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Of course the North Carolina company whose CEO had an affair with and married his CFO after divorcing his wife describes itself as a faith-driven company striving “to honor God…”

But that marriage began to crumble in September 2023, when Todd Gaines accidentally sent his wife a text message intended for Susan Cribbs while the couple were on a beach vacation.

“Susan, are you alone? ❤️❤️,” the text message read, according to the complaint.

Jan Poole replied, “This is your wife, why are you sending her hearts?”

When Poole attempted to get answers from her then-husband, he would only cry and deny the affair, her lawsuit alleges.

About two weeks later, it states, Todd Gaines accidentally called Poole while he was at work, and she overheard him telling Cribbs he loved her.

The incident rocked the Gaineses’ 10-year marriage, according to the lawsuit. The couple married in 2013, and Poole helped raise Gaines’ three children from a previous relationship, her suit states. During that time, she also helped run Gaines Oil Co., also known as GOC.

The company, which has been in Todd Gaines’ family for three generations, has been named by the Triangle Business Journal as a “Fast 50 Awards” recipient. It handles fuel deliveries and quality management locally and nationally, according to its website, which describes GOC as a faith-driven company striving “to honor God through the quality of our work and the care we show to our customers and community.”

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 30/09/2026

I set up an email just for political donations, have all that email filtered into one folder, and never look at it. I have it empty itself once emails are 60 days old and the folder has > 5,000 unread emails.

Graphic showing 5,541 unread emails in the "Politics" folder

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 25/09/2026

7:30 pm forecast. Should be fine!

Weather map showing a lot of rain coming later today into the Boston area

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 20/09/2026

Solid location for a sponsored link in the @newsobserver.com story about NC State’s ridiculous loss. www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...

A game the Wolfpack (Shopping Cart Icon Wolfpack Gear) had never trailed — and led by as many as 17 twice — was now essentially over. Vanderbilt had to prevent one more desperation play — which it did.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 15/09/2026

Increasingly I grow more pleased that I have an EV and invested in this

Graphic showing 5 kW hours of solar with 4.2 kW being dumped into a battery

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 15/09/2026

meanwhile, on a separate, we’ve got one of those very annoying petitions that seek “direct responses” to important policy questions, including “What evidence is there to support these positions?” (because changing the status quo needs copious documentation) chapelboro.com/town-square/...

As no information produced by the staff addresses this major policy change, we ask you, the policy makers, to answer a few straightforward questions. These questions are not “technical” in any way. We are seeking answers from the policy makers, not the staff charged with implementing them. The Mayor made clear in her email to me of 6/18/26 that ,“Council provides policy direction, and staff carry out that direction.” No staff member would have included a modification to our LUMO with such immediate and far reaching implications without specific policy direction from the Town Council (TC) to so. The TC would not have formulated this policy without having considered the information necessary to justify it.

We are seeking direct responses to following questions from the folks who formulated this policy change as well as the facts and information they considered

1- What were the problems with the existing limit of four unrelated persons residing in a dwelling unit (“4 person cap”) that warranted their proposed modification?

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 14/09/2026

Go to Settings->Keyboard->Text Replacement and delete this line which I think is added by default

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 11/09/2026

When one of your local NIMBYs writes an op-ed piece and it sounds different from his previous pieces and you run it through pangram and you don't necessarily trust pangram but this seems right... ;

pangram report that 100% of the text in a document (1,418 words) is AI

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 11/08/2026

Bad accident at NC 54 and Burning tree Road in @chapelhillgov.bsky.social. Traffic impacted in both directions. Cc @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social

Photo of a car on its side after a crash

Photo of the street after debris was cleaned up

Photo of a fire truck halfway in an intersection

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 14/07/2026

Former DC mayor Marion Berry followed like 350 people on twitter and for some unknown reason I was one of them

Screenshot of an email reporting that Marion Berry was following me on twitter.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 19/06/2026

Obviously starting from a very low level, but this line go up from the Cane Creek monitoring station is good to see waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-l...

Graph showing impact of rainfall on Cane Creek height

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 17/06/2026

Reflecting pool is looking great today and no doubt whatever they're doing over there is going to clean it right up!

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 10/06/2026

Spot-on response to this dystopian feature

comment from Codiusprime, a Verge subscriber: “This is great, famously one of the worst things about being a parent is bonding with your children over a bed time story.”

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 08/06/2026

Excited for the first meeting of the UNC Carolina North Stakeholder Advisory Committee but also praying that the meeting # reflects that this is the first meeting of the year, and not the total number of meetings.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride, especially to all the haters!

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 30/05/2026

#nottheonion New Townhomes in Chapel Hill Weavers Grove Neighborhood to be Named for Pope Leo XIV by @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social

Photo of Pope Leo XIV with the text in the post posted by WCHL Chapelboro on instagram

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 28/05/2026

My phone had not updated so I have an example of what the standard site link card looks like before (left) and after (right) the Bluesky app update.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 18/05/2026

I wouldn’t have known to get my wife this book for Mothers Day if not for bluesky!

