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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.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So were you saying people called cocaine "speed" back then?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I believe they were trying to say that the stimulant of the 50s was speed (aka an amphetamine)

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then the person who originally responded to them wasn't mansplaining, and used facts to contradict what they said. Then they acted like they already knew that

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The person who had the lengthy the explanation about cocaine and Coca-Cola was correct - it just wasn't what I was talking about. I was referencing diet pills in the '50s that were made out of amphetamines ("momma's little helpers").

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

You did so in comparison to cocaine, in response to something that only mentioned cocaine in the context of cocaine cola. If you say it wasn't cocaine but speed back then, how am I supposed to get that you are referencing diet pills and not at all contradicting the whole cocaine cola bit?

But yeah, diet pills were basically just speed back then too. I can't argue that. Not sure why that's related to cocaine in cola though. Turns out people do all kinds of drugs, especially when readily available.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, I think they did speed, not coke in the 50s. In the form of diet pills

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

When were diet pills brought up?