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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.
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- 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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It's wild, I grew up in poverty. My parents were basically homeless cultists for my early years. One time when I was very young, maybe 5, I asked for a dollar-store cap-gun and my mother told me they don't have money for it and I cried and never asked for another thing.
I know I had a bizarre situation growing up, but I also understood basic facts like money and either you have it or not, and eating was more important.
I feel like kids have been parked in front of marketing and propaganda and left to be raised by tablets and smartphones with ads and apps designed to sell products, and parents are so checked out that their own children have become corporate spawn, asking for the unreasonable, stealing credit cards to buy fortnite skins, expecting annual entertainment machine upgrades that cost as much as a month's rent.