introduction

new #introduction! this jasmine [ʝasˈmiːn] is an intense and inconsistent 40+ single mom. formerly a lot of things including composer, political activist and teacher, but three years ago transformed into a project of healing both self and others. multi-dimensional masker and neuroqueer with an &. possesses skills like creepy people reading, chaotic moving and unconditional love. hobbies may include psychology, long walks and giving cis women gender envy. i like hugs, trans people and vengeance. will always be online and never clean my room 💕

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👋 Hey, I’m Jorijn Schrijvershof, a freelance DevOps engineer from the Netherlands.

Driven by open-source and automation, I work on projects from Kubernetes clusters to self-hosted tools.

Outside tech, I'm a sports enthusiast who is into running, Krav Maga, and weightlifting. Proud dad, husband, and cat dad to two Maine Coons. 🐾

I'll mostly post about #technology, #opensource, #running, and spending time outdoors, either by foot or on the #motorcycle. 🏍️

I suppose I need one of those introductory posts. I'm Steve (m, GenX, AuHD, arthritic, unemployed) and I used to use Mastodon as sparkes@mib.contact, twitter as @steve_parkes and lots of people in the computing, games dev and maker community know me as sparkes.

Part way through a bit of a burnout that ended up with returning to unemployment back in September here I'll mostly moan about politics and boost nice things with some of my own work included as a spicy afterthought. #introduction

My previous intro post was a few years old, so behold, new intro post:

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).

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.

I also have a company of my own, Secure Being (https://securebeing.com), 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.

I have written books about information security things. Five of them. Two are non-fiction textbooks, and three are fiction based on real world #infosec things. Check out https://infosecdiaries.com 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.

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.

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. https://acarsdrama.com has all the details.

I play guitar and am a big guitar/audio nerd as well. I record music under the moniker Operation: Anxiety, https://operationanxiety.com - the music is on all the normal places.

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.

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.

#infosec #dfir #pentesting #acars #vdlm2 #sdr #rf #f1 #seattle #introduction

New #Introduction post!

Hello I'm Noelle! I'm a blogger and reader who also plays musical instruments (guitar, keyboard) and takes photos. I believe that Meta and Google are not only killing the planet through their data centers but also democracy through the division their products have created. They are also taking over our lives by how much time we spend a day with their products (email, social media, YouTube).

#Mastodon #fediverse #Google #Meta #blogger #reader #books #photographer

It's been a while since I first introduced myself here, so thought I'd post an up to date #Introduction.

48 year old with he/him pronouns living in #Manchester in #England. Proud father of two great kids.

A bit of a #Science geek, concerned about #ClimateChange.

Hates fascism and bigotry, and frequently screams into the void exasperated about the global lurch to the right, #NewsTooter

Keen #Cyclist. Enjoys watching #Cricket. Interested in #History.

Feel free to say hello!

mookie's #introduction / #reintroduction

it's me, hi. i'm the mookie, it's me.

i'm a serial #fediverse instance creator (and destroyer) and have been doing this since 2018. many will already be familiar with my name or my avatar.

i'm the father of two awesome kids. i love watching and talking about #movies. i'm a #gamer. i eat to #run. i'm a giant #starwars and #startrek nerd. i'm a born and raised #engineer.

my home is at https://ultramookie.com where i should be spending more time writing.

#Introduction post ✨
Sorry took long to post it .Also I just turned 24 and I currently lived Negros Philippines.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Intro #silentsunday #today

#introduction #newhere

Bonjour, je suis nouvellement arrivé par ici, et très content de pouvoir partager avec vous.

Je débarque ici suite à un bilan neuro-psy qui m'a indiqué que j'étais « HPI » (QI ≥ à 130), sans « troubles associés »

Je découvre ça à 40 ans, et j'ai l'impression que ça explique plusieurs passages de ma vie sous un nouvel angle.

