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Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
@[email protected]

Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel


via W7AAXD5V

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 315
Followers 1,654
Following 524
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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 ▼ 315
Followers 1,176
Following 2,022
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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.

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"my cutie (it/its)" ~ @BernadetteKessler

"computer toucher in the street, girl kisser in the sheet" ~ @somsnosa

"aaaaaaaaaaah" ~ @drakulix

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

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 154
Followers 1,713
Following 1,267
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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 ▼ 97
Followers 1,436
Following 496
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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.

Be advised: I edit my toots a lot. Almost all of it proofreading.

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

LGBTQ+ ally.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 93
Followers 3,665
Following 1,704
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40-something former Event Zaddy™ turned producer at a digital agency, professional tall guy, big Leo energy. Toots about life, work, travel, tech gripes, gay shit. 🏳️‍🌈👬 🎉 Bouncing between Seattle, WA and Palm Springs, CA (he/him)

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts ▼ 83
Followers 522
Following 121
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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 ▼ 80
Followers 414
Following 579
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Computer nerd. Avid collector of retro computing gear. Ham radio operator. Gear head. Wannabe pastry chef. Amateur runner.

Actually autistic and ADHD.

Living in the Palm Springs area.

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts ▼ 75
Followers 456
Following 239
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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 ▼ 59
Followers 554
Following 669
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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 ▼ 53
Followers 907
Following 1,013
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Adrian Morales
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Last posted 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 45
Followers 223
Following 201
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🇧🇪 Andy Costanza verified
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Software engineer with a lot of
I play on game pass
Admin of @darktablefr and darktable.fr

Toots retention = 1 year

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 42
Followers 671
Following 524
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If anybody wants to know a few things about me









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 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 42
Followers 380
Following 707
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A container of multitudes & an ebullient wally. Constantly curious. Tina Belcher in her 40s. I'm OK.



(touring)




Profile alt: a 40 something white woman in profile. She has curly hair & glasses.

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts ▼ 32
Followers 790
Following 352
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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 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 31
Followers 237
Following 442
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Jendia Gammon
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Nebula and 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 ▼ 31
Followers 372
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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 2 days ago
Posts ▼ 29
Followers 121
Following 122
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fool's spring
@[email protected]

outsider scientist, nontrepreneur, professor intern, DEI hire

Last posted Less than a day ago
Posts ▼ 27
Followers 1,029
Following 331
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Ko van Huissteden
@[email protected]

Earth Scientist, partly retired, Quaternary Geology and thawing , still active in conservation research. 
Former Vrije Universiteit, now at VOF Kytalyk Carbon Cycle Research
. Fan of forests, wetlands, Wadden sea, the Highlands & Hebrides.
Author of 'Thawing Permafrost (Springer Natuture Verlag) and 'Permafrost nu, in het ijstijd-verleden en de toekomst' (KNNV Uitgeverij, Netherlands)
 Dutch, English, German, French, some Scots Gaelic and Russian

Last posted 5 days ago
Posts ▼ 25
Followers 645
Following 477
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Saskia Dreßler (they/them)
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Büchersüchtig - Japanverliebt - 🐢 - Traumtanzende & Wolkenspringende - neurodivergent - non-binary - Silkpunkliebe

Links: linktr.ee/saskiadressler

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 25
Followers 278
Following 176
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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 1 day ago
Posts ▼ 24
Followers 569
Following 865