SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

When reading Ready Player One I realized that my first programming was as a kid editing programs on a TRS-80 (or something similar). First among our friends to have a desktop at home where we'd dial into our local #BBS to play games, chat, and message with people from around the world, back when it didn't seem so creepy when you'd be asked "a/s/l" regularly.

Later with the Internet I wondered why companies were buying up and shutting down services like WBS and Geocities, and was sad that what we had left was corporately driven social media mega sites.

I've been doing software development for decades, professionally since my first year of undergrad where I studied #linguistics; but I think my real work is problem solving to make people's lives easier/better, software is just the tool I'm skilled with to do that.

I chose the QOTO instance because the rules seem open and free and friendly, the way the web should be... and because of the idea of helping bridge the gap and bring people of supposed opposite sides together to connect rather than be polarizing.

Exploring Mastodon, feels a bit like the pre-MySpace/Facebook/Twitter online world before the largest corporations took control and monetized us all, when we had our local #BBS or even online days with WBS chat and the like.

Liking it so far, appreciate the rules of the qoto.org instance

Thanks for the welcome, #@freemo Here's my #introduction .

I'm...
• a dad of a handful of kiddos, married, living in Colorado.
• a Christian in the Anglican tradition, and suppose I'm an unaffiliated conservatarian.
• a reader, working through the great novels as well as easier/fun books and nonfiction.
• a card and board game player and am happily teaching more to my kids as they get older.
• short on free time. I enjoy a philosophical pipe as I read and/or reflect, and occasionally get my guitar or bow/arrows out to learn new skills.
• a software developer... and have been for a very long time, now in the world of APIs and cloud development (CRM/SFDC).

You Shall Not See!

While Trump (now, at least) condemns white nationalism and all forms of hate...

Media (corporate spokespeople for some of the largest corporations in America) and big government democrats continue to call everyone who disagrees with them evil (if you can't argue your point, name call, amiright?). Then...

A Bernie Sanders supporter attempted assassination of those Sanders said were killing millions, shooting at least one republican congress person. An Elizabeth Warren supporter committed a mass shooting in Ohio. AOC follower committed domestic terrorism. Democrat mobs gather to incite murder of non leftists.

Corporate spokespeople (the media) cover for the raging violent left and insist that not only the president, who condemned the hate and violence, but all of his supporters evil. Is it any wonder that when you convince people their neighbors are evil white supremacist concentration camp supporters who want everyone to die through lack of government control of Healthcare, that they self righteously act on that and desire death the those they hear about on the 15 minute hate broadcast...every 15 minutes?

Then after the corporate spokespeople convince the brands followers to hate others, the largest tech and social corporations in America censor, so the rest of us voters can't see what's happening.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-locks-out-mcconnell-campaign-for-posting-video-of-calls-for-violence-at-mcconnells-home

Twitter locked accounts belonging to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign and several prominent conservatives Monday, after they posted videos of left-wing protesters gathered outside McConnell's Kentucky home -- with one demonstrator calling for someone to stab McConnell "in the heart" and for McConnell to break his "raggedy" neck.

#uspol #democrats #warren #sanders #aoc

Fighting the long defeat.

This can't be right, can it?

NEW: The Dayton Shooter Was a Satanist, Leftist-Socialist, and Bernie/Warren Fan, Supported Antifa

This is a pretty major development.

https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/08/04/dayton-shooter-leftist-elizabeth-warren-fan/