I’ve seen this so many times and it just never gets old!

The bacteria better buy my genes dinner firsr!

Your frequent reminder from the local queer, leftist furry that if “voting didn’t work,” Republicans and billionaires wouldn’t spend billions of dollars on voter suppression and propaganda telling you that your vote doesn’t matter.

Do your part, waste billionaire money by voting anyway, by any means necessary~

This is more of a desktop environment thing than a distro-specific thing. If I recall correctly, both KDE Plasma and GNOME both have touchscreen support. Pretty much every, single distro offers one, the other, or both. So I’d just look for one who’s marketing to your usecase and try it out.

As a polyamorous individual, I whole-heartedly agree! Actual polyamory is often hard and requires a lot of attention and dedication.

I was open with every, single person involved about the fact I am this way, and have done my best at every step and with each new addition that none of them felt like a “side-piece.”

Real polyamory is made of much of the same stuff as real monogamy: hardcore honesty, vulnerability (especially when it’s hard), open, crystal clear communication, and most importantly, consent! Safe, sane, informed consent. If you haven’t put every, single goddamn card on the table, you’re not polyamorous, you’re a playboy.

Nah, they’ve been warping it that way since Obama at least, if not earlier. It’s just only now they’ve had a rogue executive branch to back them up.

Babe, wake up! New Vita Carnis monster just dropped!

Nothing. Their suggestion is nothing. They said this is a good thing. They’re lamenting the fact bigots will use this as a cudal to weaken the alliance. The thing they think is bad is the bigots, not queer rights.

I’m an elder Gen Z furry. These rules are ingrained in me so hard it took genuine effort to stop defaulting to assuming everyone online is a “he” to avoid accidental misgendering (“they” works just as well).

I wasn’t here for the very earliest parts of the web, but I was just in time to watch it die and remember that it used to be a better place. Still, I often reference the Rules of the Internet today and it sucks seeing how many people just don’t get it.

But I think it’s harder to for normies because they mostly cling to the corporate internet, believing it to be their safe haven, when it is, in fact, poison that actively promotes breaking the original rules (especially “don’t feed the trolls”) that kept people safe for the sake of engagement.

Eye of the Tiger intensifies

Made my own post first but I highly approve of this! This is almost exactly what I was saying should be required by law as someome who didn’t get that but homeschooling still worked out great for me.

I got homeschooled. One thing I think a lot of people don’t know is that there are computerized curriculum that leaves you perfectly capable of passing standardized testing. I actually took dual credit for my last year and did college English and History. So obviously being homeschooled worked well for me.

I also grew up in the church and the only reason I’m grateful for it is because, despite now not being a Christian, it did counter-balance what others have rightly pointed out that parents must make an effort to socialize their kid outside the family if it’s at all possible. Ans regularly. Which is another thing people don’t know: there are also programs designed to get homeschooled kids together and help make up for this.

So let me say as a homeschooled Christian kid who was still smart enough to deconstruct my faith and my father’s conservative politics and who thrived in their brief time in a college environment that I am clealry not a dumb ass. I now also work at a local ISP where my job is to de-escalate the most frustrated and angry customers, and while I primarily do this via email, I am even better at it on the phone. So I am clearly not lacking social skills.

My personal assessment is that homeachooling is a perfectly viable option. And I fully believe it should be a right, because especially in America’s current administration I think we all should be able to easily see why having no alternative to state-provided education could easily be turned against us.

It also turns out that I’m undiagnosed auDHD, so being homeschooled and being able to work at my own pace was probably one of the few reasons I did as well as I did in school because I didn’t have to rage against my neurodivergence.

On the flipside, however, I also believe there’s entirely too few guard rails, and it does lead to a lot of severely illprepared parents fucking their kids up. I’m lucky that (at least while crowing up) my parents took me and my sisters’ education very seriously.

I think there needs to be an arm of the Department of Education that helps prepare parents for homeschooling and requires regular visits to homeschooling locations to ensure that they are actually being educated and that they’re capable of passing standardized tests. Oh, and computerized curriculum should be required.

Nice one! Take an updoot!

Jelly did nothing wrong. Just look at that face!

This anon’s alright!

That would be Linux from Scrarch, I think.

Cap. I was a formerly incredibly devoute conservative evangelical. I found my way out. People find their way out all the time, they just get buried under all the other discourse.

Hey, it’s not bloat if you want it!

Do be careful: Soatok recently exposed a fatal security flaw that can allow bad actors to forcibly nulify Matrix’s E2EE by seeing their security key to 0, and the devs would rather hand wave it away than take him seriously.

It’s still good that it has E2EE, but if you’re ever discussing something truly sensitive that you wouldn’t want read back to you in court, keep it on Signal.

But other than that, I’ll still give this a go! The last few times I tried Matrix, I felt kinda uncomfortable on the instances I tried. And while my bets are on Stoat as the eventual Discord replacement, it can’t hurt to spready my eggs to another basket.

Soatok’s first blog post: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/

His rebut of Matrix’s reply: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/#matrix-response

He already has. You think Nintendo is going to heaven?