The wonderful
vilakins has links to stuff with which you can remove the LJ and Twitter crap and the stupid new bubbles from LJ comment boxes,
here. It's a Greasemonkey script.
Here's hoping LJ are going to fix this shit soon. Do Not Want.
ETA: Apparently they are working on the / tag fail. Nice to know, seeing as it's fucked up just about every fanfic journal/comm right now.