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We welcome all marginalized identities. This Mastodon instance is generally for folks who are LGBTQIA+ and Allies with an interest in tech work, academics, or technology in general.

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Time for a re 1/2

Meow, I'm Dizzy. A sometimes grumpy Brummie switch, classic & metaller, and nuffy.

Location: Mind The Gap (That's a hint, I don't really live in a village called Mind The Gap).

Tech creds: Ran the network and phone system for a couple of orgs for a few years before work's greedy politics screwed me and thinking with my dick moved me down south. After more years working helldesks I'm now back working telecoms. Cisco & Android corp stuff.

Nerd creds: plenty of classic British telly, retro computing, nuclear war, bit of WW2.

Queer creds: Been on the kinky scene for a long time. My avatar is a boy kitty with a . That's my fursona. Zap me and I purr. Massage my paws and I melt into a gooey mess

Family: My wife Vixie is an American Vulpes Pallida. Our beautiful tortie Cally passed away just over a month ago. We're still devastated by that.

Time for a re 2/2

My balance mechanism is fscked after an illness that nearly killed me. Hence Dizzy. Cos I physically am pretty much all the time.

Throw in a dose of flashbacks, trigger traumas and sensitive lungs from that time, and more recently manifestations of arthritis. Some days just ain't fun. I crack in places people shouldn't. Since COVID I don't go out much. Vixie is immunosuppressed after extensive cancer treatment. We mask up.

I spend some of my time telling the UK government how crap they are. I'm probably on a list of right royal pains in the rear to both major parties. Those behind the recent rail ticket office closures proposal got both barrels from me. I'm probably on another list there.

It's a joy to see so many LGBTQIA2+ people on Fedi. I've been blessed with love and support from queers, trans folk and kinksters, so much more than from "Christians". You folk are the future we need.

Meow

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Time for a re 3/2

Here to learn from and neurodiverse world views and lived experiences in particular, make friends and share my own experiences to develop as a human being and support friends.

Lewd and naughty stuff will get a CW.

Working with a limited social battery and habit of overestimating how much I can get done, how much information I can take in and recently misreading stuff, often in a hurry to take in info.

Biggest bugbear atm is that I know the rehab routines I need to do but I can't engage my pale ass to getting them (or other stuff) done. Getting started to make the day my own or reach targets isn't easy for me right now.

I'm Birmingham Irish so I do drop the odd swear word from time to time.

Coffee, chicken kiev, sausage, garlic and chocolate are high on my likes list.

I'm Dizzy. I don't bite unless asked very nicely. There's some freshly ground coffee on the shelf and the kettle's just coming to boil.