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Joshua Perin
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Carrboro NC
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Our backyard on the banks of Bolin Creek in #Carrboro #NorthCarolina, during & after last night’s flash flood.
Two photos of the same spot, during and after the flash flood. The water is as high as a hammock during the flood.
July 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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mkramer.bsky.social
Flying next to someone flying for the first time! She’s in her 70s. I’m going to hold her hand.
February 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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It took a long time & a lot of work from a lot of really dedicated people, but we’re getting a library—tomorrow! #carrboro 📖
ludkmr.bsky.social ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · Feb 12
ngl, feels pretty good to read an old editorial every now and again. Sometimes, things work out. Here's to all the people over the years who made it happen. ❤️
Carrboro Citizen, December 11, 2008
An editorial that reads: Balancing our books We knew at some point some elected of- ficial would rise to make the case for a library for downtown Carrboro. We just didn’t know that person would be a member of the Chapel Hill Town Council. That probably wasn’t council member Matt Czajkowski’s intention when he chimed in Monday night during discussions about the expansion of the Chapel Hill Public Library. With a budget crunch and the credit crisis making it an iffy year to issue new bonds, the council decided to put off financing expan- sion at the Estes Drive location. Noting the options, which include a proposal to start charging non-Chapel Hill residents between $60 and $100 annually to use the library, Czajkowski said it was high time to consider whether Chapel Hill should drop its long-standing policy of treating those from Carrboro and elsewhere the same as town residents. Why, he asked, should Chapel Hillians subsidize people from Carrboro? As several teachers have pointed out, one case against the fee is that it would be disrup- tive because the school system, which makes use of the place, has students from both towns. Czajkowski’s suggestion that the council consider the fee did not gain traction, but it did draw interest . . . With that possibility on the horizon, it is even more important for the plans to move forward for a new downtown library in Car- rboro. Chapel Hill has a wonderful facility, but the need for a new library to build on the ef- forts at McDougle is overdue. The big appeal of a downtown library in Carrboro would be greater accessibility, particularly by foot and bicycle, and the op- portunity to integrate a key public space with a thriving downtown. Likewise, there are partnerships waiting with The ArtsCenter, the schools and the university. Most importantly, as Chapel Hill’s ex- perience has shown, there is a huge demand throughout southwestern Orange County for library services. It is time to rise to that challenge.
February 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The algorithm gets me 🤖😍
An ad on the Google search app for the audiobook of Jean-Paul Sartre’s book “Being and Nothingness”
February 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
joshuaperin.bsky.social
At least the AI isn't self-aware yet 😅
A screen shot of an otter.ai meeting transcription that reads, "Todd is frustrated with an unwanted recording feature that interferes with his Zoom calls, despite not being able to identify its source. Joshua Perin, possibly the organizer of the meeting, suggests he might have the authority to remove the issue. Todd requests Joshua to resolve the problem." Following that is a list of Action Items with one item: "Remove the Otter recording app."
February 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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mkramer.bsky.social
carrboro’s new library is ❤️❤️❤️
February 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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For Black History Month (or any month, really), would you like to know how a Black dentist was arrested for golfing on whites-only course, then lost his U.S. Supreme Court case, and THEN ended up integrating recreational facilities in Greensboro and hospitals nationwide? 1/
Picture of George Simkins
February 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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In 2011, I talked with Larry Kramer in his Manhattan apartment, about his play The Normal Heart — but also about history, equality, and the future.

It’s an Obama-era interview with a man who died in 2020 that remains extremely current, in many parts, today. www.metroweekly.com/2011/11/an-a...
KRAMER: Are you looking for patterns? MW: What's the long view? KRAMER: Take it a day at a time. I remember in ACT UP, everything was so bad all the time that we just sort of had to make it up as we went along, what we were going to do. Because today's emergency wasn't necessarily tomorrow's emergency, or the other way around. People who were in one job one day weren't there the next, and you were constantly having to educate people. People always ask me, "What was it like?" | don't look back. I look to today and to what we still have to do in the days to come. What we achieved in the past has always been haphazard and more often by luck than by skill. We're still a leaderless population. The same things I've complained about since the beginning have not been rectified in any way. MW: But what would today's mission be? KRAMER: Same thing. You go after the enemy. You organize yourself, and you divide up what you have to attack, and you go after it. It's no mystery. ACT UP, at its height in New York, had 1,500 members. We had so many committees going after so many pressure points in getting us these drugs, in getting us this research. There were meetings that you could go to every night, seven nights a week. We were organized, and we were smart. And we got it. We had the smart ones figuring out the strategy, and we had the street troops. The good cop/bad cop. Every corporation works that way. The street troops were there to protest, to show you that we mean business. The strategy is being figured out and being delivered to them at their committee meetings, saying, "We want this, or else." No big mystery. If there's 20 million of us, that's 20 million soldiers. When we get angry enough that we don't have what we deserve, when we get angry enough that the taxes we pay don't get us what they get everyone else, then maybe we'll do something about it. I don't see that happening. So, therefore, we stay like we are, and leave it to the HRCs of the world to pick up the tiny pebbles. It's not a mysterious process. It's called visibility, anger, unity. We don't have that.
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Will East Weaver Street be getting a glow up? Maybe! The discussion starts Tuesday! triangleblogblog.com/2025/01/12/w...
Will East Weaver Street be getting a glow up? Maybe!
The Carrboro Town Council has a work session this Tuesday. Work sessions allow council to discuss a single topic in-depth. (There's no public comment at work sessions, but the public is welcome to com...
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January 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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/dusts off Raleigh snowpocalypse picture www.ncrabbithole.com/p/raleigh-nc...
The Short Story of Raleigh's Greatest Snow Picture
Is there a winter storm coming? Then it's time to re-live a really rough day in 2014.
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January 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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January 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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BREAKING: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commutes 15 death sentences to sentences of life without the possibility of parole.

Full news release: governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2024 Governor Cooper Takes Capital Clemency Actions RALEIGH Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row in North Carolina to life without the possibility of parole. He commuted these sentences atter a thorough review of detailed petitions for clemency submitted by the defendants, input from district attorneys and the families of victims, and close review by the Governor's Office.
December 31, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Song of the day: youtu.be/T_qkVPZ8DJI?...
Stephen Colbert Joins The Mountain Goats To Perform 'This Year'
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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December 31, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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About a month ago Tony Hawk posted a photo of an unidentified girl skateboarding down a street in Fayetteville, NC in 1979. It went viral. @ncrabbithole.com chronicled the whole saga and actually tracked her down. And today, we put them all in the same room! This might be my favorite thing ever.
Tony Hawk and the skateboard rabbit hole
An old photograph and a call to action from one of the world's most famous athletes sends us on a fascinating adventure.
www.wunc.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:11 PM