SecondJon @SecondJon@social.cleverlibre.org

@arteteco @freemo I agree - I am wary of the term environmentalist because it seems so politically charged - I have a hard time believing that even oil barons wish for their children to live in a dystopia where the environment has fallen apart. One of many (many) issues where I think most people want the same things in one way or another, and just differ on how we could/should get there.

@Surasanji IlIlIlllII@lIlIllI.lI is perfect. Oh, I'm tempted.

@Demo318 Do you keep up on your Hebrew and Greek? I have taught my kids the alphabets (verbally, not in writing) but haven't really kept up well on mine since undergrad. (I was going to reply to your intro, but that thread is a beast)

#protip When you're a politician making unsolicited calls for me to come to your fundraiser and I tell you that you came across rude to my wife, don't be rude to me too.

@freemo @hodot

Excellent! Thanks for working toward a space where we can give this a shot.

@Demo318 This video is one of the things that prodded me toward #Mastodon , the best I've seen of alternatives... been waiting for years for someone to have the time to build this... because I didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqlDtjnwyPA

I watched the new movie about The Meg Ryan's rise to fame. Continuity problems all over. Where was Meg at all? Was she the daughter? Almost as disconnected as The Quiet Place, the movie about what happens to Jim Halpert after The Office.

I've thought about buying another domain name for emails.... consisting of all "i" and "l"s. Maybe you could reach me at IIlIlIIll@IlIllIllIl.com .

When reading Ready Player One I realized that my first programming was as a kid editing programs on a TRS-80 (or something similar). First among our friends to have a desktop at home where we'd dial into our local #BBS to play games, chat, and message with people from around the world, back when it didn't seem so creepy when you'd be asked "a/s/l" regularly.

Later with the Internet I wondered why companies were buying up and shutting down services like WBS and Geocities, and was sad that what we had left was corporately driven social media mega sites.

I've been doing software development for decades, professionally since my first year of undergrad where I studied #linguistics; but I think my real work is problem solving to make people's lives easier/better, software is just the tool I'm skilled with to do that.

I chose the QOTO instance because the rules seem open and free and friendly, the way the web should be... and because of the idea of helping bridge the gap and bring people of supposed opposite sides together to connect rather than be polarizing.

Thanks for the welcome, #@freemo Here's my #introduction .

I'm...
• a dad of a handful of kiddos, married, living in Colorado.
• a Christian in the Anglican tradition, and suppose I'm an unaffiliated conservatarian.
• a reader, working through the great novels as well as easier/fun books and nonfiction.
• a card and board game player and am happily teaching more to my kids as they get older.
• short on free time. I enjoy a philosophical pipe as I read and/or reflect, and occasionally get my guitar or bow/arrows out to learn new skills.
• a software developer... and have been for a very long time, now in the world of APIs and cloud development (CRM/SFDC).

@freemo @hodot

I think it was Chesterton who wrote that the Bible commands to love thy neighbor and to love thy enemy as they're so often the same person. :)

Exploring Mastodon, feels a bit like the pre-MySpace/Facebook/Twitter online world before the largest corporations took control and monetized us all, when we had our local #BBS or even online days with WBS chat and the like.

Liking it so far, appreciate the rules of the qoto.org instance