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

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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

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.

A container of multitudes & an ebullient wally. Constantly curious. Tina Belcher in her 40s. I'm OK.

#slaithwaite #Huddersfield #yorkshire
#cats #dogs #springerspaniels
#hiking #cycling (touring) #swimming
#nature #gardening #GrowYourOwn
#fiberart #textiles #crochet #embroidery
#history #SocialHistory #heritage
#books #SpeculativeFiction #HistoricalFiction
#gaming #oxygennotincluded #factorio #openttd

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

#Genre researcher and #Grundtvig-scholar. Cheerleader, content accumulator, climate worrier (and sometimes warrior). Father of four. Recovering mansplainer; wannabe feminist. Dane; whatever that is. #Wikipedia 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. #BLM
 #dkmastodon #WokeAF #RandomActsOfKindness #YIMBY #FBPE #FBR

Büchersüchtig - Japanverliebt - 🐢 - Traumtanzende & Wolkenspringende - neurodivergent - non-binary - Silkpunkliebe

Links: https://linktr.ee/saskiadressler

Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel

#Java #Rust #Python #SpringIO #Microservices #3dprinting #FckAfd #NazisRaus #Leipzig #nobot
#Threema via W7AAXD5V

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.

#Biochemist, #ComputerScientist, #SystemsBiology, #Professor, #Photographer, #EVdriver, #Programmer, #SysAdmin, #Enzymologist

Header photo is the Palette Spring in Yellowstone. The beautiful colors come from microbial biofilms growing in the spring (mostly archea and bacteria)

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

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

Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media.

header: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025
avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on

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

🏴🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

🥾 Spring Boot 🚂 Rails 🤖 AI 🐧 Linux

Micrometer and Spring maintainer, Spring Observability Team member, Open Sourcerer, Speaker, @seattlejug co-organizer, Java Champion

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

“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

Dev JS React
Sinon ça cause surtout parentalité queer, antifascisme et petite poésie/réflexion.

Je relaie certaines infos et certains visuels artistique (ou non) en relation avec les luttes antifascistes quand j'ai le temps.

antifascism
Queer
Esprit critique & zététique
💖 Sequins & love
Iel/them

Software engineer with a lot of #Java #Spring #SpringBoot #Gradle
I play #game on #xbox game pass
Admin of @darktablefr and https://darktable.fr

Toots retention = 1 year
#fedi22

Software architect, quantum computing nomad, open source maintainer, Microsoft MVP. Working in R&D in the medical industry. Interested in quantum foundations.
Author of “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” (Springer). Maple Leafs fan 💙

Mark has worked with key players in numerous industries and organizations to develop, deliver, and maintain critical capabilities securely, on time, and on budget. Mark is a Java Champion, open source contributor, author of Spring Boot: Up and Running (https://bit.ly/springbootbook), and a licensed, instrument-rated pilot.