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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 11h

About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 2d

"...what more is possible? After us the Savage God.”

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09...

Cartoonish image from original playbill from riotous 1896 opening of Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi'

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 4d

Dolly Parton, live on a Riemann surface

#NarrowVennIntersections

Image of country music icon, Dolly Parton, aging but still flamboyant in wide white bell-bottoms and brandishing a white electric guitar against a black stage background, all superimposed over the upper section of a multicolored spiraling geometric graphic representation of a mathematical Riemann surface

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 7d

MIT retains integrity.

Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 11d

Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.

April 17, 2024 news article: 'Trump rails against wind energy in fundraising pitch to oil executives' with image of offshore wind turbines

August 23, 2025 news article 'Trump administration halts work on almost-finished wind farm' with image of wind turbine construction

Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 12d

Large orange Greek letter omega, the physics symbol for resistance, on a dark green diamond on the outside wall of a front porch

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 20d

Exactly

Stationary view of the cable stays on the Penobscot Narrows Bridge taken just obliquely enough to show the arch of the bridge deck.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 20d

A drive across the cable-stayed bridge across the mouth of the Penobscot River. View is slightly upward roughly in plane with the car windshield. Here's a daylight still.

a view of a cable stayed bridge in pinkish disk just oblique enough to show the arch of the bridge deck.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 20d

Penobscot Narrows, Maine

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 21d

A large contented silver cat with paws crossed.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 22d

Switching off the headlights now because the highway curves are biased.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 22d

Switching off the headlights now because the highway curves are biased.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 25d

Totally attest to this. As a habitual introvert, I dreaded doing my first campaign doors. But it turns out to work just as you describe. It's about them, not your persona. And that's surprisingly empowering, as remembering those dogs and kids gives you confidence and courage in office.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · 26d

I think I've seen this referred to in conjugation as a verb's "inflectional suffix"

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Sep 10

This administration has had some real success responding to Maine's urgent need for much more affordable housing - and there's important continuing work to be done in this area. Glad to see Hannah highlighting this in her gubernatorial campaign. #MEpolitics

Maine Morning Star @mainemorningstar.com · Sep 10

Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’ mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/10/h...

Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’ • Maine Morning Star

Democratic candidate Hannah Pingree said making affordable housing accessible to more Mainers needs to be a top issue for whoever becomes the state’s next governor.

mainemorningstar.com

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Sep 7

Maysles Brothers' Little Women

Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nora Ephron's Un Chien Andalou

Ward "Boo" Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · Sep 7

Disney/Pixar's The Exorcist

Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Offshore wind projects, now blocked by the current federal government, could have reduced New England's wholesale electric costs by 11%, saving consumers $400M per year.

Who benefits from the status quo?

renew-ne.org/wp-content/u...

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 28

...and this too.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Nice to see this. I played a very minor supporting part in Maine's unsuccessful application. Besides being an incredibly cool project, it still seems it would have been a good economic complement to blueberry operations.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Cannonball Quadratically

Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 13

Quicksilver Voicemail

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 11

"...If we were to rewind to a particular point in time, would it be the reproducibility, or the irreproducibility that was more important?"

That's a surprisingly profound question.

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Brian Hubbell @hubbell.bsky.social · Aug 2

I've been in the clean energy field since the 1973 oil embargo and committed to fighting climate change since Hanson testified in 1988. All I can offer today is that I'll keep at it until I die. We don't get to pick our times but we each will be judged for how we respond to them.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Aug 2

This action will directly raise the cost of electricity, & increase pollution. As I said on Open Circuit, US public lands belong to all of us. They’re ours. This Administration is not even just picking winners for what goes on public lands—they’re picking losers www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Aug 2

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.

Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands

The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

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