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As I begin tonight’s journey of scrolling through 13,681 photos, I take a moment to pause and ask runners to, if you truly feel compelled to pose for the camera, please hold the pose far longer than you think you should. But really how about you just lift your head up and open your eyes…

A MacBook Pro on a curved laptop stand displays Photo Mechanic with a race photograph of two runners on a wooded trail. The laptop and stand sit on a light wood desk under warm ambient lighting.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More than 24 hr after it started, a NWS comms issue continues with multiple missing radars and offices providing service backup. These sort of outages seem to be worsening in spite of the fact the vulnerabilities have been known for more than 2 decades. balancedweather.substack.com/p/comms-issu...

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Comms issue continues to impact eastern Gulf Coast NWS offices

Flash flooding to be a risk here today as well as in south Texas. Record heat continues in California.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lying in the hammock with my 3yo staring up at the trees… “After you die I will miss you,” she says. “But after I’m dead I won’t be able to watch TV.”

Upward-looking view from a hammock through a dense deciduous forest canopy, with tall tree trunks converging toward a ceiling of mostly green leaves. Small patches of yellow and orange foliage appear among the trees, showing the beginning of fall color.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s sunset season in the northern Shenandoah Valley. I’ve missed this view #VAwx

Wide sunset view over a dark wooded valley and mountain ridges. A broad blue-gray sky is filled with layered and textured clouds, with pink, coral, and orange light concentrated along the horizon. A silhouetted tree frames the right side of the image.

Vertical view of a mountain ridge silhouetted against a vivid sunset. Deep red, coral, and orange clouds line the horizon above the ridge, transitioning upward into pale pink, gray, and blue layers of wispy clouds.

Wide landscape view of a wooded valley and mountain ridges at sunset. The foreground forest and valley are in deep shadow, while layered pink, coral, orange, and pale yellow clouds stretch across the sky behind the dark mountain silhouettes.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had the most GenX experience tonight at a neighbor’s party where the host confidently exclaimed “we’re all millennials here” #GenerationForgotten

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This explains part of the reason I’ve fallen head over heels for my TourBox

A heavier than you’d think magic box with Buttons and knobs and wheels and haptic feedback with clicking noises are a few of my favorite things when sorting photos now

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Summer is trying to get one last round in this afternoon… Currently dumping rain and one blast of thunder in Oakton #VAwx

RadarScope Super-Res Reflectivity image from KLWX Sterling at 4:43 p.m. EDT on September 21, 2026, showing widespread rain and thunderstorms across Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., region. Yellow, orange, and red reflectivity indicates heavier precipitation concentrated from Centreville and Fairfax through the Burke area, with additional heavy rain extending north toward Potomac and Montgomery County. Weather-station observations shown on the map are generally in the mid-60s to around 70°F.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Daughter got an updated prescription today for her astigmatism that included two hours/day of outside playtime. Was so happy she was in the room to hear that part.

Black-and-white photograph of a young girl wearing glasses seated in an examination chair at an eye doctor’s office. An adult beside her holds up a book of Ishihara color-vision test plates while ophthalmic equipment fills the right side of the frame.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Going to really see how well this works tomorrow when I sort the 12K+ photos from Saturday and the… 21,625 photos from Sunday

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Less than 24 hours after seeing this video from @samer.is I had my new TourBox configured and sorting pics. Can already tell it’s going to be a game changer for my photo sorting workflow

A hand holds a translucent TourBox editing controller in front of a MacBook Pro running Photo Mechanic Plus. On the laptop screen, a race photograph shows an older runner in a green cap and hydration vest moving along a wooded trail, with other runners behind him.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today would have been my parent’s 56th wedding anniversary. Instead, later this week we will bury mom at Arlington National Cemetery.

Vintage color wedding photograph of a bride and groom walking arm-in-arm down a church aisle. The bride wears a long white gown and veil and carries a bouquet; the groom wears a black tuxedo with a bow tie and white boutonniere. Tall candles and greenery with white bows decorate the ends of the pews.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Photographing an adventure race this morning. First time I covered it, 26 years ago, I used my trusty Sony Mavica with 640x480 resolution. It took 1 photo/10 seconds and the 1.44MB “memory card” (floppy disk) held about 10 images. Things go a little faster now and my 512GB card holds a few more pics

Three Canon professional camera bodies with large zoom lenses rest on a weathered wooden picnic table beside an EX2 Adventures race course, with blue event fencing in the background.

Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD73 digital camera with a 10× optical zoom lens and a 3.5-inch floppy disk partially inserted into its side.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why is the house shaking at 1:45am? Oh, it’s just AF1 on final approach…

Flightradar24 screenshot showing a U.S. Air Force Boeing VC-25B, callsign AF1, flying southeast over Fairfax, Virginia, near Oakton and Vienna. The aircraft departed Dallas/Fort Worth about two hours earlier and is shown at 5,650 feet and 293 knots, with its flight track crossing Northern Virginia toward the Washington area.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Camera at my house in the Shenandoah Valley picked up a fireball streaking through the sky early this morning

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just set a new photo sorting record of 7,000 images/hour.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very heavy rain right now. Probably doing wonders for holiday traffic on 66 westbound #VAwx

A severe thunderstorm approaches over the Blue Ridge, with a turbulent, textured cloud base filling most of the sky. A dark, low cloud feature extends beneath the storm while a gray rain shaft obscures part of the mountains at right. Brighter sky remains near the western horizon.

RadarScope reflectivity from KLWX at 3:09 p.m. EDT on September 4, 2026, showing a line of strong to severe thunderstorms stretching from near Winchester through Stephens City and Middletown toward Strasburg, approaching Warren County and Front Royal from the west. Numerous lightning strikes are plotted within the storms, with yellow warning polygons covering portions of the line.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rained a bit… 0.44” in 5 minutes (5.28”/hr), followed by another 0.26”. 0.70” fell in 10 minutes and 1.06” in 35 minutes. (And this is from a very poorly sited weather station) #VAwx

Rainfall graph showing 1.07 inches accumulated by 11:55 p.m. Most fell in a short burst: 0.44 inches from 11:30–11:35, equivalent to 5.28 inches per hour, followed by 0.26 inches in the next five minutes. In total, 0.70 inches fell in 10 minutes and 1.06 inches in 35 minutes.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Props to the people dropping rain on mPING.

A screenshot of a big storm on a radar app

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20?

When you can’t give a girl a dozen dogwoods, but you do have a rose garden

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Picked up 0.73” of rain in about 30 mins when that cell passed #VAwx

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Found some fun books today! Would you believe that the Lake Ontario book is part of a series called “The American Lake Series”?

Close-up of three well-worn vintage books on a shelf—Lake Ontario by Arthur Pound, Swiss Family Robinson, and Complete Book of Camping—tucked among colorful retro decorative objects and a rustic branch.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Proposal to retire the name Dolly.

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Johann Huntera @chattwjonathan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you live in Tennessee, you can have Dolly Parton on your license plate - and a portion of the funds go to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and the Tennessee Arts Council

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Dolly Parton Tennessee License Plates - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Order your official Dolly Parton Tennessee License Plate today and help support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in your area.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey ParentSky, is it good for my 3yo to be wide awake at 9:30pm the night before school starts?

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Did this a few days ago… “Usher the shoes from the earth permanently in an elaborate ceremony of incineration. Spread the ashes over multiple locations of varying distances to be sure the remains won’t re-congeal into a radioactive pair of zombie footwear…”

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Somehow my pup is 14 years old today! Happy birthday Sofi 🎂🐶🎉

A chocolate-brown mother dog lies in a blue plastic whelping pool on a bright green polka-dot blanket while a litter of newborn black and cream-colored puppies nurses beside her.

Close-up portrait of an elderly black dog sitting indoors on a hardwood floor, with a heavily grayed muzzle and eyebrows, looking toward the camera with her pink tongue slightly out.

An elderly black dog with a graying face walks on a leash across a paved driveway beneath tall leafy trees, with a brick house visible through the woods in the background.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sunshine outbreak in the northern Shenandoah Valley after picking up a half inch of rain this morning #VAwx

Panoramic summer view from a front porch across a lush green valley toward the Blue Ridge Mountains, beneath a bright blue sky filled with scattered cumulus and rippled high clouds (a very low and slow North Fork Shenandoah River is down there too)

Thin, textured white clouds spread across a deep blue sky around the bright sun, with subtle rainbow-like iridescence visible along the sunlit cloud edges.

Wispy, fragmented white clouds scattered across a deep blue summer sky, photographed looking almost straight upward.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A great point and something passive voice scolds (I am one too) miss in a rush to score points in the online grammar bowl that exists in their heads.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wish I’d had the forethought 7 years ago to put a $50 deposit down at the pool we’d like to go to mow We’d maybe be off the wait list in time for next pool season.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m ready to believe that my boy’s snuggle friend is sentient with how well it hides itself before bedtime

Close-up photograph of a well-loved plush fox being held in one hand inside a kitchen. The toy has a cheerful embroidered face with black eyes, rosy pink cheeks, and a smiling mouth, but it shows heavy wear from use. The yellow fabric is faded and frayed, with loose threads, torn seams, and stuffing exposed through a hole at the top of the head. The toy’s rope arms and legs are worn and unraveling. In the softly blurred background are light wood floors, white kitchen cabinets, and part of a stainless steel oven.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In a very cute moment tonight, my dad, from whom I still have plenty of things to learn, tried to teach me a life hack about doing laundry (I’ve been doing my own laundry for about 38 years and he’s been doing his own laundry for about 3 months (since my mom died))

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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Many thanks to CBC Vancouver for a solid discussion on #wildfire, @mark-carney.bsky.social, and the false promise of carbon capture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUB...

