Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When we show up, we win.

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

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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

75% of people clapping liked the show!

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There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    The only problem I’ve had was peculiar to the last thread.  I couldn’t get into it for a few minutes.  Other threads ok.  No error message, the site just hung up.

  3. 3.

    Benw

    @Baud: same here. Tried to refresh last thread, got a failure error. Went back to front page and clicking through worked. Chrome on MacOS

  4. 4.

    Beldar

    After a long wait for a reload, got a 522 error. Tried again, same thing. Third time was a charm, though.

    Running Firefox in Ubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo T440p.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    No problems today* on Balloon Juice, but last night for about 10-15 minutes, every time I tried to refresh the page, I got a pop-up saying ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SUBMIT THIS FORM? I did a screen grab but didn’t bother to send it to you, as the problem solved itself.

    Safari, iPhone 8-plus.

    *Yeah, no BJ problems today, but I haven’t been able to get in to my online banking all morning. Guess I’m not the only person trying to find out if my Biden Bucks have arrived yet.

  10. 10.

    AndyG

    No particular problems today, but the site still takes ages to load on an iPad/Safari. Sorry…

  11. 11.

    Benw

    @WaterGirl: futzed around with the site on Safari for a minute. Some of the ads taking longer to load than Chrome, but no errors either with the links or side arrows

  12. 12.

    prostratedragon

    Lot of 522 errors on firefox/opensuse,  where it’s also been slow lately.  Seems fine on this android phone though.

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    I haven’t noticed any issue today, but did get a “looks like this is a duplicate comment” error yesterday, I think, on replying to something downstairs. I haven’t seen one of those in a while, but I have seen others mention it.

    Was probably Chrome with uBlock Origin on Win10, but might have been Chrome (with uBO) on MacOS or possibly Brave on Andriod.

    Sorry that this isn’t more specific. Thanks for continuing to try to keep the gerbils in their wheel.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  14. 14.

    Tony Jay

    I can’t open BJ on my iphone 7 running Safari. The page comes up, but before it fully loads I get a black page with ‘a problem repeatedly occurred’.

    But I can access it just fine on my work Android phone.

    Have you tried turning it off and on again? They say that throws off the cookie monsters Alan Ginsberg uses to spy on everyone’s pron habits. I am not a crank!!

  15. 15.

    dr. luba

    I couldn’t get on with Safari on my laptop earlier today. Or with Microsoft Edge for Mac. But Firefox worked….until it didn’t.

    Now Safari is working.

    All on my laptop running OS 10.13

    Don’t know if any of this is helpful…….

  16. 16.

    jackmac

    Had a 522 error on Firefox running on a MacBook Air running Mac OS 11.2.3 Big Sur. But I was able to access site now, so I’m reporting problem as requested.

  17. 17.

    JohnC

    Connecting normally now, but mid-morning I kept seeing a long pause about 1/5 through the load progress bar, then a fancy Cloudflare error 522 message screen saying Cloudflare couldn’t establish connection with Balloon Juice. Safari 14.0.3, Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7

  18. 18.

    Pharniel

    Intermittant 522 errors – Firefox has a handy little diagram saying my computer & provider was OK but that the server did not respond.
    Reloaded 3 times, still failed, waited 10 minutes and the site responded.

    Repeated in Chrome.
    Comcast, Windows 10, FireFox 86.0.1 (64-bit)

  19. 19.

    A Good Woman

    One Plus 6T smartphone on TMobile network, running Android OS, Chrome browser. Got 522 error, refreshed screen and reached BJ just now

  20. 20.

    eddie blake

    problems all morning on iphone, using safari. page kept reloading over and over again. running smoothly on chrome with win 10 on laptop.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    Cloudflare has reported issues in the Northwest (USA) and now Europe.  They aren’t saying anything more geographically relevant than that, but at this point I can’t imagine that it’s not Cloudflare since the issues are the same. ?‍♀️

  22. 22.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    This might be the same as the recurring issue I have on the mobile site. The front page loads OK, but there are times when attempting to open any article leads to a “something went wrong” error, preventing me from seeing or making any comments.

    I’m not getting it at the moment so I can’t recall the exact wording, but I don’t think that I get an error code like 522.

    This is on Safari on an iPhone 8 running iOS 14.3.

  23. 23.

    tarragon

    All machines on the same network test in the last 5 minutes

    Mac 10.15.7 – Safari 14.0.3 gets 522 error

    Same Mac – firefox 86.01 no error

    Win 10 – firefox 86.0 no error

    iphone no error

  24. 24.

    scribbler

    Got multiple 522 errors on Firefox (running on a MacBook Air running Mac OS 10.15.7) over the last 10 minutes but just got in.

  25. 25.

    Alex

    iPhone 7 14.4, Safari “a problem repeatedly occurred” after it kept reloading a bunch of times. Went to leave this comment using my Windows machine with Firefox 86.0, can’t get any cursor in the comment box :)

  27. 27.

    Ruckus

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I think I am going to stop checking, it’s just reminding me that I didn’t get the $600 payment either and have to wait for my tax refund, which might get here this year.

  28. 28.

    jnfr

    For a few days now the comment form is frozen until I reload the page. Then it works normally.

    If  I try to reply the form that opens is also frozen, won’t load a cursor or reply link. If I refresh the page it works normally.

    Firefox on Windows 10 desktop.

  30. 30.

    invisibot

    @WaterGirl: Network solutions DNS services were down over night. Might be the reason why. I tried to post this earlier but  my comments seem to always be rejected. I’m trying one more time.

  32. 32.

    Rob

    @Rob: ​
    Seems to work, as long as I acknowledge posting in Text instead of Visual sometimes

    eta: very latest Firefox on a 2020 MacBook Pro

  34. 34.

    Kristine

    Mid-2013 MacBook Air, Safari 14.0.3.

    Site wouldn’t load for a period of time this morning (IIRC 7ish CST) and a few minutes ago, maybe 630-645. I did get the 522 Error during one attempt.

  35. 35.

    tom

    Apple MacBook Pro, 13″, Apple chip, running Big Sur.

    On Firefox, 86.0.1, I get the 522 error.
    On the same device, with Safari 14.0.3, it works just fine

    ETA: same time as this was posted (using Safari, obvs.)

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