Like users that are known for a gimmick or that everyone sees alot?

    • SSTF
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      @[email protected] has just completely become the account keeping historical memes and historical illustration communities going, which I very much appreciate.

    • anon6789
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      471 month ago

      I’m honored to be listed with those 2 posting machines!

      It always means a lot you all take the time to read my posts.

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            100%. I was there from the original airing of the pilot episode through the last 22 years of multi-year breaks between seasons.

            LOL a couple years ago one of my closest friends who happens to be about the furthest away from me of any of them. Shot me a message asking me to guess who they were having lunch with. I had no idea. But it turned out that she had bumped into Lisa hammer and they had been hanging out a bit. They both live up in New York near the Bronx. I may have gotten some signed Triana swag out of the deal LOL

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              I started during season 1 with my best friend at the time. It took me a bit to get into it, but once I was, I started back from the beginning and then it just got better every season.

              Trina episodes are great. The one with the double date is one of the best. The whole set of bathroom scenes are so hilarious!

              • @[email protected]
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                Yes would have been interesting to see if Tirana’s character got a little more development had Lisa and Doc not split. But she seems to be doing well and is enjoying her work in film out there in New York. So it’s all good.

                But yes the rogues gallery on that show was always one of my favorites personally. The Thin White Duke as the sovereign complete with a Klaus Nomi/Iggy pop cameo in the second season finale I think it was? And all the other absurd villains and heroes they just shucked out left and right. Not to mention 21 absurd story arc.

          • @[email protected]
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            I really hoped the baboon’s heart was king gorilla’s, meaning the return of my favorite villain.

            Cigar?

            • anon6789
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              King, I gotta buy my bitch back. Here’s your cigarette.

              F_ you, gimme a dollar!

              So many great villains. 😆

        • anon6789
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          41 month ago

          I like giving you all something special every day! 🦉

      • @[email protected]
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        Love you @[email protected], but I spazzed out recently after a full year of pressing too hard for a ‘post per day,’ and I feel like I dishonored everyone here when I melted down recently. (I’m super-embarrassed)

        So I appreciate the mention, but regardless of how I embarrassed the community, I can’t aim for one scholarly post per day, anymore. I just can’t. Sorry about that, matey.

        Now I do plan to keep on posting as the mood seeks me, but I just CAN’T keep the community popular like this, all on my own. Even just a little bit of help would go far.

        Ugh, sorry for all the bitching and moaning. :S

        • @[email protected]
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          Don’t worry about it fam. Lemmy isn’t like a news broadcast, it’s more like a family dinner, it’s OK to go off on a rant every once in a while. And there’s no obligation to post every day, just post when you feel like it and where you feel like it. The fact is, you posted quality content a lot for a long time, and that’s commendable.

  • @[email protected]
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    1661 month ago

    DBZer0, aka Divide By Zer0. He runs an instance with the same name. He’s one of the old mods on r/piracy and helped lead an exodus over to Lemmy

  • @[email protected]
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    I see a lot of posts from @[email protected].

    They post good memes, insightful comments, moderates a few communities I think.

    probably not a real squid though, I don’t think they got internet in the ocean

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      probably not a real squid though

      I am currently visiting some friends I’ve been talking to on a forum for years but have never met. We’ve all been really close despite that. It’s sort of a three-day forum party and it’s been amazing.

      Why do I bring this up?

      I needed a shirt to wear for the first day so I didn’t have to keep telling people who I was and I found the perfect shirt. (Excuse the crease, I took the picture the day after.)

      Edit: are the downvoters disillusioned by the revelation of my false endoskeleton?

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      I have seen their name a lot, and though I think I share similar opinions with them on a lot of things, I find they tend to be more condescending and insulting for my particular preference.

      • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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        he also has a habit of replying to people without fully reading what they’ve written, creating long chains where he blames everyone else for his failings. it’s ugly.

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            Where exactly did you have to ban me from? Because I just looked at your post history and I’m not banned in any of the communities where you post.

            Strangely, for me being a dude with serious issues, you aren’t worried about posting regularly in the communities I moderate.

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                He also uses the fact that he is a mod to bully people. He just holds it over the conversation at times to force it to go the way he wants.

                heh, case in point.

