George Pearkes
@peark.es
No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | QCR: Non Culto, For The Crown. | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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George Pearkes
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New policy: "oh you believe this data?" just gets you blocked.
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some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
Clean energy is going to win. It's just a question of when.
Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.
www.canarymedia.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
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ok the fuzzy fabric trend has gone too far
December 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
ok the fuzzy fabric trend has gone too far
The fact the Menswear Guy is actively dunking on the Bsky user base now instead of just cross-posting the threads where he does that to Twitter users should terrify all of us.
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The fact the Menswear Guy is actively dunking on the Bsky user base now instead of just cross-posting the threads where he does that to Twitter users should terrify all of us.
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TFW ten forward is out of prune juice.
December 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
TFW ten forward is out of prune juice.
Launching a violent conflict in celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace, as one does.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Announces Christmas Day Strike Against ISIS in Nigeria
The president has previously said he would move to protect the country’s Christian population
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Launching a violent conflict in celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace, as one does.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
My state not sending our best here.
December 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My state not sending our best here.
First time watching a sporting event on Netflix and I love the energy.
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
First time watching a sporting event on Netflix and I love the energy.
Had to put the roast in but have lost my meat thermometer🚨🚨🚨
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Had to put the roast in but have lost my meat thermometer🚨🚨🚨
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71 and full sun on Christmas Day in the Carolinas.
December 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
71 and full sun on Christmas Day in the Carolinas.
Believe it or not this was NOT a post in the @proptermalone.bsky.social annual snowball fight thread.
Our household usually separates out the animal fat and throws it away
Animal fat is notorious for being a reservoir of persistent organic pollutants.
(Here's an easy to read summary from AI. I have read several science journal articles on the subject. HMU 4 journal articles.)
Animal fat is notorious for being a reservoir of persistent organic pollutants.
(Here's an easy to read summary from AI. I have read several science journal articles on the subject. HMU 4 journal articles.)
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Believe it or not this was NOT a post in the @proptermalone.bsky.social annual snowball fight thread.
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One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
![HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreiez4d5lsrpbn3mrwkwrnbrhb3ra7dmvagbxjaz7hg5be7njnsbary@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
I’m out here catching strays for posting a link and a verbatim quote apparently.
guy with divorced dad energy: “hey chatgtp, my wife told me she’s leaving me and taking the kids. idk how i’m gonna keep on going now”
chatgtp: “im so sorry to hear that george, but don’t worry, you can turn things around— with today’s sponsors Raycons. Raycons all day noise canceling earbuds can bl
chatgtp: “im so sorry to hear that george, but don’t worry, you can turn things around— with today’s sponsors Raycons. Raycons all day noise canceling earbuds can bl
"One of the options staff has discussed is giving sponsored information preferential treatment in responses to users’ ChatGPT queries, according to the person familiar with the discussions. For instance, AI models could prioritize sponsored content to ensure it shows up in ChatGPT responses"
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’m out here catching strays for posting a link and a verbatim quote apparently.
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Guys should be able to, as a paid service, get a person to video tour their apartment and point out things that would be obviously wrong to a woman coming over, but are not obviously wrong to them
OK team, there is a debate in the girls chat, and I have absolutely no idea which side to join in with, if any
If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has dishes in his sink or dish drying rack, does that give you the ick
If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has dishes in his sink or dish drying rack, does that give you the ick
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Guys should be able to, as a paid service, get a person to video tour their apartment and point out things that would be obviously wrong to a woman coming over, but are not obviously wrong to them
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80s car salesman: *slaps roof of car* this baby here can fit so much distorted memories as convenient psychological coping mechanism for your rage, rage against the dying of the light
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
80s car salesman: *slaps roof of car* this baby here can fit so much distorted memories as convenient psychological coping mechanism for your rage, rage against the dying of the light
I received two (2) different gifts this morning involving cooking-rendered fat this morning which seems both entirely too many and exactly right.
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I received two (2) different gifts this morning involving cooking-rendered fat this morning which seems both entirely too many and exactly right.
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I am so tired with the NYTs apparent obsession with taking down Harvard and all these fan fiction articles theyve been writing about Trumps efforts to do so
This is not a “duel,” which suggests both sides are equally culpable, but the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s ideological war on Harvard and higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I am so tired with the NYTs apparent obsession with taking down Harvard and all these fan fiction articles theyve been writing about Trumps efforts to do so
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Oh, this is great news.
UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
December 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Oh, this is great news.
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I am going to tell a story as small and close to myself as I can, before I go set luminarias outside. These lanterns, brown paper bags with sand and candles, are part of the recieved culture of New Mexico, the place where my family moved when I was 1.5 and have now lived again for nearly a decade.
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am going to tell a story as small and close to myself as I can, before I go set luminarias outside. These lanterns, brown paper bags with sand and candles, are part of the recieved culture of New Mexico, the place where my family moved when I was 1.5 and have now lived again for nearly a decade.
Marlow down. Repeat, Marlow down.
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Marlow down. Repeat, Marlow down.
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The only true way is the Canadian way
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The only true way is the Canadian way
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.
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This is your annual reminder that “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) has the same meter as — and therefore can be recited to the tune of — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
December 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is your annual reminder that “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) has the same meter as — and therefore can be recited to the tune of — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”