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.

  • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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    7 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.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    6 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.

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    7 days 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.

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
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    7 days ago

    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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        6 days ago

        She is quite the character.

        She has a cat tent, it sits on top of the box in the background, Mouse loves to jump into the tent and knock it over and then hide in it.