September 13, 2025

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1) I only saw three movies in the last three weeks
2) They were all French: The classic war-orphan story from 1952, "Forbidden Games"; The "last of the French New Wave" 1981 film "Diva", and; from 1991, "The Lovers on the Bridge"
3) You guys aren't really into French films
4) Nobody's gonna talk movies, are they?
Rhinoceros
Imagine, if you will, Night of the Living Dead but with rhinoceroses. That would be a pretty good summary of Eugene Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, if you added in that the play is meant, at some level, to be a comedy. It was a movie I had always wanted to see, despite not knowing of its existence until a week ago. (I did know of the play, though.)
I stole this from a site called "Not Coming To A Theater Near You."
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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, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on surfing and waves.
I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests. You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (174) | Trackbacks (Suck)

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Hi KT, Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility. Thanks again for all the posts you do! -scampydogThanks, scampydog! You described that landscaping perfectly!
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The far-right activist, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory viewsOf course, none of his ideological opponents' views were inflammatory. Nor their debating techniques. Fortunately, some on the left have been coming around.
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[Yes Tommy, pray for Mis. Hum.]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. What a trying week it has been. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Whitefish Bay) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate within the AoSHQ guidelines.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend.
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Top Story
- Intel has announced two new desktop CPUs. Do not buy them. (Tom's Hardware)
The first is the i5 120, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 12400 from 2022, mostly because that's what it is. Admittedly not an awful part, particularly if you didn't run a workload that would make good use of the "efficiency" cores, because it didn't have any of those.
The second is the i5 110, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 10400 from 2020, mostly because... Yeah. The 10th generation chips didn't even have "efficiency" cores yet, so you're safe there. But you will need to find a five year old motherboard and DDR4 RAM for it, because none of this modern stuff will work.
Oh, and it's 14nm.
- Arm has introduced four new CPUs. (Notebook Check)
The C1 Ultra replaces the X925 (which replaced the X4) as Arm's new flagship mobile core.
The C1 Premium replaces the A725 (latest in the same line as the A78, for example) as a sub-flagship core.
The C1 Pro also replaces the A725 which is a bit confusing, but is optimised for smaller size and lower power.
And the C1 Nano replaces the A520 (latest in the same line as the good old A53) as a core that also exists and powers your budget tablet probably.
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September 12, 2025
Howdy to all my gray box friends. Boy, it's been quite a week, huh? It seems that we are living in interesting times.
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The Taiwanese Blue Magpie
Lovely plumage

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"You have no idea of the fire you have ignited in this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around this world like a battle cry."
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Some words from ExpressWriters.com:
Bumfuzzle. To confuse. Probably derived from the Old English dumfoozle, which is even better. Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus. Gardyloo. Apparently this was the warning people in Edinburough would shout to passers-by in the street when they were about to dump their latrines (piss-pots, I guess) on to their heads. A toilet in a castle was called a garderobe. It was just a closet of a room (a robe, I guess, like a wardobe) with a seat and a hole. The hole went down to a cesspit or else right down outside the wall, perhaps to fill the moat with brown trout. So I think "gardeloo" must be something like "Look out, I'm using the garderobe." Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie. Snickersnee. A long cut-and-thrust knife of the 1700s. Widdershins. Counter-clockwise. Lollygag. To waste time, to lie around lazily. Flibbertigibbet. Someone who can't stop talking, or who is flighty. I know this one from Erg's favorite movie, Joe vs. The Volcano. Some words from Mental Floss:
Quakebuttock: A coward. Usage: David French is a quakebuttock, though if that is from cowardice or sexual anticipation, I cannot say for certain. Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing. This is interesting to me because I've been watching British detective shows and keep hearing the word "humbug," but used in the sense of "a kind of hard candy" rather than "nonsense." Maybe the original word used to say "nonsense" was "humdudgeon," but then people started using the shorter "humbug." Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping. Is that related to "hugger-mugger," meaning jumbled confusion or secrecy? It must. Another few from Mental Floss: Bumfodder: toilet paper. Well that makes sense. Betweenity. Indecision, being of two minds. Clinchpoop. Someone lacking the social graces and gentlemanly bearing that we all share.
Scarebabe. Something that scares a baby. Not sure why you need a word for that. Everything scares a baby, except a boob.