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Are wildfires becoming worse?

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

No really, I think it’s very cool how Dulles Airport saved so much money on signage directing people to the cell phone lot

Black-and-white photograph of the iconic main terminal at Washington Dulles International Airport, viewed from a moving vehicle on the arrivals roadway. The terminal’s sweeping curved roof and angled concrete columns dominate the scene beneath a sky filled with layered gray clouds. Several vehicles travel ahead toward the terminal entrance, including a black SUV in the foreground. Raindrops and faint streaks on the windshield subtly soften parts of the image, reinforcing the overcast, rainy atmosphere.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Received this happy surprise from @capitalweather.com in the mail the other day! Thanks you all!

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My wife and her friends got to do a touch and go at Denver a little while ago

Screenshot of Apple Maps flight tracking showing United Airlines Flight 792 from Washington Dulles (IAD) to Denver (DEN) after landing at Denver International Airport. The aircraft is shown taxiing at 5 mph with an indicated altitude of 0 feet. The blue flight path includes a large looping pattern north and east of the airport before lining up for landing, illustrating an extended arrival sequence. Numerous aircraft icons are visible around Denver, reflecting heavy air traffic. Nearby labels include Hudson, Fort Lupton, Lochbuie, Keenesburg, and Interstate 76. The bottom panel identifies the flight as UA 792 operating on Sunday, August 2, from Washington, DC to Denver.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Saw a terrifying graphic this morning showing the before and after locations of the climber’s GPS beacons.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

20 mins ago our house in the valley had this gnarly shelf cloud pass… now watching the tornado warned cell a little to our west #VAwx

security camera looks west across a wooded valley as a dramatic shelf cloud approaches. Thick, dark gray clouds form a layered, wedge-shaped leading edge stretching across the top of the frame, while lighter rain curtains are visible beneath the cloud base over the distant hills. The foreground remains green with trees and open fields, emphasizing the contrast between the calm landscape and the advancing thunderstorm. The timestamp reads 19:33:55.

RadarScope Super-Resolution Reflectivity from the Sterling, Virginia (KLWX) radar at 7:33 PM EDT on July 21, 2026. West Campus (“WC”) is marked just west of Front Royal near Route 55. A broad line of heavy thunderstorms covers the area, with orange and red reflectivity indicating intense rainfall over and north of a spot marked WC toward Middletown and Stephens City. Numerous lightning icons are embedded within the line, illustrating an active thunderstorm moving through the northern Shenandoah Valley.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Here’s my Pyrex dish that shattered after I pulled it out of the oven and set it on a cork trivet to cool RIP that cornbread…

Shards of broken Pyrex 9x9 pan lie on a kitchen counter and around a cork trivet

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Kerrin @kerrinsuzanne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We took a trip to Philly today to drop off my "Pigeon Bench" piece that was accepted into the Small Favors show at The Clay Studio. The place is amazing. The work being created there is even more amazing. I wish we had something like it here. Just incredible. Here's my entry:

Tiny ceramic pigeons sit on a tiny ceramic bench. Behind the bench is a trash can and under the bench is a rat eating a pizza slice.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Trying to reinforce core memories of my kid’s time out in the Shenandoah Valley. Eventually I know they’ll hate the one hour drive, but for now I can remind them that there are horses to see and Spelunkers dinners to have…

Black metal pasture gate beside a wooden fence post with a sign reading, “Keep gate closed, no matter what the horses say”

Two horses (Wrangler and Cody) in a grassy pasture bordered by dense trees; a tan horse grazes while a dark brown horse faces the camera.

Close side view of a curly-haired girl wearing purple glasses as she looks through an open car window at two horses in a green pasture.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

🎶 It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood 🎵 #VAwx

Weather app screenshot for Oakton, Virginia, at 12:02 p.m., reporting smoky conditions, a feels-like temperature of 95°F, 70% humidity, and south-southwest winds at 9 mph. Active alerts include a Heat Advisory until 7 p.m., a Flood Watch from 2 to 8 p.m., and an Air Quality Alert through midnight. Outlook cards show an enhanced risk of severe weather today, including possible weak tornadoes, wind gusts over 60 mph, and hail larger than one inch, plus a marginal flash-flooding risk.

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