this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
533 points (98.4% liked)

Microblog Memes

9796 readers
1817 users here now

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. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] natecox@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

41 here: when do the jerks go away?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you reject their opinions

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

And/or separate yourself from them.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.“ Marcus Aurelius

Basically if you let them live in your head, then they are "the jerks". Once you transcend their bullshit, you are free.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Fun fact: Marcus Aurelius ruler of Rome during a time when as much as 30% of all Romans were slaves.