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David Gast
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The cake is a lie
Pinned
Looking back at some pics I took in the Spring and I love the eyes of big cats
“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
July 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
July 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 Farewell Address

"To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing inspiration:"
June 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Sleepy trash panda
May 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This really is the darkest timeline
March 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
February 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I cackled
Kitty Shall Never Starve
February 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Will there be heinous fuckery, Pocket?"-Christopher Moore, Fool
February 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.” -B5
February 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
January 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
George Orwell, 1984
January 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A juvenile bald eagle flying over the Olentangy River
January 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
#ringbilledgull #clintonville #columbus #ohio #winter #birding #birds
January 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A house sparrow that clearly wanted their picture taken
January 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ring-billed gulls currently in central Ohio
January 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
#bird #birding
November 28, 2024 at 8:03 AM
This.
Working on Primer updates atm.

Was in my thoughts & feels this week & felt like sharing:
November 23, 2024 at 3:30 AM
“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.”
-@theauthorguy.bsky.social , Fool

#squirrel #redsquirrel #ohio #autumn #naturephotography
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, & it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, & not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun

#raccoon #trashpanda #mammal #naturephotography #ohio
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 20, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Reposted by David Gast
November 18, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Ahaha this is great
bluesky CEO admits defeat: calls it a 'skeet'
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 AM
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
- Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
One of my favorites #birds #birding
November 19, 2024 at 4:24 PM
"God is in the rain"
November 19, 2024 at 4:23 PM