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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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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

The reply is the equivalent of a laugh track

[–] InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fdnomad@programming.dev 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"hot take," is commonly used to begin a controversial statement. The word play here is that Prometheus took some fire (divine spark / soul / indominable human spirit) and gave it to humans against Zeus' will, so you could read it as "hot (thing), (I) take"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm just thinking how his punishment wasn't really befitting the crime. Like... Why not just have him burn forever? Why the liver eating?

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i am more interested to know how the ancient greeks figured out that livers grow back

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Here's an article about this from the Journal of Hepatology:

there is no convincing evidence that ancient Greeks had any specific knowledge about liver regeneration, a concept introduced in the early 19th century.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well that explains why it's called the "liver"

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

While amusing, it seems that the liver is its own word in both the old English and Germanic origins, and even going back to the older proto-Indo-European languages, but some sources link it to the words "to stick" and even fat/grease.

Curious that current Latin languages like Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese did NOT take the latin or greek words for liver (iecur and hēpar).

The modern words (hígado, foie, fegato, fígado) all derive from fig - or more specifically from "fig-stuffed liver" (ficatum iecur), which I'll assume was a highly appreciated delicacy...