Instance directory: sfba.social
formerly known as scm@mastodon.lol
Silicon Valley native Dutch-American, computer nerd w degrees (BSCS, BBA, 5 AAs), pilot, HAM radio operator (+W6WX trustee), IEEE Senior & CAP member
Past: Atari, IBM ARC, Sony, game dev (mostly NES-PS3), adjunct prof, robots, railway equipment, and rockets; online since 1985, Unix/Linux user since ~1990, Texan 1993-2009
Likes science, music, social dancing, cats, privacy rights, people (E Pluribus Unum), democracy, equality, "good trouble"; dislikes religious hypocrisy and hate
Programmer, coastsider, artist, parent, all that stuff.
Reporter focusing on water in California and the West, Los Angeles Times
I am a linguist/ontologist who works on the Knowledge Graph at Google. Ph.D Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Illustrator and graphic artist at 1890 Bryant in San Francisco.
This account is mostly for my non-art stuff: transit, gay life in SF, politics, whatever!
Follow my art on pixelfed and bluesky. Check-out my Magica Voxel shaders on Codeberg.
Life is so short and so interesting, it would be shame not to try to enjoy as much of it as possible.
#AAPI #StopAsianHate #SF #SFBA #Lawyers #UCBerkeley #Harvard #Vinyl #Jazz #Music #Movies #Art #Books #49ers #Niners #SFGiants #Boxing #Carspotting #Motorcycles #Cooking #ChineseFood #Sushi #Pasta #Wine #Beer #Bourbon #SingleMalt #Retirement #Dating #OldAge #Aging #Ageism #Seniors #ProstateCancer #Covid #Health #Bisexual #Bisexuality #JoinIn
Texan, Social Worker, news junkie
#AlaskanByChoice #Liberal #LGBTQIAAlly #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #BlackLivesMatter #ProChoice #AllThingsAlaskan #AnimalLover #Cats #KarelianBearDogs #WFPB #ProScience & I share other people's #AlaskaPhotography Retired Research Consultant.
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Power to the people 💪
Americans Don't Want Oligarchy
Register to vote- midterms
Ukraine’s future is in NATO 🔱
Ми вб'ємо кожного російського загарбника, який ступить на територію України
Toots shows happening in the #SanFrancisco #BayArea.
All data comes from Steve Koepke's List: https://stevelist.com
Aries crone emerita. I meme, therefore I am. #Thinker; #writer; #painter; #poet; #digitalart creator (no AI); #photographer; #gardening #bird & #dog lover; fierce #liberal; Buddhist-adjacent, Very Progressive Catholic; 🌈Ally. #Disabled & living life from my couch in sunny #NorCal, but my ❤️ is in #Paris. “Embrace impermanence.” “With fear for our Democracy, I dissent.” #RESIST *SFBA.social Supporter* 🔶OK TO REPOST MEMES🔶 I’ll boost butterflies but neither bat nor bug pics.
We were a loose coalition of students/staff/faculty working to dismantle ableism at the University of California.
Access & inclusion for disabled students, staff, faculty of the University of California! (For alumni, visitors, customers..everyone!) 33 years is long enough to have met ADA. Let's exceed it!
Image description: Banner photo is of two UC Access Now logo buttons. Profile photo is the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the UC seal. "Let there be Access > ADA"
By day, a woman who knows and does some things in the social impact space; writer of romantica; by night, shenanigans, political side eye, & snark. Y'all, I'm TIREDT.
Noncommercial news and investigative reporting for San Francisco Bay Area — online, print and on air at SFPublicPress.org & KSFP 102.5 FM.
The most recognizable broadcast tower in the United States. Unaffiliated with Sutro Tower Inc. Get off Mastodon and go watch free over-the-air TV.
policy wonk for worker justice.
Mostly posting about local (South Bay / Bay Area) politics, policy, workers and community organizing. And some plants and critters 🌱
#SanJose #SouthBay #SantaClara #BayArea #DTSJ #EconomicJustice #RacialJustice #WorkersRights #ImmigrantsRights #PublicPolicy #Organizing #PublicHealth #Labor #Unions #Cities #Flowers #Gardening #Hiking #LGBTQ #BlackLivesMatter #AbortionIsAHumanRight
I’m a retired fish biologist, now a #nativebee and #wasp enthusiast.
Regularly disappointed idealist. 315ppm.
ExNYC. #Photographer and #Gardener in #Portland, #Oregon.
We use solar panels, EV, heat pump and induction cooking. Trying to do our part. Deity free and sans kiddos.
#married
#colliewrangler
#PlantGeek
#Atheist
vaccinated again 10/25
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.” ~ Woody Allen
Plant and insect pictures at: www.Flickr.com/Canoebait
Pastor, proud uncle, climate activist, punster. he/him. CO2 at birth: 319.5ppm https://linktr.ee/revjss
Tech entrepreneur, SF Bay Area