Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout Q&A - Christopher McQuarrie
Great podcast about the making of the movie.
Ten funny tweets
My smoke and gunny asked to get in the trails for a fire mission... Gunny must have forgot how hard a charge 7 kicks because he fell and pulled my gunner off with him 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/IfWLbaX4fn— Courtney (@courtlewis127) July 31, 2018
Patriot on Amazon Prime is really good
"To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous 'on-official cover' -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm."
(Think spy thriller written by Elmore Leonard.)
(Think spy thriller written by Elmore Leonard.)
Monday, July 30, 2018
"Russian Jamming Poses a Growing Threat to U.S. Troops in Syria"
"it’s allowing U.S. troops a rare opportunity to experience Russian technology in the battlefield and figure out how to defend against it."
"This Japanese Company Believes That Renting Space on Armpits Is the Next Great Ad Frontier"
Not the Onion?:
Arms go up to hold on to a strap and, BOOM, you’re staring at an ad. In a woman’s armpit. You’re noticing advertising now, aren’t you?
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Wakino Ad Company (“Waki” is Japanese for “armpit”) is relatively new and it’s unclear how well stickers placed on armpits will be received or even revealed in the first place.
Ten funny tweets
I feel like they passed up a huge opportunity by not writing “PALEO” on here. pic.twitter.com/2cnfQQgNTk— Matthew Inman (@Oatmeal) July 28, 2018
bek, wandering around the back yard with the gremlins: "why are there so many saplings in the grass? hey guys did ... did you go around the yard planting a bunch of trees last year?"— 👨🏭🔥🐌🚚 (@ADAMATOMIC) July 29, 2018
7yo: "yea! we planted tons of acorns out here last year!"
what happened to this witch between 1988 and 2004 pic.twitter.com/Yd5QMBPkPA— Deirdre Coyle (@DeirdreKoala) July 29, 2018
Wildlife photographer @brentcizekphoto captured this incredible photo of a Common Merganser mother with an adopted brood of 50+ chicks! This is not an uncommon sight for this species. https://t.co/5Y8KrbFWZH pic.twitter.com/2KAZSiTr6Q— Audubon Society (@audubonsociety) June 29, 2018
i love wrestling pic.twitter.com/zHJT9cGy1Z— WrestlinGifs (@WrestlinGifs) July 29, 2018
Pikas can adjust their body temperature by changing their posture. These two common postures are referred to as “puff” and “lounge” https://t.co/culm0I7atF pic.twitter.com/uLhYmjPh3C— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 25, 2018
Does that mean it's colder? Is it any colder? pic.twitter.com/hzYfOH5zYj— The Prince Charles Cinema (@ThePCCLondon) July 27, 2018
Street art you can appreciate pic.twitter.com/np4bGruOzx— emi lenox (@emibot) July 29, 2018
dentist: the guy in the waiting room says your mother is ugly— Olly iConic (@Chumpstring) May 26, 2018
patient: he doesn’t even know my mom
dentist: maybe you should punch him in the teeth
White Egret Has Got Fashion Assignment 😀😀😊 pic.twitter.com/QVMORSDP6K— Welcome To Nature (@welcomet0nature) July 29, 2018
"The new British foreign secretary didn’t exactly make the best impression upon his first official visit to China recently, referring to his Chinese wife as Japanese"
"After confusing his own wife’s ethnicity, Hunt went on to boast about his familial connections to China"
"Architects were asked to design appealing homeless shelters on a $1-million budget. Here's what they came up with"
LAT:
The opposition highlights the importance of good design up front, De Briere said.
“I’m not saying you wouldn’t still have some community concerns about having temporary homes built there,” she said, pointing to the renderings on display in the institute’s office. “But if they had seen something that was more like some of these images, I think you would have a more positive reaction.”
