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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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[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 121 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Doesn't it fuck up the binding? Sure, a softback is still going to stay together in the immediate term, but the covers are almost always a single stronger piece, whereas the pages will now be free to work loose from the cut side.

So... I'd say it is objectively worse.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesn't need to stay together for a lifetime, the person only cares about it staying together for a few days till they're done reading the section, after which it gets disposed of. This makes it much easier for them to actually read it, which means it's objectively way better.

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 28 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

You....buy a book and then throw it away after you read it? Anyone does that?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 22 hours ago

In the movie My Blue Heaven, Steve Martin had a trunk full of the same (stolen) book and his excuse was “in case I want to read it more than once.”

I’ve heard there are PACs or whatever that buy thousands of copies of politicians books so they become best sellers. Does anyone know where the physical copies actually end up?

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I buy books to throw at anyone who can read. You literate fucks.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't, but plenty of people do, and it's entirely fine if that's how they want to read

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Well no it's not entirely fine, it's actually incredibly wasteful. Get a fucking library card if you don't want to own, gift, or resell the books you read. That's the Generic You of course.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 21 points 23 hours ago

Actively making things worse because you have a shitty consumerist disposable product fetish actively makes the world worse.