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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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[–] jayk@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

is it not supposed to be??

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Without looking into the actual stats, it's so incredibly common it's normal. There are pedantic pros and cons to both; it's trivial. But more people have a second toe shorter than the first.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Feet causing you problems?
Pedantics.

[–] inbeesee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry to rain on the parade... but ya'll know that the prefix indicating something pertains to the foot or ankle is pod-, right?

Podiatry. Podiatrist.

Ped- refers to children.

Pediatrician. Pediatrics.

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

Wait... what is a pedometer counting????

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

So I looked into this a bit and...

it appears to be based on whether a word is using Latin or Greek as its etymological basis, for words pertaining to feet.

In Latin... it is ped-... but in Greek... it is pod-.

... And, you are correct, English has a mish mash of both.

But also, a lot of English words referring to children use the Greek derived ped- or pedo- to refer to... children.

....Which is why in British English, the spelling 'paed-' is used, to minimize this confusion.

But us clever Americans dropped that, rofl.