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Posting about the art, beauty, culture, history, nature, and quirks of New Mexico 🌐 newmexiconomad.com
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Re-upping this in case for any New Mexicans that may have recently arrived. There are about 50 spots left in this pack. New Mexico specific.

NM Network on Bluesky starter pack (version 2).
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Heading to a rally later this morning. How is everyone doing? I am wondering when I will be able to sleep past 3 am again. My circadian rhythm is discordant at this point.
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Idea for 2026 New Mexico travel messaging...

There are lots of free/cheap things to see & do, in pretty/peaceful environments, often with no cell phone signal, power lines, or humans.

International travel is toast + domestic travel declines dramatically if we are broke & society is a hot mess.
January 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Dripping Springs Trail is an easy to moderate, 3-mile loop trail near Las Cruces, New Mexico. It leads to the ruins of a 19th-century resort and sanatorium. Another trail leads to Hermit's cave, a rock shelter occupied by the Italian hermit Giovanni Maria Agostini in the 1860s.

#hiking #NewMexico
January 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Central Avenue in Albuquerque, aka #Route66

#travel #roadtrip #NewMexico #Albuquerque
January 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Took a quick trip to the Jemez, Los Alamos, and Española yesterday. Dog and I needed scenery and fewer people.

New Mexico really, really needs some snow. It's weird to see the Valles Caldera with no snow in January. Tippy tops of Baldie and Truchas had snow, but the mountains are bare. 😐
January 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
High Road to Taos, between Nambe and Chimayo.

#travel #NewMexico #roadtrip #daytrip #scenic #weekendgetaway #mountains #nature
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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In the Bisti Wilderness…
New Mexico…
January 2, 2026 at 1:45 AM
The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, aka the VLA, is a tool designed to study astronomical objects. The complex consists of 27 radio telescopes, placed in a Y-shaped configuration. They move the dishes into 4 standard arrangements on a 3-month rotation to vary level of detail and sensitivity.
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Dripping Springs Natural Area is a popular hiking destination, with over 4-miles of easy to moderate hiking trails. Dripping Springs Trail is approximately 3-miles long (roundtrip). The trail's name is based on a natural spring at the back of the canyon, aka the “Weeping Wall.”

#hiking #NewMexico
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The bells of the Basilica of San Albino in Mesilla: The first, small copper bell was cast in 1876. Two larger bells were cast in 1886. The final, and largest, was cast in 1887. The church assigned “godparents” to care for them, an honor passed through generations of the same family.
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Wishing you a joyful holiday season filled with peace and happiness! 🎅🎁☃️🎄❄️🤶

#Christmas2025 #Xmas #VisitGallup #NewMexico #travel #christmaslights
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This one is in case you're in a warm and fuzzy deficit. A chipmunk (Tamias or Neotamias sp.) at the Capulin Spring canoa, in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, on November 7, 2025.

#nature #naturephotography #chipmunk
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wandering around downtown Gallup, New Mexico, aka "getting my kicks on Route 66"😀😅

#VisitGallup #Gallup #NewMexico #travel #roadtrip #weekendgetaway #Route66 #Route66Roadtrip #history #vacation
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I went underground to find new music, but found this cavern instead.

📍Carlsbad Cavern National Park, New Mexico (2023)

#photography #geology #ProtectOurParks #travel
December 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Other New Mexico towns, including Farmington and Roswell, also set new record-high temperatures for Christmas Day.
Albuquerque hits record 64 degrees on Christmas
www.abqjournal.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hugs and love to those struggling this holiday season 🫶🏽🎁
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Christmas Eve. 😊
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Merry Christmas (Eve).

Christmas lights/Farolitos = lunch bags, candles, sand 😁
December 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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I always thought the first time I had a chance to see and photograph the Aurora it would be somewhere like Iceland, or Alaska. I was wrong. It was in New Mexico! 😂

And if you look closely, you can see a bit of the Milky Way up above as well.

#on1pics #photography #astrophotography
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Good morning!

Another appeal sent re. the spam filter. No response so far.

Ever since they labeled this account as spam, the Discover feed became very populated w/ furry kink. Correlation isn't causation, but...

I have access to other Bluesky accounts. Checked the Discover feed. No random kink. 🤨
December 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Fort Stanton is an intact 19th-century military fort established in 1855. The fort served as a frontier post during the Apache Wars, the Civil War, evolving into a tuberculosis hospital & WWII internment camp. Adjacent to Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area.

#NewMexico #travel
December 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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At Angel Peak Wilderness…
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Author Jonathan Reyman talks with NPR about the research that went into his book Pueblo Bonita and Chaco Canyon Revisited (which also recently won the New Mexico Book Award for Archaeology!).

#booksky #archaeology #NewMexico
www.nprillinois.org/lincoln-hist...
Jonathan Reyman shares Pueblo Bonita and Chaco Canyon Revisited, his new archeology book
Jonathan Reyman joins Community Voices to discuss his new book Pueblo Bonita and Chaco Canyon Revisited, his time at the Illinois State Museum, and his love of anthropology and archeology.
www.nprillinois.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM