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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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  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.
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AI aside, this would be pressurized pepper spray (the fog kind, not stream) rather than tear gas (CS). Tear gas comes out as a hot white cloud from grenades. One form is the hand-thrown can you mentioned, another is the 40mm type that gets thunk-ed out by a launcher. Instead of exploding, the fuze activates an incendiary element which spews out a cloud of heated gas, carrying CS particles with it.

Side note, don't try to grab one with your bare hands thinking you'll return to sender and save the day. Very hot, there's fire in there.

If you get tear-gassed, stay calm. Running away blind can hurt you more than a little stinging dust. In a crowd, a trip can become a fall can become a trampling fatality so try to avoid that.