maren<p>hello! new intro post since it's been a while!<br><br>my name is maren and I'm stillgreenmoss on the internet. I live in asheville NC in the US, a beautiful and frustrating place in the Appalachian mountains. most of my work is place-based here in asheville<br><br>I recently quit my job to focus on starting <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.coop/@bunkcomputer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bunkcomputer</span></a></span> with two other amazing cooperators<br><br>I help <span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@firestorm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>firestorm</span></a></span> with sysadmin-ish work -- I'm a friend and not a member of the coop<br><br>I'm a trans woman and very glad for it, despite the horrors<br><br>computing and its discontents is the dominant public activity in my life, though I do also love techno and breakcore and acid and house music and and and -- do you know where the rave is? please tell me where the rave is<br><br>i spent most of the last 7 years working in big, corporate tech jobs. I think that those are pretty broken places and I hope to never go back. if the computer coop doesnt work out, I daydream about becoming a civil engineer<br><br>if you live in asheville or western NC or the rest of NC or southern Appalachia and you care about building a better world of computing, I literally want to talk to you so bad, please reach out<br><br>thanks for reading, fedi4life, plur, etc, ❤️<br><br><a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/asheville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asheville</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coop</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/cooperative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooperative</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/techcoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techcoop</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/northcarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>northcarolina</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/wnc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wnc</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/techno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techno</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/sober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sober</span></a> <a href="https://whistlepig.social/tags/vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vegan</span></a></p>