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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:

  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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[–] freshcow@lemmy.world 130 points 2 years ago (38 children)

Your mistake is in framing landlord as a job.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Owning a property is not a job but maintaining one can be. If you don't own the property then that'd just be called being a janitor.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Janitors are cleaners. Typically the people who maintain apartments are called maintenance workers, handymen, or (old fashioned) superintendent. Sometimes property manager, if they also handle renting it out.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We often just call them janitors here, I bet the vernacular changes from place to place. But cleaners are often separate, janitors do maintenance work and cleaners do cleaning work

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 76 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What poor service. Definitely not going to tip him at the end of the month, that's for sure.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

But the end-of-quarter bonus is still on the table, right?

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm autistic and flub things up like that sometimes. I tell people that I have a photogenic memory. They'll often ask, "Don't you mean a photographic memory?" to which I reply "No, a photogenic memory. Yeah, I have a beautiful mind."

[–] PlexSheep 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What does a photogenic memory mean?

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Photogenic: Looks good in photographs; attractive

Memory: A construct of one's mind that allows them to recall information

a photogenic memory = a beautiful mind.

It is humorous because the assumption is that I mean to say "photographic memory". One with a photographic memory can recall visual information to which they've been exposed with great accuracy.

But when I tell this joke to friends or colleagues, I say "No no, a photogenic memory...I have a beautiful mind". There was a film with actor Russell Crowe called A Beautiful Mind in which he plays a brilliant professor who we discover late in the film has schizophrenia which has caused him no small amount of embarrassment and challenges in his life. According to diagnostic testing I had done, I have a high intelligence quotient along with autism, and it, too, has caused me embarrassment and challenges in my life.

So when I say I have a "beautiful mind", people remember that film and it occurs to them that I am saying I am intelligent (something friends and colleagues already know about me) but that my autism (something they also know about me) makes me a little weird and is a burden to me sometimes. It's just a bit of self-deprecating humor.

[–] PlexSheep 2 points 2 years ago

Aaah, I get it now. Thanks for the explanation. I know what photogenic is, but I didn't know what it meant when I read it with mind. That one takes a while, I can see why people are confused, but it makes sense when you get it.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

A photographic memory means you can recall a perfect visual image in your mind of a past event and examine it for details as if it were a picture. So, for example, if you are trying to remember a book quote, you'd bring up a visualization of the page of the book that you read and read the words on the page again.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

For 2 seconds I was thinking "Assigned Landlord At Birth?"

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