J'ai plein de questions et je me demande si potentiellement je pourrais trouver quelques pairs par ici ? Je suis pas encore tout à fait à l'aise avec l'idée d'en parler publiquement et du coup très content de passer par du pseudonymat!

Tout retour d'expérience et ou ressources sur le sujet sont les bienvenus !

Hey, I'm new here, and very happy about it!

I'm here following a Neuropsychology assessment in which we found out I was "high potential" (IQ ≥ 130), without "associated disorders"

I discover this at 40yo, and am under the impression that it explains several parts of my life, giving them a new perspective.

I have lots of questions and I wonder if I could find some peers around here?

I am not yet completely comfortable with the idea of ​​talking about it publicly and suddenly very happy to hide behind a pseudonym!

Any feedback and or resources on the subject are welcome! <3 #introduction #newhere

#Introduction, or "everyone wants to be Trad until it's time to do Trad shit."

I write philosophy of a practical nature, and my primary concern is avoiding #TheEcocide.

Humanity has to get itself organized and then evolve in order to save Earth ecosystems.

Based on historical data, I endorse the #FourPillars:

1. Culture-rule: remove bureaucracy, have a unified culture=ethnicity=religion. This requires ethno-nationalism or remigration of all foreign ethnic groups. This is more significant than racial nationalism and opposes both civic nationalism and diversity-socialism.

2. Hierarchy and excellence: social classes are genetically different, and higher IQ makes better decisions, therefore we need both (a) a caste system and (b) constant competition in a natural selection context. This avoids getting overwhelmed by deleterious mutations through unchecked gene drift. We also must aspire to a goal of excellence (arete) as part of our pursuit of the transcendentals "the good, the beautiful, and the real." Aesthetics are important for making choices, and reflect our genetics; nature is both relativistic and consistent, which means that we know only what our genetics allow us to know, and this informs the decisions that we make.

3. Positive reward systems: this means no socialism, wealth redistribution, unions, or other negative reward systems; instead of trying to bring people up to equality by pulling down others, we reward the good, remove the bad, and leave everyone in the middle alone. If they do no harm... do as thou wilt. This includes hard eugenics to remove those who are defective and dangerous to normal people -- insane, "homeless," criminal, promiscuous, retarded -- through exile. A rapist at age 15 is not going to change his stripes, so instead of judging by laws we should assess people quality and remove those incompatible with healthy life for our people.

4. A transcendental goal: we cannot allow material goals (means-over-ends) to overshadow our goal of constant improvement in mind, body, and soul as individuals and as a civilization. Transcendental goals mean accepting nature as it is, both "good" and "bad," and finding a way to adapt and thrive by maximizing the patterns of nature. We are not here to avoid suffering or tragedy, but to make sure our lives are moving toward fulfilling ends, and we accept that bad things will happen and every person has a different destiny. Some are born to sweet delight, and some are born to the endless night.

My philosophy involves two novel concepts, #Crowdism and #Parallelism.

* Crowdism states that all human groups bond on the lowest common denominator, which is fear, so they self-censor mentions of what they fear, and by artificially narrowing their mental maps, create a world of #symbolism which drifts farther from reality whether endorsed or opposed through the #HegelianStepladder in which reactions to a first mover idea end up affirming it. This is a form of survivorship bias, since we are reacting to other reactions instead of going back to the roots of perception, analysis, imagination, and intuition to understand our world.

This means that dualism, socialism, and other forms of individualism are inherent to the individual and amplified by the group. There are no evils manipulating us, only our own error; our enemy is stupidity and anti-realism which we are prone to because we get stronger/clearer signals from our own desires and other people communicating through tokens, language, and symbols than we do from the murky and gritty flood of details that is reality.