Ventoseness.Windy, as in full of empty talk, or full of flatulence.
Yex. An archaic word for a hiccup or burb. More from RD.com: Pronk. A weak or foolish person Fubsy. Squat or portly. Usage: Jonah Goldberg is a fubsy fellow, and also likes kahhk. Firkin: I just recently found out that "barrel" is a specific size/shape of cask -- a middle sort of size -- and that different casks have different names. "Firkin" is the smallest of these.

A few very old words this I picked up from this very, very old dictionary. Cheaping. A market. I think I sort of knew that: "Cheap Street" in old towns means "Market Street." Not "Low Quality Goods Street." Update: I realized recently that all of the towns in Agatha Christie books named "Chipping something," like "Chipping Cleghorn," mean "the market at Cleghorn."
Clutch. Apparently this means "claw." Aha! So "in his fiendish clutches" means "in his fiendish claws." Compass. "To compass" as a verb means to "search for something." Copener. A lover. Like a copulator. Couth. Known. The past participle of the Old English cunnan, to know, which survives in the word ken. Beyond my ken = beyond my knowledge. I guess "uncouth" might mean uneducated? Or it can just mean "unknown" as in "a stranger," or "a foreigner," maybe. Dayrim. Dawn, break of day. Frippet. This is a good one: a pretty, frivolous young woman. Almost like flibbertigibbet. Sozzled. Drunk. Swive. To copulate. H/T commenter: bafflegab, meaning gobblygook. Actually I know who said that, it was weft-cut loop. (Most of this post was written almost a year ago. I don't know when weft-cut loop said that. He probably doesn't even remember.) I just came across this word, searching for a synonym for "ramble:" pootle: to move somewhere slowly and with no real purpose. Banana Dream added this one today:
unbosom intransitive verb
1. To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
2. To relieve (oneself) of troublesome thoughts or feelings.
3. To reveal one's thoughts or feelings.
4. to make known, disclose (as information previously kept secret)
| ...unbosomed his fear of dying only to his closest friends.. I'm going to use this in an engineering report somewhere. Just watch me. I'll sneak it in somehow.
I shelled out $15 (American) for a book called The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words and I'm not eating that kind of outlay as a pure loss so here are some from the M's:
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Some nice posts about normie liberals waking up to the absolute cesspool of murder ideation and mental illness of their fellow lefties, and declaring they're walking away.
Also, some various less-political normies who now feel the courage to say enough is enough. 1. 2. (Though she doesn't say she's a Democrat and might not be. But she's a nurse calling out the Murder Nurses who are praising the murder.) 3. A Christian who's always been afraid to speak up, speaks up. 4. As Kyle Becker remarks someone in management had "The Talk" with Katy Tur and told this braindead Tit Model that she was not allowed to advocate for murder on TV. I guess it's a rule this Keith-Olbermann Dick-Riding Whore wasn't aware of. 5. "I can't be a liberal no more." 6. The liberal who asked the last question of Charlie Kirk, about transgenders, was trying to prove that the left wasn't violent. Now he confesses that he sees that they are. 7. A guy who is almost certainly a member of the Rainbow Coalition says he's quitting the left. 8. Another gay man says "I'm out." 9. 10. Left-leaning woman with rainbow-colored hair and a nosering says "I'm done." 11. "I'm leaving the Democrat Party. 12. TikTok male says he's disgusted by the videos laughing at murder. 13. Gay guy goes off. 14. "Left-leaning moderate" woman walks away. 15. Black man is donzo. 16. Older normie Democrat male is out. 17. Chinese national says "People who celebrate murder is asshoe." 18. Lifelong Democrat and Asian immigrant says "I just registered Republican."
Plus: Some brain-damaged Assassination Inciters Find Out.
