Twitter has grabbed a small gardening spade and waded into the Augean stables. AFP:

Good luck. In related news, here's why I like Louis C.K.: He realized he was being a jerk on Twitter, apologized personally to the object of some stupid and infantile tweets, and realized that whatever you write while stoned is probably junk:

I'm still on season 4 As for those who think Twitter is useless nonsense, well, your opinion is nonsense, and useless. It's all who you follow. The coolest tweet of the week:

If someone had told my 12-year-old self that I would be seeing messages like this on my pocket global communication device, I would have been very happy: so it's true! The future is going to be just as cool as I hoped!

Well, no moon base. But then there are sentences like this, which is absolutely true: As one of our spacecraft approaches Pluto, our probe around Mercury is reaching the end of its life.

There's a countdown here at Messenger's home page. By the way, MESSENGER is all caps because it's a long way to Earth so it has to shout. Actually, no. It's this: "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging." Which happened to spell Messenger.

It's done great work.

VotD A round-up of action movie cliches, complete with Sly Stallone, gathered together for the noble purpose of selling bread.

SIZZLEREveryone's trying really hard to let everyone else know they have seen the Sizzler promotional film, and that they have the proper opinion about it. That was Wednesday and Thursday on the internet. Friday the Sizzler story reaches the Neutron Star phase of its life, which is the GIF. So:

We can now forget about Sizzler until it enters the Black Hole phase, which is even shorter GIFs in Kinja comment sections at year's end.