* Parallelism says that nature creates in parallel between all possible forms. Notably, thought, material, energy, and pattern are parallel, which means that changes in each reflect the other. Past and future are parallel (cyclic). Different groups evolve in parallel but unevenly because they are relative to one another and also to the whole, which means that a condition like "objectivity" but more accurately described as logical consistency exists. Different individuals learn about life in parallel, a process known as esotericism, and until they have learned the precursors for an idea, it is invisible to them and they will oppose it through a variation on the #DunningKrugerEffect.

In politics, parallelism means that each ethnic group seeks its own autonomy, homeland, and self-determination of its composition and future. That negates the assumptions of goodness behind both colonialism and anti-colonialism. Each group must follow its own path, which only it can define, and dwell alone, so that it can pursue its unique destiny. We see the proof of this in constant friction created by diversity (having more than one ethnic group in a society) in areas like Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Catalan, and Rwanda. Parallelism and culture-rule state that only mono-ethnic societies have a change to survive; diversity forces each group to act for its own interests against the other groups, and will eventually destroy them through #traceadmixture which replaces the original group with a hybrid. Ethnic diversity is genocide.

I offer up further observations:

1. Reality is the only morality. "Might is right," sure, but strength does not determine what thrives in the long term. I reject all symbolism and emotion as parts of the analysis or decision process. Reality alone is consistent and whole (and we are relative to the whole as well as each other) and so the only moral decisions that can be made are based in #consequentialism or measuring the effects on reality instead of our judgments, desires, and sensations in reaction to it.
2. While I am a flaming ethno-nationalist who endorses mono-ethnic societies to avoid genocide, I know good people from every religion, tribe, race, culture, ethnicity, and social class. To protect each group, ethno-nationalism is required. My position is not adversarial to these groups, but nor is it opposed to recognizing #humanbiodiversity (#hbd) and the variations between groups, which are genetic in origin and not "culture" in the sense modern people use the term (political culture, laws, and conflict-avoiding socializing strategies).
3. Half Earth cures all of our environmental problems and nothing else does a damn thing, so all other environmental activism should be discarded.
4. Natural Rights are much better than civil rights (called "human rights" in an international context) because civil/human rights create a government interest in all interactions public and private. That leads to big government, then scientific management, the managerial-administrative state, and finally tyranny when the bureaucracy represents its interests against those of its population.
5. Eugenics is necessary to ensure genetic health. This continues #naturalselection in a civilizational context by removing threats to those who will thrive. It cannot exist in a poly-ethnic context because standards are not common to multiple ethnic groups, and this will unfairly and unwisely disadvantage (a) whatever group gets the worst of this and (b) both groups by forcing an averaging of standards.
6. We seek proaction not reaction as individuals, tribes, and species. We need transcendental goals or we are merely reacting to stimulus including solipsistic stimulus from our own brains including emotions, judgments, peer pressure, and desires. Humanity is evolving out of a monkeylike past in which individualism ruled and people did whatever triggered the strongest stimulus-response, to one in which we "think of as all" per Roky Erickson.

I build my political construct within the work of Plato and Fred Nietzsche. It is parts libertarian, monarchist, traditionalist, and futurist, hence the term #futuristtraditionalism that I use to describe it.

I oppose #DEADS:

* #Democracy (one form of #demotism which prioritizes number of responses over quality of responses; #aristocracy and #monarchism are the only functional forms of leadership, since the State -- oligarchy, democracy, dictatorship, junta, military rule -- is based on methods not goals, and finding agreement on those goals and moving affirmatively toward them as individuals & group is the foundation of all human thriving)
* #Equality (as well as #equity, which is a form of equality: a condition of equality is only "proven" to egalitarians when equity exists, and nature does not "do" equity, instead prefers infinite textural variation as a way to maintain a cycle of selectionism that favors quality over repetition)
* #Atomization (#individualism, #deracination, #socialmobility, bureaucracy dominating over culture; when culture is deposed, ideology/government, bureaucracy/management, commerce, and peer pressure take over).
* #Diversity (it is genocide through Rotherham-style rape as a weapon of warfare, constant ethnic conflict, and eventually genetic replacement through outbreeding).
* #Socialism (and all wealth #redistribution programs, which take from the capable and give to the incapable, who then per the #DunningKrugerEffect (#DKE) are unable to wield that power, wealth, energy, and focus and waste them on trivialities.

