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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t think we’ll be so lucky tonight so here are some throwback pics from two years ago

Northern lights over a cabin in the woods

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

Finished “George Washington, A Life” tonight and Audible showed me this stat. Took me a moment, but 13 April was the day I flew home after saying goodbye to my mom who died early the next morning

Screenshot of a weekly listening statistics summary showing a streak of 26 consecutive weeks with at least one day of listening per week, beginning April 13, 2026. The all-time streak is also listed as 26 weeks.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ok Standard Time, I’m ready for you (I am not at all ready, but at least the kid’s playgrove is now well lit)

Point-of-view photograph from a black and red hammock at night. Tan pants and dark shoes extend toward a tree trunk, with warm string lights stretching between trees and a triangular canvas structure outlined in lights in the background. Motion blur creates curved streaks around the lights and trees.

Nighttime view across a leaf-covered clearing toward a triangular canvas structure outlined with white lights. Warm string lights hang between trees, with a red hammock to the left and tall trees extending into the dark blue sky.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You buy four pairs of snowshoes from an online bookstore and it thinks it knows you.

Screenshot of an “About you” beta personalization page in a shopping app. The “Interests & Hobbies” tab is selected, showing one inferred interest: “Likely snowshoes regularly in winter.” Other visible tabs include Brands and Departments.

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When did you take this picture of my yard?

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That 1964 Wings show was really great though!

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We just need to start teaching effective focal length in elementary school like they do in Europe (a fact I just made up). If I had a dollar for everyone busting a move at 30yds while I’m holding a 16mm lens…

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know you know what I’m talking about. Just be predictable!

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

…because honestly your posing is distracting to the auto focus and half the time you’re too late and end up covering the face of the runner behind you

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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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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Brian @outdoortype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh this just made my birthday wishlist!

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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

I really need to get back on the road, but…

Vertical twilight view of mountain ridges silhouetted along the horizon beneath a broad blue sky. Thin, textured clouds near the horizon retain streaks of coral, pink, and orange from the sunset, fading upward into pale blue and then deep navy.

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

Turns out a place called “Oakton” that’s full of tall mature oak trees isn’t as good a place for sky watching as the top of a 200’ ridge overlooking a river valley

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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 · 30/09/2026

There are so many Porches in my new neighborhood

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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 · 25/09/2026

Oh man I miss the old Crisco formula

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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

Horse girls (and guys) without Heartland!

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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

North Fork Shenandoah was until recently the first thing I saw out my front door

Blue sky and white clouds and green trees and fields and the north fork Shenandoah River

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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 · 09/09/2026

I wanted to make a Reese’s peanut butter cup joke, but this is the best I could do…

Is this butterfly Meme. a man holding out his hand toward a small yellow butterfly. Labels read “EAST PACIFIC” above the man and “SEVEN-DAY GRAPHICAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK” beside the butterfly. Large text across the bottom asks, “IS THIS POTENTIAL TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT AREA MAXXING?”

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

I work fastest under the pressure of a deadline, apparently (actually my entire life)

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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

Despite all of that we only picked up an additional 0.10” of rain

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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 · 01/09/2026

I mean KASS was right there!

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