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Hi 👋 my name's Joshua Byrd. I'm one of the admins of this Mastodon 🐘 instance bne.social with Ash! Currently I'm a software developer 👨💻 and digital storyteller at ABC News in the Story Lab team. I'm married 💒 and have a daughter called Vada and also a little pup named Misty.
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I play guitar 🎸 and sing in the Brisbane band Velociraptor. Occasionally I'm an actor 🎭 in various community theatre productions around town. I like writing ✍️ and coding and just generally making things online. I've been vegan 🌱 since the end of 2015 and am interested in animal rights activism along with direct climate action.
I like reading books and watching movies and keeping a lookout for paranormal 🛸 phenomena. Feel free to follow ✨ along.
OK yeah so Mastodon doesn't expand links that are behind a content warning. Good to know!
school shootings, abortion, homophobia, racism, religious fundamentalism, fascism, nazi imagery
Every few months I watch this YouTube video when I feel frustrated about why people are the way they are and why the world is the way it is and it all starts making sense again.
A few people brought up a good point in reply to this which made me realise there's actually nothing wrong with Twitter's algorithm. It's working exactly as they want it to and is likely fine-tuned to maximise ad revenue from paying content producers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
UPDATE Uvalde, Texas Shooting
It turns out my friend's friend's cousin wasn't hospitalized, she was missing and later found to be one of the victims. RIP Eliahana.
I've been itching to go #cycling and tonight it's finally stopped raining! Got to the Story Bridge and gave myself lactic acidosis climbing the hill. So I sat down for a bit, turned around and came home again. I rate tonight two stars.
I can't wait to never buy a Tesla in my life https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/NYT-Presents/elon-musk-tesla-autopilot.html
Finished this one last night. It was right up my alley. Following the developments of a gravity wave detector from initial idea right to actuality. 5/5 colliding black holes.
Book 20 down. 32 to go!
Software developer.
Data journalist.
Code and stories for ABC News Story Lab.
Sometimes musician/actor.
Husband and father.
Animal lover.
~~admin for https://bne.social with @ash~~
**alt @josh**