Sunday Overnight Open Thread - January 25, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Did you get a lot of snow in your area today? If so, how much? If not, what did you do today? Step on in and let us know what's on your mind tonight!

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Gun Thread: Bigly Storm Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Bigly Storm Edition?

Yikes, people! El Bigly Storm-o is here! I'm near Washington D.C., writing this on Saturday and reasonably prepared for a prolonged power outage should that happen. By the time this goes up Sunday, assuming I still have power and an innernet connection, the storm should be close to wrapping up here. It's going to be colder than a box of penguin turds for the foreseeable future, so whatever we get is going to be around a while. Were you in the path of the storm? Feel free to share your story in the comments tonight!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: It's Chilly Outside, Time To Make Chili!

This is what winter is all about! What's not to love about crappy winter weather? it is an opportunity to stock the refrigerator and freezer with all sorts of stuff that requires a few hours on the stove or in the oven, and is deliciously warming and hearty.

Chili is particularly well suited for cooking on a cold and windy day, because it is easy, infinitely malleable no matter what your tastes are, and is a perfect way to use up those extra carrots and cans of beans!

Yeah...yeah... chili can be whatever you want it to be!

''When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.''

So the chili above has black beans and hominy, and a very pleasant hit of chipotle. The lead actor is of course beef, because I am not a savage, but pork would work in a pinch. And even chicken, though that changes things considerably. And I guess you could use lamb? Anyone ever make lamb chili?

One thing I do is saute the herbs and spices before I add the liquid. It seems to accentuate their flavors, and even if it doesn't, the house smells great!

Anyone have a particular trick they use to make their special, world-famous chili?

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First World Problems...

Obviously the solution is to find a finish carpenter who knows how to steam bend wood, and bend the hardwood floor to match the curve of the oriental rug.

[Seriously, that is a very old rug that I inherited. Hand made, and very nice...and large!]

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Does The West Still Have The Oxford Martyr's Spark?

Hugh Latimer was the Bishop of Worcester, and a convert to the ideas of the reformation, for which he was tried and convicted of heresy, and along with his friend Nicholas Ridley, burned at the stake in 1555. They, along with Thomas Cranmer, who was burned a few months later, are called "The Oxford Martyrs."

His final words are a testament to the strength and resolve of men of the West.

Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God's grace shall never be put out.

Whether that resolve remains in Great Britain remains to be seen, But Western culture is no stranger to religious wars. The Reformation sparked conflict for a few hundred years, and it was brutal. The 30 Years War killed off at least 5,000,000 people, and smaller but no less vicious conflicts spread across Europe.

Europeans once fought and died to protect their religions and culture. From our lofty perch in the 21st century, it seems almost quaint that they would disagree so profoundly about what many of us see as, simply, Christianity. Regardless of the reasons for the conflict, we must respect the fortitude that they displayed.

Is there that same fortitude in the current population of Europe? Yes, certainly, among the Muslim invaders! But it remains to be seen whether there is any fight left in the descendants of the people who bled and died for their faith, their country, their culture.

Who will be the men who light the candle that shows the West that our culture is worth fighting for...and dying for?

PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 1-25-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

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Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (for masochists only!). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 25 January 2026

Top Story

• Bitlocker: The encryption technology where everyone has access to your data except you. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Microsoft's Bitlocker is infamous for suddenly enabling itself without you explicitly going through the setup process so that neither you nor anybody else has any idea what the encryption key is, and you data is simply gone.
  
  But if you do go through the setup process, it automatically shares your key with Microsoft so the government can ask for and receive your keys.
  
  Which government?
  
  All of them.

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Saturday Night Club ONT - January 24, 2026 [Double Trouble]

Welcome to Club ONT - A Double Shot of Double Trouble from The Disco and The Dino.

Worried about snow? We're not! Club's open and ready to serve. Just please stomp your boots a few times on the mat before coming in, OK?

Are you on weather watch? Share your local weather reports. Snow? Ice? Sleet? Rain? Sunshine?

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 1/24/2026

Wolfgang Petersen

Few directors have all-around strengths, the ability to see every aspect of a production from pre-production through sound mixing and determine what's best for the story, for the film as a whole. Most noteworthy directors tend to have groups of strengths, certain parts of the production where their attention and skill is most directly applied to their films. Wolfgang Petersen wasn't an all around strong director, but he did have one particular strength: the sequence.

The Sequence Director is actually really interesting because while scripts may end up having issues, the strength of the sequence done really well is its own thrill and joy. John Ford was actually a sequence director according to his own writers, not really understanding narrative form but understanding exactly how to put together a sequence for film. Wolfgang Petersen feels like a similar filmmaker, just without a strong studio system to back him up with a stable of quality writers.

Moving from German television to Hollywood and then getting hired from one job to the next in ever-increasingly large budgeted productions, Petersen proved that he was a man for the time. Taking simple concepts like a president needing to fight terrorists on Air Force One and delivering them with aggressive energy in clearly filmed sustained sequences, Petersen became one of the most powerful and sought-after directors in Hollywood for about a decade. I don't know if that's what he had dreamed of his career being, but he made the most of it while he was there.

