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Monday, April 06, 2026
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
"The Apple Man" and Other Songs by a 3-year-old Lyricist
Little kids love stories. When they learn they can make up their own stories, magic can happen. It doesn't matter whether they make any sense, because it's the imagination that matters. The joy a child takes in their own creativity is touching. Composer and music theory professor Stephen Spencer has a three-year-old daughter who loves to make up and tell stories. He takes her lyrics and makes songs out of them.
They don't rhyme, but Spencer takes that as a challenge. It's no barrier to a hit song, as long as the song makes you feel good. After going viral, he's released many of the songs on Spotify. You can also find them at TikTok and YouTube. (via Memo of the Air)
Send In The Flying Monkeys
Adventures in Sacred Cows brings us a song about a wannabe despot bent on ruining the world.
"I’m a total sweetheart, not some monster..." or so the story goes. Dive into this rock parody that explores the "heroic" narratives and Machiavellian twists of an exhausting regime.The lyrics are at the YouTube page. (via Nag on the Lake)
Yup, Adventures In Sacred Cows is taking a satirical look at the misguided confidence, outrageous power, and the 'toxic cocktails' brewing in the corridors of power. From 'benevolent dictating sweeties' to those infamous Epstein files—all delivered in a visual style that blends the 'crayon box' chaos of Hieronymus Bosch and Terry Gilliam with a splash of Home Alone and Edvard Munch.
Levittown
William Levitt did more than anyone else to invent the nightmare we know as suburbia. There was a housing shortage after World war II, so he used the conveyor-belt method to build thousands of identical houses in planned communities in Long Island and an event bigger one in Pennsylvania. Levitt retained the commercial centers, and sold the houses at an affordable price to veterans who wanted their own home to raise their families in. There were HOA-type rules, and severe redlining. Levitt wouldn't sell to any family that wasn't white. The first black family, William and Daisy Myers, bought a house from a Levittown resident in 1957. Riots ensued, but the Myers stayed for several years.
The suburban ideal caught on and spread across America. The connection between work, family, and community was severed as fathers commuted miles to work in the city every day, while housewives stayed home, drank, scrubbed their perfect suburban houses, made Jell-O salads, and played bridge with each other. The soul-sucking conformity of living in such a community inspired The Stepford Wives, The Feminine Mystique, and Suburbicon.
The above clip is a condensed version of the 1957 documentary Crisis in Levittown, PA. Here is the full version. It contains some disturbing language. It is only a half-hour long, then clips are repeated.
Read more about Levittown at Messy Nessy Chic.
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