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Cohost of Election Profit Makers with David Rees. Politics, domains, skylines, and fish weirs. Chapel Hill, North Carolina 🔗: linktr.ee/jonkimball

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 10d

This is just silliness overcast.fm/+AAr_rs8Jtjc...

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 1d

Mebane (mebben)

Zoe Roth (Disaster Girl) looks back at her father’s camera as a house burns in the background in Mebane, North Carolina

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 2d

I always renew bc there’s no guarantee you’ll find something as good. Think of it as a small price for a lotto ticket. I think that’s a great domain

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 2d

Old heads know

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 2d

Agree with most of it. Particularly like the old Piedmont / new Piedmont breakdown. While old Piedmont is mostly rural, Richmond fits the bill too as it’s definitely culturally different than newcomers like Charlotte and Raleigh

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 3d

Cancelled a few months ago and this just makes me feel better about that decision

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Election Profit Makers @epmcool.bsky.social · 3d

New EPM:⤵️

“It Was Actually Pretty Chill”

Jon and David share their impressions of performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 3d

Her refusal to answer isn’t necessarily confirmation he kept it. She might have wanted to avoid saying No because that invites additional questions like why was it returned it if he wasn’t doing anything wrong? Bad look no matter her answer.

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Inside Carolina @insidecarolina.bsky.social · 3d

UNC, Hulu Not Moving Forward With Season Documentary

North Carolina announced in August that it would do a season-long documentary to showcase the team.

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

Sure but don’t these guys try to back up their arguments using numbers? No one says MJ was the GOAT bc he had the prettiest shooting motion. They point to shooting percentage and championships and MVP awards.

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

3/ Though I should acknowledge that a point in Charlottesville’s favor is that their population numbers don’t include UVA to my knowledge. If UVA’s -3 sq miles were added to C-Ville that would further increase their density I believe.

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

2/ Obviously there’s still room for improvement but it’s not as bad as it appears on paper bc of that undeveloped land. LA has worse looking density numbers than reality too bc of large incorporated desert area.

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

Chapel Hill is hard to compare to C-ville density. C-ville is only 10 sq miles and incorporates no undeveloped land. Chapel Hill-Carrboro is 86,000 / 28 sq miles but includes ~5 sq miles of undeveloped forest tracts. If that forest isn’t annexed, density is more comparable to Cville at 3740 ppsm

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

More knives chapelboro.com/sports/arts-...

Art's Angle: Answers Needed - Chapelboro.com

Let's suppose we could ask Lee Roberts, Bubba Cunningham and John Preyer some questions after UNC's loss to Clemson.

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

Knives out from the flagship station of the Tar Heel Sports Network

97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 5d

As bad as UNC looked Saturday against Clemson, the result could be even worse in the long term. A frightening prospect, to be sure.

Chapelboro’s Michael Koh looks ahead at the potential impacts of UNC’s poor performance against the Tigers.

UNC Football's Mixed Messaging is its Latest Embarrassment of 2025 - Chapelboro.com

The messaging from UNC's general manager and its coaches and players isn't lining up. Something is rotten in Chapel Hill.

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

When do the Fire Belichick billboards and banner planes start showing up in Chapel Hill?

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

Chapel Hill is anti-growth for sure but it’s also unique to a lot of these cities in that most of those are growing through annexation and Chapel Hill is boxed in on all sides and has few annexation options left, not that I think that’s a good solution either

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

Kannapolis is at 60,500 will pass Chapel Hill in next few years too.

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

Makes sense. I’ve got lots of issues with Bluesky but it’s mostly that it sucks at product development in a timely manner. This seems like a minor issue compared to its others

Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 4d

I tried to follow this controversy but I can’t wrap my head around it yet and I’m pretty online

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 5d

The lawmaker accused of diluting the votes of Appalachian State students was honored in 2024 as a Distinguished Alumni of … Appalachian State www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-voters...

Why do voters at Appalachian State keep getting picked on?

A new lawsuit is trying to overturn state laws that made it harder for students in Boone to have a voice in county politics. Who created those laws? A proud and powerful App State grad, that's who.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 5d

That this is not only considered implausible, but that nobody in the top echelons of Congress (in either party!) will even consider being gauche enough to say the i-word, is the surest sign that the entire federal legislative branch has declared bankruptcy as a going concern.

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 5d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.