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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.

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  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.
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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 98 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks like the camera got drunk as well.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

one year ago

It looks like it was taken by a Minolta in 1997.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

Obviously, this means that this was tweeted in 1998, simple

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'm thinking it has that polaroid vibe.

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How can you tell what make?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Minoltas were always drunk

[–] dave@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Now I'm even more confused!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't. It's a joke.

It looks like all the print photos I remember from the 1990s. Back then, my grandfather always walked around with a pocket Minolta 35mm camera. I loved playing with the sliding shutter guard.

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I bet that was a good camera then! Might it have been the lens protector rather than shutter guard?

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what pictures from the past look like.

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was in the past (almost one year ago). This is how the world looked back then.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 117 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Maybe but Japanese people are super friendly.

I got lost in a random Tokyo neighborhood and a random guy came out, tapped my dude shoulders and showed my ugly ass where my Airbnb was. This was after the Uber driver walked me 1.5 blocks (leaving his car engine on with the keys inside) to show me where he thought it was. I went to a bar and the bartender snuck a umbrella in my arm when it rained, and told me if I got lost, to call him. And a random person, realizing I was born stupid, help me use a washing machine.

Amazing amazing humans in Japan.

[–] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 95 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's true. Once, when I was visiting Kyoto, I actually forgot how to eat, and a kind elderly man held me and tenderly bottle-fed me. I didn't even ask him to.

[–] barooboodoo@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw

Was out of potato baby phase, can confirm.

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

...would it work if you were a worm? Asking for a friend.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It feels like everyone has a story like this. I visited Osaka this one time and I was couldn't open the package that my lunch was in. This very ordinary looking salaryman approached me and without saying a word took, the package from me, ate it whole, then vomited it directly down my throat as an easily-digestible slurry fortified with immunity-boosting enzymes and developmentally-critical animo acids. He literally wouldn't stop.

[–] n0clue@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw.

[–] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you know? Did you go to Okinawa and try it?

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He is the control group lmao

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

As an unattractive person I find this terminology comfortable.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You caught me, I guess it really depends on context

[–] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

No one caught you. You need to throw out some words like halo effect and then a research paper about how attractive people get ahead in life more easily. Plus you don't need to be in Okinawa because you are making a general statement about how societies function. Don't give up! <3

[–] videogamesandbeer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought that was Marge Simpson.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Morticia Simpson.
Marge Adams?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

Ok, but this has got to be a core cherished memory forever.

Nice, wholesome, like a life lived.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Oh now don't start that again!

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A light shade of Payne's gray, I think.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see French grey (kidding)

[–] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Looks a little more silkwort grey imo

[–] revisable677@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Now I'm interested. I see blue

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

He looks undecided if he should be happy or pissed off.