I reject the following as well

* #APE (#altruism, #pacifism, #empathy: methods used by sociopaths and psychopaths to manipulate us)
* #Individualism (in philosophy, the "ism" means "this thing above and before all else," and implies a centrality of it to thinking, which means a rejection of reality in favor of the individual; neurotics seek to dominate and destroy nature, culture, and others who rise above the mediocre minimum because those things are threats to their #solipsism or unwillingness to change #mentalmap based on new stimulus or analysis)
* #MeansOverEnds thinking (if per consequentialism something produces better results, "by any means necessary" #EndsOverMeans analysis is required; #MeansOverEnds produces the problem of Crowdism, or bonding on the lowest common denominator of negativity and therefore, to maintain a pleasant mental state, excluding those ideas by disallowing methods related to them, for example in pacifism refusing to fight to save your family or nation)
* #Consensus reality (as a nihilist -- "Nihilists decline to accept the consensual collective hallucination that there exist objective, universal, and absolute/categorical forms of truths, values, and communications" -- I find it to be illogical)

Influential thinkers:

Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Madison Grant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Marcus Aurelius, Michel Houellebecq, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Plato, Pentti Linkola, Ted Kaczynski, Mike Davis, W.S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Lothrop Stoddard, Carleton Coon, Barbara Pym, Fred Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Paul Gottfried, Richard Spencer, Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor, Jane Austen, John Muir, John Zerzan.

Popular Culture:

1. "Be excellent to each other." - Bill and Ted
2. "Sodomize the weak." - Blood
3. "Think of as all." - Roky Erickson
4. "You get what you give." - Deicide
5. "There are no easy answers to the problems that we face, history's a lesson, let us learn by our mistakes." - Kurt Brecht
6. "One law for the ox and the raven is tyranny." - William Blake
7. "The sick must die." - Nguy Lamont Hughs
8. "With every mistake, we must surely be learning." - George Harrison
9. "Life is suffering." - Siddhartha

If you combine these, you end up with a reasonable realistic and yet optimistic outlook on imperfect life. As Paul Ledney says, there is no perfection or purity because these would be boring, like eating an infinite donut on a soft fluffy cloud in the "prosperity gospel" vision of Heaven. Heaven is more appropriately Nibbana, a state of mind which carries between before-life, current life, and afterlife, but requires effort and escaping solipsism.

Religion

To my mind, religions are vocabularies for discussing philosophical concepts about the interaction between physical and metaphysical dimensions of our reality. As a result, I embrace #perennialism, which says that religions share a common understanding of the metaphysical; it does not say that all religions are the same, are "equal" (equality does not exist in nature because equality is the opposite of quality, or degree of texture to reality) or any other such Unitarian or universalist dogma. It says they found the same truths. Religiously, I am a Platonist who borrows extensively from Greco-Roman beliefs, occultism, and Luciferian ideals.

Mission:

I seek a traditional society in unison with parallels between nature, biology, and the divine.

Metal:

I also write about a variant of heavy metal music known as "underground metal," splitting into subgenres like death metal, black metal, grindcore, doom metal, speed metal, and thrash. The creator of the oldest and longest-running metal website, Death Metal Underground, as well as its precursor from early web, BBS, and FTP days, the Dark Legions Archive, I have been writing about metal on AEs through the internet since the late 1980s. I endorse a philosophy called "hessianism" which bases an aesthetics of affirmative, positive realism upon recognition of the necessity of entropy and therefore, a #hedonicimperative to make life pleasurable and epic instead of trying to avoid suffering.

