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My dumbest hobby horse is that I'm convinced the "brussels sprouts were bred to taste better" story is essentially an urban legend that at best wildly exaggerates an underlying true story. It's very weakly sourced and all of the evidence I have found goes against it.

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Signed portrait of Theodor Escherich, MD (1857-1911). Dr. Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician, best known for his discovery of the Escherichia coli bacterium

Every time I see one of those horrible AI restaurant flyers I find myself wondering who would possibly look at that and say "yes, this is what I want my customers to see. this represents my life's work. I will stake my financial future on people seeing this and wanting to eat the food"

[it will be 100℉ in PDX when she arrives] marcy: It'll be a hot one marcy: Like seven inches from the midday sun devin: I've not heard that expression before marcy: It's just like the ocean under the moon. The same as the emotion that I get from you marcy: You got the kind of lovin' that can be so s

I have posted this panel so many times but it remains great. "That is hard for me, Crystal..." (and again great work from Buscema)

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"You may also be familiar with the work of my ex-wife, who made a movie about surfing bank robbers who dress like presidents. This is not the movie she won an Oscar for, which to be clear, is a thing I have also done."

Flying tomorrow (for work) and the relative lack of anxiety I have about it has somehow managed to transmute into its own source of anxiety. "Why are you just sitting around enjoying your evening? Surely there's something you need to be feverishly trying to get ready!"

I like Mamdani a lot but I also know that if just about any other Democrat made a big deal about "cutting red tape" they would be absolutely savaged as a ghoulish neoliberal who wants to let corporations feed poison ice cream to your children

Jeff Yang@originalsp.in · 2w ago

What if Democrats stopped obsessing over labels and Republican lies and embraced a mission of being the party of “good government that helps people“? Feels like we’d do a lot more winning. And helping people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...