Tech people to populate your feed with
By Nicolai (๐ฉ๐ฐ/๐ช๐บ) @[email protected]I reached out for recommendations to populate my feed with cool tech people, these are the results. This starter pack will set fire to your feed. Thanks for alle the help to: JoBlakely, Annie, Bammerlaan, NatureMC, _elena, MsDropbear42 and maiathecyberwitch for suggestions and help coming into the fediverse


Molly White
@[email protected]crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian โข @web3isgreat creator โข newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/
she/her โข


Sheril Kirshenbaum
@[email protected]CFR fellow in the U.S. Senate. Scientist. Author. Host of PBS Serving Up Science. #HistoryRemix for stories of diverse trailblazers in science & the arts. #SharedPlanet to explore biodiversity
evacide
@[email protected]Director of Cybersecurity
@EFF
/ Co-founder of
@stopstalkerware
/ These are my opinions, not my employersโ / I did a TED talk once


Julia Evans
@[email protected]programming and exclamation marks
I have DMs muted from people I donโt follow.


glitch girl


Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
@[email protected]Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington
Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS)
If we don't know each other, I probably won't reply to your DM. For more, see my contacting me page: http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/contact/


JA Westenberg
@[email protected]I write about tech + humans + philosophy


myrmepropagandist
@[email protected]pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.๐๏ธ(<<Medal Awarded for the time when there were too many people.)
Proverbs 6:6
bug haters DNI


Annalee Newitz ๐
@[email protected]I write science fiction and science nonfiction. Author: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers. Bylines: NYT, New Scientist, The Atlantic, etc. Pod: Our Opinions Are Correct. Sometimes a professor of media studies. I love noodles.


Prof. Sam Lawler
@[email protected]Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Has mostly lived in warmer places, now learning to live respectfully on Treaty 4 lands (Saskatchewan, Canada)


Devine Lu Linvega
@[email protected]Itโs always night under the ultraviolet sun.
vkc (Veronica Explains)
@[email protected]I make dorky YouTube/PeerTube videos about Linux and vintage tech, and occasionally write about stuff. I'm also a geeky musician and used to be a COBOL dev. Pronouns are she/her.
Proudly supported by viewers like you via Patreon and Ko-Fi. Thank you for your consideration!
(Note: posts here may self destruct, and my notifications are mostly muted- can't reply to everyone. Don't take it personally.)


Jaana Dogan
@[email protected]
Opinions are personal.


Ruth Mottram
@[email protected]Climate scientist at DMI, Danish/British dual national, married Dutch, interested in glaciers, ice sheets, atmosphere and climate in Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic
Live in ๐ฉ๐ฐ, work in ๐ฌ๐ฑ often
Coordinator of @OCEANICE_EU pics on
@ruth_mottram + fieldwork pics on @IceClimate
#climate #science #openresearch #IceSheets #Greenland #Antarctica #cycling #kayaking #biodiversity #Arctic #Glaciology #Weather #Atmosphere #OA #PolarPortal #HorizonEurope #SeaLevelRise #fedi22 tootfinder


EricaJoy
@[email protected]
she/her | tech blah blah | Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis | Run from whatโs comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. -Rumi


โงโฆCatherineโฆโง
@[email protected]cat(girl) shaped object
"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."
โง i have friends, and my purpose is to support them โง
โฆ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them โฆ
โถ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence โถ
โท nothing else matters โท


Renee DiResta
@[email protected]๐ Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Realityโจโ๐ผResearches propaganda, pathological information systems, and adversarial abuse at Georgetown (McCourt School of Public Policy)โจ๐ฆน๐ปโโ๏ธ Recurring Twitter Files supervillain


Laura Helmuth
@[email protected]Editor in Chief of Scientific American. Birder. Previously at Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science.
Elena Rossini โ
@[email protected]Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who โค๏ธ #FOSS
๐ฌ Director of: The Illusionists documentary. Soon: a Fediverse video series
๐ #TheFutureIsFederated
๐ฉโ๐ป self-hosting newbie: @elena
๐ท photos: @ele
๐ฝ๏ธ videos: @ele
Note: my posts are set to auto-delete* after 1 month โณ
*unless I bookmark them


your auntifa liza ๐ต๐ท ๐ฆ ๐ฆฆ
@[email protected]am liza sabater (she/they) the og blogdiva & resident afroboricua #antifa #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic #GenX titรญ. surviving breast #cancer and still chronicling #AmericanFascism.
thank you fediverse for #dogs, #cats, #sports, #sewing, #cooking and #Monsterdon. so #fuckCancer #COVID19, mask up, join a #union & fight for #UBI & #Medicare4All


