Michael Toler (@casbahmike) • Collective gay friends app

Michael Toler @casbahmike

Just an average guy working in academia! Kinda shy! Ask me about my pr tell me about your favorite cities,books,song, architect, movie...

This happens every year at MIT!

There’s a bird in the bodega!

MIT, east campus.

As a former teacher of English as a Second Language, I can attest to the truth of this.

Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

Trilliums in the Garden in the Woods

If you’re interested in architecture, do you have a favorite building or style?

Also what I see right now! I’m not the only one relaxing in the yard!

What I’m seeing now! (The coils deter mosquitoes)

Renovated student services space on the Infinite Corridor at MIT, nearly finished.

“Pretty isn't beautiful... Pretty is what changes. What the eye arranges Is what is beautiful.” -Stephen Sondheim, “Beautiful” from Sunday in the Park with George

Tangier viewed from the medina to the harbor

No better way to start my day than waking to this!

Great blue heron at Natick Dam in Massachusetts.

Love this song and her version of it!

Windswept tree by the bay.

Some of the amazing brickwork in the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech, Morocco, designed by Studio KO

PTT in Rabat, Morocco

Boston’s bike shares

Wish I were as cheerful as these dwarfs are!

Sunset on the lake!

Foxglove in our garden

Recorded in April 1965, this overlooked and forgotten gem of a song by Gene Lees and Lalo Schifrin, is about same-sex lovers. It’s disheartening that 60 years later, so many people still don’t have this right!

What do you think this is? I’ve blurred the text and icons that would make it obvious. It’s not a paint or color chart of any kind, but rather a cropped version of the Recently Deleted display of my photos. Each color patch is an accidental photograph of the inside of my pocket. 😂

Lately, I’ve been accidentally taking shots or even setting off the time lapse function of my camera when I put my phone in my pocket. I’ve ended up with lots of pictures of floors, the ground, of counter and desk tops, as well as the fabric inside my pocket. On sunny days, just enough light gets through lightweight fabrics that the phone will snap pics. So when I’m REALLY bored, my new favorite pastime is trying to figure out where I was or which shorts I was wearing.

Wish this song had proven more prophetic than it turned out to be!

On hot days my sweaty nose sometimes kisses the top of my coffee cup!

Adhering to the Collective vibe with my hotel bathroom selfie. Though I’m wearing too many clothes. 😉😜😘

If you need a good cry! It’s a song from the perspective of a widower who’s lost his wife of 52 years, and it’s full of the kind of specific details that tear at your heartstrings.

This is a powerful song! Don’t know how I missed it when it came out in 2018!

It would be SO MUCH easier to interact on this app more people captioned their pics!

Look closely, there a maple sapling growing between the branches of this chestnut tree!

This was my grandparents’ house in Richmond, Virginia, USA. It’s directly in front of a natural spring.

The UN has designated today an International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebebica. This photo shows the graves of some of the 8,000 victims whose remains were discovered in mass grave sites in and around the town.

Homeward commute with my resolute pursed lips!

Sad that this song describes life in the 🇺🇸 better now than when it was released in 1996!

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” -Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

Absolutely 💯

A beautiful video for a beautiful song!