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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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[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

"If the internet disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday?"

"If electricity disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday?"

"If gasoline disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday?"

Yeah society eventually gets us addicted to many things for basic existence that we really should not be relying on. Hell, add even things like GPS, cell towers, and more to that list, we take so much for granted that could be rugpulled at any moment.

[–] Azteh@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I'm glad that AI has not reached the stage of "if the internet disappeared" yet, because I work in IT and I don't think I could get through a workday without the internet, but for AI I wouldn't notice a difference, as all it does is transcribe my conversations, which I already do manually anyway.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To those two, my answer is: Internet and electricity, no because I work in IT and my job depends on those things, though this is obviously not true for all jobs. Gasoline, yes, I could; getting to my job might be a challenge currently because I currently need to take a rail replacement bus...

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

lucky you, the bus probably runs on diesel

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, that's probably true. It's certainly not electric though.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Carrington Event is that guy (rugpull as Amos from The Expanse).

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~I'm addicted to regular doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammation powder.~~

Sorry, no, I misremembered. I'm addicted to regular doses of corticosteroid powder.