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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where did that K in thousand come from after all, anyway? M for million makes sense. K for thousand doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shorthand for kilo, recognisable if you use metric.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That makes perfect sense, I can't believe I didn't make that connection - and, yeah, I've definitely outed myself as an American. Fair enough.