UK. In a 🏳️‍🌈 I'm the beige. Diffidently indifferent.
Natural world & mothing (spring/summer/autumn only)

Rarely post on these but runner, reader, cryptic crossworder, Shakespeare, local history, cooking. Ex-car driver/non-flyer (both an environmental impact choice). Now user of public transport, bicycle and legs.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a v. large library. Loves happy endings & her caravan Miss Hetty. Queer. She / her

Profile pic is a selfie: A white woman with dark hair and a smile.

Header: A collage of six of Sandy's books, namely: Passion of a Winter Night, The Gladiator's Passion, The Centurion's Choice, Eagle's Honor: Ravished, Castle of the Wolf, Springtime Pleasures

Gay partnered (for 17 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
📚 The Making of Tomb Raider: 1997-2000 - out later this year!
✍️ Freelance writer & author
🚐 Running Springboard — a newsletter and a copywriting business with no AI
📬 [email protected]

bisexual demiboy (he/they), mistakenly considered cute by various critters here Known to switch from soft boy to radical anti-capitalist and anti-autoritarian at random intervals without notice "They should make a side scroller where I find you and squeeze you" ~@[email protected] "cute boy on Fedi" ~@[email protected] "If you were a worm I would SO still like you" ~@[email protected] "witix is a kind soul in a world that wants to hurt people" ~@[email protected] "You're just naturally sweet." ~@[email protected] "why would someone not like you" ~@[email protected] #noindex #nogods #nomasters Image alts: Profile picture is a digital grawing drawing of a puppyboy in a black hoodie, looking up with a neutral, almost hollow expression, brown hair covering half of his face For more information visit https://witix777.github.io/ants Legal disclaimer: This user is a work of fiction. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

“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

🇺🇸 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)

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.

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

Nebula and 3X BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer.
GODFESTATION (Aug. 2026)
THE DAWN OF DUSK AND TWILIGHT (Oct. 2026)
Head of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.
#books #author #writer #fantasy #horror #scifi #thriller #artist #sciencewriter

A new kind of chemistry. A fast, intentional, and modern RAW photo editor native for Mac. Spring 2026. Made by @latentco — @rcarver, @nazhamid, and @Jpzambrano

Mostly boosting things that make me think (or laugh, or -- these days -- angry). Occasionally sharing stuff I make

Profile image: cartoon of a smiling, gray-haired, pink-skinned man (me)

Banner photo: some white woodland wildflowers in spring

Democrat in Northern California. #Atheist. #Springsteen fan, Go #SJSharks, #SMCGaels, #SacKings, #SFGiants. Bookworm, tech geek. Get vaccinated and vote!

Critical thinker | always seeking the truth | hate (🇷🇺)aggression and lies | despising misinformation and anti-science rhetoric | democracy must be protected in any possible way | retired as a dentist-academic teacher (restorative dentistry, implantology, oral radiology) | married, a lot of children, step- & grandchildren 💕 | sailor Westerly Medway | Scandinavian countries and Baltic states | humor, self-mockery | science | nature | dog: Welsh Springer Spaniël-Ivy 💉🇺🇦⛵️🛥️⚓️🐾🇳🇱🇺🇦🔵