It's the Taylor Farms lettuce. The Taylor Farms outbreak. Earthbound Organics is Taylor Farms.

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

I socialized in person with a single adult today and had to tell her that Taco Bell didn’t do this. I don’t want this to get known as the Taco Bell Diarrhea Plague. Someone mentioned calling this thing “MAHA blast” and I say we make this name catch

I wish this one didn’t have a paywall. Here’s the opening:

If you need any more proof that Intuit has a monopoly that they're defending ferociously, all you need to do is use quickbooks for like 10 minutes. There is no way in hell that this app is the dominant player in a market that isn't totally distorted.

I don't think we give Intuit enough credit (derogatory) for how well they do the "Ad that looks like a help link" in all their bullshit. It's almost as impressive as it is infuriating and I fall for it every fucking time.

Rather than repeating debunked election conspiracy theories, in a better world, a President would be addressing... this:

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it was always just a matter of time before this was not confined to largely black men. we are far too comfortable with summary executions. the only time and place where we as a society seriously debate due process now is when a dude is socially accused of sexual assault. it was always coming for you

OPE! important addition

All the salad apocalypse chatter reminds us that the normal work of government to maintain the commons—good roads, regulations, food inspections, public health etc—is what allows economies to prosper and businesses to plan and compete and make money

I regret to inform you that the new Experian slogan is “my BFF Experian.” A publicly traded company that profits from quantifying your worth against your will and compiling dossiers used to ration your access to housing and employment is your pal. It’s like calling prison your 4ever roommate.

Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

Look, if we can get them to build a bunch of wind farms by telling them they will blow all the wildfire smoke back to Canada, I will start making "Build the (new) wall" shirts immediately

He should go first.

"The guy who was all-in on WeWork and who bought Uber at it's peak is smarter than you about business" is a hell of a claim to make in 2026

Taking a college business class taught (i use that work very loosely) by someone who self-describes as a "serial entrepreneur on the cutting edge of Web3 and AI" is even more brain-breakingly bad than I thought it was going to be

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

Robb Saka is a muppet show version of a city official. My West Seattle homies, you gotta boot him in 2027

CO2 and Covid-19 virus: We tried to show them that the planet is a unitary whole, with no boundaries, connected by ever-moving invisible gases and currents of air and that they thrive together or not at all, but 🤷‍♀️ Wildfire smoke: Allow me.

"I don't want people to leave here thinking Councilmember Kettle and I don't support transit" - Councilmember Rivera If you don't want voters to think that, perhaps don't propose slashing the mayor's proposed transit expansion plan 🤷🏻‍♂️. Their amendment fails, 7-2.

Honestly the sheer pervasiveness of AI boosterism among programmers has made me lose a significant quantity of respect for them as a discipline. Sorry but these are not the thoughts of people who have real skills and real jobs!

Bob Kettle voted to defund transit, never forget it folks

This is the fundamental problem for KC Metro bus service in pretty much all of Seattle, maybe with the exception of the few neighborhoods that have a light rail station now. and going East-West is even worse!!

She loves transit so much she wants to cut its funding so we have fewer buses… I would expect nothing less from her, except maybe an amendment to funnel all the levy money to SPD with no strings attached

A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people

I wonder what amount of funding for cops this council would consider adequate to "make our buses safe."

Saka and Kettle continue their trend of performing like they’re the villainous adults in a 1970s/80s movie about cool teens overcoming out of touch adults in a small New England beach town. Why did anyone vote for them?!?

These gambling addicts are gonna be betting on weirdos flipping coins on livestreams by the end of the year

friends don't let friends "launch a substack" in 2026

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

Faster buses matter—in fact, they are at the core of making transit work for people.

Holy shit! screen printing is so much fun!

The paradox of road rage: Drivers are always in a hurry but also have all the time in the world to slow down or stop to harass pedestrians and cyclists who bother them.

I'm pretty sure Eventbrite's servers are on the moon, based on how long it takes a page to load. Has anyone started a similar event ticketing service that isn't located on the moon?

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

I've got another portfolio building workshop coming up on August 7th. We had a blast at the last one, if you are a designer who is submitting your portfolio now or just want to get ahead on polishing it up for the next time you need to, this is for you! www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-a...

Bob Kettle needs to move to go. His district includes "up town" which is wildly dense and where Seattle Center is. How the hell does a transit service cut that saves maybe $10/yr per household serve his constituents in any way?

I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and especially others) should always be the immediate follow up.

My favorite part of the "nobody codes anymore" era is how often browser tabs crash because they suck down so much memory so fast the browser cuts them off at the knees instead of crashing. Truly, this is the golden age of online.

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...

Diseases have a funny way of not keeping to one individual. Almost like that’s their whole deal, spreading. Everyone suffers when we try to dictate who “should” suffer.

Time for all my friends to be spammed with this again.

Haha this sucks!

A reason why people who develop products like the idea of surveilling users in order to know them well enough to figure out what they want so they can provide it is that they didn't do the work up front of figuring out what people want.

Happy Bastille Day.

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I guess it’s okay all beef tallow all the time now, huh? At least until the beef talllow ends up giving people some horrible disease