Alun Jones [email protected]

I live in Portland, OR, with my Beloved Englishman. Mother of @zinn, grandma of Lulu and Freyja. I narrate audiobooks for LibriVox (visit my blog to find links), knit a lot, and sew. I like UK culture, history, linguistics, reading, BBC, The Archers, documentaries, funny stuff, music of many kinds.

Chronic illness: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Depression and anxiety under control, mostly.

I like cozy video games, thrillers, “chick lit” (ugh hate that term), and classic movies

Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.
SWE w a BA in Anthro. 

4 decades on social media. (Seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978.) 

Pan, poly, non-binary 

Former TL for Scaled Human Review at Meta (Integrity, Better Engineering, Metaverse). I swore I’d never work there, but I decided to see if I could make things better. I couldn’t. 

TiVo, Somewhere (web/security), Utopia (web), Wildfire (voice assistant), Alfalfa (email), OSF (UI standards), HP/Apollo (UI/Unix), Sperry Research, Bell Labs, and a bunch of short-lived startups. 

Consulting w my partner (below) on digital security and peace initiatives. 

Partner: 

Dr. Mollie Pepper, researcher and consultant on gender, migration, violence, and authoritarian governments. https://carlsonpepper.com 

Daughters: 

Shadi Fotouhi - Senior SWE at Wayfair.

Shireen Hinckley - Editor and Post Production Supervisor for Beyoncé. Black is King. Renaissance…

Banner Art: ©️Shadi Fotouhi
Avatar: Lensa.

Tinkerer, programmer (allegedly), interested in interactive art, love the Arduino. I'm also a Steampunk & Abney Park fan. Views & comments are mine

Benzie, a rescue dog suspected to be a Schnauzer. 

Penn & Teller are one y/o miniature Schnauzers.

Richard, Emergency Medicine Physician. KB5FLA Amateur Radio
#hamradio #medicine #emergencymedicine #schnauzers #photography #arkansas #arkansasriver #lakedardanelle #trauma

I get to play with programming languages and other cool tech for a living.
#Cyclist #UKCyclingTweeps #BikeTooter #WolvesAyWe #Python #Programming #UnrealEngine #GodotEngine #Minecraft
🟨🟥https://www.freethenorth.co.uk/🟨🟥

🎸🎷🎹🎵
Been on Mastodon.social since 2017.

In the 1980's, Z80 assembler, later DEC assembler (RT-11, RSX-11), Fortran, etc

Currenrt employment :Composer, musician for over 56 years.
Published a SF novella in 2022, StingerBots.

Original music tracks, at least 180 of them online at https://ffm.bio/randulo

Free streaming on Bandcamp: https://randulo.com

Crim Law Prof, Tribal Court Judge, Santa Fe, NM USA

Organized the 1978 counter-offensive at the Pinedale Shopping Center

New here, so quiet for now while I figure out all the new social conventions.

Interested in: tech stuff (2 yrs into nth career as a dev), climate crisis, neurodiversity.

Please don't add me to big "follow this person" lists.

I run https://bitfolk.com/ and do dog sitting (https://dogsitter.services/), so you should expect too many photos and videos of greyhounds with a bit of tedious computer blah as well.
I don't really know what I'm doing or if I'll stick with this, sorry. Although the status as of 2022-11-28 is Quite Enjoying It Here.

Engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), musician, chef, living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father, grandfather, astronomy, photography, writing, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net

#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens