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.
I had just heard the expression: “It helps the general effort.” It was in a Discworld audiobook. It made me think: “Yeah, I could use some help right now.” That was still rattling around in my head when I had to come up with a username. I don’t remember what I was having trouble with, so I guess that worked out.
I typed some alphabets and numbers that just popped into my mind at the moment.
Took the name I use everywhere online, put an _, and chose the lowest number I could, which I do on basically every platform
I turn things.
“We all turn the wheel… I am the one who decides the way in which it turns.”
Despite what you might think my name has a story. The first part has to do with the sound you would hear right before you died in an early FPS game, and the second part was the clan I was a part of at the time (happy). None of my name has to do with drugs.
I’m a… doctor lady.
The first part is just an alias and doesn’t really have an interesting story
The second part is the airport code of the city I lived in when this account was created. I was actually quite curious if anyone could have guessed that without me saying it out loud
I chose my username when I was still a teenager, originally with the meaning that I’m a nerd, but not like an amazing or extremely smart nerd, nor extremely awkward. Just your average guy with autism and nerdy on particular subjects.
I’ve mostly kept with it because it’s how most of my online friends know me, and I still think it’s part of my identity, although I’ve since developed interests that a stereotypical nerd might not have such as cycling, mountain biking, travelling and hiking.
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…?
A long time ago my when my little brother was in first grade, he got a homework sheet where he had to unscramble a bunch of names. I thought this scrambled version sounded cool, and have been using it as username everywhere ever since.
I’m a fan of the poem and have had this name for 30+ years.
M is the first letter in my real name and 137 is my favorite/lucky number. I made my avatar about a decade ago, inspired by synthwave music and style (specifically after seeing waveshaper play live).
Kinda/remotely/vaguely is the phonetic version of the surname my best friend gave me some 40+ years ago.
The avatar is a red blob hinting at what I’m into (plus my name) ;)
There’s this epic show called Psych. Hidden pineapples appear in pretty much every episode and movies.
Probably misremembered term from an Anne Rice novel. Google gives me nothing. As such it seems pretty unique.
