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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I was an emotional teenager who thought "life was too chaotic". I've grown fond of the name over the years, so I still use it to this day.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To play off my instance name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Legend. Did you make the instance too?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

fucking legend

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it’s all I really want to do here.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i wonder who that guy is

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my nicknames growing up was Lil Miss Potatoes. But now I'm a grown up, so I'm Lady Taters.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Because I want to instill fear

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TLC wrote a song about me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Don't go Jason Waterfalls, please stick to the Trevors and Jakes that you're used to

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I often expend my creativity elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because I'm not a banana, duh.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's an anagram of my real name, 'lcdou 991y9'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I was thinking of McDonald's and balls

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I kept on trying to make an account and it wouldn't let me for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corrupt windows nt boot menu circa 2003.. It should have said "last known good configuration"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because I think that summer is too warm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You know what? I agree.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just run pwgen -c 6 -0 and picket one that I liked most.

I did same thing when I was picking my Wifi home network name (Wahthahv)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Because it sounds perverse, slummy/moist, and randomly generated in equal measure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is just who I am

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I grew up in central Flordia in the 80s and 90s. I loved saltwater fishing. Because of this I started to have lots of interactions with pelicans.

After awhile I became kind of close with them, we somehow seemed to communicate, I would spend hours with them, sometimes I would take out the boat and float around the shallows for these huge schools of pompano that would swim around the deep shipping channel then they would come up in the shallows for a few seconds and hit the bait fish really hard, it made them an easy catch and an unbelievably hard fight on ultralight gear.

I would go alone, sometimes with friends, but the one living being that always showed up was the pelican, and in this particular case it was a fishing spot I found near the Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg.

This is where the pelican became my favorite bird, we had some good times together, one bird in that area though new me and followed me around, never bothering me, never once trying to catch my bait that obviously has a hook in it, it seemed to know what was up, I'll never forget those pelicans and especially my buddy who always loved hanging out and getting fat from my catch.

So I carry the name because I love pelicans and the more people see the name maybe just maybe they might think twice before harming one of these magnificent birds or littering which is heavily contributing to their extinction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was a big weeb, and my original name was Nekomaru. As I "grew out" of it, I translated the name back into English, and realized I actually liked it better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the name of my favorite Star Ship! USS Defiant

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

When I joined up, there was much discussion about bots, so I reckoned that I should set the record straight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.

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Mine should be obvious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a reference to human cannibalism. I found it interesting that humans taste similar to pork. I'm just weird like that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just wanted to share an interesting fact about myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a Bailey Sarian Fan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Have you seen kiwis? They're adorable!

The bird is alright too I guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not calm.

Not typical.

Full cat.

HISSSSSSSSSSS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cogito ergo sum.

If I don't think, I'm DoesNotExist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My favorite song from an artist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I became that which I feared the most

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