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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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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 92 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My cousins used to live on a street with massive trees that dropped tons of leaves every autumn. The city would have special service days where everyone rakes the leaves into big piles in the street and street sweepers would come vacuum them up.

Hooligans liked the drive through the big piles in the middle of the night. I honestly kinda see the appeal, who could resist. Anyway, they started to doing the same thing. Piles of cinder blocks under some of them. I was staying with them one night and we heard some horrible carnage, came out to find some sedan high centered on a pile of cinder blocks with the bumper hanging off.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There was a news story some years back about a little girl who was killed when her father did this. She was playing in a pile of leaves and her dad was unaware of that. He drove through the pile of leaves and ... yeah, that was that. :(

Trying to find the original news story, I'm finding multiple instances of this sort of thing happening. Which is even more heartbreaking.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is good revenge. But what happens when the street sweepers come to pick them up?

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 21 points 1 month ago

They use blower vaccums I assume and large cinder blocks wouldn't move anyway.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If someone died, that would be murder charges. Putting cinder blocks in the street under leaves is a boobytrap and those are usually illegal. What if it was an ambulance coming to pick up someone up next door? Or someone swerving to miss a cat?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think you'll get far in court

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I probably wouldn't. But the paramedic crawling from the burning wreckage of an ambulance screaming "MY LEGS! I CAN"T FEEL MY LEGS!" probably would.