This thread is for communication between and among AUTHORS about grunge stuff, scheduling, etc. Blog work. It is public to deter any kind of abuse. This is like the Wikipedia “talk” section. It replaces Gab chat and MOST (if not all) “private messages to Wolf”.
Non-author members of the site are welcome to observe, but please do not comment unless asked to provide information. I want to keep these proceedings very efficient.
Enjoy!
W
I’m going to start out by leaving links to two prior posts where I spell out the rationalization for creating this thread, in case we ever need to consult them for historical consideration:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/dear-maga-20190216/comment-page-2/#comment-76361
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/dear-maga-20190217-open-topic/comment-page-2/#comment-76368
Um, these aren’t opening for me in a place that makes sense. Is there a way to explain or copy and paste?
The Twitter plugin, sadly, causes the WordPress page location algorithm to go crazy, and after it jumps to the point of the post, the page “expands down”, and the actual point (which is typically the next post by the person” is BELOW where you are on the page.
SIGH.
I guess I will copy and paste. Hang on. Coming soon. 😉
I find that extremely irritating, actually.
The web programming books I have read (all many years in the past) advised you to ALWAYS include in your code that brings in an image, the size of the image so the browser could immediately size it.
Twitter loads so effing slowly, though, that I often see a plain text version before the image of the tweet loads. And those worthless toads do not include, with the text version that they definitely had to write special code to generate, code to generate the size of the damn graphic!
Of course a decent browser would let you re-click on the link number after it’s done spazzing out, and go to where it actually is–or not scroll there until it’s DONE loading.
So there’s blame to go around.
You can turn off rendering of twits before clicking the link to get to the place you want in the page. I’m not sure on other browsers, but Firefox has a shield icon to the left of the URL address box that allows you to enable tracking protection. When tracking protection is on, twits show up as blockquotes.
Repeating the posts here:
First Post:
I was asked to take this down, but (1) there is no private information here, (2) there is no information in this which could not have been stated publicly, (3) it’s actually pretty interesting and should be shared (Thanks, Michael! 😀 ), (4) it’s a good exercise for people to decode it, and most importantly of all (5) …..
I REALLY DO NOT WANT TO GET PRIVATE MESSAGES, AND AS I PROMISED IN THE CONTACT PAGE, I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH ALL MESSAGES SENT TO ME PRIVATELY. I AM PUBLISHING THIS FAIRLY INNOCENT ONE BECAUSE I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT I REALLY MEAN BUSINESS.
5:5? 😉
Now – this is critical.
I did not approve these messages to my knowledge. Up until this happened, I have been able to rigorously keep these messages unpublished. So this is very strange.
HOWEVER, I do have NATION STATE ACTORS on my devices – mostly White Hats lately – and BOTH SIDES have this really neat and highly deniable method of slipping in some clicks while the machine locks up. It’s actually an ingenious idea. But nevertheless, people need to understand that if you send me a “private message”, it’s not just ME who may decide to publish it.
5:5?
OK. More business.
I do not give out my email. I do not give out my phone number. BY ANY METHOD, including passively. I have reasons for this, which are probably not exactly what you think. Some will figure it out.
Gab chat for our authors is now problematic. We need to stop using it., because not all of us can get there, and I have to doxx myself in ways I don’t want, in order to get Gab Pro to invite people. SO – I will create a terrible “scratch pad thread” for ONLY AUTHORS to communicated on, regarding logistics of posting, etc. I ask ONLY authors to post there. Other posts will be removed. But EVERYBODY will be able to see us talk.
I want everybody who posts here, and particularly the authors, to know that you are at risk of being USED by forces much bigger than yourselves for our mutual enemies to FUCK WITH ME. The only way for me to stop that and PROTECT YOU is to make it impossible.
Please avoid private messages. If we ever get to the point where private communication is required, I will deal with it then. At that point, we will have bigger worries.
W
Second Post:
This is just logistics. I am STRONGLY discouraging “private messages” to me. See this link, where one SLIPPED THROUGH into public (and I’m leaving it up as a deterrent). It’s nothing super-secret, IMO, which is why it’s going up. I don’t recall approving this comment, which makes this a bit of a mystery. Likely a WordPress bug or my “secret super-admins” as I like to call them. 😎
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/dear-maga-20190216/comment-page-2/#comment-76361
I will be creating a thread for ONLY authors to communicate on – it will be public, but won’t get in the way of normal conversation. That will replace the Gab chatroom, which I can no longer invite people to. It may also take up some of the burden of private messages that really don’t need to be private – more like “sidebar” conversations.
Thanks for your attention to this matter!
W
PS – it turned out that Wheatie accidentally approved the messages, since it was her thread, and she was not aware of her moderation superpowers on her thread. The White Hats are OFF THE HOOK, and the Black Hats are OFF THE BOX.
Life is good! 😀
I am asking authors to NOT approve first posts by “unknowns”, unless you can personally vouch for their MAGA, non-troll, non-black-hat nature. I will moderate them. If I see unknowns posting (people I have not personally vetted using my extreme vettting), I will reserve the right to ban them if they act squirrelly.
Not all posters can handle free speech. Those who can’t can return to Twitter or the Middle East. 😉
Got it.
Wild and bizarre.
You got it, boss!
AWESOME! … but how’d you get all our photos like that? 😉
As for logistics, I’ve noted this elsewhere, but will put it here for the record. My family schedule has changed such that I’m getting up much earlier and more IRL stuff to do. I am not one that can do well without good rest.
Mainly what this means for my regular Dear MAGA Open Thread for Sunday is I regretfully won’t be around to engage or help with hospitality until late Sunday.
