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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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[–] decolo@piefed.social 192 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Add a dash of ADHD memory issues and this is almost guaranteed to burn your house down.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

Ahh here we go, I have to admit this.

I'm on my 3rd microwave. Ramen noodles caught fire twice. I forgot to add water once, go figure. The second time, I put them in for 33 minutes and 30 seconds instead of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Started playing Xbox and forgot until I got hungry again and heard the smoke alarms going off. Flames were coming out of the microwave door so high they burned the cabinets above black, it was a brand new microwave. 3rd time was a metal coffee mug. Who makes a F-ing metal coffee cup so you can't reheat your coffee. It was cool watching the electric sparks and lines fly though.

No regrets. It was the grandparents microwaves. LOL.

[–] xxploit@lemmy.ca 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Have you ever burnt tea (to dust from liquid and melted kettle handle in the process) while reheating it?
'tis but one of my life's achievements

[–] Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 19 hours ago

I have fallen asleep while boiling hotdogs to wake up in a smoky mess with black tar hotdog welded to the bottom of the pot. And it was my brother's house.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

My mom burnt a pot of spaghetti.

Yes, burnt. To a crisp.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Seeing as how you can sinter metal powder in a microwave, that's not too surprising. Burning food still takes some effort though.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

I thought only Homer Simpson did that.

[–] xxploit@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

I have learned that some people do like to crisp them, whether that's intentional or not 😂 glances at my partner

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

One time I cooked two frozen pizzas at the same time, one melted through the grate while the other was still frozen. Pretty proud of that one.

Oh, and one time I scarred my brother so bad by making Kool-aid with salt instead of sugar that he stopped drinking it forever.

[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 46 points 23 hours ago

Yeah. I know myself too well to use this "hack"

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I set my microwave to 2:00 and I'm always back in time to open it at exactly 1:59. So I think I'm going to use this hack.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 38 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think you should probably heat your food for more than 1 second

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 19 hours ago

Hm, I guess it would be more impressive if my internal clock allowed me to heat for exactly 1:59 seconds and open the microwave at 00:01. Maybe heat-pulsing food isn't the answer?

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

I often put things on the microwave for like 20-30 minutes at power 2-3, just because I know I'm going to lose track of time (and things are usually better cooked slowly in the microwave, I find).

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

Also the microwave running has a nice white noise sound to me.