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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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[–] Asetru@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I mean... I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe that's why I'm having a hard time here? But there's just too many things that throw me off completely.

  • "Draw a line around"... How would anything I draw "around" something still be a line? Shouldn't a line be straight?
  • "Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence."... There's no number in that sentence but lots of letters. I'm literally lost in the first question. Or does that refer to the number that comes before that sentence?
  • "write the last letter of the first word beginning with 'L'"... For some reason, this in particular doesn't limit it to "this line", so I was utterly unsure if I was supposed to find the first word on the line, the page, or get a dictionary and find the first L-word there.
  • "Cross out the number necessary, when making the number below one million"... Wat? Like, is this referring to the number being below the written line on the paper and it should be exactly one million or is this just saying the number should be anything below one million? Also, there's just one number there, so crossing that out leaves me with nothing, so I'll just assume I should cross out a digit? Then again, I can't cross out a single digit for the number to become exactly one million, so this is something I really don't get.
[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

No, it's tricky for native English speakers too, and that's the point. It's a literacy test that was given to black people in Louisiana in order to justify taking away their right to vote

[–] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's intentionally ambiguous so that the officials administering it always have an excuse to fail you if they don't like the look of you (i.e. you're not white).

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't this except for white peiple because of the grandfather clause?

[–] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

The confusion was the point. It was used as a test to disenfranchise black voters 🙃

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

It was literally designed to keep Black people from voting.

It's not supposed to be passable.

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

I had the exact same comments. The fifth one mentions drawing a circle so they do know what that is as opposed to a line around something. The first question is just nonsensical to me.