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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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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 127 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

P for Pterodactyl

S for Sea

W for Why

E for Eye

G for Gnu

J for Jalapeño

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You're missing a few good ones.

A for An

C for Cay

I for In

K for Knight

N as in No (a few of these work with "as in" but not with "for")

O as in Other

P as in Pose

Q for Qing (since Jalapeño is allowed)

T for The

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

X as in Xi Jinping

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

T as in tsunami.

P as in phone.

K as in knife or knee.

G as in gnostic.

X as in xylophone.

D as in djembe.

M as mnemonic.

O as in opossum in certain locales.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dang your comment wasn't there but by the time I copied the link from YouTube you beat me to it.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Great minds think alike.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"is that your first or last name"

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

G as in gnome.

[–] MBM 8 points 2 months ago

G for Gnu

TIL English doesn't pronounce the G in gnu. Wild language.