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Jeanette Kollien
@[email protected]

PhD student at the European University of Flensburg, communication science. Focus on digital sustainability.

Bibliophile Computermaid & Weltverbesserwisser. 💻 🌻

Last posted 3 weeks ago
Posts 289
Followers 183
Following ▼ 42
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researcher and -scholar. Cheerleader, content accumulator, climate worrier (and sometimes warrior). Father of four. Recovering mansplainer; wannabe feminist. Dane; whatever that is. admirer.

Not giving the bastard my despair!

Banner picture is a group of mammoths walking through a winter landscape with forests and mountains.

LGBTQ+ ally.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 13,157
Followers 3,756
Following ▼ 37
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gecos/CN: Janis Joan König
SAN: ElleJay (lj), Leo(nard) Robert König

Nyanbinary femby 🐈‍⬛

Bragging Rights: Made a former German conservative minister greet me in full cat girl outfit.

• tech-savvy luddite
• gender-overwhelmed gender-bender
• energy-seeping sleepy-head
• serious goofball

See pinned post for more , what to expect here, as well as alt-texts for pfp & banner <3

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 58,643
Followers 1,731
Following ▼ 20
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Gay partnered (for 17 yrs)Boomer in California (Palm Springs area). Napa wine tour concierge 2019-23. Pre-retirement I was a tech analyst studying emerging technology. Step-Papy to 2 amazing 20-something daughters. Big time cat dad.

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 4,421
Followers 554
Following ▼ 18
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“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

, , grandpa, and a .
 Add to the list, too.
 native. I love the spring creeks of the driftless area (always catch and release).
Pour-over with fresh roasted beans. The only way to go!

 I always follow back and boost often!
justmytoots.com/@loughrn@masto

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 2,943
Followers 502
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Unabashed lefty married to a terrific woman. Animal lover, especially cats but also dogs, birds—heck all of 'em. Audiophile, vinyl collector. Retired urban planner. Failed novelist.USAF Vietnam vet. Currently a big John Fahey fan. Born in Chicago, lived in Denver, Colorado Springs, St Louis, DC; in San Diego since 1999 and not about to depart until climate change demands it.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 47,203
Followers 1,211
Following ▼ 15
Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
@[email protected]

Enterprise Software Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel


via W7AAXD5V

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 39,112
Followers 1,713
Following ▼ 11
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If anybody wants to know a few things about me

- born in the NHS at 312ppm.







Profile pic is me with my fluffy sheep Ruffles. Header is about a hundred sheep who decided to form a ring on the downs one day. I'm not that interested in sheep, really.

Last posted 3 days ago
Posts 3,321
Followers 382
Following ▼ 10
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Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑
@[email protected]

Blatantly, unabashedly pro-democracy. Ex-Michigan farmboy makin' it work since 1958 (born in 1953, but coasted for a few years). Proud and concerned father, grandfather, dog dad, and atheist. Emigrated from New Mexico high desert to New Jersey lake, spring 2022. Used to be a whitewater canoeist, now happy paddling a quiet lake. ClassicPress/WordPress developer; websites for real estate agents. I smoke a pipe, therefore I'm a philosopher. Oxford comma because I'm civilized.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 6,555
Followers 925
Following ▼ 10
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Jendia Gammon
@[email protected]

Nebula and 3X BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. 
THE VALE OF SEVEN DRAGONS (Apr. 2026) | GODFESTATION (Aug. 2026). Head of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.


Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 3,552
Followers 392
Following ▼ 6
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Michael Simons
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👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of @springbootbuch and in Action, founder of @euregjug. Java champion working on various integrations of @neo4j in the broader Java ecosystem.

You can expect a mixture of tech (Java, GraalVM, databases), some politics, cycling and food pictures.

Published in 2024: manning.com/books/duckdb-in-ac

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 10,786
Followers 1,460
Following ▼ 5
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Header photo is the Palette Spring in Yellowstone. The beautiful colors come from microbial biofilms growing in the spring (mostly archea and bacteria)

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 90
Followers 522
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👨‍👧 Dad
📚 The Making of Tomb Raider: 1997-2000 - out later this year!
✍️ Freelance writer & author
🚐 Running Springboard — a newsletter and a copywriting business with no AI
📬 [email protected]

Last posted 4 days ago
Posts 345
Followers 539
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I'm an north of , MA telling stories about light and atmosphere with oil paints. I draw inspiration from the coastline, salt marshes, and forests, places that are both remembered and imagined.

Currently working on seascape paintings, landscapes inspired by springtime walks in the woods, and my marshlands series.

As a lawyer-turned-artist, I'm also slowly defacing my law dictionary with charcoal sketches.

She/her.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 8,263
Followers 2,382
Following ▼ 4
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Richard Grant
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I'm a writer and gardener living in the remnant of a forest on the coast of Maine USA. My novels include Rumors of Spring, Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, and Another Green World. I'm a gay father and granddaddy. He/him

Last posted 3 days ago
Posts 4,563
Followers 681
Following ▼ 4
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Software tester/husband/trotse vader/nerd



Ik roei, speel met kleine zeilbootjes of mijn (beiden ) en soms met taal.
Fan van (al ben ik er nu wat minder actief mee bezig). En als trouw luisteraar van zou ik me bijna kunnen noemen.
Sinds kort speel ik weer met een fototoestel. Resultaten zijn te zien op fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl/

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 3,356
Followers 245
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Australian retired archaeologist, Emeritus Professor at University of New England, Armidale. Book on (mostly the evolution of) art--Art or Scribbles was published on 8 August 2025. Published on bones, stones, language origins, art etc. Worked with Gamilaraay, Wangkamadla, Yulluna, Kalkadoon and Mitakoodi people.
We must have a politics which encourages equality and fights climate change.
Pre-order book at
link.springer.com/book/9783031

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 6,501
Followers 428
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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
@[email protected]

I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley, specializing in operating systems, languages/compilers, sometimes AI, usually non-traditional parallel software and hardware architectures.
Also:







Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver

Ars longa, vita brevis.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 13,055
Followers 608
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Speckgürtel Speckflagge (aber vegan).
Moderator auf dieser Instanz.

Profilbild ist eine Pixelgrafik: ein Toaster mit Augen. Aus dem Toaster springt ein getoastetes Herz.
Headerbild: Temperaturänderungen zum Mittelwert seit 1850 für Bremen, Deutschland. Rote und blaue Streifen, wobei von links nach rechts die Streifen deutlich röter werden. Die letzten Streifen rechts sind dunkelrot.

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 12,067
Followers 940
Following ▼ 3

Freelance Software Engineer und Methodenberater. Bassist und Musiker vom linken Niederrhein.

Versuche regelmäßig die Welt mit Software besser zu machen.

DevOp at feedbeat.io
Committer at daseventhub.org
Tech: java, spring, typescript, angular, python

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 2,077
Followers 177
Following ▼ 2
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I dabble. Mostly in trains - H0 scale and live steam. Sometimes in games. Professionally in tech. German living on Yuggera land in Australia. I post and repost in English and German. Trans rights are human rights.

(Previously @rainynight65)

Profile pic is a close-up of a model locomotive (Victorian Railways B Class B65)

Header is a picture of The Ghan, a tourist train, taken in Alice Springs, Australia, with locomotive NR75 prominently in the lead

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,220
Followers 122
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