@wordsmith An #introduction that's a #reintroduction?
I am a writer, photographer & editor. 1st life: Journalism, mostly newspapers.
Second life: founded a non-profit that helps kids write better (by giving them audience, affirmation & voice).
Third life: #amwriting a novel, HIRAM FALLS. Excerpts have been put on stage; samples: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com -- where the free online (text & audio) version & process journal will appear Spring 2023.
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[time for a #reintroduction! #introductions #introduction]

I'm Flo (he/him), a #queer #author of #lgbtqia #fiction.

Primarily I write #sliceoflife, #comedy, heartwarming & lighthearted, #gay #romance in a variety of settings, such as #hopepunk, #scifi, #fantasy, #steampunk, #horror, #gothic, annnnd the list goes on~ 😅

Some more things about me:

— I'm currently pumped for #NaNoWriMo!

— I like #writing, #reading, #drawing, #art, #gaming, #movies, #books etc.

— I dabble in #learning #mandarin and #tokipona (which i don't tend to talk about here).

— I am #agender, #asexual, #aromantic, (thus #AroAce) #disabled, #ActuallyAutistic, and a #demiguy

— i have a wishlist (mostly full of very, *very* gay books): https://throne.me/u/drowsy/wishlist

— alt accounts at @ghost@weirder.earth & @floghost

Hey new people, so nice to see you!

❓ You can find answers to your questions about Mastodon and the Fediverse at these sites:

https://fedi.tips

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

🌐 You can discover people to follow at these sites:

https://fedi.directory

https://communitywiki.org/trunk

https://fediverse.info/explore/people

@ or DM me if you have other questions!

#Introduction #Introductions #NewHere #ReIntroduction

#reintroduction #introduction

Hi all, re-introducing myself for all the new members (welcome!):

I am a:
-- Former contingent philosophy lecturer
-- Former sysadmin and helpdesk technician
-- Musician/composer working with computers, guitars, electronics, and voice
-- Cast iron cook stove enthusiast

I love:
-- TTRPGs, especially open, hackable, and lightweight systems
-- Thinking/Talking about Phenomenology, Hegel, Time, Merleau-Ponty, Peirce, Difference, Husserl, Space, Motricity, Semiosis
-- Thinking at the intersection of Politics+Aesthetics+Ethics+Being

I am learning:
-- SuperCollider
-- Org-Mode
-- Continuously, how to be bewildered, confused, and to dwell in that bewilderment and confusion, and to allow myself not to know, and to push back against any desire to have already arrived at knowing
-- Tá mé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge

I work with:

-- Pure Data
-- *Nix systems
-- Cassette Tapes
-- Hardware synthesizers
-- Lots of FOSS software

I was born and raised in rural New England (the most beautiful place in the world) (I'm of course kidding) (am I?)

I tend to be more of a lurker, but I am here reading, listening, watching, thinking, and working on being more confident in contributing in my own way.

#introduction #reintroduction

i'm derek, he/him. currently in central california and have lived in new york for a bit too

originally went through #music school up through #dma (lol i'd be surprised if that hashtag actually worked and referred to doctor of musical arts) studying #percussion with aspirations of being a "new music" percussionist but didn't stick the landing in music academia. i got a #math degree somewhere along the way and had been getting heavily into #computermusic and #creativecoding sorts of things working at a media lab during the dma so when covid, hit decided to go back to (online) grad school studying computer science. things i'm really into studying cs-wise are #ai/#ml things (more leaning on the ai-side but we'll see) and "soft-cs"/"extra-cs" sorta intersectional things like #hci and #education and starting to read about #computationalcreativity and other things. not sure where my cs studies will go yet but it'd be nice be able to research ai things more. also, i'm really into #foss / #linux sorta things.

other things i'm into are anime and manga (mostly iyashikei, mecha, and ikuhara things), video games, riichi mahjong, animals (mostly cats, sea otters and puffins), stars are cool, and also vast desolate expanses.

think my website better sums up things: https://derekxkwan.com/

#introduction #reintroduction

Hi all, Roel he/him.

An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.

You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com

Currently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at Malmö University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??

I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions..

This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337

I guess I can do a #reintroduction #introduction #introductions

Hi! I'm Andrew! I run Retro.social.

I'm an SRE manager at a gaming company. I own a coffee shop, I run a makerspace, and I make toys.

I also do a #podcast called Expedition Sasquatch that releases infrequently and is super specifically funny. Like, I can't listen to a single episode without falling out of my chair laughing, but maybe you don't know any old southern men who want to hunt bigfoot professionally.

I run a peertube instance, which mostly gets music from my record label, and tv shows from the 50s.

If you know me from outside of the fediverse it's probably from my blog (http://ajroach42.com) which inexplicably gets featured on boingboing or the front page of that orange nightmare every once in a while. I did podcasts on floppydisks and a piece about how computing has gone wonky since circa 2012 or so.

I do media digitization and preservation, archiving 16mm film of TV shows and movies, and I write about that sometimes.

I have a tendency to do Big Long Posts. I won't apologize for that, Your instance should crush it down under a read more. If it doesn't, I will apologize for that.

I'm a #DIYMedia advocate. I strongly believe that we have to escape from our corporate media overlords, and fight back against them if we want to be free.

Uhhh... What else? I have Strong Opinions about things.

I post about #PD #publicDomain and especially #PDMusicList recently.

Here are some photos of things I've worked on recently.