this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
581 points (96.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

11496 readers
1938 users here now

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.

RELATED COMMUNITIES:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I've been both of these guys. In unrelated news, I fucking hate Subway™

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Id ask that sort of question to learn whether there are any considerations I wouldn’t offhandedly know about. We had an air compressor that DID NOT like being stored tilted. It would tolerate being tilted while moving, but would loudly complain for a few minutes after it started. I think we settled on a gasket being loose

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 22 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Don't compressor motors have a lubricant oil sump at the bottom and rely on being upright to work properly? It kind of sounds like you were running it dry, before the oil had a chance to get back where it was supposed to be.

[–] mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, pretty much all of them are built that way, and if they get tilted you're supposed to wait an hour at the absolute barest minimum, preferably 4-6, and ideally 24 hours, because the oil can work its way into the bits that actually compress and if you turn it on with barely compressable oil in the parts that are meant to compress gas it can just die

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

These sorts of things are why I ask open ended questions now. You could be right about the actual cause

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 14 points 22 hours ago

He is. The general rule of thumb is that any device with a compressor should remain off for twice as long as it was tilted.