David Hobby
@davidhobby.bsky.social
AKA @Strobist at the old place
Now: Bluesky + Rednote
My projects, and contact info:
www.linktree.com/DavidHobby
Now: Bluesky + Rednote
My projects, and contact info:
www.linktree.com/DavidHobby
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Many thanks to all of you who have read, supported, and reviewed The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto.
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
Tonight’s forecast: 5°F outside, Norwegian jazz inside. 🥃
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Tonight’s forecast: 5°F outside, Norwegian jazz inside. 🥃
Evangelicals: IT’S HAPPENING
(Light pillars are a naturally occurring, if rare, atmospheric phenomenon.)
(Light pillars are a naturally occurring, if rare, atmospheric phenomenon.)
January 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Evangelicals: IT’S HAPPENING
(Light pillars are a naturally occurring, if rare, atmospheric phenomenon.)
(Light pillars are a naturally occurring, if rare, atmospheric phenomenon.)
5.3 miles of steps today, just from shoveling snow and sleet. One more scrape in an hour, before it turns to freezing rain and transforms the driveway into an ice laminate.
Today’s goal: make that ice as thin as possible.
Tonight’s goal: an anticipatory Alieve tablet ahead of tomorrow’s soreness.
Today’s goal: make that ice as thin as possible.
Tonight’s goal: an anticipatory Alieve tablet ahead of tomorrow’s soreness.
January 25, 2026 at 11:12 PM
5.3 miles of steps today, just from shoveling snow and sleet. One more scrape in an hour, before it turns to freezing rain and transforms the driveway into an ice laminate.
Today’s goal: make that ice as thin as possible.
Tonight’s goal: an anticipatory Alieve tablet ahead of tomorrow’s soreness.
Today’s goal: make that ice as thin as possible.
Tonight’s goal: an anticipatory Alieve tablet ahead of tomorrow’s soreness.
Prediction: Whichever LLM that licenses Brent Spiner’s voice is going to win the category.
January 25, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Prediction: Whichever LLM that licenses Brent Spiner’s voice is going to win the category.
Reposted by David Hobby
We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was a nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. In the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against.
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was a nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. In the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against.
. @dmbofficial.bsky.social, speaking for many. 👊
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
. @dmbofficial.bsky.social, speaking for many. 👊
One of the hardest things to reconcile right now is knowing that my dad, and my two siblings, voted for him. Three times. And I haven’t heard a peep of concern, let alone regret, about any of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM
One of the hardest things to reconcile right now is knowing that my dad, and my two siblings, voted for him. Three times. And I haven’t heard a peep of concern, let alone regret, about any of this.
Reposted by David Hobby
It’s 5F outside.
The fireplace is on and Alice has parked herself on my legs.
Friday night chores may have to wait until Saturday morning.
The fireplace is on and Alice has parked herself on my legs.
Friday night chores may have to wait until Saturday morning.
January 24, 2026 at 2:16 AM
It’s 5F outside.
The fireplace is on and Alice has parked herself on my legs.
Friday night chores may have to wait until Saturday morning.
The fireplace is on and Alice has parked herself on my legs.
Friday night chores may have to wait until Saturday morning.
This story, about a single species of mushroom and the very specific hallucination it yields, is bonkers.
🏃🏃🏃🏃🍄🟫🏃🏃🏃
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
🏃🏃🏃🏃🍄🟫🏃🏃🏃
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This story, about a single species of mushroom and the very specific hallucination it yields, is bonkers.
🏃🏃🏃🏃🍄🟫🏃🏃🏃
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
🏃🏃🏃🏃🍄🟫🏃🏃🏃
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Many thanks to all of you who have read, supported, and reviewed The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto.
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
January 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Many thanks to all of you who have read, supported, and reviewed The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto.
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
Grandpa is drunk again
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Grandpa is drunk again
Reposted by David Hobby
A frigid start to the day as the sun rises along 42nd Street in New York City, Tuesday morning.
January 20, 2026 at 2:35 PM
A frigid start to the day as the sun rises along 42nd Street in New York City, Tuesday morning.
The US needs to kill off ICE — and make a big move toward EVs, as in China.
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The US needs to kill off ICE — and make a big move toward EVs, as in China.
Old friend, fresh snow, good music, Uzbek(!) food, great conversation. Not the worst way to spend a weekend.
Thank you, @bwjones.bsky.social. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you, @bwjones.bsky.social. Looking forward to the next one.
The best friendships are the ones where you can do nothing but talk for an entire weekend.
Thank you @davidhobby.bsky.social. It was a delight to host you at Chez Jones.
Thank you @davidhobby.bsky.social. It was a delight to host you at Chez Jones.
January 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Old friend, fresh snow, good music, Uzbek(!) food, great conversation. Not the worst way to spend a weekend.
Thank you, @bwjones.bsky.social. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you, @bwjones.bsky.social. Looking forward to the next one.
With the passing of Sports Illustrated’s Peter Read Miller, fellow sports shooter Al Tielemans posted on FB this SI ad from 1981.
I was a junior in high school, and already an aspiring sports photographer. To me, in 1981, these guys were gods.
I was a junior in high school, and already an aspiring sports photographer. To me, in 1981, these guys were gods.
January 14, 2026 at 3:28 AM
With the passing of Sports Illustrated’s Peter Read Miller, fellow sports shooter Al Tielemans posted on FB this SI ad from 1981.
I was a junior in high school, and already an aspiring sports photographer. To me, in 1981, these guys were gods.
I was a junior in high school, and already an aspiring sports photographer. To me, in 1981, these guys were gods.
The placement of identifying signs on everyday things in a patient’s environment is a common practice at advanced adult care locations. The term for it is “cognitive offloading” or “environmental cueing.”
⌛️ 💥 🎉
⌛️ 💥 🎉
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
The placement of identifying signs on everyday things in a patient’s environment is a common practice at advanced adult care locations. The term for it is “cognitive offloading” or “environmental cueing.”
⌛️ 💥 🎉
⌛️ 💥 🎉
Good day to remember that the people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
The people who killed her were following it.
The people who killed her were following it.
January 9, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Good day to remember that the people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
The people who killed her were following it.
The people who killed her were following it.
Reposted by David Hobby
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Reposted by David Hobby
DHS now confirming in a. statement that an ICE officer did shoot and kill someone at the site of a raid.
January 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
DHS now confirming in a. statement that an ICE officer did shoot and kill someone at the site of a raid.
How dare you keep harping on a decades-old child sex-trafficking scandal when OUR GREAT NATION IS AT WAR.
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
How dare you keep harping on a decades-old child sex-trafficking scandal when OUR GREAT NATION IS AT WAR.
Reposted by David Hobby
Not sure which I find more disconcerting:
1. That the US AG is criminally charging the PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER COUNTRY with possessing machine guns, or,
2. That she doesn’t know “machine guns” is two words. 😐
1. That the US AG is criminally charging the PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER COUNTRY with possessing machine guns, or,
2. That she doesn’t know “machine guns” is two words. 😐
January 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Not sure which I find more disconcerting:
1. That the US AG is criminally charging the PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER COUNTRY with possessing machine guns, or,
2. That she doesn’t know “machine guns” is two words. 😐
1. That the US AG is criminally charging the PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER COUNTRY with possessing machine guns, or,
2. That she doesn’t know “machine guns” is two words. 😐
Reposted by David Hobby
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
Million-dollar idea:
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Million-dollar idea: