Joe Tankersley
@joetankersley.bsky.social
Futurist, storyteller, old guy. Committed to reimagining our futures. Co-conspirators always welcome.
7/15/2042 We leave Deseret behind and enter the former state of Colorado, now part of the Three Corners Consortium. Traffic picks up. We pass through small towns where people are on the streets, businesses open. Almost like life goes on the way it used to.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
7/15/2042 We leave Deseret behind and enter the former state of Colorado, now part of the Three Corners Consortium. Traffic picks up. We pass through small towns where people are on the streets, businesses open. Almost like life goes on the way it used to.
joetankersley.substack.com/p/episode-31...
joetankersley.substack.com/p/episode-31...
Searching for Hope AfterAmerica: The Practopia Project
According to the landfill miners, living on top of a toxic mountain of garbage beats being a wage chaser in the old economy. Work matters and plenty to eat. Long as you like crispy cricket patties.
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According to the landfill miners, living on top of a toxic mountain of garbage beats being a wage chaser in the old economy. Work matters and plenty to eat. Long as you like crispy cricket patties.
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Creating Hope from Garbage
Episode Two Continued
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November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Searching for Hope AfterAmerica: The Practopia Project
According to the landfill miners, living on top of a toxic mountain of garbage beats being a wage chaser in the old economy. Work matters and plenty to eat. Long as you like crispy cricket patties.
joetankersley.substack.com/p/creating-h...
According to the landfill miners, living on top of a toxic mountain of garbage beats being a wage chaser in the old economy. Work matters and plenty to eat. Long as you like crispy cricket patties.
joetankersley.substack.com/p/creating-h...
The mountain of garbage is covered in a riot of living color, reds, yellows, even green. Apparently, these plants didn’t get the memo about global warming. Or like the people who refuse to leave, are just too stubborn to give up.
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Episode 2 - Mount Trashmore
Searching for Hope AfterAmerica: The Practopia Project
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November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The mountain of garbage is covered in a riot of living color, reds, yellows, even green. Apparently, these plants didn’t get the memo about global warming. Or like the people who refuse to leave, are just too stubborn to give up.
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My latest experiment in using narrative to inspire better tomorrows, Searching for Hope AfterAmerica: The Practopia Project is live on Substack.
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I hope it will inspire you to create and share your own stories of positive futures
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I hope it will inspire you to create and share your own stories of positive futures
Episode One - Leaving LA
July 10, 2042
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My latest experiment in using narrative to inspire better tomorrows, Searching for Hope AfterAmerica: The Practopia Project is live on Substack.
joetankersley.substack.com/p/episode-on...
I hope it will inspire you to create and share your own stories of positive futures
joetankersley.substack.com/p/episode-on...
I hope it will inspire you to create and share your own stories of positive futures
This is the kind of positivefuture stories we need to be creating
One-sentence Future: Agentic Legos
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One-sentence Future: Agentic Legos
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One-sentence Future: Agentic Legos
An agentic AI Lego named Milo forms a deep bond with a quiet preschooler named Juniper, gently encouraging her creativity and confidence through collaborative play, becoming her trusted companion and ...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is the kind of positivefuture stories we need to be creating
One-sentence Future: Agentic Legos
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One-sentence Future: Agentic Legos
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the capacity to imagine the future –
imagination as resistance
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October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Increasingly we need voices that recognize the severity of our situation but can also offer us an option other than dystopian despair. Elisa Rahje's meditations on "active hope" is one of the best.
having awoken –
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having awoken –
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having awoken –
on reviving the root patterns of healing
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October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Increasingly we need voices that recognize the severity of our situation but can also offer us an option other than dystopian despair. Elisa Rahje's meditations on "active hope" is one of the best.
having awoken –
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having awoken –
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This month's post on Welcome to Thrutopia is a wonderful glimpse at one possible future, Exmouth 2034. open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...
Exmouth 2034
by Sarah Allen
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October 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This month's post on Welcome to Thrutopia is a wonderful glimpse at one possible future, Exmouth 2034. open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...
Welcome to Thrutopia is a substack anthology created by writers exploring possible ways forward through the current metacrisis. The latest offering from Ana Salote proves its possible to have fun while fighting against toxic consumerism. Enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...
To all my Fans
A short story by Ana Salote
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September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Welcome to Thrutopia is a substack anthology created by writers exploring possible ways forward through the current metacrisis. The latest offering from Ana Salote proves its possible to have fun while fighting against toxic consumerism. Enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...
What do you write? I was asked this question recently and fumbled the answer. I'm part of a group of writers exploring Thruopia- ways forward toward a future we would be proud to leave our children. To me that always feels clunky. Curious if others writing in related genres have compelling pitches.
April 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What do you write? I was asked this question recently and fumbled the answer. I'm part of a group of writers exploring Thruopia- ways forward toward a future we would be proud to leave our children. To me that always feels clunky. Curious if others writing in related genres have compelling pitches.
"The Reich is trying to recreate a power structure that no longer exists, and cannot be remade" Karl Schroeder kschroeder.substack.com/p/george-jet...
George Jetson's Job in the Fourth Reich
Trump is promising to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. But with the rapid rise of robotics, those factories will be automated. So who benefits?
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April 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"The Reich is trying to recreate a power structure that no longer exists, and cannot be remade" Karl Schroeder kschroeder.substack.com/p/george-jet...
