Yoje :theta_delta:<p>An <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> blurb so those reading this will know I'm not a bot. :)</p><p>I'm an <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dragon</span></a> <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/otherkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otherkin</span></a> / <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/therian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therian</span></a> with <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adhd</span></a> approaching the half-century mark trying to get into the <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a>. I pay the bills doing data centre <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/operations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>operations</span></a> for a company you've heard of, playing around with building servers both as hobby and for money. :D In my little spare time I also try to make <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>.</p><p>I have a teenage daughter who is trying to talk me into being a <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>football</span></a> ⚽️ fan with her. <br> <br>I usually don't comment often on my life in social media and I don't want to spam feeds with nonsense; while I enjoy reading and getting updates from similarly-minded beings, I'm not very talkative myself, online or otherwise, though I'll usually converse happily when directly interacted with.</p><p>I try to <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/meditate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meditate</span></a> when I can and reflect on the good in the world. There's lots of negative and bad, but it can devour if you don't also take time to appreciate the positive. I struggle every day to do better, make the world better in my own little way, and appreciate the beauty and complexity of everything from the grass to the galaxies. Speaking of, in addition to boosting really cool <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/dragonart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dragonart</span></a> or blurbs, you may also see me comment/boot on random <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> things. </p><p>I've been online since the <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> days, including being a <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fidonet</span></a> SysOp for five years before everyone moved to AOL. I moved on to <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usenet</span></a> (and would often lurk in <a href="https://weyr.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a>.fan.dragons), then myspace, livejournal, facebook, twitter, and now mastodon. I'll save some comments on why I moved from Twitter in my reply to this...</p><p>(1/2)</p>