Loki: meow?
Me: Setting up a Mastodon account.
Hazel: meow
Me: This is my very #Neurodivergent -- and definitely #ActuallyAutistic -- account. I used to have one on a similarly-focused server, but one that has been having some stability issues. So I'm here now.
Loki: *MEOW*.
Me: Oh, right. Probably should let people know a bit more about me.
- Things I am: #ActuallyAutistic, #LGBTQ+, in a #Polyfidelitous family of 3 older adults and 4 equally awesome (now mostly grown!) children.
- How I pay the bills: #DataEngineering now, #WebDevelopment and #DevOps before that, #Chemistry even longer ago.
- Other things I like: #Cats, obviously. Also #Astronomy (#AmateurAstronomy in particular), #History, #Science, #Books, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #SFF, #Programming, #Hiking, …
Loki: meow?
Me: Setting up a Mastodon account.
Hazel: meow
Me: This is my very #Neurodivergent -- and definitely #ActuallyAutistic -- account. I used to have one on a similarly-focused server, but one that has been having some stability issues. So I'm here now.
Loki: *MEOW*.
Me: Oh, right. Probably should let people know a bit more about me.
- Things I am: #ActuallyAutistic, #LGBTQ+, in a #Polyfidelitous family of 3 older adults and 4 equally awesome (now mostly grown!) children.
- How I pay the bills: #DataEngineering now, #WebDevelopment and #DevOps before that, #Chemistry even longer ago.
- Other things I like: #Cats, obviously. Also #Astronomy (#AmateurAstronomy in particular), #History, #Science, #Books, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #SFF, #Programming, #Hiking, #Nature.
- Some weirder, more specific ones? Fine. #StudioGhibli. Indoor #Rowing. #Languages, currently learning #Spanish and #Latin.
I geek out a lot about astronomical data and I maintain a widely-used database of stars (the HYG catalog, and its new extension, the AT-HYG catalog with Gaia data) at https://github.com/astronexus.
Yes, I'm a geek. But you still put up with me, right?
Loki: meow
Hazel: meow
Me: Love you both too.
