it's been awhile since i cycled this and we're still obviously getting new members. feel free to introduce yourself below :)
it's been awhile since i cycled this and we're still obviously getting new members. feel free to introduce yourself below :)
Hey hey, I'm bijuice.
I'm a cat dad from Kenya who's into poetry, art and gaming. I also mentor at a wonderful tech focused program called KamiLimu.
I've been here for about a week now and I'm loving it so far. Y'all are so nice :)
Hello. I am also a cat dad of five, I like music theory and composition, creative writing, board and card games, and sometimes drawing. I am an ally to Furries. I identify as heteroflexible.
Hi, I'm Whelmer, never maintained a reddit account but I was a chronic lurker and was pleased to discover this whole Lemmy thing recently. Always had a love/hate thing with reddit and this place reduces significantly the latter part of that equation.
I'm an organic orchardist by trade, novice gardener and beekeeper as well. Been into Linux and FOSS for the past decade or so. I also like to play and build synthesizers. Though these days I'm not finding a lot of time for my non-economic hobbies.
Thanks for creating and maintaining this community.
Hi, I hate glitter and my name is not Lance. I do cross stitching and play the occasional video game. I also like books, cross stitching has enabled me to listen to audio books. I like sci-fi and adventure/mystery but I read romance novels too from time to time.
Howdy!
My name is Logan, I figured it would be nice to have a human name behind the username.
I have ASPD, I associate more closely to the "traditional" definition of sociopathy than I do psychopathy.
Lots of things are confusing for me and I may come across as aggressive or temperamental and, at times, I may truly be behaving in this way intentionally but unconsciously, intentionally and fully aware of it but simply need time to be away from the social interaction, or completely lacking the vocabulary to express my thoughts and feelings in a constructive manner.
It's nice to meet you!
I'm a cat parent of one from Australia. I came here as a reddit refugee and am appreciating the cultural differences here. Much easier to curate a healthy front page here!
Haha yes, that is exactly the picture that inspired the username. The other part of the inspiration came from First Dog On The Moon's character, Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin ♡ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/the-northern-hemisphere-is-on-fire-the-temperature-records-being-broken-are-record-breaking?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Hey, I’m Gamma he/him 👋 I like gamedev and writing fiction! Haven’t written anything shareable in a while since I’ve been working on a few Playdate games this year. I like to talk about most anything. Any book recommendations? Fiction or nonfiction, but preferably audiobook because libby might have it 🤞
Does your Libby have the same shit as mine?
Recently listened to The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, Wendell Berry: Unsettling of America, Steve Coll: Directorate S, also Coll: Shadow Wars, Raven by Tim Reiterman, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakaeur,The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel. We Carry Their Bones by Erin Kimmerle.
All non-fiction but all good. The two books by Coll are two of the best books I've ever read, if you're at all interested in the Afghan war or the CIA. And David Graeber is definitely a favourite of mine as well.
Also, if you don't know about it, Librivox is a cool source for audiobooks. It's all volunteer-read from Project Guttenburg. The quality can be a little rough if you're used to profressional audiobooks, but some of the readers are really good and there's a lot of great stuff. A reader I really like on that platform is called Expatriate, loved his reading of Don Quioxote.
Found a few; Stranger in the Woods, Dawn of Everything. Added We Carry Their Bones to a notify list so I hear when it comes in. The last one kinda reminds me of Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, that was a good listen!
Haven’t heard of Librivox, I’ll have to check it out when I run out of stuff at the library 😆 Thanks for all the recs!
Just finished The Stranger in the Woods, it was really good! The Dawn of Everything should be up soon, I’ll get to it after The Winners 😄
Pretty amazing story eh? Imagine what his winters were like, for so many years! Peculiar guy.
Having grown up in Montana, the coastal deep freeze is something I’d rather not experience 🥶 especially by myself in the woods! Insane to think that he was so close to people the whole time
Hi everyone! My name is Thelsim.
I used to be a habitual lurker at Reddit and, like a lot of others, decided to be a bit more outgoing from now on. I really want Lemmy in general to succeed and feel that this only works if we actually reply with more than just an upvote.
I enjoy a lot of different activities from gaming to drawing (really badly) to anything else that catches my really short attention span :)
Looking forward to contribute here!
Hi all, I'm Michael, your friendly neighborhood aspie. I joined the Fediverse around ~2 months ago with the Reddit migration. While I have lightly participated in Beehaw's communities since then, I've only just now made an account here and intend to participate here more.
I'm an avid gamer with a pretty low tolerance for BS monetization. Some of my favorite games are the Soulsborn series, Deep Rock Galactic, Victoria 3, Risk of Rain 2, Rimworld, and Kingdoms Reborn. I've recently stumbled across the physics driven medieval brawler Exanima, and I'm thoroughly addicted right now.
I also have several other interests like Music Theory and History, but I'm sure there will be plenty of time to talk about that stuff in their respective communities. Thanks for having me.
