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Maybe the November 2024 spike was caused by VPN users?

I further looked up interest in the search term Lemmy as a social network in Iceland over the last five years and found a peak in November 2024.

I can’t really find a good explanation for that. Lemmy Kilmister was both born and died in the month of December, but this doesn’t explain an Iceland specific peak only in the year 2024, nine years after his death and 79 years after his birth. There was also a concert by the band GulaR bauniR at the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik in November 2024, maybe that’s the reason?

Your chart of world-wide interest in the search term Lemmy as a social network shows a peak in July 2023, probably caused by the Reddit API drama. Iceland, meanwhile, is curiously the country with the most imterest in this search term.

Google offers three categorizations for the search term Lemmy:

• this social network,
• the musician Lemmy Kilmister, and
• a film about his life.

I looked up interest in the search term Lemmy in Iceland specifically without applying any categorization, for all time and for the last five years.

On the first chart (all time), there are two noticeable peaks: one in 2015, the year Lemmy Kilmister died, and one in 2022, about a year before the Reddit API drama.

On the second chart (last 5 years), there are noticeable peaks every summer since 2022. I googled Iceland Lemmy, and stumbled across a bar, restaurant and music venue in Reykjavik called Lemmy. I’d guess it’s named after Kilmister. This venue’s Facebook page was created in October 2021. Some more research brought up a rock festival organised by the venue called ROKKHÁTÍÐ LEMMY which seems to take place every year since 2022 in late July or early August.

My guess is that Google, to some degree at least, confuses interest in this festival for interest in the social network of the same name.

No, that would be stealing ideas from centrist democrats.

The UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system usually ensures that one party wins more than 50% of seats, often without winning more than 50% of the votes.

Von Neumann to the right of Mendel

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015)

It took me way to long to realise that bereal probably doesn’t rhyme with cereal.

Her sign doesn’t tell people who don’t think she’s sexy what to do. A better statement would have been: run if and only if you think I’m sexy.

You too can work pro bono.

Marder documentaries (where Germans learn everything there is to know about Mustelidae)

Accelerationism will never work. Whenever there’s a crisis, the poor will suffer and the rich will escape.

A gold-digger

Mamma mia, Mamma mia, Mamma mia let me go

For Meta, it’s all about the money.

And avoiding regulation

To be fair, most of Germany’s current crop of Nazis are more like the grandchildren or great grandchildren of the original Nazis. The AfD isn’t actually that popular with the older generations. They’ve got the strongest support from Gen X. Grannys against the Right (Omas gegen Rechts) is probably the largest antifascist movement currently active in Germany.

1 • 1 + i • i = 1 + (-1) = 0 = 0 • 0

Pythagoras holds, provided there’s a 90° angle at A.