<p>At the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, we do cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. Posts will be in English und manchmal auch auf Deutsch.</p><p><a href="/tags/mpsgoettingen/" rel="tag">#mpsgoettingen</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/reintroduction/" rel="tag">#reintroduction</a> <a href="/tags/movinginstance/" rel="tag">#movinginstance</a> <a href="/tags/astrodon/" rel="tag">#astrodon</a> <a href="/tags/neuhier/" rel="tag">#neuhier</a></p>
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<p>If you’re a communication or media studies scholar migrating to Mastodon, I recommend you check out the <a href="/tags/commodon/" rel="tag">#commodon</a>, <a href="/tags/mediastudies/" rel="tag">#mediaStudies</a>, and <a href="/tags/academicchatter/" rel="tag">#academicChatter</a> hashtags, join the @communicationscholars and @academicchatter groups (by following said accounts), and add your name to the directory of comm scholars I administer through the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sciences.social/@commodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>commodon</span></a></span> account. Welcome!</p><p><a href="https://joshbraun.umasscreate.net/commodon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="joshbraun.umasscreate.net/commodon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">joshbraun.umasscreate.net/comm</span><span class="invisible">odon/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> <a href="/tags/mastodonmigration/" rel="tag">#mastodonMigration</a></p>
<p>Hello people of mastodon! I’m here, I’m queer 🌈🦄 But I do prefer wine over beer! How about you? I don’t even know what this place is or does so I’m just screaming out into the aether! …or, well… the aether was debunked by scientists in like.. the 1920’s…but isn’t it kind of an expression people use? Or is that another aether? (I could be translating weird from Swedish too) I’ll have to research this now 😄 <br><a href="/tags/aether/" rel="tag">#aether</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/new/" rel="tag">#new</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>
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<p>Helloooo! Let's try this <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a>.. <a href="/tags/newhere/" rel="tag">#newhere</a> <br>I'm Caroline from The Netherlands, have been eyeing all the beautiful <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> accounts (amongst others) <br>Hope to connect on this platform!<br>Other interests: <a href="/tags/sleeptoken/" rel="tag">#sleeptoken</a> <a href="/tags/coffee/" rel="tag">#coffee</a> <a href="/tags/sarcasm/" rel="tag">#sarcasm</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefunfacts/" rel="tag">#sciencefunfacts</a> <a href="/tags/metalmusic/" rel="tag">#metalmusic</a> <a href="/tags/blues/" rel="tag">#blues</a> <a href="/tags/soul/" rel="tag">#soul</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a> <a href="/tags/kindness/" rel="tag">#kindness</a> <a href="/tags/helpingothers/" rel="tag">#helpingothers</a> and so on</p><p>I'm not, in any way, shape or form a photographer but here are some shots 😆</p>
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<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> It's my second day on this account. I've created an account every six months to test the waters, but micro blogging hasn't been my cup of tea, and I delete them. I've quit Reddit for Lemmy in '23, FB in '18, and never had the others.</p><p>Now, though, I want to stay informed, and since I don't have to accept the corporatization in the other places.</p><p>I don't allow my apps to connect to their trackers, and I hope I always have that power.</p>
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<p>Currently, I am so nervous. 😅 <br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br>Oh hey, you made it here.</p><p>I am new. I will list some things about me.</p><p>I live in the US 🇺🇸 <br>I am a Black American🧑🏿🦱<br>I am a nonbinary person <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/sunny.garden/flag_nonbinary.png" class="emoji" alt=":flag_nonbinary:" title=":flag_nonbinary:"> <br>My pronouns are they/them<br>I have diagnosed ADHD (you'll be able to tell)<br>I studied art in university (waste of time) 🎨 <br>I love to write ✍🏿 <br>I currently am (as of 2025) studying computer science in university🧑🏿💻<br>I previously had accounts on Wordpress and many other social media but frequently have breakdowns and delete them or abandon them.</p><p>I am so glad to meet you, and I can't wait to learn more about the communities around. </p><p>Thanks for listening!</p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#artist</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#adhd</a></p>
