Michael Toler (@casbahmike) • Collective gay friends app

Michael Toler @casbahmike

Just an average guy working in academia. Kinda shy! Looking for conversation. What are your favorite cities, books, songs, architects, movies?

Subterranean hallway at MIT

Autumn reds. Wellesley, MA, USA

So much to do, so little willingness to do any of it. Feeling lazy.

This is a completely unedited photo. I LOVE this light!

Dilemma of the day: Need to get up but don’t want to disturb the kitties!

My girl on my shoulders!

Dahlias and bees

It finally bloomed, but you’ll need a drone to see it from the top! It’s almost a meter taller than me!

The bees love this dahlia?

An update on the cosmos: The day before yesterday I measured the tallest ones. They were 228 cm high. Today they are at least 30-50 cm taller! They have blossoms, but still haven’t bloomed. You can’t really see the top in this picture, and I circled it. The arrow points to the top of my head!

Feeling a little silly on campus.

Still one of my favorite songs from a musical!

This arrived in July four years ago! A great album!

A scholarly cat!

View across Killian Court from Building 10 on the MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA, USA

Can’t believe how close this handsome fella got to us!

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

An intense piece of music!

A hypothetical: You have been condemned to spend 20 years in solitary confinement. All your basic needs will be met, but you will not have any human contact. There is a large television and a DVD player, but you can only have 1 DVD to watch for the next 20 years! What is it?

The cosmos are actually quite a bit taller!

It’s official, our zinnias are as tall as me! That’s roughly 177 cm (5’9”)!

This song is from the 1967 anti-war musical HAIR, but this magnificent, heartrending version by Jennifer Hudson was recorded in a 2005 benefit performance. It played as I read the news today, making me realize how it remains as relevant as it was 20 years ago & as it was 58 year ago when released!

It’s International Day of Peace! While the world is far from peaceful today, we may bring it closer to reality if we do our part, however small, to bring about a more just and peaceful world.

Monarch butterfly!

Interior of Bab ar-Rwah, Rabat, Morocco

Qatar National Museum, Doha

A powerful song from an astonishingly good musical about the need to be strong when we don’t think we can!

From the garden

Fawns at the local park!

LOVE this song! People watching is one of my favourite pastimes!

The zinnias are up to my shoulders!

Back pages of the most recent Bitter Southerner magazine!

The one thing that frustrates me the most about this app is that I can’t find posts I saw in the discovery feed but wasn’t able to respond to if I leave the app. If I go from the app to something else, even if I don’t close the app, the feed refreshes and it’s completely different. Without a search function, the post is lost to me. I wouldn’t mind if the feed just added different posts at the top so I could just scroll down to see what was there. I also wouldn’t mind a complete refresh is there were a search. Anyone else feel this way?