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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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
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submitted 10 months ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 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.

[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shorthand for kilo, recognisable if you use metric.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 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.