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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

If you aren't horrified by what's happening to Iran right now then you're an empathy deficient and that comes with a separate set of problems.

I'm 40, and absolutely remember the old internet. But the news traumatizes me so consistently lately I find myself crying every day.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 minutes ago

I hope not. As difficult as it is to be sad every waking moment, I think being numb to this would be worse.

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

I have a handful of colleagues in Iran so I probably emphasise with it more than the usual horrors but stuff like this has been going on non stop around the world my entire life so idk why you’d be uniquely horrified by it

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

I don't know the context for this microblog, but I don't think whats happening in Iran is what he was thinking of when he said "digital horrors".

I remember seeing footage of bombings from the Bosnian war in the 90's. Well before digital video on the internet was popular, it was just on cable TV.

I don't know Lauderdale personally, but he has a funny YouTube channel and seems cool enough that I'm gonna hold off on judging this without context.