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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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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The reason traffic is so bad out to Jones Beach on Long Island is because they built the roads so buses couldn't go. Black people rarely had cars at the time.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 10 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

There’s a really good Behind the Bastards about the guy who made those decisions. Can’t remember his name.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago

99 Percent Invisible also did a great mini series about the book The Power Broker, which is about the life of Robert Moses.

[–] ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted

This dude?

Btw just discovered behind the bastards by delving into L Rom Hubbard. Hilarious.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago

No, Olmsted was a landscape architect (also did Biltmore in NC). The state or city parks commissioner who did it. Can’t remember his name. He also explicitly didn’t leave room for future light rail expansion when they build the LIE, or some other expressway. Been awhile since I lostened to that one.