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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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  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.
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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

wanted to cross post this to !nottheonion@lemmy.world but since they don't like screenshots i looked up the the source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/camel-pageant-scandal-oman-hump-injectables-b2932979.html let me put it here in case somebody wants it

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 2 days ago

Camel owners had used injections to enhance the camel’s lips, dermal fillers around their noses and silicone wax to enlarge the humps

Silicone is stored in the humps.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Can someone translate that for me?

[–] bleistift2@feddit.org 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sure.

Kamelschönheitswettbewerb versinkt in Chaos, nachdem 20 Teilnehmer wegen Höckervergrößerungsinjektionen disqualifiziert werden

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I gotcha covered.

Das Kamelpageant was gekhaoshurlt mit 20 stabbenplumpen humpercheaters en fucktoff told.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

ELI5:

In a 'beauty' pageant with camels as the contestants, officials discovered 20 entrants had injected their camels in the hump with a substance that would make the hump look plumper and better-shaped, with the intent to score higher in the competition. This is against the rules, so those people were disqualified for cheating.

This is unexpected because although many types of banned performance enhancement are common in human beauty and sports competitions, you might never anticipate it would happen in animal competitions, nor imagine the 'ideal' shape of a camel's hump could be such an intense aspect of competition that you'd even want to try.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Apparently camel pageants find camel humps more pleasing when they're plump.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can we at least save this till Wednesday?

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 7 points 3 days ago

missed opportunity

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

Judges used advanced technology to uncover tampering with camels

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

No honesty in this world.