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  • Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.

  • I was a DJ in the 90ies and needed a DJ name. I was looking for one and when I was on my way to Ber

    lin for the Love Parade by train - already half drunk. And the we stopped in the city Jena, in the part Paradies, so the sign Spain "Jena Paradies" and I thought it was the perfect name for me as a DJ.

    Then I added another e and dropped the "last name" part and here we are with "Jeena"

  • We are a small clique of kobolds who share a Lemmy account in real life. It seemed appropriate.

  • I like sea otters. I've spotted them in the water once or twice

  • My name's Hiram. I was born in Chihuahua, and raised in Chicago.

    Both are home, and both start with "Chi."

    • I apologize if this is inappropriate, but have you ever met any Chichimeca? I'm a MesoamĂ©rica history dork and La Gran Chichimeca is an area of interest for me and I believe the Chihuahua desert was in that territory or at least neighboring it.

      I imagine they would be hard to find in Chicago, so once again I apologize if I'm being ignorant.

      • Not to my knowledge.

        Also: My understanding is that La Gran Chichimeca was further south from Chihuahua, around the Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, and Guanajuato region. Basically between Chihuahua and Mexico City.

        You might know better than I would though, if that's something you study/studied.

        I got Tarahumara blood in me, but you wouldn't know it from the current state of my cardio lol

  • I was a bookish child and my mother used to take me to the local library weekly. On the way to the children's section I had to pass the large print shelf. There was always this one hardback book there, The Spitting Image. It had a bizarre looking gargoyle on the cover and I used to look away so I wouldn't have nightmares about it, but peek at it between my fingers. Every week for years the spitting image would watch me run past it to the Tintin books. Eventually I lost my fear and I could look it straight in the face. It was a goofy thing, nothing like as sinister as I first thought.

    Once upon a time the world was a magical place and I used to invent my own rituals as protection.

  • I change usernames every couple years. Betch is just something a couple of my friends started calling me a while ago. It basically became my name until I found something I liked to replace my deadname and it also became my new online identity.

  • Trans, wasn't ready to use my new name IRL, or come out to anybody, so I took the word "Somber" and shoved a Y in it because it makes it really similar to my chosen name, so I could feel like I was being called my preferred name every time somebody said it.

    Now that I'm this far into my transition it's nothing but a relic, but I like the username anyway.

  • QA for a 3PL. Apparently QA didn't prior to my arrival try things like entering words in zipcode entry boxes, typing 65537 letters into an address field, or holding the shift key when selecting which State to ship to.

    I made a lot of, well not what I would call enemies but I wasn't exactly friends with any of the developers.

  • I was 9, I like video games, my first name is Harry

    Almost 20 years later and there are people IRL who call me "gamer" and not "Harry"

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