Sociotard

To be fair, they do believe they tested another nuke, just not that it was a full on H-bomb.

and they came to our state.

Militia group Domestic Terrorist occupies federal wildlife building in Oregon If these guys were doing a peaceful protest, taking over the same facility, unarmed, then nonviolently resisting when the police came to take them away, I would admire them. But they didn't. So now the feds have to decide whether to resolve it like Christopher Dorner, or whether to let the turds win. I did not know that. That makes me angry. Here, might as well hear it from their POV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H264Z2v80vg

Maybe St Peter will be so amused he'll "rubber" stamp the guy

I suspect he wanted the coins that were in the machine. Still, died bombing a condom dispenser open. Is Schoppingen the Florida of Germany?

http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/12/hamster-on-the-run-wins-funniest-animal-photo-of-2015-5496635/

Watch this cameraman who specializes in running and jumping, without shakeycam. It takes a ninja to film a ninja. https://www.facebook.com/TheJasonPaul/videos/922955271107866/ The cameraman goes by gimbalninja.

Cards against humanity bought a Picasso painting. They're offering some paid subscribers a poll to decide its fate: donate to a museum or chop into ity bits and all the subscribers get a bit. http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/22/10643538/cards-against-humanity-picasso-hanukkah

My mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts

Seeing the emergency butter import line by the longship crew needed line conjured funny images

I know nothing about architecture, but this proposed skyscraper looks pretty boss, even it does look like it could maybe summon steampunk Gozer. http://www.mfga.com/41-w-57th-st

The bird gets all the best lines.

Flex, by Ferrett Steinmetz Lots of fun. It's like Breaking Bad goes Urban Fantasy. Magic is based on obsession. So if you are an obsessed cook, one day you can do cooking magic. A culinaromancer or gastromancer. And all the mancers can do one trick: they can create a drug called Flex that is their magic, devoid of special effects or foci, that everyday joes can take to do magic. The downside is the side effects. If you break the laws of physics, either with your own magic or on Flex, you get unluck. A little magic stubs your toe, a lot fractures your hip, or kills you, or flattens your apartment building. That last is why it is illegal. Anyway, I had lots of fun with this book.

Posting this here so I can find it again when I get home: John Danaher - The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation https://vimeo.com/144630904 (discusses the possibility of governance by algorithm. Starts with an example of a guy who had his drivers license revoked because some face matching software did it automatically

We'll cross the streams.

Anybody want to tell Target? EDIT: and the issue has been resolved. It was funny while it lasted.

Someone expects the Rickshaw driver to tip THEM.

Might not be the right thread for this, but the new Bavarian police uniforms bear a resemblance to Dark Helmet, from Spaceballs. https://www.rt.com/news/323619-bavaria-police-dark-helmet/

Oh, and an update: Dear Santa, for Christmas I would like to vote for a candidate in the general election who is a military isolationist. Please? I've been pretty good.

Turkey just shot down a Russian jet. Both pilots dead.

"So what's the big deal with manspreading anyway?"

Hmm, I don't know if I've heard anyone demanding this particular reskinning, but I have seen very positive reactions to a proposal to flip roles (Zelda is a hero who must save prince Link) http://dresdencodak.com/2013/04/11/the-legend-of-zelda-clockwork-empire/ I also have seen proposals to reskin other characters. for example to remake James Bond as Jane Bond http://www.themarysue.com/dame-diana-rigg-lesbian-bond/ So I would say that some reskinning is positive, especially if it is done as its own story rather than as a side character in the original story (Thor as Woman is better than Batgirl). It at least allows women to be more present in the medium, which is important as the roster of top heroes is a little ossified. It's a lot easier to say that Captain America is Black now than it is to create a new black superhero and make him exceedingly popular. It will never be possible to satisfy all the feminists. The group is too diverse, wanting too many things in too many grades. Even if all the superheroes were replaced with original concept lady superheroes, some feminists (Sarkeesian, I believe) don't want heroes who use violence at all. So, accept that we won't ever be good enough because there is no good enough. But Reskinning can be good, and should not interfere with attempts to make original female heroes

David Bowie music video. Lovecraftian science fiction. Madness!

I really hope I don't read about a vigilante attack next. But hopefully fewer animals are abused.