George Dubya
@itisgeorge.bsky.social
A mishmash: Middle East stuff, development stuff, organizational dysfunction, crisis response, carbon transition dynamics, silly sports things. Mostly here to read smarter people than me.
This is a super informative thread as always but this part is nuts: China's cooling load is up a third in under 10 years. Some of that is more Chinese being rich enough to have AC but some of it is how damn hot it is
Summer saw faster electricity demand growth, as has been the norm due to increasing use of air conditioners and hotter summers. Climate change is at work: the average cooling load increased by a third in less than a decade.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This is a super informative thread as always but this part is nuts: China's cooling load is up a third in under 10 years. Some of that is more Chinese being rich enough to have AC but some of it is how damn hot it is
Seahawks/Rams/Bucs/Lions fans watching tonight's game
a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Seahawks/Rams/Bucs/Lions fans watching tonight's game
This could be an @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social We Are Going To Win special. Trumpy city council incumbent in the Trumpiest part of Spokane, who won in a landslide last time, loses to a lefty non-white woman who worked for Planned Parenthood *and comes from California (gasp)*
Dixit defeats Bingle in tight race for Spokane City Council
SPOKANE, Wash. -- UPDATED 4:00 on November 10: As of Monday afternoon, Sarah Dixit is leading the race with 50.47% against incumbent Jonathan Bingle's 49.21%.
www.kxly.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This could be an @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social We Are Going To Win special. Trumpy city council incumbent in the Trumpiest part of Spokane, who won in a landslide last time, loses to a lefty non-white woman who worked for Planned Parenthood *and comes from California (gasp)*
Standing with them, even if people are getting hurt, because it's all part of the same battle for freedom and prosperity and decency, and clearly winning--until flights got delayed at which point fuck y'all, you're on your own, I'm not spending any more time at the airport than I absolutely have to
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Standing with them, even if people are getting hurt, because it's all part of the same battle for freedom and prosperity and decency, and clearly winning--until flights got delayed at which point fuck y'all, you're on your own, I'm not spending any more time at the airport than I absolutely have to
Hamas, under sustained attack, buying guns and rockets and whatnot, is taking the time to also fund an American woman singing songs for toddlers on youtube. Sounds legit, boss
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hamas, under sustained attack, buying guns and rockets and whatnot, is taking the time to also fund an American woman singing songs for toddlers on youtube. Sounds legit, boss
Also this country would be much better off if we had statues of Kurt Cobain all over the place and Robert E. Lee had shot himself
Nirvana was a band for longer than the confederacy existed
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Also this country would be much better off if we had statues of Kurt Cobain all over the place and Robert E. Lee had shot himself
A whole store full of employees doing this, sounds lovely
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A whole store full of employees doing this, sounds lovely
Canvas tote bags at a mainstream bookstore in Magaland, calling for beheading and burning alive those who have brought us to our present predicament. Typically this would be the standard Live Laugh Love gear. Guys, I'm telling you, the wrath of the normielib winemoms is terrible and great.
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Canvas tote bags at a mainstream bookstore in Magaland, calling for beheading and burning alive those who have brought us to our present predicament. Typically this would be the standard Live Laugh Love gear. Guys, I'm telling you, the wrath of the normielib winemoms is terrible and great.
I called it! Reposting this on the day the Line apparently isn't happening. (Also this is the last post of a IMHO good thread about Persian Gulf migrant labor dynamics and how lethal it is)
Anyway, I don't have high expectations for that stupid line city.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I called it! Reposting this on the day the Line apparently isn't happening. (Also this is the last post of a IMHO good thread about Persian Gulf migrant labor dynamics and how lethal it is)
Someone please help, it's my wife, she's aloof
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Someone please help, it's my wife, she's aloof
I think this question hinges on whether Israel is the picture on the left or the picture on the right. If it's on the left and it ends the occupation, it can absolutely guarantee equal rights to its Palestinian citizens and will still be the Jewish state because it's ~80% Jewish. 1/
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I think this question hinges on whether Israel is the picture on the left or the picture on the right. If it's on the left and it ends the occupation, it can absolutely guarantee equal rights to its Palestinian citizens and will still be the Jewish state because it's ~80% Jewish. 1/
There's some stiff competition but this, by @albertburneko.bsky.social might be the greatest read-for-filth obituary for an evil person that I've ever encountered
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Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
There's some stiff competition but this, by @albertburneko.bsky.social might be the greatest read-for-filth obituary for an evil person that I've ever encountered
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We're all gonna have egg on our faces when it turns out he's a loyal Costco shopper
Our dementia-ravaged president still thinks you have to show a photo ID to purchase groceries.
