Allan Olley
@allanolley.bsky.social
Fan of many things and over degreed and underemployed. Groucho Marxist. 🥸
Advocate of mining the Sun for helium. ⛏️🔆
Advocate of mining the Sun for helium. ⛏️🔆
There is only one Ottoman I am an Ottofan for...
a cartoon of bart simpson playing a red guitar
Alt: a cartoon of Otto the school bus driver from the Simpsons playing a red guitar
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November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
There is only one Ottoman I am an Ottofan for...
The first panel is my analysis of populism, populism is no policies just say "I alone can fix this" and have no details. I don't think people need enemies reified as a cryptid cabal.
"There hope was stupid." Not afraid to speak the harsh controversial truths.
God save the secret Queen!
"There hope was stupid." Not afraid to speak the harsh controversial truths.
God save the secret Queen!
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The first panel is my analysis of populism, populism is no policies just say "I alone can fix this" and have no details. I don't think people need enemies reified as a cryptid cabal.
"There hope was stupid." Not afraid to speak the harsh controversial truths.
God save the secret Queen!
"There hope was stupid." Not afraid to speak the harsh controversial truths.
God save the secret Queen!
We are not so different you and I...
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are not so different you and I...
Your musings are fun, if somewhat unmoored from etymology. I won't belabor this.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Your musings are fun, if somewhat unmoored from etymology. I won't belabor this.
Yeah tripe with ice cream does sound like something, however a quick search turns up Tripes à la mode de Caen, which is a tripe, stew with vegetables, apple and so on, which sounds okay.
I like how it has multiple footnotes all designated with "*" so you have no idea what refers to what.
I like how it has multiple footnotes all designated with "*" so you have no idea what refers to what.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Yeah tripe with ice cream does sound like something, however a quick search turns up Tripes à la mode de Caen, which is a tripe, stew with vegetables, apple and so on, which sounds okay.
I like how it has multiple footnotes all designated with "*" so you have no idea what refers to what.
I like how it has multiple footnotes all designated with "*" so you have no idea what refers to what.
I thought it was "there's a ghost behind you, that uses a non-standard spelling!"
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I thought it was "there's a ghost behind you, that uses a non-standard spelling!"
They say if you repeat a word too many time it loses all meaning, but what does Björk even mean...🤔
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
They say if you repeat a word too many time it loses all meaning, but what does Björk even mean...🤔
I'm not clear that the premise that it was an opportunity to build public trust is plausible or supported by events. Is a 20 car pile up an opportunity to build public trust in traffic safety?
Seems more likely the pandemic was a serious source of stress on the public health system.
Seems more likely the pandemic was a serious source of stress on the public health system.
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm not clear that the premise that it was an opportunity to build public trust is plausible or supported by events. Is a 20 car pile up an opportunity to build public trust in traffic safety?
Seems more likely the pandemic was a serious source of stress on the public health system.
Seems more likely the pandemic was a serious source of stress on the public health system.
This was fun, I was fully expecting you to break out the conspiracy wall with the photos of the principles and pins and string connecting them. I guess that would have been too on the nose.
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This was fun, I was fully expecting you to break out the conspiracy wall with the photos of the principles and pins and string connecting them. I guess that would have been too on the nose.
Yeah that seems to be the strategy of their defense judging from arguments like this one:
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yeah that seems to be the strategy of their defense judging from arguments like this one:
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
No.
I'm responding to make the sampling more representative.
Looking it up, I have only ever watched Coronation Street when staying with other people who watch it and have seen perhaps 3 or 4 episodes in my life and remember basically nothing of those.
I'm responding to make the sampling more representative.
Looking it up, I have only ever watched Coronation Street when staying with other people who watch it and have seen perhaps 3 or 4 episodes in my life and remember basically nothing of those.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
No.
I'm responding to make the sampling more representative.
Looking it up, I have only ever watched Coronation Street when staying with other people who watch it and have seen perhaps 3 or 4 episodes in my life and remember basically nothing of those.
I'm responding to make the sampling more representative.
Looking it up, I have only ever watched Coronation Street when staying with other people who watch it and have seen perhaps 3 or 4 episodes in my life and remember basically nothing of those.
I never won the sweep stakes from PCH (apparently "You may have already won" is consistent with "you lost"), I did buy some weird cheap stuff, some of which I still have, like a calligraphy set, never paid in installments though.
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I never won the sweep stakes from PCH (apparently "You may have already won" is consistent with "you lost"), I did buy some weird cheap stuff, some of which I still have, like a calligraphy set, never paid in installments though.
Back when I used to receive Publisher's Clearing House stuff a decade or two ago, they had a pay in installments thing for many of their items. Likewise I think if you didn't tune out direct sales infomercials they often sold things either at bulk or 4 easy payments.
So new to Amazon, but not new?
So new to Amazon, but not new?