My weekends have a little more free time and so for now my plan is to set aside time on Saturdays to set up the Sunday Open and try to catch up on some the week’s events. Then late Sunday I’ll try to read/reply on the Sunday Open.
This place is way too much fun to not peek in sometime during the week, but I really am busy now.
As always, great work protecting us Wolf!
Thanks, T3 – I respect your thoughts here! You can schedule things, and I’ll check to make sure they post in time – no problem!
I dd stick around last night long enough to verify it posted and like the first couple of comments. 🙂
Oh, and as I’m going about my day I keep thinking of new topics worthy of writing about. You have unleashed my inner author. How nobody gets hurt.
Hope, not How in that last sentence. 😉
But HOW nobody gets hurt IS the big question!!! 😀
Snort!
Wolf…are you not checking in and reading Gab Chat anymore?
Nope. Going to abandon it. LP and Michael can’t get in. All talk disappears in a week. Have to remember to check it. Not worth it! I’ll add a sticky list on the right for some of our top posts, and the new thread will be one of them.
I hope you will go and read one last time before you abandon it.
😉
“LP and Michael can’t get in.”
_______
Trying to understand here…
So Gab won’t let them enroll in just a ‘regular’ account now, without giving IRL info?
If so, then that sucks.
It wasn’t like that two years ago, when I opened a Gab account.
What it means is that somebody has to invite them, and only pro accounts can invite.
Ah…so this is something new.
Because you were able to invite the rest of us, as a non-pro-account, right?
Yes! Gab is basically using its own populace to vet people. Smart move. Fewer bots. Also, if somebody invites any communists who put up fake Nazi ads, there will be an email for the (non-commie) FBI!!! 😉
All he did was invite us into the chat and he didn’t have to be a pro to do that.
We were able to sign up for Gab (the site itself) ourselves.
Apparently, now you can’t even get into Gab without an invite from a “pro.”
Yeah…and that sucks.
Especially since in order to have a Pro Acct, you have to pay money and give out personal information.
Yep.
I thought the system was a good one, but it has been destroyed.
I was wondering where LP was.
Note to everybody – when you get those ORANGE comments in your notifications – THOSE are in moderation that YOU are allowed to approve because it’s on one of YOUR threads. Note that any action such as liking or replying will make them VISIBLE – meaning it approves them.
If you see a known poster, you can almost always approve. Liking is easy if you like it. Approval happens a few seconds later. Same with a reply.
If you see an unknown poster, I suggest leaving the moderation for ME. I will vet them. EXTREME VETTING.
If you see that it’s a private message to wolf, just forget it and I’ll deal with it.
BEWARE of spam – some are known posters, but MOST are nasty, and need to be deleted. Again, best to leave for me if you’re not sure. If it’s a regular person you know, just liberate it.
Thanks for this, Wolfie.
I had no idea what those ‘orange’ comments were…so I have always clicked on them, just to clear the ‘orange’ out of my notifications list.
They have usually been from regulars, people who have been posting here for a while.
But recently…I did click on one that was ‘new’.
Their comment was small and seemed friendly enough.
Haven’t seen any more comments from that one, but I may have missed one.
Rest assured, now that I know what those ‘orange’ comments are…I will never click on one again!
😀
FEARING comments in moderation is a GOOD THING!!! 😉
I will now avoid those ‘orange’ comments that appear in my notifications…like they are RADIOACTIVE!
Haaa.
I guess you didn’t know that we were getting those, huh?
They all dump into a nice basket for me! Very convenient – like a LEAD CRUCIBLE!!! 😀
As it should be…since this is Your Blog, after all.
Hehe – “Orange Comment = Bad”
Ah Ha! We do have more power than we know!
WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!!! 😉
I’m still wondering How Daughn was able to delete some comments that time, in one of her threads.
She doesn’t remember how she did it.
She disapproved them! She clicked on the “Approved” button and they went back into disapproval. They turned ORANGE.
That is from the WP “Comments” interface.
That is why I found them all in moderation.
No, I was referring to a comment that doxed her.
I doubt that it was in moderation…there was nothing about it that would kick it into moderation.
But it was a bone-headed thing for that commenter to do…and I was so glad that she was able to delete it.
It was on HER THREAD. She had superpowers!
She clicked on the “Approved” button in the WP commenting interface, which shows up if you have superpowers. It then changed to “Approve” and the post turned orange.
ORANGE POST BAD!
Okay…I haven’t discovered that button yet.
Not even sure on Where To Look.
😆
Amen.
Okay good.
Thank you for figuring it out.
Yes, she said it at the time, she wildly whacked at the offending posts with Sylvia’s shovel until they went away. 😉
I sure was pushing buttons that night.
Does this mean that you are disabling your PRIVATE_MESSAGE_TO_WOLFie feature, that automatically kicks the private message into moderation?
It is still a good feature, I think.
But it should be known…that it should only be used in a ‘Wolfmoon Thread’.
Otherwise, it will be seen by whomever authored the thread.
(Liked this post so it would appear.)
I will keep the feature, but I will not warn people about how to avoid its dangers. The more dangerous it is, the less people will use it!
😉
Okay, good.
But when we get a ‘new one’ that appears in orange…should we notify you?
And how would we do that?
Use the PRIVATE MESSAGE trigger in one of your threads?
That would work, wouldn’t it?
We could copy-paste the ‘new poster’ comment into that PRIVATE MESSAGE post to you…so you could see it too.
I see ALL the orange ones!
Oh! Great!
Good to know.
The all-seeing Wolfie sees everything.
Haaaa…I love it.
Yup. Just leave it there, and I will deal with it!
