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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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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 60 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I read many -if not most- live paycheck to paycheck. If so, the problem might go way deeper than that.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

By the "official" numbers, at least 1 out of 3 Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

At least

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

IIRC it’s 1 in 3 households are living paycheck to paycheck.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And if one member of that household loses their job, that means the entire household is fucked, at least probably.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 35 minutes ago

Yup, the two income trap

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, and are you going to tell me that the households on the bottom end of the income spectrum don't have on average more people than the rich fucks?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