In 1975 I was born in Gosford, NSW, Australia. My father moved to follow the work. He was a surveyor. My earliest memories are of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. I was in preschool at the time. Grade 1 was in The Blue Mountains near Sydney. Central Queensland saw me doing Correspondence School in Grade 5. Outback Queensland in Grade 7 to the mining town of Blackwater. Started high school in Tropical Cairns and finished high school in the port city of Gladstone back in Central Queensland.
Since school I've worked as a computer technician, cotton chipper in Emerald, karaoke host, Harvey Norman salesman, stringer (news cameraman), voice-overs, air-conditioner installer, tradesman's assistant working on QR coal-hauling locomotives, graphic artist, and pizza delivery driver. I've been a singer/guitarist/songwriter in at least four different bands that never went anywhere. I have probably enough material I've written myself to fill an album, but at this rate I'll probably never get around to recording it. I spent a few years making wedding videos in my own business which I closed down when I got bored of making wedding videos. I worked at a printshop making all kinds of things from business cards to shopfront signage for a long time. Now I’m doing social media posts for an IT business.
I love computer games and all things tech. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 that I got in 1981. Second was a Commodore64 followed by a Macintosh II (I say “my” computers, but they were really my fathers, particularly the Mac which he used for CAD work.) After that I got into Windows PC's (or DOS PC's as they were back then) and all the games they offered. Windows 3.11, Windows95, 98, 2000, XP... Then Vista burned me and I now use a Mac.
I've been married since 2000 and have a little block of land with a humble little house on it. We have a cat and no kids.
I didn’t have any interest in politics most of my life. Beyond being able to name the Prime Minister and the Premier of my state, I didn't really care.
When Tony Abbott and the LNP got in, I joined a political party. 90% of my social media became political. I was talking politics with strangers online. I dove headfirst into everything politics and learned everything about how our government is supposed to work and why it didn’t seem to be working as I would have expected. After eight or nine years, I burned myself out on it.
All that time I could have been learning about robotics or playing computer games or recording music.
If politicians did their job and acted in the interests of the people they represent instead of representing the interests of lobby groups that fund their political campaigns, then a huge portion of the world could go back to doing what we do best. Creating, inventing and innovating a diverse multicultural society.
So that’s me!
Now, to become the artist that made it big on Mastodon. 😁
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Just wan say I joined mastodon by accident. Just saw this ho trending 1 day an I thought yeah what tf.
It is so fking good tho. So many different posts yall don get on other socials.
I no I'm younger than most folks on here but this shit good.
Looking fo mo people to fw. Hit me up if yall interested.
Love Jaden ❤️ #introduction#introductions
#introduction
Je voulais changer le monde, alors, je suis devenu créateur de sites web bien référencés car accessibles à tous.
J'aime la typo, l'opensource le Christ et son Église. #SPIPcms est notre ami.
Et le français est naturellement inclusif (la personne que je suis est bien placée pour le confirmer).
Reason I joined dis app was to connect with a diverse range of people.
I want to hear about yall lives .
I got stuck in Instagram and posts from black teens in the US.
I want to hear about different lives in England, Europe etc and diverse #LGBTQ, all ages , #Trans . What popping ? What going wit yall ?
I try and post my life, interested in yours.
Make masto real , not just bout tech , politics and all that boring shit.
Like to get to know yall.
Love Jaden ❤️ #Introduction#Introductions
Unlike #Twitter, this place isn’t set up as a race for RTs & likes & feels more like an ongoing conversation. Engagement is high & on the whole, there’s less outrage & more thoughtful content. I’ve been enjoying the chance to get to meet interesting new folks.
Tip: Start with an #introduction & share your interests. @feditips is a helpful follow to get oriented too.
ICYMI: My bio gives you the basics. I'm a Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) who is here to share breaking news, stories that strike me as important/interesting + legit info you can use, along with a few laughs & a healthy dose of snark.
I toot a lot because there's a lot of disinformation out there and I care deeply about getting the truth out to as many people as I can.
Hi, I am Raghav from Mumbai, India. I am engaged in research and work towards developing open education tools, platforms, and environments to support self-directed learning and innovative teaching methods.