Cool.
That’s easy.
😀
Wolf, I honestly cannot remember if I ever clicked on an orange link, but if I did, I’m sorry, and I will not click on one again!
Glad I checked in here and read, as I am planning to drop another one tomorrow.
I am also glad you are so careful about who is allowed to comment here. Keeps the riff-raff out. Thanks for all you do!
We should set up a special system where your comments all show up in the notifier colored like an eggplant!
Lol! I love it!
Spit – eggplant for Aubergine.
I’m calling dibs on Cobalt Blue.
I always imagined blue being your color, perhaps because of your avatar(s).
You are most welcome, Aubergine, and looking forward to your post.
When I did the Friday thread (Georgia joked that I was like a dog salivating at the thought of MOAR SHUTDOWN a couple of days earlier, so I just couldn’t resist) I wasn’t able to “curate” it during the day very reliably–which means I wasn’t responding much or even hitting like all that often. That’ll probably be true for any other thing I author in the future (though I promise not to disable comments again–boy was that a bad call on my part).
…And I suppose if I need to send a private message to Wolf, I should do it here! At least it won’t *accidentally* be made public though Wolf might *deliberately* do so.
Yes – that’s a good plan to PM me on THIS thread, which now has a permalink on the sidebar!!
Good idea about the permalink…I had already bookmarked it.
I wonder if there’s a way to make that permalink visible only to authors?
OH GREAT LEADERS!! NEW Q!!!!
I’m going to insert this pro-tip, in the hope that no-one here on the author team ends up like John Podesta with a hacked email account.
If you haven’t already done so, please ensure that your primary email address is configured to require 2FA.
2FA stands for “Two Factor Authentication”. What would happen if a bad actor got your email password? They could get all your email! Unless, of course, you have a second token that sits on a key fob, a USB key, or on your phone.
It’s easy to set up, and easy to use, and gives you extra assurance that your accounts are safe.
Here’s a great list of sites that support 2FA:
https://twofactorauth.org/
A lot of folks are using Gmail for email – fortunately Gmail is very easy to set up 2FA for:
Google 2-Step Verification
https://www.google.com/landing/2step/
If you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to do so. It’s better safe than sorry – an easy way to protect yourself from identity theft.
(P.S. Obviously I have a lot more security PSA’s – in the future I’m planning to more fully developed them into posts.)
Of course, gmail is google.
My email password is long and complicated, unlikely to be cracked with any dictionary attack. I should remember to change it more often.
If nothing else, protect your e-mail password since it’s generally the key to getting all other passwords reset.
Agreed, two point ID is best and I change password all the time.
Good tip, Michael.
I set up 2FA for a couple of accounts and realized after a few days that some of the schemes are ripe for disaster. At least in my world. If the fob gets lost… If the phone gets reset… if the 2FA app gets hacked… if someone social engineers the kid at the AT&T store and moves your phone number to a different device.
Well, anyway, that last scenario is the really, really bad one. I’m practicing good password generation and rotation schemes. As time goes on I’m weeding out some of the older accounts and updating passwords for lesser used logins. It could be a full time job if I let it be. Anyway, those are my thoughts.
Ideally you’ll use one that can generate emergency access codes, which most of them support, so that helps keep the risk to a minimum.
Good point. 🙂
Wolfie, Thank you for a great blog.
I want to warn you about a guy I have tangled with for years. Jim (Underline Jim)
My favorite UK Socialist, Richard Courtney, over at WUWT will give you a better discription than I link
He followed me from WUWT to Tony Heller’s Blog and then showed at CTH so you may see him here.
(Tony Heller booted him)
Thanks for this. We will keep our eyes open. 😎
Hey, hey!!!!!!!!
I feel special! Finally received an orange highlighted notification.
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/dear-maga-20190220-open-topic/
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Joined the group and didn’t have to eat a goldfish.
Question: when Q starts posting, how shall this be handled? New post by anyone to get it started? Shout out to Wolf?
A very good question. The current Q post is still only at 2833. I’d start a new one if I weren’t at work.
They’re caught up now – last time I looked 5 minutes ago!!!
Apparently there’s a 2839 out and has been for a while now. Don’t know how you missed it.
I’m thinking we should start a new Q thread if he makes a post after about 10AM, then put everything from that day there (he seems to be a bit of a night owl or I’d say midnight).
I’ve tried to keep them somewhat related by themes and bursts, which in practice means sometimes there is one per day, sometimes one every few days.
The CRITICAL thing is that the “Q thread” not fall off the bottom of the sidebar list of “recent” posts. It is 10 posts long, and we’re at number 5 now.
However, if there is some sudden change of theme or big news, then obviously a new thread makes sense.
While I don’t view it as a problem, people often drop fresh posts in the “open” threads, and many people don’t bother to look at the “Q threads”. Also, almost everybody here has a tab up with a dedicated Q post site. So I’m starting to wonder just how much value our Q threads add.
A lot of stuff to think about here….
Yeah, that’s a good point. And I think even position five means no one is looking at it any more (other than me).
My thoughts as of right now: As long as we’re in a Q blizzard, there’s no point in a separate thread. If he goes silent for days at a time (again) then pops up with a couple of closely related posts–THAT might be worth its own thread, especially if it’s a “breakthrough” sort of situation (something totally unexpected).
Could go either way.
If it stays in the Open, Wolf has less churn in his life.
If it gets into a new article we have a separate record to refer to if other sources go dark.
Not sure we need to worry about the second scenario.
So that leaves the question of does using the Open get messy?
I think we handle messy pretty good around here, so maybe that’s the way to go.