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Glenn GreenwaldNo, Gleen, it's not the same. We are not attacking the left for having differences of political opinion. We are not attacking them for having weird beliefs. We are attacking them for celebrating assassination and murder. We are attacking them for calling for the next "pew pew" against the President Donald Trump. If Trump goes down -- we are at war. You are right that most words are not violence. But some words are: Specifically those calling for someone to be killed, or praising an assassin for killing someone, with hopes that additional assassins will emerge. That is what we are condemning. I do grant that some people are making the mistake of attempting to criminalize mere strong political invective -- but what we're really incensed by is that Taylor Lorenz continues to praise Luigi Mangione for his assassination and absolutely zero people in the supposedly "Respectable" media have even so much as chastised her for it. Indeed, CNN had her on to giggle about it. Either the left stops openly glorifying violence and calling for Trump or other Republicans to be "pew pewed" -- their puerile, cutesy way of saying "shot" -- or the right is going to start publishing our own Pew Pew Lists. This is not a difference of political opinion. We on the right will not have a "debate" about whether leftwing assassins are allowed to murder us, our friends, or our leaders. That will be a civil war situation. It's not up for debate. Leftwingers arguing that it is justified to murder me, my friends, and my family, and my president, are not offering a political position. They are openly conspiring to commit murder, and we don't debate murderers. We arrest them and, if necessary, we kill them. The left cannot put itself above the social compact. The basline, rock-bottom social compact is just "you and I are in the same tribe, the same nation, and I agree to not murder you if you agree not not murder me. And we also agree not to incite our more dangerous, mentally-unstable members to kill each other, either." If we do not have that, we do not have a country, and we are in state of war. The rules of society do not apply, only the rules of war and violence do.
@ggreenwald The attempt to blame left-liberals for Kirk's murder relies on the same dangerous theory liberals invoked to blame conservatives for the white supremacist slaughters in Buffalo, Charleston and the El Paso Walmart (e.g., those who accuse Dems of "replacing" Americans with immigration inspired those massacres). Everyone says bad things about the other side in politics. The left calls MAGA fascist and the right calls the left deranged commies. You're not responsible for psychopaths who murder in the name of your cause (it'd be like blaming pro-life advocates for the murders of abortion doctors, which liberals also do). As Kirk himself said: "WORDS ARE NOT VIOLENCE. ONLY VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE." Stop trying to convert words and the expression of views into criminal violence.
We are not going to have a debate over whether we are legitimate targets for leftwing murderers. If the left continues to cover up for its murderers, to celebrate murderers, to call for additional murders -- then we will too. If it's the rule for one, it's the rule for all.
Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45 These poor fools are missing the big picture.
When there's a killing the left always tries to assign the killer to the right. We're used to it. And the vast majority of the right always overwhelmingly condemns the killer. Only this time all the moderate normie republicans out there saw MILLIONS of liberals celebrate and justify the brutal murder of a man... all because that man held beliefs similar to theirs. Beliefs that regular Americans consider completely normal and common sense. These normal folks were going about their day, then they saw some shocking brutality, and before they could even process it all their liberal friends were dancing in the blood and gleefully justifying it. "He deserved it for believing X and Y." And that normal person realized that they also believe X and Y, so them getting murdered would be just as celebrated too. At best they saw a "Murder is bad, BUT... he deserved it for believing X and Y." And the lights go on. It doesn't matter how hard the left scrambles to put the shooter in some particular ideological bucket to cover their asses and take no blame (as usual), because regular America saw how fucking gleeful libs were when somebody just like them dies horribly, and they realized that the left wants them dead. Not metaphorically. They want you to die. Some of us have known this for a long time because we pissed off the left somehow previously, but for the regular folks coming to that understanding is a life changing moment. You ain't brushing this one off, Glenn.
Tim HannanFirst of all: He didn't act alone. He had accomplices, who all thought this was a nice antifa lark. Second of all:
@TimHannan 1 guy acted alone and they want to go to war? It's like they just were looking for any reason.
ShoeThis is what takes this from being "one man's crime" to a crime supported by, encouraged by, and covered up half the nation. Either murder is forbidden for all or it is permitted for all. We will no longer permit the left's asymmetry of privilege to commit "glorious revolutionary murder" because they think they're on the right side of history.
@shoe0nhead one guy acted alone. then we saw the reaction of millions. some posting with their full names and faces. teachers, childcare workers, healthcare workers, hr professionals, game developers. hundreds of thousands of people that walk amongst every day, who live next door to us, people i thought were friends, people i thought were normal people celebrating the gruesome public execution of a father shot in the fucking throat in front of his young children, celebrating because he politically does not agree with them. we saw their real beliefs when the " in this house believe" shitlib mask was ripped off. sociopathic freaks.
