Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 25 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles typically originate from Twitter, RSS and email; videos come from a variety of sources. Any suggestions? Send a note to submit@twistedsifter.com!

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25 IMAGES

– Dear Santa, How are you? I’m good | link to requested product
– Poetry in motion | The exact opposite
– This is what happens when snow covers a parking lot
– Delicious timelapse of a plaited loaf
– The deadliest of all wind instruments
– BATH TIME!!!11!1!
– This guy’s mom didn’t know how to take a screenshot so she scanned her phone instead
– *Bonus feature* people will think you are insane
– Seems excessive
– Work with what you got
– Let it go dude
– Well the important thing is that you scored
– Trambampoline!
– Nothing to see here
– Divers hired for ‘dead body retrieval’ find cook who survived 3 days under sea in shipwrecked air bubble
– Confetti Kamikaze
– When blue whales feed
– Time for some lava
– This was spotted at a research lab
– Mega drift
– Sorcery!
– Or else…
– Don’t let the errorists win
– Tail trolling
– And that concludes another glorious week *wink*
 

10 ARTICLES

– Reuters Most Striking Photos of 2013 (Warning: some are graphic)
– Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
– The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People
– The World Behind a Simple Shirt in Five Chapters
– Police kill someone in Iceland for the first time ever
– Walmart Is Selling Banksy’s “Destroy Capitalism” Print
– The Evolution of the College Library in Pictures
– Get Busy: Pharrell’s Productivity Secrets
– NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
– Nelson Mandela’s Epitaph, in His Own Words (thx for sharing Gilchrist!)

5 VIDEOS

Everyone including the pilots survived 🙂

crush leaves everyday

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