The Sixties in 60 on TheBarrelofRock.com. I have a podcast coming up, so watch this space for the news!

Publisher, editor, & writer at FOSS Force, Alternative Approaches, and If This Be Treason.

#T2Pub

Open source guy, Fedora & Red Hatter (gov certs FIPS/CC etc.), OpenAlt and mobile gadgets, politics and Tesla/EV fan... That's all me!

Czech/English

product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.

🌱 laid off in 2026 and looking for $1/month sponsors to help #FOSS projects with design: https://github.com/sponsors/hbons 🌱

been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades.

enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.

🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy film photographer
🌌 #aurora chaser

#NoAI

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.

Dedicated to joy, simplicity and kindness in software and its organisations. Open Source and startup leader/founder/advisor.

Past and current obsessions include dancing ballet, singing, acting, playing guitar/ukulele, qigong, cycling, climbing, cooking, street photography, mountain running and moving house internationally. Currently based in west Ireland.
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* This account is managed in part by a social media team composed only of cats

Pirate 🏴‍☠️, Frisian in Rotterdam, FreeSoftware (free, as in freedom, not as in free beer) #Ubuntu, #PardonAssange 🍀 #music #politics

Tooting in Deutsch, English, español

Originally from Berlin, now back after >20 years abroad (ARG, UK, CH).

I like and care about:

Science, Math, IT, FOSS, parenting, fun, politics, books, 🏳️‍⚧️ things, music, film, cooking & food, some naughty stuff & much more.

What I most enjoy, is interaction with friendly people.

No DM please, unless we already know each other, or you have something important to tell!

Hacker, IT Infrastructure, Open Storage, Open Source, ProcoliX Hosting, Open Internet Discourse Foundation, HackerHosting, Protagio, Fediversity #Privacy #Sustainability #Transparency 
Husband of Tessa, father of Emma, Huub and Lieke.
Plays Viola, rides horses. Always busy, seldomly quiet.

Part Developer, Part SysAdmin, Part InfoSec. Avid self-hoster.

- All things systems @ Torchbox.
- @django Security Team & Software Foundation member.
- Core & Security Team @wagtail
- 🍊 Also known as RealOrangeOne in some places

Opinions are a belief or construct held with confidence.

back up at @amiserabilist

Avatar: penny farthing i am not a number
Header: plague island

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no one who wanted to read one.

gen x
amab/cis/het standing with 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
he/him
probably on the spectrum.

if you think i am being rude to you, i am not.
it is a joke that i have not properly conveyed.

#memes
#minimalism

#scifi
#comics

#design
#architecture
#vectorgraphics

#FOSS
#linux

Living with Love for: DIY, Electronics, Music, Arts, Nature, everything Open Source, Privacy & Digital Rights, Bicycles, Food(sharing), Linux/Unix, Selfhosting...

This is my new account, moved over from @phil

🐍 #Python developer · 🦄 #Django contributor · 🥑 #FreeSoftware advocate · 🗣 #Conference speaker · 🐧 #Linux user · 👨‍🔬 #ComputerScience engineer

🦄 #DSF board member
🐍 #PSF fellow
🧡 #DjangoGirls coach
🚀 #DjangonautSpace navigator
🍝 #PyConItalia organizer
🇮🇹 #PythonItalia member
🐬 #PythonPescara founder
🏖️ #DjangoOnTheMed organizer
🎓 #UniBo alumnus
⚖️ License #CreativeCommons BY‐SA 4.0
🖼️ Header: Me on stage at #DjangoCon US 2023
👤 Avatar: Me wearing the #DjangoCon US 2022 lanyard

Generic PNW dev.
I __main__ Python.
駄洒落は大🎿だ。
LGBTQAI2S+ ally.
Too many hobbies.
FOSS enthusiast.
Seeking a more just society.
Pronouns: he/him.

Header is a size-accurate group shot of many classic giant robots from anime history.

Profile pic is me in an Otakon 2006 tee shirt from *cough* a few years back.

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#transformers
#earthdefenseforce
#revolutionarygirlutena
#progressive
#battletech

Norddeutsch | Politikwissenschaft | Linux Sysadmin | Trekkie | Europäer | KDE | FOSS | OpenSUSE | Digitale Bürgerrechte | Japanisch Lernender | Kein Amt, kein Mandat, kandidiert für nichts | Stoiker | #Freiheitsgrün