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Hey everybody, we made one change.

Any change on any or all of your devices?

Please try on all your devices and let us know whether it helped, or whether it made no difference – on each one.  Please also describe what issues, if any, you are seeing related to the front page or to individual posts loading.

Please try from : 1) the front page AND 2) from within and individual post AND 3) from within an Anne Laurie COVID post.

I’ll start. It sped things up for satby on her Kindle, front page and in individual threads.

My computer never had an issue, and it made no difference on my iPad, regardless of front page or individual threads.

And because Cole thinks I post pictures of Henry but never of Tucker – (and he’s probably right – here are a couple of Tucker pictures.

Who doesn’t need 3 beds and a baby?

Tucker’s wrestling moves.

Site Update: We Made A Change, Did It Help On Your Devices?Post + Comments (64)

A small number of people have let me know that the front page has been slow loading on some tablets and phones.  The front page starts to load, then hangs a bit, then tweets start to fill in.

i am not sure how widespread this issue is, and I’m not sure whether this is the result of a change on the Twitter end of things, or if it’s a BJ issue.

In the meantime, as I try to figure things out, I just reduced the number of posts that show up on the front page from 15 to 7.  If the slow loading front page has been an issue for you, can you guys let me know one whether that change  made a difference or not?

Also, because of the law of unintended consequences, I need to ask if the change from 15 to 7 is a problem for you guys for any reason.

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How hard would it be to find a place where we could get Tunch Obey facemasks made with this design?

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Thanks to everyone who donated, and, as promised, the first of pet pics. Our first contestant in “THE WHORING OUT OF COLE’S ANIMALS” is, of course, the camera hog, Thurston:

Lily is too comfortable under my desk to disturb, Steve has fucked off somewhere in the yard to stalk things, and Rosie hates me, so the easiest picture to get was Thurston. And, in fairness, summer is Thurston’s time to shine since he is such a shitty lapdog, but he is omnipresent when there is any activity outdoors.

And I am not saying that to be mean. He is just a horrible lapdog. He fidgets, he squirms, he’s denser than a medicine ball and puts off enough heat to service a small army base, any time he hears something he launches himself from my lap invariably kicking me in the nuts and scaring everyone in the god damned room, and on and on. But the summer is his time, because any time you are in the yard HE IS THERE. DOING THINGS. WATCHING YOU DO THINGS. GETTING IN THE WAY OF YOU DOING THINGS. SNIFFING THINGS. ROLLING IN THINGS. BARKING AT THINGS. DIGGING INTO WHAT YOU JUST PLANTED. The world is his fucking oyster from April to October.

Some bonus pics of the yard:

This summer is going to be an easy one- we are putting in the path, putting another coat of paint on the shed, and another coat on the deck. Other than that, not much to do but relax under the pergola. As you can see from the middle picture, Thurston was even kind enough to map out a desire path for the walkway.

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We’re past the six months since we last rattled the cup for the server costs, and I had hoped ad revenue would cover most of it, but, you know, global pandemic. So if you are in a position to donate, please hit the paypal.

I promise pet pics as soon as we cover them.

That’s right. I am prostituting my animals. Don’t judge.

Update: To make it easier on mobile, I just added the BJ PayPal link as the top item in the hamburger menu.  (WG)

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