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:

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.
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.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
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.
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.
Absolutely no NSFL content.
Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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Getting more than you bargained for (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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If you're lucky, you'll only get me talking about glacial surficial geology

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hard disagree. What are "appropriate dating spaces"?

Pretty sure lots of the people would love to have something serendipitous happen outside of the boring designations society expects.

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[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

This isn't even outside of what society expects. Striking up conversations with people is normal and human!

There are bad ways to do it, of course. In this case, I'd be rattled by the knee tap. But a little conversation is fine, and if they aren't responding enthusiastically you can just drop it.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

What am I supposed to do? Be that creep that just hits on women? 😭

I can't imagine that it's not a game friend being a date, or friend of a friend who recommended me.

Or one of those dating servers/forums.

Everything else feels creepy.

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Dude OP was describing was striking up a conversation with another person. Sometimes that becomes a date, sometimes it doesn't. It's a nice way to go about every day. You don't need an ulterior motive. If you can imagine having the conversation with a man in the same scenario, then it's fine IMO.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 point 2 months ago

Ironically, I cannot. I would not chat up a random man without a good reason.

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