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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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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

My sister in law is chronically late. She uses this strategy and always tells herself a time 30 mins early, so she can get places on time.

On one occasion my brother asked her what time dance class for the kids was. She tells him 12:00, so my brother - being an "always on time" person - gets there for 11:45 so he's a little early.

Turns out the time my SIL told him was her personal fake start time, not the actual start time, so he's 45 mins early lol.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

"Personal fake start time" is a great term!

It's transparent about what you're doing to others and leads into telling them the actual start time!

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rofl almost this exact scenario happened to me for first day on a job. I asked my partner what time I had written on the calendar then padded it again.

Plus side, it was a gallery job so I got to walk around and check out all the exhibits on my own, so when people asked me about them I actually had some deep reads.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago

Sure did. In fact I'm going to a shift in 3 hours.