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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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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I won’t stop watching, but it drives me nuts when lawyers in a show misuse “begs the question”

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It drives me nuts when anyone gets that wrong.

"But language evolves!!"

Oh yeah? Evolve yourself back into the fucking sea!

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Oh yeah? Evolve yourself back into the fucking sea!

Whales and dolphins: hold my legs

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think there are probably about three people who use the expression "begs the question" as it's defined in books. Through misuse it has evolved to mean, "brings up the question," just as "based off" has come to mean the same as "based on".

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

lawyers would know the difference

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

We got three of those people right here in this thread baby.

Aristotle in the house

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How do you feel about other words or phrases with multiple definitions, like "theory"?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

If a scientist character uses the word in a scientific settings with the colloquial meaning, it would annoy me.