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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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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On one hand, I sincerely do not want our level of political discourse to follow this example. On the other, if anyone deserves it, it’s ICE.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Politicians have been making backronyms for forever, like the USA FREEDOM act, the USA PATRIOT act, RESTRICT act, and so forth.

I'm just glad this is one I can get behind.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't forget about CAN-SPAM! (which honestly, given it's arguably a triple entendre, is hilarious)

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing

Amazing. They actually integrated the hyphen into the acronym. But alas...

The CAN-SPAM Act is occasionally referred to by critics as the "You-Can-Spam" Act because the bill fails to prohibit many types of e-mail spam and preempts some state laws that would otherwise have provided victims with practical means of redress.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Exactly where the arguable triple entendre comes in!

  • "Can spam" as in "put spam in the garbage can".
  • "Can Spam" as in the literal canned meat product Spam that Internet spam derives its name from.
  • And now the third: "can spam" as in "you're allowed to spam because this law sucks".
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 4 points 1 day ago

OK, now I get it. My brain was too lazy to even try to decipher "triple entendre".

I'm still amazed by the hyphen. Is there a profession of literal wordsmith that comes up with such things? Probably got fired by DOGE.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 1 day ago

Let's not forget the No Child Left Behind act which was a massive corporate property tax cut which elemininated funding for public schools which caused many across USA to shut down... Including ones in my own district, who went in a $27mil debt within like 2 years of that passing, and our school treasury complelty disappearing in shame.