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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.

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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[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] evidences@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually looking it up I think the Un was short for University the A for airline so it was Un(verisity)A(irline)bomber. The name apparently showed up after the FBI connected a bomb he sent in the mail on a plane with the two previous bombs he had sent to Northwestern University.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

You are correct. Although I always read it as University and Airline bomber but that's just me

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe it's uma as in umami.

Shit, The Umamibomber would be a great food truck name.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Monosodium glutemate and its consequences have been a disaster for the umami race.

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 month ago

That is spelled unilateral, and means one (uni) sided (lateral).

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

When you get English advice from "MeThisGuy"

I suppose it checks out.