New folks, please put up a profile picture when you have a moment, preferably not something AI-generated, a nice non-AI profile picture will be a quick and useful first differentiator between you and some new accounts that look suspiciously like bots, thank you

My profile pic was drawn by a wonderful digital artist. It is one of a batch of emotes I commissioned and paid for. There are so many better choices than some online, glorified Google image search to get digital assets from.

how can you tell an account might be a bot from a pic?

I promise this isn't AI, I made this thing myself in paint in college.

Mine is my favorite rapier.

Have resisted social media post BBS days,; actually suprised myself by posting a couple of times here today. (Got a Bird account in '06 as they came out at SouthBy that year and I live here, but never spoke.) As a newbie to the platform, what avatar do you suppose Chris Shane would use?

Ok fine

Is a scooby doo screen grab sufficient?

My profile pic is my all-time favorite cat. He's passed, but there's always a place in my heart for the grumpy orange.

Is it better if I cross reference my StackOverflow profile?

Mine is me, just taken during covid lockdowns. Going to the pharmacy to pick up my month's meds.