"India on Monday effectively stripped four million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims"
"A new draft register of citizens includes only those able to prove they were in Assam before 1971"
Win the contest, get your resume on the side of a racecar
Natty Light is offering the chance for a fan to get their resume printed on the #37 car for the South Point 400 on Sept 16. Email your resume to NattyRaceResume@naturallight.com. pic.twitter.com/bmh4vIqySw— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 30, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Micro horror anthology
I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.— CryptoNaturalist (@CryptoNature) July 26, 2018
Creepy detail in "Shutter Island"
In Shutter Island (2010) a woman being interviewed is given a glass of water, when she goes to drink out of it the glass disappears, then reappears when it is empty. "Teddy" is afraid of water after the incident with his wife and his reality is skewed because of it. pic.twitter.com/itPcz7Q0Yk— Hidden Easter Eggs (@FilmEasterEggs) July 8, 2018
"The vest vending machine at San Francisco's airport is getting mocked, but it rings up $10,000 in sales every month"
"At nearly $50 a pop, that means the vending machine sells about 200 vests per month."
Ten funny tweets
Shout out to whoever it was at this Holiday Inn who laid out my baby’s cot like he’s just another corporate sales guy passing through town for a conference on Waste Disposal And The Modern Marketplace pic.twitter.com/B6ffvsAhez— Nell Frizzell (@NellFrizzell) July 27, 2018
Knight Rider reboot where KITT is actually just an Uber driver named Kit who keeps getting dragged into adventures by Michael to keep his 5-star rating.— Les Orchard (@lmorchard) July 27, 2018
HIM: I have a chocolate lab.— your mom (@eff_yeah_steph) July 25, 2018
ME (awestruck whisper): ᵂᶦˡˡʸ ᵂᵒⁿᵏᵃ
I'm obviously supposed to climb this pic.twitter.com/yodnfJq8SH— Calamity 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) July 28, 2018
I love working at a wildlife rescue. When I worked at a university, notes on office doors were never this interesting. pic.twitter.com/LN87AwVSmx— CryptoNaturalist (@CryptoNature) July 27, 2018
Fun fact: The suborder containing whales, hippos and their shared common ancestors classifies them collectively as the "Whippomorphs".— Gus Mitchell (@GusticeLeague) July 27, 2018
I wish I were making that up: https://t.co/oUkRc07H26
Good call fortune cookie pic.twitter.com/3ChKaOrwpB— Lamilvelo (@Lamilvelo) July 28, 2018
— Joey Langone (@JoeyLangone) July 25, 2018
Serious question for #medtwitter: If you show up at a code, and the patient is a centaur who had a cardiac arrest, ignoring the joules question, where do you think the defib pads should go? A, assuming the heart is in the human part, or B, assuming the heart is in the horse part? pic.twitter.com/OJt9haEgx3— Fred Wu, MD (@FredWuMD) July 28, 2018
I asked a girl on a date to Sea World and when she said yes I blocked her— CASEY☭ (@_CASEYRUIZ) July 21, 2018
I made a new greeting card for these difficult times we find ourselves in pic.twitter.com/xoXpCTDbsG— Alan (@alan_maguire) March 20, 2016
Saturday, July 28, 2018
"On a summit above Beverly Hills, a sweeping 157-acre property touted as the city’s finest undeveloped parcel is hitting the market with [a $1 billion] asking price"
LAT:
The mountaintop was once owned by a sister of the late shah of Iran, the Princess Shams Pahlavi, who had planned to build a lavish palace there.
The property was later acquired by talk show host-turned-TV-producer Merv Griffin, who commissioned prominent designer Waldo Fernandez to create a marble-and-limestone mansion. It was never built.
