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EthicalRevolution is the name of the project I’ve been running since 2013. It began as a website which was sort of a ‘Money Saving Expert’ specifically for more ethical goods and services.

It came about when I started making big changes in my own life, thinking more about the impacts of my daily transactions. I was trying to do everything with sustainability in mind.

The trouble I faced was that the more ethical stuff tended to always cost a lot more than mainstream alternatives and I have never earned much money (a story for another time) so it was difficult to achieve.

I would scour for hours to find the cheapest places to get said ethical goods/services when I needed them. I lamented the fact there was no way of doing this other than performing multiple searches and going to multiple websites to find the best option and so I set up a website where anyone could search for anything and find links to good deals to bring down the cost of ethical purchasing.

It was the first website of its kind at the time.

In the years that ensued sustainability has become a more prominent issue and moved more in to mainstream thinking, which is of course a very positive thing. As such there are now loads of websites that do what EthicalRevolution once did and so my site has since undergone its own little revolution and is now set up as a 26 step challenge (from A-Z) that anyone can take to try to create a better world for themselves and their surroundings. 👇

ethicalrevolution.co.uk/

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“Möchtegern” means Wannabe in German.

“Sternengucker” is stargazer and diminutive for astronomer. 🌌

Well, I’m not an astronomer, but I do like the night sky. Also it contains the letter ö showing rock dots 🤘😂

Profile picture usually is from a vintage game I played last or a show I’m watching, banner is an astro picture I found nice.

I used to have "wormz" as a nickname but it was also claimed by two other people and it was tiresome to compete with them when registering on new platforms.

I chose a word randomly from the icelandic language (meaning "breakfast cereals") to have a nickname that's pretty unique and usually available.

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There's way too much layers. Basically translates to August Snow, which is a situation that doesn't usually occur, if rarely, but would make for a pretty sick band name once I bother making music again. It's also written with 膤 in kanji, which is a kanji that should not exist and was included in the JIS standard as an error which was subsequently included into Unicode also as an error but now it's too late to delete it because Unicode does not delete characters. Ever.

But most importantly, her:

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Back in freshman year of HS (2004/5), my friend gave me an invite code to this crazy free email thing called "G mail" and I needed a username fast. At the time, I was a bored HS student in the pre-smartphone era interested in code in a school with few tech focused electives, so I spent my downtime playing with and reading TI BASIC code on my TI-84+ calculator until I was able to write my own little programs. The username stuck ever since. I still love programming!

Superball was a “temporary” Playa name bestowed upon me by a friend, the one year I went to Burning Man—because, like the ball, I was colorful and unpredictable. Also I inadvertently broke things. I still unpredictably bounce around here and there and break things (but no longer dye my hair bright colors or dress as flashy, as I’ve transitioned from space pixie to woods witch—albeit one who is still All The Colors in spirit).

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Robot Diver is the first song I ever wrote. I was about three and it was maybe more of a stim, than a song, but anytime we had to drive anywhere I would cover myself with my coat and sing it from my little cocoon while staring out the window.

Robot Diver, Robot Diver, Do, Do, Do, Do.

As I've gotten older, I think I relate to being a bit of a robot diver on many levels.

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#ExplainYourUsername mmm.

Well. I used to be daFuzz (because I had curly hair, before half fell out and I started shaving it).

My last name is Cravens, and when my wife and I started our short-lived design business, we called it Raven Design as a play on our last name. Our email address was ravenpub@southwind.net (for publishing, I don't remember why it wasn't ravendes@).

When we got our own domain, I shortened it to raven@ and I've been that ever since.

And I like ravens.