Dave
@dtobias.bsky.social
Natural resource conservation, travel, photography, tennis, biking, wherever science leads us, and maintaining friendships for life. Card-carrying atheist and anti-extremist, joyously exploring planet earth and humanity. All photos mine unless stated.
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This is the inside of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale U. in New Haven, Ct. A beautiful and massive monument to the written word, with material from every nation (even many that no longer exist) going back a thousand years.
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is the inside of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale U. in New Haven, Ct. A beautiful and massive monument to the written word, with material from every nation (even many that no longer exist) going back a thousand years.
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
I dunno, seems like they could've spent a little more time with a focus group before landing on that name...
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I dunno, seems like they could've spent a little more time with a focus group before landing on that name...
@karaoke-god.bsky.social Hey, love the image of tRump with a big L on his forehead, but it's backwards... (?)
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@karaoke-god.bsky.social Hey, love the image of tRump with a big L on his forehead, but it's backwards... (?)
Sunset on Lake Michigan near Saugatuck, Michigan
September 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Sunset on Lake Michigan near Saugatuck, Michigan
Morning dew, Rhinebeck NY
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Morning dew, Rhinebeck NY
Mt. Kisco, NY, 6/14/2025
June 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Mt. Kisco, NY, 6/14/2025
Visited the FDR Homestead in New York's Hudson Valley and was reminded of that great president's Four Freedoms, of which the first and last are so relevant today...
June 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Visited the FDR Homestead in New York's Hudson Valley and was reminded of that great president's Four Freedoms, of which the first and last are so relevant today...
Let's make sure scenes like this happen everywhere, always...
June 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Let's make sure scenes like this happen everywhere, always...
Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, had her purse, passport and $3000 stolen at a restaurant in DC yesterday. That's Homeland SECURITY. Where the F*** does he find so many incompetent people?!?!
April 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, had her purse, passport and $3000 stolen at a restaurant in DC yesterday. That's Homeland SECURITY. Where the F*** does he find so many incompetent people?!?!
Decent turnout in Poughkeepsie, NY!!
April 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Decent turnout in Poughkeepsie, NY!!
Hey software-developers - can you create an app that would remove or blur the president's face when it shows up in our news feeds?! Because so many of us can't stand seeing him every time we open a screen - I'm sure you would rake in million$ in fees!!
April 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Hey software-developers - can you create an app that would remove or blur the president's face when it shows up in our news feeds?! Because so many of us can't stand seeing him every time we open a screen - I'm sure you would rake in million$ in fees!!
Random acts of beauty at a botanical garden - apologies for not getting the scientific (or any other ) names...
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Random acts of beauty at a botanical garden - apologies for not getting the scientific (or any other ) names...
March 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Read Mexican president Sheinbaum's disemboweling of tRump - it's beautiful!
March 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Read Mexican president Sheinbaum's disemboweling of tRump - it's beautiful!
Someday when he is gone and the tyranny is past, even as we are still correcting his many horrible mistakes years from now, journalists will turn over all the rocks and write volumes about the monumental corruption of Trump, Trumpism, and their enablers. Be on the right side of history.
March 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Someday when he is gone and the tyranny is past, even as we are still correcting his many horrible mistakes years from now, journalists will turn over all the rocks and write volumes about the monumental corruption of Trump, Trumpism, and their enablers. Be on the right side of history.
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“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.”
February 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.”