Recovering IT guy. Long career in building infrastructure most recently in developing countries. In denial about retirement.
Lives in Te Tau Ihu, Aotearoa (South Island of New Zealand) but often found elsewhere.
Avatar is me wearing a mask and holding a book about WIndows 95. (Picture is present day).
Background pic is an astro shot of the Milky Way that I took in the Australian outback
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.
West Aucklander. Doing digital for Greenpeace since before Facebook. Now head of communications. :tinoflag:
Waterloo (Canada) or Wellington (Aotearoa)
Retired (hurt) geek, Tangata Tiriti (at the 6th generation), left of most, addicted to politics, theatre, dark humour, and the Oxford Comma. Follow at your own risk. Foxton, NZ #NoBot #MECFS #Type2Diabetes
Note to journalists: Don't quote me if you haven't asked me.
Xennial Canuck/Kiwi Lunarpunk Satanist Cyberqueer, Feral Goth Trash Goblin, Speculative Fiction Author, Capitalism Disliker. Be warned, I'm a sarcastic bitch with a dark sense of humour. Ze/zer/zir
Peculiar enthusiasms:
The #Humanities #History #Philosophy
#Sociology #GameStudies
#Economics #VirtualEconomy
#Linguistics #Conlang
#UrbanPlanning #RegionalPlanning
#Geography #Maps #Cartography #GIS
#OpenEducation #OpenScience #OpenCulture
#Metafiction
SF Detective Stories
#SocialistRealist art
Plants, data, scifi, art, critters, water, futures / foresight. Infovore neophile interested in everything except asshattery. Living w/ my plants, books, art and bicycle in gorgeous #Ōtautahi #Christchurch in #Aotearoa #NewZealand. Loon, chaos field, told I think too much :P Avatar: me with white hair sticking up (it’s an older photo from NZ that I love).
Still a reckless reckoneer reckoning reckons from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. WARNING: Likely to offend genocide enthusiasts. I have updated my profile picture with a photo of a Palestine beaded bracelet given to me by a pair of Palestinian women I met while marching for a Free Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
Some of the things I have reckons on #NZTwits #NZPolitics #WorldPolitics #Sustainability #Satire #Music #Design #MultiMedia #FreePalestine
Spend my days trying to make computers behave, take photos of the night sky, occasionally does radio stuff and totally a "Crazy Cat Man" owned by a small army of cats 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
Former 🇬🇧 turned 🇳🇿. Post a fair bit of rambling nonsense interspersed with #cat pictures.
Header is a panorama taken by me in Takapō mid 2020.
Located around Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Ngāmotu
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.
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
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Wannabe Climate Change Survivor trying hard to build a fantastic carbon free future. Despite techno-optimism I am not pro-techbro and believe we need fundamental political and systems changes too.
Keen Ebiker for transport, thrills and dog exercising.
Founder & Chief Chimp at The Infinite Monkey Lab developing grid batteries from End of Life EV batteries.
FWIW I do not consent to my information/posts/opinions being used by corporations of any sort without my express approval.
Likes glitter, rainbows, building good dev teams and good software. CTO at Frankie, before that CEO/CTO of Silverstripe.
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
Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. She. | cmclymer@gmail.com | subscribe: http://charlotteclymer.substack.com #BLM
I'm interested in vintage and #warbird #aviation, aviation photography, and history in general. Plus SciFi and plausible what-ifs. #AvGeek
Wrangle financial info for a living.
Aucklander
Photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/errolgc/
