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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] 93 points 1 month ago (3 children)

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I've always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences "the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's like poetry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yeah, the very same conflicts and tensions we had in the world back then are still here now...