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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Twitter is the broiest place to get your news online, and it shows

Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Some days I feel bad for my skepticism of Talarico, other days I do not. "God already built a wall through Big Bend" ???

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From the "Dept. of Broken Clocks that are Very Occasionally Right" here's Elon Musk calling Exxon "one of the worst companies on Earth" in a private email. I think being treated this way by their fellow oligarchs really burns oil CEOs and it's part of the reason for their recent radicalization.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Belgians are now engaged in Surrealist painter-based banter ahead of the game with the US tonight. Game's back.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The next time someone tells you engaging on Twitter/X is still important, send them this: Sen. Raphael Warnock's team gets more engagement posting *text updates* to YouTube, a video platform, than on Twitter/X posts. X is a completely fake sense of relevance. www.linkinbio.news/p/how-to-get...

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One of the most important things you need to know about climate communication: Most people agree with climate science and that clean energy is good. The problem is that most people don't believe that most people are in alignment. In sociological literature this is called "pluralistic ignorance".

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just saw one of the best Buy Nothing Group offers yet: Casket. Unused!

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Hey man did you finish writing my quote for the website?" "Yeah, real sexy just like you asked for."

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Fossil fuel companies are astroturfing a lot of content about solar being bad for farms - see an example below. As a result there's been an uptick in earnest but misguided 'parking lots not farms' posts. Solar is great for farmers. It provides steady, diverse income and works well with many crops.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's not just that the Democrats are feckless, it's that when they post things like this it makes me think they are willing to let war crimes happen because it will be politically advantageous to them.

a post from an official democratic Threads account saying: A Trump merch store has closed after a dip in enthusiasm among his supporters led to low sales:
“Sales were really slow. It all started with the war. It was dead as a door nail the minute that happened."

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Do you support pro-solar policy? 90% say yes. What percentage of other people support this pro-solar policy? Average estimate: 58.6% Up-front cash for heat pumps? 80% support? What percentage of other people support heat pumps? Average estimate: 46.8% Incredible perception gap.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Americans are very bad at estimating how many Americans support climate action. Solar, EVs, and climate policy in general are always way more popular than people assume. This is basically a storytelling problem, not a popularity problem.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am once again begging clean energy advocates to stop talking up Texas' current free-for-all approach to energy development as a model of success. Hasn't lowered emissions. Hasn't displaced fossil fuel use. Hasn't lowered bills. electricity.heatmap.news

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Generally, Americans are bad at estimating how much other Americans support climate action - under-estimating by 50% or more. Consumers of a lot of liberal news can be among the worst at correctly estimating support - almost on par with Fox News watchers. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A chart showing the difference in misperception levels among consumers of news outlets regarding public support for climate action. On the left, showing low differences are news sources like NPR, cable news, and national papers. On the right, showing a high difference are Other Liberal Outlets, Fox News, and Other Conservative outlets

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I thought I'd had to dig through some NGO report to find how much land the Trump Administration has given away to oil and gas companies for drilling, because it's unpopular and dangerous. Turns out they are happy to report it themselves. Deranged.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

People who say there's no use for AI are completely wrong. For instance, there's GroomBot 9000, Mark Zuckerberg's personal assistant for sexualizing young kids and driving the elderly into psychosis www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Austin has some really A+ content in this department. "Hurt? Call the white guy with dreads!"

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

New proposed Texas Congressional map is out. Republicans simply do not believe in Democracy.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The #OilBucketChallenge was the winning idea from @cleancreatives.bsky.social UN-pitch Fossil Fuels creative competition earlier this year. And so here is me being covered in 'oil' for your enjoyment. Join the movement: cleancreatives.org/join

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It sure seems like Mike Huckabee is trying to talk President Trump into using nuclear weapons. "No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not Since Truman in 1945. I don't reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you."

A very long text message from Ambassador Mike Huckabee to President Trump

An excerpt from the text that seems to encourage the President to use nuclear weapons by comparing him to President Truman.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A lot of y'all are forgetting the most important principle of political analysis, as expressed by one of the best Tumblr posts of all time.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The new, more efficient version of the National Weather Service successfully delivered an extreme weather warning AFTER my house was getting pelted by hail and high winds last night.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Elon Musk goes around saying he's worried about global population collapse and then lets hundreds of thousands of poor children die of malnutrition and preventable disease. Tells you everything you need to know about what 'population' he cares about. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I assume this list of headlines is a sign that things are going well

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Congratulations to SXSW for trading US Army sponsorship for Phillip Morris. Love to see cultural events sponsored by tobacco money. schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Let's not overlook Ted Cruz's personal bullying of the FAA into putting more flights to DCA as another cause of the plane crash: marylandmatters.org/2024/05/10/u...

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My plans last night got cancelled so I tried making stickers.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Instead of actually fighting for their lives, clean energy lobby groups are still putting out the weakest-possible nonsense in response to existential threats, and we are all worse off because of it. This is a terrible comms response to the wind executive order:

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Imagine saying this out loud. My god.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

While California caught fire this week, what was the oil and gas industry doing? Launching a new round of ads opposing climate action in California. @cleancreatives.bsky.social found the agencies behind a new ad buy from Western States Petroleum Association that began WEDNESDAY as the fires spread:

Background image of California wildfire with two images from Facebook Advertisements in the foreground asking viewers to call Legislators to oppose climate action.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

You can tell he's lying because the consensus most useful online space today, Reddit, is run by moderators with absolute power to ban people from their communities, and not by whatever this standard is. You have to be willfully ignorant, and excited to spread extremism, to have Zuckerberg's take.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The most obvious conclusion for a long time has been that Mark Zuckerberg is just a white supremacist.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It gets better. Look who he features in his Activist School:

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

During the first Trump Administration I came up with a system for thinking about the evil things happening that often helped me figure out how to be most useful. Now that he's back in power, I wanted to share it again in case it helped others make sense of everything. The Four Kinds of Trump Evil:

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Austin's weather for a rare solar eclipse: rain, storms, possible hail.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

There is a whole chapter dedicated to how cool the sperm whale's head is, and how important it is that it does NOT have a damn nose. standardebooks.org/ebooks/herma...

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Unclear what exactly I was thinking 14 years ago today that caused me to post this on Facebook but it's nice to know some things haven't changed.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Got a new shirt for ACL. Texas, for better or worse.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

This is Lament of the Images by Alfredo Jaar, and it's the work of art I think about the most. It comes up every time I see a news story that seems like it might change everything.

A silhouette of a man stands in a dark room, in front of a large screen that is illuminated completely white.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Have you heard of this new T*****r alternative? It's called Going Outside, and it rules.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Update from France: I met a good dog on the train.

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