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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21h

The palms along the cinder driveway. A little worse for wear due to several storms with extreme rainfall and high winds but they will eventually grow out of it by replacing damaged fronds one by one. Life in the tropics.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21h

Different views of a portion of the fruit tree field trial. I am growing out 43 varieties of fruit trees to see how well they do and produce at this elevation.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am sure that our corrupt supreme court would consider this as abrogating Putin's free speech...LOL Good work Ukraine! Blow the Russian data centers the f*ck up!

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thank you Jake, finally someone asks the obvious question! I was wondering when someone might point that out. However, I am sure that Russia exporting diesel makes total sense to the magats. Afterall, they live by eating sh*t...LOL

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Asking a grifter like tRUMP to stop grifting is like asking a termite to stop eating wood before the house falls down. They will continue feeding even if their activity causes the collapse which results in their premature death. They just can't not. It is the nature of what they are.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This one is worth watching to the end for all that like to see the ultra luxury properties of the uber rich sink below the waves. For the so-called "smartest people in the room" this result should have been a no brainer years ago by all but the brain dead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmED...

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Miami's $50M Island Estates Are Underwater — Now Nobody Can Sell

YouTube video by Stateside Shock

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 10/10/2026

We are NOT importing Russian diesel. Sorry MAGA mushrooms. You lose again.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some more views of old growth rainforest trees on our property.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Me too! It was the installation of an LAA closure device in my heart that will allow me to get off of anticoagulants over the next 6 months as it will give equivalent protection against strokes as the anti coagulants for people with my specific situation.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tricolor shell ginger in bloom and a large 9 inch diameter hibiscus flower in bloom.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Russia's Foreign Ministry declared that they are going to be randomly attacking and killing so many civilians in Ukraine that is is not safe for any foreign diplomats or workers to remain in the country.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The tRUMP family crime family is at it again. The US government is nothing more than a soul less mafia state.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yet another tRUMP family psychopath/merchant of death. I sure am glad you do what you do Texas Paul. People need to know! And f*ck people that stay home and don't vote and allow this crap to happen. There is no perfect politician but there are certainly ones that are truly horrible!

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here are two more still shots of wild mountain boars zoomed in with my cell phone camera in the meadow behind us under cloud forest conditions. These were taken near dusk from our second floor lanai.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So it is getting close to dusk and we are currently under cloud forest conditions but I did manage to get this video of wild mountain boars in the meadow behind us. Sorry about the quality but it is a zoom in from my cell phone from our second floor lanai.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So another R/T flight over the Pacific to Honolulu for a heart procedure. 4 procedures so far but this last 1 took 4 attempts due to some difficult heart anatomy. Who knew that you could get a 200,000 mile overhaul to your heart. Many "bionic" parts now...LOL. As always, perfect weather in Honolulu.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LOL, very familiar. This is for those wanting to leave the US w/out technically leaving it. In US territories regular Medicare is accepted in all US States/US territories. But in the Pacific, all flights for highly specialized health care lead to Honolulu or the mainland. youtu.be/-M3y4D-tDi8?...

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Forgotten American Territories Where You Can Live Free

YouTube video by Evan Eh! 🇨🇦

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for sticking to your guns. I had centrist Democrats "friends" back when I had FB that were mad that I wasn't wishing tRUMP a speedy recovery from COVID in his 1st term. I said, "would you have wished Hitler a speedy recovery while we had troops in the field?" They were unfriended. Trash.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More ti plants. What's interesting is that the ti plants have a different growth habit at this elevation than in the hot coastal lowlands. Also the coloration is changing to more intense reds, burgundy+darker or more vivid greens. This is probably due to different lighting+temperatures.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The roadway back to our rainforest homestead. The Tagalog word is bundók, ie. remote interior location in the mountains. The 2nd photo gives an idea of the house+place. It is kind of like living beyond the last outpost of civilization in an old converted tropical botanical research station.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The large palm at the entrance of what I refer to as the "Burma Road."

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some random views of a portion of the rainforest garden.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So I have 8 white pineapples developing in the pineapple patch with a 9th getting started (last photo).

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This hibiscus flower is huge! It is over 8 inches across.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Russia is not a normal country...it is a nation of sociopaths/sadists ruled by psychopaths and has been that way for centuries. The population was long traumatized by brutal czarist governments into survival mode, ie not caring about anyone else.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So it was a beautiful breezy day today of 76F and sunny with some puffs of clouds. Here are a few random views around the property.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It has been a cooler than average summer with a ton of rain this year. Interestingly the Ti plants seem to like it and are doing better than they ever have. The weather seems to have really brought out the colors-particularly reds and burgundys.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Green Crinum lilies with a Rhapis palm and burgundy Queen Emma Lilies around the base of a large palm.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here are some more photos of some of the old growth rainforest trees on our property. The cleared portion of the property backs up to the rainforest which appears to be largely undisturbed. The cleared areas were for a former orchid farm. The majority of the property is in standing rainforest.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So here are some photos of some of the old growth rainforest trees in our section of the forest. I am guessing that these are possibly pre contact forest trees (pre contact from Europeans). In any case, they are very old, craggy and large. The ground in the forest is undisturbed natural grade.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Some vireyas flowering along the edge of the rain forest.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A locally developed unknown variety of hibiscus. It is young but what is interesting is that the flower color and size are increasing as the bush is getting larger.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sp another flame thrower palm is opening another frond. These open in various shades of red and then turn green in about a week. They put on a nice show while opening.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This appears to be a great opportunity for Ukrainian (jet powered?) drones to shadow Russian civilian aircraft to closest point of approach to the target+then peel off--like a remora to a shark. Could jet powered drones go fast enough? Will the Russians try to shoot them down if that close?

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is our "river front" view of the drainage channel from the front door during a heavy rainfall event that is causing it to flow. Otherwise it is a large mow-able swale filled with perennial peanuts.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The drainage system catches sheet flow from the property behind us and routes it around the fruit tree grove+house+by passes the bananas. 43 inches of rain fell in 2 days during this episode.

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Steven Hooper 🇺🇦💙💛🏳️‍🌈 @stevenhooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Life on a Tropical Island. So we had a hurricane pass by the island a couple of weeks ago but we picked up the rain field. 43 inches of rain fell in 2 days. The drainage system worked perfectly to move the water through the fruit tree grove+around the house+past the bananas to the retention basin.

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