Instance directory: mastodon.nz

Thoughts entirely my own.

An #NZTwit. Possibly one of the first of the original exodus? Sorry about that. You can blame me for this place going to the dogs 😬

In the Nov'22 exodus, I followed everyone & anyone who followed me. Follows are not an endorsement etc etc.

I'm a visual/audio artist. Former healthcarer, UK born Kiwi.
Likes: Evidence, music tech, dogs, kindness. Dislikes: Billionaires projecting their own psychopathy onto others. Nature IS variation. If a belief system rejects that, it is maladaptive.

I *actualise* caring so only eat products which never had a pulse.

My face pic is overlaid with textured artwork as a security measure in response to current world politics and awareness that face pics fuel fixation in dark personality disorders.

Historian, mainly of science, art, tools and architecture in early modern Europe.

Research thesis supervisor.

ICOM-UMAC.

Editor and writer of academic and technical things: I clarify ambiguity. I also bake, garden, and foster homeless dogs.

Posts auto-delete because the Internet's too cluttered and (in my overeducated historian opinion) most records are not worth keeping.

Kiwi at large. Currently dodging danger noodles in 'Straya. Gold prospector. Guitarist. Woodworker. All round pain in the ass.

An ageing pākehā with middling sensibilities. Embracing the new Aotearoa. Born in Ōtepoti, educated in Tāmaki Makaurau, living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Worked at IBM for decades. Was contracting to the government. Left-wing. INFJ. Liverpool fan. Strong Hungarian links.

#Ōtepoti #Aotearoa #INFJ #YNWA #Hungary

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🇬🇧🇭🇰🇳🇿 London escapee. Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 #NZTwits

Rorohiko kaiārahi. Parauri koti. Frentantic Intromastecution. Fraught Leader. Polibernial Mandorpulatorist. Neologist. Weirdo. Can fold fitted sheets.  ن #kindness #curiosity #apple #rabbits #bunny #photog #cars #motorcycles #tech #foss #NgātiPākehā #TangataTiriti #coeliac #TaylorSwift #NZTwits

A rolling stone should not judge a book by its glasshouse // The higher, the fewer.

Darwin LT-14911.local 25.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 25.2.0: Tue Nov 18 21:09:56 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.61.12~1

I'm Gary, and I've been on the web one way or another for three decades, and on Mastodon for three years, and I've never joined centralised social media.

I've lived in #Aotearoa #NewZealand and #USA, and visited various other places. For most of my life I've been a #SystemsProgrammer at a university.

Nigella Lawson said I was special on another platform. On here I'm still open to new celebrity endorsement.
CW: I sometimes accidentally type stuff out loud that probably shouldn't escape my brain 🤦‍♂️

#fedi22 #nztwits #aviation #photography #art #edm #dancemusic #brutalism #architecture #nzpol #openSource

bene gesserit inclusive radical fremenist,
he/him/ia,

peaked in 6th form, paper anchor anchor baby, 
buyer of tickets taker of rides, most opinions my own others flagrantly stolen

followreqs? please have at least a bio and some posts/intropost 👍

#noBridge #noBot

Anxious about the climate crisis, mass extinction, and the extremism of the political right.

Away missions exploring the galaxy in our vanship, one planet at a time. Engage Curiosity Drive!

You learn something every day—but still die stupid

💛 Be kind | 🤔 Stay curious

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I have been involved in IT since the 1960s. A health crises brought that to an end in the 1990s. Now fully retired I produce and present radio shows which I provide free of charge for radio/web stations around the world. Main interest is the music of the 20th century. Also keen on old movies I find on You Tube. Love to read anything from cereal boxes to books.
I have been using #linux as a desktop since 1999. Started with #debian then #ubuntu now using #linuxmint and some #raspberrypi servers.

A pākehā living in #Aotearoa and learning Te Reo Māori as a Tangata Tiriti. :tinoflag:

Interested in tech, especially the #Fediverse, #Pixelfed, and #Accessibility. Dabbles in dev and contributes to various projects.

Profile Image: Mushroom from the Netherlands, CC BY-SA 3.0 by Michel Beeckman
(https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melanophyllum_eyrei_(Massee)_Singer_778616.jpg)
Header: my Dr Who themed Luanti mod.

A systems thinker. I see systems everywhere and the connectedness of everything. I'm fascinated by them, especially the systems of the natural world and our connections with it. This is both interesting and scary. Have been described as an "intuitive visionary", but now discover I'm an "otrovert". 
Not qualified to call myself an expert in anything, but I like to think I know stuff.
 Anti-oligarchy, pro-spaceship Earth. Interests: #Science, #sustainability, #equity #democracy #Linux #otrovert

Geek, computer scientist, engineer, cryptography enthusiast, freediver (scuba sometimes, too), baseball nut, father, husband, odd ball, book reader, traveller, scout leader/kaiārahi, free/open source/FLOSS geared, (self-) sovereignty promoting, anti Big Tech (TM), ...

Aotearoa/New Zealand 🇳🇿 with German 🇩🇪🇪🇺 origin.

He/him/his. Writing code for a living for 35 years and counting. I've lived in England, Minnesota, and (currently) Aotearoa New Zealand :laserkiwi:.
Married with two off-site adult children.
Profile pic is a loon (state bird of Minnesota) in the form of the Star Wars Rebel Alliance symbol

Retired in the Far North of Aotearoa. Love photography

Plants, data, scifi, art, critters, water, futures / foresight. Infovore neophile interested in everything except asshattery. 
Living w/ my plants and dog(s). Loon, chaos field, told I think too much in neoliberally-run collapsing Aotearoa.
Avatar: light-reflectant white monster marker on a tree trunk.

Just your garden variety nerd, as in, I love my garden and am a nerd. Would love to connect with you.

I'm also trans, poly, and pan. Allegedly in my 40s. Resident of northern Aotearoa.