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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.

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[–] rook@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

me move straight

[–] Sudomeapizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

im always hungry

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 1 points 6 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.

[–] p000l@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Paul PoOooOooOooooL

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

I wanted people to regret worrying about who they were reading messages from

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 6 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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago
[–] HollowV@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Hollow is a song title by an EDM artist named Dabin and has themes about loneliness, emptiness, and inner turmoil. Also depression makes me feel hollow. V is the first letter of my first name.

Here's the song: https://youtu.be/K-AD0iMs_ak

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

My username is my first name abbr and my middle initial just backwards. Ben A. It still pretty anonymous if I wanted it the right way around but Aneb is very funny to me tbh. It was very seductive when Staments said it in verse in his voice memo to me a while back. Its also something my grandma does with words so its an homage to her as well. tsuguanimajneb would be too long ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Username checks out

[–] queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm proudly a queer weirdo:)

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 14 points 1 week 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.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

"What would 'palindrome' look like if it was a palindrome?"

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not Rick, but I’m also NOT the Krusty Krab

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

That sounds an awful lot like something Rick would say

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago

It's my real name, and I don't remember which avatar I have right now but either way it's from a webcomic.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What avatars? I can't see them. My user name means what's up dude in my language.

[–] WhereAreMySocks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Occasionally, my socks go missing.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You guys have avatars? Too much effort...

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

This is me just learning avatars are a thing.

[–] a_person@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

I am just a person, you dont need to know anything more about me.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It was the first online user name I ever created back in '92. I got it from the Nocturnus album Thresholds. The song was Nocturne in B Minor, which is from Chopin's Nocturne.

My avatar is my cat, Mouse Police wearing a yellow feather boa.

I also use the SHARPS logo as an avatar.

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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I've been using this username since I was like 12. I think I'd just watched Babylon 5 and was trying to come up with a username that took a cheesy cringey self given nickname (Papa) and mixed it with some sci-fi sounding stuff (Babylon) and came up with papalonian.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"This was a Triumph."

"I'm making a note here, huge success."

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

My username is a play on a very esoteric old /tv/ meme.

My profile picture is one of my drawings from my worldbuilding project. It's a froglike alien commando.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the first letter of my real name.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I had a friend since college whose first name started with a Q, he always went by Q. A couple years ago he started to use a QAnon logo as his avatar. Someone informed him of its meaning and he did a deep dive on it and never came back from it. I ended up blocking him on all social media because he went off the deep end.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah I've had my share of people associating my username with that. Also Star trek, but that ones OK.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Keys on a qwerty keyboard. Just so that it's different here from everywhere else.

The only reason I have a username and not an avatar is because I was forced to pick a username but not an avatar when registering.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

My avatar is a picture of a large ceramic cow in northern Michigan. The cow is named Jillbert.

The name is largely self explanatory.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] unknown@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Fo shizzle my Bizzle

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I just think the Grasshopper Mouse is neat

[–] nett_hier@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

It's kind of the slogan of my state

[–] anas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It’s my actual name, I got it for my birthday.

[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago

I do a lot of play therapy and wear a lot of costumes. Arts and crafts necessitates shiny objects such as gemstones glitter/glue. The photo I think I’m dressed up for some silly hat day thing. I may be a crow.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I’m just a gust in the wind and I made it in paint to be a gust of wind

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

My avatar is the GOOD BEE from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Because I'm locked away in my cave, but if you manage to find and befriend me, I am loyal and will slay your opponents.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

It’s my first initial and last name.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every time I see your avatar, OP, I think of Audacity 😅

Mine's just... Something I came up with. It came to me in a dream I guess.

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

I use names that may seem creative, but have no real meaning. Just made from spontaneous ideas.

I always have several of them (prepared or in use), because you never know when some ultra crazy mod turns up.

I read Berserk.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We call someone who can't do anything right, or is “useless”,“un zero a l'esquerra”, a zero to the left (as in the zero in 01, which is the same as 1, making the 0 irrelevant).

I consider myself one such zero to the left, but that's too long, so leftzero. 🤷‍♂️

Also... lemmy has profile pictures..?

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[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago

"Ugh I need to think of a new username. What's the name of the company I just bought a strimmer from? That'll do.."

Strimmer seems pretty good, still working a couple of years later for occasional use. Much nicer to have a battery powered tool instead of petrol. And bonus, I feel like Worx is such an unknown company that I'm not even giving free advertising because no-one even recognises the name!

[–] sailormoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not creative... Its virtual (real life initials)

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