internet brain: seeing a beautiful, perfectly executed, mouth-wateringly delicious baked good, and arguing about what to call it.

Those look potentially delicious to me. The linked article is full of snarky disdain but it seems like the only problem is that they’re French and they call it a “taco”.

Thanks, big smiles reading this.

“death” is on the list for a startling number of drugs

I worked in a hospital pharmacy c. 1970-71 & at some point the “detail man” (drug salesman) dropped off some promotional mugs which had a deep-relief face with a huge shit-eating grin and the Ritalin logo, and the words “mood elevator” IIRC. Drives me nuts that I can’t find an online image of this.

then why not just state that—unless it’s illegal there?

I honestly don’t feel like I have enough info to get where these two are coming from, and the whole thing hinges on some off-duty cop’s allegation based on his subjective interpretation of overheard conversation. Regardless, true: the public hates ICE.

that photo alone made me guffaw

forgive me, but this somehow gave me a flashback to my student days in the late ’60s when my 'in' with classmate women was that I knew how to set up the stereo systems that they bought because that was what you needed to hear James Taylor (or Jimi Hendrix, for that matter) properly.

I second Taylor

especially that last one

looks nice, in any case

I kind of think the death threats have a lot to do with it.

that should have read “Another” instead of “The other”

The other thing that has to happen is the breakup of giant corporate media (and other) monopolies.