<p>Hallo! </p><p>Je volgt ons hier omdat je kritisch staat tegenover (sociale) media. Dan vind je onafhankelijke, niet commercieel gedreven journalistiek wellicht ook belangrijk. </p><p>Met een betalend abonnement help je ons zoeken naar de waarheid. Want de lezer is onze enige sponsor! </p><p>Ontdek onze verschillende abonnementen op <a href="https://www.apache.be/abonneren" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.apache.be/abonneren</a></p><p>PS: Wij verpatsen je gegevens nooit aan adverteerders!</p><p><a href="/tags/introductie/" rel="tag">#introductie</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>
<p>I'm new here! As an introduction, one of my earlier artworks: a small lighted sporophyte moss light. More to follow!</p><p><a href="/tags/embroidery/" rel="tag">#embroidery</a> <a href="/tags/hand_embroidery/" rel="tag">#hand_embroidery</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>
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<p>Bonjour le <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/pleroma.lord.re/fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":fediverse:" title=":fediverse:"> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> !</p><p>Je traine sur le fediverse depuis 2017 où je m'autoradicalise à vos côtés. Je souhaite la fin du 🔥 capitalisme avant la fin du monde. J'aime la technologie hors des GAFAM, je suis fan de <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/pleroma.lord.re/gentoo.png" class="emoji" alt=":gentoo:" title=":gentoo:"> <a href="/tags/gentoo/" rel="tag">#gentoo</a> et d' <a href="/tags/alpine/" rel="tag">#alpine</a> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/pleroma.lord.re/linux.png" class="emoji" alt=":linux:" title=":linux:"> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> . J'aimerai que chacun puisse s'auto-héberger et j'ai développé une obsession pour les ⌨️ <a href="/tags/claviers/" rel="tag">#claviers</a> (mais je me soigne par injection de radinerie).</p><p>Je passe mon temps à mater des 🎬 films et il me tarde le beau temps pour aller faire des promenades en 🚲 <a href="/tags/vélo/" rel="tag">#vélo</a> et je fais un peu d' 🧗♂️ <a href="/tags/escalade/" rel="tag">#escalade</a>.</p><p>Je tiens un <a href="https://lord.re" rel="nofollow">blog 🔗</a> que je spam de temps à autre pour éviter de me répéter. Je co-administre également l'instance <a href="https://craftopi.art" rel="nofollow">:craftopiart: Craftopi.art</a> ainsi que le <a href="https://geeknode.org" rel="nofollow">réseau irc Geeknode</a> où vous pourrez me retrouver. :-)</p>
<p>New <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a>! I'm May (any pronouns, just use them with intention). A settler living on Treaty 13 territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit in Tkaronto/Toronto.</p><p>I care deeply about community, and that underpins almost everything that I do. My current active work is in building better B2B/B2B2C software product organizations, 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive digital participation, and building local communities.</p><p>Trying to be a better human.</p><p>I don't even have a real character limit anymore. 😈 This is what I post about:</p><p>- Primarily <a href="/tags/topoli/" rel="tag">#topoli</a>, <a href="/tags/onpoli/" rel="tag">#onpoli</a>, <a href="/tags/cdnpoli/" rel="tag">#cdnpoli</a>. (It's election season for 2/3. Gonna be loud.) <br>- Attempting to de-FAANG my digital footprint. <br>- My product/org design/outcomes thoughts and work. <br>- Food and how it ties us together.<br>- And of course, shitposts.</p>
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<p>I have, belatedly, realised that I didn't do an introduction in this instance. I joined the Fediverse a couple of years ago, as Xhitter became rapidly more toxic, and have travelled a couple of instances before choosing to become fully Beige.<br>Previous usernames may not have been identical. </p><p>Generation Jones, not a conservative, and definitely anti-genocide. </p><p>I grew up during the Troubles, left NI to join the Army. Served for 15 years, then left to work in the NHS, left that to work for a medical electronics company, then back to work for the NHS again. <br>I've also worked as a delivery driver amongst other things.<br>Now my wife of 42 years has retired as well, interests are our tandem, our campervan, our 2 dogs, and local choir. </p><p>I hate what Brexit has done to the UK, I hate what the previous UK government did, and am seriously disappointed with the current replacement. I particularly abhor the stoking of hatred against minorities. <br>I think everyone would be better off if there were fewer people around who wish to impose their views of what would be good for other people, on those other people. </p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a></p>
