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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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[–] BandanaBug@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ha! I always do. But I have a friend who has no clue clue why. Could you explain it to him?

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

TIL what a spotted lanternfly was, they're an invasive species in many places and are spreading. While they aren't directly harmful to humans, they can cause a bunch of damage to plants, which include the ones we as humans tend to enjoy being able to eat. They're considered kill on sight, because many of the places they're spreading to don't have predators to keep them in check (on top of the fact that invasive species throw local ecosystems out of whack).

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's an easy fix. Just release a bunch of parasitic wasps and problem solved

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Spiders? There are no spiders here, we released snakes who ate them! What? Oh there are no snakes here, we released crocodiles who ate them. What, ... You don't want to know what happened to the crocodiles?

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

That's the beauty of it. When winter rolls around the crocodiles will simply freeze to death.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

THEY EATIN THE TREES

[–] pigup@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hey, no one thought you were a bot. The joke is that the guy didn't know anything about what you were talking about about so he pretends that he has a friend that is curious and asks you to explain for the friend instead of for himself.

Like he wanted you to explain to him but he was too embarrassed to asked for the explanation without the fake friend excuse.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Or maybe that user really is a bot, posting screenshots of a conversation with an obvious bot to throw off the suspicion that it is a bot because the LLM predicted "they think I'm a bot" after feeding in that message.

See how the obvious LLM labeled contempt as frustration in the 2nd response?

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe you're all bots!

glares about suspiciously

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

puts on sunglasses to reduce the glare

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmao this is the dumbest possible response. Your brain has already become soup and LLMs haven’t even been around for very long.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Are you even reading what you’re posting? You didn’t follow the instructions it gave you.