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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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- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- 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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I like working, I like coding and building systems, I like doing carpentry and building my food forest, I like cooking and making soaps. I like teaching my niece things and listening to her talk about what she's learned about. I like caring for my family and my girlfriend.
I truly do dream of labor, but it's not fucking possible to do it all by ourselves, and if one of these things took ALL of my time I'd fucking die, it WAS killing me to work that much tbh. Fuck the consumerist lifestyle brand bullshit. Its designed to leave you empty enough to want more to have you trade every last second for another empty fucking promise. Fuck ads, fuck Walmart, fuck Amazon, fuck gadgets and gizmos, and nic naks, and the "bigger" house, and the new car, fuck "luxury" that is just an empheral bag of hot air.
Every step I've taken to be able to just live my life has been worth. Fought for work from home, changed jobs just to keep it, now I can live near my family, and now can do chores and make food through out the day. Adblock, sponsor block, no radio, no magazines, burn junk ads as soon as get them, spam blocker on my phone. No Facebook, Twitter, etc. no any app designed to make you feel anxious to keep you on it, or to make you wish you had something. I've gotten my hand soap, body soap, conditionar dish soap, window cleaner, laundry soap, and softener all diyed from almost all stuff I can basically accidentally grow in my yard now. I make it for my friends and family too. I cook big things on the weekends with friends and split the meals up. Its fun and saves a ton of money. I have nearly all of my circle on Signal and Matrix now. I have a little homelab alliance going so far between us too.
Is my life perfect now? Fuck no, but again every step like this has been so much better than "retail therapy" where I work overtime for months on end to just be spiraling everywhere else.