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George Dubya

@itisgeorge.bsky.social
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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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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 4h
American here, who once almost hit a moose on my way to a meeting with a guy who was in a wheelchair because he had hit a moose. I for one welcome our new Canadian overlords
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 20h
"The Atlanta Hawks are one of the most uninspiring, frankly depressing franchises in all of American sports. The allegation that I would ever pay money to see them is outrageous."
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BRO, BRAH, DUDE, www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Canadian Oil No Longer Takes Long Road to Asia as Freight Surges
Canadian crude shipments are bypassing a pit stop off the California coast and heading straight to Asia as skyrocketing shipping rates make the detour less economical and the nation’s oil producers lo...
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's a story to blow your mind. I saw Nirvana in 1994 which entailed: 1. Walk downtown to the venue 2. Give the box office guy $20, get change and a ticket which went into my wallet 3. On the night of the show, go to the venue, give them the ticket, get in, the end (great show by the way)
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've been spending time with rural fire departments and depending on whether the fire chief thinks it's still 1986 some of those crazy bastards will drink anything. Others have newfangled professional norms about not being drunk on the job
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Structural Engineering Techniques To Build Distributed Thermal Exhaust Systems In Large Orbital Structures Without The Necessity Of Open Ports
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What's wild is Michael Baumgartner is in a rematch with Carmela Conroy, a meh candidate whom he beat by 21 points two years ago. The last time this district voted blue, Kurt Cobain was alive. What do the internal polls look like if they're worried about it now?
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To take this further, so much conversation around respecting rights, helping the poor etc. is about how we're doing them a favor and can we afford it or not. But if we actually believe we're all created equal, then rights/aid/etc. unlocks the enormous potential everyone has and we all benefit
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In prison he'll find guys happy to help him look better by hitting his jaw with hammers www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...
thebulwark.com
SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging
The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My problem with this is it should be Bob Kraft crying. Kraft ❤️ sex slavery and lets ICE use his jets and funds the IDF and supports Trump and punishes those who speak against Israel's barbarism. He's a bad person. Sheeran doesn't seem bad, just a bit ignorant and a bit of a weenie
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh noooooooo hopefully our combination of corruption and yellow peril racism will protect us from the better cheaper cars electrek.co/2026/09/18/h...
electrek.co
Hyundai warns the US may be next in line for a wave of cheaper Chinese EVs
Chinese automakers like BYD are quickly taking over global markets with low-cost electric vehicles, and Hyundai Motor’s CEO Jose Munoz...
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm part of a group that met with a congressional staffer this morning. Mostly older church ladies. The conversation turned to the Kennedy Center and OH MY GOD the Evelyn Normielib bloodlust is real
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's Wu Tang doing an absolutely sick St. Ides commercial in 1994 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSk...
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Wu-Tang Clan - St Ides Commercial
YouTube video by Wu-Tang Collection
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is pathetic. In my experience Spanish people have style, even the fascists. The Spanish Legion is still around wearing outfits like Tom of Finland so don't expect me to be impressed by your "just got off work at my Heritage Foundation internship" look
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Given the inarguable importance of gold for state power and human flourishing over the next several thousand years, it clearly is a waste of resources to help farmers, scientists, and craftsmen. We should help alchemists instead. --Zosimus the Alchemist/Effective Altruist in 300 AD, probably
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have worked on the business side of community paramedicine programs for years and the landscape is littered with the corpses of CP programs that were awesome and made a difference and went away when the money ran out BUT IT COULD MAKE HOSPITALS RICHER
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Go Seahawks
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Listen if we're going to base our government on Judeo-Christian principles then expecting FBI agents not to covet their neighbor's ass seems reasonable
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Re-upping my advice to Ossoff/AOC/whoever is running for president in 2028 to include "bestiality-free FBI" in their stump speech
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bob Kraft was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, who tried to help when Bob was caught getting a handjob as part of a prostitution sting. He loans his private jets for ICE deportations. He's trash and I assume the money Macklemore is losing is more consequence than Kraft will ever face for anything
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ben Johnson wants the Bears to be like the 2013 Broncos and, um, does he know how things ended for the 2013 Broncos?
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love how we can't get cheaper better Chinese cars because the US auto companies frantically grabbing and selling every piece of info they can find about you like a junkie stripping wires from a construction site are concerned about the Chinese invading your privacy www.cnet.com/home/electri...
cnet.com
Automakers Want Congress to Ban Chinese-Made Cars, Citing Data Privacy - CNET
Chinese cars are already blocked from the US market by high tariffs. But Congress is weighing an outright ban.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the worst thing that’s ever been written but I do love the idea that rap music now represents a stifling all encompassing HR bureaucracy, I reject the Yin Yang Twins attempts to get me to dress in business casual clothing and spend all day in an office being lectured to
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My man looks like he just told Hans Gruber "Bubby, I'm your white knight!" after Hans took hostages at the Claremont Institute
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The only winning move is not to play
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Hyundai Ioniq 5 - Ưu Đãi Thành Công Hải Phòng
ALT: Hyundai Ioniq 5 - Ưu Đãi Thành Công Hải Phòng
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Honestly these last 25 years have sucked. We lost our minds and hurt a lot of people and disgraced ourselves. It looks like younger generations have moved past our bullshit and you know what? That's for the best. May we get out of their way.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026
indeed, as my colleague jason briggeman notes, republicans are currently in the process of slandering and desecrating and dishonoring the more than one million dead americans of covid-19 these lies and slanders and utter fucking lethal bullshit have somehow become central to their party platform
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have the Rams landed in LA yet?
