Unknown Mortal Orchestra, calling it like it is. Hit ‘play’ and proceed. (And yeah, watch the video for a dose of the above concerned fish.)

As a words person, I’m slightly embarrassed not to have known that Oxford picks an annual word of the year, just the way that Pantone picks a color. I’m even more embarrased, as a person living on earth, that the word chosen to represent us this year is ‘toxic.’ Sure, we were all feeling it, but couldn’t you have given us a sense of escape? I guess it’s not so bad when you consider the competition; other words in the running included ‘incel,’ ‘gaslighting,’ and ‘techlash,’ which makes you wonder a little if the award committee just screened twitter for words on a graph of most-used vs least recognizable. However they make their selections, just know that this is how we look to the spaceship that Harvard says is totally maybe probably not headed our way.

To celebrate the word of the year announcement, why not sit back with a nice glass of Tide, now conveniently available in box keg form. Pods may have been hot for a while, but that was all so high school. It’s time to reclaim detergent ingestion for the group it was made for: 21+.

Struggling to keep up with appropriate stemware for all these newfangled drinks? Same. But, Food52 is coming to the rescue with these stackable glasses, perfect for displaying your detergent in their curved profile, and also contoured to illuminate notes of Alpine Breeze or whatever. While you’re at it, might as well program 911 on speed dial.