You know how you go to your favorite bar, your local bartender isn’t there.

You ask, “Where’s Stamets?”

“Stamet’s no longer works here. I’m ummthatguy.”

And you’re thinking “Hey who’s this idiot? I like Stamets.”

But you still want your drink. And even though ummthatguy doesn’t mix your drink the same way you’re used to, like Stamets, you still like the bar. You don’t have to go to a different bar. And even ummthatguy might feel kinda bad because Stamets trained him. Stamets showed him how to work the cash register, where the tonic was on the soda gun, who tips, who doesn’t.

Stamets is the SNL Weekend Update Norm Macdonald to my Colin Quinn.

Meme from Short Trek: The Trouble with Edward

    • @ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      28•2 days ago

      What little I’ve picked up is that the combination of life stress and social media induced stress came to a head. So they cut themselves loose and left. It’s a bummer, but I hope doing so will help them be well.

      • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
        10•2 days ago

        Aw man, that is too bad.

        I hope wherever he is he finds some peace and feels better. It is a rough time out there, I hope my sending positive vibes finds him, even if it isn’t much.

        For whatever it’s worth, this place has been a massive place of comfort for me and that is in a large part because of them. I went through the shit for most of last year and had some breakdowns and this community really helped.

        And you too ummthatguy, you’re awesome and you’ve made me laugh so many times. I couldn’t think of a better member of the community to help mod it, thanks for all you do.

        • Stamets
          3•40 minutes ago

          @ummthatguy@lemmy.world isn’t entirely wrong. I’ve been dealing with some shit for the better part of the last year. It is also my birthday in a few days and while that’s a celebration for other people, it’s a severe stressor for me thanks to some past trauma. I overreacted. That’s why I deleted the leaving post. I’ll probably be back. Might be a couple weeks. Might be a month or two. I don’t know. I’m just struggling and adding in the extra stress of Lemmy is a straw I just can’t handle.

          Not likely I’ll come back in a moderator capacity unless directly asked. There’s no reason for me to be on the team. Everything runs smoothly and sufficiently without me and I’m not egotistical enough to be like “I WANT THAT GREEN M NEXT TO MY NAME AGAIN”.

          Hope that helps to you, @Kolanaki@pawb.social and @OpenStars@piefed.social

        • @ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          6•2 days ago

          They will be missed.

          And don’t diminish your own contribution to our little hub.

          How far we’ve all come. Hell, you even stopped calling me Kevin.

      • @Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
        4•1 day ago

        Good for them. Sounds like me with Facebook in like 2016. And then Twitter when Musky bought it. And Reddit mostly when they killed 3rd party apps. Come to think of it, social media mostly sucks.

    • OpenStarsEnglish
      7•2 days ago

      Same - he seems to have deleted the goodbye post and left the Fediverse even before that post had time to be federated around to the different instances. :-(