(via Fark)
Tuesday, April 07, 2026
The Lost Voice Guy
Lee Ridley is a standup comic who doesn't speak. He has cerebral palsy and performs under the name Lost Voice Guy, even though he apparently never had one. Ridley's disability-themed routine is delivered by a synthetic voice machine. The machine itself, called a Lightwriter, is the focus for some of his jokes as he performed on Britain's Got Talent. (via Boing Boing)
Our World
Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) April 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Monday, April 06, 2026
Giving This Cat a Bath is a Pleasure
We've all seen the viral instructions for bathing a cat, which mainly consists of retrieving the cat from another part of the house and tending to your wounds. There's the easier alternate method, too. Cats are famously hydrophobic (which does not means rabies in this case). They will loudly proclaim they are self-cleaning, but sometimes they require extra help. I have always considered bathing a cat to be a two-person task.
Ash is an outlier. He is the kind of cat we all wish we had, because he loves taking a bath. Here we see how eager he is, and how calm he stays during the procedure. In return, his owner makes a big production out of it, basically giving Ash a spa day to keep him clean and happy. If I had such an amenable cat, I would bathe him more than once a month, just for a fun of it. See more of Ash at Instagram.
Everyday Objects That Are Secretly Making You Sick
We clean our kitchens and we clean our toilets, because that's where the germs are, right? Sure, but bacteria, viruses, fungi, and even insects are more universal than our cleaning habits are. During the pandemic, we learned to clean our doorknobs and wash our hands correctly. But you can't get those nasty little germs off everything. Chill Dude Explains might ruin your day by looking at the things that never get washed in our homes and revealing how nasty and cruddy they can get. He explains how you can mitigate the germ infestations on some of these, but not all of them. It's a good thing we have immune systems, right?
You might check off your lifestyle habits as the list goes on. I, for example, am now thankful that I don't wear makeup, buy meat, or have an ice maker. I'm surprised that a keyboard isn't included in this list, because I touch that more than anything, and it rarely gets washed.
Miss Cellania's Links
Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth.
Texas Rangers’ new 2026 ballpark foods include 3 head-scratchers. Would you eat — yes, eat — a sombrero? And would you pay $40 for it? (via Metafilter)
How we used to get internet.
The busiest place you’ve never seen. What life looks like on the world’s most remote inhabited island. (via Nag on the Lake)
Trump's Easter message. War crimes, profanity, and religious trolling from our president.
The ultimate shoe shine. (via Everlasting Blort)
The Horrifying Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne. (via Strange Company)
A Blast from the Past (2008): Blue People.
A Spring Drive in Nepal
Springtime in Nepal means that snow and ice are melting in certain elevations of the Himalayas, and the runoff will not be stopped by mere roads, even the infamously dangerous Besisahar-Chamé Road. The cascading water can take out what few guardrails there are. Meanwhile, people have places they gotta be, so a driver powers on through the treacherous path while a passenger films. Grab your armrests for this sequence. (via Laughing Squid)
Sunday, April 05, 2026
A Mirror in the Australian Wild
Epic Aussie Encounters set up a mirror near one of their trail cameras. It looks pretty natural for a mirror. Each critter is identified in the lower left corner when it first appears. Some were frightened, some were curious, and some took the reflection as a challenge. Some of the encounters are at night, and I wondered how well they actually saw the reflection. The Brushtail possum certainly does- look at the size of his eyes! They all seemed to see pretty well, except for the echidna, which is known for bad eyesight and obliviousness. The mother duck tried to ignore the mirror, because it told her she
suddenly has twice as many babies, but one duckling was fascinated. The grey strike thrush tried to impress its reflection, but who knows if it's a greeting, a warning, or a mating dance? One kangaroo was smart enough to look behind the mirror, and checked out the camera as well. You have to wonder what's going on in these animals' heads.
NCAA Post Game Show
Charles Barkley said something that's not about basketball and it became a meme. That's taken to ridiculous lengths in the opening skit for Saturday Night Live last night. And this is how I found out who's playing in the championship game tomorrow.
Saturday, April 04, 2026
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