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

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.

Nebula and BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. 

April 2026: DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL
Out now: TO WONDER AND STARSHINE
EIC of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.

Account of Ezekiel Springer, writer, author, blerd, and Knower of useless knowledge.

A Wandering Teacher uses #watercolor, #ink, & #Krita, to make flora, fauna, & #fanart.
It is super effective!
Self-taught & still #learning;

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.

#Art #Painting #KidLit #KidLitArt #DigitalArt #Creative #Cooking #Sewing #Education #Inclusion #Accessibility #ArtABCs

Слава Україні! Героям слава! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
🇺🇦💙💛

Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Certified developer.

Film nerd/ film buff.

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

#dkmastodon #dkfilm #film #azure #dotnet #fedi22

(Banner photo: Line Svindt. Profile photo: Christian Monggaard)

325 ppm. Unternehmer. #Hacking, #c++, #rust, #java, #spring; #sailing, #climbing (nowadays badly), #piano (badly), #cycling, #renewableenergy, #emobility, #Energiewende.

#NieWiederIstJetzt.

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

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

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

Ehemals @dirksteins on Twitter.

Realized #actuallyautistic at 63, which has been a prime factor in mitigating ME/CFS. Linux, java, flutter. Etymology, weird word facts. Wicked Jeopardy player (except in People, see above). Springer spaniels 🇨🇦

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

Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel

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

Frameworks & Architecture in the Spring open source engineering team, all things Spring, Java, data, DDD, REST, software architecture, drums & music. He/him.

Freelance Software Engineer und Methodenberater. Bassist und Musiker vom linken Niederrhein.

Versuche regelmäßig die Welt mit Software besser zu machen.

DevOp at https://feedbeat.io
Committer at https://daseventhub.org
Tech: java, spring, typescript, angular, python

#engineer #developer #bassplayer #enthusiast #krefeld

SW-Developer, Father, Musician
#DEVCommunity #Berlin #Java #csharp #SpringBoot #TypeScript #Angular #coffee

Raconteur, paranoid data monkey, musician, feline collaborator. He/him.

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.

#MusicTherapist (MT-BC) in pvt community based practice Denver 🎹 🎶 ☕️ 🌼 Zone 6a gardener
#MusicTherapy #gardening #gardeningMastodon #springBulbs #knitting

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

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – 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