<p>Time for an <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a>... again!</p><p>My name is Christine Lemmer-Webber, I'm co-author/co-editor of the ActivityPub standard which connects together the fediverse (Mastodon, Peertube, Sharkey, GotoSocial, etc). In other words, I'm one of several people who worked on the specification by which you're getting this very message!</p><p>I'm also Executive Director of the Spritely Institute! We're making next-generation decentralized tech <a href="https://spritely.institute" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>spritely.institute</a></p><p>I moved here from <a href="https://octodon.social/@cwebber" rel="nofollow">@[email protected]</a>! Hello again!</p>
<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> après quelque temps sur mastodon :<br>- intéressé (assez pour y passer trop de temps) par les outils informatiques du monde <a href="/tags/libre/" rel="tag">#libre</a> en commençant par <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> (<a href="/tags/mxlinux/" rel="tag">#MXlinux</a> user here) mais aussi <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> et <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <br>- réfléchit aux outils libres... qui libèrent ! notamment autour de la <a href="/tags/décentralisation/" rel="tag">#décentralisation</a> et du <a href="/tags/smallweb/" rel="tag">#smallweb</a> <a href="/tags/smolweb/" rel="tag">#smolweb</a> <br>- kiffe la musique du <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <br>- de manière très originale aime la <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a>, les <a href="/tags/arbres/" rel="tag">#arbres</a>, et développe ses compétences en <a href="/tags/permaculture/" rel="tag">#permaculture</a><br>- un peu de <a href="/tags/photographie/" rel="tag">#photographie</a> de rue</p>
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<p>I'm back after a comedy of errors for my little Raspberry Pi, where mastodon have lived for a few years. </p><p>3 things pretty much happened at the same time. The router that the Pi lives behind, got an update that threw the settings that pointed to the pi out of sync.</p><p>Something cause the nginx server to fail to load problery and therefore gave 502 error and other timeouts. </p><p>And last but not least the free dns service, I had running pointing to the pi, stopped sending http trafic to the Pi, where telnet, wget and ssh etc happily were pasted onwards when I wanted to play with sudomakecake.ddns.net. </p><p>Hence, the update to a VPS and <a href="https://sudomakecake.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>sudomakecake.com</a>, since the Pi struggled with updating mastodon and the traffic over wifi. Now its retired to IRC and backup duties which should result in less faff/stress/downtime for me.</p><p>Sadly I looks like I have lost access to the old install and therefore can't get my posts or followers and followings in a easy way, so have to build it up manually. </p><p><a href="/tags/imback/" rel="tag">#ImBack</a> <a href="/tags/welcome/" rel="tag">#Welcome</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> <a href="/tags/followback/" rel="tag">#FollowBack</a> <a href="/tags/findmyfiends/" rel="tag">#FindMyFiends</a></p>
<p>Overdue <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a>:</p><p>Hi, I am one of those computer touchers, located in <a href="/tags/berlin/" rel="tag">#Berlin</a>, in my late 20s, and this is my first time on any social media.<br>I have lots of interests (yes <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a>), like <a href="/tags/vegan/" rel="tag">#Vegan</a> <a href="/tags/cooking/" rel="tag">#Cooking</a>, <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> (often <a href="/tags/pets/" rel="tag">#Pets</a>), anything <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#Space</a>, <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#Gaming</a> and <a href="/tags/gamedev/" rel="tag">#GameDev</a>, recently <a href="/tags/3dprinting/" rel="tag">#3DPrinting</a>, trying to do good, the list goes on.<br>Really enjoying this online space so far, hope to meet and talk to more awesome people on here.</p><p>Also some sample pictures I like (with alt-text, of course).<br>(1/3)</p>
