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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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[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day 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 22 hours ago

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

[–] Beacon@fedia.io -1 points 23 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 15 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.