Jamie Tommins

you are correct here and i believe i am in agreement with foster. unfortunately i cannot stand the guy's writing. i can only stomach so many mentions of marx's thesis on epicurianism. i want to ask him about fire management policy while banning him from saying marx or epicurianism

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ah but you see these people were blinded by reification and whatever. these god damn bullshitters man. alright i gotta log off for real

by 1923 we had 18 national parks and about 50 years of public debate in the US about industrial robber-baron destruction of the environment, including from socialists like bob marshall!

more adventures in critical theory

"Lukacs himself does not consider the implications of his theory for... the problem of the environment. It would of course be too much to ask of him in 1923 to come up with an environmental ethic."

...why? others did much earlier

it's all fun and games until climate deniers take your arguments seriously and hire one of your most well-known researchers to launder denialism at the breakthrough institute

officially taking a break from social media. unofficially i'm reading deep into science and technology studies, critical theory, constructivism, latour, steve fuller, the ontological turn, etc., and thinking, man what a load of horseshit

been doing a lot of research about ADA laws for backcountry mobility aids and i'm sad to say that allowing able-bodied people onto the trails will only ruin the experience for the rest of us. the hard truth is that we, the disabled community, must exclude them until better systems are in place

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love kettlebells, still working up to them but once in a while they're great

wow that's a great choice i'll keep that one in my pocket for next time

"the mary ellen carter" by stan rogers helped save the life of a sailor shipwrecked off the atlantic coast of maryland when he started singing it while clinging to a half-swamped lifeboat in freezing water until the coast guard arrived in the morning

when i was so sick i couldn't walk a quarter mile i used to sing to myself "there will come a leg day hallelujah what a leg day". folks there has come a leg day hallelujah what a leg day

let's do squats tonight
you can help me fix my POTS tonight

hell yeah!

Plants and Wildlife The Park is home to a variety of plants and wildlife. • Trees and shrubs • Other plants • Birds - pending • Other animals - pending

that's that east coast excellence and obsession baby

another reason florida is cool is that it's the home of more world surfing champions than anywhere else. kind of like with east coast skiing the bad waves make good surfers

red and white striped longboard surfboard in my apartment

facebook marketplace find for some bucket list stuff. pray for me

yup. makes me sick

the article notes that the "hundreds of thousands" of kids with long covid is a revised trump-admin figure that is six times less than the previously accepted estimate of about six million, which itself was a likely undercount

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

the number of children with long covid rivals ADHD, and those numbers are almost certainly undercounted. they have debilitating fatigue, brain fog, chronic pain. many progressives and leftists today are failing the aids crisis of our time
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

the beach boys endless summer album art feat. unsettling the hobbit-style retro illustrations of the beach boys peeking out of a tangle of ferns and tropical flowers with a wave in the background

listening to the first album i ever owned myself, a cassette of the beach boys compilation endless summer with artwork that's haunted and guided me ever since

I Came In At the End An interview with a Forest Service trail worker

interviewed my trail worker pal about the last two years of upheaval and downsizing in the Forest Service
jamietommins.substack.com/p/i-came-in-...

hey doctor yeah so my brain’s been knocking. i had a head gasket leak for a while and was getting sludgy oil and brown coolant that should’ve been bright green but i heard it throw the rod the other day. how much to do a swap

car mechanic instagram reels are the funniest instagram reels if you stick with it. the joke is that machines exist to vex and infuriate us

they managed to keep their job through the trump admin's illegal layoffs, but only through a stroke of luck and timing. others weren't so lucky. read the interview here, subscribe, and buy your local trail worker a beer
jamietommins.substack.com/p/i-came-in-...

their district went from six trail workers to three in the span of two years, and they were the lucky ones on their forest. the other district crews were left with just one worker, so they had to form a zoned crew to cover the entire forest

I Came In At the End An interview with a Forest Service trail worker

interviewed my trail worker pal about the last two years of upheaval and downsizing in the Forest Service
jamietommins.substack.com/p/i-came-in-...

know what this is? hibernation time a comin