On a good day I’m up around 5 AM, but I often find myself up even earlier than that. I joined my first Lemmy instance during one of these bouts of insomnia, prompting my username.

My avatar is from a worldbuilding project I work on.

  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Very few people know who/what Chip Chipperson is. I particularly like the young fella and chippys mittens was the name of his pet horse, RIP.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Lemmy.zip has/had a mismatch between frontend and backend validation on usernames. When the frontend allows something that the backend rejects, you get some random “InvalidName” pop-up on form submission.

    I tried several different variations of my preferred user name, but I couldn’t figure out what was violating backend validation, so finally I settled on InvalidName. Which triggered a server error (500 error or timeout or something, I don’t recall).

    But finally, one glorious moment in time, the lemmy.zip server accepted InvalidName2 without choking, and the rest is history.

  • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    No avatar because I can’t be bothered. I don’t see them on my app anyway. As far as I can tell, nobody has them.

    I was watching some movie, and I was like ooh, centipedes would make good farriers; they can use their body along the hoof to draw a stencil by just passing a pencil along all of its feet!

    And that was silly so here we are.

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    A friend in primary school just started giving us weird nicknames and decided to call me the wizard pope (not really but that is the best translation) he even held elections and elected me to the position so I just started using it as my username. The picture is self explanatory though I did have to change it in the spring.

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    Lemmy let’s you have a user avatar? I’ve never seen one using Voyager.

    My username is a Latin phrase meaning (this particular definition is from Wikipedia): In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants.

    I think rebellion against the US government is required at this point regardless of your political affiliation as our Public Servant’s have shown to not care for who they represent, the American people.