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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Bluesky friends I’m just checking in to say I did my first 1000’ hike in the white mountains since I got long Covid and felt like a million bucks the whole time

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Monday fit before we all decided to wfh

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

i can’t stand to learn any more about this marty supreme film than i already have. every day i log on and the algorithm shows some new tidbit like Chalamet Trained At Ping Pong for Six Years for Marty Supreme. enough

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

sometimes i’ll post about covid and the realities of seeing the vulnerable and true reality of late capitalist human wreckage and get crickets, and then see academics engaged in deep discourse about, like, if reading novels is Good, and i think, man we’re simply not ready

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

really can’t recommend enough just going down to florida for a little while and getting a little weird with it when your life falls apart. unbutton your shirt and park it under some palm trees in a crappy apartment watching birds and gators until things make sense again

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

i’m hiking wherever i damn please in the woods more or less. i’m rambling all over hill and dale going way over yonder. my only limit is decinditioning from two years with long covid but my body can handle it again. folks lfg

trees in a snowy forest on rugged hilly terrain

winter trees atop a ledge overlooking a forested valley covered in snow

tall bare hardwood trees leading uphill through snowy woods with a snowshoe track leading up the trail

selfie of me looking dour but actually euphoric to be in the woods

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

just accepted a dream job with a great land trust in maine. it's been a long road since i lost my livelihood to long covid two years ago. north woods i'll be home soon

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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

red and white striped longboard surfboard in my apartment

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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...

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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.

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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-...

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I Came In At the End

An interview with a Forest Service trail worker

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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-...

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I Came In At the End

An interview with a Forest Service trail worker

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

apparently governor desantis approved an $83 million purchase of a four-acre property owned by a wealthy donor that the donor bought for just $8 million less than a decade ago. for “wildlife conservation”

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

i'm oldmanmaxxing. sunday paper. flannel shirt, gray sweatpants, big wool socks. cup of coffee, bills opened and sorted on the table. soon to start a little weekend project that will leave me vexxed and fuming but in a healthy way to vent some steam

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 07/10/2025

Jamie is a great soul, is doing the essential work of tending to public forests, and is amazing at writing about it too. And his photos from all the trails are a thing of beauty. I'm glad I stumbled upon his Twitter account a couple years ago.

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

a few words about the government shutdown on public lands jamietommins.substack.com/p/shutdown-b...

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

half off annual subscription to my newsletter. $15 one time to help me keep writing and drinking coffee while i job search. your support means a lot, thanks friends enjoy the woods jamietommins.substack.com/9da45fd2

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Subscribe to Patrol

stories from our public lands. Click to read Patrol, by Jamie Tommins, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

went on The Rift radio show this week to talk about trail work and a left vision for public lands. listen here and read some more of my thoughts on being a wilderness proponent jamietommins.substack.com/p/interview-...

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Interview: Public Lands from the Left

I went on the radio this week

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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Interview: Public Lands from the Left

I went on the radio this week

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

really nice map of inventoried roadless areas, now under threat

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

good news: mike lee greatly reduced the amount of land eligible for sale in his bill. bad news: Trump's UDSA secretary is ending protections for Inventoried Roadless Areas, possibly the most important public lands you've never heard of. new map here jtommins.github.io/ira_web_map/

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Inventoried Roadless Areas

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Erik Schneider @erikschneider.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Needless to say, lands that are not currently designated as a National Park, Wildlife Refuge, or Wilderness, are often just as valuable or even more so, and at greater risk.

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

hey y'all its been a minute. just wanted to share this thing i made. they're trying to sell off our roadless areas, wilderness study areas, and more special designations. view the map here jtommins.github.io/public_lands...

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

finished the novel north woods by daniel mason last night and wrote this earlier today about how i am obsessed with new england jamietommins.substack.com/p/the-old-st...

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The Old Story

"North Woods" by Daniel Mason

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puny.bsky.social @puny.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

bro this is so so good, especially the ending. made me realize how rarely you ever hear about disability and ecology together. made me emotional about gis!!!!

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

yesterday i wrote about the world i've lived in since long covid changed everything a year and a half ago. we're all in this new world together whether we accept it or not jamietommins.substack.com/p/the-new-wo...

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Barbara R🇨🇦🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️🐈 @battlereddy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

You seem to have as much skill with words as you did with a chainsaw. The ending statement offers a perspective I had not considered before. Won't spoil the surprise for others. My longhaul symptoms are no where near the severity of yours but i see your point in so many ways, everywhere. 😪

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

wrote about an unknown brook, misplaced fish, and the poetry of ecology www.jamietommins.com/p/ruin-and-s...

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Ruin and Survival

The poetry of local nature

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

finished the novel north woods by daniel mason last night and wrote this earlier today about how i am obsessed with new england jamietommins.substack.com/p/the-old-st...

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The Old Story

"North Woods" by Daniel Mason

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Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 06/03/2025