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<p>So I'm a few days late, but I found out that it's customary to write an <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a>, and so here it is <3</p><p>Hi! I'm Liz, a <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> woman who has recently entered her 40's. I've been out and open since October, 2021, and at this point feel like a <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> elder. </p><p>I'm a Sr. (Software) Engineering Manager with almost 20 years of experience in software development. I also have a few years in there as a Senior Product Manager, but my passion definitely lies on the engineering side of things.</p><p>I've been involved in Olympic <a href="/tags/fencing/" rel="tag">#fencing</a> for almost 30 years in some capacity, and for the last several I have been an armorer at collegiate, (US) national, and international events.</p><p>I am here on Mastodon after deciding to leave anything Meta behind, and realizing that BlueSky isn't the safe haven that it purports to be. I hope all of the Threads and Twitter users that ended up there don't get burned, but I'm not taking my chances with that.</p><p>Things I am likely to post about: Trans and other LGBTQIA2S+ rights, software development, vintage/retro gaming and computing, Olympic fencing and my cat.</p>
<p>We're <a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/en/" rel="nofollow">Privacy Guides</a>, a non-profit project & community focused on personal data security and privacy. 👋 </p><p><p>Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, our right to privacy hasn't always been upheld. In several dictatorships, it still isn't. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right, inherent to all of us, that we are entitled to (without discrimination).</p><p>You shouldn't confuse privacy with secrecy. We know what happens in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That's because you want privacy, not secrecy. Everyone has something to protect. Privacy is something that makes us human.</p></p><p>We're on a mission to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and about global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity.</p><p><a href="/tags/privacyguides/" rel="tag">#PrivacyGuides</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#Security</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a></p><p>After many months of study and copious notes as an un-logged lurker, I have determined that the best way to connect broadly with the Fedi audience is to talk about sports.</p><p>Basketball saved my life. It’s how I rehabilitated my mind-body connection after developing Complex Regional Pain Syndrome a decade or so ago in my early twenties (on top of my already extant Fibromyalgia). The worst part about CRPS is that it scrambles the way our brains interpret pain so that extreme pain (“hello, old friend”), which in a healthy system is a signal to stop or change behavior, can also or simultaneously be a signal that we need to move more. I spend extraordinary mental energy distinguishing, poorly, between the two. What often happens is that it paralyzes (literally – this is how people lose limbs) not the affected limbs themselves (my arms, more recently my legs) but the part of your brain that processes the desire, need, or ability to move them. If you stop moving them for long enough, you lose the limb. I spent about five years with a type of ‘mental paralysis’ until I started dribbling a basketball and shooting free throws (with an un-housed man in his 70s who taught me to play like Pete Maravich; I miss you Dale).</p><p>Edited to add hashtags: <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> <a href="/tags/crps/" rel="tag">#crps</a> <a href="/tags/fibromyalgia/" rel="tag">#fibromyalgia</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <br>1/</p>
