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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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[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh, Goddamnit. I'm gonna upvote you, but I want you to know that I'm not happy about it.

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And just because I can't resist being the "well, ackshully" guy, I think the little blinking line/box in a text editor is considered a cursor, so you'd have to remember punch cards to be a true precursor (or at the very least, the era before keyboards, but I'm sure someone can correct me there)