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After falling into financial trouble, Griffin sold the mountaintop for more than $8 million in 1997 to Mark Hughes, the late founder of Herbalife
Polaroid stripe
It’s common for garage doors in Seoul to have this stripe pattern and it’s so classic Polaroid aesthetic pic.twitter.com/mzBkAi1KoN— Teddy Dief ✈︎🇰🇷 (@TeddyDief) July 20, 2018
The Pink Panther of Wakanda
I am the Pink Panther of Wakanda #WakandaForever #pinkpanther #joephillsart #JoePhillips #blackpanther pic.twitter.com/NlzNwYP4CE— Joe Phillips (@joephillipsart) July 24, 2018
Ghanian Dune poster
I’ve recently become addicted to Ghanaian movie posters. Some brilliantly bizarre work. I’m thinking about commissioning a few from Deadly Prey. Did you pick this one up? pic.twitter.com/BmajQFLOo8— Charles de Lauzirika (@Lauzirika) July 28, 2018
"And just like that, the wolverine makes like a snowball, and rolls off into the woods"
Wolverines are normally elusive and solitary, but with some luck—and a camera trap—scientists were able to catch a glimpse of this one pic.twitter.com/xZUExiAUQX— National Geographic (@NatGeo) July 28, 2018
Ten funny tweets
Don't be part of the problem, be the whole problem— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) March 15, 2015
Follow @ wampusgod on insta pic.twitter.com/ZPijianUkP— Tyler Warren (@cTylerw_) July 24, 2018
i love this stupid fucking gif pic.twitter.com/ob5sX6Dyh3— xXPu$$yD3stroy3r420Xx (@BeastsEmbrace) July 25, 2018
I will never delete the Jeremy Renner app from my phone pic.twitter.com/VKStCAbTDt— stevie palmer (@chillarybuff) July 27, 2018
Hi, @hallmarkmovie: You actually dropped a commercial break in the middle of Columbo's final summation scene. Go to hell.— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) July 26, 2018
— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) July 26, 2018
Some guys from the dark web are here TPing my house— Böb Mako Shark Jänke (@Bob_Janke) July 27, 2018
After a long day, settling down with man’s best friend is a great way to relax 😅— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) July 27, 2018
(Wait for it)
pic.twitter.com/Sc9RoKcYT9
We went to the planetarium today and when the voiceover said “this is the earth” one of the kids booed— Abolish ICE (@a_lolbrarian) January 14, 2018
Episode IX— Matt Patches (@misterpatches) July 27, 2018
EXT. AHCH-TO
Rey arrives at the cliff to find a cloak. Behind her, a familiar ghost appears.
LUKE: "Rey..."
REY: "Luke, you DIDN'T DIE!"
LUKE: "No, I'm dead. 100%. Just wanted to say that your parents were nobodies. Can't stress that enough."
Luke disappears.
Russian soldiers guard the remnants of Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, which was destroyed earlier this week. +1 for political street theater. (ht Michael Madill) pic.twitter.com/wexe64lx0Q— TimKarr (@TimKarr) July 27, 2018
Friday, July 27, 2018
"I found the most dismal No Man's Sky planet where absolutely no happiness is allowed"
PCGamer:
I decide to feed one of the little crab critters scuttling around just to give something on this planet a little happiness. The critter eats and the smiley face icon appears. Less than a second later he's mauled to death by another creature
...
I climb out of the sea and pause before getting in my ship, admiring the view of the ringed paradise planet above.
Clouds immediately roll in and block it from view.
"Don't eat campfire colorants, even if they look like Pop Rocks"
Star Tribune:
But confusing packaging has led some to open the packets and swallow the contents instead of throwing them into the fire
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products such as Mystical Fire and Magical Flames
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Olives said the black packaging and bright powder inside look very similar to Pop Rocks candy.
Vietnamese gangs in Germany; Augmented reality version of "The Ring"; Lost baggage found
BUG OUT: A massive swarm of mayflies descends on Vitebsk, Belarus, creating horrible driving conditions pic.twitter.com/r794jbvLYd— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 22, 2018
my women in beekeeping facebook group is going to a dark place i didnt expect pic.twitter.com/Z0o72zuVsl— colleen (grumpy) (@colleentie) July 23, 2018
the history of vietnamese communities in germany is insane pic.twitter.com/8r57zFvbqg— cs (@cszabla) July 27, 2018
I reenacted a famous scene from 'The Ring' to bring #horror movies to life in AR#madewithunity #ARKit pic.twitter.com/fRU2ul56ki— Abhishek Singh (@shekitup) February 21, 2018
Lost baggage at Geneva airport told me great story - 2 trolleys of bags bricked up behind wall, rediscovered 20 yrs later during renovation— David Galbraith (@daveg) June 25, 2014
"How neglected archives lead to propaganda"
CJR:
[A CBS television segment and] headline on the station’s website [stated]: “ICE Investigators Serve Human Trafficking Warrant In West Oakland Neighborhood.
