Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Let there be snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Accountability, motherfuckers.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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Test Drive Open Thread: Vertical Gardens

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I decided I should test out the new place.

This is one of my favorite stories. In Mexico City Architect Fernando Ortiz Monasterio decided to change the world, one pillar at a time.

Something good open thread (categories are kinda cluster right now, so I’m ignoring them until things calm down and they get to fixing them).

Play nice, I’m off to walk the pups and then get to work.

 

(hmmm…well that’s some interesting formatting, let’s see if I can fix it fix’d.)

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  8. 8.

    jeffreyw

    I have managed to find chrome settings that get the side nav tabs to remain out oi the way.  Some kind of screen size scaling issue.  I’m in chrome at 90% zoom with zoom text only extension set to 120% – using big ass TV as a monitor.  If I drag the tab to my monitor neat my chair when I want to watch a video on the TV all those settings have to be changed manually.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    New site: Shortest. Honeymoon. Ever.

    ;)

    Have noticed it is acting very wonky if commenting on an existing thread when a fresh front page post has simultaneously newly appeared. The appearance of the right-hand fly-out tab seems to reset the page so one is transported to to the top rather than to where one’s just published comment is.

  15. 15.

    germy

    On May 18, 1973 — the day after the first public Watergate hearings — the press wasn’t wowed either. Here’s just one example, from The (NY) Daily News. But they knew the hearings were going places, as we all should realize today.

     

  17. 17.

    Another Scott

    Great idea on the plantings. Thanks.

    On the continuing commenting issues, could we get an update on what the code wranglers are doing, if anything? I feel guilty, myself, about continuing to note issues when I post test comments. Should we have a daily testing-only thread where we can relate our issues, or is it just noise at this point? Should we just use the “SITE FEEDBACK” button at the top right (on the desktop)?

    It’s hard to know how much complaining we (or I at least) should be doing to try to make sure that issues are noted and with any luck addressed.

    Thanks very much.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  23. 23.

    chris

    Two tabs open and my nym and email is still on the last post from MR Mix. Since last night! Woohoo!

    Click on this one and it’s gone. Boo! (Maybe a 12 (ish) hour hold?)

  24. 24.

    Another Scott

    I could yesterday, and can in this reply, but not in the reply at 20.  It was weird.  Just a bare box – no tabs.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    [eta] This is for germy at #22.  I forgot the trick to get the “@germy” again, also too.

    Cheers,

    Scott.

  30. 30.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    But do have to hit the refresh button once to see my comment.  However, my nym is sticky.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    @BeautifulPlumage:

    I wouldn’t want to personally profit from the Office of the Presidency. That would be wrong.

    ETA: new site doesn’t work with Google android keyboard when it comes to autocorrect and a few other things.

  32. 32.

    Spanky

    @jeffreyw:

    @jeffreyw: <blockquote>Lurking works great!</blockquote>

    My vote for a new rotating tag.

    ETA: Hey! I see my comment as soon as I hit Enter! What happened?

    ETA2: What’s going on with my blockquoting?

  33. 33.

    The Moar You Know

    Drove right by those a few months back. The “concrete wall garden” is something you can find in many of the tonier parts of Mexico City, and I’d like to see a lot of them here.

  38. 38.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    I’d love to see them do that in Toronto. We have the Gardiner, which is an elevated but decaying expressway through downtown along the waterfront. They are doing some things to make it less ugly but something like this should be reasonably cheap and would be better than a lot of the murals they’ve put in elsewhere.

    They could also put murals above them

    Edit: Hey, you can edit comments! Nice. (If this works.

    Update: Twice!

    Breaking: That was weird. The second update looked like it had deleted my edits (and nuked my ability to edit further), but opening the page in a new browser window shows it hadn’t

    Update 4: Maybe that was the site. Editing does seem to reset the edit timer. Which is good.

  39. 39.

    Spanky

    ETA2: What’s going on with my blockquoting?

     

    Well now the edit buttons done showed up. Will wonders never cease?

    Just a random glitch indeed.

  41. 41.

    JWR

    Earlier this morning, Tony Jay was having trouble getting the @nym thing in a reply. For me, I can at times open the Reply comment box, close it, then open it again, but if that works, I get a duplicate @nym @nym, which is easily fixed, but a bit of a pain.

    And now, no style buttons at all. Oh well, all things must pass. Eventually. I hope. ;)

  42. 42.

    NeenerNeener

    Laughing at Nancy Smash explaining “exculpatory” to Mr. President, in case he’s watching her press conference.

  43. 43.

    Spanky

    I’d love to see them do that in Toronto. We have the Gardiner, which is an elevated but decaying expressway through downtown along the waterfront.

     

    And call it The Gardener.

  44. 44.

    schrodingers_cat

    Fathima Latheef, dead at 19 at IIT-Madras. She hung herself like Payal Tadvi did just months ago. Indian elite institutions are not hospitable to minorities and lower caste people. But casteism is dead amirite?

    ETA: She has named 3 professors in her suicide note. AFAIK at least two of them are Brahmin names. She was an A student. They didn’t like that woman, a Muslim and lower caste one at that was topping every exam.

  47. 47.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @schrodingers_cat: That’s so sad. People have no idea how damaging relentless harassment and persecution can be, especially to women with limited resources to protect themselves. May she RIP and may justice be done.

     

  53. 53.

    J R in WV

    @Baud:

     

    I used the Site Feedback twice yesterday, got the emails back. Was pretty busy, also today. Have remarked in comments about issues, more than actually participating in the actual subject topic of the post or comments, so far.

     

    Agree that the text could use up more of the space, and that the side tabs need to be transparent, or for the formatting to be adjusted so that the tabs don’t overlay the text, which is very annoying.

     

    I got the Baud nym with link by replying twice, closing ths comment box in between… which is an ugly kludge but better than not being able to comment.

     

  57. 57.

    StringOnAStick

    Ah, an open thread so I can talk about a cool family history thing I just learned.  It all goes back to a smoking table (two large brass platters held up by a black wooden stand with carved dragon heads holding the upper platter in their mouths); I can’t remember it ever not being in my parents home from my earliest memories.  The stand is fairly delicate and my late mom stumbled into it 8 years ago, breaking it so she gave it to me to keep since she thought I might be able to fix it.  It has sat in our basement ever since, but 2 weeks ago I decided to polish up the brass and had forgotten just how beautiful all the etchings were; I figured it was permanently stained but it wasn’t.

    So I asked my dad about the history of it and found out my grandfather had bought it in China in 1922 when he was assigned a boat (he was a Navy Captain) to patrol the Yangtze for “pirates and Chinese communists” according to the orders that my dad remembers seeing. Unfortunately his mom trashed all the orders when her husband didn’t make Admiral and she was pissed about it.  I had thought it was from the 1950’s but as I cleaned it I kept thinking it appeared to be older than that so I’m glad I asked.  The stand is now at an antique restoration workshop and if Antiques Roadshow ever comes to Denver, I’m definitely taking this in for assessment.  For added fun, I have several pirate songs in my repertoire, so that’s an interesting connection.

  59. 59.

    satby

    @StringOnAStick: fantastic story!

     

    got a reply to nym on the first click. And everyone make sure your comment box is set to visual instead of text. The text version is an add on to placate the people who prefer to code their own html (why?!?) and the visual comment tab seems much more functional.

     

  60. 60.

    StringOnAStick

    Once it’s repaired I would be happy to do so!  I’m pretty excited about the whole project.  I think the stand will be repaired and back in my hands in about 2 weeks.

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