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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.

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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
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  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (6 children)

How else would you pronounce shibboleth??

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I guess long i vs short i? Not a big deal. Bad example imo. A better metric would be something like boatswain or colonel.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait how do you pronounce boatswain!?

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