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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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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If reiki(dot)org, which claims to be the international center for this malarkey training is true, they apparently say some different forms of it were around in the 1910s, but I saw absolutely nothing about it being ancient.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Why did you spell that with a "(dot)" and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don't want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

Because I am an idiot on some form of autopilot. I never type full links in comments but I definitely wasn't thinking when I did that this time.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

It was to protect the ancient secrets of reiki from intrusion.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it looks like you're right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:

Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.

So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from "ancient".