for the love of it
Life: cycling, bushwalking, amateur radio VK5TU, Linux tinkering.
Work: network engineering, systems programming, technical team leadership.
Location: Adelaide, Australia.
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Middle aged, menopausal wreckage (who isn't a public servant), living behind a computer in Canberra.
Knows a little about a lot, and has many loosely-held opinions.
From now on, all typos in my toots will be left in place as markers of my mental state.
That’s enough socialising, now back to screaming into the void. Aromantic He/Him.
Allegedly professional software developer. Definitively amateur photographer. Interested in things.
Avatar image: Headshot of me against a black background. I have purple hair and an inane beard.
Header image: Black and white photograph of multiple train tracks with overhead power lines. There is a bitumen road on the right hand side of the image separated from the tracks by a chainlink fence.
The world's averagest #climber.
I #make stuff out of wood, metal, fabric, flour, polygons, code and wires.
Part human, part #bicycle.
King of the #whippet army.
Learning by doing with #Linux.
I use, and write free scripts for, #Blender, #DaVinciResolve and other stuff.
PfP: Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm by Nicolas Gayet from Paulo Bonifacio lab, that I animated to look like a Muppet monster popping up from a hole and smiling. Banner is a Blender screen shot of a triceratops animation.
Your local Perth Cyber security guy! CTO of Hyprfire, and computer sorcerer.
Likes: infosec, networks, people, and coffee
Pros: he/they
PGP Key: e66fd000b1e871cd
I dabble. Mostly in trains - H0 scale and live steam. Sometimes in games. Professionally in tech. German living on Yuggera land in Australia. I post and repost in English and German. Trans rights are human rights.
(Previously @rainynight65)
Profile pic is a close-up of a model locomotive (Victorian Railways B Class B65)
Header is a picture of The Ghan, a tourist train, taken in Alice Springs, Australia, with locomotive NR75 prominently in the lead
Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. Also, fuck Elon Musk. He/Him. Header image credit: ESO/L. Calçada.
Living on the land of the Wangal people (aka Inner West Sydney).
tofu enthusiast
Accumulating too many useful glass jars
Amateur/sometimes professionally interested in fermenting food
In practice I mostly post photos of things I see
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
[Bluesky users: please follow @ap.brid.gy so I can read your replies.]
Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. I also have a novel out in ebook form, Mind the Gap. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au, and become a patron of my Patreon at patreon.com/timrichards.
A Geeky Chinese Auntie
I'm a building science and architecture researcher and educator. I'm in the very final part of my PhD :loading:
I used to be a delivery driver but now NO.
I ride my Scooty scoot and my ebike around the city.
I boost photos of cats, dogs, birds, rats and other beloveds! Pete content: #PiratePete
Be excellent to each other.
DMs from people I know only 👉👈
Here since 2016 carrying on about this and that: the future of community, trans rights, #auspol, #compostodon, growing things and health governance. Wollongong.
Images: a green marble, and orange lit clouds over an ocean horizon.
“I want to be on the side of surprise, and against the certainties of pictures and property.” - Barbara Kruger
Philosopher attempting #permaculture design while existing with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Fibromyalgia late diagnosed #AuDHD. Equity advocate. Anti-capitalist. Arch Linux user. Promoter of FOSS.
Born at 333ppm atmospheric CO2
If we have similar interests I'd love to follow you on here, but please fill out your bio and/or pin an introduction post to your timeline so I know who you are. I generally won't follow accounts that don't share this info.
Doing a #PhD @anucybernetics in #opensource #voice and #data #bias #FairML. Into #linux, #IoT. Built @SenseBreast. She/her pronouns. Ex @mycroft_ai @linuxaustralia @deakin @mozilla
Living in Australia on Waddawurrung land but with connections in #Northumberland
#MastoAdmin for fediverse.au
I'm a policy nerd and velocipedestrian, studying Italian and Indonesian, trying to grow veggies and learning to be more tolerant and empathetic.
I like tea, libraries, jigsaw puzzles, fridge magnets, cooking, mountains, trains, rescue dogs and tropical islands.
When I grow up I want to be a train driver. Or a librarian. Or maybe a character in a William Gibson novel.
I only boost pics with Alt Text. Most of my posts vanish after three months.
Cover: Sam Kerr post-goal backflip
In unceded lutruwita (ex. croweater) somewhere north of nipaluna. Angry scientist (fire, forest and spatial ecology, gis and #rstats). Weird music maker, proud NTEU
Matrix: @ozjimbob:matrix.org
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/A_wLsxe2etdSXKqgCTZxrnYCWpbIz5BPNtFAOIQsupLaAGFlG3BPv6YYncNWR5vj
Simplex: https://smp18.simplex.im/a#P539EhaH1v6kdTg-oYK78PcNUQOvUj0mFQ1zV1UkQXA
