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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 12,242
Followers ▼ 13
Following 1,697
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Michael Simons
@[email protected]

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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 9,918
Followers ▼ 12
Following 492
Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
@[email protected]

Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel


via W7AAXD5V

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 36,174
Followers ▼ 10
Following 511
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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 658
Followers ▼ 7
Following 529
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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 Less than a day ago
Posts 44,513
Followers ▼ 7
Following 2,005
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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 Less than a day ago
Posts 8,108
Followers ▼ 7
Following 508
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Ko van Huissteden
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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 4 days ago
Posts 10,080
Followers ▼ 5
Following 477

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 1,979
Followers ▼ 5
Following 213
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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 1 day ago
Posts 823
Followers ▼ 5
Following 233
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Corneil du Plessis (he/him)
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Staff Software Engineer at , speaker (only diverse panels), organizer , scientific skeptic, BLM. Opinions are my own.

Last posted 5 days ago
Posts 489
Followers ▼ 5
Following 679
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ThreeDollarBill
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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

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,734
Followers ▼ 4
Following 220
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KarinWanderer
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A Wandering Teacher uses , , & , to make flora, fauna, & .
It is super effective!
Self-taught & still ; noAI

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.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,065
Followers ▼ 4
Following 1,081
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Justin Bianco
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Indie app developer & maker of @forscore (no support questions here, please). I love music, photography, and coding. Seattle/Palm Springs

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 4,800
Followers ▼ 3
Following 436
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Speckgürtel Speckflagge (aber vegetarisch).
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 1 day ago
Posts 11,968
Followers ▼ 3
Following 496
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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 1 day ago
Posts 4,477
Followers ▼ 3
Following 416
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Nick Frederiksen
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Слава Україні! Героям слава! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
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Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Certified developer.

Film nerd/ film buff.

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

(Banner and profile photo: Line Svindt.)

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 467
Followers ▼ 2
Following 404
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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 3,221
Followers ▼ 2
Following 222
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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 6,047
Followers ▼ 2
Following 580
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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 1 day ago
Posts 84
Followers ▼ 2
Following 641
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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
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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 11,487
Followers ▼ 2
Following 663
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Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑
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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 Less than a day ago
Posts 6,649
Followers ▼ 2
Following 1,011