David Barbrow

@dbarbrow.bsky.social

201 Followers 594 Following

Software engineer when I worked for a living. Now studying French, getting back to piano. Languages are cool. Just trying to be kind. Originally a yinzer, now Tucson, AZ and Ann Arbor, MI. Also @dbarbrow@mastodon.social Pronouns: he/him/il/le/lui

A photo of Old Faithful geyser spewing a jet of water into the air
A man (me) in a blue shirt and grey shorts next to a sculpture of a man and two pigs. Behind them is a door. Over the door is a sign that reads “Spam Museum”
A painting of a Paris crowd storming the Bastille
A photo of a screen in an auditorium. The artist Mya Gosling is narrating a talk about cartooning.
A poster showing a plate of donuts - chocolate covered, strawberry covered, sugar frosted. Text in the image says "National Donut Day - Friday - June 5, 2026. Celebrate the sweetest day of the year! Support LOCAL donut shops in your community!"
A screenshot of an article from "Physics of Fluids" published 28 March 2023, titled "A unified theory for bubble dynamics". Five authors are listed, with their academic affiliations, followed by an article abstract. The abstract begins: "In this work, we established a novel theory for the dynamics of oscillating bubbles such as cavitation bubbles, underwater explosion bubbles, and air bubbles. For the first time, we proposed bubble dynamics equations that can simultaneously take into consideration the effects of boundaries, bubble interaction, ambient flow field, gravity, bubble migration, fluid compressibility, viscosity, and surface tension while maintaining a unified and elegant mathematical form."
A screen of mostly text - at the top in small red print it reads "Your closest neighborhood" Underneath in large bold text, the summary line: "The Episcopal Church (TEC)" Underneath text which reads "Your taste lives in the tradition that has become, more than any other in America, the home of inclusive orthodoxy: sacramental theology, openly LGBTQ+ clergy and laity, a strong literary culture, smaller but stable... Your neighbors are people who think hymns from the 1700s and same-sex weddings belong in the same building."
A painting of Olympe de Gouges, a woman with grey hair wearing a white shawl, looking directly at the viewer.
A photo of a drawing in chalk. The drawing is off a small creature with a tiny dog at the end of a leash.
A mural with an image of a young woman, captioned « The sound of change has many voices ». Birds flock around the woman.
A green copper sculpture of a muscular figure. The figure is sitting, cross-legged. In one hand he is holding a small golden image of a family. In the other hand a radiant sphere. This is just outside Detroit City Hall.
An image of a Bluesky post dialog containing the text "Ceci n'est pas un post". The image of the dialog is on a yellow background with text below it that also reads "Ceci n'est pas un post".
An image of a marshmallow peep, with caption "Ceci n'est pas une peep"
A photo of a theater playbill announcing “The MacAdo or The Town of Ballydew” at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater at the University of Michigan, with an image of a flower on the cover.
Image of a crowd at a No Kings rally, in the foreground an American flag and a sign with a crown crossed out with an X.
A photo of three packages of cheese in a supermarket cart. The packages are labeled “Baby Swiss”, “Swiss”, and “Aged Swiss”.
The word “inspiring” against a light green background, with the heading that says “Miriam-Webster Your Word of the Year 2026”
A photograph of about 20 slices of white bread, piled neatly on a wooden cutting board. The image is labelled "Before..."
A photograph of the outside of the Titan Missile Museum with a sign in the foreground reading "Watch for rattlesnakes". The museum is a blue metallic structure.
A photo of gray bulbous rock formations. Some pine trees are in the background.
A photo of one of the "Window Arches" in Arches National Park. This is an eye-shaped hole in rock. A brilliant blue sky appears looking through the eye-shaped hole. Very tiny people appear in the photo giving a sense of scale to the arch - about 20 times the height of an adult.
A photo of a massive canyon under a bright blue sky in Canyonlands National Park
A photo of Arthur Bryant’s BBQ storefront in Kansas City.
A photo of a small wood house with a white fence to the right.
A photo of the home where Abraham Lincoln and his family lives for the 17 years before he became President.
A cartoon by French cartoonist Plantu. The drawing is an image of Delcroix' Liberty Leading the People, but instead of guns, all the characters are carrying pencils. Originally published after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.
A photo of a silicone water stopper for sale in a hardware store. The label on the stopper says "Fun and colorful silicone drain stopper create a strong water-tight seal for kitchen and utility sinks. Safe for water temperatures up to 500°F or 260°C."
A photo of a topiary garden. A small pond is in the foreground. Sculpted bushes are on the far side of the pond,
A photo of a library display case that shows a dancer. She is surrounded by papers and tools explaining dance notation.
A view of Garfield’s front porch where he spoke during his campaign for president.
Rutherford B Hayes Library and Museum as seen from the front.
An image of a crêpe covered, from left to right, in blueberries, whipped cream, and raspberries. This forms a blue-white-red French tricolor flag.
A photo of a door with a sign that says “Please keep doors closed at all times”
Photo of John King Used and Rare Bookstore in Detroit
Image of a banana next to a bathroom scale
An image of a hypothetical (and not real) post from some troll's account on X. The text in the image says "Even though BlueSky users will block and move on, this image will often get quoted in bsky posts as part of a 'block this person' message. Is there a way for the bsky community to do better and keep these images out of bsky feeds while still warning others?"
An image of hypothetical (but not real) screen capture from X of a troll's post. The text of the image says "Even though BlueSky users will block and move one, this image will often get quoted in bsky posts as part of a 'block this person' message. Is there a way for us to do better?"
Photo of Bobby Orr in the air. He has just scored the winning Stanley Cup goal in 1970.
A screenshot of the Deezer music application showing "Tour Dates" for Johann Sebastian Bach in 2025.
A crêpe maker in a box on a store shelf. The brand name is “Bluesky”.
A photo of “Steel Workers’ Declaration of Indepence” from 1936, earlier in this history of the labor movement
Screenshot of a post of mine on bluesky that says "When is Amazon Composite Day?"
An image of me wearing a mask that says "Ceci n'est pas un masque", French for "This is not a mask".
An image of Olaf, a character from Disney's "Frozen II", in a scary-looking forest.
Image of a t-shirt showing a stack of donuts, with the caption "Glucose is the necessary substrate of cognition"