this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (10 children)

coöperate – we used to have a diaeresis on the second ‘o’ to indicate a second syllable (and to make it clear we weren’t talking about barrel making) but then we decided we hated accent marks …

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Typesetters decided we hate accent marks

[–] TempermentalAnomaly 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The New Yorker would like to have a word.

[–] NucleusAdumbens 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They throw umlauts around like they're going out of style

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

Gotta use these things up guys

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