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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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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

it’s tendency to aggressively ransack other languages for vocabulary

I feel like this hasn't happened as much as people think in the last century or so, it's much more the other way around, almost every language now adds a lot of english vocabulary.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You have a whole smörgåsbord of recent word thefts

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

the word first appeared in English in the later part of the 19th century. By the mid-20th century smorgasbord was being used outside of food-related contexts to refer to something that comprises a mixture or assemblage of different parts.

Source

You got anything more recent?

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

German uses these two words as well, and until 5 minutes ago I didn't even know they were of Swedish origin. And it connects nicely to my original comment in this thread where I said that it's not just english that takes words from other languages and it's not something that makes english particularly special.