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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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's not that I never learned how to read cursive; it's that nobody actually writes it legibly.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Facts. Everybody's "personal flair" on their style of cursive becomes a cryptographic puzzle. I exclusively used cursive until about 7th grade (because it was faster to me), and I still have to decipher most handwritten cursive

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Literally the only reason I use any cursive is because it's useful to distinguish when you're doing a lot of letter math for physics or calculus.

That and being able to give people thank you cards with immaculate penmanship, still don't use full cursive for that though, just slow deliberate writing with a bit of italic flair.

Ironically enough I developed my modern handwriting style basically as an act of spite against a professor I was especially cross with in my junior year.

Old bastard comes into class and yells at us about how we're the worst scoring class he's ever had and then expects me to not be in the front row visibly anger practicing my letters.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Cursive fonts should at least be consistent.