Our New Look

We’re trying out a new comment system that’s more up to date and less creaky than what we were using. Our favorite tools, such as image uploading and editing are still available, but different.

For uploading see the icon on the bottom right of the comment box…

This system allows editing of your comments without a time limit. It pops up when you hover your cursor over the bottom right corner of the posted comment.

Deleting your comment is different. At the beginning of comments at the top of the page to the right of the number of comments there’s an icon for “My comment and settings”. Click that and you’ll your see recent comments listed in case you want to delete any.

The floating green button on the left is where you can click to add your comment wherever you are on the page (it also displays the number of comments).

The features aren’t as intuitive as I’d like but this seems to be a more smoothly operating comment platform than the collection of outdated tools I had cobbled together.

Please add your thoughts, questions, suggestions in comments. Happy Trails!

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

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patd
1 month ago

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Attribution: Not the Same Old Dumpster Fire by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

too much of a reach? meant to be metaphoric of learning how to use the new comment procedures.

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patd
1 month ago

more testing to see if I’ve got the hang of this. here’s Horsey’s ‘toon and op ed 1/3/25

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for longer than usual op ed click here:
Curiouser and curiouser | The Seattle Times

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Pogo
1 month ago

Be interesting to mess around with this. I see I still can’t post an image from my phone. Rats – have to figure out how to reduce the size to 2Mb.

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Anonymous
1 month ago

i see what you did there

…one day, a troll will
come and wreak havoc, it’s why we can’t have nice things 😭

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patd
1 month ago

pogo,
iced or snowed in? or both?

Pogo
1 month ago

Anyone have a recommendation for a free access photo editor that allows compression of the size of a photo? The ones I’m seeing are $12/mo to $5/week, and my photos aren’t THAT interesting.

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Sturgeone
1 month ago

Pogo what’s the weather in your knack of the woods Thursday and Friday? ((Axing for an amigo))

Jamie
1 month ago

Meta (Facebook) goes farther along the Trump rump smooching road.

News Alert: Meta gets rid of fact checkers and makes other major changes to moderation policies

Meta will be making major changes to its content moderation policy on Facebook and Instagram, getting rid of fact checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community notes,” similar to Elon Musk’s X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday.

Meta’s newly appointed Chief of Global Affairs Joel Kaplan told Fox on Tuesday that Meta’s partnerships with third-party fact checkers were “well intentioned at the outset but there’s just been too much political bias in what they choose to fact check and how.”

The announcement comes amid a broader apparent ideological shift to the right within Meta’s top ranks, and as Zuckerberg seeks to improve his relationship with Trump before the president-elect takes office later this month.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

At least I can still work the delete button.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

“Input is too short.”

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IvyGreen
1 month ago

”Input is too short.”

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IvyGreen
1 month ago

It tells me “input is too short” but if I type in those words it posts.

Sturgeone
1 month ago

Ms Liz biz

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IvyGreen
1 month ago

Back in the dog house

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Blue Bronc
1 month ago

I am a community note contributor on twit. Most of the time it is trying to kill magat cn swarm designed to overwhelm a Dem post. Usually we are successful.

We use other names so we cannot be identified. Some idiots want to do damage to us when a bad cn is prevented from displaying.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER — Former President Carter will lie in state at the Capitol starting later today. A rundown of the schedule:

  • 2:15 p.m.: President Carter’s remains arrive at Joint Base Andrews and will travel by motorcade to the U.S. Navy Memorial in downtown Washington.
  • 3:30 p.m.: A horse-drawn caisson will carry Carter’s remains to the U.S. Capitol. Upon arrival, his casket will be carried into the Rotunda. (NYT’s Peter Baker reports that Carter “will be placed on the same catafalque that bore ABRAHAM LINCOLN after his assassination in 1865.”)
  • 4:30 p.m.: Members of Congress and other dignitaries will join the Carter family for a service in the Rotunda. VP KAMALA HARRIS, Speaker Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thune “are scheduled to deliver brief eulogies and lay wreaths near Carter’s casket,” per the Atlanta Journal Constitution
  • 7 p.m. – midnight: The public is invited to pay their respects.

