this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
220 points (98.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

11431 readers
1834 users here now

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.

RELATED COMMUNITIES:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm pulling the "twitter is a microblog" rule even though twitter is pretty mega now, hope that's ok.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 13 hours ago
Second, I have previously speculated that pain needs to be unimpeachably painful, 
otherwise the animal could overrule it. Pain functions to warn the animal not to 
repeat a damaging action such as jumping over a cliff or picking up a hot ember. 
If the warning consisted merely of throwing a switch in the brain, raising a painless 
red flag, the animal could overrule it in pursuit of a competing pleasure: ignoring 
lethal bee stings in pursuit of honey, say. According to this theory, pain needs to be 
consciously felt in order to be sufficiently painful to resist overruling. The principle 
could be extended beyond pain.  

Animals, including humans, override pain signals all the time, for all kinds of reasons. Cats are famous for hiding physical distress, which I think they do so they don't look like easy prey. I'm sure most prey animals can override pain signals if it means avoiding the attention of predators. If anything I would think that being able to override pain signals would be a criterion for consciousness.