I guess there could be a pinned (like this one is) post that’s nothing but Q extracts for reference (Including pasting in tweets, etc, that only show as links in the original Q source), with replies disabled–the idea being to talk about them over on the daily but have the extracts for reference.
Of course that might be kind of superfluous. Consider this brainstorming where I put out silly thoughts in the hope that something I say will trigger a good thought.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Keep up the brainstorming!
Is that what they mean when they say a Storm is Coming?
On the other hand one should make sure not to confuse a brain fart with a brain storm.
The former is a short burst of incoherence, the later a wild but strangely coherent series of events.
Wolf…could you please delete this comment:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/dear-maga-20190223-open-topic/comment-page-1/#comment-81910
It showed up Orange, but I thought that Singingsoul had opened up a WP account and was posting that way for the first time…so I clicked on it to release it.
She has posted below this comment, that she used her Email account to post that comment.
And she is asking for it to be deleted.
Sorry.
I didn’t realize that was her email account!
Like I said…I just thought she had opened up a new WP account, and that’s why her comment was Orange.
Thanks.
PS: I clicked that comment again…to remove the ‘Like’ and Disapprove of it, like you instructed.
But that didn’t work.
Comment is still displayed.
I changed it from her email to singingsoul. I’v done that for a couple of people now – just fix the name to what it should be and leave the comment. It seems easier than deletion, frankly.
Oh good…that’s a much better solution!
Thank you!
Fixed!!!
Thanks!
Can I do the daily for Tuesday the 5th?
(And no, it’s not just because the “No shooting at the nuclear warheads” has been lounging around too much.)
I’m going to figure the deafening silence is my answer. I should NOT do the daily on Tuesday.
Sure – sounds fine to me!
Best assumption on the block around here is that I didn’t see something. WAY too much data flowing past me.
Tuesday Daily is great! Help yourself! 😀
OK.
I had to have an answer one way or the other just so I’d know we wouldn’t both do it!
I was ready to go just in case – moved my post to TOMORROW NIGHT.
Are you still going to do the Daily Thread tonight? Just checking!
Done!
Got a post sitting in draft mode…waiting for a slow day.
Good!!!
If you can read it let me know what you think.
Good! We need that reminder! Any time you want to post it, feel free!
Hey, I’m up for doing and ASH Wednesday Open if desired.
Let me know!
Sounds awesome. This means that I can move my scheduled Wednesday thread to Thursday. Will do! Have at it!
Crafted and in the Queue.
Another “effortless effort” post.
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Wolfie…need your assistance on this comment here by Kalbren2r1:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/americans-are-feeling-successes-that-havent-been-felt-in-the-past-2-decades-the-more-the-democrats-msm-rinos-globalists-leftists-etc-push-the-stronger-our-resolve/#comment-90475
She did an ‘oops’ and typed in her real name, by mistake.
She explains here:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/americans-are-feeling-successes-that-havent-been-felt-in-the-past-2-decades-the-more-the-democrats-msm-rinos-globalists-leftists-etc-push-the-stronger-our-resolve/#comment-90480
Done!!!
Thank you!
😀
Are you feeling any better?
Hope so!
Yes! But I don’t know how much longer this will last. Sometimes its’s just hours. But could be days.
If you’re having any congestion…take stuff to dry that up.
I don’t like to take drugs, but my doc fusses at me…says “you have to keep that shit dried up or you’ll get an infection!”
Heheh.
Unsolicited tips from your friend Think*3… If it’s sinus crud, Arm & Hammer has a saline spray that may help. I have a friend that swears by putting his face over a steaming bowl of water with apple cider vinegar added.
If it’s a head thing, I can sympathize. I’ve developed many tricks to try and help restore a normal state. Something as simple as pulling air briskly in through my nose to stimulate a nerve that can reset the vagal system to chicken broth with salt added. Menthol or essential oils. Epsom salt baths. Vanilla ice cream. 🙂
Vanilla ice cream! 😀
Sometimes, it works. And sometimes I’m just more comfortable while I wait for something else to work. 😉
Looks like I will need to be scarce for a couple of days. Will try to check back in when I can. And should be good to go for a Sunday Open as usual.Wishing everyone here well in my absence.
I was going to repost the new Super Amended version of ‘Wheaties Rules’…
But in light of recent events, boss…I thought it might be a good idea to ixnay any mention of “nukes”, “shooting at nukes”, or any such things that the Loserfarians might try to use against this site.
I know it is all in good fun.
But these people have no sense of humor.
However…if you think I am being to cautious, Wolfie, I will add those other 4 things to the list.
No problem.
I think your caution is very warranted.
More on that in a second.
No – the other 4 rules are just “4 fun”! I like the idea of things not having to stay fixed here – of slow and gradual changes, whenever we feel like it. It’s nice to have a few traditions, but it’s also nice to change things up. Temporary features are good that way.
About “violence”.
I will be very blunt and very open, so that this goes straight into my record one more time.
Deep State was interested in me for years in a very interesting way. A particular DS asset was sent to “get in close to me” during the CLINTON administration. This was after considerable nastiness had passed in the CA3 “clean-up” years (Reagan, Bush), during which time many different operatives of different stripes were small-tasked to keep an eye, and a few to poke harder, all because it was so easy (location, location, location).
Anyway, my Clinton-era watcher was an interesting sort, who later began regular monitored phone calls (easily figured out). It became a game to figure out what they wanted – what they were trying to INPUT into me, and what they were LOOKING FOR in return. I also used additional information to put this together – including things given to me by the watcher to test me, and things I observed myself.
I came to believe that the feds basically “wanted” people who could be “radicalized” in almost any way possible, but the goal seemed to be to have people who could “create” an incident in almost any direction. Thus, these people “like me” who were also of interest to DS were not politically consistent. HOWEVER, they WERE consistent in being amenable to GUN NARRATIVES in one way or another.
SO – this seems VERY important to Deep State. Gun narratives – violence narratives.
Thus, you may now see my concerns.
Anyway, I’m saying “good call”! 😀
Thanks, boss.
Sorry you went through all that.
Damn!
They underestimated your intelligence level, bigtime.
The rat bastards.
They say what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
But this is little consolation while you’re going through all that ‘strengthening’.
I cried for days in 1996 after Clinton was reelected.
I knew they were evil.
The must be brought to Justice for all their crimes!
Very much agreed. Now you can see that bigger picture. I may not be up near that 40,000 foot view, but I’m pretty high on the ground, Every day, I understand more an more exactly HOW MUCH subversion was accomplished by sneaking communists into top positions. They can do an incredible amount of damage. Thus, I am very sympathetic to the idea – the NECESSITY – of what is happening. But even then, I’m just catching up, like everybody else.
Trump has selected some really good people. When I think about how much change they’ve accomplished in 2 years, I am beyond impressed. It tells me that the system itself wanted to clean up, all along, but was largely deceived into performing actions that took it further and further away from a clean state.
MALWARE.
Sunday OPEN queued up … nearly just in time. Some outdoor projects kept me from getting to it until just now. Lots of balls in the air at the homestead.
Not planning to update my consistent open banter as I happen to really like it the way you crafted it to begin with Wolf and now is the not the time for me to get creative beyond me original commitment.
We’ll let Microsoft and Apple worry about “updates”! 😉
Great topic, BTW. I think Rick Joyner is onto something. I hope Q sees this thread!!!
As a teacher, Rick has been consistent quality. As a mystic dreamer and visionary, Rick’s brought some of the deepest impact on my own walk with the Lord. The book detailing some of his early visions, The Final Quest, rocked my world in the best possible way. The revelations therein delivered me from long standing bondage and set me on a course to become extremely dangerous for Jesus.
Tomorrow’s Open is queued up for midnight-o-one!
I do mention the ultimate MALWARE. 😉
Fascinating! Looking forward to it!!!
(Practicing my emojis for BUGS and COOTIES thanks to Gail!) 😉
🐝 🐛 🐌 🐚 🐞 🐜 🕷 🕸 🦂 🐢 🐍 🐙 🦀 🐡
Testing……
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Something like this happened to some of our regulars a few weeks ago. Someone “not like us” hit “Like” on older posts by us back OT. That WP account was Postcards from Russia and their website did claim to be from Russia.
Today it’s likes on 9 posts from the 3/17/19 Open by WP account triarianiindah, with a website at https://triarianiindah.com which appears to be only one month old and seems to be incomplete, but definitely painting pretty picture of young female “menjani” (young virgin dancer). Not sure what it’s about, so, reporting here for your Wolf review.
A post with a like from this account:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/dear-maga-20190317-open-topic/comment-page-2/#comment-102245
Thanks! Unknown. Could be a proxy for the ChiComs or the Saudis, too. Or now the NZ ProgZs. Thanks for the tip!
BoW gives a thread today to expose derp shade entrapment scheming online…
https://twitter.com/BardsOfWar/status/1111677940981514241
I had not seen this earlier, T3. Thanks – VERY useful.
Still got technology wrangling going on. Can another brave soul take on the Sunday Open tomorrow? Wheatie?
Is your tech stuff adequately fixed up, or are things still sketchy? Don’t want to push you if it’s a pain!
It’s not the sketchiness, it’s the time crunch. Now that all is settling in, I’ve got the time. And with Holy Week upon us, I am shoving some other things to the side in order to contribute here.
As you well know, keeping up with the comments can snow one under when life is pulling you in 20 directions. 🙂
Amen!!!
Ok, I figured out why some posts that seemed fine were flagged. The person wasn’t logged in correctly and so their posts were in moderation due to not being an approved user.
New potential author/volunteer for the Wolf Tree!
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/be-like-lions-not-lambs/comment-page-1/#comment-137554
Yes, I would like to be an author.
I have normally been using an iPad to access the site. But I have a desktop computer with wired internet ready to go, if necessary.
Wolf…I made that ‘Poetry Tree’ thread that we talked about, and have had it in Draft.
Could you take a look at it and let me know if you think it’s okay?
I kept it simple.
And took care not to put our Bakocarl on the spot.
My thinking on doing it…was simply to have a place to collect the wonderful poetry that Bakocarl has gifted us with.
It is not meant to ‘replace’ the posting of his work in our ongoing threads.
It’s merely a place to chronicle them…and have a place where we can revisit them…and also for people who may not have seen them when they were posted.
I also threw it open to any Other poetry that people would like to add.
So anyway, please take a look at it and see whatcha think.
If you think it’s not a good idea…that’s cool…and I will trash it.
Looks good! I added some categories and tags. Otherwise unchanged! Once it’s published, I’ll add it to the sidebar.
Okay, cool!
I just read through it again and cleaned up some wording where I had dropped out some words that I’d intended to be in there.
Heh.
I am bad about doing that sometimes.
I think I might work on the Tree pic in the header just a bit…try to center it better and see if I can get the trunk to appear in the Thread View.
Then will post it.
I am very, very good at completely forgetting to do categories and tags.
They’re not generally remembered! 😉
I don’t think it’s cool…at all…when one Author steals another Author’s pictures out of the media file and uses them before their thread is posted.
This is an abuse of Author privileges.
Consider this a formal complaint.