Publications

https://www.brettstevens.org/brett-stevens/writing/
https://www.furious.com/perfect/hackermetal.html
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21581363.Brett_Stevens

Social media

https://x.com/SODOMGOAT
https://gab.com/groups/63770
https://na.social/@monarchist
https://fsebugoutzone.org/amerika
https://annihilation.social/users/amerika

Mentions

https://www.brettstevens.org/brett-stevens/biography/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Stevens
https://www.wired.com/2002/03/the-old-mac-that-went-to-pot/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/american-blogger-praises-oslo-shooter/

References

https://www.amerika.org/politics/what-is-a-1788-conservative/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/restorationists/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/ultright/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/understanding-the-traditional-or-eternal-civilization/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/core-philosophy-of-brett-stevens/
https://www.amerika.org/texts/crowdism/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/a-parallelism-primer/
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497
https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-project/
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/how-natural-law-informs-our-understanding-of-the-constitution
https://humanbiologicaldiversity.com/
https://galton.org/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/leftism-egalitarianism-individualism/
https://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aldous-Huxley
https://www.juliusevola.com/
https://www.penttilinkola.com/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/selectionism/
https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5082
http://www.luonnonperintosaatio.fi/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/futurist-traditionalism/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/nihilism-1/
http://nihil.org/
https://www.amerika.org/texts/nihilism/
https://www.deathmetal.org/article/on-death-metal-and-nihilism/
https://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/king_county_files_hate_crime_charges_aga
https://www.amerika.org/texts/the-first-lecture/
https://www.deathmetal.org/article/black-metal-nihilism-and-heresy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lq30gSOjJ8
https://web.archive.org/web/20240915000000*/https://parvati.tripod.com/perennial.html
https://www.o9a.org/
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1658/1658-h/1658-h.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1656/pg1656.txt
https://www.anus.com/metal
https://www.deathmetal.org/metal
https://www.deathmetal.org/faq/
https://www.deathmetal.org/news/hessian-studies/
https://www.corrupt.org/

Updated from the original here:
https://annihilation.social/notice/Apdv1tpwF2ct37HN5c

Time for a new #introduction!

I'm a former #geographer & #mapmaker, now working on a #PhD project in digital #archaeology, between #Prehistory and #openSource #geospatial.

I used to work as an #artist, I'm into #sailing (I was #livingAboard during a few years) and #musicMaking is my happy place. I'm also a happy #dad and I'm fluent in fr, en & es.

Finally, I'm the proud admin of https://Mapstodon.space, a great #Mastodon instance dedicated to maps — & full of decent and interesting people!

Time for an #Introduction. We are the Special Interest Group (SIG) focussed on all aspects of computer networking, part of the @ACM professional computing society. We host multiple conferences each year, including our flagship annual conference; publish a quarterly newsletter (Computer Communications Review); give awards in a number of categories; and generally support researchers and practitioners in computer networking. More details at our web site:
https://www.sigcomm.org

#introduction

I’m a long time member of the iOS dev indie community. I work as an engineering manager with a bunch of amazing people in my teams.

I podcast, fortnightly with
@daniel on @waitingforreview

I make apps that let people play with video https://govjapp.com 🔥

Hi, my name is Faye and I’m new to mastodon. I’m always making something whether it’s painting, making jewelry, sewing, or cross stitch. I do make my own cross stitch patterns and this one is one of my favorites. I enjoyed doing this mashups between a piranha plant and a xenomorph.

#introduction #xstitch #crossStitch #alien #mario

New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

Hi all my name is Stuart but you can call me Stu.
I am currently at a new job and I am a parts specialist.

I love playing golf, watching movies and tv series. I also love open source platforms and applications. I love decentralized platforms.

I currently am using macOS but I installed FreeBSD onto my Thinkpad T410

#introduction

Fast food for thought. New worlds, cool cats, and fresh ideas—follow Inkican for fun sci-fi stories and friendly vibes. Change the world by changing yourself- one story at a time.

https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter

#Introduction #Scifi #GSBCW #scificommunity #author

#introduction

Time for another introduction.

