Brian Hubbell
@hubbell.bsky.social
Ex-legislature, current Maine state policy advisor: appropriations, energy, climate, science, R&D, and the built environment. Born at 314 ppm.
Biff Brewster revival
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Biff Brewster revival
About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A drive across the cable-stayed bridge across the mouth of the Penobscot River. View is slightly upward roughly in plane with the car windshield. Here's a daylight still.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A drive across the cable-stayed bridge across the mouth of the Penobscot River. View is slightly upward roughly in plane with the car windshield. Here's a daylight still.
Penobscot Narrows, Maine
September 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Penobscot Narrows, Maine
It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.
August 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.
'No Kings' rally State Capitol, Augusta Maine
June 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
'No Kings' rally State Capitol, Augusta Maine
It's not just on Christmas Eve - these three have been interrogating my life wordlessly from across my desk for years.
December 25, 2024 at 1:18 AM
It's not just on Christmas Eve - these three have been interrogating my life wordlessly from across my desk for years.
1) Frank Zappa - 'Hot Rats'
2) Rolling Stones - 'Let It Bleed'
3) Miles Davis - 'In a Silent Way'
4) Firesign Theater - 'Don't Crush That Dwarf...' (*prob most lasting influence)
2) Rolling Stones - 'Let It Bleed'
3) Miles Davis - 'In a Silent Way'
4) Firesign Theater - 'Don't Crush That Dwarf...' (*prob most lasting influence)
December 8, 2024 at 2:08 PM
1) Frank Zappa - 'Hot Rats'
2) Rolling Stones - 'Let It Bleed'
3) Miles Davis - 'In a Silent Way'
4) Firesign Theater - 'Don't Crush That Dwarf...' (*prob most lasting influence)
2) Rolling Stones - 'Let It Bleed'
3) Miles Davis - 'In a Silent Way'
4) Firesign Theater - 'Don't Crush That Dwarf...' (*prob most lasting influence)
V = I*R
Pin is from 1969 - but Ohm's Law still holds.
Pin is from 1969 - but Ohm's Law still holds.
December 1, 2024 at 11:29 AM
V = I*R
Pin is from 1969 - but Ohm's Law still holds.
Pin is from 1969 - but Ohm's Law still holds.
I always seek a window seat opposite the sun - and resolutely keeping the shade up increasingly feels an act of civil disobedience. But I can't imagine anything more patriotic.
November 12, 2024 at 12:01 AM
I always seek a window seat opposite the sun - and resolutely keeping the shade up increasingly feels an act of civil disobedience. But I can't imagine anything more patriotic.
Knife Edge, Katahdin
October 28, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Knife Edge, Katahdin
Mork, Meb, and Lexie Blossom
October 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Mork, Meb, and Lexie Blossom
One of the last blades rolling into downeast Maine Tuesday for a 126mw wind project.
Collectively, we are making real progress and these things don't run in reverse.
Collectively, we are making real progress and these things don't run in reverse.
October 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
One of the last blades rolling into downeast Maine Tuesday for a 126mw wind project.
Collectively, we are making real progress and these things don't run in reverse.
Collectively, we are making real progress and these things don't run in reverse.
22 days. Stay calm. Keep working. Dedicate to the long plan.
October 14, 2024 at 12:42 PM
22 days. Stay calm. Keep working. Dedicate to the long plan.
...Also, while I'm touting, Maine shows some impressive growth in solar electric generation over the last few years.
www.maine.gov/energy/initi...
www.maine.gov/energy/initi...
October 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
...Also, while I'm touting, Maine shows some impressive growth in solar electric generation over the last few years.
www.maine.gov/energy/initi...
www.maine.gov/energy/initi...
Here, is Omar in Buchanan, Michigan in 1915, photographed by my grandmother when she was a teenager. You can tell from his expression that he was ambivalent about being photographed in whatever cat business he was pursuing. But somehow I think he'd be pleased that we still know his name.
December 18, 2023 at 11:50 AM
Here, is Omar in Buchanan, Michigan in 1915, photographed by my grandmother when she was a teenager. You can tell from his expression that he was ambivalent about being photographed in whatever cat business he was pursuing. But somehow I think he'd be pleased that we still know his name.