Welp, everything is horrible! If you're anything like us, you're glued to the news out of Boston (I recommend the WBUR livestream, which is not as full of awful bullshit as CNN apparently is). You could use a break, some kind of good news, something easy to think about -- but you can't tear yourself away long enough to go looking for it. Well, just relax and refresh this post while you wait for more news on Twitter. We will bring you emergency cute.

Boston is on lockdown today, which is terrifying to hear but even more terrifying to see. Business Insider has collected some photos from Twitter, taken by people who ought to go back inside. Seeing a major city as a ghost town is incredibly sobering.

So, Chicago got a little bit of rain. And I guess sometimes where there's apocalyptic flooding, there are ABSURD GEYSERS OF SEWER WATER SPEWING OUT OF THE STREET.

It does not work for ladies.

Project Ukulele Gangsterism, a Toronto-area ukulele flash mob organized by Adil Dhalla, cheered up commuters in Toronto's subway with an aggressively chipper song about how great everything is. They did not get punched for the relentless positivity because they were in Canada.

If Bruce Wayne were really committed to accuracy, he'd spend his time licking food from a plastic cup, getting scritched, and generally being pants-pissingly adorable. At least, that's what Blossom the baby blossom bat does, and she is now my new archetype of bat behavior.

This leopard seal looks like he loves this kayak, or possibly looooooooooves this kayak, if you know what I mean. Or I suppose he could just doing some upside-down underwater surfing.

I can't believe I never thought of an invention like the Qualy Block trash cans, interlocking stacked bins with openings for paper, plastic, and glass. More than that, I can't believe that nobody else in the country has -- or anyway, I haven't seen anything like this in the U.S., and I can only find it for sale on Japanese sites. It's so simple! And yet, for those of us with tiny kitchens, so potentially life-changing!

Remember coralbots, the tiny robots that work in autonomous underwater swarms to repair coral reefs? Their inventors have put together a Kickstarter to fund development, and in exchange for your donation of $25 or more they'll put your name on a robot -- or, if you send enough money, on a reef.

It's a tale as old as time: Monkey discovers electric razor, becomes captain of industry, seizes power over the human world in a vaguely fascist-looking presidential campaign, and enacts revenge for the destruction of his jungle home.