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Retired structural engineer. 
Amateur astro photographer and illustrator
Trying to learn the French horn while geriatrically challenged .
Always wondering how consciousness could have arisen to function in a physical brain.
Lover of all weird fiction and images (see above) Hater of all Nazis, MAGA, anti-vaxers and anti-science conspiracists.
Obsessed with American politics at the moment.
Loves all dogs.
Happily married since 1980
Living in Melbourne, Australia

Former fund manager. Lapsed neo-liberal. Terrified of the climate emergency. I tend to follow back.

Knight in shrimp armour. Seeking to right the world's wrongs. You may also call me Prawn Quixote!

BIG News! Starting an online newspaper the TEdASPHERE Globe! https://tedasphere.ptec3d.com/

Out of the darkness somebody called

Do people make decisions of conscience anymore?

But I hardly hear a murmur on the breeze

Can someone find me a cure for times like these

This feed may contain unmarked spoilers, TV Tropes, and other Brain Bleach inducing links. RTs (if those are a thing on Mastodon, still learning) not necessarily endorsements. He/Him.

Mature White AngloSaxon Hetero ✔️✔️✔️✔️ MWAH

hey there ! I am from Russia, pole of cold, born in USSR, somehow survived the 90s and perestroika :)
moved to Australia, lived in Japan for a little bit before that
love all things open source and self hosted, was in web hosting for embarrassingly long time, still a rookie surfer and apparently a OK runner
new to the whole fediverse (is this how it's called?) thing, testing it out to see what / where etc
cheers comrades

Idle. Sometimes bone-idle. Trying to write fiction, intermittently. Also (still) trying to find the right chap. Easily distracted.

For more information, see the #introduction post which I've handily pinned below. It's time for my nap now.

They're not using fucking #AI.

Retired renewable energy and M&A strategist, and former software nerd living near Naarm / Narrm (aka Melbourne), AU.

My opinions are 80% at odds with the consensus (and with the benefit of hindsight, turn out to be prescient), and 20% are in alignment with the consensus (and with the benefit of being able to spot the obvious, they also turn out to be correct).

🏢 Microsoft 365, Copilot, and modern workplace expert. 
Developer: SPFx, Microsoft Graph, Azure, DevOps.
Enthusiast: LLMs and AI real world use cases, EVs (owner of a Tesla Model 3 before Elon became a d-bag), interested in electrifying society.
Departed Twitter around the same time as I started on Mastodon - late 2023.

Living in Sydney, writing slowly

Australian (Wollongong) 3D/CGI/video game artist, virtual worldbuilder, fetish model, superhero, chronic sarcastic, scientist, drunk, chocolatier & untamed force of nature!

Chief of Staff for AnthrOhio
Fursuiter from Columbus, Ohio

Melbourne based commercial photographer. https://TravelPhotos.Asia

Born in N. Ireland, now living in Australia. Into bush camping - see https://slowcamping.com.au/ and a new holistic view of how we integrate with our natural environment. Professional human-centred designer, service designer (MA Design Futures).

Journalist, photojournalist posting on disinformation/geostrategy/current issues/adventure/nature.
Photography: landscape/nature/garden agriculture.

PACIFICEDGE: https://medium.com/pacificedge
Permaculture blogger & educator:
PERMACULTURE JOURNAL: https://medium.com/permaculture-3-0
- https://pacific-edge.info

runner | skater | CPA | killer of house plants | EDM tragic | pasta enthusiast | child of migrants | parent to two humans | she/her | not a cat

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Living in a small town between Gondwana rainforests and the Pacific coast. First Nations peoples, the Gumbaynggir manage/d the rich biodiversity of the Bellinger and Kalang rivers for aeons.
A landscape fitting fossil fuel mobility, livestock, exotic weeds and oodles of poodles is now emerging. The diversity of life is making way for a simplified mono-culture.#Settlers and their industries cannot wait to make this another Sydney...
#Bellingen #NSW #Wildlife #Biodiversity #culture #habitability