@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.
Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! π
13.02.2026 21:50 β π 3452 π 865 π¬ 162 π 137Our 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Those ICU units are just chock full of for-left radicals. Better home-treat your children, JD.
28.01.2026 14:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is the border in Minneapolis? Damn, I have forgotten my geography.
28.01.2026 14:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Might be because they are perceived as armed invaders.
28.01.2026 14:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Where do I send my photo?
27.01.2026 20:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Came 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Next: Winter is Joe Bidenβs fault.
16.01.2026 03:03 β π 47 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Of 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs a year later. I donβt favor any markets in the US at this time.
14.01.2026 21:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Summary execution is not a law of this nation.
08.01.2026 16:17 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0We are an occupied country.
08.01.2026 02:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What a repulsive human being.
08.01.2026 02:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Otherwise you forfeit your life? Is that the concept? Police can kill you for disobeying?
08.01.2026 00:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump encouraged insurrection. The end.
07.01.2026 01:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Great way to get all of the US bases kicked out of Europe. οΏΌ
06.01.2026 15:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That only works if heβs dining alone.
06.01.2026 15:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nailed it. Armchair sociological and geopolitical pontificating. Classic homebrew racial ideology, reinventing white supremacy by whitewashing history β literally.
06.01.2026 15:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What Iβve come to call βignorant hypocrisyβ.
05.01.2026 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβve missed my familyβs Charleston accentβ¦ 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Soβ¦ government should decide who owns media?
03.01.2026 21:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 025% of the entire US population.
1 out of 4 consumers.
1 out of 4 workers.
E. M. Forster started βA Passage to Indiaβ 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 βfindβ their way through their material. They arenβt mechanics building from a plan.
Next: Reform voters weigh in about Scottish and Irish βparasitesβ and why Celts are inferior to Anglo-Saxons.
30.12.2025 13:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Think you are wildly overreading this. As a viewer it hasnβt once crossed my mind that Albuquerque has anything to do with the plot.
30.12.2025 02:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@grok answer this comment for this guy
29.12.2025 21:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThe sun will come out tomorrowβ¦β
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