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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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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Craig Jelinek the (CEO of costco until recently) was always considered a good guy for putting his employees first and concentrating on keeping a high bar for product quality.

[–] malle_yeno@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Until recently? Did something happen recently to change this? (Genuine question, I've only heard good things about the Costco ceo)

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

Craig Jelinek, the CEO of costco until reecently, was considered

Fixed their sentence with commas for clarity

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For actual clarity, Craig Jelinek stepped down in 2023. Ron Vachris is the current CEO. Not sure if there's been any negative policy change since then though.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goddamn churros are gone. Hot dog combo hasn't changed price though so we good... For now.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The old co-founder's threat still stands even with a new CEO.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

For those that don't know this lovely story, here's an article about the threat.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is about the time when in the UK they stopped allowing digital membership cards (on a phone app) and forced you to install the Costco app.

I am trying to remove as many apps as possible and until this change just carried my driving licence and a backup credit card in my phone case.

Forcing their own tracking app nearly made me cancel my membership.