Harris will eulogize former President JIMMY CARTER at 4:30 p.m. at the Capitol, after which she and second gentleman DOUG EMHOFF will present a wreath from the executive branch.


https://www.politico.com/playbook

Pogo
1 month ago

Sturg, I asked a friend 😉 who said it’s 30 degrees, cloudy and just about a foot on the ground. Sunday was a doozy. Snow all day and into Monday morning. Just about every government-related entity is closed today in most of the state. Roads are OK, though – prolly took me two or three minutes longer than usual to get into work. Let me listen to Sir Paul sing “I’m Down”, so all’s good. I spent an hour with a SunJoe (SnowJoe?) snow thrower clearing the 6’x30′ sidewalk in front of the office and the driveway entrance. So between home and here I’ve gotten to confirm that all my mechanized snow removal tools work.My thanks to Cub Cadet, SunJoe (or SnowJoe) and Gramma for giving me the Snow blower. If I could find a photo size reducer I’d post a pic or two.

pat, neither. We didn’t get ice (ice line was 20 miles south of here). Now if you were asking that of a government employee the answer might be different. How about your neck o’ the woods?

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Sturgeone
1 month ago

You tell lies thinking I can’t see
You can’t cry cause you’re laughing at me. I’m down.
I’m really down.

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IvyGreen
1 month ago

Checking for the YouTube trick.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

That was easy.

Pogo
1 month ago

That McCartney fella could write a song and sing it pretty good too. Prolly still can.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

Logging back in after being logged-out was not a problem.

Craig_alias
Craig_alias
1 month ago

Testing our guest access. Anyone not registered or logged in can comment. Captcha couldn’t be easier. Just include a name and click a checkmark into the “I’m not a robot” box. Email and website boxes can be left empty.

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Heck, even the name box can be left empty, and the platform just automatically says “Anonymous”

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RebelliousRenee
RebelliousRenee
1 month ago

today’s meme…

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IvyGreen
1 month ago

“Slicker than snot on a log.”

How the roads doin’ out there?

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Pogo
1 month ago

I may get the hang of most of the new features, but as far as photos go, I have to cry UNCLE!!

IvyGreen
1 month ago

Pogo, did you try putting the magic three words on your post? Any three will do.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

First Felon face on screen, his lips are moving but I have it on mute.

blueINdallas
1 month ago

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mark-zuckerberg-meta-trump-fact-checking-free-speech-1235227351/

“On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced in a video statement that Meta will be ending its fact-checking program in favor of a “Community Notes”-style approach to digital misinformation in an effort to combat “censorship” on its platforms. Community Notes, a user-powered fact-checking system implemented on X (formerly Twitter) after billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform, is itself deeply inconsistent and often riddled with misinformation.”

“Zuckerberg added on Tuesday that Meta would “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse,” and instead focusing content violation enforcement on removing so called “high-severity violations”

“The announcement came the day after Meta announced Trump-loving UFC honcho Dana White will join the company’s board of directors.”

*Orange Adolf is installing n@sis everywhere. He and his oligarchs are a cancer that will destroy the entire world.

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Pogo
1 month ago

Our back porch.

[pic would be here]

It just cogitates.
Eureka – it loaded, but reeeeaaalllly slowly.

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Blue Bronc
1 month ago

So many billionaires slithering up to the orange idiot makes me wonder what is going on in the less than one percenters. What communications are taking place, and, I wonder if there is blackmail involved. We do know some are on the manifest to epsteins rape children flights, so that is obvious. Other would be from putties russia.

But all these dirty oligarchs, with complicit media, are ignoring that the guy is out of his mind. Perhaps they are counting on nobody realizing what they are seeing. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Some day, some point in time, reality has to hit.

He has no reality to touch anymore. Invade Canada, Mexico and for some reason, Greenland. Yeah, I am all for it. I would like to have a couple more Caribbean islands, and perhaps Australia.

It is when the bubble pops that I am curious about. Will there be a reversal to a prior year or decade;; pretend all this never happened? There is no good way to cover up being in a cult and wasting lives and trillions of dollars.

Twenty-fifth Amendment or just natural causes? Perhaps a staff member helps him down the stairs, or a real sniper takes the shot. He is already beyond mental help, must be like a smashed cantelope inside that stupid cranium.

Yes, all that above is one thing, I am cognizant that the billionaires take advantage of the people who are just as smart as stupid is.They and their staff fleece those with limited defenses, and sfb is a great example of a “like smart genius”.

Pogo
1 month ago

Yep, poobah. Emailed it to myself and pulled it out of the Pics file in Word. I apparently need to learn patience (like that’s going to happen at my age).

Pogo
1 month ago

I’ll try from my phone to test it.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

I like that we can flip newest comments to the top.

Pogo
1 month ago

Snowy stuff on cars. I need a garage I guess. (Works from my phone. Took about 30 seconds to download…patience)

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Pogo
1 month ago

Looks like Bezos has gone all in on the entire Dumbass empire.

Blue Bronc
1 month ago

Loonie the lunatic has gone full off the cliff. He announced HE will rename the Gulf of Mexico after himself Gulf of America. jeez this gets closer and closer to padded room time.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

It’s no longer necessary to pore over the book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer to recognize where we were in history because now we’re reliving it all day-by-day. 

