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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plus everyone who wasn't white and from his home town.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On the Creation of N*ggers

When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a N*GGER.

H.P.LOVECRAFT.

😬😬😬

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’re just taking him out of context. /s

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's just a bad translation, in the original Roman it's a passage about love.

It's well known that he was a socially awkward and autistic.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

We should have “a bit of grace” and give the “benefit of the doubt.” ~/s~

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who've had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Lovercraft was a gamer

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the "Birth of a Nation" period of racism were like "Dude - tone down the racism."