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Bun Alert System

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A place to alert others/be alerted of bun sightings.

The smoler the bun the better, please see this for an explanation: https://xkcd.com/1682/

RULES:

  1. Be kind to each other. Buns are cute, cuddly, and nice. Be like buns.

  2. Posts should be images of real buns doing bun things. Bun things include eating, chilling, playing, hopping, and sleeping. You wouldn't want to be alerted of a capybara doing calculus through the Bun Alert System, would you? For other bun discussion, see some other communities below.

  3. Images should be of living, healthy, happy buns. The Bun Alert System exists to bring smiles to bun enjoyers around the world, not sour frowns.

  4. Keep it suitable for all bun enjoyers. Nothing too freaky or NSFW.

  5. With respect to this community, moderators are the smolest buns. Please shoot us a message if you have questions or concerns!

INSPIRED BY https://xkcd.com/1871/

Other unaffiliated bun communities on the fediverse (probably not exhaustive):

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Banner: A traditional looking bun I saw a while back, unfortunately a bit late for an alert, not monarch sized

Hi! Before inundating your comm with pics of my buns, I wanted to double check that they meet your requirements.

Buns are cute, cuddly, and nice.

Posts should be images of real buns doing bun things. Bun things include eating, chilling, playing, hopping, and sleeping.

Images should be of living, healthy, happy buns.

They’re like loaves of bread that hop

Browsing through the recent posts, I think my only concern with these criteria is addressed: unlike loaves of bread, buns are not edible.

The problem is, while most of the buns posted here are similar to the unrelated banner pic, my buns are a little less traditional, so I’m unsure if they’d be welcomed here. For example, this bun is Halloween themed:

hmm

Are my buns welcome here? Or is this comm exclusionary?

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[–] pieguy 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A froggo is cute but not a bun, so no froggo alerts.

The bun, however, is a bun, and is therefore acceptable.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I keep hearing about the fascist mods on lemmy but this is my first real encounter with one. My bun perfectly meets your description of buns honk-enraged

[–] pieguy 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We take our buns very seriously

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not only do my buns meet all of your definitional criteria, they are FAR MORE monarch sized than any of the other buns posted here!

a monarch sized bun