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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.
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  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[โ€“] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even then, whether "them" references a group or an individual is left unclear--as I noted. E.g., "you" vs "y'all." Exclusively using they/them is mildly less precise, but people acting like it's the end of the English language is silly.

As I also explicitly stated, acting like it's not slightly imprecise is facile. It could be worse, at least English doesn't have gendered nouns like Spanish, Italian, etc. ๐Ÿ˜