Okay, I see what happened now…
I loaded some images into the media file and used them in the Memorial Day Open Thread, which I then scheduled to drop at the end of the day on Sunday.
FG&C came along and uploaded some of the same images, then used them in his own Memorial Day thread.
I guess he didn’t check to see what had recently been uploaded into the media file.
It would’ve been nice if he had.
I apologize for accusing him of “stealing” them…but that’s what it looked like, when I saw the same pics used that I had just loaded in.
Sorry, FG&C.
😔😟
Don’t go away, you do a lot of great work on your Friday threads…and I would hate to be the cause of your leaving.
OK – now I see what happened! WOW – interesting. Picture collisions. Eventually, it had to happen.
I was thinking it was ME. I actually DO use other people’s pictures, and I don’t always know if they have appeared yet! I *try* to use only ones I’ve seen, but it IS a temptation to just grab them and use them.
(See my post below, too.)
No…it wasn’t You, boss.
Heheh.
And I doubt that you would ever use images that someone has already scheduled in to post.
You have the superpowers to look and see what is in scheduling.
And besides…you’re the Board Owner, so you can use whatever you like!
I avoid looking at people’s posts unless invited. It comes from years in I.T., where I did my best to avoid unethical behaviors, even when asked to do them (“It’s OK if you know my password – I don’t care!”). I generally avoid Googling non-public figures, too, in any kind of invasive way. It opens one up to being played or influenced.
That said, Wolf’s Extreme Vetting is reasonably deep, but only enough to determine if the person is potentially disruptive to the board. I’ve let a variety of presumed operatives and IC-ish people in simply because spooks are people, too! 😉
I know that sometimes when I’m loading a particularly delicious photo I am grinning thinking of you swiping it for one of your posts Wolf. Makes me happy to imagine my pick is going to be used more than once. 🙂
Oh! and I’ll try to remember to resize big photos to take up less space and remove photos I don’t end up using.
Thanks! That would be awesome. They do give us a lot of space, but I told myself that at 25%, it was time to get serious about things!
“Memes are important.” And that includes the ones with zero characters on the written parts! 😉
Was the picture used in a comment or another post?
I hope I’ve never done this, although I have seen pictures where I wasn’t sure if they have been used or not. I don’t THINK I’ve used them but maybe I did.
I guess because we have one big picture bucket, we need to be careful.
I do see a lot of great pictures in there that “I don’t remember” – I guess we may need to avoid those.
Does this have something to do with a thread that was posted and is now in the trash? Maybe that post can appear later, after the original thread with the pictures appears.
I DO think we need some rules. Here is why:
(1) I see a lot of duplicate pictures. I made a few of them, but I try to avoid it now. Why?
(2) We are running out of space. We are only at 25% USED now, but at the current acceleration of the rate, we could be out of picture space in a year or so. And that is important, because…
(3) I will NEVER pay for more space here, because THAT is part of the site’s bulletproof security model. It means that I will likely create a new site and let this one be “the old site”. We should probably postpone that event as long as possible, and that means to be conserving with image space. NO DUPES if possible!
It was a couple of pics…
He used the Eagle-sitting-on-gravestones as the Featured Image in the Header.
Then used the Eagle with it’s head bowed, in the main post.
I was faced with either re-doing my scheduled thread…or leaving it and letting it look like I was the one using his pics.
Sorry, I overreacted.
But it was like I had been hit in the forehead.
It’s been a rough week.
I try not to whine about my own health problems, but I’ve been struggling with some.
Nobody likes to get scooped, even if accidentally! 🙂
I’m not sure if all people are authoring articles while paying attention to the picture bucket. I am under the impression that some folks just add pictures to articles by drag and drop, and this is why there are so many upload duplicates and repeats.
Hopefully he won’t leave it trashed, or I may just publish it myself, if there are no objections.
No objections from me, boss.
He posted this in TTT’s Sunday thread, in case you haven’t seen it yet:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/dear-maga-20190526-open-topic/comment-page-3/#comment-158396
Rather than reply to him there and further trash TTT’s thread…I tried to keep it here in Logistics.
A wise move. I made some replies to put out the fires.
I know the feeling of “take the marbles and go home” – I get it all the time – but it usually passes.
We ARE the news now, and we have newsroom issues. It’s that simple.
Removing duplicates is going to be tricky because you won’t know if all of them are in use in links. Unless you crawl under the hood and check each one. Not going to happen.
Exactly. Not really worth it. Easier to start a fresh site.
Hang in there Wheatie. Big weekends have their own stresses even if we don’t realize it at the time. Have some chicken soup and romaine salad if you can. Always works for me.
Thanks, TTT.
😌🙂
Stress I can handle…but throbbing pain is another thing entirely.
😒
I don’t always make the best decisions when my brain is preoccupied with ignoring pain.
Believe it or not, dehydration makes pain worse. Celery, lettuce, cucumbers, chia seeds are all good hydrating foods… along with chicken soup.
What we need isn’t a rule as much as an awareness.
And one important step.
We need to NOT use drag-n-drop, but always use [Add New] button so that we SEE what is most RECENTLY added.
Any new photos are likely in the draft posts of other authors.
This one awareness will likely be all we need.
Agree…that’s a good step, T3.
I usually scroll down and take a peek at what’s been added.
But that’s just me…and my curious-cat nature.
Encouraging this step going forward, would cut down on the possibility of duplicates and misunderstandings.
😉🙂
Wolf’s comment about there being a drag-and-drop method of adding photos explains how someone could be using a similar photo and not even know it.