George Penney
@[email protected]I'm a queer/bi comic crime/SFF author (under the name George Penney) and I'm also a best-selling Rom Com writer (under Evie Snow) and a PhD escapee.
I have two podcasts called Bohemiana and My Favourite Monster.
I also travel continuously and house sit around the world because I can, and I'm a cultural omnivore who is interested in everything all at once.
I GM 2-5 shot DnD 5e games that are fun, silly and set in my OverLondon universe.
I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Sy Brand
@[email protected]c++ developer advocate at microsoft ~ poet ~ film/noisemaker ~ mask enthusiast
Mia (web luddite)
@[email protected]๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Queer Art & Code (she/her) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Co-Founder of @OddBird
Working on CSS in A (@w3c) Group
๐ค๐ผ Art with teacupgorilla.com & grapefruitlab.com Server admin (see @mods)
What are we building here? Is it a world we want to live in?


Sophie
@[email protected]๐ Staff Eng at Monzo
๐ Dog botherer
๐ง Web1 enthusiast and fan of pointless websites
๐ #LGBWithTheT
Header: florian.photo


emily freeman
@[email protected]The Emily formerly known as EditingEmily.


Valerie Aurora ๐บ๐ฆ
@[email protected]Systems software consultant solving complex problems in networking, file systems, and operating systems. American relocated to the Netherlands in 2023. Sadly not owned by a cat.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Profile pic: middle-aged white woman with short blue hair, smiling
Banner image: Ukraine flag


Ashe Dryden
@[email protected]Programmer & community organizer now studying the impact of tech on the most marginalized peoples, informed by history, abolition, & my oversized heart. I made AlterConf & Fund Club. I still mask and you should, too.
โThe machine conceals the machinations.โ - Ursula K. Le Guin
#STS #Sociology #PublicInterestTech #Tech #SocialJustice #Inequality #AntiRacism #AntiFascism #AntiCapitalism #Abolition #FeministKilljoy
Critiques #Surveillance #TechnoDeterminism #TechnoSolutionism #AI #Policing


Jenniferplusplus
@[email protected]trans lesbian
staff software engineer
devops, reliability, resilience, sociotechnical systems
also, that gay shit
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Ada Rose Cannon
@[email protected]I do web stuff and VR stuff. I like HTML. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Jess Rose
@[email protected]She's a little intense about open source computer things, cats and languages.
She's sorry, but not as sorry as she should be.


Trisha Gee
@[email protected]Engineer, author, keynote speaker, developer champion, catalyst. Developer Advocate @ Gradle.
She/her.


dillyd
@[email protected]#Ally i.e., not Native/Indigenous like many of the other users on this instance.
Just somebody with a phone camera and a boring job.
I came for the photos and I stayed for the community. "You all are like each other's cheerleaders on here." -my husband aka coffeemaker. โฉPhotos my own, CC BY-NC.
Follow requests welcome. Not welcome: racism, ableism, sexism, transmisia, fatmisia, etc.
Avatar: tired-looking white woman with short brown hair.
Banner: red and orange moss sporophytes


Emelia ๐ธ๐ป
@[email protected]Tech Princess ๐ธ๐ป Feminist Politicker ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Fashionable Woman ๐ Tooling Witch ๐
๐ Founder of https://unobvious.technology
Pro-Unions ๐ช๐ป Trans & Queer ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
I currently work on Moderation and Trust & Safety tooling for the Fediverse.
Contributor to #Mastodon & other projects. You've probably used code Iโve written. Worked on the Fedi in 2018.
Berliner on New York time.
Advisor to IFTAS (https://about.iftas.org)


Dona Sarkar
@[email protected]๐Director of Tech @microsoft #Accessibility
โก๏ธ#EthicalMetaverse #PowerPlatform #HybridWork & #MentalHealth fan
๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ @fastcompany Most Productive People
๐ง #Dyslexic and Dealing
๐Designer & Biz Owner #PrimaDonaStudios


