Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A 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. 000
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." 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A global political wave is coming. Energy shortages and war-driven inflation will manifest an angry wave of anti-incumbent sentiment. Are you watching closely? 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026After the rampact corruption of the last few years, a certain country may still try and lecture others about good governance, conflicts of interest, etc.static.klipy.comKanye West: Excuse Me, Was You Saying Something? Nuh UhALT: Kanye West: Excuse Me, Was You Saying Something? Nuh Uh 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Watching 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. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am occasionally shocked at how far I've come. Alhamdulillah. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Those dividends will be coming from shares in several bridges, no doubt. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wall Street's interests appear at odds with those of working people. 020
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Reading 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? 100
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026What 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. 🥲 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Je répète: This is both parable and farce. trinidadexpress.com/news/local/c...trinidadexpress.comCCJ fallout over dress codeFALLOUT 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... 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Caribbean 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. 100
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Oh, for my people to be free of colonial aesthetics! 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Why would one make this policy choice? (source: AskB by Bloomberg) 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Regional 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. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026After 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. 100
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A 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. 001
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I 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. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The Electric Mayhem playing the World Cup halftime show was the treat I needed. 010
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026So dem a come mess up my local property market now? :kissteet: 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026When it comes to the energy transition, things are getting better all the time. You can't stop progress. youtube.com/watch?v=ogAZ...youtube.comThe Miracles (and Maddening Politics) of the Clean Energy Revolution | The Ezra Klein ShowYouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Imagine a country looking to that northern neighbor and saying: yeas, we want *that* for ourselves. I need to understand this more. 000
Reposted by Gerald LindoErin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 07/07/20261/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 🧵 32710
Reposted by Gerald LindoAkshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Correct 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.comWho’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? TaxpayersTo 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... 22754460
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I love that the stadium crowds are booing this hydration break nonsense. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Loving 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. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026File 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.comDonald Trump is kicking out Chinese firms and keeping their techChina’s stranded assets are creating a new class of American green-tech investors 032
Reposted by Gerald LindoDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Paraguay’s electricity mix is 100% renewable, powered almost entirely by large-scale hydroelectric. 1080398
Reposted by Gerald LindoMichael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The 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...youtube.comHow the US Makes and Breaks Global Deals | Ep 263: John KerryYouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast 14215
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Why is Germany trying to mess up my blood pressure? 😭 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The Ghanaian kit is superb. Adding it to my shopping list. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Scientific 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. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026It's the summer solstice. Things get darker from here. 000
Reposted by Gerald LindoNick Norris @nicknslc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This 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...kpbs.orgSan Diego’s roads are crumbling faster than the city can fix themThe 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. 2153
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The 🇫🇷 🇸🇳 match makes me chuckle. Colonizer vs colonized, and the colonizer's team is full of the colonised. Anyhow, 🇸🇳 wi se. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026WTF is this hydration break nonsense? Feels like FIFA changing the game for ad money. 000
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I completely fail to see how this could possibly be cheaper than doing it on Earth. 120
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The 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.comWorld’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report findsJPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say 000
Reposted by Gerald LindoAarne 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.comWorld’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report findsJPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say 37848
Gerald Lindo @glindo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Tech giants working with the military?!?!?! Next they'll say that water's wet. 000