6/9/26 - Emmy Noms, Happy Birthday Hot 100, and Embarrassingly Ordinary Quick Changes To Your Life
- bribriny
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Thursday 6/9/26
Celebrate:
Call of the Horizon Day
Fashion Day
National Don't Put all Your Eggs in One Omelet Day
National Sugar Cookie Day
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Happy Birthday, Billboard Hot 100!
1955 Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" becomes the first Rock song to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop chart, where it stays for eight weeks. The song was originally released as the B-side of "Thirteen Women," but became a massive hit after it appeared in the film Blackboard Jungle.
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The 78th Emmy Nominations were announced yesterday.
Overall, last year’s Drama Series champ The Pitt leads all nominees this morning with 25, followed by the final season of Hacks on the comedy side with 24 — a record for nominations in a single season for a comedy.
Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay was third with 19 noms, followed by fellow Apple first-year show Pluribus with 18 and Netflix’s Beef with 16.
Nominations by platform,
HBO Max — 122
Netflix — 111
Apple TV — 87
ABC — 38
CBS — 32
NBC — 30
Outstanding Drama Series
The Diplomat • Netflix
The Gilded Age • HBO Max
A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms • HBO Max
Paradise • Hulu
The Pitt • HBO Max
Pluribus • Apple TV
Slow Horses
Your Friends & Neighbors • Apple TV
Outstanding Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary • ABC
The Bear • FX/Hulu
Hacks • HBO Max
Margo’s Got Money Troubles • Apple TV
Nobody Wants This • Netflix
Only Murders In The Building • Hulu
Shrinking • Apple TV
Widow’s Bay • Apple TV
Outstanding Variety Series
The Daily Show • Comedy Central
Jimmy Kimmel Live! • ABC
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver • HBO Max
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert • CBS
Saturday Night Live • NBC
Outstanding Reality Competition
Dancing With The Stars • ABC
RuPaul’s Drag Race • MTV
Survivor • CBS
Top Chef • Bravo
The Traitors • Peacock
Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality Competition Program
RuPaul’s Drag Race • MTV
The Traitors • Peacock, Alan Cumming, Host
Top Chef • Bravo, Kristen Kish, Host
Love Island USA • Peacock, Ariana Madix, Host
Survivor • CBS, Jeff Probst, Host
Outstanding Host For A Game Show
Celebrity Family Feud • ABC, Steve Harvey, Host
Jeopardy! • ABC/Syndicated, Ken Jennings, Host
Pop Culture Jeopardy! • Netflix, Colin Jost, Host
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire • ABC, Jimmy Kimmel, Host
Match Game • ABC, Martin Short, Host
Watch the Emmys on September 14th.
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Most self-help advice gets one major aspect wrong: the habits that actually change your life aren’t the dramatic ones.
They’re much more subtle, and almost embarrassingly ordinary. But that’s the point.
The ideas are simple: create bite-sized routines that fit seamlessly into your day, and build different versions of those systems for different days, whether good or chaotic. The goal is to stick with these practices, daily or weekly, even on turbulent days when nothing seems to go right.
Start with embarrassingly easy workouts
Jump-starting a healthier lifestyle doesn’t require a gym membership. You don’t need a plan, a new playlist, or special gear. You just need a dedicated block during the day to move: a short walk, five squats while the coffee brews in the morning, or committing to taking the stairs.
Drink water before anything else. Drink water before a meal to help you feel full before stuffing yourself.
Track your habits with color
Find a visual tracker that works for you, whether on paper or in a digital app, and assign yourself colors:
Green for done
Yellow for partially complete
Red for skipped
The idea is that color-coded systems tap into these feedback loops, with the brain processing color patterns faster than text or numbers.
Read 10 pages per day
That’s it: 10 pages. That’s about 15 minutes of active reading. Do that every day, and you’ll finish between 12 and 18 books a year.
Do a two-minute tidy every night
Dishes in the sink. clothes on the chair, scattered envelopes on the dining room table. Spend five minutes before bed restoring basic order to your space: reset surfaces, return items to their places, and clear clutter.
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Supermarket shoppers have been issued a warning, as certain foods can be a trigger for migraines.
This time, Cheese!
According to health experts, eating certain types of cheese could be triggering migraines without you realizing it. This is because these foods contain the naturally occurring amino acid tyramine, which can trigger headaches.
Aged and soft cheeses like brie, camembert, blue, parmesan, stilton, gruyere, and feta, among others, also contain tyramine and so can lead to a migraine attack in some people when consumed.
Fresh and unaged cheeses by comparison contain very little tyramine and are usually safe to eat, such as cottage cheese, cream cheese and mild cheddar.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - How do astronauts do laundry in space?
They don’t! They wear their underwear, gym clothes and everything else until they can’t take the filth and stink anymore, then junk them. When a garment is “done,” it goes into special trash bags or containers, which are loaded onto disposable cargo vehicles that later reenter the atmosphere and burn up along with all the waste. Space agencies and partners have been testing ideas like special low‑rinse detergents and water‑saving systems that might make washing possible on future long‑duration missions to the Moon or Mars.
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