Having just celebrated 13 years on the "bird site" its time to move on to the Fediverse

I came partly for the #LaTeX and #markdown rendering (if I can get that to work properly)

I want to avoid the doomscrolling of UK politics that was increasingly the main feature of my bird site timeline, mostly triggered by the disasters on the UK political scene since the 2016 European Union crash-out (#Brexit).

So this account is for my other (more healthy) interests, these include (among many others)

#ukulele
#astronomy
#foss
#linux
#thorium
#4thGenerationNuclear
#physics
#mandarin
#python
#bellringing
#family
#democracy
#netzero
#internationalism
#electronics
#RPi
#maths
#quantumManyWorlds
#Everettianism

About me: Retired electronics engineer who used to work on high power RF systems for particle accelerators and also on control and power systems for superconducting magnets.

Still suffering PTSD from too much man-management and time spent in meetings and committees.

Since this platform supports LaTeX here is my favourite mathematical equation (I am not sure why I see it displayed twice, inlcuding the first time with some monster sized symbols?)

\( e^{ i\pi } + 1 = 0 \)

Any suggestions about what I am doing wrong there?