UK. In a 🏳️‍🌈 I'm the beige. Diffident.
Natural world, running, mothing (spring/summer/autumn only), cryptic crosswording, British film circa 1930-1980, Shakespeare, local history, cooking. Ex-car driver/non-flyer (both an environmental impact choice). Now user of public transport, bicycle and legs. 
Passionate about nature and protecting the environment.

Earth Scientist, partly retired, Quaternary Geology and thawing #permafrost, still active in #peatland 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

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

Lesli. She, her, they, their (cis; let's normalize the singular they.) Demisexual - queer as in 'fuck you.' Technical writer, devdocs. Registered Dem because registering #Socialist often isn't a viable choice, especially not during primary elections. I'm prejudiced against bigots and I can't stand intolerance. #AllPowerToAllThePeople

Bring me the finest caffeine and chocolate in all the land. 🍫

Original join date/instance: November 18 2022, mastodon.lol

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

Gay partnered (for 16 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.

👨‍👧 Dad
✍️ Freelance writer & author
🚐 Running Springboard — a copywriting business with no AI
📚 The Making of Tomb Raider, 50 Years of Boss Fights, & Book 3
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📬 [email protected]
✉️ Freelance slots open — get in touch!

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
#compilers
#operating_systems
#GOF_AI
#cognitive_science
#linguistics
#physics
#mathematics

Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver

Ars longa, vita brevis.

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)

🇺🇸 Politics and Policy Reporter @VOANews PLACED on ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE by USAGM. Award-nominated VJ. Multilingual. Lived 14 years in Egypt and Lebanon. Covered Arab Spring, War in Libya, Thailand ‘s 2004 tsunami on the ground for CNN en Español. Ex TV Azteca and United Nations Volunteers in Indonesia & Sri Lanka (among others.) Reblogs Not endorsement. 
Washington D.C. 
 #AFreePressMatters

#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)

Das Einfangen von Momenten und das Spiel mit Licht und Farben faszinieren mich immer wieder aufs Neue.

Wichtig. No #altText = No boost. Inklusion statt Nixklusion.

Header: railway station black and white
Profile: Animation selfie of me

tootfinder

“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

Software Engineer 📚 Author of “Cloud Native Spring in Action” and "Developer Experience on Kubernetes" 🛳️ CNCF Ambassador ☕️ Java Champion 🍃 Spring AI Lead Contributor🎙️ International Speaker 👨‍💻 OSS. Work with Java, Cloud Native, GenAI.

I program #SpringBoot web services and have now managed to avoid managing people. I used to program dev tools & before that, program mobile phones.

Once ran the same early Windows 8 build instance on both a hypervisor and native boot.

Old enough to remember #Symbian #C++.

I really like painting miniature figures like those produced for #warhammer, but am not so keen on #GamesWorkshop.

#OnePageRules is my current #TableTop #Wargaming jam.

Involved in some kind of computer bullshit.

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

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.

Digital Humanist with focus on culture and literature, gender diversity, public humanities, narratology and podcasting. Host of RaDiHum20 Podcast.

Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of Spring Cloud Core @ Broadcom

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