Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

People are weird.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    Only one thing. When I switch to the code pane and post a Blue sky embed, I can’t switch back to the visual pane.

    Thank you for working through everything else.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud:

    Only one thing. When I switch to the code pane and post a Blue sky embed, I can’t switch back to the visual pane.

    Interesting.  And weird.  But interesting.  thanks.

  11. 11.

    pat

    I can’t eat onion or jalapeno and mr. pat doesn’t like zucchini.

    What else ya got??

  14. 14.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    @WaterGirl:

    [Baud] Are you referring to me or the comment box glitch?

    Talk about a straight line! I thought that was my job.

  15. 15.

    mapaghimagsik

    I read comments, refreshed with the refresh link and got a redis error. Haven’t been able to reproduce it, though

  16. 16.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    @WaterGirl: a glitch: on my Android phone, switching to “visual” (comment I just wrote) it still showed [ahem] code. Posted, it came out OK.

    ETA, same symptom when I tried editing comment. Switch to code, see tags, back to visual, still tags, not formatted.

    Need I add, this used to work.

  18. 18.

    Eolirin

    Really appreciate all the hard work you put into keeping this place from halting and catching fire.

  22. 22.

    No One of Consequence

    Thank you for your work WaterGirl. We all appreciate your efforts.
    -NOoC

  25. 25.

    Suzanne

    Is there a way we can blame this on Bernie Sanders?! (I kid, I kid.)

    All looks well to me on my tablet. Thank you for your efforts.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    This talk of stir fry makes me think one thing – Bury me in water chestnuts!

  28. 28.

    mapaghimagsik

    Just reproduced it now:

    This is the refresh at the top of the page. I clicked 3 times, and the third locked. Still intermittent, though.

  35. 35.

    JanieM

    @WaterGirl: Have gotten it twice tonight, once a few minutes ago, once a couple of hours ago. Sent you a screenshot and the circumstances.

  37. 37.

    Professor Bigfoot

    FIRST— THANK YOU, WG— I’ve been imagining you tearing your hair out over the recent unpleasantness; and looks like everything ‘s back up and running again as it oughta be. Thank you.

    Mrs. B had a sudden bout of upset stomach and I don’t cook for me (I ain’t worth the hassle of prep, cook, clean) so my planned dinner of grilled chicken and roasted asparagus was overtaken by a sandwich and a Stella.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    Got as redis error (a first for me) when clicked Post Comment for #23 above. Clicked the back arrow in my browser and discovered the comment had posted just as it normally would have.

    Win 10, Firefox, javascript disabled.

  40. 40.

    pat

    Cut up a few mushrooms, saute in olive oil for a few minutes until soft, add some corn cut from fresh cobs, saute a few minutes, maybe add some pea pods cut into pieces, finally throw in some cream, cook for a few minutes till it bubbles, maybe finish off with some finely grated parmesan cheese.

    Goes with everything.  Add spices as desired, all I add is a bit of salt and pepper.

  42. 42.

    ruckus

    Seems normal. In US Navy normal sailor speak “Situation normal, all fucked up”

    That doesn’t mean humanity is in any way not working, just that in my USN days, the everything is OK days seemed to be few and far between. It was during a not insignificant war, and someone somewhere was always screwing the pooch. Many of us seemed to not want to be there, wherever there was. Now on the other hand, I got to walk on Antarctica, the very northern tip of Norway, many stops in the middle, several stops at Guantanamo Bay, Gibraltar, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Malta, Cape Town – South Africa and many more.

  44. 44.

    Another Scott

    Thanks for fixing the weirdness!

    There is one remaining, long-time, issue that I notice- the rotating tag display (under “Balloon Juice” in the blue page header).  On Chrome-based browsers (Chromium on Linux, Chrome on Winders, Brave on Android), the rotating tag text appears for a split second when the page paints, then disappears (and isn’t seen again until the user does a refresh (and only appears for a split-second again)).

    Rotating tags still display fine on Firefox (on Linux and Winders).

    Thanks for all you do.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  45. 45.

    frosty

    Unrelated to the late wonkiness. I get either Visual or Code/Text when I go to make a comment and it seems to be random. I much prefer Visual. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there something I can do to fix it?

  47. 47.

    Ohio Mom

    I’m no longer having trouble opening up Balloon Juice, I’m hope I’m not jinxing things with that comment.

    Much appreciation and gratitude to you, WaterGirl, for getting things back on track.

  48. 48.

    Jackie

    Watching CNN, and Murkowsky, while still a Republican, said most of her party is now MAGA, and she’s feeling more and more like an outsider – especially with all the Epstein BS. Hopefully this will push her to switch to Independent and feel free to caucus with the Dems more often than not. Baby steps…  She also suggested she’s not alone.

  49. 49.

    Librarian

    I haven’t noticed anything except recently, photos and tweets are taking longer to load, but it could be my computer.

  51. 51.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Jackie:

    I call bullshit on her. She’s a fraud and she will continue to vote with the Rs on every matter of any significance.

    The Rs have been MAGA since November 2016. Doesn’t she remember that she needed Democratic voters to list her as their second choice in order to retain her seat against the MAGA that Trump ran against her?

  52. 52.

    Martin

    @Jackie: They won’t switch. It’s not like the Democratic Party is about to take them in, so they’d be hanging in the political wind either way.

  53. 53.

    Martin

    Just got a redid error on the last post:

    Error establishing a Redis connection
    To disable Redis, delete the object-cache.php file in the /wp-content/ directory.

  55. 55.

    WTFGhost

    Wonky? Well A. Gloop got sucked into the chocolate intake valves, but thankfully, separation and sanitation guards fell into place and only a *minimal* amount of chocolate was damaged. Oh, yes, and Gloop got home safely.

    Violet Beauregarde was turned into a giant blueberry, but successfully and (semi)safely juiced, Veruca Salt made the terrible mistake of being judged a good egg or a bad one, and, well…. But Mike Teevee is hoping for a career as a one-dimensional secret agent, or a basketball sar.

    So, a pretty normal day, I’d say.

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