maybe it happened
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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I'm always suspicious of tweets where the author defeats a strawman but this followup post has me pretty convinced of its inauthenticity
No, I have literally never done that. I have never once in my life confused the two lol
That's a really weird reason to think it's fake. There are plenty of reasons, not least that it's on the internet at all, but this describes a very normal human thought error. I understand it's not the type of mistake any individual person would necessarily make, but if you don't understand that some people definitely would, I think you could use more insight into the variety of personalities and thought processes which exist.
I was suspicious it was fake already because it's written like an attention-seeking LinkedIn post. Then the followup reads like a "oops, I didn't mean to post that picture...but since you all liked it..." post everyone sees through on Myspace. Who writes like that to their friends?
you are a lemmy user... a rare breed. She is on twitter and all these other platforms chirpin. I could believe. Yet it might be bogus but it still hits.
Ok, but the tone of her post wasn't the tone of a private message to someone, or to a private group that knows her.
There's too much effort in establishing the full context about her being a widow and exactly how long and just the tone of the post screams public post not private message to friends.
I have. Sometimes the brain isn't paying attention.
I have sent a whatsapp message to someone when I intended to send a teams message to someone else, but this one seems unlikely
I've send screenshots of a conversation to the person who sent the message. It happens