Ocean Hoptimism
@oceanhoptimism.org
Uniting ocean enthusiasts over a pint! Ocean Hoptimism is a monthly gathering of ocean conservation, science, exploration, art, recreation, policy, & beer enthusiasts in SF Bay Area. Pint-sized hope for a brighter ocean future!
www.oceanhoptimism.org
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Ocean Hoptimism
@oceanhoptimism.org
· May 13
We’re gonna need a bigger… pint. Sea. Stories. Suds. That’s the vibe. Join us every 4th Thursday at Faction Brewing for pints, purpose, and the hope we need for the ocean we love. #OceanHoptimism #SeaStoriesSuds #FactionBrewing #OptimismOnTap
A reminder today that even in hard times, possibility lives alongside despair. May writing and reading this help us all through the weeks, months, and years ahead — grounding our hope in action and connection. 🌱
#OceanHoptimism
Our latest piece in @therevelator.org:
#OceanHoptimism
Our latest piece in @therevelator.org:
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility • The Revelator
Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward.
therevelator.org
January 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
A reminder today that even in hard times, possibility lives alongside despair. May writing and reading this help us all through the weeks, months, and years ahead — grounding our hope in action and connection. 🌱
#OceanHoptimism
Our latest piece in @therevelator.org:
#OceanHoptimism
Our latest piece in @therevelator.org:
BREAKING: Pizza sales are down. Pizza. The universal constant. Clear evidence we are living in a malfunctioning simulation where the rules are degrading and nothing sacred is safe. Patch notes unavailable.
America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
Restaurant chains are exploring strategy changes as sales slow for the food-delivery mainstay.
www.wsj.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
BREAKING: Pizza sales are down. Pizza. The universal constant. Clear evidence we are living in a malfunctioning simulation where the rules are degrading and nothing sacred is safe. Patch notes unavailable.
After a brutal week of headlines, this image isn’t reassurance—it’s orientation. Color, structure, and light still exist, even when the news narrows our field of view. Take the pause. Then return to the unfinished work we share, with perspective intact.
#OceanHoptimism #ResilientTogether
#OceanHoptimism #ResilientTogether
January 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM
After a brutal week of headlines, this image isn’t reassurance—it’s orientation. Color, structure, and light still exist, even when the news narrows our field of view. Take the pause. Then return to the unfinished work we share, with perspective intact.
#OceanHoptimism #ResilientTogether
#OceanHoptimism #ResilientTogether
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A beautiful read. Highly suggest everyone who needs a bit of hope these days. 🙏🏽🐾
Despair isn’t our destiny — courage, connection, and community are. There’s more possibility than you think if we show up, share the load, and choose action over apathy. Let’s reject hopelessness and keep building the future we want to see. 🌱🔥 #OceanHoptimism #StayInTheWork
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility • The Revelator
Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward.
therevelator.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
A beautiful read. Highly suggest everyone who needs a bit of hope these days. 🙏🏽🐾
Our logo shark is on a one-month holiday (even apex predators need PTO). Luckily, a seal volunteered to fill in—union rules, extra fish snacks. 🦭
Join us Jan 22 for “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner from The Marine Mammal Center.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
Join us Jan 22 for “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner from The Marine Mammal Center.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Our logo shark is on a one-month holiday (even apex predators need PTO). Luckily, a seal volunteered to fill in—union rules, extra fish snacks. 🦭
Join us Jan 22 for “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner from The Marine Mammal Center.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
Join us Jan 22 for “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner from The Marine Mammal Center.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
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This moment calls all of us to do more than stand witness — it calls us to gather, to sit in pain and anger and build something together, and act from shared strength. We made this new post with that in mind.
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
Build the Room
How Gathering, Not Compliance, Keeps Us HumanThere’s an antidote for despair. There’s an antidote for fear. There’s an out for our anger.And compliance is not it.Right now, we are being trained—delibe...
www.oceanhoptimism.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This moment calls all of us to do more than stand witness — it calls us to gather, to sit in pain and anger and build something together, and act from shared strength. We made this new post with that in mind.
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
Despair isn’t our destiny — courage, connection, and community are. There’s more possibility than you think if we show up, share the load, and choose action over apathy. Let’s reject hopelessness and keep building the future we want to see. 🌱🔥 #OceanHoptimism #StayInTheWork
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility • The Revelator
Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward.
therevelator.org
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Despair isn’t our destiny — courage, connection, and community are. There’s more possibility than you think if we show up, share the load, and choose action over apathy. Let’s reject hopelessness and keep building the future we want to see. 🌱🔥 #OceanHoptimism #StayInTheWork
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This much-needed essay by @oceanhoptimism.org has resonated with a lot of people today:
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility @therevelator.org therevelator.org/environmenta...
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility @therevelator.org therevelator.org/environmenta...
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility • The Revelator
Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward.
therevelator.org
January 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
This much-needed essay by @oceanhoptimism.org has resonated with a lot of people today:
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility @therevelator.org therevelator.org/environmenta...
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility @therevelator.org therevelator.org/environmenta...
