this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
590 points (97.9% liked)

Microblog Memes

9215 readers
3211 users here now

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.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 75 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

used to really enjoy calling men whores until I just found out I can refer to my homies as concu🅱️inus

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 56 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s when my boss doesn’t “agree” with the data so he pulls a number out of his ass.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

💀💀💀

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Half analyst, half therapist… it’s the … Analrapist!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

one who analyses or gets analysed hard

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

As a straight guy, some of those seem kinda mean. I thought, they liked their twinks.

To my gay brothers, are they mean? Or am I just too straight to get it?

[–] napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 99 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They are probably meant to be mean, because the people described had a very low social status in society.

The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active / dominant / masculine and passive / submissive / feminine. Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male citizen possessed political liberty (libertas) and the right to rule both himself and his household (familia). "Virtue" (virtus) was seen as an active quality through which a man (vir) defined himself. The conquest mentality and "cult of virility" shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves and former slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of infamia, so they were excluded from the normal protections afforded to a citizen even if they were technically free. Freeborn male minors were off limits at certain periods in Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Disappointing and unproductive.

Imagine, you are a top and you are looking for a bottom but the bottoms hide their bottom-ness because they get shit for it.

Praise bottoms and enjoy the fruits of a healing environment.

Of course, there are better reasons to not be a bigot but self-interest should be a convincing one.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Seconded 👐

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

They liked their twinks like many men today like their women.

I.e. they don't like them as people. But they enjoy their bodies.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago

People loved to fuck them but didn't value them. Like how people are about prostitutes

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No they did not. The roman republic was very similar to modern America except the guy who ruined it was a bisexual hobag who seemed to care about the proleterii. As a note, it would be culturally improper to refer to a Roman man who exclusively tops men and women as bisexual, but a man who bottoms for men as well as topping women would fit that term. Julius Caesar's bisexuality was a political scandal, and he was referred to by his political opponents as "every woman's man and every man's woman".

Rome loved twinks like America loves trans women, the sex industry and political world tell wildly different stories, and there was cultural back and forth between "hell yeah" "fucking degenerates" and "lol f@g"

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So you're saying the Romans already used "Sick!" as a descriptor two millennia ago?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1000 years of Romans so I'll be surprised if they haven't used all of our slang at some point.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Some roman out there uttered the phrase "skibidi foricai"

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ok straight people, y'all should know that not every bottom is a twink.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also twunk - a twink and a hunk. A twink with muscles but still hairless, incredibily smooth. A twank on the other hand, a twank is no good. That's a twink and a skank. Essentially just a ragdoll being passed around from twink to twunk to bear to otter...

It's very difficult to maintain the lifestyle of a twank-versatile because this often leads to a lot of self-hatred and denial, especially among the political or religious types, so they try to realign their sexual orientation through therapy.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Follow-up question: Is every twink a bottom?

[–] josefo@leminal.space 8 points 1 week ago

I like your Venn reasoning

[–] silverserene@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Nope. There's femme tops such as blouses.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 38 points 2 weeks ago

There is a secret ruling class and they are known as the Effeminati.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

puer is just the regular word for boy, as in ”young male” without any sexual connotation.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Words can mean different things with different tones and contexts.

Oh that one? He's a guy. But him over there he's a boy

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago

"Boy" in English has a ton of potential connotations. As one of many examples, during the Civil Rights Movement there was a famous protest sign that said I AM A MAN to counter the way white men addressed black men as "boy."

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A lot of these are just regular words that could also be used for twinkies (especially puer seems funny, calling twink a literal boy).

But we still see influences from the Roman empire today - in financial industry entry positions are often (junior) analyst.

[–] tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it's not that well-known so i don't blame the tweeter, but the word starting with E is a slur. i'm not sure if there's an exact replacement, though, because "Inuit" only refers to one community out of I think three?

[–] ninjakttty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I think it’s ok and we can say exoletus, it’s a dead language.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I believe Inuit refers to all three whereas the word above typically excludes Aleuts

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How uh young were they before I make any remarks

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Exactly as young as you think unfortunately. They did have slavery, so probably without consent too.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wonder where the Roman Catholic Church gets it from.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] plyth@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So when the Republicans go full (Roman) fascism, they will do a 180 and start embracing lgbtq?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Roman men were as much gay friendly as Republican men are female friendly. Just because they like to fuck them doesn’t mean they see them as equals.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They already do. Republicans are some of the top viewers of femboy porn.
Pretty sure pretty sure its a power thing to fuck the thing you "hate"

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago

I giggled and kicked my feet like a schoolgirl at this, thanks

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Why am I reading each word like AMOGUS?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i wonder whether the italian word "la moglie" (the wife) comes from "mollia", i.e. "the soft one".

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Should be from mulier which means woman in Latin, but maybe the mulier word itself is related?

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

There is also “Molly” in English but supposedly it has no relation etymologically

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Where all the mollis boys at?

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

pullus - puella?

Wait does calling girls "chicks" really go all the way back to Latin?

load more comments (1 replies)

The Romans mollis'd so Tumblr could softboy uwu.

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

It's morbin' time for the hoes

load more comments
view more: next ›