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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 56 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

To add to y'all's reading list:

Dulles Airport (the big international airport that serves Washington DC and Northern Virginia) did the same: https://travelnoire.com/town-destroyed-international-airport

Also, maybe tangentially related, The Tulsa Race Massacre: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TU013

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Plus the interstate system specifically chose to go right through black neighborhoods if they could

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 12 hours ago

This is currently happening, right now, in Knoxville, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago

This is what happened in Hartford CT. Fucking ugliest, shit city I've ever been to. They ruined the whole fucking city because, racism. I believe the highway was built sometime in the 50s/60s and it's still a plague on the city.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

And let us not forget the Vanport flood, which the Portland authorities downplayed for decades and used as an excuse to pave over a vibrant community to make a raceway and a golf course. They only recently admitted that there was ‘some’ loss of life.