#bloomscrolling! today

Waymo is Having a Hard Time Stopping For School Buses https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/06/1858231/waymo-is-having-a-hard-time-stopping-for-school-buses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

@gsuberland @niconiconi 5 stars arrived quickly haven’t opened it yet

Anyway, I got to introduce a whole table of people to bog bodies tonight. Gonna throttle the internet and news for a bit and read Bog PDFs instead.

nini

📣 New Podcast! "7 February 1919: No Beer No Work movement" on @Spreaker #beer #history #workers
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/7-february-1919-no-beer-no-work-movement--69728400

@arstechnica Yes, but according to what I read, there's no hard evidence that it works. No, really, that was the wording they chose.

In 1933, Nazis burned the contents of the Institute for Sexual Science. Women's & gender studies are under attack today. But knowledge is tricky to control. When research is defunded & classes canceled, "people find other ways to share & make new knowledge."https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/02/06/can-embattled-womens-and-gender-studies-programs

What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

You can't expect people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff. Either walk them through doing those things step by step, or actually try answer their question.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like this), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help people who are asking for it.
If you don't want to respond in a legitimately helpful way, it's ok to take a break.

@jwildeboer OwO stands for OwO what's Othis?

Don’t Leave The Spoon In The Smoothie Blender Jug

#RejectedCountrySongs #GoodAdviceTho #DAMHIKT

Western bluebird

@annaleen Once every so often I'll be in the supermarket wnd unable to resist the temptation to buy one of those giant chocolate chip cookies with half a pound of frosting on top. I always regret it afterwards but that doesn't help the next time.

My nephew is moving into our apartment for a week to babysit his cousin, Parsley the cat, while we’re away on vacation to Mérida. So I drew this as a thank you card for him.

#KleineKunstKkasse #DrawingForFun #ParsleyTheCat #MastoArt #FediArt

the crowd is chanting " #FuckICE" at this #wrestling match

some context:

the heavily tatted guy is #BrodyKing

he partnered with #comic book #artist #DanielWarrenJohnson to release #AbolishICE merchandise for the #Minnesota Rights Action Committee. so far they have raised $59,000, supporting #Latino and #Somali #immigrant communities

oh, and he won the match

King thanked his fans online and finished the post by saying “Fuck #ICE”

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/wrestling/wrestling-fans-launch-anti-ice-chant-aew-match-las-vegas-pausing-event-rcna257579

#ICEOut

you got friends? two or three more might help
#catsofmastodon #cats #Humor #caturday

@cniside
grazie

$[border.style=solid,width=1,radius=6 $[border.color=0000,width=12 @FynniPlushie@app.wafrn.net asked:
Given that you can disable Rewoots and Replies showing up on the dashboard, could it be possible to disable likes, too? Feels a bit odd that that's the only one you can't disable.
(Also it would be funny to disable all three. Blissful silence...)]]

There is already wellbeing options of this kind under Settings > Miscellaneous on web 😊

~ @alexia

@rbreich i will not stand for such insults to pigs