⭐ What programming language do you use most of your life? Why exactly?
Most of my time I worked with almost the entire .Net stack, and in recent years it's Unity, so my language is C#
There were episodes in my life with mobile, many web stuff, java, c++, databases, etc.
I joined this app coz I saw it trending an shit. This bitch good an shit but istg I got to be the youngest ngga here 😅😅
Ain gon lie to get mastodon firin y'all got to encourage young people to!
Ian saying it got to be like insta and tik tok an shit coz y'all a different social an than what makes this shit good. But fk I feel like a baby on this mf 😅😅
Be good to fw y'all. If yall wan fw me hit me up .
Love Jaden ❤️ #introduction#introductions
I used to work with this cool lady and she would always take an interest in my songwriting. Every Monday, she’d ask how the weekend jam sessions went and if I’d recorded anything new. The weird thing was, anytime I had something uploaded for her to listen to, she’d listen to it through, and then tell me that it’s “not her kind of music” which is fair enough, but it always bemused me that she would take such an interest if she didn’t like what I was making.
One day, I decided to write her a song that she’d enjoy.
Spotify and Apple Music were playing at work all the time, so I knew what sort of songs she was into. Classic Rock. Australian Pub Rock in particular. She was a single mum in her 50’s, a strong, hard woman, an Aussie battler.
I wrote Proud Woman in a weekend, and recorded it at home on borrowed equipment. A mate I regularly jammed with did the vocals for me and when it was done, I uploaded it to my SoundCloud and gave her the link when I got to work.
She liked it.
The experience taught me the value of an audience of one. Even though the recording is rough, the focus on writing a song for one person with the aim that they - that person in particular - enjoys it, I think gave me a different perspective than when I was either writing purely for my own enjoyment, or simply going with some random song idea.
#introduction post? Hi, I'm Dan.
I don't generally do social media. And yet here I am. Trying out this Fedi thing,
excited to have a space where I can just be myself.
I'm recently self diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic, #PDA, #Aphantasia, #Anauralia & officially #ADHD (39yo, better late than never!)
It's been so enlightening to finally start learning and embracing who I really am.
Meeting other autistic people has been amazing and is helping me feel less alone.
Hey y'all I'm real interested in meeting people on mastodon that ain't just interested in politics and tech shit. It be good if we spread dis app out so it includes fun shit and all. Istg the only complaint bout masto is this so fking serious!!!
We liten up ???
Guys please hit me up if you just want FUN posts!
I really want to meet yall .
Follow me and if you just post fun shit . NO CAP I'll follow yall back.
Love yall
Jaden ❤️ #Introduction#Introductions
About 1y ago I decided to leave Xitter and focus my social media on the #fediverse.
Never ever would I have dreamed to meet so many nice people over here.
I think it is time for a 2nd #introduction:
Hi, I'm Ilu, a weird human being tooting mostly in English, but when it gets to German politics, day to day news or retweeting stuff you will notice German toots as well.
I collect old computers and I toot about my collection from time to time as well as nerd stuff related to that hobby...
#writingwonders
This month I am going to focus on a #fantasyseries of books I began a long time ago that I call my Threads Series that I want to return to and decide whether I should #self-publish.
I wanna chat wit yall bout interesting shit not sum dumb ass random posts bout the last software update and shit .
Can we get mastodon posting interesting shit . What yall been doing etc. I don wanna make dis shit like insta but we got crank dis bitch up another level feel me ?
Follow me and imma follow you back .
Change Mastodon 🤞🏾
Love yall Jaden ❤️❤️ #Introduction#Introductions
I live on the west coast of Sweden, just north of Gothenburg. I'm married and we have a son who will turn 18 in just a few days. I work in tech, with business-critical systems for the eCommerce sector. I'm #autistic and have #ADHD, was not diagnosed until I was 34. My interests are many, such as #science#tech#politics#climatechange#education#healthcare#travel#space and of course everything about #ecommerce.
@Tedpsycho Ted, you need to add a profile description of yourself. Then an #introduction. Without those, people tend to think that you might be a troll or fake account.
Please don't see this as criticism. I am just trying to share some of my understanding.