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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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- 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.
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Altruism.
You'll also see this in the negative too. People not paying attention on subway platforms or in the street will get shoulder-checked for getting in the way. It's not nice, but if that sinks in as something "not to do", then someone opted to be a heel for a moment to make things better for others.
Haha, i know someone in NY who talks about doing this as a casual part of daily life.
I grew up in Boston, it was not only accepted, but expected.
There's an etiquette to elevators and subway trains and buses, and really any other confined space- it's better for everyone if you let people get off before you try to get on.
When I first moved to Phoenix, I was on an elevator at a mall, when the doors opened for my floor, two teenage girls tried to push their way past me and my wife... But I'm a pretty big guy, so I just kept walking. The one that was directly in front of me got knocked on her ass. I felt a little bad, I hadn't intended to hit her that hard... But only a little.