Posting a little ocean joy to carry you into the weekend 🌊✨
Meet the Red Knobbed Sea Star (Protoreaster linckii), spotted in southwestern Madagascar—bold colors, improbable texture, pure marine wonder. A reminder that the ocean still knows how to surprise, delight, and hold beauty worth protecting.
Meet the Red Knobbed Sea Star (Protoreaster linckii), spotted in southwestern Madagascar—bold colors, improbable texture, pure marine wonder. A reminder that the ocean still knows how to surprise, delight, and hold beauty worth protecting.
January 9, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Posting a little ocean joy to carry you into the weekend 🌊✨
Meet the Red Knobbed Sea Star (Protoreaster linckii), spotted in southwestern Madagascar—bold colors, improbable texture, pure marine wonder. A reminder that the ocean still knows how to surprise, delight, and hold beauty worth protecting.
Meet the Red Knobbed Sea Star (Protoreaster linckii), spotted in southwestern Madagascar—bold colors, improbable texture, pure marine wonder. A reminder that the ocean still knows how to surprise, delight, and hold beauty worth protecting.
Join this Nat. Marine Sanctuary webinar 🌊 to learn why eelgrass meadows are vital to ocean health — they support fish nurseries, store carbon, protect coasts, and sustain biodiversity. Don’t miss this chance to understand & help protect these coastal habitats.
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4sDoP6A
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4sDoP6A
January 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Join this Nat. Marine Sanctuary webinar 🌊 to learn why eelgrass meadows are vital to ocean health — they support fish nurseries, store carbon, protect coasts, and sustain biodiversity. Don’t miss this chance to understand & help protect these coastal habitats.
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4sDoP6A
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4sDoP6A
Really sad news about swimmer Erica Fox, 55, killed off Lovers Point in Monterey Bay in a rare shark attack while doing what she loved with her ocean community. Our heart goes out to her family, friends & the Kelp Krawlers. Ocean risks are real but so is our love for these waters. 🖤🌊
Coroner confirms Calif. woman was killed in shark attack
Erica Fox, 55, went missing during an open-water swim in Monterey Bay in December.
www.sfgate.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Really sad news about swimmer Erica Fox, 55, killed off Lovers Point in Monterey Bay in a rare shark attack while doing what she loved with her ocean community. Our heart goes out to her family, friends & the Kelp Krawlers. Ocean risks are real but so is our love for these waters. 🖤🌊
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🌊🦐🧪🌎 🦑 Join the Point Blue Marine Lab and @exploratorium.bsky.social on Friday, 1/23/26 to explore the world of #krill! They may be small, but these tiny #zooplankton are important prey, vital to the marine ecosystem, and help us understand #oceanhealth. shorturl.at/c4Dsm
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
🌊🦐🧪🌎 🦑 Join the Point Blue Marine Lab and @exploratorium.bsky.social on Friday, 1/23/26 to explore the world of #krill! They may be small, but these tiny #zooplankton are important prey, vital to the marine ecosystem, and help us understand #oceanhealth. shorturl.at/c4Dsm
We lied. 😅
Jon Pertwee was actually our first Doctor—but we didn’t want to so blatantly age ourselves. UNIT years, velvet capes, Venusian aikido, and that unmistakable gravitas? That’s where the regeneration locked in. Some truths regenerate slowly. 🌀
Jon Pertwee was actually our first Doctor—but we didn’t want to so blatantly age ourselves. UNIT years, velvet capes, Venusian aikido, and that unmistakable gravitas? That’s where the regeneration locked in. Some truths regenerate slowly. 🌀
Third Doctor
The Third Doctor, who was exiled by the Time Lords to Earth in the 20th century for a significant period of his life, was a distinguished man of high class and gadgetry, often tinkering away and privy...
tardis.fandom.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
We lied. 😅
Jon Pertwee was actually our first Doctor—but we didn’t want to so blatantly age ourselves. UNIT years, velvet capes, Venusian aikido, and that unmistakable gravitas? That’s where the regeneration locked in. Some truths regenerate slowly. 🌀
Jon Pertwee was actually our first Doctor—but we didn’t want to so blatantly age ourselves. UNIT years, velvet capes, Venusian aikido, and that unmistakable gravitas? That’s where the regeneration locked in. Some truths regenerate slowly. 🌀
Always and forever, our first Doctor! 💫 Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor legend, was astonished to be made an MBE at 90 — a long-overdue honor for the man who made that scarf iconic and the TARDIS feel like home for generations of Whovians. 🧣🚀
Doctor Who icon Tom Baker was "astonished" to receive huge honour at the age of 90
Baker was made an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours.
www.radiotimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Always and forever, our first Doctor! 💫 Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor legend, was astonished to be made an MBE at 90 — a long-overdue honor for the man who made that scarf iconic and the TARDIS feel like home for generations of Whovians. 🧣🚀
We benched the shark (for the month) and promoted a seal 🦭
For Jan 22, Ocean Hoptimism goes full “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner of The Marine Mammal Center.
Fewer teeth. More bark. Same ocean love.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
For Jan 22, Ocean Hoptimism goes full “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner of The Marine Mammal Center.
