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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Turns out, someone had hammered a nail straight through the cat5 cable to fasten it to the wall.

I wish that were the dumbest thing I had ever seen someone do.

[–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My "favorite" customer was a small business owner who we set up with an on-premise exchange server (by his request). He was adamant he didn't want his e-mail hosted anywhere off-site.
He called in the next Monday, complaining about issues with his e-mails.
Turns out he switches off the power to his office building every Friday when he leaves for the weekend, to save money on electricity.
We got the exchange server running again and explained to him in detail what a server is and that it needs power to run.
He kept calling in every Monday, for months.
Eventually he started to complain about all the bills we sent him, saying he won't pay anymore until we can finally fix his e-mail issue.
So we cut him loose. Half a year later, his business domain was up for sale.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

The dumbest thing I encountered was someone who claimed their CD drive was broken.

I came by, flipped the CD and then it started working.