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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.
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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Iowa City. They're fairly progressive up there.

[–] lemmy_at_em@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss Iowa City. It was such a diverse and wonderful island surrounded by by the monotony of white bread America. I'm scared to go back, because I fear it has been swallowed by the mediocrity of conservatism.

[–] Default_Defect@anarchist.nexus 4 points 4 months ago

I've met a shocking amount of sane people since moving to my close-ish to Des Moines small town. Including family I would have just assumed were conservative by virtue of living in IOWA.

Then again, it used to be a battleground state, so maybe it shouldn't be so shocking.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right there in the name: “City”. A dangerous place where you might be exposed to dreaded opposing viewpoints.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

my brother is scared to death of san francisco. he hates it, says there's poop everywhere and he's accosted by homeless people all the time. i dunno, i've been to his house and they leave dirty diapers on the floor and his children are children so they're needy and don't pay rent. which seems right. maybe he's a little confused? also, i have encountered human poop exactly once in san francisco over decades of visiting at least monthly. i'm just grumpy that the deli i got my char siu pork at (Go Duck Yourself/Hing Lung) moved and i haven't found a new one i like yet. also my brunch place went from five locations to one, and it's not the location i liked in the Castro. At least my beef with the city is real.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you don't want poop on the streets, install public toilets. Problem solved.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

i guess i pass the vibe test because i've never had problems getting to a toilet in SF, public (which while not on every corner, exist) or private.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I used to live in Cedar Rapids. Went to the movies in Iowa city quite often.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is one thing that's messed up with the 'just split up' rhetoric. In almost every 'red' there are 'blue' communities.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah, usually there large population centers.

I love it when conservatives are all like, do you want some New Yorker telling you how to run your farm?

Ummm, does it make more sense than a farmer trying I tell a New Yorker how to live in the city?