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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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Best* mascot (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Peter Stuyvesant is New York City's most prestigious public high school.

Their teams are the Peglegs.

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

Like the cigarettes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

'Splain, pliz?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant_(cigarette)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Nice article. Doesn't explain why Peter S. is associated with tobacco.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe they were referring to this:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I did a search for more information on Peter Stuyvesant and found out that there's a British cigarette called 'Peter Stuyvesant.'

The real Peter was the last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam before the English [under the Duke of York] took over. He stayed in the New World and was a popular figure in the now New York City.