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. ⛏️🔆
An interview that is not afraid to dig deep, peel back the layers, and expose the REAL AL that nobody knows
February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
An interview that is not afraid to dig deep, peel back the layers, and expose the REAL AL that nobody knows
Caveats: Google Books is not actually completely comprehensive. Dates especially get easily screwed up. Looking for slight variations is not something I really do and so on.
I also borrowed some books from archive dot org to find footnotes and stuff hard to get off Google Books snippet view.
I also borrowed some books from archive dot org to find footnotes and stuff hard to get off Google Books snippet view.
February 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Caveats: Google Books is not actually completely comprehensive. Dates especially get easily screwed up. Looking for slight variations is not something I really do and so on.
I also borrowed some books from archive dot org to find footnotes and stuff hard to get off Google Books snippet view.
I also borrowed some books from archive dot org to find footnotes and stuff hard to get off Google Books snippet view.
Since the article is not an exact transcript it is possible that Reagon actually said the thing Steinem quoted.
I take Steinem as the origin both because her book is the earliest example of the phrase I find in Google Books and because a couple of works quote her as the origin after that.
I take Steinem as the origin both because her book is the earliest example of the phrase I find in Google Books and because a couple of works quote her as the origin after that.
February 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Since the article is not an exact transcript it is possible that Reagon actually said the thing Steinem quoted.
I take Steinem as the origin both because her book is the earliest example of the phrase I find in Google Books and because a couple of works quote her as the origin after that.
I take Steinem as the origin both because her book is the earliest example of the phrase I find in Google Books and because a couple of works quote her as the origin after that.
I apparently meant the 2015 book Wagadu Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism
By Kathryn Coffey · 2015
Which is the source of the excerpt I posted in the previous Tweet.
By Kathryn Coffey · 2015
Which is the source of the excerpt I posted in the previous Tweet.
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I apparently meant the 2015 book Wagadu Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism
By Kathryn Coffey · 2015
Which is the source of the excerpt I posted in the previous Tweet.
By Kathryn Coffey · 2015
Which is the source of the excerpt I posted in the previous Tweet.
A clean copy of the article Coalition Politics: Turning the Century based on of the Yosemite speech is available open access on-line, plus there are scans of earlier publications. I didn't notice any major deviations in a 5 second look at one of them.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Coalition Politics: Turning the Century
Article Coalition Politics: Turning the Century was published on May 1, 2015 in the journal feministische studien (volume 33, issue 1).
www.degruyterbrill.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
A clean copy of the article Coalition Politics: Turning the Century based on of the Yosemite speech is available open access on-line, plus there are scans of earlier publications. I didn't notice any major deviations in a 5 second look at one of them.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
However a 2011 book quotes the phrase and then appends something verbatim from the Yosemite speech and attributes it all to the Yosemite speech.
Hence I'm guessing they looked for a source and landed on Yosemite speech as the origin and ignored any discrepancy.
Hence I'm guessing they looked for a source and landed on Yosemite speech as the origin and ignored any discrepancy.
![[Bold centred]Conclusion: Resisting Secure Politics[/Bold Cented]
If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition... Most of the time you feel threatened to the core and if you don't, you're not really doing no coalescing
Bernice Johnson Reagon , [italics]Coalition Politics Turning the Century [/italics] (1983)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h647h3agk5rgj7qb7q7rzri/bafkreib5677zyaz7fmnboyumjhyx5ibthbpk4ircfall7gwoydgpbxc5sq@jpeg)
February 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
However a 2011 book quotes the phrase and then appends something verbatim from the Yosemite speech and attributes it all to the Yosemite speech.
Hence I'm guessing they looked for a source and landed on Yosemite speech as the origin and ignored any discrepancy.
Hence I'm guessing they looked for a source and landed on Yosemite speech as the origin and ignored any discrepancy.
I love looking up a quote. I maybe just retraced the path you took.