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Back when I used to receive Publisher's Clearing House stuff a decade or two ago, they had a pay in installments thing for many of their items. Likewise I think if you didn't tune out direct sales infomercials they often sold things either at bulk or 4 easy payments.
So new to Amazon, but not new?
So new to Amazon, but not new?
"I recently wrote" checks date "November 4, 2019"...
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"I recently wrote" checks date "November 4, 2019"...
Matt didn't anyone ever tell you "philately will get you nowhere"?
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Matt didn't anyone ever tell you "philately will get you nowhere"?
The statement is also comical for ridiculously attributing hurt feelings from being ignored to the aδ fibres. As an abstract class of nerve fibres they don't care about being ignored. It is a comic metaphor treating aδ fibres as if they had the psychology of a neglected forgotten child etc.
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The statement is also comical for ridiculously attributing hurt feelings from being ignored to the aδ fibres. As an abstract class of nerve fibres they don't care about being ignored. It is a comic metaphor treating aδ fibres as if they had the psychology of a neglected forgotten child etc.
In philosophy of mind a typical statement of a reductive theory of mind is that "pain is identical c-fibre firing", but aδ fibres firing are (apparently Googling) also part of the pain response.
Thus the statement comically ignores that the c-fibre thing more an example than an exhaustive account.
Thus the statement comically ignores that the c-fibre thing more an example than an exhaustive account.
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In philosophy of mind a typical statement of a reductive theory of mind is that "pain is identical c-fibre firing", but aδ fibres firing are (apparently Googling) also part of the pain response.
Thus the statement comically ignores that the c-fibre thing more an example than an exhaustive account.
Thus the statement comically ignores that the c-fibre thing more an example than an exhaustive account.
Quoted the transcript as given here: transcripts.cnn.com/show/arena/d...
CNN.com - Transcripts
transcripts.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Quoted the transcript as given here: transcripts.cnn.com/show/arena/d...
From Cuomo and Trump.
Skimming the transcript the question doesn't make sense in the context of this interview because Silwa has to this point mostly attacked Cuomo and not agreed (or disagreed) with the Trump-Cuomo characterization of Mamdani (they did show a clip of Trump mouthing off about it).
Skimming the transcript the question doesn't make sense in the context of this interview because Silwa has to this point mostly attacked Cuomo and not agreed (or disagreed) with the Trump-Cuomo characterization of Mamdani (they did show a clip of Trump mouthing off about it).
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
From Cuomo and Trump.
Skimming the transcript the question doesn't make sense in the context of this interview because Silwa has to this point mostly attacked Cuomo and not agreed (or disagreed) with the Trump-Cuomo characterization of Mamdani (they did show a clip of Trump mouthing off about it).
Skimming the transcript the question doesn't make sense in the context of this interview because Silwa has to this point mostly attacked Cuomo and not agreed (or disagreed) with the Trump-Cuomo characterization of Mamdani (they did show a clip of Trump mouthing off about it).
Were you running a Dick Deadpool?
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Were you running a Dick Deadpool?
My explanation is he thinks his job is the opposite of what you think his job is.
You think his job is to be aware of the situation in the USA and shepherding legislation to support good governance.
He thinks his job is to be ignorant of what is going on and support misgovernance of the USA.
You think his job is to be aware of the situation in the USA and shepherding legislation to support good governance.
He thinks his job is to be ignorant of what is going on and support misgovernance of the USA.
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My explanation is he thinks his job is the opposite of what you think his job is.
You think his job is to be aware of the situation in the USA and shepherding legislation to support good governance.
He thinks his job is to be ignorant of what is going on and support misgovernance of the USA.
You think his job is to be aware of the situation in the USA and shepherding legislation to support good governance.
He thinks his job is to be ignorant of what is going on and support misgovernance of the USA.
We need to combat this kind of vaccine misinformation.
To be clear this is not a piece of misinformation I made up there was an Indian man, a self-described "quack" who received world wide coverage spreading this misinformation.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
To be clear this is not a piece of misinformation I made up there was an Indian man, a self-described "quack" who received world wide coverage spreading this misinformation.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Covid-19: Indian man has taken at least eight Covid jabs
The 65-year-old villager was vaccinated eight times last year, officials say. But he claims he took 11 jabs.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We need to combat this kind of vaccine misinformation.
To be clear this is not a piece of misinformation I made up there was an Indian man, a self-described "quack" who received world wide coverage spreading this misinformation.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
To be clear this is not a piece of misinformation I made up there was an Indian man, a self-described "quack" who received world wide coverage spreading this misinformation.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Sometimes this includes a vague statement of a proposition, but far more often it just reflects the looseness with which people understand the statement.
Or so it seems to me at least.
Or so it seems to me at least.
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sometimes this includes a vague statement of a proposition, but far more often it just reflects the looseness with which people understand the statement.
Or so it seems to me at least.
Or so it seems to me at least.