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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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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Some professions that were traditionally male dominated and were also called "____ man" can be made gender neutral by replacing "man" with "person."

This does not work for "garbage man."

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Garbage collector works fine though.

[–] python@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

💥GARBAGE⚡OBLITERATOR💥

[–] Damage@feddit.it 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Sanitation Engineer

[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm partial to fireman to fire fighter, so mailman to mail fighter, policeman to police fighter, etc.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 23 points 2 months ago

Garbage fighter nicely fits that pattern too.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i thought police fighting is what antifascists do

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Well only because the police are fascist and anyone who is anti fascist is antifascist

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Policeman already has cop or dog, your pick.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Garbage person. A job I'm overqualified for

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Garbagefighter! Goes well with firefighter, mailfighter, salesfighter, congressfighter, fishfighter, barfighter, ombudsfighter.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

I find "workers" is a pretty good all-purpose one.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Das Mann means the person and is gender neutral, the English word "man" which comes from it also has a gender neutral sense. It's more archaic, but it does exist

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Right? I mean I'm not employed by any sort of waste management service and I am certainly a garbage person.

[–] RogueBanana@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"." is one of those that you take for granted until you read stuff like this. At least it had "," this time.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I can 100% imagine someone delivering it as written. After each like there's a pause just long enough for you to interrupt each other.