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Hobby Thread - January 24, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin it landed on wood carving and tools.

[Top photo courtesy Bird Rock Doc]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 24

Courtesy Terry Glenn

Gotta watch 'em

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan. 24

Filbert Catkins with hoarfrost

Hope everyone in the paths of the big storms is safe and warm. In your honor, some frosty photos from HalDallMD:

Hoarfrost on our trees. Had ice on everything for a few days.

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The WEF has been a little different this year

DataRepublican (small r) at WEF

We have more challenging weather here in the USA than they seem to have in Davos this year, but I was surprised to see reports from DataRepublican as she is in the process of releasing a book. The recent reports of her deafness are confirmed by "X" posts by her long-time interpreter in Davos, as well as a few reports from her Mom. She is even more impressive than I had thought she was.

From her pinned "X" post article: The World Economic Forum Doesn’t Think It Rules the World. That’s the Problem.

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Nimrod)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Say a prayer or three for our Morons to survive the winter weather blasting the country.
3) If you must run with sharp objects. Take it outside.
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 24 January 2026

Top Story

• Yeah, I'm going to stay right here in my insulated, double-glazed, air-conditioned bunker for a week.
  
  
  
• You can get an AMD Ryzen 9800X3D, an Asus X870 motherboard, and 32GB of RAM for $939 at Newegg right now - and even get a bonus mouse. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's a $480 CPU, a $300 motherboard, and memory that did cost around $100 but suddenly finds itself at $440. And a $125 mouse that isn't worth $125 or it wouldn't be included for free.
  
  
  
• Just one small problem: Asus is currently reviewing - though not recalling - all of its 800-series motherboards over a string of failures specifically involving the 9800X3D CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  ASRock has been battling this for months. It's rare, but seems to keep happening.
  
  
  
• Oh, and the faster 9850X3D is here. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's only slightly faster, but it's only slightly more expensive. If you were planning on a 9800X3D build - or upgrading an existing system that already has DDR5 RAM - it's not a compelling option but not an awful one either.

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Iceout ONT

I hope those of you impacted by the storm are keeping warm and safe. I've got gas, kerosene, propane, generators, oil lamps, firewood and winter clothing, so we should be snug and warm here, even if the rest of Texas loses it's mind. In the meantime, here's a little advice:

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Winter Storm Watch Cafe

Hever Cottage, UK

ICYMI: Cat really takes a routine shaming hard.

As the weather turns bad, try to be like this dog and just enjoy it.

When they think no one is watching...

A "smart menu."

No relationship is ever completely equal.

Old pups are best pups. More evidence.

Backing down a bully.

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The Week In Woke

Trans-crazy baby-influencer "Miss Rachel" -- she makes videos "teaching" little children about how great transgenderism is -- liked an antisemitic comment demanding, "Free America from the Jews."

She later "apologized," claiming it was an accident.

But then when a Hamas-linked account wrote that the Jews left that antisemitic "Free America from Jews" comment themselves, Miss Rachel affirmed that comment, writing "ooooooohhh."

Like, "oooooooohhh, nice catch, you caught those tricky Jews!"

She's very apologetic, though. These are all just little accidents.

Ooops!

Ooopsie!

Variety ran a " " " story " " " consisting of five liberals whining that Bari Weiss doesn't acknowledge that they, her inferiors, should treat them as her superiors.

Jennifer Sey has some thoughts about the bottom bitches of any company who are quite certain they know better than the boss:

Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey

When I became the Chief Marketing Officer at Levi's, at about 2 months in, I had some mid-level know it all come into my office to tell me everyone hated me, I was steering the ship into oblivion. She told me everyone knew I was doing a terrible job. (The brand had been in decline for over 10 years.)

What I had done in my first two months:

1) Say no one could go on trips anymore unless they had a role at the photo shoot or event. No more boondoggles.

2) No drinking at events or concerts we were hosting. We were there to work, not party.

2) Say Marketing needed to feature actual product in the ads.

3) Say we needed to move away from dark and moody and into the realm of fun - because people have fun in jeans.

Awful, right?!

She wanted me to know, she said, she was trying to help. (She put her feet on my desk while saying this.)

Needless to say, this was not a person who was very good at her job. And I wasn't doing mine to be liked so I didn't care if "everybody hated me". I was trying to turn a business around that had been flailing. I took the responsibility seriously.

Six years later, we had a very successful IPO.

2 years after that I became the brand president.

These people complaining about new leadership are lame. They always do it. They want it how it was, even if how it was wasn't working. And it's even lamer that @Variety writes about this like it's news.

Keep going @bariweiss.

Fat Female Webster Impersonator Jasmine Ratchet is now posing as rootin'-tootin' rightwing patriot, saying that she "owns firearms" and that she's driven a farm vehicle at some point.

