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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.

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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

this whole exercise is really meant to exist in schools. like, schools for young kids.

we're adults arguing about which nursery rhyme is cooler while forgetting that this isn't for us. it needs to be easily understood by children. that's why we use one with only short easy words.

even the sentence structure of the second one is complicated and hard for a child to remember.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i thought it was made to test typewriters.

looked it up,

it was made to help teachers teach students how to type on keyboards. my bad

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Fair, though it's also used to show off fonts, and I'll use that second one from now on.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

I used this to test my code