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aren’t as intuitive as I’d like but this seems to be a more smoothly operating comment platform than the collection of outdated tools I had cobbled together.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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  3. 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.

  4. i see what you did there

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

  6. 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.

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

  8. 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.

  15. Ivy, it requires at least 3 words in a post for some reason. That’s on my punch list to change.

  18. 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.

  19. 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

  21. 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?

  22. 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.

  27. MESSAGE TO LURKERS
    I’ve set up guest access for commenting without registering and logging in. Just add your thoughts and click the captcha box (name, email, website are optional).

  29. 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.

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

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

  35. Pogo, what error message if any are you getting with file uploads? I increased file size limit to 100 meg.

  37. 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.

  38. Trump’s girlfriend judge is at it again:

    A federal judge in Florida issued an order Tuesday blocking the Justice Department from releasing a final report on two criminal probes into President-elect Donald Trump’s conduct.The order from US District Judge Aileen Cannon prohibits public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Trump’s actions pending a final resolution of how to handle the matter from a federal appeals court.

  39. Our back porch.

    [pic would be here]

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

  40. 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”.

  42. 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).

  47. Yes Ivy i like that order option too. On our old platform I had to make that choice for everyone, but this one lets users choose. There are a lot more user-driven features on this platform.

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

  51. Yep, Pogo, smart phone photos are file hogs, take a while to upload, but they do look great. I actually changed my camera settings to lower resolution, smaller files that upload fast and only a professional photographer would notice any loss in quality.

  52. 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.

  53. 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. 

  54. 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.

  55. Gulf of America?? Why not Trump. Brace yourselves, soon the MAGAts will start naming everything Trump.

  56. 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.

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

  59. I don’t get your question BB. I’m not using reply feature to comments. It was hugely unpopular when we tried it in the past, if that’s what you’re referring to.

  60. 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.

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

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

  65. 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.

  66. BB that button creates a copy of the url to that comment on your clipboard so that it can be pasted anywhere you like. The label could be more clear. And while it works on desktops it might not on all phones, especially good ole useless Apple.

  67. Btw, the icon to the right of screen names labelled “follow” sets up automatic email to your registered address every time that person posts. And the “Subscribe” button at the top of comment page sends email for all comments.

  68. He’s on the caisson now, so it feels like a real state funeral. That’s about the same spot where I watched his Inaugural parade nearly 50 years ago.

  69. 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.

  72. 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.

  73. 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.

  77. 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

  85. 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.

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

  89. 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

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

  92. 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.

  93. 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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