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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.

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  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.
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  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.
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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Politicians ban straws.

Politicians allow data centers.

[–] Longylonglong@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (6 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 15 hours ago

It is the same politicians. What happened was that climate scientist went on them for a bit so they decided to just do something token. So they banned plastic drinking straws, but then the AI tech bros came along and they forgot about all of climate change and then now are super duper in favour of AI data centres because that's who's paying them.

The plastic drinking straw lobby didn't have quite the same funds as the AI data centre lobby.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Politicians: Signs Paris Agreement to help curb global warming and climate change, invest in cleaner renewables to give the words a fighting chance.

Other "politicians": Leaves agreement, cuts all renewables funding, gives massive tax breaks and subsidies to oil industry, allows data centers to poison local water supply and let locals pay the electric bill

[–] isekaihero@ani.social 4 points 17 hours ago

Yes the same politicians. Jared Polis signed the plastic pollution reduction act. He also signed the Colorado artificial intelligence act.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

All politicians are more than happy to do anything but cost rich people money. Some politicians want to win pro-environmental votes with useless dickery.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

But what if China builds a terminator? We have to have our own terminator just in case /s

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I don't think that matters. The result is two contradictory laws.