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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.
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Any chance we could get the Kony 2012 guy to raise awareness about Elon's large adult child soldiers?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm considering the possibility that WH correspondents are over the moon that Trump is president b/c they get to report the daily drama and people pay attention. Like they got tickets to the premier of some action movie and they get to tell us what happened. Like none of this actually matters.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Look, the good news is that it's just like when you were in high school. Until 1991 nobody knew about REM beyond a small crew of artsy kids and other oddballs

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Unsolicited pitch for a podcast by @volts.wtf or @jessedjenkins.com or @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social —you know, b/c they’ve got nothing else going on: why isn’t WA building renewables? I’ve been looking at data with my inexpert eye for the last several months and everything says we’re way behind 1/10

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This article does a better job at what I tried to get at in my earlier thread about liberal democracy and Gaza, although it doesn’t talk about Gaza. Basically the US has liberal and illiberal strains and the illiberal strain is winning right now. I think this shows up in foreign policy too. 1/19

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment