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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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[–] a14o@feddit.org 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not quite, they started saying "bear" instead of its real name, Ȧ̷̢̨͇͓͛̒͐͐́̓̎́͌͜͝Ṛ̸̭̫͕̒̈̚͜Ķ̶̢̛͍͚͕̤̜̗͕͖͎̞̣̋̓̄͒͆̏̐͑͒̿͆́͠ͅṬ̷̢̩̠̖͖͖̼̙̼̪̯̈͜O̵̰͕̓̋̊̊̾̈͐

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

isn't bear supposed to mean 'the brown one' ?

[–] a14o@feddit.org 24 points 6 months ago

Yes, so "bear" is the euphemism people started to use in order to avoid saying its real name. Or so the theory goes, anyway.

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 12 points 6 months ago
PIE Proto-Germanic Old English Middle English Modern English
*h₂r̥tḱós *arhaz *earh *earh *are, ere
*h₂r̥tḱós *arhsaz *earx, arx *arx *arx
*h₂rétḱ-os *rahso *reaxa *rax *rax
*h₂ŕ̥ḱtos *urhtaz *orht *orhte *rought
*h₂ŕ̥ḱtos *urhaz *urh *urgh, rugh *(o)rough ?

I'm not sure if Lemmy does tables the same way and hope that renders correctly, but I've borrowed some possible non-euphemism PIE reconstructions for how it might've gone, and I have to say my favorite would be "rought" pronounced /ɹʌft/. But I could also see "orough" turning into "owo" which amuses me greatly.