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But the protesters actually proved to be correct. The East Bay Express reported a month later that Oakland police chief Anne Kirkpatrick had made false statements about the raid. The operation was not part of a “human trafficking” investigation; in fact, the lone person charged was “facing immigration charges and could be deported.”
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[The CBS affiliate did not post] an update to their original story.
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Nearly a year later, a flurry of posts linking to the original KPIX segment appeared on right-wing websites. The Federalist headlined their post “WATCH: Neighbors Protest ICE As It Breaks Up Child Sex Trafficking Ring,” while National Review tweaked theirs to “Watch: Protesters Blast ICE as Agents Act on Federal Child Trafficking Warrant.” The Daily Wire and InfoWars ran similar posts. Donald Trump, Jr. and Katrina Pierson, senior advisor for President Trump, shared The Federalist post on social media; on July 8, President Trump retweeted Pierson’s tweet to his 53.2 million followers.
Ferrari racing's mourning livery
Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen arriving at the circuit this morning with the BLACK ARMBAND in memory of Sergio Marchionne #HungaryGP [📸Kym Illman] pic.twitter.com/pdhwlRfgzK— Junaid #JB17 (@JunaidSamodien_) July 26, 2018
After 9/11 Ferrari removed all sponsor logos and painted their nose black. pic.twitter.com/D96PPtCCsM— Douglas (@dmoon) July 26, 2018
On the death of Pope John Paul in 2005, Ferrari again painted the noses of their racing cars black. pic.twitter.com/056W6YHklq— Douglas (@dmoon) July 26, 2018
"The Ordinary License Plate’s Days May Be Numbered"
NYT:
The screen can display anything, making it easy to switch designs if an owner wants to buy a vanity plate. Amber Alerts can be flashed on the plate; if the vehicle is stolen, the plate can be changed to display that fact.
When the vehicle is parked, businesses can display advertisements on the plate, even targeting a vehicle’s particular location because the plate is connected to GPS.
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Reviver has permission to sell the plates in California as part of a pilot program.
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As part of the program, the City of Sacramento has already affixed digital plates to 24 of its Chevy Bolts and will display various messages on them.
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse is really good
Read it here. Also available as a podcast read by LeVar Burton.
"Iran’s Wolf Wall, Second-longest in the World, is Still Shrouded in Mystery"
Discover:
The ancient name for this place was Gorgan (گرگان), meaning “land of wolves”, and wild wolves can still be found here
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Across the plain stretches a mighty border wall, surpassed in size and scale only by the Great Wall of China. It’s known as the Wall of Gorgan, and unlike its Chinese counterpart, much of its construction remains an unsolved mystery to this day
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creating an immense mobile brick-making industry to produce the millions of fired mud bricks that make up the wall. Along its whole length, archaeologists have found the remains of temporary kilns
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“No ancient textual source refers to the Wall
Monument to victim's of an explosion
Monument to the Victims of the Explosion (Boris Anastasijević, 1961) in #Užice, #Serbia.— Darmon Richter (@DarmonRichter) July 27, 2018
Commemorating the 120 who died, 22 November 1941, after sabotage caused an explosion at an underground partisan ammunition factory.https://t.co/wnQSE02CwI@MuzejYU @HOCommunism @Calvert_22 pic.twitter.com/wVj9K7cDkk
Picard in one of Barclay's holodeck fantasies, perhaps
— ULTRAKiLLBLAST (@ultrakillblast) July 27, 2018
Ten funny tweets
FYI, if you search for "Last Jedi shirt" it will autofill to "Last Jedi shirtless."— Brandon Bird (@Brandon_Bird) July 25, 2018
Difficult to miss the HQ of the Sudanese Air Force and Navy pic.twitter.com/Uk6QXhFJc6— Missile Manyak (@missile_manyak) July 25, 2018