Exactly. I don’t really want to dictate how people do their work, if only because we are limited in how much of other people’s work we can see anyway, to say nothing of not wanting to inhibit people. But I think it may just help to keep an eye on that photo bin which we do share. A quick look, and if there are no obvious problems, drag-and-drop away.
The most important thing, IMO, is to appreciate that we DO SHARE MEMES – that is part of their nature, their goodness, their utility, and their strength.
So I reverse a lot of normal imperatives, and end up with….
Appropriation is a HAPPY CUSTOMER in the SALE OF MINDSHARE.
If nobody wants to steal it, it ain’t worth stealing.
Two daily threads are better than one.
Themes, homage, and re-occurrences are STORY, and STORY IS GOOD.
Beyond that…..
There is no reason to be “really” angry with anybody on the internet. Not to where you would even think twice about saving them from harm.
People do stuff for reasons, and those reasons usually make sense under investigation. So investigate.
If you are an author here…you can upload pics to your own (dormant?) site’s media page, instead of to here, and then put in a link to that instead. That will save Wolfie some storage.
Excellent idea! Thanks for that!!!
OK, people. It is past noon, and FG&C has not rescued his post from the Trash. Probably busy, like I was.
I am going to rescue his post and publish it, with a note from me.
-W
Have a question for you on Gab, when you get a minute.
Sure!
Wolf…Patrick/PHC could use a little help with something.
Remember back in the beginning, when we would post videos here…and they would show up HUGE and overlapping out into the margins?
It was right after you set up this blog.
Then…you adjusted something…and the videos posted normally after that.
Would you mind going over to Patrick’s site and imparting your blog-knowledge to him on that?
People are posting videos and they are dominating the page.
I mentioned it to him…and he said he would appreciate it.
Here’s a link to his current thread:
https://phc.home.blog/2019/06/04/after-midnight/
Sorry – I just had to crash my computer due to a possible browser attack.
I don’t remember which setting restricted videos to “play in their lane”. I will look later. It MAY have been part of the THEME that I chose, although it may also be a WordPress setting. PHC will have to experiment, or others can experiment on their own WP blogs and advise him. Like I said, I can look later, but not now.
I know that PHC needs some lovin’ right now, but there are other issues that only I can solve, and they need solution fast, so I’m going to ask other people to help PHC.
I understand, boss.
Sorry…I didn’t mean to add to your load.
Let me know if there is something I can do to help.
I have a question to help understand posting here. I have been a registered WP user forever, so I don’t REMEMBER not being one. Did you become a registered WP user when you became an author, or earlier? Do you recall? I am not asking about you, specifically, as much as just looking for information in general.
I set up my WP account several years ago…2013, I think.
It was back when I was hanging out over at AoSHQ…and their blog would go down sometimes, so they set up a Alternate Site here on WP.
I didn’t use it much at all until I stopped lurking at CTH and started posting there in 2016.
Does this help any?
Yes! You never had certain problems – this explains it.
I’ve seen where some people get the idea that they have to “set up a blog” in order to have a WP account.
It was not a requirement when I signed up.
But I’m wondering if something has changed since then.
Do you know if it is a WP ‘requirement’ now…to set up a blog in order to have a WP account?
I don’t THINK so. However, one of WP’s main methods of trying to GET people to register is pushing the blog aspect, so I think that may be where the idea comes from.
Well, it’s the reason that quite a few people give…for not signing up for a WP account.
So I wondered.
Wheatie – I may want to gab a bit tonight around the time the new thread goes up!
Will do, boss.
Wheatie, Wolf,
Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy could you check that my Sunday open posts okay?
wheatietoo could you keep an eye on things if I don’t make an appearance?
I’ve got Sunday’s post written and queued up for 12:01 am ET Sunday.
But I’ve got a packed weekend and may not be around to keep an eye on things.
I really enjoyed putting together this one.
Shavuot and downstream celebrations all in one place. 🙂
Will do, T*3.
🙂👍
If it doesn’t drop on time…I’ll do a tap dance until it does.
And I’ll keep an eye on your thread, for as long as I can.
Much appreciated!
Sounds good – I should be around to make sure it appears on time – if not, I’ll give it a nudge! 😉
When was the last time you checked the Gab chat?
Wolf, FG&C may need a little tutorial about reloading photos filling up the database. Take a look at the media library for duplicates. Not sure how to fix this after the fact. If duplicates are deleted, they will no longer appear in the comments/posts where they are linked. The links could be edited after the fact, but that is a burden on Wolf. So I think he just needs to know going forward so we don’ burn through this platform too fast. p.s., pls check Gab chat at your leisure. Non-urgent info for you.
It’s all good.
Did I get this right?
When the media/content in the database gets to the free wordpress limit then we toss the sight into deep freeze and will need to start over on a new one, right?
Wheatie had asked me some time ago to provide some things for a memorial thread to PHC that she wanted to put up when the time came. She suggested I post it here for her. Patrick had a health crisis in the night and is closing his blog at midnight tonight so the time is drawing close. I should have posted this sooner, but I have found it difficult.
So Wheatie, this is what I’ve got. I hope it helps. I’d also like to suggest you might post a song that had a lot of meaning for him, Kris Kristoffersen’s Why Me, Lord.
Wheatie, you may use all of it or none of it or pieces of it…whatever you think best and however you choose.
*********************
PatrickHenryCensored started out OT as PatrickHenryRevisited and ultimately became PHC.
Some basic biographical facts:
Patrick lived in Central Texas for most of his life. He received a college scholarship but rejected his father’s plans for him to be a doctor and enlisted in the US Marine Corps, instead. He served during the Viet Nam war. When he returned, he lived in New Orleans for some time.