TayFoNay๐ฟ
@[email protected]โWeโve reached DEFCON fuckโ
Academic Maleficent. Once an NIH-funded Associate Professor at a fancy Midwest university, now excommunicado. I assume because I wouldnโt participate in the โreputation and brandingโ committee.
Navigating the great enshittification.
Location: Chicago , sometimes Kauai ๐บ
Novemberist: part of the November 2022 Twitter migration. (h/t @TheEddieShow)
Posts auto-delete after 2 weeks. Under his eye. She/Her.
#teamOrca
Slava Ukraini ๐บ๐ฆ
Amy Renee
@[email protected]All things networking and security.
Community contributor, sharer of knowledge, purveyor of puns, curator of amusement. Wielder of snark & sparkly bats.
Amแตแตanda ๐ HackW/E@LinuxHotel
@[email protected]#Trans #Queer #OpenStreetMap #Hacker
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฎ๐ช๐ช๐บโถโโ๐ฒ๐ฆโ๏ธ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
โopinionsโ mine.


Tess Rinearson
@[email protected]former crypto lead @ twitter, current pizza lead @ my couch


Jo-chin up, elbows up.
@[email protected]๐จ๐ฆArtist, Intersectional Feminist, Spiritual, Nerdy. #art #portraits
Masks are visible expressions of solidarity, truth, & love.
Mottos: Love all, take shit from none.
Don't become what you hate.
She/Her #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #cPTSD #metoo
No racists, misogynists, TERFS, AI, Blockchain #nobot
Header: โwrong doesnโt cease to be wrong, bc majority share in it.โ Tolstoy
Profile pic is painting of a woman with red hair, 3/4 profile & chin up.
tech ethics nerd. creator. solarpunk. anarchist. feminist. prison abolitionist. queer. aesthete. reader. maximalist. writer. foodie. technopagan. disabled. mad. always learning. black. extremely online. lover of lists. javascripter. weightlifter-in-training. amateur sewist. cute. smart.


Sisi Wei
@[email protected]Editor-in-chief at The Markup (@themarkup)


psychopomp disaster
@[email protected]Adult Human Nuisance
Afro-Boricua / Ashkenazi mash-up ๐ต๐ทโก๏ธ
Mom to all ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ
Urban gardener ๐ชด
Community Organizer/Solidarity Enjoyer โ๐ผ
Queer Liberation March Organizer ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Dyke on a bike ๐ด๐ผโโ๏ธ
Elder tran ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Aging street agitator โถ
Animal Liberationist โ๐ผ๐พ๐ฑโ
Hard of hearing ๐ฆป
AI Trickster ๐ค


Ellane
@[email protected]Australian designer, writer, and plain text advocate. Educational publisher for more than 30 years. I enjoy planning and note-making without using shiny gatekeeper apps. Using less paper, sustainably. Christian. Spell/say my name as in the word โmiscellaneousโ: ยท๐ฉ๐ค๐ฑ๐ฏ. Swearing and politics filtered out. #productivity #technology #pkm #obsidian #plainText #plainTextAccounting #writing #analog #franรงais #๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ #christian #accessibility #barefootShoes #nvc


Charlie OโHara
@[email protected]Iโm not disappointed with you, just angry.
Luddite. GenX pessimist (wannabe optimist). Nurtured as British, citizen of nowhere by nature. Boringly socialist. ADHD as hell. Always not finishing something. Accompanied by a black dog.
Most posts are followers-only.
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
ashley williams
@[email protected]a mess like this is easily five to ten years ahead of its time. former Rust core team. working on something new, @axodotdev. she/they


cygnoir
@[email protected]๐ฆขโ๐ค ยท writer, librarian, diarist ยท probably thinking about fountain pen ink
โโบโโ โพ โโบโโ
header image alt: photo of a fountain pen atop two books with black covers, one stamped 2019, the other 2020
avatar image alt: b&w illustration of a person with long hair, nose ring, & hypnotic spiral irises (by Mike Jeung)
๐ซฅ some toots expire, somewhen ๐ซฅ


Tomomi I
@[email protected]SFO โ HNL
๐ฑ-as-a-Service
HTTP Status Cats original creator.
Works at Microsoft.
Post mostly about ๐๐ฆญ๐ข if not about tech. I used to code full-time but in the past decade, I focus on developer experience & advocacy, and technical content & docs. Occasionally, I work as an illustrator.
All ๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธs are my own!
Rachel Lawson
@[email protected]Fitting life around riding my motorbike - rode in 28 countries so far โ where next?
Expect posts on #Drupal, #OpenSource, #Motorcycles, #Travel, #SustainableDevelopmentGoals and the content is searchable
Media licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0