Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The revolution will be supervised.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

I was promised a recession.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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Folks,

The contact form is offline and shall not return, but do not fret, we’ve still got balloon-juice.com email addresses you can use. We just don’t like to publish them in machine-readable format to reduce the bots harvesting them, then harassing us.

I copied these instructions from Watergirl’s post last evening:

Quick note: I have mentioned several times that we are changing the method for contacting a front pager, but in case anyone has missed it, I wanted to call attention to it in the title.

You can reach any front pager by email simply by addressing email to their nym at balloon-juice.com.  If their nym has is made up of multiple words, you put a dash in place of the space.  If the front pager is Humpty Dumpty, you would send email to Humpty-Dumpty at balloon-juice.com; and yes, sending email to humpty-dumpty at balloon-juice.com also works.

This system has been in place for at least a couple of months now, but the Contact a Front Pager form is being taken down tonight, so please start using the new method now.

Since some folks may have missed that post last night, I wanted to ensure that the announcement had maximum exposure.

 

Open thread, I’m not around, just wanted to post this and now, back to packing.

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  3. 3.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    First Fortnite, then this?!!

    Haha – I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if Balloon Juice went down for days…

  4. 4.

    Alain

    @rikyrah: I will be posting on making grape jelly in a few days, the one non-moving fun I had last week was going to an orchard, getting my grapes, then juicing them and making jelly. Since this is for gifts as well as a 2 year personal stash, I made a ton!

    And thanks for saying that, I miss being here often as well. Like I’d projected, my time and attention won’t free up much before early November. I do plan to post a bit more once I get past late next week.

  9. 9.

    Fred Fnord

    Just save yourself a lot of work and put an image of the contact info in the sidebar. Maybe with a hand-drawn distinctive at-sign, like a spiral or something.

    Yes, there are OCR bots. They are few and far between and not terribly good.

  10. 10.

    Alain

    @Fred Fnord: all you need to do is use parts of that graphic as a
    CAPTCHA and humans will happily type the text, accurately, if given the chance to view porn or what-have-you. So bots not really needed except to scrape the graphic and feed it to a site.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @MisterForkbeard: I am saving that one to look at again during rollout, when it’s certain that someone will hate some new thing we did, thinking that everyone would love it.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax: I am already guessing that you will not be the biggest fan of the new site. But as my Dad always used to say: “that’s what makes the world go round”.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Now, now. I intend to go into it with an unbiased eye*, treating it as if B-J is a brand new entity, avoiding “but on the old site!” kvetching if at all possible. Major concerns shall be on the lookout for are:

    1) Elements which don’t function as advertised, do so inconsistently or negatively impact navigation.
    2) Accessibility and legibility issues.
    3) Intuitiveness or lack thereof of the interface.
    4) Extraneous, obsolete or needlessly repetitive elements; also visual clutter.
    5) Weaknesses in or outright broken elements which are brought to light by fiddling with browser settings.
    6) Anything which may require more than the minimum number of clicks necessary to perform.

    *Can’t speak for the status of the other eye. ;)

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax: Seems like a pretty good list, and #6 is my pet peeve. Not that you asked my opinion. :-)

    Not sure what you mean by this one, though, and I would love to know: Extraneous, obsolete or needlessly repetitive elements. I mean, I obviously know what all those words mean but I don’t immediately get how that might relate to a website. thanks.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Things like the link on every front page comment to Google+ (which no longer exists) on the current site, differently worded or displayed items which lead to the same thing, etc.

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