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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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  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.
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[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

That has the same energy as telling protestors to go home

[–] nile_istic@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

My dumb optimistic ass scrolling to the comments under this post thinking "maybe this time iT wOn'T bE sO bAd" lmao

[–] Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

This escalated way faster than I was ready for 😭

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

The thing is that if we challenge the machine, it gets noted immidiately as being aggressive. The reason for this is because language is normalizing machine thinking. What will push workers in line, what will cool the bloom of the masses, what will paint the mighty as delightful, what will alienate us from our peers and nature.

By taking guardianship for our languages, challenging our everyday words, we normalize the meaningful, normalize humanity.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 173 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
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[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Agreed. So simple, but so effective.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[–] yeehawboy@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Judge those who can?

I know the answer is supposed to be teach but...

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The original phrase is pretty lame anyway. If you can't do a thing, how can you be expected to teach it? I'd rather have a teacher that actually knows how to do the thing they're trying to teach me.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The saying isn’t trying to convey that people who can’t do something are well suited to teach it, it’s disparaging teachers by saying if they were any good at what they teach they would be doing it instead of teaching it.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, I get its point, I just think it's a nonsensical phrase.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

It's a very American thing, where we don't value teachers. It's nonsensical in reality, but it's the way America operates.

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[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel this deep in my soul.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look up the first year they used an anatomically correct crash test dummy for a women to make cars safer. The world is bad for men too, in a heirchial system only those at the top "win", for lack of a better word. Most men are just tagging along pretending to be on the winner team. Even though they failed to make the team in tryouts and are fans just be part of everything.

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[–] Bunitonito@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

This is art, build this around an actual rheostat and slap it against a wall

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