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

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

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

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

merry christmas my dudes

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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...

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

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

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-...

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”

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

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.

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

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

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-...

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-...

really nice map of inventoried roadless areas, now under threat

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/

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.

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...

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...

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...

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!!!!

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...

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. 😪

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

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...

wrote about american public lands and what american companies do abroad www.jamietommins.com/p/no-land-is...

wrote about american public lands and what american companies do abroad www.jamietommins.com/p/no-land-is...

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

hate to do this but my job search is taking longer than I hoped after losing the ability to do most of the skills on my resume (chainsawing, rock carrying etc). this would help me catch up on my monthly bills. any amount at all would be appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

wrote about the dream of public lands and what it means to lose it www.jamietommins.com/p/losing-the...

wrote about the dream of public lands and what it means to lose it www.jamietommins.com/p/losing-the...

hate to do this but my job search is taking longer than I hoped after losing the ability to do most of the skills on my resume (chainsawing, rock carrying etc). this would help me catch up on my monthly bills. any amount at all would be appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...