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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.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Poll: is “guy” gender neutral yet? It is in my part of Northern California but I have accidentally confused people before.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

It depends on usage.

"He's a guy." Is gendered.

"Hey you guys!" Is gender neutral.

"She's a guy." Is transphobic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

May work in context?

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