She is a farm vehicle. I don't really know what that means but she is very heavy.

Died Suddenly
@DiedSuddenly_

A Pakistani doctor was arrested in Virginia for performing c-sections and hysterectomies on unsuspecting American women when they were most vulnerable.

He would wait for them to be under the influence of labor medication and sterilize them after delivery of their babies.

The hospital reportedly ignored red flags for years, overlooking concerns and reports because he generated over 18 million dollars in revenue for the hospital.

If you are an American, think twice about hiring a foreign doctors from countries that hate us.

"Hello, I am a biological woman and if you can't accept that you're delusional."

Inez Stepman responding to "Conserving Conservatism" Bill Kristol's claim that he has known many men who successfully transformed into women:

Inez Stepman
@InezFeltscher

The trajectory of the "conservative condemning the right" is basically the same one trod by porn actresses. The first time you open your kimono is the most valuable, and thereafter you find yourself doing increasingly humiliating and degrading acts just to stay relevant.

BTW I do believe that Bill Kristol has frequent interactions with men in dresses.

AWFL mother scares her three and five year old shitless by telling them fake stories about ICE "just trying to take all the immigrants" and shooting random lesbians.

Virginia Democrat: Republicans will bring back slavery unless we redistrict and gerrymander the state to eliminate all Republican congressmen.

This Person Place or Thing has a dream: He wants to be the first tranny to receive a womb transplant, so that he can then have an embryo implanted, and then abort it.

I have no idea why the public has turned on these nasty psychotics. None at all.

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Microplastics: The Invisible Killers
Or, You Know, Maybe Not

The great microplastics panic: Was it all just 99% bullshit?

I know a lot of you are saying "of course it was, dipshit."

I kinda-sorta bought into it at a low level. Microplastics were claimed to be a potential disruptor of testosterone. I didn't buy into it seriously, but I did buy steel straws instead of plastic ones. That's a pretty low level of buy-in. I think they cost me six buck.

After at least a decade or two of telling everyone their bodies were filled up with microscopic plastic chains in our brains, internal organs, and balls, some scientists now say it's mostly bullshit, the tests the alarmists are relying on can't tell "microplastics" from ordinary bodily fat.

'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a 'joke'

High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns "a bombshell".

Studies claiming to have revealed micro and nanoplastics in the brain, testes, placentas, arteries and elsewhere were reported by media across the world, including the Guardian. There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear, and an explosion of research has taken off in this area in recent years.

However, micro- and nanoplastic particles are tiny and at the limit of today's analytical techniques, especially in human tissue. There is no suggestion of malpractice, but researchers told the Guardian of their concern that the race to publish results, in some cases by groups with limited analytical expertise, has led to rushed results and routine scientific checks sometimes being overlooked.

The Guardian has identified seven studies that have been challenged by researchers publishing criticism in the respective journals, while a recent analysis listed 18 studies that it said had not considered that some human tissue can produce measurements easily confused with the signal given by common plastics.

So, plastics are mostly made up of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, which are of course the building blocks of living tissue, too. So the "signals" are just indicating that carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen are present, and these high priests of The Science (TM) are saying "Must be plastic!!!"

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Leftwing Lunatics Now Pushing Pregnancy Denialism, Claiming That Trump Must Be Faking the Three Recent Pregnancies In His Administration

Second Lady (and "jeet," according to Tucker Carlson's friend Nick Fuentes) Usha Vance announced that she's pregnant.

She'll be the first Second Lady to give birth while in office in 150 years.

Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance, has already made history in a few ways: she's the first person of color to become Second Lady and the youngest Second Lady since the Truman Administration. She may also soon be the first sitting Second Lady in modern history to bear a child in over 150 years.

"We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy," the Vice President shared on social media Tuesday. "Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July."

In the message, the Vice President thanked military doctors for "[taking] excellent care of our family" and staff members "who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children."

J.D., 41, and Usha, 40, met at Yale University and married in 2014. They have three kids: Ewan, 8; Vivek, 5; and Mirabel Rose, 4.

Before Usha Vance, the only sitting Second Lady in modern history to give birth was President Ulysses S. Grant's Vice President Schuyler Colfax's wife Ellen, who had a son in 1870; birth records before then are unclear.

The Trump White House extended its congratulatory message to the Vances, and in a post on X, called itself "The most pro-family administration in history!"

Vance, in particular, is an outspoken pro-natalist. He has sounded the alarm on declining birthrates, branded Democrats as "childless cat ladies" and "anti-family and anti-child," and called Americans' lack of desire to have children as a "civilizational crisis."

In May, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she was pregnant with her second child. This will be the first child born to a sitting press secretary in history.

All of this was too much for leftwing women and their haunted vaginas filled with the ghosts of aborted babies, who decided this must be some kind of conspiracy.

Why, getting pregnant just isn't something women do! (It's what men do!)

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