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David Otto Scaer

@davidottoscaer.bsky.social
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Just a painter with a mild-to-moderate blue fetish. Dad, hubby, son. D-minor. Wayyyyy too many other obsessions to list here

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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Tall ships plying the waters of my home town
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A detail from a land-/skyscape I’m working on, as a gift to some lovely vineyard folk we’ve met lately. Just really decent, kind folk, who have extended their kindness and friendship to me, yes, but to my elderly father as well. Oil and lapis lazuli on tinted gesso ground
Detail of an oil painting I’ve been working on. Lavish transparent blues (real lapis lazuli!) to the left, interacting with opaque earth tones on the right.  Works from a distance but strangely not so much up close?  Brainstorming that as we speak
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With love and respect from N Michigan
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I may be a failed French scholar and teacher (and am currently failing my way through a nascent art career), but I am not afraid to speak the truth, defend the truth, defend my kids, wife and Dad, and stand (sometimes stupidly, sometimes strategically) in the way of evil men. ::respect::, Jess!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Lovely, Greg! Here is what we were seeing on our side (NW Lower MI)
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A stroll in the sublime light of sunset in Northern Michigan
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Good Trouble! Called do-nothing MI rep Jack Bergman’s DC and Traverse City MI offices. Asked his (poor fucker) staffers how I was supposed to square his statement regarding his the Big Bill (see attached) with actual wordage from the bill itself? Lots of hemming/hawing of course (including but/
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
until after our death”. Will my end be worthy of the years that preceded it? “I leave it to death to test the fruit of my studies. We shall see then whether my reasonings come from my mouth or from my heart.”
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Yeah, not feeling at all patriotic Anyway, at least the coffee is nice this morning. Too bad about our democracy though
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The sublime view as I absorb my second cup of coffee🌞🌞🌞 G’mornin’, BlueSky and the heroes you contain!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Views from our walk last evening
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I’ve been hounding my (new) congresspeople’s phone lines. Latest theme: whether you’re the actual nazi, the one resisting, or the one too cowardly to resist (or worse, a craven enabler), YOUR LEGACY IS ASSURED. Good times
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hi @bsky.app and all the heroes you contain! Feast the eyes, cleanse the timeline, DO GOOD!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#timelinecleanse, y’all Just now in Leelanau County MI USA
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Timeline cleanse!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Traverse City MI!!!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
😇
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Traverse City MI! Difficult to judge; I might estimate 1,500–2,000 in attendance
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Verso/recto. Yes, that’s real gold leaf
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My notes for my phone call to Jack Bergman’s office (Michigan 1st congressional district). Admittedly, my handwriting is shit, so I’ll translate them for you: “If I’m, say, at a Home Depot, and heavily-armed men in tactical gear—masked, armed men wearing no badges or name tags—carrying zip ties/
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Required reading
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Recent faves, Leelanau County MI
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Timeline cleanse! Leelanau County, Michigan
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“The fight against the French Resistance was a failure.” SS chief Karl Oberg
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Required reading! (Fear not: the american Reichwing can’t read French. Hell, it can’t even read English…)
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
One of the world’s most beautiful Hidden Places. Trilliums by the… milliums! Breathtaking
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Fuck this time and place.
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
My gorgeous and loving Mom, who passed away in March. 💙💙💙
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A few pictures from the road yest, Roanoke to Staunton and back
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
#timelinecleanse
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
New mental hygiene level UNLOCKED: calling my representatives while sitting on the john. This call—to @kaine.senate.gov —is probably evidence of inadequate fiber or too little coffee? or perhaps both Anyway, made my concerns abundantly known to the Senator’s staffer—then promptly flushed.
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
An emphatic and impassioned call to Mark Warner’s office this morning. I kept it short and not-very-sweet: 1/?
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Phone calls to my senators, asleep at the switch while the nation descends into despotism
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My (now twice-)weekly phone calls to our do-nothing senators, reminding them that they have a Constitutional duty to provide a check/balance to a rogue president.
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
C’mon, oxytocin! ::nudges cat again::
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Traverse City MI
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Traverse City MI USA
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Big Brother was spotted, too. #notverysubtle
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Traverse City MI!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Traverse City MI USA
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This one in Traverse City MI was spicy!🌶️
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
And we would like to thank Big Brother for… recording us all I guess?
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Traverse City MI USA! About 1,500 of our closest friends came out on a chilly Midwest day to tell the fash HANDS OFF!
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David Otto Scaer @davidottoscaer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
On the one end of the spectrum: Mark Warner, urging “decorum” while President Lunatic blows up the government, the economy, our honor among the nations On the opposite end of the spectrum: Cory Booker, with an eloquent, spirited, DISRUPTIVE lifting up of American voices I’ve chosen. Have you?
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