Earth Scientist, retired, Quaternary Geology and thawing #permafrost, still active in science communication. 
Former Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. 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

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

#gardening #wald #woods #trees #Wandervogel #Romantik #ChoralMusic #EarlyMusic #anglican #neopagan #Episcopagan #LGBT #TMSidhi #fantasy #science #SF #PlantScience #botany #labyrinths #impossible #paranormal #folklore #magic #UAP #NAFO #Ukraine #Maine #photography #liminal

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.

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 #intro, what to expect here, as well as alt-texts for pfp & banner <3

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.

Слава Україні! Героям слава! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
🇺🇦💙💛

Late diagnosed autistic man, trying to figure out who he is...

Catless catperson, between jobs. Former developer explorering the world of culture, one venue at a time.

Proud volunteer at Odense Film Festival since '09 and OFFSpring since '25!

#dkmastodon #dkfilm #film #azure #dotnet #fedi22

(Banner and profile photo: Line Svindt.)

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.

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578

Speckgürtel Speckflagge (aber vegan).
Moderator auf dieser Instanz.

#Bremen #Fahrrad #Hunde #Fischerhude

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.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of @springbootbuch and #DuckDB 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: https://www.manning.com/books/duckdb-in-action

“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)

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

 I always follow back and boost often!
https://justmytoots.com/@loughrn@mastodon.world

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:
#computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd #unix_old_fart
#compilers
#operating_systems
#GOF_AI
#cognitive_science
#linguistics
#physics
#mathematics

Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver

Ars longa, vita brevis.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

cybersyndicate admin vanta rainbow black (she/they/it), creator of @FediPact and Legendary Defender Of The Fediverse

as seen in the book Move Slowly And Build Bridges: Mastodon, The Fediverse, And The Struggle For Democratic Social Media!

recognized irl from fedi 28 times so far

"misfit loser zealot" according to john gruber

164,261 lifetime posts on past instances | joined fedi 2017

53k words deep into writing a book called "THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP: My Mastodon Microblog Memoir"

late 20's | seattle | a cyberpunk catgirl | trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist | fediverse sex symbol | prolific poster | AuDHD af | rogue wordsmith extraordinaire | fedi's favorite pirate radio DJ | anarcho-communist | DIY fashion designer | video editor vagabond | punweaver | chaotic good | a gamedev apparently? | learning toki pona | bassist | punk fashion icon | queen of the plushtodon hashtag | walking pride flag | photographer | woman of many hats, legiterally | learning how to art | culturally southern californian but religiously a seattleite

DONATION INFO: https://vanta.money

​ MINORS DNI. this is for my own safety

joyfriend: @ka_so

big sister: @rachaelspooky

headmates: @sativa and @Neon

seattle alt: @vantablack

#plushtodon #TokiPona #seattle #photography

#vantaselfie #vantaboobs #vantalewd #vantaDIY #vantaDIYWIP #VantaArt

A Wandering Teacher uses #watercolor, #ink, & #Krita, to make flora, fauna, & #fanart.
It is super effective!
Self-taught & still #learning;

she/her

Reviews are my own unpaid & unsolicited opinions.

Avatar is a watercolor woman in a green shirt, resting her chin on 1 hand while looking at the viewer. Her head is on fire.
Banner is Moon Girl studying.

#Art #Painting #KidLit #KidLitArt #DigitalArt #Creative #Cooking #Sewing #Education #Inclusion #Accessibility #ArtABCs

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.

She/her. ""Staff" Dev". Once called "non-binary diety of spring" by a fuzzy linked search algorithm.

I work on kubectl and try to help with anti cop activism in Seattle in my spare time.

Co-chair of SIG-CLI for the Kubernetes project.

Blåvingad stan account

🏴🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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

#nobots #noindex

Writing Software for Swisscom during the day, everything else at night | Father of two kids | 🇨🇭

Topics that I find interesting:
#fedi22 #Java #Kotlin #Spring #SpringBoot #Programming #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Tech #BigBone #Mastodon4J #BugBounty #Mastodon #DIY #Hacking #Making

Carbon-based Turing Test-compliant life-form DBA Professor of #Transportation #Geography at #McMaster University, where I teach and do research on #accessibility, #TravelBehavior, #SpatialAnalysis, #ActiveTravel, #TransportPolicy.

I am an #Rstats enthusiast and big believer in #Reproducible #Open #Science.

I have several hobbies, including #CreativeWriting, #CreativeCoding and #Rtistry.

#geogdon #mapstodon #Rspatial #HamOnt

Estadística, datos, gráficos, cuentas, cuentas y más cuentas 📊⛏

Aquí se habla de: #estadística #statistics #datos #CienciaDeDatos #DataScience #Rstats #dataviz #muestreo #sampling #encuestas #surveys #sesgo #bias

Software engineer with a lot of #Java #Spring #SpringBoot #Gradle #linux #nix and #nixos

Admin of @darktablefr and https://darktable.fr

Toots retention = 1 year
#fedi22

Front-end dev dilettante. ½ Japanese. Hawaii born. I have been doing web stuff since late last century. Nowadays, UX & JS. I build the legacy apps of tomorrow.

– MDiv degree. MA interaction design. In progress: MS digital comm analytics.

– Principal software engineer.

– 😍😠 relationship with TypeScript.

– Contributed to O'Reilly book on jQuery years ago. Tech edited a few others.

– Fan of Eleventy. Also into SolidJS & Svelte. Forever chasing an optimal workflow.