Who is Michael Bradley

I am many things (see the links below). More officially: I am a mathematician 🧙. Less officially: I am a programmer 💻, a secular humanist 🫂, an essayist 🖊️, a furry 🦝, and perhaps an artist ✒️ 🎨 too.

Here is some common information that you’ll probably see in multiple places on the Internet:

• The website you are currently on, Disjoint Union ⊔, is my personal (and official) creative depository. To explain the domain, “Brooks” is the name of my grandfather.
• I live in the America/Los_Angeles 🕖 time zone.
• My web handle is typically TheDocTrier 🏷️ (post 2020, pronounced try-er), however you may also see my decommissioned handle Tankobot (pre 2020).
• My current profile picture 🖼️ is the first 256 rows of Pascal’s triangle mod 6.
  • I chose it because, while clearly not the Sierpiński triangle, it still bears a peculiar similarity (the Sierpiński triangle can be gotten by using a modulus of 2 instead of 6).
  • Indeed, Pascal’s mod 6 is the intersection of Pascal’s mod 2 (the Sierpiński) and Pascal’s mod 3.

Advocacy

Generally speaking, I am a supporter of

• the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
  • for supporting the rights of those with disabilities, people with HIV, immigrants, juveniles, people of all races, members of the LGBTQ community, the incarcerated, and women,
  • and for protecting freedom of speech, human privacy, religious liberty, reproductive freedom, and voting rights,
• the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF),
  • for defending freedom of speech and combating censorship,
  • see the article Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech by Neil Gaiman, writer of Coraline, American Gods, and Good Omens, who is also an avid supporter of the CBLDF,
• Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia,
  • for providing the largest encyclopedia of free content managed through the open collaboration of volunteers,
• the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
  • for promoting freedom of speech, human privacy, network neutrality, and procedural transparency,
  • and for criticizing digital rights management (DRM) and government surveillance,
• and the Free Software Foundation (FSF),
  • for supporting free software (see GNU/Linux) and neutral hardware,
  • and for criticizing digital rights management (DRM) and software patents.

Links

Here are a bunch of links to my primary accounts across many services (ordered alphabetically). Note that I barely access most of these accounts. If you want to contact me, I currently recommend my Twitter or my Telegram^{NOT SECURE}, where it’s easiest for me to respond quickly. You can also try sending an email to michael@brooksb.dev, but spam may prevent me from seeing it. If you want a more secure option, and we’re already mutuals, then contact me via Signal. The table given here is supposed to act as more of a reference for others (and myself). Be warned, there may be mature materials behind any of the links given.

Platform	Link
Archive of Our Own	TheDocTrier
Artstation	TheDocTrier
DeviantArt	TheDocTrier
Discord	TheDocTrier#4824
e621	TheDocTrier
GitHub	TheDocTrier
Goodreads	Michael Bradley
Internet Archive	Tankobot
Itch	TheDocTrier
Ko-fi Payment	TheDocTrier
Liberapay Payment	TheDocTrier
Miraheze	TheDocTrier
Patreon Payment	TheDocTrier
Picarto	TheDocTrier
Piczel.tv	TheDocTrier
Reddit	TheDocTrier
Signal	Must be mutuals.
Stack Exchange	TheDocTrier
Telegram	TheDocTrier
Twitch	TheDocTrier
Twitter	TheDocTrier
WikiFur	TheDocTrier
Wikipedia	TheDocTrier