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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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My all-time favorite racist author is HP Lovecraft. White American man in New England? Not even close to good enough. He's got to be all that and from the right "stock".

I get the impression that old HP didn't so much hate as fear the "other". I know, hate and fear are mostly the same thing under the hood, but Henry seemed really frightened of anyone not up to his standards of "decent human being". He seemed to think mankind was going to devolve into degeneracy. Probably comes from the popular notion of eugenics at the time. Seriously weird dude.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like the interpretation of Shadow Over Innsmouth as him processing the shocking fact that his great-grandmother might not have been English but.. Welsh

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

YES! The man was the OG hater. :) It really tickles me reading his work.

"Hold up. Was that family not white enough?!"

And he wasn't merely talking shit like hating on the Irish. HP hated on ALL the peoples!

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well, that’s what happens when you don’t have the constitution for math.