this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2024
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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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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
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  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fascinating! I didn’t know there was an article about this.

This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they.

That’s more than official enough for me!