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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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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pro athletes weren't (officially) allowed to compete in the Olympics until 1988

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The long term university students with golden long term "scholarships" in the US, the Soviet soldiers with unlimited hours for their "hobby", and the legion of public employees in European countries that went for 8 hours runs before "work" were 100% not professional athletes.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

8 hours runs before "work"

This would get me to actually sit through a meeting, but at what price?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

there's a huge difference between collegiate and non-paid athletics and dale in the example above.