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We're all gonna have egg on our faces when it turns out he's a loyal Costco shopper
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NYC taking the crown from Beirut for "best nightlife in the Islamic world"
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
NYC taking the crown from Beirut for "best nightlife in the Islamic world"
If any media outlets need someone to go on NYC underground food court safaris and report back, I'm available
"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
If any media outlets need someone to go on NYC underground food court safaris and report back, I'm available
America's leading Nazis include Stephen Miller and Peter Cvjetanovic and Nick Fuentes and Kanye West and Enrique Tarrio and there's not an actual aryan in the whole bunch
There’s nothing more American than your family going from being a target of bigotry to being a purveyor of it within a generation or two.
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
America's leading Nazis include Stephen Miller and Peter Cvjetanovic and Nick Fuentes and Kanye West and Enrique Tarrio and there's not an actual aryan in the whole bunch
Timing matters so much in advertising. If you're gonna try and sell the RSF as the good guys, maybe don't kick off your marketing campaign right when they're killing so many civilians that the pools of blood are visible from space?
Genuinely interesting how quickly so many pro Israel influencers on Twitter pivoted to also being pro RSF
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Timing matters so much in advertising. If you're gonna try and sell the RSF as the good guys, maybe don't kick off your marketing campaign right when they're killing so many civilians that the pools of blood are visible from space?
Suddenly it makes sense. Here I was thinking that intellectual diversity meant left/right but it actually means smart/dumb
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Suddenly it makes sense. Here I was thinking that intellectual diversity meant left/right but it actually means smart/dumb
Just guessing from the footage that @katmabu.bsky.social is like 5 foot nothing? Here's hoping her lawyers have some fun with the charge that she intimidated federal agents
Here is DHS making false allegations about @katmabu.bsky.social.
Read the affidavit and show me where it alleges that she assaulted anyone.
Spoiler: it doesn't.
The conspiracy charge / title of the statute is throwing people off / leading to a lot of bad faith attacks.
Read the affidavit and show me where it alleges that she assaulted anyone.
Spoiler: it doesn't.
The conspiracy charge / title of the statute is throwing people off / leading to a lot of bad faith attacks.
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Just guessing from the footage that @katmabu.bsky.social is like 5 foot nothing? Here's hoping her lawyers have some fun with the charge that she intimidated federal agents
Oh man, this is good news. Jamaica has disaster insurance which should (knock on all the wood there is) pay out $150 million pretty quickly, with about $820 million in total financing available. Crucial to getting up an running fast
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News
Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Oh man, this is good news. Jamaica has disaster insurance which should (knock on all the wood there is) pay out $150 million pretty quickly, with about $820 million in total financing available. Crucial to getting up an running fast
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Receipts. I went through Forks several times in the pre-Twilight days and it was *rough.* I'll never stop laughing at the fact the town's economy was rescued by tour busses full of jr high school girls
www.nwpb.org/nw-news/2022...
www.nwpb.org/nw-news/2022...
Twilight Or Bust: How One Saga Revitalized A Small Town Economy
In the misty forests of the Olympic peninsula sits a small town where a story of the undead has breathed new life into the economy. Forks was once primarily a logging town and that history is still vi...
www.nwpb.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Receipts. I went through Forks several times in the pre-Twilight days and it was *rough.* I'll never stop laughing at the fact the town's economy was rescued by tour busses full of jr high school girls
www.nwpb.org/nw-news/2022...
www.nwpb.org/nw-news/2022...
The best northwest vampire story is how Twilight was set in Forks WA because it's almost never sunny there, perfect for vampires--and then Twilight got so popular it brought the actual town of Forks, a played out logging town and one of the grimmest places in America, back from the dead
The new vampire: the masquerade game just stretches the bounds of plausibility too much for me. You expect me to believe a bunch of depressed, sunlight-averse nerds would congregate in seattle?
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The best northwest vampire story is how Twilight was set in Forks WA because it's almost never sunny there, perfect for vampires--and then Twilight got so popular it brought the actual town of Forks, a played out logging town and one of the grimmest places in America, back from the dead
Scallops and abalone in Thousand Island dressing is a fucking war crime
October 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Scallops and abalone in Thousand Island dressing is a fucking war crime
Whatever, man. This guy handled Sani Abacha, he can handle trump
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Whatever, man. This guy handled Sani Abacha, he can handle trump