Fewer teeth. More bark. Same ocean love.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
January 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
We benched the shark (for the month) and promoted a seal 🦭
For Jan 22, Ocean Hoptimism goes full “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner of The Marine Mammal Center.
Fewer teeth. More bark. Same ocean love.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
For Jan 22, Ocean Hoptimism goes full “Behind the Bark: Saving Seals & Sea Lions” with Adam Ratner of The Marine Mammal Center.
Fewer teeth. More bark. Same ocean love.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
“This is a threshold moment. The kind future generations will study — not because we were certain, but because the uncertainty cornered us into choosing who we were willing to be.”
That tension is at the heart of this piece: to confront despair honestly and refuse to let it decide who we become. ♥️
That tension is at the heart of this piece: to confront despair honestly and refuse to let it decide who we become. ♥️
Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward. https://therevelator.org/environmental-despair-possibility/
The Seduction of Despair, the Persistence of Possibility • The Revelator
Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward.
therevelator.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
“This is a threshold moment. The kind future generations will study — not because we were certain, but because the uncertainty cornered us into choosing who we were willing to be.”
That tension is at the heart of this piece: to confront despair honestly and refuse to let it decide who we become. ♥️
That tension is at the heart of this piece: to confront despair honestly and refuse to let it decide who we become. ♥️
This moment calls all of us to do more than stand witness — it calls us to gather, to sit in pain and anger and build something together, and act from shared strength. We made this new post with that in mind.
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
Build the Room
How Gathering, Not Compliance, Keeps Us HumanThere’s an antidote for despair. There’s an antidote for fear. There’s an out for our anger.And compliance is not it.Right now, we are being trained—delibe...
www.oceanhoptimism.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This moment calls all of us to do more than stand witness — it calls us to gather, to sit in pain and anger and build something together, and act from shared strength. We made this new post with that in mind.
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
#OceanHoptimism #WeThePeople
Hope matters—but only when it’s grounded, protected, and carried into action. In moments like this, we all reach for hope. The question is whether we hold it long enough to change what comes next. A timely reminder on why hope needs boundaries.
#Hope #OceanHoptimism
#Hope #OceanHoptimism
Held Long Enough to Change
Why Hope Needs ContainersUp close, the interior surface looks almost geological: a repeating, jagged pattern of ridges and hollows, catching light in unexpected ways. It feels less like cookware than ...
www.oceanhoptimism.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Hope matters—but only when it’s grounded, protected, and carried into action. In moments like this, we all reach for hope. The question is whether we hold it long enough to change what comes next. A timely reminder on why hope needs boundaries.
#Hope #OceanHoptimism
#Hope #OceanHoptimism
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Join us for a webinar on Monday.
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We will announce the results of our partners' efforts to gather signatures, letters, petitions, and comments for the RFI, hear from elected leaders, and have a discussion about what just happened, and what comes next.
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We will announce the results of our partners' efforts to gather signatures, letters, petitions, and comments for the RFI, hear from elected leaders, and have a discussion about what just happened, and what comes next.
January 8, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Join us for a webinar on Monday.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We will announce the results of our partners' efforts to gather signatures, letters, petitions, and comments for the RFI, hear from elected leaders, and have a discussion about what just happened, and what comes next.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We will announce the results of our partners' efforts to gather signatures, letters, petitions, and comments for the RFI, hear from elected leaders, and have a discussion about what just happened, and what comes next.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Public, shareable toolkit on proposed seabed mining near the Mariana Trench. The U.S. offshore energy agency is taking public input on possible mineral leasing off the Northern Mariana Islands—comments due Jan 12, 2026. Includes where to comment, petitions, shareable posts, and community events.
January 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Public, shareable toolkit on proposed seabed mining near the Mariana Trench. The U.S. offshore energy agency is taking public input on possible mineral leasing off the Northern Mariana Islands—comments due Jan 12, 2026. Includes where to comment, petitions, shareable posts, and community events.
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BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Trump just announced that he is withdrawing the United States from the world’s foundational climate treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.
He also pulled out of dozens of other global environmental agreements and bodies.
bit.ly/4sDG4EP
Trump just announced that he is withdrawing the United States from the world’s foundational climate treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.
He also pulled out of dozens of other global environmental agreements and bodies.
bit.ly/4sDG4EP
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Trump just announced that he is withdrawing the United States from the world’s foundational climate treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.
He also pulled out of dozens of other global environmental agreements and bodies.
bit.ly/4sDG4EP
Trump just announced that he is withdrawing the United States from the world’s foundational climate treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.
He also pulled out of dozens of other global environmental agreements and bodies.
bit.ly/4sDG4EP
The U.S. has ordered withdrawal from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN Oceans, and more. This isn’t symbolic—it reshapes science, funding, and influence. We unpack what this means for IUCN.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
The U.S. has ordered its withdrawal from the Int’l Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)—part of a broader retreat from int’l treaties, conventions, & scientific bodies. This isn’t symbolic. It’s a real shift in how (& whether) the U.S. helps shape global conservation rules.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The U.S. has ordered withdrawal from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN Oceans, and more. This isn’t symbolic—it reshapes science, funding, and influence. We unpack what this means for IUCN.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism