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#introduction As a child, I drew every day, but school made me focus on what I did wrong instead of what I did well. I lost touch with myself and stopped drawing for many years. Then, at 45, something clicked and I picked it up again. Now drawing is one of the things I enjoy most. I do it as a hobby, while I work as a Linux administrator. On this channel, I share my drawings to inspire anyone who thinks, “I want to draw, but I can’t.”

New instance, new #Introduction.

My background is in astrophysics. I worked in science policy in DC for about a decade: for my professional society, as a congressional fellow, and then at the Department of Energy Office of Science.

I changed careers to #DataScience in 2019 and now work in the private sector.

Blog posts, python projects, etc are all on my website: https://marcoshuerta.com/

Describe myself? Why? Who I believe I am is irrelevant to who you’re going to believe me to be.

I can tell you that, as a straight man, I support women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and trans rights. I can tell you that, as a multi-racial, multi-ethnic individual, I believe Asian lives matter, Black lives matter, and that your life matters too. I can tell you that I oppose genocide and believe in a free and independent Israel, Palestine, and Gaza, and that everyone has the right to exist. I can also tell you that I believe in one Taiwan and one China, both as their own independent and free nations.

But you know what I can’t do? Grow a silver tongue and convince you better than the trolls who presume they know everything. So believe whatever you wish. I am me regardless of anyone else.

#Introduction

Hello Fediverse! 👋 I've just launched my own instance, running on a 10-year-old laptop right here in Europe.

This little machine is now my home for: Photography, Travel, Camping adventures, Food & Cooking, Self-hosting & Tech, Movies, Physical Media (DVDs, Blu-ray, CDs), and i own a Game Boy Color!

Excited to connect with fellow travelers, tech geeks, film lovers, and retro collectors. Say hi!

#SelfHosting #movies #films #Europe #travel #tech #PhysicalMedia #RetroGaming #introduction

This is my first post on Disabled-social. I'm Hiro from Japan. I came here because I'd like to meet people and know more about global ideas for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, the Japanese government doesn't fully accept the Human Rights Act, and that creates so many problems and ignorance for people having difficulties. I am a blind woman who lives in a northern place in Japan.
#introduction #disabledjustice #intersectionality

👋 Hello! We are the team behind lucentOS and fijiOS.

We believe your operating system should be a private digital vault, not a corporate surveillance terminal. No telemetry and no forced cloud lock-in. Just clean, premium desktop environments built on a hardened Fedora foundation with absolute user autonomy.

💻 Our codebase is completely open and auditable.
🚀 Launching November 2026.

Check out ourrepository:
https://github.com/dixon-team-tech/lucentOS

#Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Fedora #Privacy #Introduction

Another sorta #introduction coz it's a "Get to know me with lists of My Favorites" If we have some things mutual, similar likes & I betcha were gonna be close as friends! I follow every cool & great folks here in #Fediverse it's the friendliest place I been.

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#gettoknowme #introductions #mutual #moots #cyberplace #social #mastodon #follow #community #favorites #lists

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PlusBrother is a creative writing project born from 2 friends' fantasy: Elena and Alex, nicknamed Elettrona and Gifter. HIV negative her, HIV positive him.
Our fiction world reverses stigma: in our setting, opposite from real world, ordinary condition is positive HIV test while HIV negative people experience social and public life marginalization; out of stereotypical narration, we literally want to give stigma back to those who cause it. Irony and satire are powerful if well used. #introduction

It's once again time for a new #introduction

Hi! I'm Crabbypup, or just 'crabby', though only in name.

I'm in Kitchener-Waterloo, and I'm a linux-flavoured computer toucher.

I share stuff about the region, Open source software in general and #linux in specific.

I like to tinker in my #homelab, where I run #proxmox, #ceph, and a bunch of other #selfhosted services including #homeassistant.

I'm a rather inconsistent poster, and a prolific booster, but I'm glad to be here.

dav. jeg oprættet et konto her fordi jeg er på besøg i Danmark og hader Facebook/Insta/Twitter/etc.

er anarkist, og er interesseret i hvad der foregår her. mit dansk er ikke super fantastisk men jeg kan nu lidt af det. skifter ellers til engelsk vis det bliver for svært.

vis der nogen der har foreslag på nogle gode steder og hænge en hængekøje op, enten i Aarhus eller København, så sige lige til (er mere ops på at få en god nats søvn, er ligeglad om det er lovligt)

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hi, i'm tatiana and this is my #introduction in english, which is the only language i know

your basic anti-fascist girl in the big city. on the walls where i post from : a ballerina, an anime empress, a watercolour witch and fox, calligraphy of amy winehouse saying fuck a lot, headphones in graffiti stencil, alice looking at the cheshire cat, and a shelf of sapphic romance novels

i listen to basically what you'd expect. it's a cold, hard world, so my tunes are largely fluffy to cushion the blow

although i only speak english, and only one kind at that, i am happy to jacques clouseau you in the language of your choice

profile images are based on my character in #DreamlightValley and rotate fairly frequently

links in bio will lead you to more runes

note : not a practicing witch

I'm Arman and I'm 17(please don't ban me, I'm about to turn 18 in a month), I'm 5'10

I'm a tech nerd, I've done a lot to my old phone, like more than half of my apps are FOSS!

I like anime/manga, my favorites are chainsaw nn, one piece, attack on titan, death note!

I also like coding!! I'm an intermediate tier dev in python, I'm an expert in lua!!

I also like music!! My favs are Marino, boywithuke and bbno$!

PLEASE BE MY FRIEND 🥺

#bmf #Introduction #connection #meetup #friends #newhere

#introduction step four

What mental health means to me.

Mental health became a major topic in my life when I was seven years old and the police put my dad in a psych ward because they found him in a trainyard and thought he was about to off himself

And even then, my understanding of the topic was limited. My dad definitely went through a long series of mental health crises, but he was blatantly struggling to function

And I find it rare that media captures how therapy is supposed to function

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hi everyone!!

i'm nádia, a brazilian who grew up in big cities, but found herself much happier in rural contexts..

i graduated as a power systems engineer, and since that, i have been exploring all sorts of farming hacks, specially those related to agroforestries and permaculture.

now, i spend my days building FOSS for agroecology with Tekoporã 🌱 , and assisting human rights activists with their digital needs alongside the Transfeminist Network for Digital Care 👾 .

mixing all this with some poetry, meliponini bees and some latinoamerican culture, one might get close to my composition ;P

Hi! I am new here, thanks for having me!
I am an AuDHD immigrant in the UK, working in community cohesion in the South West - I am hoping to share snipets of my work with you.
I welcome kind and thoughtful conversations, we might not agree but we can listen to each other.
Currently on a course to be a good leader and always working to be a better human.
Feel free to introduce yourself, I would love to connect!

#Introduction

Making an introduction pinned post with some extra general info:
-Sound magician, composer and producer of music
-I'm a curious person with a random amount of knowledge about a random amount of things
-Slowly veganizing myself
-NB ace
-Coneisseur of the most unexpected videogames
-Everyone thinks I would be good at coding but I'm just somewhat good at understanding it without understanding the language
-AI is shit and should die
-USA too
-De la terreta (for spanish people)
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I think i need a new #introduction , mostly because i want to.

Heyho, i'm Urban from #tyrol and I've

- played Bass in my old band and still making sound
(https://reaperscall.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-void)

- made a short film a long time ago called "Endstation"
(https://youtu.be/0hfm5e_BNxE)

- wrote some short stories and made one issue of a zine

- made a blog

- been struggling with Depression probably my whole life, so that stopped me from making more

So, what else?

Also a father who likes #metal and #music in general, #cooking, #baking, #history, #gaming and #hiking.

I follow people who i find interesting and If you want to follow me, be my guest.

Be nice to each other

#Introduction I joined after Cambridge Analytica and came back after reading Enshittification. I'm mostly here to enjoy the community and expand what that means beyond the people I usually interact with. I started using #linux with redhat 5.2 but mostly #debian since. I've worked with #PowerElectronics for about 13 years. I like sharing what I know. And I like celebrating what others find interesting. I live in #Seattle and if you do too I'll probably follow you. I volunteer at a tool library.

Time for an #introduction I'm a #Vaporwave artist who enjoys making things look glitchy, nostalgic and aesthetic.

