Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

T R E 4 5 O N

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

He really is that stupid.

The revolution will be supervised.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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(This is a re-post from Saturday evening for those who may have missed it)

Folks,

Our hosting company, Hosting Matters, is in reach of Irma. So lines or power could go down and so could this site. They have generators, backups, all kinds of great and groovy stufff, but shit happens.

Luckily, we have a test server. Right now, it’s configured for test usage, not live site usage. So please don’t go there to check it out. But, should the main site go down, I will upgrade the memory and processers so you can use it instead. It is hosted far away from Irma (or José, for that matter!)

Even after memory and CPU upgrades, it will be much less powerful then the main server, but it will work to keep the community going.

Please consider the site a resource to help get through Irma, and whatever cruel twist of fate José might offer.

Your normal nyms should work, and it should work and look like the main site but there may be twitches – it’s a development, testing, and staging site.

The site is at https://test.balloon-juice.com

I will repost this post over the next day or so, stopping when the threat to the main site has passed.

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  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    I presume you’ll give us a heads-up if you have to cut over? Thanks for the yeoman work you do to keep the joint running.

  7. 7.

    Mark B

    What’s the URL to the test server, or do you just plan to change the DNS entry if the main site goes down?

    EDIT: Duh, never mind. I can’t read.

  8. 8.

    Alain the site fixer

    @Amir Khalid: not really – if this site is down, try the test server, I won’t be able to alter DNS entries so that’s why I wanted to post this, so write it down!

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    Schlemazel

    I want to echo all the kudos to you, not just because you do all of this work but because you also have to put up with the whining and bitching when everything is not just “perfect”*

    *
    perfect is a fungible term to mean “what I want when I want the way I want as quickly as I want

  12. 12.

    Alain the site fixer

    Thanks to all, hopefully we won’t need to use the test site. I pushed back some work I was planning until after the storm(s) pass, in case the test site is necessary

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    Adam L Silverman

    There is only one guy at the Pinellas County Emergency Operations update wearing a ball cap. This is an improvement.

    Though it’s the Fire Chief St. Pete Mayor, his hair is close cropped, so just take the damn thing off you’re not going to have hat hair.

  18. 18.

    ThresherK

    Thank you for the preparation, Alain. As in governance, I want my internets to be something that functions, boringly, because people who bother themselves with details have the authority and resources to do so.

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    The meteorologists on WFLA Storm Team 8 are now giddily celebrating that Itma’s track has now shifted back east a bit and will make landfall between Naples and Northport.

    They’re celebrating that death and destruction will be rained down on someone else so that the Tampa Bay area has it easier.

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    FlyingToaster

    @Adam L Silverman: Given Irma’s diameter, it isn’t going to make much difference.

    The eastward shift means my mom’s house is definitely inside the cat-2 winds; she’s made it through cat 3 twice, but I’m terrified about the aftermath.

    From what I can piece together from the fplmaps page (and other providers), by tomorrow morning the entire state will be without electricity. No matter how many power crews you have on standby, this is catastrophic.

  26. 26.

    Schlemazel

    @Adam L Silverman:
    All TV weather bots are terrorists. It is their job to scare the shit out of you so you stay tuned for the next load of commercials. When the bad thing does actually happen it is their job to amplify the death and destruction so you stay tuned for more commercials.

    These are not good people

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    Schlemazel

    @FlyingToaster:
    There are a lot of very long days and night ahead for those folks doing the difficult job of restoring power. Of all the recovery workers they seem to get the least respect, we just expect them to get the lights back on now.

    Many weeks of drudge work for many people and months before anything like ‘normal’ is restored. I remember driving through Homestead a little over a year after Andrew and there were still huge piles of trash in the streets because there was no place to take it all to. Many houses were abandoned or gutted and half rebuilt. Unless you live it I guess it is easy to assume everything goes back to the way it was easily.

  31. 31.

    Miss Bianca

    @Cheryl Rofer: Oh, Betty and boxers et al. have had to evac? Been out of the loop this weekend and trying not to think about hurricanes, wildfires, or shitstorms at work. Last I knew BC and all were still stayed put, Adam et al. had just made it to shelter.

    Trust Betty Cracker to be able to make me laugh at a hurricane evacuation. : )

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