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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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  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.
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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes! Every time I see someone making NJ the butt of a joke, I feel the need to reply with a love letter to New Jersey, because it's legit awesome and I love it 🤍

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just woke up and haven't had any caffeine yet so you're getting more or less a copy/paste of a comment I've written previously. Enjoy!

They don’t call us the Garden State for nothing. Northwest New Jersey is beautiful, very rural with loads of outdoors activities along the Delaware. Central Jersey has Princeton, which along with the gorgeous campus has a super beautiful downtown. There are farmstands with fresh Jersey tomatoes, corn, and peaches all over the place, and we have a bunch of nice wineries! We also have the Pine Barrens (home of the Jersey Devil!) which are beautiful. And despite that stupid MTV show*, the shore is not just loads of drunken assholes. It has tons of boardwalk stuff to do, and the beaches with tags are usually pretty nice. Plus we have Atlantic City!

*(Side note: the cast of Jersey Shore are fucking bennies from New York, they’re not even from NJ.)

When people shit on New Jersey, they’re thinking of Camden (Philly’s fault) or Newark (NYC’s fault). There are definitely ugly industrial areas of NJ, but that’s not the entirety of the state. Neither is the parkway.

Come visit. Have a pork roll, egg, and cheese on a bagel. Bike down the boardwalk. Spend a day at Great Adventure. Check out Lambertville (and New Hope!). Go tubing down the Delaware. And then when you hear someone bash NJ in the future, you’ll be able to defend us ;)

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

NJ is fun to tease.

  • its shape seems perfect for the highway
  • its an ugly part of nyc
  • an ugly part of Philadelphia
  • and Atlantic City went way downhill (admittedly haven’t been there since Trump was bankrupting casinos)

But actually yes. One of my buddies from college was from a very nice part of NJ, exactly like you describe. Well worth visiting and really shows off what a great place NJ can be

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's the armpit of America. You can tell you crossed the state line because of the smell. The rest of the state gets.. better, but that's a low bar.

(I grew up in New York and honestly I'd even take Jersey over where I live now.)

[–] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I had a history teacher in highschool who refused to acknowledge the existance of new jersey. He was from New York though so maybe that had something to do with it