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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.
RULES:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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Hello is acceptable if,
Its almost instantly followed with a proper message about what this about, no waiting of dance involved.
The hello and the question are one big message.
I have known people who felt offended to not receive a formal greeting if this is the first communication between us today so i adapted.
Though worse issue is people who call without any heads-up. I am working, i dont need a phone crying for my attention to distract me. So when they want to call i prefer a “hello, can we call” or best of all “hello, do you have time later to call about x and y”
Even better is when they just put something in my calendar with a brief description of what it's about
The unnaounced call has been verboten in business since instant messaging became standard at work - about 2006.
The only exceptions are when someone doesn't have good connectivity or you're already workingon something together and you both know these calls may happen because of circumstance.
One look at anyone's calendar and you'll know you're going to voicemail.
I think my office never got the memo. Which is odd considering memo is prob one of the few technologies they can work with.
We frequently have to explain to the senior IT bosses how to do basic computer things so they might just be stuck in the 90s and then i have to trust that these people make sound decisions when it comes to digital innovation and ai.