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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. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know, both numbers aren't confirmed. We're hearing 2k to 20k at Trump's birthday party, and anywhere from 5m to 11m on protests. They're still trying to tally and I only saw a 2m temporary number. That said, with Boston having like 1m apparently, it'll probably be pretty big (they combined pride parade with it so it's a like unclear how you'd count that)

A more fun way to look at it is, the army parade had most of it's route at 1 row of viewers. That's... really really bad attendance. Lol

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

the army parade had most of it’s route at 1 row of viewers.

That's really sad. The small town of a few thousand I live in manages better attendance to it's annual parade made up of tractors and classic cars and fire trucks, and one year even included the snow plows!

If we can get a good thousand people (nearly a quarter of the town's population) to attend a Saturday parade on a budget of whoever actually shows up, the president of the United Fucking States should be capable of getting Macy's day parade sized spectacle at least

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That was my thought, too. I attended a small town parade once in Solvang, CA, mostly by accident and even that had at least two rows of people. Granted, thunderstorms probably contributed but like you said, Macy's Day parade is often huge and that's sometimes bone chillingly cold so it's not a great excuse lol