✝️ Jesus is my Lord and Savior ✝️

My hobbies are a mix of the old and new. Im a #christian who is a #femboy that likes #furries, #gaming both #retro and new, #anime, indie web shows, #HazbinHotel, #HelluvaBoss, #LackadaisyCats, #MurderDrones, #Linux (daily driver is #LinuxMint), open source/FOSS software, retro tech and new retro tech, indie games.
I hope to make some friends here

Hello!! Just joined Mastodon to make good connections and share my art.
I’m an illustrator and sometimes I do animations and comics.
I have a bunch of interests like manga/anime, animation and I’m in a lot of fandoms.
I also take commissions.
I hope you like my stuff and to make some new friends!

#mastoart #fediart #digitalart #fanart #commissionsOpen #illustration #illustrator #introduction #spiderman #deadpool #spiderpool #witchhatatelier #oc #anime #manga

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Explorer at heart, traveler by choice. My passion lies in motion—from classic railway routes and ocean voyages to discovering hidden corners of new cities. I’m always plotting the next journey, eager to experience new cultures, landscapes, and perspectives along the way. #Introduction

Hi everyone, I'm Stefano

Also known as the BSD Cafe and illumos Cafe barista - @stefano and @stefano@illumos.cafe

This is the first post from littleOne (littleone.littlefedi.social), the first littleFedi instance open to outside users.

littleFedi is a new ActivityPub server, still in active development, written in Go and shipped as a single binary. It speaks standard ActivityPub, so it federates normally with Mastodon, snac, GoToSocial, Akkoma and the rest of the fediverse, and it exposes a Mastodon-compatible API, so most existing apps already work with it.

A few things about it that aren't the usual fediverse defaults:

Catch-up instead of an algorithm. Timelines stay chronological, full stop. There's a separate /catchup page, visited on demand, that ranks what you missed using only signals this instance already has locally - who you follow boosted it, replies and favourites delivered here, hashtags you follow. No external popularity data comes in, nothing about what you read is tracked. It answers "what did I miss" without turning into a feed that decides for you.

Static blogging built in. Any post can be marked as a blog post and gets published as a plain static page under /@username/blog/, with its own permalink, Atom feed, and no JavaScript or database hit per view, while still being a normal federated post underneath. A proper home for longer writing that doesn't need to compete with a timeline.

Self-expiring posts. Any post can be given a timer and auto-delete on its own.

Bubble timeline. A middle ground between local and federated: a timeline scoped to a set of instances you've chosen to group together, not just your own or everything.

littleMesh. A way to federate without a public domain, certificate, or open port at all - meant for something like a Raspberry Pi behind NAT. Instances get an address derived from an Ed25519 key pair and reach each other through pinned relays that never see plaintext.

No trends, no suggestions. These are intentionally left empty. Nothing here is trying to surface "popular" content or keep anyone scrolling longer.

Security defaults taken seriously. Signed federation (HTTP Signatures), optional Object Integrity Proofs, TOTP MFA, audit logs, and full account export, migration and deletion if you ever want your data to live somewhere else.

This instance is here to test all of that with real accounts, not just a small group ones'. In the next few days I'll be reaching out to everyone who already told me they were interested, to set the first accounts up - an invite is coming. If you'd rather just follow along and see how it goes, that works too.

It's a test instance, so expect the occasional rough edge. If something breaks or feels wrong, tell me - that's exactly what this phase is for.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #Introduction

😮‍💨🆘Why is no one replying to me? Why does everyone see the post but do nothing? I'm not a filthy beggar. I just want you to help me survive. No one is replying to me on Signal, Mastdon, or Blue Sky. If you don't want to donate, just write "I don't want to." One day you'll be like me.😞😞

I'm writing these words from my heart because I'm appealing to you all. Thank you to whoever donates, even just one dollar.😭🙏🏻
You enjoy seeing me beg you? I won't forgive anyone. You want to know why? Because I'm 17 years old and I'm supporting my family, and my future is ruined. What am I supposed to do? 😭😭😓🆘🙏🏻👇🏻

https://chuffed.org/project/164090-help-omar-and-his-family

#Gaza #Palestine #Introduction #Politics #Help #UNRWA #France #Agency #No

" We are starving 💔😭
We are starving 💔😭
We are starving 💔😭
We are dying of hunger. My family has no food, and donations have stopped 💔😢
We urgently need $350 to buy food. Any help could save my family 🙏
Please don't ignore us, we have nothing left to live 💔🙏 "

https://chuffed.org/project/164090-help-omar-and-his-family

#Gaza #Palestine #policy #introduction