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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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[โ€“] wpb@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you see an oppressed people protesting against their opression, and your first instinct is to lecture them on the optics of their protest, you're not really an ally. You're just using "optics" as an excuse to not do anything to help out but still think of yourself as a good person. I don't think anyone falls for it.

[โ€“] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Sorry for the shift in tone here but this is absurd...

I will continue to show up when it matters and do things like actively promote a great documentary on the day trans people's rights were stripped away from Iowans because of our dumbass legislature, because I cried watching friends of mine in that room being actively hurt by a government that should protect them. And continue to do the hard work to change the minds of bigoted people in my community, but yes let's pretend I'm just virtue signaling on an anonymous forum for "optics". I am actually doing real work and I won't apologize for not having patience for people saying I don't do enough because I say mentioning maybe Harry Potter in the proper context is probably fine. It's not the thing we need people paying attention to right now.

There's so much more hurt out there. If we boycotted Harry Potter entirely and wiped it from existence in an instant, the average trans persons life doesn't get suddenly get better.

It's fucking irritating. We're wasting breath talking about one stupid fucking lady and an imaginary wizard pretending it's a leading issue for the trans movement. You can hate me for saying it, but I'm fighting for bigger change than trying to make JK Rowling irrelevant. I would rather raise awareness about the systemic harm that I'm actively witnessing in laws being passed removing trans people's protected status. That's a FAR bigger issue.