Absolute respect to the guy who jackhammered Trump's star into oblivion, not least because he paid homage to Ghostbusters 2 by setting up barricades and pretending to be a construction worker. pic.twitter.com/g0Li9EAskD— Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) July 25, 2018
Spotted on the C train lmfao pic.twitter.com/qwCBZsNEMb— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) July 25, 2018
No wonder Teen Titans Go To The Movies currently has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. WHAT THE HELL DID I WATCH?! WHAT EVEN IS THIS MOVIE?! pic.twitter.com/PB0VvEjSMR— Crimson Mayhem (@mayhem_crimson) July 24, 2018
IMPORTANT: Steven Bochco fired the lead actor from MURDER ONE because his morning dump made him an hour late to set every single day. Please RT! pic.twitter.com/xLHorB33KL— Max Silvestri (@maxsilvestri) July 26, 2018
HANG ON pic.twitter.com/3aeWQn3rab— Fancymans Mustachio (@EelsofWood) July 27, 2018
These are strange times. pic.twitter.com/SKmX8en8IK— Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian) July 27, 2018
I KNOW SOMEONE WHO CATERED BETSY DEVOS'S NIECE'S WEDDING AND HE TOLD ME THERE WERE *****RANCH DRESSING FOUNTAINS*****— John Early (@bejohnce) July 27, 2018
i abandoned my fanfiction account at 16, after i introduced a massive plot twist to a 50,000 word fic & then had no idea how to go on. i still get anguished emails once in a while when people reach the end and i feel really bad about it— Katie Chironis (@kchironis) July 27, 2018
Killer whale slaps the shit out of an oblivious stingray pic.twitter.com/SbpD5D8t2z— Nature is Scary (@TheScaryNature) June 16, 2018
"L.A. County sheriff announces inquiry into secret societies of deputies and their matching tattoos"
"McDonnell’s announcement at a meeting of the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission comes two weeks after allegations surfaced that as many as 20 deputies at the Compton Station have matching tattoos featuring a skeleton holding a rifle."
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
"After Last Year's Hurricanes, Caribbean Lizards Are Better at Holding"
Atlantic:
Donihue and his team realized that they had a rare chance to see how natural disasters change the evolutionary fate of a group of animals. After all, they had been the last to observe the anoles before the hurricanes struck. So in October, they flew back to the islands.
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“To be honest, given how catastrophic hurricanes are, I thought it was plausible that survival would be random—that there wouldn’t be an advantage that would help [the lizards] survive,” he says. But when he compared the survivors’ measurements with those of the pre-hurricane population, he realized he was wrong.
Six lucky winners will get an infinity stone from Mondo
Also, six random fans will find an original illustration from @MattTaylorDraws along with a single Infinity Stone in their tubes.— MONDO (@MondoNews) July 25, 2018
To whomever finds the Soul Stone, remember it requires a sacrifice to possess it.
Shop Now: https://t.co/BND9O2dqGe pic.twitter.com/9lQXATk5zr
"Home DNA test results from the 5 million customers of 23andMe will now be used by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to design new drugs"
NBC:
One of the big obstacles to genetics research is getting enough people to donate their DNA and paying to sequence it. The 23andMe database delivers a huge number of customers who have already consented and whose DNA has already been partly sequenced.
Gorilla Channel update
NYT:
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel.
"Judges In California And South Carolina Order Carriers To Brick Prison Inmates’ Cellphones"
CBS:
California has since installed nearly 1,000 sophisticated metal detectors, scanners and secret security cameras in prisons to detect and deter the smuggling of cellphones and other contraband like drugs. That effort was paid for by Virginia-based Global Tel-Link, the nation’s largest prison phone company, from the projected $17 million it receives each year from California inmates and their families who use landlines to make phone calls that are monitored for security reasons.
