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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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[–] grumpasaurusrex@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Actually in most of the US prisoners are explicitly required or just "encouraged" to work ("More than three quarters of incarcerated people surveyed (76%) report facing punishment—such as solitary confinement, denial of sentence reductions, or loss of family visitation—if they decline to work.") And of course if they get compensated at all it's typically literal pennies per hour. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/us-prison-labor-programs-violate-fundamental-human-rights-new-report-finds

But you're right that the lack of alternative leisure time activities definitely encourages getting jacked and reading.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago

You can't really compare incarcerated people with US state slaves.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Actually, I (and most likely the user you replied to, since we're both on a German server) don't live in the US and while prison labor does exist here, it's certainly not as strongly encouraged as it is apparently in the US.

Good info, though.