              • Flying Squid
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                51 month ago

                I don’t exactly make it a secret that I moderate World News or Lemmy Shitpost, where they have posted multiple times. Including in reply to me. The big red M next to my name makes it kind of hard to miss.

                And that still doesn’t tell me where they supposedly banned me from.

          • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
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            You keep bringing that up everywhere his name appear but i genuinely not understand what’s your issue with it. It’s very much a parent behaviour.

      • @[email protected]
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        He also uses the fact that he is a mod to bully people. He just holds it over the conversation at times to force it to go the way he wants.

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      Checks community’s modlist

      I’ve seen them a lot as well, but personally in my interactions, I’ve found them to be abrasive, narrow minded, and eager to take things personally. Lowkey don’t mind that, it’s not the internet if everyone is some polite bland npc.

      But add mod powers for many communities and…

    • @[email protected]
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      I dislike flying squid because of how they interacted on that one post with comic involving double standards on pictures of children

      Denying people’s trauma and right to not have those images be shown to others without permission is not a nice thing

  • @[email protected]
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    681 month ago

    I asked my mom and she didn’t really understand what Lemmy is but she assured me that I am the coolest person on here.

    An autographed headshot will run you $20

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        501 month ago

        It’s obviously the real actress. Who else would it be? Do you think someone on the internet would just pick that name to use if it isn’t theirs?

      • @[email protected]
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        She’s a top NSA spy. Learnt the ropes while shooting the Barbie movie, which was actually a front for a vast police operation to capture the hobbits. Apparently, they live in Barbieland.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        91 month ago

        The account doesn’t really act like someone pretending to be an actor, and whoever runs it was mainly posting during the SAG strike when she would have had more free time. So I want to believe it’s her, because she replied to one of my posts and that was pretty cool.

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        Until this thread, I didnt realize so many Lemmy users had an issue with Flying Squid. Perhaps its because I tend to agree with a lot of his takes, but I just find him abrasive at worst. Like…unafraid to not sugarcoat an uncomfortable truth.

        Dudes definitely everywhere though.

          • Flying Squid
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            Rumors of my only having good opinions about everything that everyone should agree with have been greatly exaggerated.

            But if I have offended you by being wrong about something, I apologize.

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              Not offended, more just dumbfounded that someone could honestly not see how that is obviously a terrible idea.

              • Flying Squid
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                See above, re me not always having good opinions about everything.

                I cannot help being severely flawed. It comes with the whole homo sapiens thing.

                But good for you not having any opinions most people in a certain community you’re in disagree with. That must be very nice for you.

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                  So what you are saying (through an incredibly thick layer of condescension) is that you know your belief is wrong. And instead of changing your belief, you would rather maintain it, knowing it is wrong. That’s just bizarre.

            • Maeve
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              Holy cannoli squid, don’t do that to your kid.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’ve gotten into it with them at least once and seen some other questionable takes from them but nothing to a grudge over. They’re just opinionated. It’s fine. People take shit on the internet too seriously.

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              Its going to sound silly, but I can’t get past how confident he is and how quickly he posts. Noone makes good arguments with that little thought. At least thats my current theory on why he bothers me.

              Who knows though maybe I’m projecting.

              • @[email protected]
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                I also get annoyed at lightning fast responses. And I agree 100%

                It takes no time or energy to come up with one answer to a question. I’m fact, I think most humans’ brains are built for snap decisions like that.

                But to weigh multiple answers against each other, poking holes in the answers you are most inclined to believe? That takes thought. And if someone is not doing that for you, then odds are, their brain is simply letting them take the discussion less seriously than your brain (or your morality) allows.

                So I think you have every right to feel frustrated at such behavior.

      • @[email protected]
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        I really don’t see a problem with how they interacted. And, as a step father, I agree that it’s your job to embarrass your kids some as they grow.

        I think they were much more level headed and calm than I would have been had I been at odds with so many people.

        But hey, everyone is allowed their own opinions.

      • @[email protected]
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        Be careful pointing that out on forums they moderate or they’ll ban you for “mod harassmenr.”

        Power users and power mods are cancer.

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    Special shoutout to @[email protected] who’s on point with the opossum memes.

    @[email protected] is quite famous in the Lemmy Startrek Lore, but less active lately probably due to big real-life changes happening, I wish them well.