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A growing number of Democratic lawmakers and political commentators have suggested that Charlie Kirk and the Republican party bear responsibility for the escalation of political violence in the country.
... For years, videos of Kirk debating left-leaning college students would go viral, giving birth to the popular phrase of "owning the libs" used within conservative circles. Kirk's death has garnered condolences from both his allies, like Trump, to those politically opposed to him like former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris. However, others haven't been so sympathetic to Kirk or his family, insinuating that he and the Republican Party is partly to be blamed for the rise in political violence in the country. On Thursday --just a day after Kirk's assassination -- Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) appeared on CNN, saying that all Americans "need to turn down the rhetoric" which is inciting violence. But he also pointed his finger at Republicans for being the main culprit. "Let's be serious about where this violence is coming from," Moutlon said. "Of extremist violent attacks in America, extremist murders 76% are from right wing extremists. 4% are from left wing extremists. I condemn that 4%, but we also need to be honest about as a nation, about where this violence is coming from." Moulton's comments come as Trump has vowed to target left-leaning groups espousing rhetoric which he says is responsible for Kirk's assassination, and other acts of political violence, including the assassination attempt on his own life. Former Biden era White House press secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki had accused Trump of escalating the tensions between conservatives and liberals in his video addressing Kirk's death. "[T]here was a line at the end that I think -- I just wanted to raise and read," Psaki said. "At the end of this four-minute video, he [Trump] says, 'For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today. And it must stop right now.'" Psaki then stated, "And, obviously, there's a lot of rhetoric that is problematic. A lot of it is coming from one particular side and from one particular building. But what can be done, I fear, when this is an escalation, already, in less than 24 hours of this shooting?" On Wednesday, CBS Mornings host Nate Burleson asked former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy if Kirk's assassination will lead Republicans to reflect on how their own rhetoric may be contributing to political violence.
Disinformation Expert LizzyMore:
@StarChamberMaid CNN: Trump saying leftwing radicals are the problem is inciting violence.
CNN is saying this isn't ideological but rather the "male loneliness epidemic"Oh, perfect. It's the videogames' fault, huh? Not the far-left internet radicalization pipeline?
The Reaping Phase
@AceofSpadesHQ was the Trantifa Assassin radicalized on BlueSky? I don't know, but I know the repulsive Assassin Prep Media would be doing deep dives about Joe Rogan and Tim Pool if this were a right wing shooting.
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Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old antifa demon brainwashed by hateful leftwing professors, was turned in by his father who was a former sheriff. The father basically told the kid that he had to turn himself in and go to prison.
He looks just like the grainy pictures the FBI distributed. There can be no doubt. He even has the five o'clock shadow I noticed.
"OwO what's this/dis?" is a Furry thing. And combined with the *notices bulge*, it means that he found out a "girl" he found hot is a dude, and is even MORE into it now. Posted by: XTCIn addition, we know of an accomplice that is so far unnamed and uncaptured. In discord messages, Robinson spoke with someone who promised to leave the rifle at a "DROP POINT." This might have just been an illicit gun sale, or it might have been a promise to leave the gun in the sniper's nest so that Robinson wouldn't have to walk it into the campus. We don't know who this person was. Was it an antifa member with access to rifles? And what of the Person Place or Thing who promised that Charlie Kirk would be "vaporized" "tomorrow," and wrote a song called "Charlie Kirk Dead at 31"? Was this a coincidence? Or was this the person who promised to leave the rifle at the "DROP POINT"? We don't know. Developing, I guess. Update:
Now, it appears that Robinson did not act alone in the shooting. Governor Spencer Cox announced during an FBI Press Conference this morning that Robinson received instructions on Discord to pick up a rifle and an engraved case from a drop point. He coordinated with others on the chat group Discord before the assassination, arranging with a so-called “friend” to retrieve the weapon. Posted by: SMOD
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A 22 year old Utah man, Tyler Robinson, is in custody for the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Addendum [CBD]
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Reports from Steven Crowder and the Wall Street Journal indicate the ammunition found by the alleged assassin’s gun was marked with transgender messages.I'm sure the editors at CNN regard "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" and "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" as well as this pair of classic Leftist/Democrat sayings: "COLORED DRINKING FOUNTAIN" and "WHITES ONLY" as cultural phrases too. As I noted yesterday that Charlie Kirk, may his memory be for a blessing, one of the most ardent champions of free speech for everyone should be silenced as he was attempting to practice what he preached is among the bitterest of ironies to be endured. And it underscores the unvarnished harsh reality of the Democrat Left
. . . CNN noted the ammo was “scrawled with cultural phrases.” Breitbart News can report that sources familiar confirmed that the ammunition had such messages — like transgender and antifa — on them. 10 KJRA reported that Charlie Kirk “was answering a question about transgender shooters when he was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.”