I think it's a paraphrase of the opening of Yosemite speech (Coalition Politics: Turning the Century).
I 1st find the exact phrase in Gloria Steinem 1992 book Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem attributing it to Reagon.
I think it's a paraphrase of the opening of Yosemite speech (Coalition Politics: Turning the Century).
I 1st find the exact phrase in Gloria Steinem 1992 book Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem attributing it to Reagon.
February 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I love looking up a quote. I maybe just retraced the path you took.
I think it's a paraphrase of the opening of Yosemite speech (Coalition Politics: Turning the Century).
I 1st find the exact phrase in Gloria Steinem 1992 book Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem attributing it to Reagon.
I think it's a paraphrase of the opening of Yosemite speech (Coalition Politics: Turning the Century).
I 1st find the exact phrase in Gloria Steinem 1992 book Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem attributing it to Reagon.
There would be an obligation not to do them to maintain the relationship.
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 AM
There would be an obligation not to do them to maintain the relationship.
And marry a streaming service?
I'm guessing they couldn't fit the third thing on the banner...
I'm guessing they couldn't fit the third thing on the banner...
February 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
We are not ready to learn how the Shamrock shake is made.
February 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
We are not ready to learn how the Shamrock shake is made.
You can't have an inconsistent position if you don't actually take positions, but just vaguely vibe. <tapping head meme>
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February 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM
You can't have an inconsistent position if you don't actually take positions, but just vaguely vibe. <tapping head meme>
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I looked it up and Brier score has something to do with accuracy in prediction, but I'm going to stick with my prior belief that it is about the Brier cup of curling.
February 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I looked it up and Brier score has something to do with accuracy in prediction, but I'm going to stick with my prior belief that it is about the Brier cup of curling.
AND 👇 YOU 👇 WILL 👇 ATONE!👇
February 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
AND 👇 YOU 👇 WILL 👇 ATONE!👇
Here is an image if you need any for slides. I happened to make it when someone was complaining on Twitter about this meme, but with the text blocks reversed in position. So I did them this way to address the complaint.
February 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Here is an image if you need any for slides. I happened to make it when someone was complaining on Twitter about this meme, but with the text blocks reversed in position. So I did them this way to address the complaint.
Science and Method, Book II, Chapter 3, section II. Here it is en Francais:
February 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Science and Method, Book II, Chapter 3, section II. Here it is en Francais:
The structure of capitalist restless and relentless search for growth had at its core a logic that saw value in that way. Thus if it doesn't make sense this could be seen as illustrative of Marx's view that capitalism is riddled with contradictions that will ultimately prove fatal to it.
February 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The structure of capitalist restless and relentless search for growth had at its core a logic that saw value in that way. Thus if it doesn't make sense this could be seen as illustrative of Marx's view that capitalism is riddled with contradictions that will ultimately prove fatal to it.
To me economic theory and its historical convolutions is fascinating.
I'd say having read around Marx a bit more there is a plausible idea that his point about the labour theory of value was that it was the motivating logic of industrial capitalism, not an objective description of production.
I'd say having read around Marx a bit more there is a plausible idea that his point about the labour theory of value was that it was the motivating logic of industrial capitalism, not an objective description of production.
February 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
To me economic theory and its historical convolutions is fascinating.
I'd say having read around Marx a bit more there is a plausible idea that his point about the labour theory of value was that it was the motivating logic of industrial capitalism, not an objective description of production.
I'd say having read around Marx a bit more there is a plausible idea that his point about the labour theory of value was that it was the motivating logic of industrial capitalism, not an objective description of production.
Ricardo's 93% Labor theory of value.
Checking this is probably from a paper by George Stigler in 1958 "Ricardo and the 93% Labor theory of value".
George being the father of the statistician and historian of statistics Stephen Stigler.
Both I think witty writers though maybe more fils than pere?
Checking this is probably from a paper by George Stigler in 1958 "Ricardo and the 93% Labor theory of value".
