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Robb Aley Allan

@robballan.bsky.social

Family office tech/retail/theatre investor. Heritage-brand business owner. Former science/tech writer/reporter for Newsweek/MacWorld/etc. Long-time Apple developer, database programmer, and incorrigible geek.

285 Followers  |  172 Following  |  615 Posts  |  Joined: 19.04.2023  |  2.0823

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Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! πŸ˜†

13.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3452    πŸ” 865    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 137

Our plan is very simple: change the federal administration to one that respects American citizens, their lives, their homes, and their children.

28.01.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those ICU units are just chock full of for-left radicals. Better home-treat your children, JD.

28.01.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is the border in Minneapolis? Damn, I have forgotten my geography.

28.01.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Might be because they are perceived as armed invaders.

28.01.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where do I send my photo?

27.01.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Came into JFK airport a week or two ago. There were no customs agents anywhere, at all. Customs inspection was closed. Now I know why. They all had been sent to Minnesota.

16.01.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next: Winter is Joe Biden’s fault.

16.01.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course, and AI and biotech are obvious areas. But markets here are overheated, the dollar is weakening, and the potential gains are outweighed by the risk probabilities.

14.01.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a year later. I don’t favor any markets in the US at this time.

14.01.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Summary execution is not a law of this nation.

08.01.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We are an occupied country.

08.01.2026 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a repulsive human being.

08.01.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Otherwise you forfeit your life? Is that the concept? Police can kill you for disobeying?

08.01.2026 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump encouraged insurrection. The end.

07.01.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great way to get all of the US bases kicked out of Europe. οΏΌ

06.01.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That only works if he’s dining alone.

06.01.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nailed it. Armchair sociological and geopolitical pontificating. Classic homebrew racial ideology, reinventing white supremacy by whitewashing history β€” literally.

06.01.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What I’ve come to call β€œignorant hypocrisy”.

05.01.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Last Days of the Southern Drawl By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

I’ve missed my family’s Charleston accent… it has long faded away in that city. So when my father died, I was arranging his burial in his hometown outside Charleston, and sexton of the church spoke to me with an ancient Charleston drawl β€” well, I recorded the conversation.

04.01.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So… government should decide who owns media?

03.01.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

25% of the entire US population.

1 out of 4 consumers.

1 out of 4 workers.

01.01.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

E. M. Forster started β€œA Passage to India” without having any idea how it was going to end.

Hemingway stopped writing mid-sentence each day so the next day he knew where to start again.

Writers are artists who β€œfind” their way through their material. They aren’t mechanics building from a plan.

31.12.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next: Reform voters weigh in about Scottish and Irish β€œparasites” and why Celts are inferior to Anglo-Saxons.

30.12.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Think you are wildly overreading this. As a viewer it hasn’t once crossed my mind that Albuquerque has anything to do with the plot.

30.12.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@grok answer this comment for this guy

29.12.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe sun will come out tomorrow…”

29.12.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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