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Brad B.
@bradb26.bsky.social
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Runner, reader, writer, and gardener who loves a good cocktail. Not a Republican. Metal. Fitness. Plant-based. Dodgers! Elvenar. Potatoes. God I love potatoes.
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Picked the last of the grapes last night, before the season’s first freeze. #gardening
Disembodied hand holding photogenic bunch of grapes, with color ranging from light purple to green at the bottom, against a backdrop of an evergreen shrub.
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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#NoKings in Boise, Idaho. There were also big crowds in other Idaho cities. 2,00-plus in deep red Pocatello!
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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The poison ivy knows what time it is. #trailrunning
September 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Today's first-world problem.
A half-full carafe of pour-over coffee with a filter in the top, sitting on a black glass-top stove, with a caption: "Making a nice pour-over coffee requires patience. Before coffee. We call this "The Chemex Paradox."
August 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Retaining my sanity with a trail run at the local state park. Took a picture. #dragonfly #outdoors #running
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Way to go, #Idaho. We filled the arena - 12,000-plus - for Bernie and AOC on a Monday night. There is hope. #fightOligarchy
Wide shot of the inside of an arena filled with people, with Bernie Sanders on the stage, speaking, in front of an American flag.
April 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Hey BlueSky bird nerds: Is there a species as dramatically different in coloration between the male and female as the mallard duck? This couple returns to our pond each spring. Photo taken from my bedroom window. #birds #birdsky #ducks
A female mallard duck floating at the edge of a small pond, facing left, next to some rocks while the male mallard stands on a rock at the edge of the pond, facing right. The email is mottled brown and white, while the male has a silver and grey body, bright orange feet, a dark brown chest, purple-black neck separated from his torso by a white ring, and a bright green head and yellow beak.
March 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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These handsome lads are making their brief annual appearance, stopping off for some over-wintered crabapples and a nice dip in the pond. #birds #birdsky
Four cedar waxwings sitting on rocks near the outflow of a small backyard pond. Two cedar waxwings sitting on a large flat white rock next to some greenery.
March 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Great turnout today on a cold, rainy morning here in #Boise, standing for democracy. @50501movement.bsky.social #idaho
February 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Find yourself a Valentine who really gets you. #writersky #writing
February 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Until further notice...
A meme with a dude at the top left in an orange jacket, looking away and holding his hand as if to reject the written word "eggs" on the right. Below, same dude on the left, smiling approvingly and pointing to the text "chicken caviar" on the right.
February 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Great rally today here in #Boise urging our “leaders” to do their jobs and stop the Trump/Musk dismantling of America. #idaho @50501movement.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Anyone up for a drink? #cocktails #negroni #gin
A Negroni in a frosted coupe glass. The drink is deep red in color, with a twist of orange peel floating. The glass sits on a white hexagonal tile coaster atop a wood-grain table. There's an acoustic guitar in the background.
February 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Outside my window just now. "Hey. Hey buddy. We're out of peanuts and punkin' seeds out here. Can you get on it? Thanks." #squirrelSky #squirrels #wildlife
A red squirrel sitting in a tree branch, tail curled under him, looking toward the camera with an inquisitive look on his face.
January 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Saturday night Negroni. Took a sip before I thought to take a pic. Sorry about that. #cocktails #gin
Picture of a negroni, which is a deep red-orange cocktail, in a heavy glass with mountains etched into the bottom, steel ice cubes, and a strip of orange peel on top. The background looks to be a yule tree with white lights. The drink is sitting on a stone-slab coaster, on a wooden table top.
January 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the band Queen, in white pants, no shirts, and. crown, saluting from the stage with lights behind him.
December 29, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover for "A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present" by Howard D. Zinn. The cover is dark blue. The top two-thirds of the cover is taken up by the title, in off-white, all capital letters. Across the top, it reads, "More than 350,000 copies sold." A green stripe below the title indicates this is the revised and updated edition. The author's name is at the bottom, also in all caps.
December 18, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover for "The Monkey Wrench Gang" a novel by Edward Abbey. Cover is off-white with a drawing of large red-handled monkey wrench lifting a yellow bulldozer. A person is hanging off the front end of the dozer. The book title is in all-caps at the top of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom.
December 13, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Christopher McDougall's book, "Born to Run." Mostly blue sky, with a man who appears to be native North American standing on a rocky peak looking toward a distant mountain range. Title of the book in yellow across the top, followed by, in white, the subhead: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen." The author's name in yellow below that.
December 11, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of C.S. Lewis' book, The Chronicles of Narnia. The cover is the face of Aslan, the lion, with the title in yellow lettering at the top.
December 8, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover for "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. It shows the protagonist of the book, Chris McCandless, sitting atop the bus where he lived in Alaska. The bus is tan on top and green below. The book title is in block letters in blue near the top, followed by the author's name, Jon Krakauer, in black.
December 7, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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Been sick all week, so this is "purely medicinal," you see. Festive Friday. Cheers! #cocktails #weekend
A whiskey cocktail in the foreground - a maple old-fashioned if you must know, with a craft ice cube floating at the top containing cranberries and rosemary and a twisted orange peel. A bottle of 1792 bourbon is behind, next to a classic steel cocktail shaker, although this particular drink was stirred. Various other libations are behind, including a bottle of Jameson's Irish whisky, a bottle of Cabernet, and a green bottle of Molly Pratt sweet vermouth. A black stone mortar and pestle can be seen to the far right.
December 7, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of "Finding Ultra" by Rich Roll. Cover is of the author wearing only shorts, running barefoot from right to left. Title in yellow at the top of the cover.
December 6, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover for "Encounters with the Archdruid" by John McPhee. An off-white cover, with a large photo of Yosemite National Park at the top, and the lower two-thirds of the cover taken up by the author's name in grey, and in much smaller type, the title of the book in dark blue.
December 4, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of the book "The Tortilla Curtain," by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The cover is orange, with a gradient to yellow in the center, with the title and author's name overlain in very brilliant varying colors.
December 3, 2024 at 6:23 AM