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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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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.
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.
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submitted 1 year ago by crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] chirospasm@lemmy.ml 141 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Diogenes would be proud here

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[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My first thought too.

To anyone unaware, plato defined man as "a featherless biped" so Diogenes brought a plucked chicken

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[–] Una@europe.pub 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You can't spell genius without Diogenes

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Diogenius

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does it always come back to chickens?

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

"It's just business"

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

He was so much more polite after Amos.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Because they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.

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[–] deus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I wonder how Plato would have defined man if he knew kangaroos existed.

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

featherless tail-less biped? then we could have a story about Diogenes fighting a kangaroo to cut off its tail

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