Latest from Solarpunk Stories. Worth the quick read and links. Just one more reason I wish I lived in London. solarpunkstories.substack.com?r=1177&utm_c...
SolarPunk Stories | Substack
Let's make a deliciously sustainable future together. Click to read SolarPunk Stories, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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April 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Latest from Solarpunk Stories. Worth the quick read and links. Just one more reason I wish I lived in London. solarpunkstories.substack.com?r=1177&utm_c...
This month's entry in the Thrutopia Anthology of poems and stories to help us imagine a future we'd be proud to leave behind comes from Julie Leoni thrutopia.substack.com/p/definition...
Definition
A poem by Julie Leoni
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April 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This month's entry in the Thrutopia Anthology of poems and stories to help us imagine a future we'd be proud to leave behind comes from Julie Leoni thrutopia.substack.com/p/definition...
Meet Vishwam Gurudas Heckert, author of this month's selection on the Welcome to Thrutopia Substack. One of our growing community of creatives dedicated to imagining a future we'd be proud to leave behind. open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...
Meet the author
Interview with Vishwam Gurudas Heckert
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March 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Meet Vishwam Gurudas Heckert, author of this month's selection on the Welcome to Thrutopia Substack. One of our growing community of creatives dedicated to imagining a future we'd be proud to leave behind. open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...
Part 2 of Vishwam Gurudas Heckert's story, A Field of Hope is live on the Welcome to Thrutopia substack. Welcome to Thrutopia is a community of writers and poets trying to imagine building a future we'd be proud to leave behind. lnkd.in/eryS7xme
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Part 2 of Vishwam Gurudas Heckert's story, A Field of Hope is live on the Welcome to Thrutopia substack. Welcome to Thrutopia is a community of writers and poets trying to imagine building a future we'd be proud to leave behind. lnkd.in/eryS7xme
Can any one of the people calling for Chuck Schumer’s head please explain to me the strategy they would prefer? Seriously I am all for strong resistance but I don’t see a strategy in democrats closing the govt. Schumer made the best of two very bad choices and I applaud his courage.
March 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Can any one of the people calling for Chuck Schumer’s head please explain to me the strategy they would prefer? Seriously I am all for strong resistance but I don’t see a strategy in democrats closing the govt. Schumer made the best of two very bad choices and I applaud his courage.
Welcome to Thrutopia is home to a community of writers and poets trying to imagine how we can create a future we'd be proud to leave behind. Please check out our latest story. thrutopia.substack.com/p/a-field-of...
A Field of Hope
short story by Vishwam Heckert
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March 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Welcome to Thrutopia is home to a community of writers and poets trying to imagine how we can create a future we'd be proud to leave behind. Please check out our latest story. thrutopia.substack.com/p/a-field-of...
"As old systems die, they get loud." Andy Hines. www.imaginingaftercapitalism.com
Imagining After Capitalism
Andy Hines' new book Imagining After Capitalism explores a world after capitalism.
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February 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"As old systems die, they get loud." Andy Hines. www.imaginingaftercapitalism.com
For those interested in the ecovillage movement. "Modern village design is in revival and we have more tools than ever before to build successful eco-communities." terrenity.substack.com?r=1177&utm_c...
Terrenity | Nicole Reese | Substack
Practical village building in a modern context :
how to design, build, and operate regenerative communities, ecovillages, and startup societies. Click to read Terrenity, by Nicole Reese, a Substack ...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For those interested in the ecovillage movement. "Modern village design is in revival and we have more tools than ever before to build successful eco-communities." terrenity.substack.com?r=1177&utm_c...
staring at my screen, waiting for the words to come. image appears. One I've never seen before- deep in a redwood forest. Coincidence? I'm finally reading the Overstory. So many feels from this brilliant book, mainly a reminded I need to spend more time in the woods, listening, sitting, being.
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
staring at my screen, waiting for the words to come. image appears. One I've never seen before- deep in a redwood forest. Coincidence? I'm finally reading the Overstory. So many feels from this brilliant book, mainly a reminded I need to spend more time in the woods, listening, sitting, being.
So confused. The original legislation to ban TikTok came from Josh Hawley, a hard core Maga republican. It passed house and Senate by bipartisan majorities. It was opposed by ACLU and other "leftist" groups. Now we need to keep it? Who's making money off this reversal?
January 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
So confused. The original legislation to ban TikTok came from Josh Hawley, a hard core Maga republican. It passed house and Senate by bipartisan majorities. It was opposed by ACLU and other "leftist" groups. Now we need to keep it? Who's making money off this reversal?
Seeing a lot of comments urging people to not remain silent in the face of evil. I get the desire to rail against the oppressors, but it is our actions, not words alone, that will save democracy. Nothing wrong with spending your energy silently working to create a better more equitable future.
January 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Seeing a lot of comments urging people to not remain silent in the face of evil. I get the desire to rail against the oppressors, but it is our actions, not words alone, that will save democracy. Nothing wrong with spending your energy silently working to create a better more equitable future.
Long admired Jimmy Carter and much moved by his funeral. Would hope we take this moment as inspiration to recommit to his ideals. Truth, respect, and concern for our neighbors are timeless and much needed.
January 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Long admired Jimmy Carter and much moved by his funeral. Would hope we take this moment as inspiration to recommit to his ideals. Truth, respect, and concern for our neighbors are timeless and much needed.