I'm one of those fucked-up human experiments the CIA got up to in the 70s. I was never allowed any social support or validation. About the only messaging I've gotten from my people is, "fuck off and die", and it generally wasn't delivered gently. It was delivered on the end of a boot.

I got the ninja childhood and was supposed to be an assassin for the intelligence agencies. They had me brutalized from birth to toughen me up. They went too far, though. I got tough enough to solve my problems without violence. I have a fifty year track record of peaceful conflict resolution. I'm not a pacifist, it's just the violence usually causes the next problem.

The last time I tried to "do", rather than simply "be", I tried to go to Liberia to get kidnapped by a warlord. I'm fully confident I could have talked my way out of that situation, but they wouldn't sell me a ticket. I ended up bottoming out in South Africa, a country with 7x the US murder rate and a flourishing arms industry. Spent a month or two on the streets and in homeless shelters. I did fine. I generally get respect in proportion to how dangerous somebody actually is. I've known a lot of very, very dangerous people in my day. I'm one of those people who lives outside the law and follows his own moral code. I'm allowed to do any crime I want and I know I'll never see the inside of a courtroom. I have a head full of state secrets that can never be spoken on any kind of formal record. I just don't want to crime. I mastered that shit as a teenager. It's why they were never able to entrap and enslave me. I just want a little life now. I spend my life drunk, and alone in a room.

So I'm pretty legendary among the world's spooks. And, for some reason I haven't figured out, Hollywood. That has something to do with role models, and the fact that atheists aren't allowed to be one, at least until recently. Feel free to shed some light if you know. Monty Python's "Life of Brian" was named after me, and Luke Skywalker's vague hero's journey was another projection of how my life might turn out. The Eric Cartman character is who Stone and Parker expected me to be--I was the onliest of only children, and raised by the whore the state used to neutralize my father--but I used to smoke weed with their drug dealer and they found out I'm a solidly decent guy. I pretty much only and always operate out of positive motivations, so they elevated Butters. I'm Butters.

Lately, there's been a rash of entertainment inspired by me. The movie "Nobody" was so overtly about me it's how I learned I inspire movies. I wrote half of that one and did the other half. Ryan Gosling seems to have taken a shine to me--"The Grey Man" and "The Fall Guy" are basically giant Easter Eggs about my life. Ryan Gosling is what I would look like if I was pretty. Really, I'm like the Kevin Spacey character from 'American Beauty'. I test high for forgettability. It's a useful trait in an assassin. I'm also dead silent when I walk. I recently accidentally snuck up on a pit bull and got bit. Ninja. Anyhoo, the Black Mirror episode "Joan is Awful" is about how I've been character assassinated. Hell, they even fictionalized my old girlfriend into a movie called "Class Rank".

Every time they try to take me out and I come out on top, my legend grows. Last time, they had me hit by an SUV by fucking with the traffic lights. Multiple fractures of multiple vertebrate at both impact points, but I reacted like a stunt man and presented my back flat to the bumper. This way I didn't torsion and didn't suffer any nerve damage. I didn't know about the traffic light thing yet, but I have good instincts in high stress situations and could tell it wasn't the drunk kid's fault, so I told her to get out of there before she got jammed up with the law. I just went home and sat still in a chair for a couple months. It knocked an inch and a half off my height, but I'm still walking.

These days I walk around in the center of a web of local and federal agents. I understand. I'm extremely dangerous. They literally don't make people as dangerous as me any more. Clinton canceled the ninja program. I choose not to be dangerous, but they're worried I might choose otherwise someday. What I chose was to be a scholar and a philosopher. I'm an autodidactic polymath who's been at it for over forty years now. I'm hyperlexical and started reading Stephen King in second grade. I read "The Executioner's Song" in fourth and "The World According to Garp" in fifth. I'm a little weak on the math based side of life because I need a teacher for that, but I did pass calculus without much effort. Twice.