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Pogo
1 month ago

Looks like I may need to go to YouTube U. to figure out how to do that – I don’t need photos as dense as the factory iPhone settings capture.

Blue Bronc
1 month ago

The renaming of National Airport was one of the most idiotic things to happen. Even my dear closest relative, a hard repub, refuses to call it the R word. What is interesting is I heard someone this morning not call it National, only the R word. Before it was both names. I hope it was a one off.

Blue Bronc
1 month ago

Craig – I made a comment to your comment, but I cannot see any linkage between the two.

blueINdallas
1 month ago

Can’t get into my car to try to start it. There’s ice in the frame and it won’t be above freezing until Friday…when we expect more snow.

As for Orange Adolf rebranding ‘Merikkka with his Anglicized name (tRUMP, not Drumpf), take heart that Don-Old won’t last forever and they will at the very least have the word Memorial in front of his cursed name…and some day they will be renamed, again.

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RebelliousRenee
1 month ago

Wow… Pogo…. that’s a lot of snow. Still think it’s weird we have none.

Jamie
1 month ago

BB. Always call it National. Count me among the diehards who refuse the R word, but fear we are a dying breed.

Jamie
1 month ago

Trying the picture feature

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Blue Bronc
1 month ago

Craig – i clicked on the little thing upper right corner that is “link comment”. You switched if off.

Jamie
1 month ago

Craig I hit reply but it was “reply” to the blue sky article that had been posted as part of the comment. No direct “reply” to the comments here. Just a bit of confusion.

Pogo
1 month ago

Renee,
That was our back porch last night. It’s the WNW facing side of the house and was protected from most wind during and following the storm. The snow on the deck is 11.5″ a couple feet from the table. It’s the first snow of that amount we’ve had in 2 years. I was just happy we didn’t lose power. Although we had a couple hours of VERY fine snowfall that made a kinda crusty layer, most of it was relatively light and not packed down, so as snow goes, was easy to deal with.

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Blue Bronc
1 month ago

The Navy Memorial.

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blueINdallas
1 month ago

Shouldn’t have listened to my brother. I opened my car door with water stuck in the frame and the gasket ripped off.

Can’t link pics, but I’ve got bigger fish to fry now.

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Blue Bronc
1 month ago

This is the Navy Memorial on Veterans Day 2010. They are placing a wreath at the Sailor to represent all Navy veterans. My grandfather and his brother were sailors.

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Pogo
1 month ago

Let’s see…does that work?

Apparently.

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Pogo
1 month ago

Here ya go, Poobah.

Pogo
1 month ago

Old friends, bookends…Me and TJ

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Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

you can get rtv silicone to fix that gasket, ideally one would cover a car before an ice storm, not always practical, don’t use hot water to thaw it

oh don’t start it if the tailpipe is blocked either

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Carter funeral a fitting metaphor for the End of American Liberalism

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

Gulf of Scorn

IvyGreen
1 month ago

Facebook fact-checking? I never noticed that happening.

Pogo
1 month ago

Yes, Poobah, that’s me and Tom discussing semantics of the document he’s written. We did that with some regularity- him and his King’s English with a French lilt – drove me nuts (that explains a lot I’m afraid). I’m old.

Jamie
1 month ago

Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary has passed away at 86.

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blueINdallas
1 month ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-fact-checking-hate-speech-meta-b2675311.html

Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

*Businesses should probably rethink those ads. It’s going to turn into a sausage fest on Meta platforms, unless your market demographic is misogynistic dipwads.

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Can’t listen to music on youtube now because it’s littered with graphic erection ads and i’m not exaggerating

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Anonymous
1 month ago

i think the net strategy should be go to conservative platforms and troll the shit out of them, they’re all unhinged, should be easy

Sturgeone
1 month ago

He’s just hollering a bunch of weird shit cause Jimmy Carter’s getting under his skin.

IvyGreen
1 month ago

All about the eggs

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blueINdallas
1 month ago

Ivy – He’ll use a Sharpie and spell it G-O-L-F

Sturg – Jimmy is definitely getting to him. Good!

The crap about using military or economic coercion to take over Greenland and Panama, though, is some disturbing sh/t.

Someone needs to do the world a solid and take care of the whole cadre of nasties.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

the whole “cheaper eggs” rationalization obscures the reality that no economic argument was going to get racist misogynists to vote for a woman of color running against an absurdist con-man

That is to say these people aren’t interested in reason, and phone culture isn’t making people smarter

Republicans won because they don’t underestimate American stupidity, when will Democrats stop overestimating American virtue?*

*the best point i can make, heed it or continue losing

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IvyGreen
1 month ago

More to be revealed

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