Both grandfathers were in the construction business, and that’s what Patrick wanted to do with his life, so he became a builder of custom homes as his main business. Along the way he also owned a couple of bars and was a partner in a limosine service.
Patrick played guitar, sang, and he drew and painted, and we all know he could write. He drank Crown Royal and he smoked Pall Malls. He owned and thoroughly loved a Harley Davidson Softail motorcyle that he put more than 100k miles on. He was a car enthusiast and owned various collector vehicles including a Bentley. He loved birds, owning and training several along the way including at least one African grey parrot. He also loved the wild birds around his home. The cardinals and the wrens were the most tame. He went out every morning to fill up the feeders with cracked corn. If he was slow with the feeding, the male cardinal would come into his shop and let him know he’d like his corn.
Patrick was preceded in death by a son. He was married for 45 years to his wife whom he adored and called his Angel. He is survived by his daughter and another son, and grandchildren including a new one born recently.
He was a Christian man of deep faith which helped him make the transition from this life to the next.
Patrick was a complex man, and he was so much more than these simple facts can reveal. He was funny, and his humor was intelligent, and often ribald. He was kind, unfailingly courteous, patient, generous of his time and helpful. He was strong and compassionate and brilliant and cared not one bit what others thought of him or how he chose to live his life.
Some sides of him may seem paradoxical. He loved his Angel faithfully for 45 years, but he loved all women, so women were naturally drawn to him. He said many times some variation of this comment he made recently:
“God made me to love women.
Can’t argue with The Man
Fine work, if you can get it.
Love the job.”
Patrick’s Angel knew her husband well. When she came to visit him she would read the blog and enjoyed laughing at his flirtations.
Reading Patrick’s cryptic comments and seeing his likes pop up in our side bars brought a lot of joy. We’ll miss him even while we look forward to what he called, “The Reunion.”
Thank you, Syl…this is very nice.
If you don’t mind, I will add this and quote you.
I am still unable to post a comment on his blog.
It’s weird…it’s like I am ‘banned’ from there…WP doesn’t allow me to comment.
😔😩
Wheatie, you may use this however you choose. You can quote me or not, I leave it all in your capable hands. If it helps, I’m glad. Smiley provided a nice eagle picture…the eagle is flying into the light…he changed his avatar to that this morning. I don’t have the pic but Smiley could provide it. I don’t imagine it will be long now…
wheatie, one small correction…I said he liked to drink Crown Royal but it is Crown Royal Black Label. An important distinction, apparently! TY for being patient with me. This has about crushed me.
I’ll make that correction, Syl.
🙂
*Hugs*
I know what you mean about being crushed…this is so very sad.
😢😔😥
Thank you, Wheatie.
I feel like I let you down not getting it to you sooner, but I guess part of me was having a hard time facing reality. Is STILL having a hard time facing it. Thank you for doing this Wheatie. Hugs, Sylvia
You didn’t let me down, Syl…not at all!
I added your bio of PHC to the thread post.
It’s perfect.
😌🙂
I want to thank you both for doing this.
And Sylvia, I want to thank you specifically for tending to Patrick all this time. Not just as a good and kind and decent human being, and a member of this community, but because you made up for my NOT doing anything for him – or at least not doing much. WHY that is doesn’t matter – the fact that you stepped up and helped ease Patrick’s passing is a wonderful thing, and literally *redeems* this community.
So – hugs to the both of you for helping Patrick along. I really don’t deserve good folks like you two here. The only thing I can imagine is that this is some blessed endeavor, and all the stuff we THINK this site is for, is really just to make sure it’s here for something else. But who knows. I will say this. Patrick will know the truth before we do, and I’m sure it will make him smile.
SO – time for me to put up the next daily, and I’ll just hint at the closure of the PHC blog, and I’ll leave it for you all to fill people in on what is going on. The thread should be up soon.
Wolf, can you check the bin for me please? I have an orange one. Thanks.
Cannot find ANYTHING from you! It must have gone into “the pit of unquestionable spam”, over which I have no control.
Were there links in it? Something is very strange. Usually one has to use deep porno terms to make things go beyond where I can see them. “Rhymes with bunt” sometimes goes there.
It’s on the Social Engineering Post. The one about the kitchens. The comment is long enough I cannot read the whole thing without clicking on it.
Reporting in, boss…what’s up?
Probably re: my reposting a WSJ article. If so, no biggie and I can appreciate why. Can take it down and post a link to same in the Open Thread.
This was supposed to be in reply to you, Wheatie.
I hadn’t noticed that you put up a new thread…so I just clicked on it and it looks it’s been taken down.
OK, I’m going to have to be slightly unpleasant here.
FG&C just put up a wonderful article that MAY STILL ACTUALLY GET US SHUT DOWN.
And I really have to say WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK.
That was a COPIED, PAYWALLED ARTICLE from the frigging WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Barely a WEEK OLD.
In its fucking entirety.
And who is this “Wall Street Journal?”
A malignant MSM outlet that is absolutely RIVEN with communist TRASH – that was used as an assembly point for the TRAITORS in Fusion GPS – that is embarrassingly anti-Trump and anti-MAGA.
And you wanted to give them a CASE against this site? An ACTIONABLE CASE? POWER over us?
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?
It was a great article, BTW, and one that I can’t even READ now because I know it was STOLEN.
ANYWAY – the article has been taken down. TAKEN DOWN. The article is DOWN. FINITO. DONE.
Nobody had commented on it, and hopefully nobody but me saw it.
I’m not going to be rash about this, because it sure seems like something that somebody with a stolen password might do, but really – I’m scratching my head. You folks are smarter than this. I CERTAINLY HOPE!!! 😀