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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.

Rules:

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

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 85 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Micro cosmology is a problem a majority of Americans live with. If they can't see it from their front porch it don't exist. That played a major factor in the current shitshow preloading in d.c.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Here's another one for you: 'played a major factor in'. Not strictly correct grammatically. A better phrase would've been, "played a major role in".

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 2 points 42 minutes ago

If one prefers to keep "factor" instead of 'played", than there is always the option, "was a major factor'