I like to keep an open mind for other people's perspectives, because, IMO, only then you can truly learn something new and form connections with each other. However, I do have strong opinions on certain topics.
OK, I guess it's time for an #introduction post. These all seem to be a bit verbose, but I'll probably abuse the privilege XD
Hi! I'm an overwhelmed single mom of a fantastic, weird, and wonderful daughter. That takes up a lot of my headspace. But, of course, that's not the identity I want to wear on a T-shirt, because that's not fair to either her or me. :-)
I'm a culturally-American, legally-German software developer, currently living in Switzerland. (Yeah, I know, that's a mouthful.) Don't ask me where I'm from, I don't know! XD
I was largely in academia for my mid 20s until about six years ago, doing security-related research, mostly in #PrivacyEnhancingTechnologies, and honestly still miss it a lot.
Some people here will know me for the work I did after that, however, for a (maybe?) free software communications privacy project, which I left after five years because the internal tyranny and chaos was just too much. But that's over now.
I'm now a software engineer for a Very Big Company (TM), still doing #InfoSec, and I'm surprisingly happy with the work.
That's not the identity I want to put on my T-shirt either ;-)
The not-work, not-parent me is a gamer (#DragonAge!), former linguist, and writer (fantasy and romance). I care about #LGBTQIA+ issues (I'm cishet, but that doesn't make it matter less), #ClimateChange, #inequality, #ADHD, #autism, and other people in general.
So I’m told an #introduction is par for the course in these parts? Hey all, I’m into #writing and #fandom in that order. Mostly #fanfiction tbh. Currently an #SI!OC fic in the #Naruto fandom called #FireAway is getting most of my time, but I’ve published a lot of #Shenny for the #tbbt fandom as well-you can find my offerings on #ao3 and #FFNet. I also have a #Ko-fi if you enjoy my fanfics and would like to tip at Ko-Fi.com/muaaimoi. I’m also doing #nanowrimo because why not-lovely to be here💕
Bin Softwareentwickler im Bereich Hausautomatisierung/Smarthome/KNX, eher ausschließlich mit #ModernCpp unterwegs. Aber nicht nur neue Projekte (mit C++20) sondern auch #LegacyCode aus einem anderen Jahrzehnt.
#introduction Hello! I am Tardy, I've been here for a while but haven't done a proper one. You may know me as Mr. Vird or Toady though. I am Tardy @ AO3 for writing & fivegrandcardinals @ tumblr with links to what I like or do. (Including artwork, I'm trying to get back into.)
I love #TalesOf but my favorites are Phantasia, Eternia, Symphonia, Legendia, & Abyss. I also play other JRPGs, and occasionally talk about other media (mostly film, comics, manga, & books) that I consumed.
With the influx of new mastodon users, here's an #introduction so that people can find me!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in Paris, France. My research involves using the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and evolution. Most of my work has been with the #Moon and #Mars, but I also dabble with #Mercury, #Venus, and sometimes the #asteroids and icy satellites of #Jupiter.
Time for an #introduction post I guess. Checking this out after a suggestion from someone on Twitter. I'm a help desk analyst starting out my IT career later in life. Trying to get into infosec, preferably the blue team side. I don't expect to make a ton of content, mostly just here to learn and absorb.
As an #introduction to me, and my #physics career, I highly recommend this article in @PhysicsWorld
with an interview reflecting on particle physics #careers, using mine as an example
Bonjour ! Je m'appelle Fanny, je suis explorartise. J'aime les plantes, les champignons, les feuilles mortes. Je rêve d'un monde plus doux et je suis prête à me battre pour ça. Je suis plutôt de mouvance anarchiste, décoloniale, féministe. Je poste surtout des illustrations et des poèmes. Une partie de mon temps temps, je code en Ruby et en JavaScript. Et aussi, je dessine et je peins.