Ten funny tweets
when you gotta commute but ball is life pic.twitter.com/lTwvAc8hzj— Annapurna Interactive (@A_i) July 25, 2018
This is truly one of the funniest shots in the history of film pic.twitter.com/mzk2hwl3FF— Collin Smith (@CSmithy16) July 19, 2018
— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) July 18, 2018
— 愛おしい動物💓 (@Wm1jL) July 20, 2018
OMG!!!! TERI IS COSPLAYING AS LOIS FREAKING LANE!!!! 😭🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/fWOOHVr1T2— hovergrl (@hovergrl) July 21, 2018
Was waitressing on a party of 12 and they asked if I would take their picture and I said sure, so I go to take the picture and the guy goes “1 2 3 Emily is pregnant!” And everyone’s faces were priceless and I might have shed a tear— Kayla (@2kKayla) July 22, 2018
Goodbye, Mark... pic.twitter.com/gpj0AazEEh— Tony Krackeler (@TonyKrackeler) July 17, 2018
I thought the CVS guy was going to ask me to join the rewards program but he said "enjoy your night" so I said "not today, thanks" and left.— Tinker Elle (@elle91) September 1, 2017
[wedding]— FROVO (@fro_vo) November 5, 2015
Priest: repeat after me
Groom: after me
P: ... [to bride] is he serious
Bride: no his name is gary
One can always be bribed to do pretty much anything with an ice-cream #CORRUPTION #walking #vulture #condor @walls pic.twitter.com/V8ONIcCn58— Condor Tweets (@condortweets) July 13, 2018
Gothic Ark; Cave suite; Glitched car
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How's about another big fella today? Cameroceras was an orthocone, an extinct group of cephalopods (like squid and octopodes) with a very long, straight shell. These were the largest predators in the Ordovician seas! pic.twitter.com/v6wean9F4Z— Abby Howard (@AbbyHoward) July 25, 2018
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Wargaming miniatures gallery
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A Warlord Titan’s fist in the hands of #Orks would be dead Killy. Just make sure you paint it red. Great looted wagon! MagickalMemories made it happen. Check it out https://t.co/2mRfDMPLrj #Warmongers pic.twitter.com/crT0zl3mHW— TJ_A (@theTJAtwell) July 22, 2018
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Sci-Fi Flower Knight, nostalgia in a distant future.@kingdomdeath #kingdomdeath #miniaturepainting pic.twitter.com/cH0UCKh4DF— vardek (@vardekminis) March 18, 2018
— OKAZAKI (@ExcaliburVfx) July 25, 2018
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*Buy Avengers vs. Predator miniatures at Amazon.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Celebrating a weed; Husk; Skylight
Vocês falam que vídeos de slime e gente cortando sabonete são satisfatórios de assistir.— Calú (@oicalu) July 17, 2018
Mas já viram cerâmica sendo cortada e pintada? (parte 2) pic.twitter.com/q4lL1aAxuv
Husk by Amilcar Pinna & Christina Strain pic.twitter.com/P81MF1F2Cr— Chris Arrant (@chrisarrant) July 21, 2018
hello, Starlight pic.twitter.com/XW2xbNumnl— 또자 (@TTO_JA) July 23, 2018
*Buy SDCC Flash Gordon badges at ebay.
"Danny Green Says He Played with Groin Injury, Tear Undetected by Spurs"
BR:
Green acknowledged his agent suggested he get a second opinion right away, but the guard trusted the San Antonio Spurs' medical staff, citing how well they had treated him in the past. And even with this latest development, he made it clear team doctors did a "great job" and "did everything they could."
However, he wishes in retrospect he had gone to see a specialist, who perhaps could have been more familiar with the injury or seen something different. And this situation is why, as Green said on the podcast, nobody should blame Kawhi Leonard for seeking a second opinion on his quad injury.