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<p>My previous intro post was a few years old, so behold, new intro post:</p><p>Mike. Live in the Seattle area having grown up in the UK as a full blown British. Have a wife (incredible), child (boy), and three dogs (golden retriver/cream retriver/fuck knows).</p><p>I work in information security, something I have done for about 20 years. By day I run corporate security, enterprise IT and various other bits and pieces for an EV charging startup. I am big into EV's and currently drive one that is not a Tesla. I want an electric motorbike, so if anyone has a spare one please send it.</p><p>I also have a company of my own, Secure Being (<a href="https://securebeing.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>securebeing.com</a>), which does pen testing and digital forensic work - it's my way of staying super hands on while still doing the management bits on the career path.</p><p>I have written books about information security things. Five of them. Two are non-fiction textbooks, and three are fiction based on real world <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#infosec</a> things. Check out <a href="https://infosecdiaries.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>infosecdiaries.com</a> and your local bookstore to find them, just search for my name. I have been trying to write more stuff, but always seem to find myself distracted by other things, such as work. linktr.ee/secureowl has some mini stories I've written.</p><p>I love radio and everything RF. I have lots of antennas and various scanners and radios on my desk. I love intercepting and decoding things, like digital radio protocols.</p><p>I am a big aviation nerd. I always wanted to be a commercial pilot. I gained my private pilots license in the UK at 17, all self funded by my employment at the local Safeway/Morrisons store. I did the sim test and commercial assessments, but for some reason, at 18, I was unable to find the £100k needed to complete the commercial training, so I did computers. But do not worry, because those computers and love of aviation and radio/RF combined, and I run a project called ACARS Drama. <a href="https://acarsdrama.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>acarsdrama.com</a> has all the details.</p><p>I play guitar and am a big guitar/audio nerd as well. I record music under the moniker Operation: Anxiety, <a href="https://operationanxiety.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>operationanxiety.com</a> - the music is on all the normal places. </p><p>Finally, I am a massive fan of motorsport. I believe I have watched every F1 race for the last 30 years, maybe 25. I also follow F2, FE, Indycar and MotoGP closely. I average around 18 hours of Le Mans 24 hour racing watching per year.</p><p>So there you have it. If you are looking for a thought leader on the topics mentioned above, you've come to the wrong place - because this is where I shitpost, and shitposting is cheap therapy.</p><p><a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#infosec</a> <a href="/tags/dfir/" rel="tag">#dfir</a> <a href="/tags/pentesting/" rel="tag">#pentesting</a> <a href="/tags/acars/" rel="tag">#acars</a> <a href="/tags/vdlm2/" rel="tag">#vdlm2</a> <a href="/tags/sdr/" rel="tag">#sdr</a> <a href="/tags/rf/" rel="tag">#rf</a> <a href="/tags/f1/" rel="tag">#f1</a> <a href="/tags/seattle/" rel="tag">#seattle</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>
<p>Hello! I'm <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidaugust</span></a></span> and I'm building this bot to post a Shakespeare sonnet once a day. I built and ran the Sonnet a Day bot that ran on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere for more than 10 years. Nice to digitally meet you! </p><p>Available on Mastodon and Bluesky: </p><p>Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.</span><span class="invisible">krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy</span></a> </p><p>Mastodon: <a href="https://bots.krohsnest.com/@sonnets" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bots.krohsnest.com/@sonnets</a> </p><p>(This is a bot, so I may not see replies, try me on my main account if you want to reach me.) </p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/shakespeare/" rel="tag">#Shakespeare</a> <a href="/tags/sonnets/" rel="tag">#sonnets</a> <a href="/tags/shakespearesunday/" rel="tag">#ShakespeareSunday</a></p>
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<p>“If sci-fi was a planet, Inkican would be its ambassador.” Fast food for thought. Middle-grade sci-fi author seeking like-minded adventurers who love unique stories and cats. Let's read together!</p><p><a href="https://inkican.com/gsbcw" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>inkican.com/gsbcw</a></p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#Scifi</a> <a href="/tags/gsbcw/" rel="tag">#GSBCW</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a></p>
