this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago

There used to be sidewalk kiosks called “newsstands” where people could buy the “newspaper,” a daily publication with news about recent events. Bigger news was put on the front page, and at a newsstand you could see the front page for free.

Because this is talking about the Soviet Union, the man is almost certainly looking for a headline announcing that Josef Stalin has died.