George being the father of the statistician and historian of statistics Stephen Stigler.
Both I think witty writers though maybe more fils than pere?
February 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Ricardo's 93% Labor theory of value.
Checking this is probably from a paper by George Stigler in 1958 "Ricardo and the 93% Labor theory of value".
George being the father of the statistician and historian of statistics Stephen Stigler.
Both I think witty writers though maybe more fils than pere?
Checking this is probably from a paper by George Stigler in 1958 "Ricardo and the 93% Labor theory of value".
George being the father of the statistician and historian of statistics Stephen Stigler.
Both I think witty writers though maybe more fils than pere?
I took a course on history of economics, one takeaway I remember is that one economist called Marx "a minor post-Ricardian" my sense is with a joking air. Looking it up this was probably originated by Samuelson in a 1961 ("Economists and the History of Ideas")
Another joke I remember:
Another joke I remember:
February 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I took a course on history of economics, one takeaway I remember is that one economist called Marx "a minor post-Ricardian" my sense is with a joking air. Looking it up this was probably originated by Samuelson in a 1961 ("Economists and the History of Ideas")
Another joke I remember:
Another joke I remember:
My hot take on the Giving Tree (which I've never actually read, but I did read a summary with all the text but no images) is that the boy should have wanted a fire for warmth and used some of the tree's leaves for kindling at the Giving Tree's instruction.
January 31, 2026 at 5:07 PM
My hot take on the Giving Tree (which I've never actually read, but I did read a summary with all the text but no images) is that the boy should have wanted a fire for warmth and used some of the tree's leaves for kindling at the Giving Tree's instruction.
I got confused by my inability to count and by combining the idea that children's lit can be art without didactic value with an argument involving "should". If the 2nd camp is right, you don't need an argument, just vibe harder and the 1st camp will see the art.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I got confused by my inability to count and by combining the idea that children's lit can be art without didactic value with an argument involving "should". If the 2nd camp is right, you don't need an argument, just vibe harder and the 1st camp will see the art.
As a kid I unselfconsciously read Dahl, but at some point someone pointed out how mean and cranky he was as a person and I just couldn't help but notice the marked notes of misanthropy in his work after that. So yeah...
January 29, 2026 at 7:35 PM
As a kid I unselfconsciously read Dahl, but at some point someone pointed out how mean and cranky he was as a person and I just couldn't help but notice the marked notes of misanthropy in his work after that. So yeah...
Watched an episode of My Little Pony and I'm like this is clearly demonstrating applications of ideas of efficiency experts/Taylorism (never using those words)? Maybe it is not as obscure as I thought.
If I remember correctly the Cheaper by the Dozen couple introduced the stopwatch motions studies.
If I remember correctly the Cheaper by the Dozen couple introduced the stopwatch motions studies.
January 29, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Watched an episode of My Little Pony and I'm like this is clearly demonstrating applications of ideas of efficiency experts/Taylorism (never using those words)? Maybe it is not as obscure as I thought.
If I remember correctly the Cheaper by the Dozen couple introduced the stopwatch motions studies.
If I remember correctly the Cheaper by the Dozen couple introduced the stopwatch motions studies.
The mother was perhaps the most famous woman engineer of the early 20th century (even if she was more of an industrial psychologist).
The whole efficiency expert thing is interesting because my sense is it is obscure now. People won't know what I mean when I say I'm going to Taylorize my work.
The whole efficiency expert thing is interesting because my sense is it is obscure now. People won't know what I mean when I say I'm going to Taylorize my work.
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The mother was perhaps the most famous woman engineer of the early 20th century (even if she was more of an industrial psychologist).
The whole efficiency expert thing is interesting because my sense is it is obscure now. People won't know what I mean when I say I'm going to Taylorize my work.
The whole efficiency expert thing is interesting because my sense is it is obscure now. People won't know what I mean when I say I'm going to Taylorize my work.