Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

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Site Update: Good News

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I promised an update before tomorrow, and there’s some good news.

Here’s the site update thread from Sunday, if you want more details.

WordPress Search plugin – Yay!

The new code for the Search plugin was installed late this afternoon, and the site is being indexed as we speak.  The graph of Search plugin activity – before and after the new code was installed – is like night and day.  In a good way.  So I believe that one is resolved.  Happy dance.

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The Custom Twitter Feed plugin – Boo!

I gave you a heads up that I would need to turn on this trouble-making plugin on at some point for the plugin developers to see the problem in action.  I turned it on today for them as requested, and we lived with the site slowness for most of the day, and they never f-ing looked at it.

We’ll get it figured out.  But that plugin will stay off until next week.  In case you missed the thread yesterday, that’s why you don’t see John’s twitter feed in the sidebar.

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Impossibly slow site loading on some older iPads, sometimes – Better?  Or not?

My suspicion was that the WordPress search plugin issue was affecting iPads, particularly older iPads, more than other devices.

Now that the new code for the search plugin is in, we should know right away whether the two issues were related.  I know I can count on you to let me know either way, right?

If it’s not resolved, I’ll be in contact with the folks who offered to help with testing. NEXT WEEK.

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Ads turned off until Thursday!

John has graciously agreed to turn off all the ads until Thursday.  So we get to be ad-free until then!

Open thread.

 

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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    But- but- how else will folks without ad blockers learn of the heartbreak of toenail fungus?

    //

  7. 7.

    Auntie Anne

    Thank you for all you do, WaterGirl.  And John, thank you for turning off the ads temporarily

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    Love that the ads are turned off, I’ve been getting Republican ads like crazy on my phone, including advice from Pete Fucking Wilson about keeping Uber and Lyft drivers free from those pesky benefits like sick pay and healthcare.

  9. 9.

    Ohio Mom

    First time it’s loaded immediately since I could remember — iphone 7.

    It was loading so slowly I was opening BJ and then going off to another site to while away the time. So huge improvement.

    Whew! Hooray! Thanks!

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    Forgot about the time change and flipped over to MSNBC to see if Maddow had moved past a 45 minute introduction to a story and got (ugh) Chris Hayes.

    Luckily the return to last channel button is in a convenient place on the ol’ remote.

  20. 20.

    jl

    ” John has graciously agreed to turn off all the ads until Thursday. ”

    This blog has paid for itself already? I did not know that.

  23. 23.

    N M

    Thx WaterGirl.  What would the ‘take’ be through Wednesday?  Perhaps some of us not tapped out from the campaigns can hit the tip jar.

  27. 27.

    Roger Moore

    @N M:

    Perhaps some of us not tapped out from the campaigns can hit the tip jar.

    I don’t know about you, but I have a recurring monthly donation. It makes me feel less guilty about using an ad blocker.

  32. 32.

    Mike J

    It always amuses me when people say “6 million comments!  How could a computational device ever handle such loads!?!” Back in ye oldene dayes we knew how to optimize. Now nobody bothers until they have to.  Now they spend their time water skiing and collecting stamps instead of optimizing indicies.

  33. 33.

    Mousebumples

    Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) tweeted at 8:25 PM on Mon, Nov 02, 2020:

    Message for anti-Trump Texans who may still be undecided on your race? Cornyn says straight-ticket voting is gone, so voters will have to evaluate individual contests, but “obviously my preference would be people come down the ballot and vote Republican the whole ballot.”

    (https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1323451126398767105?s=03)

    What kind of internals is Cornyn seeing? I figured our chances of beating him were similar to beating Mitch.

    Dare to dream, but I might need to stock up on popcorn. Schadenfreude moments ahead?

  37. 37.

    J R in WV

    It is loading faster.

    I’ve been seeing the Text-Only comment tool a whole lot lately. Sad!

    I have always hated it, even tho I know HTML pretty well. A tool from 2003…

  38. 38.

    cain

    water girl has already approved all of you sending pet pics to her to post during the election day. Please mail watergirl at mconnnellfuckingsucks.com

  41. 41.

    Mary G

    Anxiety index: the entire Ben and Jerry’s freezer at the grocery store is empty. pic.twitter.com/yA33OxD0Ix— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 3, 2020

     

    Also, to WaterGirl: I managed to take one mediocre photo of one cat and may have managed to upload to your dropbox. If it’s the black cat it’s Chenille, if it’s the grey one it’s Shiloh. All my tech is misbehaving, and I’ve trying to get this done all day between phone banking and fending off nine zillion texts from campaigns asking for more money. I finally figured out that I can text back stop. Feel free to not use the photo (if it’s Shiloh, it’s the same one as last year), and I will try to get a camera that wasn’t manufactured in 2008 and take photos for next year.

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    Cool.  Thanks WaterGirl.

    And we can manually check Cole’s Twitter for his yelling about the Rethuglicans, etc. :)

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G:  If you want to take photos with your camera, if you send me an email message I can give you my cell number and you can send them by email from your cell.

    Even if they aren’t the best photos ever, at least they get to be in the calendar!  :-)

  50. 50.

    Yarrow

    @Mousebumples:

    What kind of internals is Cornyn seeing?

    Not good ones. I mean for him/Republicans in general. I’ve said it before, but when the TX Supreme Court Chief Justice has to run ads telling people to vote for him “and all Republican justices on the Supreme Court” things are looking bleak for them.

  52. 52.

    Yarrow

    @Mary G:  I’m worried about his. I’m going shopping tomorrow and Ben & Jerry’s was on my list. I don’t have enough in my freezer.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    It must be time for me to go to bed.  It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is almost here.  My most fervent prayer to the universe: please let it go well.

  58. 58.

    frosty

    @WaterGirl: I’ll second that! And while we’re on the subject I’ve been seeing a lot of new rotating tags in the last week or so. Thanks for that too!

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    This is annoying.  Even Booman does it:

    How to Tell if Trump is Going to Win Pennsylvania

    Four years ago, Hillary Clinton lost the Keystone State by a mere 44,000 votes. Could Biden suffer the same fate?

    Why can’t it be framed this way: How to Tell if BIDEN Is Going To Win Pennsylvania

    and the reference to Hillary Clinton and whether Biden could “suffer the same fate” just makes me want to smack Booman.

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    @Yarrow: I think I’ll put up an election night desserts and indulgences thread tomorrow night.  People can come up for air in that thread when they can’t take the stress of the political ones.

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