Duncan Meisel
@duncanwrites
Writing, organizing, climate, politics, Texas, etc.
Some days I feel bad for my skepticism of Talarico, other days I do not. "God already built a wall through Big Bend" ???
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.
The Belgians are now engaged in Surrealist painter-based banter ahead of the game with the US tonight. Game's back.
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...
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".
Just saw one of the best Buy Nothing Group offers yet: Casket. Unused!
"Hey man did you finish writing my quote for the website?" "Yeah, real sexy just like you asked for."
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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...
Austin has some really A+ content in this department. "Hurt? Call the white guy with dreads!"
New proposed Texas Congressional map is out. Republicans simply do not believe in Democracy.
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
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 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.
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.
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...
I assume this list of headlines is a sign that things are going well
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/...
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...
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:
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:
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.