Joe Hankins
@josephhankins.bsky.social
Climate refugee happily retired in small town New Hampshire. I can walk to the local hardware store.
Leaves are down and the stone walls are growing their winter moss coat in the morning sunshine.
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Leaves are down and the stone walls are growing their winter moss coat in the morning sunshine.
If I hold very still you will not notice me.
September 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If I hold very still you will not notice me.
Fair enough … who knows a scam better than a career scammer
July 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Fair enough … who knows a scam better than a career scammer
I like the big holiday fireworks but sometimes the explosions of color you find on a walk in the woods are just as surprising.
July 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I like the big holiday fireworks but sometimes the explosions of color you find on a walk in the woods are just as surprising.
Love this article. Nice to learn my dawdling walks in the woods are scientifically defensible! I know I feel better and it seems the people (and dogs) I meet along the path are happier than average.
How nature improves our cognition, our mood and much else. Lessons from the Appalachian Trail — and from scientists studying nature’s impact on our wellbeing. Gift link to my latest @postopinions.bsky.social column. wapo.st/4kJERXT
Opinion | We know time in nature fixes our brains. Here’s why.
Experimental science is proving what humanity has known, intuitively, for generations.
wapo.st
June 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Love this article. Nice to learn my dawdling walks in the woods are scientifically defensible! I know I feel better and it seems the people (and dogs) I meet along the path are happier than average.
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The contractor working on our 1937 porch repair always has all the fancy new red cordless tools. The screw jack is also cordless … but probably older than the house.
June 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The contractor working on our 1937 porch repair always has all the fancy new red cordless tools. The screw jack is also cordless … but probably older than the house.
The Saturday mushroom vibe in New England. Thirteen weeks of weekend rain in a row.
June 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Saturday mushroom vibe in New England. Thirteen weeks of weekend rain in a row.
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If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
Red herring should be New Hampshire’s state fish newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/06/10/r...
Red herring should be New Hampshire’s state fish • New Hampshire Bulletin
The Republican Party is the party of dark fantasies. It is the party of distraction (purposeful and otherwise) and of red herrings. And it is also the party of nostalgia, which makes it all the more b...
newhampshirebulletin.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Red herring should be New Hampshire’s state fish newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/06/10/r...
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Please read!!
Donald Trump is blowing up essential government functions in ways that may take decades to restore. This nihilism deserves a new name—nihilocracy. @normornstein.bsky.social explains.
Welcome to the nihilocracy
Trump is blowing up essential functions in ways that might take decades or longer to restore. It is nihilistic and deser
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June 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Please read!!
It’s worth the time to see and acknowledge those fragile bits of unexpected beauty in your day.
May 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s worth the time to see and acknowledge those fragile bits of unexpected beauty in your day.
Any glowing orb sightings this week?
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'Fire burn and cauldron bubble': Trump and the glowing orb
Find out what's buzzing in the social media world today.
www.bbc.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Any glowing orb sightings this week?
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-t...
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All of us are relishing some spring sunshine in the woods today.
May 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
All of us are relishing some spring sunshine in the woods today.
Distant Dome: Turning the Legislature Into an Arm of the Free State Project indepthnh.org/2025/05/10/d...
Distant Dome: Turning the Legislature Into an Arm of the Free State Project
First they came for the vaccine and the masks, and then they came for the Trans kids and their healthcare. Then it was public schools, libraries, the interest and dividends tax, and now zoning and lan...
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May 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Distant Dome: Turning the Legislature Into an Arm of the Free State Project indepthnh.org/2025/05/10/d...
Wonder at the optimism of spring white pines growing on NH granite … make the best of your day and situation.
May 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wonder at the optimism of spring white pines growing on NH granite … make the best of your day and situation.
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Mike Waltz has left the chat.
May 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Mike Waltz has left the chat.
Read this book when new four decades ago in graduate school. Didn’t appreciate it then. Now a classic and my understanding is better. “Americans had yet not learned the difference between yield and loot … the people of plenty were a people of waste.”
April 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Read this book when new four decades ago in graduate school. Didn’t appreciate it then. Now a classic and my understanding is better. “Americans had yet not learned the difference between yield and loot … the people of plenty were a people of waste.”
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Please consider donating to the Solidarity Fund, a group dedicated to support families in West Virginia impacted by mass deportations (legal costs, emergency costs if the family breadwinner is deported and/or family reunification costs)
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Donate to the WV Solidarity Fund supporting WV Solidarity Fund
Donate to the WV Solidarity Fund
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April 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Please consider donating to the Solidarity Fund, a group dedicated to support families in West Virginia impacted by mass deportations (legal costs, emergency costs if the family breadwinner is deported and/or family reunification costs)
wvsolidarityfund.betterworld.org/campaigns/do...
wvsolidarityfund.betterworld.org/campaigns/do...
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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At the same time he halts Black Lung protections for miners. Trump supports the coal companies but screws the miners--leaving them to die.
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April 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
At the same time he halts Black Lung protections for miners. Trump supports the coal companies but screws the miners--leaving them to die.
@vegasexpats.bsky.social
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@vegasexpats.bsky.social
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🪛 … sadly putting all my tiny screwdrivers away.
The dream is dead
April 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🪛 … sadly putting all my tiny screwdrivers away.
I spent three decades in West Virginia. This is pulling the sheet down on the corpse of coal so we can feel the last spittle of the death rattle. My apologies for being graphic but the human and environmental devastation this industry has wrought is unforgivable.
Trump: "One thing I learned about the coal miners -- that's what they want to do. You could give them a penthouse on 5th Avenue and a different kind of a job and they'd be unhappy. They want to mine coal. She was gonna put them in a high tech industry where you make little cell phones and things."
April 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I spent three decades in West Virginia. This is pulling the sheet down on the corpse of coal so we can feel the last spittle of the death rattle. My apologies for being graphic but the human and environmental devastation this industry has wrought is unforgivable.
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Who will tell the emperor he’s buck naked? Not his Cabinet. Not his donors or corporate executives. And certainly not Congress. wapo.st/4coRwwg
Opinion | Who will tell Trump he’s naked?
The president’s advisers are falling over themselves trying to excuse tariffmageddon.
wapo.st
April 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Who will tell the emperor he’s buck naked? Not his Cabinet. Not his donors or corporate executives. And certainly not Congress. wapo.st/4coRwwg
“Carbon capture isn’t an emissions strategy. It’s a messaging strategy.”
Even the fossil fuel companies who pitched #CCS as their get-out-of-jail-free card no longer believe in the economics
The great carbon capture con: Too expensive, even for Woodside
Even the fossil fuel companies who pitched CCS as their get-out-of-jail-free card no longer believe in the economics.
reneweconomy.com.au
April 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“Carbon capture isn’t an emissions strategy. It’s a messaging strategy.”