Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

The words do not have to be perfect.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

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Folks,

The site is updated and our customizations reapplied. I moved some things to the child theme so less work next time, but we still customize 8 theme files and 6 plugin files to get the site working this way.

I’ve also restored Back button functionality and Read More now works like it should.

There’s lots more to do, but my eyes are getting a bit tired and so I’m taking a break. I’ve been hard at work on a video issue for Adam and that’s taken a lot of time and reading, still without a good answer for how to post live video like from TV channels or other live event video streams. YouTube works fine, but live events from other video sources seems to not.

Once again, thank you all for your generosity, patience, and encouragement.  Feel free to use this as an open thread and to make any more requests/comments.

See my earlier post with a list of items I’m hoping to tackle right now – https://balloon-juice.com/2017/01/25/making-some-tweaks-you-have-been-warned/

 

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  1. 1.

    Immanentize

    Thank you so much, Alain. Yoperson’s work!!

    Just FYI — I have up button but no down button on desktop,

    Again, thanks
    ETA — Spinning ballerina or spinning naked chic illusion?

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    Whichever one of you asked in an earlier thread “what’s next, Trump’s going to start looking for the real killer in the O.J. Simpson case?”, thanks, because I’m now getting ads for IS OJ INNOCENT?

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    That “spinning ballerina” is one of my favourite — because one of the craziest — optical illusions. Usually, eventually, I can get my brain to override my senses and figure out what’s going on, but with this one I just can’t. But I love it.

    P.S. Again, Alain, many thanks for what you do around here. At least that you’re willing to admit to.

  7. 7.

    Alain the site fixer

    @Immanentize: figures. I didn’t test the down button which is custom. Sorry. When I get back to my computer I’ll fix. Thanks for the tip!

  8. 8.

    Alain the site fixer

    @SiubhanDuinne: I intend to do a lot more writing. I can’t get through Trump’s reign alive without writing out some of the angst in hopes of discovering new conversations with the great readers here. But first, more work on the site.

  10. 10.

    Alain the site fixer

    Now that’s better, I added the pin rebellion logo. Whomever added it to the site, grazzi.

  11. 11.

    J R in WV

    Oh, Hell! ETA to say thanks, Alain!! Keep on hanging in there for us. Glad folks pitched in for the upgrade! By the time I had a chance it was turned off already. Back to my post:

    I never really got into coding for the innertubes. HTML a little bit, I can look up what I need to format a page…

    But XML and CSS – not really at all. Javascript neither. I learned about ColdFusion, which is a tool to do interactive web sites driven by database queries, but never had time to get proficient with that tool. WordPress didn’t even exist.

    Then I retired, and built another little house, and, and, and did stuff. Not computer stuff. Oh well, next lifetime, maybe.

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    Alain –
    Thanks very much.

    I have one more teensy request for the site: can you add a button which, when pressed, sends us back about 8 months, and :
    A) Fires Comey
    B) Publishes Deadbeat Shitgibbon’s tax returns
    C) Makes Deadbeat Shitgibbon’s Russia connections the continuing front-page story in every major daily
    D) Fixes vote suppression in WI, MI, PA, NC, and FL
    E) Gives Fascist Bannon a stroke

    I realize it’s probably a little more work than some of the stuff you’ve already done, but I have faith in your skills.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SFAW:

    I realize it’s probably a little more work than some of the stuff you’ve already done, but I have faith in your skills.

    I, for one, would gladly toss more money at PayPal for this to happen.

  18. 18.

    ThresherK

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’ve never heard of that thing and it’s 14 years old???

    I’m left-handed but my pivot foot is my right foot, and I can spin on my right foot. So I naturally see it going clockwise on the right foot, just like I do.

  19. 19.

    Alain the site fixer

    @J R in WV: thanks JR. It’s nice to know you; perhaps I can make it your way this year and we can talk a walk in the woods around your property.

  20. 20.

    Chris T.

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s a matter of which leg you see as extended. The actual image is flat and arranged such that you can pick either leg: there’s not enough butt angle, or whatever, to force you to pick one or the other. Once you pick one your brain generally sticks with it as being “that one”. (Mine does not, especially if there is timing jitter in the video.)

  21. 21.

    Alain the site fixer

    Apparently I should call it a day. Trying to fiddle with the down button somehow caused other issues. I’m tired and so I’m done. That button will be back tomorrow plus on the mobile site. Thanks again to all, time to go make some fresh soup and cook some fish for dinner.

    In case my repair messed something else up, please report it here. I will check to ensure I didn’t make some other side effect.

  23. 23.

    Alain the site fixer

    @D58826: yea, I just saw that. One was working, I tried to fix the missing down arrow and it messed both up, so I undid and now? Wtf.

    But I’m tired and my eyes are spent and I am making dinner. I’ll try to get back upstairs to my office and fix tonight but it might not be until the morning as I need some time away from the computer screen.

    Sorry for the pain in the ass folks.

  24. 24.

    Aleta

    Thanks Alain. I’ve noticed some nice changes the last few weeks (?); sorry I didn’t mention it before. I’d enjoy reading a lot more of your writing some time ….

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Chris T.:

    It’s a matter of which leg you see as extended. The actual image is flat and arranged such that you can pick either leg: there’s not enough butt angle, or whatever, to force you to pick one or the other. Once you pick one your brain generally sticks with it as being “that one”. (Mine does not, especially if there is timing jitter in the video.)

    What happens with me is, I see her spinning counterclockwise and she keeps spinning counterclockwise until I blink, then she is spinning clockwise and keeps spinning clockwise until I blink again, then counterclockwise and so on usw etc. So I think during the brief “blink time,” my brain does something to undo whatever it was processing previously. But I don’t really understand.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Alain the site fixer:

    I’ll try to get back upstairs to my office and fix tonight but it might not be until the morning as I need some time away from the computer screen.

    No worries. My fingers can use the workout. “Five six seven eight, and SCROLL! And SCROLL! And DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN, and SCROLL!”

  27. 27.

    Jay S

    Alain, I am getting a warning in my Chrome address bar. It shows a shield icon that displays “This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources.” when clicked on.

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Lazy person’s work-around: Click “Reply” on a message—​any message—​to get to the comment box, then erase the “replying to” cruft and—voilà—​you’re at the bottom of the thread.

  30. 30.

    nastybrutishntall

    I started with clockwise, couldn’t get it to turn. then realized when I look at the lower left hand corner below the video, it turns counter-clockwise, lower right = clockwise.

  31. 31.

    Fbjakes

    Fromr paige text got smaller. Why? Hard on a tablet and the mobile app won’t and large. Plus I want to read the whole thing, not just click on a blurb I don’t want to have to give up BJ!!!

  32. 32.

    Alain the site fixer

    Ill fix this tomorrow, I’m shutting off pc and going to sleep. Not sure what issue you’re hitting, but I shall look tomorrow morning.

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