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

– Things in reverse are just better | Exhibit B | Exhibit C
– A photo of bats… rotated 180 degrees
– Take a bow
– Voting in Australia
– So you want socks huh?
– Baby don’t care
– Is this your cat?
– He called his bluff
– Voted Rockford, Illinois’ #1 Mexican Restaurant
– My favourite place in the UK | More info
– Taking hula hooping to the next level
– The only way to eat goldfish crackers | Also accetapble
– Blunt Advertising
– He thought there would be salmon
– Best parking spot ever
– An unfortunately placed screen graphic
– IT WAS ME
– Helium foam printing is cool
– How to make your own low-profile tires
– How chicken wire is made
– Heroes with a sense of humour
– Erecting 1 WTC
– This nursery needs to calm down
– So this guy has been showing up in random places… here too… obligatory gif
– Good Guy Refrigerator | Great Guy Pizza Store! | Good Boy

 

10 ARTICLES

– This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
– The Unique Genius of Hong Kong’s Public Transportation System
– 18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style (thx for sharing @MikeChops!)
– The Science of Snobbery
– Voyager 1 is officially the first human-made spacecraft to leave our solar system
– Quora Asks: Is getting rich worth it?
– Vladimir Putin Does an Op-Ed for the New York Times: A Plea for Caution From Russia | A response from The Atlantic
– The Geeks on the Front Lines
– Space Farming: The Final Frontier

 

5 VIDEOS

 

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