Timothy Gerla

A diagram of a 3 by 3 by 9 foot pile of logs, illustrated using golden retriever dogs for scale.

My favorite part of all of this, from the town's website: www.townofchapelhill.org/government/d...

People are really working through their feelings about Chapel Hill's new leaf collection policy - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

People are really working through their feelings about Chapel Hill’s new leaf collection policy.

Enjoy our favorite quotes from emails to town council about the change.

Sad little thin skinned baby men.

Nonprofit Modeled After DC Central Kitchen Opening in Triangle With plans to launch pilot programs in 2026, Triangle Central Kitchen aims to reduce food insecurity while creating job opportunities.

TCK’s operations are modeled after the DC Central Kitchen (DCCK), a well-known nonprofit that prepared a staggering 3.9 million meals to help with food insecurity in the Washington area in 2024.

3pm, Town Commons in Carrboro

tonight! come to our election forum forum.

Nation Grateful to GOP for Protecting It From TV

Report: You to Be Fired for Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Trump Spends Entire UK Trip Trying to Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Hey NC friends, I've recently gotten involved in a new project called the Triangle Central Kitchen, a social enterprise fighting hunger and food waste, and we are launching on Sept 24 at Namu in Durham. Want a great dinner for a greater cause, check it out! trianglecentralkitchen.org/tck-launch-p...

Fire on the forest floor

Fire on the forest floor

A photo of a forest floor, half of it cleared to the duff underneath, the other half covered in pine needles. Green trees in the background.

A black dog wearing a fluorescent yellow and orange safety coat, prancing near a big pile of logging slash.

A black dog wearing a fluorescent yellow and orange safety coat, with a wild look on her face. She’s barking.

Blowing some fire lines for a small burn this evening. #rxfire #goodfire

Succinct and accurate.

Why did NC State Auditor Dave Boliek wait three weeks - eg. only after @wral.bsky.social broke the story publicly - to ask the Republican Surry County elections board chair to resign?

This guy was caught (on video!) trying to drug his granddaughters on August 8th.

🤔🤔🤔🤔
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If any of my friends in DC are hungry and need lunch, I will be happy to DoorDash a few sub sandwiches over. Just let me know.

Wow, go Gov. Stein!

Coming up 8/23 -- IRL SkeptiCal 2025! See speakers and the very affordable tickets at www.skepticalcon.com Ross Blocher, Seth Shostak, Kyle Polich me, and others. We're so excited to be meeting in person again. Please share.

SkeptiCal Conference SkeptiCal is the scientific skepticism conference brought to you by Northern California Skeptics.

If you're in Northern or Central CA, come join us at the 13th SkeptiCal, in person, in downtown Oakland. We're so excited to be meeting IRL again. www.skepticalcon.com Known as the AFFORDABLE skeptics conference! Sat. Aug 23, 2025

We're at a point where the president is:

➡️ demanding politically disfavored American CEOs to resign (Intel)
➡️ calling for price controls (pharma)
➡️ imposing government "truth arbiter" censors in the media (CBS)
➡️ nationalizing private business (US Steel)

American Maoism, brought to us by MAGA.

When someone suggested I try uv I instinctively recoiled because really, who needs yet another python environment management tool? But they were right, it is so good and solves so much dependency hell pain.

It's occasionally shocking just how casually some politicians chat about blatant corruption.

Here's Phil Berger's son, Rockingham County commissioner Kevin Berger, bragging about how his dad spent millions of taxpayer dollars to buy a political endorsement.
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Blimey! The earthquake off Russia’s Pacific coast caused groundwater fluctuations way up here in Virginian Appalachia!

A photo of vibrant California coast themed vinyl stickers on top of a sandy background. The stickers feature sea slugs, a sea otter, sun fish, a leopard shark, a bat ray, kelp, and a garibaldi.

My summer shop update is now LIVE! Lots of new stickers, prints, patches, enamel pins, and more are now available! 🌊🦦💕

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reshares are appreciated!! 💕

Chuck Mangione, Jazz Musician Whose ‘Feels So Good’ Stormed the Pop Top 10 in the Late ’70s, Dies at 84 Chuck Mangione, the jazz flugelhorn and trumpet player whose catchy instrumental 'Feels So Good' made the pop top 10, has died at 84.

How did I fucking miss this

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I think at this point it would be best, for the good of the country, that Trump resign.

Need a cheat sheet for when all the various parts of the Republican federal budget goes into effect? Here it is.

Why do you think they delayed many of the most damaging provisions to only take effect after the 2026 midterm election? Can anyone think of a reason? 🤔

"Don't harm yourself, we'll do it for you!" - The police, probably.

From the dataisbeautiful community on Reddit: Dollar Value of DOGE Cuts to US Federal Grant Programs by Congressional District [OC] Explore this post and more from the dataisbeautiful community

This is an insane data viz and indicates how devastating the cuts to UNC, Duke, RTI, NIOSH, EPA, FHI360 have been to our congressional district.

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the blogblog model in chapel hill and carrboro - using journalism to build community that takes action - is worth checking out.

This DA needs to be recalled.

The United States is heavily dependent on east Asia for the advanced computer chips that power our whole economy.

One North Carolina company has bet the farm on becoming a domestic, American-owned advanced chipmaker - but now, they're in big trouble.

Let's talk about Wolfspeed.

A plant in the foreground with small, long, oval leaves, with a bean-like vibe. A flower stalk is emerging upwards, with small white flowers in the process of opening up. Towards the top, closed buds. In the background, trees and grasses. Blue sky.

Someone is holding the flower stalk with the white bean-like flowers.

And this Baptisia alba (White Wild Indigo)! This is the second Baptisia species we've found on the property.