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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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a fair amount of evidence that the brain indeed does produce a very powerful hallucination in some people, as they pass.

Near death experiences... do often result in a kind of passage through or into a tunnel of blinding white experience.

Many people who do die in the sense of their heart stopping, but not permanent brain death, or very nearly die... many other kinds of vivid hallucinations of people in their lives or who knows what, or out of body experiences, etc...

While I don't think there is a beyond, there do seem to be genuine, extremely vivid last moments.

No explicit need to turn those into ... well I guess literally the worst trip of that person's life.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remain convinced that these end of life hallucinations are the best frame for thinking about heaven and hell, rather than quasi-material spaces like they're often discussed.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As with the rest of our lives... a very vivid, somewhat standardized and agreed upon hallucination.

We are dreaming sacks of meat.

But that can be miraculous and amazing, if you let it be.