I am an eclectic #witchy wordsmith crafting and #writing enchantments through #fantasy novels. Beyond quills and keyboards, I unleash my creativity on #illustrations and visual #art , #naturephotography , and dabble in the mystiques of #Linux things.

I am #Dutch and #dyslexic. While I do my best to minimize errors, please forgive me for the occasional slip-up.

Profile picture: Me wearing a purple #witch hat and a friendly smile.

Header: Photograph of the moon through the trees in spring.

Nebula and BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer.
TO WONDER AND STARSHINE - July 2025
ATACAMA; DOOMFLOWER - Out Now
EIC of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.

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.

“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

#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

If anybody wants to know a few things about me

#UK
#Hedgehogs
#LiberalDemocrat
#WalterPresents
#CognitiveTrailTheory
#CovidIsNotOver
#Nightwish
#Springsteen
#ActuallyImReallyQuiteBoring

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.

software engineer from #Berlin

#kotlin #java #quarkus #SpringBoot #fedi22 tfr

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

Grill-King, Social-Media-Junkie, Software-Developer.

Currently available for freelance work (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Vue.js)

Ehemals @dirksteins on Twitter.

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

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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

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

• She/Her • 21 • 🇧🇷, talk 🇧🇷🇬🇧 • Valve & FOSS fangirl • Mermaid 🧜‍♀️ • 🏳️‍🌈 Lesbian ⚢ •





Loves #swimming, #cooking, #mermaids and #gaming. #OpenSource everything. #Linux user.

https://luana.dev.br/

Searchable!

40-something former Event Zaddy™ turned producer at a digital agency, professional tall guy, big Leo energy. Toots about life, work, tech gripes, gay shit. 🏳️‍🌈👬 🎉 Bouncing between Seattle, WA and Palm Springs, CA (he/him)

Principal Cloud Advocate, Java/JVM Languages @ Microsoft, computer scientist and MBA, pilot, inglés y español. Java Champion, Google Developer Expert in Kotlin, Rockstar presenter, author of O'Reilly book Spring Boot: Up and Running (bit.ly.com/springbootbook)

Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University.
#IPE, #techgovernance #platformgovernance #copyright #datagovernance #SydneySwans tragic.

Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).

pls. find me on threads 🧵
Kommunikation, Kultur und Narrative.

I teach #Java, write books, and speak on Open Source.
VP Data Privacy TheASF—sharing practical insights on #Java, #Spring, & #Log4j.

Here for game shows, primarily in English. Friday night Top of the Pops, and whatever else springs to mind.

North-west European. Old enough to remember the Berlin Wall, young enough to knock down Johnson's.

Generally won't follow folk who post politics without content warnings. Will aggressively filter out Yankee politics.

Weaver's Week at http://ukgameshows.com
weaversweek at tumblr (and a dormant bluesky, previously weaversweek and bandanachap at twitter)

Husband, father of four, volunteer, athlete, continuous learner. Deliberately practicing to build, run, and manage, better software, faster. #Spring Developer Advocate.