Timothy Gerla

@tybstar.bsky.social

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Chapel Hill, NC. he/him

Tall trees with distinctive small leaves (Tree of Heaven) outlined with a black marker.
A forest trail, pine trees in the background, and two dogs, a black flat coated retriever (down ears) and a tan and yellow mutt of various pit bull and husky genetics (up ears) .
A ridiculously long context menu from Apple Notes. It has 15 sections, 11 submenus, and 28 top-level items.
A skinny brown coyote staring at the camera. Green scrubby forest with some mowed paths.
A tan dog with black facial markings on a dark grey carpet. Her face is nestled in her paws and her tail is off to the left. Behind are gray and red pieces of furniture.
Mountain laurel buds. Starting to get very pink.
Your Delta E (OK) JND is 0.0025
A tan dog with up ears, sitting on a red rug, with front paws crossed in a fancy manner.
"What to expect" Starting February 15, users will be prompted to reset their password on next login to meet the new security requirements. Future password resets will be required every 90 days for all account types."
A "praying" televangelist on TV captioned, saying "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me." but with "other people" covered up by "Illinois" and "me" covered up by "North Carolina"
A photo of three small trees, the top, a green holly, the middle, a bright yellow (probably hickory), and a red shrub of some kind. The colors are lined up like a stoplight.
A ginko tree with bright yellow-green leaves, backlit. Some brown vines drape down in the foreground.
A diagram of a 3 by 3 by 9 foot pile of logs, illustrated using golden retriever dogs for scale.
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 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 stem of a flower stalk. At the end of the stalk appears to be a clustered dome of small white flowers. The dome is maybe a couple of inches in diameter. At the base of the plant, strappy narrow leaves. There are some other plants on the ground, as well as some bare earth.
Large, round or oval shaped green leaves in the foreground, with small, 5-petaled dark maroon flowers. It seems to be a vine, climbing up a small tan stem of another plant. In the background, more green plants and perhaps some sticks and small tree limbs.
A scrappy young pine forest, the forest floor is on fire on the right hand side. Downed saplings and pine needles and ferns on the left.
A medium distance photo of several humans standing around a vehicle, chatting. They are wearing yellow. In the foreground are green plants, grasses, shrubs. The people and vehicle are framed by two dark tree trunks in the foreground.
A photo of a very large moth, a Callosamia angulifera (tulip tree silkmoth), mostly black in the center, with prominent fuzzy antennae (a boy?), and lighter gray and cream colored fringes on the edges of the wings.
A photo taken from a car, on the road, a four lane boulevard with a grass median. In the distance, plumes of gray smoke are visible.
A lot of protesters holding signs, many wearing hats.
A path in the forest, leaf-blown down to bare earth, with some clumps of grasses and other plants.
A 4-wheeled tow-behind mower painted gray (but covered in leaves and pollen already), with wheels mounted on rails above the mower deck. In the background are young pine trees and brush.
A sign in a bathroom, dark blue background, red and white text that says "Please DO NOT drink and/or bathe in here", with an arrow pointing to the toilet.
A big map of soil types in NC.
A photo of a tire with large treads, the deep portions of the tread have a light colored beige/yellow clay, and the raised portions are covered in red clay.
A close up photo, the left hand side is a gray rock with lots of little gray dots on it. The dots have a thin darker outline. There is moss on the right hand side of the photo. It is mostly yellowish green and brown.
The leaves of an early Buckeyes (Aesculus) plan starting to open.
A pine forest with a small fire creeping along the ground. On the left, a black dog and a human wearing teal and green, holding a bright red drip torch.
A black dog wearing a fluorescent orange and yellow safety vest, standing at a jaunty angle with a ball in her mouth. The background is brown, pine trees and pine needles on the forest floor.
A photo of a forest, on the left, a some very young pines with a more established windbreak of older pines in the distance. On the left, a deciduous forest in the winter. In the center of the image, the lights of a small red utility vehicle as it climbs the hill towards the camera. The sky is clear and bright blue, and there's a bit of a lens flare in the upper-right corner from the sun.
A two-frame animated GIF showing a before and after of a path being widened. On the left is a young pine forest. On the right, an older forest.
We are looking down a dirt road with young pine trees on both sides. Along the left-hand side of the road, there is a narrow line of fire, burning grass and pine needles. In the distance, maybe 100 feet away, you can see a two people, one wearing a yellow coat and holding a drip torch, dropping fire as she goes. The other guy is wearing an orange cap.
A picture of a young pine forest with a road cutting through. The trees are densely planted on both sides, only a narrow beam of sunlight cuts through the trees on the left side of the trail.
A picture of a dog with black fur, sitting in the sun, on a colorful carpet with houseplants in the background.
A small Eastern newt in its red eft form, bright orange, on a wet dark pavement surface.
The "Baton Roue/Bike Fall" meme", three panels, first panel is a man on bicycle holding a stick, second panel is man shoving the stick through his spokes, third panel is man lying on the ground crying "Democrats aren't uploading the norms of the institution..." trailing off.