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Gerald Lindo

@glindo.bsky.social
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Sustainability, finance, and living well. Views expressed are nobody's in particular. Semper Vigilans. www.linkedin.com/in/gerrylindo

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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A most surprising aspect of the public discourse around data centres in the US is what I'm learning about US energy regulation. The idea that a new entrant to a grid with huge, grid-altering demand would shift their costs onto other rate payers is kinda wild to me.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A global political wave is coming. Energy shortages and war-driven inflation will manifest an angry wave of anti-incumbent sentiment. Are you watching closely?
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After the rampact corruption of the last few years, a certain country may still try and lecture others about good governance, conflicts of interest, etc.
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Kanye West: Excuse Me, Was You Saying Something? Nuh Uh
ALT: Kanye West: Excuse Me, Was You Saying Something? Nuh Uh
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Watching a sitting US senator participating in a campaign event for the opposite party is jarring to me. US party politics is so different from the party politics in parliamentary systems, with which I'm more familiar.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am occasionally shocked at how far I've come. Alhamdulillah.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Those dividends will be coming from shares in several bridges, no doubt.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wall Street's interests appear at odds with those of working people.
An Ai summary of a Bloomberg story: "A stronger-than-anticipated increase in US jobs drove stocks and bonds lower on speculation the Federal Reserve will be forced to raise interest rates this year."
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reading a Bloomberg economic analysis of global risk published last February. The risk of large, sustained oil pricr shocks from sustained Middle East conflict was rated as low. They weren't exactly wrong, because who would hace thought the beligerents would have done all this unnecessary stuff?
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What would happen to Caribbean island economies if governments stopped charging all those customs duties? Serious question seeking a serious answer. The fact that I just had to pay >100% duty on a small import and it hurt my feelings has nothing to do with it. 🥲
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Je répète: This is both parable and farce. trinidadexpress.com/news/local/c...
trinidadexpress.com
CCJ fallout over dress code
FALLOUT inside the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) over a proposed dress code and other simmering disputes escalated in early July, with president Justice Winston Anderson pressing Justice Chile Eboe...
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wonderful! Bookmarked.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Caribbean governments decided to build their own final appellate court, the CCJ, so they could stop relying on Britain for final justice. 20+ years on, the CCJ is embroiled in a scandal that apparently began because one of its judges was dressing too African. This is both parable and farce.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh, for my people to be free of colonial aesthetics!
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ms. Mottley not on the list anymore?
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Why would one make this policy choice? (source: AskB by Bloomberg)
Via Bloomberg:

Module Price Increases

The tariffs are expected to raise US solar module prices materially, though estimates vary across analysts:

A polysilicon MIP of ~$0.05/W is assumed by some analysts, a significant step up from the current import price of ~$0.01/W, potentially pushing domestic module prices to $0.42–$0.45/W for 2028–30 bookings. Wells Fargo
Derivative tariffs on solar wafers could increase average selling prices (ASPs) of US solar modules by up to ~25%, or approximately $0.08/W. Mizuho Securities
Imported panel prices could increase by at least $0.03–$0.04/W under a per-watt levy structure. Barclays
Non-Chinese polysilicon is currently in short supply, and tariffs could lead to near-term price increases of approximately 3x for module solar manufacturers. Barclays
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Regional media licensing deals are so weird to me. Everything should be available everywhere, because of the internet. If you won't let me watch something that I'd be willing to pay for just because of my location, then I'm going to pirate it without guilt.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
After re-reading Eric Williams this emancipation weekend, I find myself interested in the underlying environmental factors that caused deminishing returns on sugar plantations in the 19th century. I wonder if someone has written a history of the soil.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy Emancipation Day!
A paperback copy of "From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean" by Eric Williams.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A reminder that western countries do whatever is in their interest, not what is "right" or "principled" or whatever. We've lots of history to draw on, so we know what's up.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I was already done with Flow as a TV provider, because of their awful customer support. Their feed glitching out in the middle of the World Cup halftime show is beyond the final straw. Switching to Digicel on Monday morning.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Electric Mayhem playing the World Cup halftime show was the treat I needed.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So dem a come mess up my local property market now? :kissteet:
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
VAR is some nonsense, boy.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
When it comes to the energy transition, things are getting better all the time. You can't stop progress. youtube.com/watch?v=ogAZ...
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The Miracles (and Maddening Politics) of the Clean Energy Revolution | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Imagine a country looking to that northern neighbor and saying: yeas, we want *that* for ourselves. I need to understand this more.
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
1/The words "climate change" won't be spoken at this week's NATO Summit in Ankara. But as Europe suffers under its 3rd heat dome of the summer and 10s of thousands are running from wildfires in Spain, Portugal and France, it can't be ignored... A thread on what I'm watching for at the summit 🧵
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Might be the other way around.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
VAR is the worst.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I love that the stadium crowds are booing this hydration break nonsense.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm learning to embrace the weirdness of markets.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Loving the Senegal kit. Pumael going hard in general at this tournament. Belgium's kit, by contrast, looks like a mistake was made at the factory.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Anyhow, as dem seh, unfair game play twice.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
File this one under unfair trade practices. If another country did this to 🇺🇸 FDI, they'd launch a covert destabilization operation. "Donald Trump is kicking out Chinese firms and keeping their tech" www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
economist.com
Donald Trump is kicking out Chinese firms and keeping their tech
China’s stranded assets are creating a new class of American green-tech investors
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Paraguay’s electricity mix is 100% renewable, powered almost entirely by large-scale hydroelectric.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ich bin doch enttaüscht.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The interview they don't want you to watch. Former Secretary of State John Kerry is the guy who negotiated the JCPOA deal with Iran that President Trump tore up, and which he is now struggling to put back in place. Kerry does not mince his words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH1q...
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How the US Makes and Breaks Global Deals | Ep 263: John Kerry
YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why is Germany trying to mess up my blood pressure? 😭
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Ghanaian kit is superb. Adding it to my shopping list.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scientific American has been huge for me since childhood when my father first introduced me. The great institutions of my youth crumble one by one. Mind-blowing times we live in.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It's the summer solstice. Things get darker from here.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Undav.
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Nick Norris @nicknslc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is every city. The cost to maintain the sprawling streets of most US cities has been outpacing tax revenue for decades. And we are all going to experience the impact of that. www.kpbs.org/news/kpbs/20...
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San Diego’s roads are crumbling faster than the city can fix them
The city is fighting an uphill battle against its own road system while efforts to reduce traffic volumes or raise new revenues stall, highlighting the unsustainability of car-oriented cities.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The 🇫🇷 🇸🇳 match makes me chuckle. Colonizer vs colonized, and the colonizer's team is full of the colonised. Anyhow, 🇸🇳 wi se.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
WTF is this hydration break nonsense? Feels like FIFA changing the game for ad money.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I completely fail to see how this could possibly be cheaper than doing it on Earth.
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The private sector needs to be a part of the transition, but they will only do so if governments lead them to it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026
"The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
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Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Tech giants working with the military?!?!?! Next they'll say that water's wet.
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