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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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[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

having to wear helmets and kneepads and seatbelts isn't to blame.

what's to blame is perpetually being terrified of being woken up in the middle of the night by a a phone alert that your amazon prime subscription got suspended because your debit card charge was declined. maybe it won't happen, and maybe it's never happened, but it could!

and ever since smartphones came out, your brain has been trained to think of that type of shit, and nothing else, for every nanosecond of your waking (and sleeping) life. and it's killing us.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My phone is permanently on mute, any people or notifications that aren’t in my explicitly allow list get to STFU until I wake up. You don’t have to let your phone make noise while you sleep.

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I also have 'sleep mode' mute. it was an abstract example. you get what I'm saying, though. our Brauns have basically been rewired to respond to smartphones as a constant form of stimulus. it's crazy.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is how I do it too.

I don't need my phone interrupting me every 30 seconds because someone reacted to a gif or an e-mail made it through this spam filter gauntlet.

It's MY tool, not the other way around.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Easy way to avoid this is to not subscribe to Amazon Prime.

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

it could be any other service or notice. it was just an example

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why don't you put your phone on do not disturb mode?

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, there’s even built-in sleep modes on phones. You turn it on and only your closest contacts can get hold of you. All other notifications wait until morning. This is a solved problem.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago