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Bob Tregilus

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<p>I follow science, history, &amp; photography toots. Now retired, I&#39;ve been a: mechanic, construction worker, cab driver, laborer, fabricator, electrical engineer, cable technician, community organizer, lobbyist, podcaster (energy &amp; EVs), fine art framer, &amp; professional photographer (among many other things). Linux user since the &#39;90s. I use Darktable to edit photos. I&#39;m an open culture advocate &amp; my photos are in the public domain. I&#39;m a Nov &#39;22 dead bird site migrant. <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/OpenCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenCulture</span></a></p>

Posts

  • Post #4478656

    Yesterday, at 4am, the Senate confirmed the president&#39;s personal defense atty as the next US Atty General, then they all left town on recess. I don&#39;t understand how congressional Democrats have the organizational ability to get elected but have no clue how to force the media to properly cover the Regime&#39;s coup. Me? I&#39;d organize my colleagues, campout on the Capitol steps 24/7, &amp; make noise until the media properly covers what&#39;s going on in DC. Why are the Dems so inept? T...

  • Post #4473772

    Yup, a scene from what will happen when AI takes over. #Monsterdon

  • Post #4473605

    &quot;What about the people who don&#39;t read?&quot; &quot;There&#39;s a movie.&quot; Lol😂 #Monsterdon

  • Post #4473226

    Welp, those ain&#39;t dinosaurs! #Monsterdon

  • Post #4472725

    Psycho zombie ghosts with axes! Bring it on! #Monsterdon

  • Post #4472643

    Or movie&#39;s title could have been: My Really Bad LSD Trip. #Monsterdon

  • Post #4472610

    Or may be the movie&#39;s title should have been: They Came from Andromeda? #Monsterdon

  • Post #4347969

    Uh-oh! A debt-fuelled boom &quot;More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything...&quot; &quot;They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.&quot; &quot;Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country&#39;s two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic...&quot; Via: @SrRochardBunso...

  • Post #4345003

    I can&#39;t even being to tell you how much I love this! This sign is on a bridge that crosses the Animas River. In the upper left corner it says, &quot;Aztec Ruins National Monument.&quot; The bridge is on the route of the Old Chaco Road (850-1250CE) &amp; the Old Spanish Trail (1829-1850). The little group of lights seen above the right side of the sign is where I now live! The Aztec Ruins (structures) are in the dark on the far right. (Note: The structures are Ancestral Puebloan , not Aztec.)...

  • Post #4309043

    Nice scarecrow! Or is it a scare dinosaur for scaring avian dinosaurs? A scareaviandino! (Phone photo.)

  • Post #4116396

    It&#39;s a rare appearance of the Mono Lake tufa goblin quartet! #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Geology #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #4095836

    Just your standard photo of Yosemite Falls on one fine spring day eleven years ago. #Water #WaterFall #Landscape #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #4068210

    Wow, look what I found! But it&#39;s certainly not as big as I thought it would be. And I didn&#39;t think I&#39;d find it in Brookings, Oregon, either. 🤔

  • Post #4057625

    I found this nice photo of a Crotaphytus collaris (collared lizard) that I made when I took a Bloomberg reporter out on a recon of the first Tesla Gigafactory under construction east of Reno. Yours truly broke the news. Back then I was heavily involved in the energy / EV space. This was back when we all knew Musk was a mercurial employer / person, but before the world found out he would happy commit--in my opinion--crimes against humanity. #WIldlife #EV #Energy #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #4054764

    Once upon a time, eleven years ago, my strawberry patch looked like this. I learned after they started dying back several years later that you have to cut the runners once the new plant has established itself. Leaving it connected to the old plant will cause it to die when the old plant dies. Strawberry plants only live 5-8 years--so cut those runners! #Strawberry #Gardening #Fruit

  • Post #4018737

    &quot;Storm &#39;s comin&#39; Ma, we better batten down the hatches!&quot; #Travel #RoadTrip #Sierra #California #Landscape #Abandoned #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3991798

    Rain squall over the Sierra at Mono Lake, California. #Storm #Landscape #Rain #Mountains #Travel #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #RoadTrip #Lake #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3941420

    Behind me was a 250 meter tall cliff. Funny how the rocks land when they erode out of the cliff. Also, glad I wasn&#39;t standing there when it happened! #MonoChrome #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3929331

    A favorite rock imagery site of mine for unsaturated Saturday! #VisitWithRespect #UnsaturatedSaturday #MonoChrome #BlackAndWhite #Clouds #Archeology #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3901085

    &quot;The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to reopen lands around Chaco Culture National Historical Park to oil and gas leasing. &quot;The move would reverse a 2023 decision that created a 10-mile protective buffer zone around the park for 20 years. &quot;Pueblo leaders oppose the plan, citing the area&#39;s cultural significance and incomplete surveys of historic properties.&quot; Story here: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2026/07/16/blm-plans-to-open-chaco-canyon-t...

  • Post #3892476

    Canyon country geology is the best! (Mexican Hat rock north of Mexican Hat, Utah.) #Geology #Travel #RoadTrip #Landscape #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3864325

    Today in our lurch toward the Kessler syndrome, I read: The FCC approved a giant orbital mirror. The company wants to launch thousands of them so they can sell daylight to solar farms, construction sites, &amp;c. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/observers-beware-reflect-orbitals-space-mirrors-approved-for-launch/ Folks better start start screaming about the environmental and aesthetic impacts of giant satellite constellations or y&#39;all are going to lose the night sky forever.

  • Post #3842767

    It&#39;s my raven friend at Hovenweep Nat. Mon., but I haven&#39;t seen it for the last several years, sadly. It used to sit on the structure seen in the photo that stands at the head of a narrow canyon surrounded by similar structures. The raven would sit there making gurgling croaking noises, beak snaps, &amp; caws that would echo on the wind up &amp; down the canyon as if it were asking: &quot;Where did all of the ancient ones go? Where are they?&quot; #Archeology #Travel #RoadTrip #Birds #P...

  • Post #3816360

    An abandoned cross in a cholla cactus next to the Santa Rosa de Lima church ruins (1734), New Mexico. #Desert #Church #Cactus #NewMexico #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Travel #Roadtrip #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3796186

    Fajada Butte is a very special place in Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Sun Dagger site on the butte is fascinating. You can read about it at this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajada_Butte#Sun_Dagger_site #VisitWithRespect #Archeology #NewMexico #Landscape #Desert #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3791529

    Echinocereus triglochidiatus. #Flowers #BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #Desert #Cactus #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3755287

    Would you believe that coffee mattered 1000 years ago to the Ancestral Puebloans? One could surmise that looking at this Pueblo II period mug. I don&#39;t know about the coffee, but this is a 1000-year-old mug. (East-central Arizona. Cup is displayed behind some fairly dirty plexiglass.) #VisitWithRespect #Archeology #Arizona #Travel #RoadTrip

  • Post #3730104

    Oenothera tetraptera (fourwing evening primrose). #Flowers #WildFlowers #BloomScrolling #Desert #Photography #Darktable

  • Post #3726766

    Good grief!!! &quot;Passengers told Greek media that they heard a loud bang, oxygen masks dropped and the plane began to lose altitude. &quot;One passenger, identified only as Christina, told Thessaloniki radio that some passengers panicked and screamed and that one passenger was partially sucked out of the window. &quot;&#39;His whole head, neck, shoulders&#39; were pulled out of the window, she said, adding that those seated near him pulled him back in.&quot; https://apnews.com/article/gre...

  • Post #3678324

    Nice little rock imagery panel! #VisitWithRespect #Archeology #Travel #RoadTrip #Arizona #Photography #Darktable