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[–] MattW03 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago) (1 children)

True. I've find the Easter Bunny in the wild, last spring .

Best free chocolate ever.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator 3 points 5 hours ago

If green you can actually eat them as a survival tactic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

They are all dumb made up holidays to make you spend money you don’t have to buy shit you don’t need for people you hate in the name of equally dumb and made up traditions that people keep following because they are sheep and don’t question anything. It was never about family or love or whatever argument the rich use these days to convince you to give them your hard earned money so they can buy the 10th yacht of the week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

It's legit. I get depression and chest pain every Valentine's Day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean the astrological holidays are just kinda there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Everybody celebrates the trisolar syzygy, whether they want to or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

My grandpa used to break up with my grandma to avoid having to buy gifts for her, then get back together after lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

You sure he was actually your grandpa? Cause if I go back nine months from your parent's birthday...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Everyone should get a day off just to eat chocolate and fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

During summer festivals couples used to go to search for a mythical fern flower, that was only flowering during the summer solstice. Of course they went searching at night. If you found one, it was supposed to make you rich and successful. So in reality, it was just an excuse for couples / young people to go into the woods and fuck all night.

The celebrations also included: bathing, dancing, decorating with flowers, lighting fires, jumping through the fire and chasing away witches. People also got married. Sometimes they plowed the village roads, so a dude could find a "match" (i.e. get to plow someone else). They'd also figuratively roast people for being dicks / immoral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds like a good time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I got to fuck chocolate and eat.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Naturally occurring holidays like the equinoxes and solstices?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And in temperate climates, the first day of spring and Harvest feasts, marked in different cultures in different natural ways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The first day of spring is the equinox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Au contraire, nature is quite ignorant of the astronomical equinox.

For nature, things like the Cherry blossoms, the blooming of the magnolia tree and the awakening of the Bumble bee are the ways nature indicates when Spring has started.

Harvest season and autumn are more typically defined by brown leaves, ripe pumpkins and ripe cider apples.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The first day of the naturally occuring spring, occuring naturally at a set number of days after the solstice.
You can recognize it from the skybox changing color.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

: looks out the window in the upper Midwest:

Darn. My version must be glitched.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

You have a divide by cucumber error. Reinstall your universe and exerting should sort itself out.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

equinoxes

There's a holiday for horses???

Count me in!

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

No, I just don't like holidays that are being abused by companies to make a buck. That goes for Christmas as well.

The Summer Holidays don't have that issue.

Easy as is.

Also, Valentine's Day is not even a holiday, idiot 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What holiday isn't abused by capitalism?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Worker climbs to the top of the may pole and yells, "I'm going down!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I do call all holidays dumb but I'll still use it as an excuse to take a day off or do something. I teach at an all girls university and they are 100% on board having Friday off in the name of Valentine's Day. Lol

(Oh and before you say "everyone would say yes to that" you haven't met the kids who take college seriously)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The solstices would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Lunar New Year too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Happy Ishtar !

I mean happy Easter not the pagan orgy holiday represented by eggs and rabbits etc that we all participate in for some reason

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

February 14th is my birthday so of course I hate Valentine's Day, I can't hang out with my friends 'cause they're hanging with their girlfriends, and if I'm in a relationship I have to go buy flowers and stuff the day of my birthday instead of just chilling and playing videogames which I honestly prefer. And don't get me started on people assuming I like everything heart shaped and stuff...

If these two events were a separate thing I'd probably be OK with Valentine's Day TBH.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I just decided your birthday is June 5, if you want to use it

[–] shutz 10 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I refer to it as Singles Awareness Day. For the obvious reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Too late, Corporate China reserved November 11 (because it's all 1s) for that, and western corporations are starting to follow it too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Back in college it used to be "go to the Olive Garden alone and make the waitress uncomfortable" day.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

To be fair, I find all of them equally stupid. Only ones I like are those that give a free day at work, and only for that reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What if they come with blowing shit up? (we Statesians love our holidays)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heh yea same, I don't really care if it's Leif Erikson Day or Give Mr. Krabs All Your Money Day, I just need to know if it's a day off or not LMAO

Though some are fun, like Valentine's Day often serves as a perfect excuse to have a date night with my SO (though we often tend to actually do it a couple days after or before to avoid everyone else doing Valentine's Day date nights lolol (unless there's a good deal ofc))

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

Here we see the spawning grounds of the Pagan holidays, where a young holiday is learning to walk. But wait, in comes it's natural predator the Christian holiday. The Holiday struggles for a bit, but it is in vain...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Made up CORPORATE holiday, just like Sweetest Day. We don't even get it off!

You don't need a day to tell that special someone how you feel, just do it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I love you, @fartswithanaccent, ever since I saw you call out Sweetest Day

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Aw shucks lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Where in the world is Valentine’s Day a holiday?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

What do you mean, it's right there in the wild.

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