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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.

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[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 day ago (13 children)

"Tim Onion" is so clever due to it's visual resemblance of "The Onion".

"Tim" and "The" have the same visual profile (width/ height distribution and curved letters), so if you squint your eyes, they look very similar.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 135 points 1 day ago (10 children)

It's probably a reference to when Trump called Tim Cook, Tim Apple by accident

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Crap DOUBLE WAIT I'm now realizing Tim Apple wasn't a real guy's name, dammit RIP my other comment

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 20 hours ago

No, no it made your other comment funnier

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