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Green warrior/Antifa agent Donald Trump, demonstrating the ridiculousness of fascism and pushing the clean energy transition faster than anyone thought it could go.
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The thing is, the Arab Spring was a grassroots attempt to move away from rule by fanatics and royal families and decrepit generals towards something more democratic, and the Israelis and Saudis and assorted goons around the region and half the State Department panicked so we let them crush it
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sean McVay's plan seems to have hinged on the proposition that the Rams will fly for 16 hours to Australia, getting a great night's sleep on the plane as one does, then get more great sleep during the middle of the day. They're playing like guys who haven't slept in 48 hours
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Hyundai Ioniq 5 - Ưu Đãi Thành Công Hải Phòng
ALT: Hyundai Ioniq 5 - Ưu Đãi Thành Công Hải Phòng
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Never forget. One year ago today bsky.app/profile/good...
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Has anyone come away from a conversation with Aaron Rodgers smarter than they were before said conversation?
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When Yevgeny Prigozhin was in good with Putin, he had a contract for school lunches and gave kids dysentery with spoiled food. He wasn't worried because he made sure Putin that always got paid. Makes sense that a guy paying Trump gets to sell mystery meat www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
bbc.com
Powerful 'Putin's chef' Prigozhin cooks up murky deals
Yevgeny Prigozhin allegedly pumps out fake news and hires mercenaries - but he once sold hot dogs.
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This piece by @saulelbein.bsky.social is really good, detailing one of the more ghoulish plans of oil companies with specifics on how to stop them. But I want to push back on one part of it (and I see this a lot of places, not just here). Anti-labor thread for Labor Day:
heated.world
Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness
To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This was maybe the first viral video ever btw. People think it was made at a local tv station by a bored staff member in the 70s. It’s just an alternative voiceover for a real public service announcement about AFSCME. It got traded on tapes for years before making the jump to YouTube in the 2000s.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day to all the little old ladies in Flaaawriduh.
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump is shrinking national monuments under the Antiquities Act *which doesn't say a president can shrink monuments.* Might that be a Major Question that Congress has to answer before Trump can just do this? SCOTUS doesn't care of course www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Patagonia sues Trump over slashing of protected areas in Utah
President’s order strips nearly 3m acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, sacred tribal sites, of safeguards
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
El-Sayed: JD Vance couch joke Vance : How dare you talk about my wife
El-Sayed: Why would you invite JD Vance? We don't have more couches here than they do in Ohio.
C-SPAN!JD Vance: "Keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth, Abdul, because she's way out of your league"
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Which one of these two photos is the mango tainted with salmonella and which one is rfk jr
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just for fun, President Ossoff/AOC/whoever should change it via executive order to Lake Firefox or Lake Duck Duck Go
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My "I have not engaged in any acts of bestiality since I turned 18" FBI field jacket has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my field jacket
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I know it's hyper-niche and also that the artist has no control over what the audience likes, but I want it on record that I consider this unnoticed, zero-likes post to be one of my finest works
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Man what? Firefighters get exposed to all kinds of toxic smoke and go into a tent to breathe some unproven woo-woo horseshit that supposedly detoxes you with antioxidants? They give out contracts for anything these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=yORg...
youtube.com
Experts call foul on smoke detox tents used in fighting wildfires
YouTube video by KIRO 7 News
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Seattle grunge scene had like a billion bands and only four of them ever made real money and everyone else lived in shitty apartments on Capitol Hill which today is super high end and no broke musician could ever afford. That whole scene grew out of those weirdos partying and swapping ideas
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Nepal flood footage is horrific and it will cause serious problems beyond the valley where it occurred. Several dams have been damaged or destroyed and 10% of the electricity generation for the whole country is offline. Nepal's power supply is already dodgy english.nepalnews.com/s/business/b...
english.nepalnews.com
Bhote Koshi flood: 10 percent of total electricity generation capacity affected
The Minister emphasized that the government's immediate priorities are human safety, search and rescue, and the swift restoration of essential electricity services, alongside a detailed technical asse...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2026
Bosnian Serb general ‌Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died ‌in the United Nations detention center in The Hague, Belgrade's Informer TV reported reut.rs/3Sd1MSL
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Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports
Bosnian ​Serb general ‌Ratko Mladic, who ​was serving ​a life sentence ⁠for ​genocide in ​the bloody 1992-95 war ​in ​Bosnia, has died ‌in ⁠the United Nations detention centre ​in ​The ⁠Hague, Belgrad...
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If she's your mother and also your sister there's some bad shit going on in your house
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