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Married, software dev, geek, science fiction fan, Linux user. searchable.

My username is a reference to https://wiki.lspace.org/Ponder_Stibbons, a geek who thinks of himself as the Unseen University's "token sane person". In reality he's as mad as the rest of the faculty.

With hindsight, perhaps this joke is a bit too obscure.

Tech leader working in automotive financing and fleet management.

Street & documentary photographer, exploring the urban environment and human world.

Bristolian who is generally disappointed at the state of local politics.

Grumpy about national and world politics. Trying to be part of the tofu eating wokerati, but without actually having to eat tofu.

Occasional cat pictures & toots about home life.

#fedi22 #Bristol #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #ProtestPhotography

Tracking politics, policing and civil liberties in the UK.

#UKPol #UKPolitics #CivilLIberties

Stuck in the gutter but gazing up at the stars.

freelance person, mostly software
He/Him
Falmouth UK

a larger than average carbon based humanoid
works at dxw
one of the #DevOpsDays London organizers
interests: #DevOps #rugby #cricket #StrongMan #RealAle #StarWars #WoodWorking #food #pubs #London #SF #ScienceFiction #Babylon5 #beards

@rjw1 elsewhere

Former biologist; now working in science publishing.
I ❤️ #PaperPlanners #stickers #running #baking #blogging
Currently doing house stuff. Knee hurty mostly better so will be trying a bit more running soon 🏃‍♀️
Social for personal blog @coffeenow

Bookwyrm @clare_hooley

Most posts deleted after 6 months

Technologist designing software to address the climate change emergency and helping improve diversity in tech.

Some things I enjoy:
- travelling, by train or tall ship if possible;
- contributing to my community orchard;
- reading SF&F;
- baking cake;
- eating cheese;
- cat pictures.

Some things I believe in:
- Trans rights are human rights,
- Slava Ukraini
- Free Palestine

He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 Newly 40s Christian geek. Podcaster / Content Creator, Tech Support Ninja, Reasonable Designer!

Engaged to @jae

- Software Architect at Cadence Design Systems
- IT&T Sector vice president at Prospect Union
- Reluctant "C++ expert"
- Bicycle-riding tofu-munching foreign wokeratus.
- Liberal Luddite
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇪

Husband. Father. #Guitar player. Wonderer. Background in aircraft engineering, #communications, #teaching, #training, #SpiritualCare and #Research.

#PlumVillage practitioner and ordained student of #Zen Master #ThichNhatHanh. 🌻

I'm a Board Registered #Healthcare #Chaplain in #Hospice and #NHS settings. Staff #Wellbeing, #SpiritualCare, and development of #Mindfulness in public Service.

My Dharma name is Chân Hướng Vui (True Joyful Direction)

Always happy to chat! 😊

Generic humanoid carbon unit. ❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society. Instantiated @ 332ppm.

Currently building @manyfold and site admin @ https://mastodon.me.uk

Previously: https://dxw.com, https://somethingnew.org.uk, https://openpolitics.org.uk, https://apolitical.co, https://theodi.org, https://www.amee.com and more.

Alignment: Chaotic Whimsy.

#OpenSource #Ruby #Rails #Python

Monsters from the Id! Fish from the Wardrobe! Or something.

(TTRPG/Coding/Linux/Politics/Snark/Woo/ASD, in no particular order.)

Boosts are almost certainly an endorsement of *something*. Possibly not _literally_ the post in question, though.

Libraries gave us power. Then work came and made us free. Boosts almost always mean profound agreement . If you see an ianbetteridge on Twitter, it's not me. Secure email: ian.betteridge@proton.me

Things are:

* White or "political"
* Straight or "political"
* Male or "political"
* Cis or "political"
* Able-bodied or "political"
* Christian or "political"
* Capitalist or "political"

etc, etc

"I don't like to talk about politics" means "I voted Tory and I don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable"

A stuffed simian. Posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

Avatar alt-text: The head and upper torso of a stuffed gorilla. The gorilla is seated and its body is directed slightly towards the left. The head faces the same way but the gorilla is looking directly at the viewer.

Header alt-text: A 'Show Your Stripes' graph showing temperature anomalies for London since 1850, relative to a 1961 to 2010 baseline. The lines to the left are blue and become progressively redder to the right.