"Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education as opposed to training."
–Jane Haddam

A man whose mind is a haze of swedish punk rock, fantasies about musclegirls, unhinged wordplay and strong opinions on portable electronics: along with slightly less stubborn views on software.

Type of person who thinks FirefoxOS could've found a foothold if it was built for phones with physical keyboards and shipped with a website creator: instead of effectively just being "iPhone but everything's a webapp" and kickstarting Mozilla's obsession with absurd side projects nobody really wants.

I also have a website, for when microblogging just doesn't cut it:
https://moses-izumi.neocities.org/
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TESTIMONIALS:
"We can't fight such a silly enemy like you seriously."
- @dirtypair@mastodon.social (bot that posts screenshots from an anime I like)
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Banner is from a collage I did of Noah Izumi from Moblie Police Patlabor (for a cop show it has pretty okay views on technology and gender norms).
[see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more]

Profile picture is Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell drinking a can of beer almost as big as she is.
(real men aren't ashamed of putting girls as their profile pictures)
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As of 27 April 2026 I only boost posts that I've replied to.
I don't wish to have a profile full of reposts, but I still see the value in signal-boosting the work of others.

May ignore this when boosting questions and warnings/PSAs.

archive[dot]today and archive[dot]is are the ones that did a DDOS and altered their copies of webpages in response to an investigation
(putting this here because I keep forgetting the names)
(look this up yourself before acting)

- idiosyncratic enthusiast, eccentrically sensible
- approximately Manchester, GB
- vegan
- typical Ophiuchus
- YYYY-MM-DD, tau
- Deep Space Nine
- GNOME, Silverblue
- Go/weiqi/baduk, Bohnanza
- XS Malarkey
- puns
- Digitalis, BAGeL Radio, Deep Space One, the Act 1 boss music from Sonic 3
- Green politics, solarpunk, secure scuttlebutt, convivial street design
- trans-Neptunian objects
- unqualified to be a freelance BBC science presenter

Born in the United States, I am a professional software engineer, and have been since 2008. I do full-stack app development, mostly in Python and JavaScript, and also work on embedded computers, mostly programmed in C/C++. I am passionate about functional programming languages, especially Haskell, Scheme, and Emacs, so this is mostly what my posts are about.

I care deeply about human rights and justice for the poor, persecuted, and underprivileged people.

**Warning:** I will occasionally re-share posts containing images of the victims of the Gaza holocaust **which do not have content warnings.** I do this because I feel we should not look away from the horrors of genocide, we have collectively forfeit our right to not see the shock and horror of these images.

I am strongly opposed to war, fascism, and any ideology driven by hatred. I reject all forms of violence except self defense (war and terrorism are never self defense). Climate change is an issue of human rights because it will cause the most harm to the poor and underprivileged. I am especially concerned about large corporations and nation-states using AI as a means of controlling people through targeted advertising, mass surveillance, and "pre-crime" policing. Most of the political posts that I boost are about climate change, and the abuse of AI technology.

Since late 2023, I have been especially horrified by the genocide being committed by the United States and Israel against the people of Palestine, although I now understand that these crimes against humanity have been ongoing almost continuously since 1948. **A large number** of the posts I boost are about the ongoing genocide against the people of Palestine, as well as all the other innumerable crimes against humanity committed by the states of the US and Israel throughout the Middle East and elsewhere. Usually I am careful to only boost posts that respect content warning rules.

I also love retro-computing, especially computers from the late 70s to early 90s, in particular old Apple computers, but I love all old computers from that era. I will often boost post on these topics.

I am also passionate about free/libre software, especially Linux. Most of my posts are about functional programming languages, retro-computing, and Linux. I will occasionally author and boost posts about this.

I also enjoy procedurally generated art (which do not use LLMs), what you might call "algorithmic art," and photography, and will probably boost posts sharing artwork like this fairly often as well.

#tech #Software #Computers #Linux #Emacs #Lisp #Scheme #ProgrammingLanguage #ProceduralArt #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #Gaza #Genocide #MiddleEast #War #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

#tech witch and #itsec cassandra
Losing her mind one vulnerability at a time.

#foss #selfhosting

Also, DM and player of #ttrpg #dnd5e #coc

Loves cycling and her #fahrrad

Ace :heart_ace:

I like blue, that is not a political statement. And I won't ever forgive the f*ing #noafd for ruining this for me.
#fckafd #fcknzs #NazisAufsMaul