Gerald Butts
@gmbutts.bsky.social
Vice Chair @EurasiaGroup. Board Director WWF. Climate, technology, and geopolitics. Priors: Principal Secretary to PM of Canada and Premier of Ontario, CEO WWF.
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Gerald Butts
@gmbutts.bsky.social
· Jan 6
Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2025
www.eurasiagroup.net
There was a lot to choose from this year, but here’s what we @eurasiagroup.net think you should be worried about in 2025. #TopRisks2025
www.eurasiagroup.net/TopRisks2025
www.eurasiagroup.net/TopRisks2025
Normie America might come to the uncomfortable conclusion that QAnon was right about a few things today. #EpsteinFiles
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Normie America might come to the uncomfortable conclusion that QAnon was right about a few things today. #EpsteinFiles
On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅
Chart crime of the year 2025. AI could solve all problems, or extirpate all humans. 1/2
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Chart crime of the year 2025. AI could solve all problems, or extirpate all humans. 1/2
Everything is possible. Hard to argue, Doha.
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Everything is possible. Hard to argue, Doha.
Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Quebec referendum, when we came within a hair’s breadth of losing a great country.
I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready | The Walrus
Why sovereigntists see their chance now
thewalrus.ca
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Quebec referendum, when we came within a hair’s breadth of losing a great country.
I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
Barger with the Dave Parker strike from RF!
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Barger with the Dave Parker strike from RF!
All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.
People flock to Cape Breton in summertime, but mid-October is my favourite time on our beautiful island. 🍂 🍁
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
People flock to Cape Breton in summertime, but mid-October is my favourite time on our beautiful island. 🍂 🍁
Happy Thanksgiving, folks. I’ve never been more thankful to live in this beautiful country. 🇨🇦
October 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, folks. I’ve never been more thankful to live in this beautiful country. 🇨🇦
Found this slim gem in a London bookshop. Who am I to disagree with Michael Ondaatje? #AmReading 📚
October 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Found this slim gem in a London bookshop. Who am I to disagree with Michael Ondaatje? #AmReading 📚
It’s like the 1930s are happening in reverse.
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s like the 1930s are happening in reverse.
Peak oil (valuation) happened in 1985.
October 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Peak oil (valuation) happened in 1985.
French President Macron speaking on German reunification:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
October 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
French President Macron speaking on German reunification:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
We’re between Soylent Green and Children of Men on the Sci-Fi timeline. Feels about right.
September 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We’re between Soylent Green and Children of Men on the Sci-Fi timeline. Feels about right.
Buddy has the verb tense wrong.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Buddy has the verb tense wrong.
Holy mackerel is this ever good. #AmReading 📚
September 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Holy mackerel is this ever good. #AmReading 📚
Finest political leadership comms in history?
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Finest political leadership comms in history?
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
Justin Ling is a must-read on the context of the Charlie Kirk murder within the American right.
www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...
www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...
Who Was Charlie Kirk, Anyway?
Kirk occupied a uniquely powerful place in the MAGA movement
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Justin Ling is a must-read on the context of the Charlie Kirk murder within the American right.
www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...
www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...