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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 6h

Chaperoning some Jr high kids for a school thing and I'm convinced God is real. The fact that these gawky weirdos mostly turn into well-adjusted adults is a freaking miracle

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 9h

Better look out everybody, it's the master race

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 10h

If you see this man coming to rape you/put you in a gas chamber/etc., run. For just a few feet. You won't need to run further than that before the heart attack gets him.

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 10h

One of these four fine physical specimens is NOT a leader of the Young Republicans. See if you can spot who!

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 10h

I know OpenAI is losing tons of money and setting up the world economy for an epochal meltdown when the bubble bursts, but a lot of people would pay a lot of cash to watch every person responsible for this get tossed into a volcano so maybe that's how they make their money back

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 10h

Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 14h

If you're under the impression that like half the economy is supplements and crypto and AI and other legal-ish scams, you would be incorrect because it's probably a lot more than half

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 17h

Professional hazard when you're an academic

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

On the next episode, Tony Blair and Chuck Schumer

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

If there was an arrangement where Trump didn't have any real power, but he had some sort of Nathan For You type reality show where he clowned VIPs and made them look spineless, we'd all be better off

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

A) 👩‍🍳 💋 b) Barrett's Privateers is the perfect song for every poor bastard who has ever had a terrible boss c) probably the best of the mini-genre "Canadian songs that sound like traditional pieces from the 1500s but were actually composed in like 1983"

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 1d

I am entering Week 3 of having "Barrett's Privateers" by Stan Rogers stuck in my head, and watching Toronto take heavy casualties while losing to a group of Mariners from the U.S., well it's not helping matters

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

When this article came out I had a tough time believing it, both because the sourcing seemed a bit thin and because I couldn't get my head around Hamas being so stupid. Do you know if this has been confirmed?

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Hamas actually believed it would conquer Israel, and divided it into cantons

Tens of Thousands of Gazans Have Fled to Egypt Since the War Broke Out, Many of Them Members of the Elite Who Are Able to Pay the Enormous Costs. I Met Old Friends in Cairo Who Were Still Astonished a...

www.haaretz.com

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

So, are they all wrong or what? I'm not an expert on this and I appreciate nuance but when there's an entire wall of experts using the G word, I figure they must know something

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

Israel has been beating up on Palestinians for a long time and that's not genocide. What's happened in Gaza the last 2 years is quantitatively and qualitatively different.

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

And, for my very minor expertise as a former aid worker, I can say I've worked in a few war zones and never saw anything like the famine in Gaza that wasn't 100% deliberate. Assad in Syria, Ahmed in Ethiopia, etc. That famine isn't something that happens on accident.

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

And here's the Lemkin Institute

web.archive.org/web/20231230...

Statement on Why We Call the Israeli Attack on Gaza Genocide

December 29, 2023 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, increasingly concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the territory of the State of Palestine (including Gaza and the...

web.archive.org

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

And here's Israeli holocaust historian Omer Bartov

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

www.nytimes.com

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

And here's the Israeli human rights organization Btselem

www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...

www.btselem.org

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

And here's the International Association of Genocide Scholars

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say

The world's leading association of genocide scholars cited several actions by Israel, including attacks on the healthcare sector and the killing of children.

www.bbc.com

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

OK, so here's the UN OHCHR saying it's genocide

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

www.ohchr.org

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

"It's not genocide unless all the murder happens in a 24 hour timeframe" ok whatever you say, boss. Remember to let the international law experts know because they seem to think otherwise

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

Not all heroes wear capes

(also ICE better watch out, anyone riding naked in the rain at 55 degrees is tough as hell)

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

See, that might be true in the summer, but it's 55 degrees and raining so all the penisis will be on the small side

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

Establishing intent is key in genocide prosecutions and, well, Netanyahu and the rest of the Israeli government can't shut up about their intent. The ICC indictments, various UN investigations, reports from Amnesty and other human rights groups. etc. have tons of verbatim documentation on this

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

The main criticism of the US early on in the Afghan war was that there was a famine there already and relief operations would be disrupted by the war. So we did extensive airdrops and opened up inaccessible areas and by the end of 2001 the WFP was breaking records for aid delivery

UN sends record 114,000 metric tonnes of food aid to Afghanistan this month

Far surpassing previous records, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has delivered an unprecedented 114,000 metric tonnes of food into Afghanistan during the month of December.

news.un.org

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

I disagree with you on the genocide issue but for the record, what the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan was NOTHING like what Israel has done in Gaza. Find me one example of the US deliberately causing a famine among Iraqi and Afghan civilians. Good Lord.

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