Ten funny tweets
Did you know: Animation is cool and good. pic.twitter.com/i5v9Kw6rT8— kViN (@Yuyucow) August 25, 2015
For one brief, exhilarating moment, I didn't realize this was a cosplay and thought he was actually taking orders#SDCC #SDCC2018 pic.twitter.com/oE7T81ce7g— emily 👻 @ SDCC (@peppersghosts) July 22, 2018
Wow. This has made my week. This is from the government's *own* publication about the history of government communications. They mistakenly included a Scarfolk poster which encourages the killing of children. Clearly, nobody thought it was too extreme. (via @CraigHeap) pic.twitter.com/PITafePTKe— Scarfolk Council (@Scarfolk) July 20, 2018
[me showering in a hotel, every time]— Brian Firenzi (@mrbrianfirenzi) July 7, 2018
Ok sample size of shampoo and bath gel, let's see what you can do
[2 minutes later]
Incredible. I am lathered beyond compare. Cleansing bubbles from tip to toe. I am a vision in white bathfoam. Astonishing products. Simply astonishing
An Alabama fan got the Crimson Tide groom’s cake he wanted, until he cut into to it. His LSU fan wife was waiting (📷 by @WAFB) pic.twitter.com/vaAr8OGBPO— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 23, 2018
No false advertising here pic.twitter.com/hIMnRBcSWq— Stickboy Bangkok (@StickboyBangkok) July 22, 2018
— Surreal Memes Bot (@MemesSurreal) July 22, 2018
Putting a bell around a cow's neck to circumvent its stealthiness is just wrong. I say let them hunt.— Piece (@Piecezilla) June 20, 2016
While leaving SDCC today I witnessed a Mercy rescuing a Reaper who got his cloak caught in the escalator pic.twitter.com/MS44CyINjT— Sophia Foster-Dimino (@hellophia) July 22, 2018
When your dog doesn’t like making friends pic.twitter.com/sYqkEi7JLX— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) July 21, 2018
Goodie bags given to some NFL players
Sports agencies repping NFL players spend time gathering products from companies to send to their players for training camps. Here’s the gift bag for @davidcanter clients. pic.twitter.com/eplX2fDFza— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 24, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Watch Dogs NPCs hate these stairs; Psychological warfare in Rainbow Six; Christopher Walken in a 90's FMV
So I was playing Watch Dogs 2 and I noticed that, for some reason, pedestrians prefer an alternate route to these particular stairs. pic.twitter.com/9uAqfGyyfo— Ben Peter Griffin (@GameGriffin) July 23, 2018
I can't believe that rainbow six siege introduced both psychological warfare as a valid strategy and corrective action in one single update. pic.twitter.com/qYaXA2OZ8R— be gay, do crimes (@honkifyourgay) July 16, 2018
The DOUBLE Fortnite flip!? 🤯 (via Kavon Mario) pic.twitter.com/LBFL2rcL33— Overtime (@overtime) July 18, 2018
Christopher Walken's acting in 1996 FMV game Ripper is simply astonishing. pic.twitter.com/AEwH2q5IQ8— Andy Kelly (@ultrabrilliant) July 18, 2018
Wargaming Miniatures: Space Marines Gallery
Still one of my personal favourite pieces I did recently. #warmongers #art #artist #illustration #horusheresy #fanart #painting #warhammer40k #whitescars #spacemarines #draw #Arte #digitalartist #portrait pic.twitter.com/7OMztAj4LZ— Charles E J Downman (@C_Ellwood) July 14, 2018
"first charter school executive elected to the governing board of the nation’s second-largest school system . . . pleads guilty to conspiracy and resigns"
LAT:
He became board president as a result of a first-ever majority elected with substantial financial support from charter school backers.
...
But the campaign finance problems surfaced within months of his becoming board president. Rodriguez had known about the investigation for as long as two years but had kept the matter secret from his board colleagues, according to other school board members.
"Sounds Like Everyone Should Lay Off That Cubs Fan Who 'Stole' A Baseball From A Kid"
Deadspin:
Sunday outrage gives way to Monday fact-checking. If you were one of the people who . . . got very angry at a short video clip appearing to show an adult Cubs fan intercepting a ball meant for a child, you can stand down. The man, it now appears, is a good guy who does not deserve this at all, and indeed gave away every ball he got—including, earlier, one to that very same child.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
From Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
(Excerpt found here):
To those Army fuckheads, [the decision not to deliver the declaration of war until after the Pearl Harbor attack] is nothing -- just a typo, happens all the time. Isoroku Yamamoto has given up on trying to make them understand that the Americans are grudge-holders on a level that is inconceivable to the Nipponese, who learn to swallow their pride before they learn to swallow solid food. Even if he could get Tojo and his mob of shabby, ignorant thugs to comprehend how pissed off the Americans are, they'd laugh it off. What're they going to do about it? Throw a pie in your face, like the Three Stooges? Ha, ha, ha! Pass the sake and bring me another comfort girl!
