Me:
Reading SF&F since about age 9, friends with LGBTQ people since age 16, working in software/tech since I was 16, practicing Zen since 17 or 18, on Internet by late 1980s. I helped invent modern credit card terminals at Verifone in 1980s, founded small ISP LavaNet in 1994, back to sw dev from 2005 on.
Usenet (talk.bizarre), Making Light, Twitter.
"I'm normal by Cubetown standards."
Mostly here to chat, banter, & boost my friends & favorite writers.
Cis/bi, he/him, relaxed about it.
Replying to @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans
I am in awe of your compilation skills.
This also led me to track down what font the Mastodon SW on this site is using which actually *displays* all of these. It must be very up to date on Unicode symbols.
WRONG: Roboto Regular, it turns out.
CORRECTION: It appears it's actually Microsoft YaHei that has all of these; Roboto is missing a number of the cool ones like the 2 em- and 3 em-dashes.