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.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is mostly how it works now; words change meaning. Nobody I know says 'trash can', it's 'garbage can'. But yeah, they originally meant different things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've begun to love finding out old meanings and origins to words, so this one kinda tickled me. I find it interesting too