Charlie Kirk is dead because the modern Democrat Party wanted it this way. They could not stand 15 feet in front of him and debate his logic, so they took the coward’s path. They put a bullet in him from 200 yards away. This was not random, and it was not isolated. It was the predictable consequence of years of poisonous rhetoric, media collusion, and a political class that has normalized violence against conservatives.A would say to Rep Harrigan that it's not the "Modern Democrat Party" but the Democrat Party almost since its inception if not certainly at the point when Tammany Hall founder Aaron Burr needlessly and cold-bloodedly slew Alexander Hamilton. And the rest as they say is history.
Again, at the risk of being repetitive but I think it's a crucial point and one which we discussed on the past two episodes of the podcast and which I have raised in many an editorial lo these many years now, unless and until American academia is completely purged of the anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Judeo/Christian rot that not only created or at best nurtured the monster who took Charlie Kirk from us but the criminal savages murdering, raping and burning our cities and towns to the ground. We must utterly, ruthlessly and completely destroy the Castration/Indoctrination to Assassination Pipeline of the Democrat Left. President Trump has vowed to . .
Trump Vows to Catch ‘Each and Every’ Person or Organization Involved in Assassination of Charlie KirkUnless that includes the NEA/AFT, the DNC Gates, Ford, Rockefeller, Macarthur and all the other Foundations that are funding our national suicide America will barely make it to 250 let alone 275 or beyond. Certainly not as it was founded nor as we had hoped it could be.
If I am not mistaken there are laws on the books in several states holding parents accountable for the criminal actions of their children, which came about over the past few years in the wake of the wave of school shootings. Should this law not also extend to teachers and professors who pumped their brains full of Marxitst propaganda and in the case of transexuals, the frankenstein doctors who pumped them full of powerful psychoactive hormones?
Along with the sick, twisted panoply of pornographic obscenities from some of this nation's most despicable wastes of life in and out of government blaming Kirk, Trump and America itself for Charlie's martyrdom, there are a few that are postulating that his assassination was indeed a turning point for the nation. Some say positive in that it awakened the sleeping giant in all of us and others to the perilous and dangerous road we are on that Charlie himself passionately pleaded against, but I fear it might also be waving a red flag at the leftist bull in that its okay to go full Luigi Mangione on anyone and everyone that Leftists slime as Nazi/Fascist/white supremacist/Islamophobe/Transphobe etc, ad nauseum. Again, as discussed in the podcast about 18-39 year-olds alarmingly supporting socialism/authoritarianism in the United States it flies in the face of the rosy optimism of some of the pundits' painting a positive outlook for the nation in the wake of Charlie Kirk's influence prior to his being taken from us.
Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.Preach it Daniel Greenfield.
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- BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Daniel Greenfield: Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.
Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps
- Seattle Public sshools won’t let parents opt out of gender lessons. (And this is how we get psychos who slaughter Catholic school children in prayer and evidently Charlie Kirk - jjs)
Defying the Supreme Court to Push the Trans Agenda - Michael Walsh: The following is the late Charlie Kirk's essay for our book, Against the Corporate Media, published exactly one year before his assassination yesterday and reproduced here in its entirety.
Charlie Kirk: 'The Falling Half-Life of a Lie'
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- AI use in large companies - over 250 staff - is showing a decline, with adoption rate falling from 14% to 12% since June, the largest drop off ever recorded by the survey. (Gizmodo)
Which is not saying that much since the survey has only existed for two years.
But not good news if your company was planning to burn through $115 billion in the next four years and just signed up for a $300 billion five-year cloud services plan.
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