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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a friend who chose it. Had a job with early retirement pension, was buying a house he could afford. They made a minor adjustment to his contract and he snapped, quit the job, abandoned the mortgage and let the house go back to the bank, and took his son and moved to California to live in his car. Ten years later he's still doing that. He works occasionally as a delivery driver when he feels like it.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When you only are responsible for yourself this is a legit thing in my eyes. If this is the life he prefers and he is happy, go ahead.

Doing this when you have a child is an irresponsible asshole move in my opinion. You are forcing your child into a live that just can't be as healthy for them, physically and mentaly, then a more secure setting (that he had before) would be.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I agree on both sides. His son is an adult now and still lives a life much like his dad. It's too bad he was raised in that situation. When I call him a friend, he's really just one of the few high school friends I've kept in touch with. We live far from each other but we say hi online a couple times a year and we had lunch together about a year ago when I was in California for a wedding.