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Random Canuck 🍁😷 πŸ’‰

Random Canuck 🍁😷 πŸ’‰

@RandomCanuck@cosocial.ca

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ citizen, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ supporter. Toy poodle staffer since 1994.

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." - MLK Jr.

Born at 320 ppm CO2

Vaxxed to the max

Avatar: A raised fist with a Canadian flag overlayed.

Header banner: Two wooden signs nailed to a tree. The top sign points left with the words "Same Old Mistakes," and the bottom sign points right with "Glorious New Mistakes."

#Canada #CanPoli #OnPoli #Poodles #GTi #HamRadio #Ham

@petrichorgrasshopper:matrix.org

Ian Sutherland πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Ian Sutherland πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@iansu@cosocial.ca

Software engineer and speaker. Previously: Principal Engineer and employee #1 at Neo Financial. Sandwich enthusiast. He/him.

The work is mysterious and important

Owner of The Royal Pub https://royalyyc.ca

Previously at https://mas.to/@iansu

Mike Edey

Mike Edey

@mce@cosocial.ca

Working in para sport, terrible hobby photographer, happily petting dogs. Mine, not yours. I’d ask first.

Works with athletes, coaches, administrators, and numbers.

#VictoriaBC #YYJ #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #BloomScrolling #Photography #BirdsOfMastodon

Andre Nantel

Andre Nantel

@nantel@cosocial.ca

Retired biologist living the good life in Southern Quebec.
I like posting about funny stuff, pretty pictures, gaming and miniatures, travel adventures and vegetable gardening.
Trench Crusade Observer (i.e. community organizer)
Manager of the War for New Eden Discord server (https://discord.gg/3fX4nNdeU7)

D'Arcy Norman πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

D'Arcy Norman πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@dnorman@cosocial.ca

Learning technologies, design, research, etc. Associate Director of Learning Technologies and Design at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. My PhD research involved applying concepts from the design and analysis of video games to describing teaching and learning. And other stuff.

*toots may not necessary reflect the opinions of my employer*

shon

shon

@shon@cosocial.ca

I'm interested in {programing x language Γ— eco-systems Γ— theory}, broadly conceived.

I'm working on the OCaml ecosystem @tarides .

aka/fka: @shon

Ken Walker :caflag:

Ken Walker :caflag:

@kgw@cosocial.ca

Greetings from Vancouver Island. After 46 years as a small town lawyer, I am now retired. I have lived in Qualicum Beach on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia for more than 40 years. The avatar is my great great grandfather James Charles William Walker (b. Glasgow 1820, d. South Tilley NB 1889)
#VancouverIsland #linux #debian #gnome #politics #CBC #wikipedia #Canada #elbowsup #cdnpoli #uspol #BC #QualicumBeach #BritishColumbia #bcpoli #ubi #freedombox #nextcloud #grapheneos

Maj - πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Maj - πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@maj@cosocial.ca

Furious as a colorless green idea.

I argue semantics, professionally.

I also swear a lot.

She/her default but they/them is cool.

[avatar image is a middle aged white woman under pink/purple/blue lighting]
[header image of inclusive pride flags over a patio.]

Erin Dalzell (He/Him) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Erin Dalzell (He/Him) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@emd@cosocial.ca

I am a husband, a father of 2 teenage girls, and a Canadian.

When I'm not building #statamic and #LaravelLivewire sites & apps, I'm at Crossfit, reading a book or watching a show. Occasional traveller.

If you do not support diversity (in all its forms), I'm not sure we'll get along.

My posts are searchable via https://tootfinder.ch

Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

@jszym@cosocial.ca

PhD student @ #McGill University studying deep learning models for biological networks.

Born & raised in #montreal

I wrote RAPPPID, which you should totally check out (https://github.com/jszym/rapppid)

Tim Lavoie

Tim Lavoie

@tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca

Working in infosec, from my island paradise.
Fascinated by how tech is (ab)used in real life, and how it might help, or hinder our lives.
Love messing with programming languages, photography, getting outside.

Johanna, CanCon variant

Johanna, CanCon variant

@johannab@cosocial.ca

Yer crabby #GenX Internet Auntie.

Technology dilettante, feral tech support, fills potholes in the infohighway while trying to make it more human-usable *before* we fall in the gaps.

Serial #fediForumAttendee, looking to #getFediHired. Else: #Caturday #knitting #coop #data #futures #urbanism #nerdyGurdy #banjo #ukulele #CoSocial.ca #wandering.shop #fedi22

alts: @johannab, @Johannab, @johannab (quieter)

proven.lol/02b822

William Denton

William Denton

@wdenton@cosocial.ca

Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.

#emacs #fieldrecording #orgmode #rstats #toronto #yorku

"It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing."

David Harrison πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

David Harrison πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@david@cosocial.ca

Dad to twin 12th graders, husband, software product security manager, (mostly!) former developer, progressive, climate-concerned, covid-cautious, suburban urbanist.

Trying to be optimistic but struggling sometimes.

KimberlyN

KimberlyN

@KimberlyN@cosocial.ca

Optimist, #Educator, #Business Partner, Wife, #Dogs, #Nature Enthusiast, #Tech Loving, #Data Powered, Tree-Hugger, Alum #UWaterloo & #WesternUEducation #Science

Header photo is our apricot Toy Poodle, Riley, giving us the side-eye, as only puppies can. If you've ever met a Poodle, you know they always have an opinion. :)

Avatar is a Peanutized version of me, before the pandemic, when I was still dying my hair. [Hahaha! πŸ˜‚]

Alan Levine

Alan Levine

@cogdog@cosocial.ca

On the open web since 1993, still writes HTML by hand. Day job at Open Education Global plus side crafter of SPLOTs, WordPress jamming, javascript web toys, silly mashups, long winded blog posts, and 70k flickr photos licensed CC0. Typos are a trademark, an assurance that AI did not write my stuff.

Images: Cartoon icon of a multi colored dog head inside a cog on background of the real dog named Felix in profile gazing out over an open prairie.

Sebastien Provencher

Sebastien Provencher

@Sebprovencher@cosocial.ca

Tech executive. Aspiring philosopher. MontrΓ©al.

Cadre supΓ©rieur en technologie. Philosophe en herbe. MontrΓ©al.

Messages in English & en franΓ§ais.

Sujets prΓ©fΓ©rΓ©s:
Culture et divertissement, philosophie, transports collectifs, adaptation aux changements climatiques, MontrΓ©al, la science-fiction, le fΓ©diverse et autres.

Favorite topics:
Culture & entertainment, philosophy, public transportation, climate change adaptation, Montreal, science-fiction, the fediverse and others.

pL

pL

@pl@cosocial.ca

Technical person-thing usually doing a mix of dev, infra, ops, security and management.

I also snowboard, listen to a lot of music and have two Weimaraners.

Dylan McCall

Dylan McCall

@dylanmccall@cosocial.ca

Software developer at @EndlessOS. Fan of #tea, #running, and the #web. Bad at elevators.

My posts delete after 6 months.

#vancouver #canada #gnome #linux #foss #running #hiking #camping #games #gamedev #cooking

Mick πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Mick πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@mick@cosocial.ca

Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.

Collector of various nerdly interests.

Into #running, #books, #chess, #videogames.

At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined life.

I believe that we have the right to safe digital spaces where we can build communities free from corrosive capitalist influence.

Working to build a sustainable, non-corporate web as a volunteer with #CoSocialCa

Posts auto-delete after 2 months.