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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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
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I promise the Republican Party (feddit.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The irony being that now people use ellipses to mark a sentence pause, which isn't really how an ellipsis is meant to be used. They were supposed to be for removing unnecessary but implied language from quotes. Agreed on the oxford comma though.

[–] tacosplease 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I like the ... despite knowing it's really for something like a trailing list. Its use seems regional even within the US. Our business partners in Chicago didn't like it when we included the dots in emails.