Merci de m'avoir lue :) Bonne soirée à toustes :blobnomcookie:
Poor timing to post this right before switching servers so here's a re-post of my introduction:
I think it's time for a #introduction. I'm Jay and I'm stoked to interact with the online #science community now that it's migrating off the bird site.
I'm an evolutionary biologist who studies interactions between Datura #plants and the #herbivores that feed on them. My work focuses on how plants and #insects shape each others evolutionary trajectories.
#Introduction
Hi, I'm new here to Mastodon. I didn't do much on social media until the pandemic, and now I'm kind of hooked. I was active on Twitter, but given the new owner's plans it's time to transition elsewhere.
I like sailing, kayaking, day hiking, and a good lager. Until about three years ago, I was active in skiing and beer league hockey.
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (especially the upcoming election), history, art, cinema, and technology.
I'm retired, a bit early due to covid-19 and the desire to protect myself and especially my older partner. We are both still doing what we can to avoid catching this insidious virus even once.
Most of my life I've been apolitical, but while coming from various perspectives over the years I've always been intuitively anti-capitalist and highly critical of the US. I tended generally toward progressive, unconventional, and counter-culture in most contexts but lacked any solid political consciousness or analysis. I was a worker all my life, most of it in the natural food industry (which I felt relatively good about), mostly at retail level. I never wanted to be anyone's boss so I was never a manager and never climbed the corporate ladder. In the later years I was fortunate to have a position that was not involved with sales but rather with protecting and informing customers (internal auditing for weights & measures compliance) which I also felt relatively good about but it certainly wasn't lucrative, lol.
I only became seriously concerned with politics during Bernie Sanders' first presidential campaign when I got a fleeting glimpse of supposed possibility for real change. I began to explore socialist thought and thought of myself as a demsoc. I was focused on electoral reform at the time, thinking that was the problem. I shared info with friends, family and co-workers about various projects to reform electoral politics and I started an account on Twitter (@RD4Democracy, now deleted) in 2017 to have someplace to direct them to for more info and updates.
Fortunately there I found some very helpful voices along with all the noise, but I didn't immediately understand how to differentiate between it all so I was still following some garbage accounts for a while. Nevertheless my political thought evolved rapidly and I found myself following more and more anarchists and starting to understand anarchist thought. I realized I needed to better understand private property and learned about that. I read Graeber's "Debt" and got an understanding of money. I did some research to better understand what capital is and developed an idea of it as a sort of "god" or artificial intelligence with capitalism as its religion.
One of the helpful voices I want to specifically appreciate and recommend is @HeavenlyPossum. With the help of HP and others I was able to successfully navigate the crossroads that many self-described socialists never seem to reach at all and where too many others take the wrong fork into the tankie world.
The pandemic and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine were extremely clarifying events that helped me finally see the nature of that fork in the road, as well as shining an intense light on all the shit accounts I was following and providing an opportunity for others I followed to show or decide their true colors. It has been very sad sometimes while very illuminating.
And now here we are. I felt it important to participate in a non-corporate, decentralized and open source social project like this and the timing seemed significant. Let's see what we can do.
Hi! I'm Caroline and I study the design of sociotechnical systems with and for teens (and their families and communities, sometimes STEM ed, sometimes wellbeing, always equity + justice). Doing my dissertation on how community-partnered projects end, at the intersection of #HCI & #learningsciences.
Currently teaching, dissertating, and job searching. #introduction
Hi Tooters, I am an artist on the internet, and I paint #dinosaurs a lot, so you should expect that. I also paint and draw other things, like trains, aliens, robots, gods, ugly old people, people with long shoes, long cats, and landscapes.
I have created two books with @cmkosemen and @TetZoo: All Yesterdays, about how we portray dinosaurs, and Cryptozoologicon, about mystery animals.
#introduction Simutrans is an open-source transportation simulator available for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.
Simutrans is a very mature project, with 25 years under active development. We have been celebrating this year this milestone (see here for the list of events: https://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?msg=200849).
#Introduction
👾To help some of the newcomers make connections: name subjects and topics that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same