Isoroku Yamamoto spent a lot of time playing poker with Yanks during his years in the States, smoking like a chimney to deaden the scent of their appalling aftershave. The Yanks are laughably rude and uncultured, of course; this hardly constitutes a sharp observation. Yamamoto, by contrast, attained some genuine insight as a side-effect of being robbed blind by Yanks at the poker table, realizing that the big freckled louts could be dreadfully cunning. Crude and stupid would be okay -- perfectly understandable, in fact.
But crude and clever is intolerable; this is what makes those red headed ape men extra double super loathsome. Yamamoto is still trying to drill the notion into the heads of his [Army] partners in the big Nipponese scheme to conquer everything between Karachi and Denver.... Come on guys, Yamamoto keeps telling them, the world is not just a big Nanjing. But they don't get it. If Yamamoto were running things, he'd make a rule: each Army officer would have to take some time out from bayoneting Neolithic savages in the jungle, go out on the wide Pacific in a ship, and swap 16-inch shells with an American task force for a while. Then maybe, they'd understand they're in a real scrap here.
This is what Yamamoto thinks about, shortly before sunrise, as he clambers onto his Mitsubishi G4M bomber in Rabaul, the scabbard of his sword whacking against the frame of the narrow door. The Yanks call this type of plane "Betty," an effeminatizing gesture that really irks him. Then again, the Yanks name even their own planes after women, and paint naked ladies on their sacred instruments of war! If they had samurai swords, Americans would probably decorate the blades with nail polish....
They are approaching the Imperial Navy airbase at Bougainville, right on schedule, at 9:35. A shadow passes overhead and Yamamoto glances up to see the silhouette of an escort, way out of position, dangerously close to them. Who is that idiot? Then the green island and the blue ocean rotate into view as his pilot puts the Betty into a power dive....
They enter the jungle in level flight, and Yamamoto is astonished how far they go before hitting anything big. Then the plane is bludgeoned wide open by mahogany trunks, like baseball bats striking a wounded sparrow, and he knows it's over.... As his seat tears loose from the broken dome and launches into space, he grips his sword, unwilling to disgrace himself by dropping his sacred weapon, blessed by the emepror, even in this last instant of his life....
He realizes something: The Americans must have done the impossible: broken all of their codes. That explains Midway, it explains the Bismarck Sea, Hollandia, everything. It especially explains why Yamamoto -- who ought to be sipping green tea and practicing calligraphy in a misty garden -- is, in point of fact, on fire and hurtling through the jungle at a hundred miles per hour in a chair, closely pursued by tons of flaming junk. He must get word out! The codes must all be changed! This is what he is thinking when he flies head-on into a hundred-foot-tall Octomelis sumatrana.
NBC/WSJ POLL: Donald Trump’s approval rating has risen to 45%, with disapproval at 52%.— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 23, 2018
Among Republicans, 88% approve.
That’s the highest intra-party rating of any president at this stage since the dawn of modern polling, except Bush post-9/11.https://t.co/vqbr6iReCr pic.twitter.com/K9lUmJbXv8
Maybe Johnny Manziel will get to play
Here is THE TRADE: Hamilton sends QB Johnny Manziel, OT Tony Washington and OL Landon Rice for DE Jamaal Westerman, WR Chris Williams and 2 first-round picks in 2020 and 2021. #CFL #donedeal— David William Naylor (@TSNDaveNaylor) July 22, 2018
How desperate were the @MTLAlouettes to make this happen? Consider they have lost 15 of their past 16 games dating back to last August. Obvious question is could they not have made this deal in the off-season instead of Week 6. #CFL #Als— David William Naylor (@TSNDaveNaylor) July 22, 2018
We appreciate that fans who purchased Manziel jerseys might need some new gear.— Hamilton Tiger-Cats (@Ticats) July 23, 2018
We’re pleased to offer a complimentary $100 gift card to make sure you’re ready for the BIG game this Saturday at @TimHortonsField.
Email onlinestore@ticats.ca and we’ll coordinate the details. pic.twitter.com/vWaqcfLq5q
The Top Gun move
Quintero pulls the Top Gun move on the defender, Schuller buries the pass #HitTheBrakesHellFlyRightByUs pic.twitter.com/YuunfIUVqK— Born Salty (@cjzero) July 22, 2018
Here's Quora on whether the move would work in real life dogfighting.
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