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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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My inner critic is brutal. It uses all my intelligence against me, and will always find enough wiggle room to where I can't really outright debunk any of its claims. Even if I do, it doesn't acknowledge it in any way, it just picks another vector of attack. It was pivotal for me when I realized it wasn't trying to argue with me or improve my behavior. It doesn't care about truth or evidence, its only mission is to make me feel like the worst shit ever shat. It only welcomes argument because that gives it attention and more room to attack. Once I realized I had been playing by the wrong rules, I could actually start moderating it. Not by telling it to shut up, but by pointing out that I can see what it's doing. I can just let it yammer on, and it hates that I don't engage with it. It hates to be seen for what it is, because it sounds fucking ridiculous, especially when it gets desperate. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Having an inner critic is important, but if your parents dialed yours up to eleven, you just might want consider what the actual rules of engagement are.