I'm as close to Diogenes the Cynic as you'll get for somebody who grew up with indoor plumbing. He's the waybackest person of which I know that had it figured out.

Oh, and I know my way around a computer. I worked in tech three blocks South of Wall Street.

Oh yeah! I'm better at getting high than most people you'll meet. I once took 1200 mics of old-school LSD 25 and rode it just fine.

This probably reads like crazy talk, but it's all true. It's who I am. It's my identity, and sometimes I just have to sing out. I'm still not allowed any social support or validation. I'm not even allowed a therapist. Just rotgut vodka, qBittorrented movies, and some video games that I'm too old and drunk to play well. I have one autistic friend who helps me, and I read books over the phone to a blind Indian. That's my life.

I miss women. I was good at love. I fall easily and am totally honest and open about it. I'm totally straight but gender-queer. I'd say I'm 55% yin to 45% yang.

For now I'm working on getting a cat. I want some goddamn thing to love. Wish me luck.

This guy also got the ninja childhood. His government did the same kind of shit to him as a kid that mine did to me. You can kinda tell he's more than just a performer, he's got real fire in his belly. Video by Neil Blomkamp:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM

My old pinned post is kinda outdated now. Time for an update!

Again, in no specific order, 7 books that influenced me:

The King's Two Bodies
Ernst Kantorowicz

The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark

Catholicism
Bishop Robert Barron

Lost in Thought
Zena Hitz

The Invention of Science
David Wootton

The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

Physical Foundations of General Relativity
Dennis Sciama

#introduction #7books #bookstodon #bookwormph

#Introduction Hashtags, so I can pin this post and take them out of my profile:

#Education #Research #Phd, #BCS #Computing #Teacher #CCT
#CSEd #Programming #BCS
#ActuallyAutistic
#ActuallyADHD
I live with #MultipleSclerosis
#Zen / #Nonduality #Buddhist, weirdly into #Jung
#Research topics:
- #EdAI / #AIEd - #LLMs in #Education
- #CriticalStudies of #EdTech
- #Neurodiversity in #Education, and the experience of ND educators.

Nous voilà sur le fédiverse !

Tubercule est un collectif de hackeuses et hackeurs de la région de Rennes qui se veut inclusif et accessible.

Notre but est de créer une communauté d'entraide numérique afin de reprendre en main nos moyens de production et nos vies numériques en développant des savoirs, outils et méthodes accessibles aux collectifs.

N'hésitez pas à nous suivre et consulter nos projets sur https://tubercule.fr

#introduction #hacking #numérique #accessibilité

#Introduction Hello, lovelies. I'm Adara Astin, The Voice of Your Dreams: Professional Audiobook Narrator & Voice Actor.

I work with premium authors to bring their books to life in audio, narrating erotica as Adara Astin & romance as Eden Cavell.

I would love to connect with writers & audiobook fans!

Link to my audiobooks, newsletter & more: https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f

Hello, Fediverse 👋

I'm Sophie. I run a digital ops consultancy from the south of France, working with values-led businesses.

I'm in the process of leaving Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. I got tired of building on platforms that sell our data, gut safety systems to please politicians, and treat people as products.

Still figuring it all out. Would love to connect.

#Introduction #EthicalSocialMedia #SmallBusiness #DeleteMeta #Fediverse #DigitalEthics

#Introduction

Hello squirrels,

I am almost as famous as that other Geri, but unlike her, I have a neurodegenerative disease called #Dystonia, but it is only others who see me as disabled. I am also a big-bottomed, anarchist, green type and a connoisseur of fine wine, although I will quaff any old rubbish.

I am a poor speller and swear more than a decent person ought to.

I love people who love other people and hate those who do not.

I mean no harm.

*snogs*