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      The big changes are mostly just that I work new hours which are weird for lemmy posting. I’ve been trying to find a way to get back into it more easily. I do miss posting so much :(

      Can’t say it’s not weird as shit though to think that that I’m even slightly “famous”

      And I do appreciate it <3 genuinely

      • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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        it’s probably best not to force it. Early in the Reddit migration, frequent posting kept people coming back, but you don’t want to turn it into “your” communities. Shifting to quality over quantity is never a bad move either :)

      • Rentlar
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        No problem and glad to hear you’re still around! You were there with the memes and shitposts when Lemmy needed it most, I think that deserves recognition. Keep taking things at a pace you feel comfortable with, your life comes first.

      • @[email protected]
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        Tens of thousands of people know who you are. At least your online persona. And generally think good things about you!

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      I dislike stamets because they responded to me in a toxic, rude, abrasive and above others attitude when I disagreed with them on their stance that spirituality and religon (which are seperate things) should be banned in the future entirely, it was related to start trek discussion

      I disagree with that because I beleive people should have freedom to practice their religous beleifs or spiritual beleifs as long as they are not harming others

      The harming of others should definitely be dealt with if someone does decide to harm others based on their beleifs but many people practice spiritual or religous beleifs without harming others

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        (Edit: Misclicked reply) the attitude part is pretty common for Lemmy users: passionate, with strong views enough to migrate away from the mainstream. You are free to dislike Stamets or anyone else. It’s still important to understand that nobody’s perfect, no need to have one’s flaws be used to tank the good accomplishments they’ve done for the platform.

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    Ada from Lemmy Blahaj Zone is quite infamous for the bad takes and arbitrary bans

    Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart always gets a laugh from me

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      Ada is a strange one yeah. I remember them because instead of just generally deciding they didn’t want to federate with lemmynsfw, she accused the admins of lemmynsfw of allowing CSAM when that turned out to be from a confirmed adult model that just happened to have a smaller body, and when she found that out she doubled down. That’s such a weird take from a supposedly pro LGBTQ+ lemmy admin, considering that accepting of people of all shapes and sizes is a core tenet of being LGBTQ+.

      • @[email protected]
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        One time I posted a meme on Blahaj in which someone named [email protected] was attacking a trans person. Ada sent me a message about it saying I was attacking a real trans person. There is no real trans person named Obvious_Troll. I made up that username for the meme. Ada defended a fictional transphobic troll, because they were from Hexbear.

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          I kinda get not starting shit with other instances (Although, Hexbear should be the last to be able to invoke that), and it is still her instance and her rules there. But yeah it would not make me happy to be part of a community under those rules. Being a safe space doesn’t mean you have to shield bad actors from criticism. Especially if she’s not going to be respectful to good actors. And it really is weird how she comes to some of her conclusions (How is a non-existing person trans, where did she learn this?) and then still wants the same response when that turns out to be wrong.

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            This comment thread reminded me of a problematic trans group that is mentioned in the “Being phobic is sus: weeding out transphobic Facebook groups” Facebook group occasionally because that behaviour seems really similar

            I’ve forgotten the name of the group though and will edit my comment if I find the name again and haven’t forgotten about this comment

            Edit found it

            The problematic group is the “Trans Education” group run by “Evey Winters” on Facebook

            The posts describing that group are similar to the what the comments here describe

          • @[email protected]
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            I have edited my comment because I found the name of that problematic Facebook group

            This comment is just to serve as a notification

  • drd
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    The user with an AI copyright notice on every one of their posts is one of my favorite “gimmicks”.

    • @[email protected]
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      Is it just one person? I tend to not read usernames. I just find that notice amusing as the only result it will have is that some ai-generated comments will one day start to have that notice in them as well.

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        I’ve seen at least a couple different users with that, but I wouldn’t be able to recall their usernames offhand.

        The notice really reminds me of the Facebook chain posts where people would post a declaration saying that facebook couldn’t use your data/likeness if you share the post text.

        If ai companies are unabashed about scraping and training on copywrited material from litigious companies like the nyt, I really don’t get how anyone convinces themselves that anything they append to their comments would stop a scraper.

    • Lad
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      Yes I’ve seen them too. Utterly pointless lmao

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      that’s @onlinepersona i believe although I dunno what instance is their home. They seem nice