Nice to meet everyone!
I love space, the stars, and observing our place in the universe.
There is little that I love more than going outside and keeping track of our celestial neighborhood. I spent much of my adolescence nocturnal to avoid the heat and people of Florida. I'm still rather nocturnal.
For my research I focus on our solar system, the outer solar system in particular. I'm working on a PhD thesis studying Saturn's carbon cycle using data from the Cassini mission (2004-2017). I am reading a lot about our current state of knowledge for Uranus in preparation for the next major mission which I am hoping will provide a career trajectory for me if/when Congress starts funding it next year as promised.
The biggest thing that we know about the outer solar system is that we really don't know that much about it. The past few decades have shattered our previous models of the outer solar system, and the scientific community still has not settled on a new paradigm. One thing is obvious, however: the planet that we know the least about is Uranus, and until we have better data it's nearly impossible to narrow down the list of potential theories. In other words, these theories require better constraints on the properties of Uranus to be tested (Neptune is a close-ish second). Yes, I want to probe Uranus. It's due for a check-up. I believe that the outer solar system has an under-appreciated and under-researched astrobiological potential. The elements of life (HCNOPS) are much more abundant in the outer solar system than the inner solar system. I am fascinated that our models of Uranus are so unconstrained that it is still possible that Uranus has an ocean whose surface is buried under all of those clouds we can't see past. Clouds of CH4, NH3, H2S, PH3, H2O; clouds of the simplest biological precursor molecules: the volatile ices. We simply don't know what's going on out there, and we have poor constraints on the possibilities.
I am intersex and grew up in Florida. I have since escaped, if only just barely with my life and sanity. I've been taught about the many diverse carpentry techniques that American slaveowners allowed their slaves to practice, and that such skilled and creative labor can only occur under humane and fulfilling conditions. I've been taught that Woodrow Wilson was a great progressive devoted to civil rights who could have prevented WWII if people took him more seriously. I'm sure I've been taught many other things that need correction, but which I have yet to identify. I'm eager to learn and be corrected. My 11th grade US history class was taught under a 30 foot Gadsden flag that blocked the southern-facing windows so that it was backlit by the Florida sun. I am a socialist with a strong rebellious streak. I tend to hold unusual positions: rebelling against misinformation can lead you down strange paths to find the truth. I believe that non-standard interpretations of available data (when done in good faith, and when new data is welcomed to update or challenge these interpretations) are a healthy and important part of maintaining a diversity of viewpoints and keeping a perspective on the subjectivity of truth.
I am a big supporter of freedom and liberty, in software and in politics. I see computers as extensions of our brains, and the software that connects us as a new iteration of social institution connecting our minds and ideas. I believe that our minds deserve a certain amount of freedom and privacy. I believe that we should have the right to decide how our minds work and interact with the great internetworked collaboration of minds. We have a right to know how our minds make decisions, who our minds are talking to, and who is reading our minds. I am a big supporter of free/libre software, gnu+linux operating systems, and free and respectful means of communication and collaboration. We deserve to communicate using media that respect the users. If a platform does not respect its users, its users will not respect each other.
I see here a community that claims to be based on respect. I have been lurking for several months without an account. I am satisfied enough with that claim to make an account. I hope to get to know you people better; I hope to learn and discuss current events together, and I hope to share cool developments in our understanding of the outer solar system as they arise.
Hello everyone! I'm JP, still undecided on pronouns (any for now). I tend to be a lurker even IRL (I'm the quiet person who just likes to be there), but I'd like to start participating more in the spaces I enjoy and maybe find some sense of community.
Lately I've grown tired of my hobbies, and I've been looking for new ones. Growing up I read a lot, I used to draw and write, I played a lot of videogames, and I practiced martial arts (Karate and Judo). Later in my teens I learned to play guitar and bass, some friends got me into anime and manga (although I don't watch or read many anymore), and like most people, I've enjoyed many movies and TV shows.
Recently I learned how to code (just the basics in Java, I still don't know how to build a full web/mobile app), I started learning gamedev in Godot (I did the basic tutorials for 2D and 3D games), and now I'm trying to learn 3D modeling in Blender, but I'm pretty slow and inconsistent. I also spend a lot of time online learning about social issues, probably to the detriment of my mental health.
Other hobbies I'd like to try in the future include cooking (I suck at it, but I'd like to get good); sewing, knitting and crocheting; painting, and I'd like to get into reading and writing again at some point. I'd also like to learn how to make music, since I only know how to learn songs, but not how to write, record or produce one. My favourite music falls into the "alt-rock/indie-rock" umbrella, and lately I've also been discovering post-rock, which I love.
Nice to meet you all! So far, Beehaw seems like a really nice place to be(e).
I'm a cat parent of one from Australia. I came here as a reddit refugee and am appreciating the cultural differences here. Much easier to garage a healthy front page here!
Hello all good people of Beehaw.
I've just signed up here and thought this would be a good place to break the ice.