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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Apr 13

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 · Apr 13

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

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Apr 11

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 · Apr 1

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 · Mar 19

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 · Mar 14

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...

"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...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Think&Do @thinkanddo.bsky.social · Mar 15

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 · Mar 13

📢 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 · Mar 13

It is so much easier for people in Liege to imagine that now thanks to all your hard work!!

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Mar 13

May 1st, this is happening in Totnes.

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SolarPunk Stories @solarpunkstories.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Our ability to organise and resist is vital, but I believe now more than ever that our true strength lies in our ability to cultivate longing, to build awesome Desire Machines.” @robintransition.bsky.social
- Rob Hopkins www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w... #solarpunk #ImagineBetter

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…

www.robhopkins.net

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Mar 7

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 · Mar 7

Sorry, here is the correct link: defector.com/neither-elon...

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

defector.com

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Mar 7

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...

defector.com

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Mar 4

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...

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 · Feb 28

"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. 💭🌱🌄🤩

Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Feb 27

"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...

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…

www.robhopkins.net

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Cécile Soler @cecilesoler.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Feb 27

"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...

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…

www.robhopkins.net

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Feb 27

"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...

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…

www.robhopkins.net

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Feb 20

Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract: theconversation.com/greenlands-r...

Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract

Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living and working in Greenland.

theconversation.com

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Gillian Judson, PhD @perfinker.bsky.social · Feb 13

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...

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

Cultivating imagination · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thanks so much. Yes, I'm a newly-arrived refugee here, but slowly finding my feet! Hope you're enjoying the book.

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

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Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social · Jan 31

Go for it!! Thanks.

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National Film & Television School @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social · Jan 30

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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