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Maarten Nijman @maartennijman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks, the session worked great. Many good ideas came back to 2025. Hopefully it’s safe to work without a helmet?

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Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Enjoying this book by @robintransition.bsky.social His deep dive into the concept of “longing” really got me thinking about desire, hope, fear and love A 🧵 of rambling thoughts #HTFILWTF

Book cover. Red spiral staircase weaving up through rainforest.

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Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Reflecting on how creative work, imagination and ideation is part of building collective solidarity and direct actions. Reading Emerging Strategy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and How to Fall in Love With the Future by @robintransition.bsky.social feel in conversation with one another.

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Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

En route to @ukgovcamp.com! Picked up an optimistic book about imagining the future we want by @robintransition.bsky.social Impromptu platform camp with @jukes.ie ahead of the cross country train Grateful for my lovely friend for dropping me at the station before their lecture in Southmead ⭐

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From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Book by Rob Hopkins

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CONTENTS

Introduction. What If 'Things Turned Out OK?

1. What If We Took Play Seriously?

2. What If We Considered Imagination Vital to Our Health?

3. What If We Followed Nature's Lead?

4. What If We Fought Back to Reclaim Our Attention?

5. What If School Nurtured Young Imaginations?

6. What If We Became Better Storytellers?

7. What If We Started Asking Better Questions?

8. What If Our Leaders Prioritised the Cultivation of Imagination?

9. What If All of This Came to Pass?

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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mcconnes.bsky.social @mcconnes.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Magical reads of the last few months, positive, uplifting,challenging and makes you feel much better in this day&age. Thanks you to all these wonderful people. @hannahritchie.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com @robintransition.bsky.social

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A Public Affair @apublicaffair.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🎙️Inspired by our guest, @robintransition.bsky.social author of How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, listeners share their visions of the future. What are yours? Listen here: www.wortfm.org/running-joyf...

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Running Joyfully Toward the Future - WORT-FM 89.9

Today's guest, Rob Hopkins asks, what would our activism look like if we had a longing for the future? He joins Esty Dinur to talk about his new book.

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transitienederland.bsky.social @transitienederland.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Zo’n 200 mensen reisden dit weekend in Amsterdam naar 2030 met @robintransition.bsky.social. We zagen een toekomst vol verbinding, natuur, lokaal voedsel en veerkracht, veel veerkracht. En we zijn hier al mee bezig — en we zijn met steeds meer. 👉 transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-in-amsterdam/

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Tijdreizen in Amsterdam - Verliefd op de toekomst - Transitie Nederland

Dit weekend van 14-16 november maakten zo’n 200 mensen in Nederland een tijdreis naar 2030. En wat voor een reis! Dankzij de tijdmachine van Rob Hopkins reisden we samen naar het jaar 2030 — een toeko...

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We've built a Time Machine. And it works! More news coming soon. Watch this space.

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Rob’s book is out soon! 💚 @robintransition.bsky.social

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A new drypoint etching of light in the trees near my house. #printmaking #drypoint

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Just finished recording the audiobook of 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' which will be available same time the book comes out, June 17th. I hope you'll enjoy it! Thanks to Rowland O'Connor, Sorting Room Studios, sage and honey tea for preserving my voice and @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social.

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

5) Power of Now - Elkhart Tolle 6) Technofuedalism - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social 7) Critical - @jujuliagrace.bsky.social 8) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius 9) Discourses, fragments, handbook - Epictetus 10) from What is to what if - @robintransition.bsky.social

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New drypoint etching... Backstreet in Chefchaouen, Morocco. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been (blue ink).

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Reaction from Transition Towns' founder @robintransition.bsky.social to the ec0-vandalism proposed by Dartington Trust and how YOU can make your views known. We should be fighting tooth and nail for initiatives like this, not seeing them trashed. westcountryvoices.co.uk/like-using-t...

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"Like using the Mona Lisa to mop up spilt wine..."

I’m incandescent, furious, overflowing with rage at Dartington Trust’s ability to continually make the wrong decisions, decisions that show they are out of touch with pretty much everything. In partic...

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Think&Do @thinkanddo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Co-hosting with residents an ecological justice event in NW5 today. #Communitrees Planting trees in estates and paying young people living in those estates to care for the trees. Let’s get young people off their screens and out into nature. @camdencouncil.bsky.social @robintransition.bsky.social

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Conway Hall @conwayhall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

📢 Our Summer season is live, running April to July, with talks on how kindness is used to control women @glosswitch.bsky.social, rising inequality, an inspiring vision for the future @robintransition.bsky.social, true crime obsession and so much more! 🎟️ Book now: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

May 1st, this is happening in Totnes.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Thrilled to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' with you. To be published June 17th by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. Cover designed by linocut master Aga Kubish (agakubish.com). Really delighted with how it turned out.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A fabulous article pouring beautifully poetic scorn on Musk's 'colonise Mars' horseshit, about "the Earth uninhabitable for the sake of leaving it for someplace even worse". You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why anyone believes this nonsense: defector.com/neither-elon...

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Date for your diary London folks! On June 26th, 6.30-8pm, at Conway Hall, I will be launching my new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future: a time traveller's guide to changing the world'. It'll be a delightful evening. Don't miss out, book now! www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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How to Fall in Love with the Future - Conway Hall

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—quantum threads stretching out into the distance. In this special event and launch of his new book How to Fall in Love with the Fu...

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Maria Gernert @maria-ge.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Fascists like Musk and Trump hate creativity, imagination, daring, playfulness, people who speak of dreams and build pictures of a future predicated in decency, compassion, courage, connection." Let's envision and exemplify the better future we want together because we can't let dystopias win. 💭🌱🌄🤩

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Cécile Soler @cecilesoler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Let us dream of a desirable future... I'm all in.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"I’m digging out my toolbox and heading to the garage to start building a Desire Machine. Who’s joining me?" My latest article is a call to arms for futurists, Time Machine builders, creatives, artists, activists, poets, street artists and ... you. www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w...

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Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen

When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my im…

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Gillian Judson, PhD @perfinker.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just re-listened to this timely podcast. On imagination, activism and longing. When radical imagination is required With @robintransition.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/05Jo...

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EP 5 Activism and Imagination: Rob Hopkins and Michael Datura Discuss Longing, Storytelling, and Fighting for Just Futures

Cultivating imagination · Episode

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New drypoint etching. The coastal path at Prussia Cove, Cornwall.

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National Film & Television School @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

At the NFTS, we’re committed to reducing our environmental impact. As part of #NFTSSpringboard2025, we welcomed activist/writer/producer @robintransition.bsky.social for an inspiring talk placing positive environmental practices at the forefront of our students' minds.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Drypoint etching of Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakech, Morocco.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten. The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I've waited two years for this new book by the brilliant Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism so it's wonderful to finally hold it in my hands. Mind blowing stuff. #DismantlingtheMastersClock.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"The real crisis of our times, of my generation, is not that we don’t have it good, or even that we might be worse off later on. No, the real crisis is that we can’t come up with anything better". @rutgerbregman.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Make no mistake: Trump’s first week was a catastrophe for many vulnerable people. But the biggest story was his startling initial moves from democracy to oligarchy. My hope lies in Americans noticing this. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-fir...

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Trump's first week: The Real Story

Let it be known

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Photos from yesterday's beautiful 'Fifth Anniversary of Nothing' outside the Dairy Crest site in #Totnes. We tied 1,854 hand-numbered tags to the fence, each one representing a day Fastglobe has wasted in thwarting the town's aspirations for the site. This has gone on long enough.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Come along on Saturday at 11. See you there...

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Some more photos from yesterday's 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' imagination catalyst training at the University of Plymouth, from posts shared by people who took part. What a lovely day was had...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1. Perhaps Prevent failed to pick up on the danger signs from Axel Rudakubana partly because, in common with other anti-terrorist and anti-extremist bodies, it was politically captured and deployed against peaceful protesters and peaceful Muslims. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Who are the real extremists? The people challenging injustices or those trying to shut down our rights? | George Monbiot

Look at a new report proposing horrifying clampdowns on protest – and ask where the threat to our society truly lies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Absolutely insane. Rachel Reeves argues economic growth eclipses climate change in importance, and that we need new runways. Being so out of touch with reality should really disqualify anone from holding office. The ultimate dereliction of duty. Shame on you. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Reeves says growth eclipses net zero as Heathrow runway decision looms

Chancellor hints in Davos she intends to reaffirm backing of airport expansion despite climate concerns

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