The raising people out of poverty GOAT, my eternal King, may he only know good things.

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Cake day: October 8th, 2026

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  • I like names that are uncommon enough to not be boring but not too out there. Also having a cool like origin/meaning is nice. Examples with meaning/origin and prominent figures sharing the name included:

    Silas: Greek/Latin meaning Forest or “of the Forest” Silas Deane, founder of the Methodist Church

    Wesley: Old English meaning west meadow Wesley Moore, current Governor of Maryland

    August: Latin (Augustus) meaning magnificent Augustus Caesar, First Princeps of the Roman Empire

    Audrey: Old English meaning noble strength Audrey Hepburn, American Actress

    Evelyn: English and French (Aveline) meaning hazelnut Evelyn Waugh, English Novelist/Satirist

    Florence: Latin meaning blossoming/flourishing. Florence Nightingale, Pioneer in the Medical Field













  • You are looking at this wrong. That is a false dichotomy. You don’t need to make your friends stop using the other apps. Just ask them to have both and use Signal to chat with you. What they do other than that is their own business. Sure, educate them, but don’t tell them what to do. If they downloaded the other app and you can talk to them there then your good to go delete the other one. Are you worried about missing some post of theirs on it or something? Who cares. You don’t need to see peoples lunches.


  • I’m gonna be super for real with you. If your friends won’t download an extra app to message you on then they’re not really that good of a friend. It’s such a small inconvenience. Omg I have to hit this other button on my touchscreen instead and spend 5 minutes setting it up?

    This is how I’d do it. You send a message to your friends on instagram and whatsapp with your signal info and say, “Hey, not gonna be checking [this app] often and won’t have notifs on. Trying to be more responsible about my data, and social media use. If you need me or want to chat hit me up on Signal.”

    If their response to that is “Okay well I don’t want to so I won’t talk to you anymore.” Then they’re not a friend worth keeping around anyway. Real friends are the people who will wake up at 3am and come pick you up from the airport when your coming home. Because they actually care about you, and when you actually care about someone you do inconvenient things for them.

    Now, if by “friend” you mean some person you’ve never met that you chat with online sometimes and send funny videos to or whatever? That’s not really what I’d call a friend to begin with, and you’ll just have to accept that relationship isn’t very deep and it’s totally normal for them not to want to do something just to talk to you. And in that case you have to decide if you’d rather stop talking to them, or stay on the other apps. That’s entirely a you decision at that point.