<p>It feels like it's time for a new <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> </p><p>I'm Daniel! He / him. </p><p>I'm a husband and Master <a href="/tags/naturalist/" rel="tag">#Naturalist</a> from Louisiana and living in northeast <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a>.</p><p>I post about <a href="/tags/birds/" rel="tag">#birds</a>, <a href="/tags/birding/" rel="tag">#birding</a>, <a href="/tags/insects/" rel="tag">#insects</a>, <a href="/tags/nativeplants/" rel="tag">#NativePlants</a>, <a href="/tags/inaturalist/" rel="tag">#iNaturalist</a>, and everything else that I find in our travels around this beautiful Earth of ours.</p><p>I am a practitioner of <a href="/tags/soto/" rel="tag">#Soto</a> <a href="/tags/zen/" rel="tag">#Zen</a> <a href="/tags/buddhism/" rel="tag">#Buddhism</a>, a <a href="/tags/photographer/" rel="tag">#photographer</a>, web developer, wood carver, and burgeoning gardener.</p><p>Website: <a href="https://daniel.observer" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>daniel.observer</a></p>
<p>Official <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> Post:</p><p><a href="/tags/genx/" rel="tag">#GenX</a> <a href="/tags/actor/" rel="tag">#actor</a>, <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a>, and <a href="/tags/transit/" rel="tag">#transit</a> advocate. I believe in <a href="/tags/cities/" rel="tag">#cities</a> and <a href="/tags/urbanism/" rel="tag">#urbanism</a>. Live in <a href="/tags/weho/" rel="tag">#WeHo</a> in <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a>. </p><p>Hablo español. Aprendo português.</p><p>Minister of the Science of Mind and Spirit for <a href="/tags/csl/" rel="tag">#csl</a> <a href="/tags/newthought/" rel="tag">#newthought</a> <a href="/tags/acim/" rel="tag">#ACIM</a> <a href="/tags/sober/" rel="tag">#sober</a></p><p><a href="/tags/gay/" rel="tag">#Gay</a> <a href="/tags/leather/" rel="tag">#leather</a> <a href="/tags/drag/" rel="tag">#drag</a> <a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#pride</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a></p><p>Also on Threads at @[email protected]</p>
<p>You should regularly update your introduction post, so that's what I'm doing.</p><p>You can call me Bob, and I'm a thirty-something year old living on Awabakal land (Newcastle) in Australia.</p><p>I came to the Fediverse because I valued, and wanted, conversation rather than "engagement". Kindness over the rabid hatred and bigotry that existed over on Twitter.</p><p>I liked it so much I decided to start an instance. And that's where we are now.</p><p>The main thing I talk about here is video games. I'm a fan of pretty much all gaming genres, but some of my favourites from over the years are:</p><p>Tomb Raider<br>Dragon Age<br>Cities: Skylines<br>Future Cop: LAPD<br>Transport Fever</p><p>I game on Linux!</p><p>I have a wonderful wife <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.fediverse.games/@Jamies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Jamies</span></a></span>, and a lot of animals. We have two cats, Pumpkin & Nutmeg, and three greyhounds, Waffle, Tim Tam & Fairy Floss.</p><p>I'm passionately anti-greyhound racing, and have fostered five rescued greyhounds in 2025 as of this post (including Floss who is a foster fail). Greyhounds are a really special breed of dog and they do not deserve the abuse, pain and needless deaths they endure every day as part of the industry.</p><p>I'm also passionately anti-bigotry, and I need to get better at verbalising it. I've watched on in shock as the world has taken lurch toward bigotry, racism, homophobia and transphobia. People should have the right to be who they authentically are without fearing being abused, attacked, or eliminated as we're seeing in the USA right now.</p><p>I'm also recently diagnosed with ADHD, which was a long time coming and a deep relief for me. I'd always felt as though something wasn't quite right in life, and that just living seemed harder for me than it is for many people around me. Understanding ADHD and how dopamine works in the body suddenly made my life make so much sense.</p><p>I'm unashamedly empathic, and will reach out if I see someone struggling. I won't take offence if you tell me to leave you alone.</p><p><a href="/tags/videogames/" rel="tag">#VideoGames</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/greyhounds/" rel="tag">#Greyhounds</a> <a href="/tags/cats/" rel="tag">#Cats</a> <a href="/tags/awabakal/" rel="tag">#Awabakal</a> <a href="/tags/newcastleau/" rel="tag">#NewcastleAU</a> <a href="/tags/tombraider/" rel="tag">#TombRaider</a> <a href="/tags/citiesskylines/" rel="tag">#CitiesSkylines</a> <a href="/tags/linuxgaming/" rel="tag">#LinuxGaming</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a></p>
