I broke it

I was afraid this would happen. Trying to shift the bulk of the traffic from here to freethoughtblogs has not gone well: the server can't handle the load, so it's currently grinding away glacially to serve everyone and serving no one in the process.

Everything will be moved to a sniny new server by this weekend, though, which should fix things. I hope.

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