Cover of The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook by David Perry

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 09/05/2026

Per the NC Sierra Club, NC bill H369, which eliminates off-street minimum parking requirements statewide and provides more local flexibility to enhance stormwater requirements, is on the move again and up for Senate committee hearings! @siegman.biz www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/202...

PART I. PROHIBITING CERTAIN ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITATIONS
RELATED TO OFF-STREET PARKING
SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 160D-702 reads as rewritten:
"§ 160D-702. Grant of power.
…
(c) A zoning or other development regulation shall not do any of the following:
(1) Set a minimum square footage of any structures subject to regulation under the North Carolina Residential Code.
(2) Require a an off-street parking space to be larger than 9 feet wide by 20 feet long unless the parking space is designated for handicap, parallel, or diagonal parking.
(2a) Require an off-street parking lot to meet a minimum number of parking spaces per development or structure, regardless of occupancy or use.
(3) Require additional fire apparatus access roads into developments of one- or

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 06/05/2026

You can get season tickets to the Defending ACC Champion (TM) Duke Blue Devils football games for as low as $162

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 06/05/2026

Recent stories from @triangleblogblog.bsky.social on 1) proposal to end contributions from Orange County to the @chapelhillgov.bsky.social library budget, 2) rejection of a proposal to cut down the size of Chapel Hill's Town Council, and 3) proposed state ebike legislation triangleblogblog.com

Image of the Triangle Blog Blog home page as of today, because the card it brings up is very old

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 24/04/2026

Already gave but matching this shit! @brianstraw.bsky.social And was just at Wash U for my wife's reunion, so go... no idea what their mascot is. www.edsbscharitybowl.com

Donation receipt for $10.23 for www.edsbscharitybowl.com directed at Wash U. with the reason being "Fuck ICE."

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 23/04/2026

Mildly insane set of window stickers and bumper stickers on this car I saw this evening.

Bumper sticker with a picture of a red pick up truck diagonally in the middle of the road and a woman in the bottom right with a thought bubble with a fish in it and text that reads “Imagine a TRUCK that’ll HIT YOU if you even THINK about FISH”

Bumper sticker showing the ColorSource Family that is supposed to be like those stickers on the back of a car that list family members but it has odd drawings and the text under each is:

Spot “Spotty”
Spot Jr “Spotty Jr”
Par “Parlene”
CYC “Wally”
Linear “Linus”

I can’t even begin to describe those drawings

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 20/04/2026

Yes, $94.81 is not meaningful to Protect Trans Kids University, but it is still a very acceptable amount for Tar Heel fans. channel-6.ghost.io/the-2026-eds...

Picture of someone (I should know who) over which is the text "New American Pathways, Thanks Geoffrey! Your card on Apple Pay has been billed $97.33"

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 12/04/2026

Looking forward to singing these songs definitely from these classic shows.

Photograph of a poster for Pop Up Chorus Broadway! a community song-along that lists the songs

Season of Love
from Chicago

All that Jazz
from Rent

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 09/04/2026

It’s why I was surprised to return to Brookline and see this corner triangle gas station that was across the street from my apartment redevelop into a hotel.

Photo of a gas station taken from a Google Street View car. There is a tree in the sidewalk on the left, and a gas station canopy on the site, with lots of asphalt and some parked cars.

A Hilton Garden Inn hotel on the same site, with eight stories of rooms.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 07/04/2026

Please clap for my tournament bracket excellence

Screenshot showing my 2026 ESPN Tournament Challenge NCAA Tournament bracket “Geoff’s a winner” ranked 310k, in the 98.9th percentile, and scored 1,400 points.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 06/04/2026

I feel blessed! Also, triangleblogblog.com/2023/06/14/e...

Photo of an e-bike on a sidewalk, just sitting there, waiting to be ridden

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 10/03/2026

I’ve heard gas prices have risen dramatically? Huh.

Photo of an EV (Hyundai Ioniq 6) charging at night on a Level 2 charger.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 08/03/2026

I think there should be a slide to the ground from a window in each unit, for maximum safety.

Norman Rockwell unpopular opinion painting

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 08/03/2026

I find these “gone too soon” covers odd. When Robert Duvall died, did the People cover say “A Beloved Star Gone When He Should Have, More or Less”?

Cover of people magazine in a magazine rack with a photo of James Van Deer Beek with the headline “A Beloved Star Gone Too Soon”

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 05/03/2026

Flying around a thunderstorm at 24,000 feet

Large storm cloud photographed from an airplane; part of the engine is visible in the bottom right of the frame.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 04/02/2026

I was offered $29/year, no disclaimer regarding personal data

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 03/02/2026

Only 1.6 seconds left, but you’ve gotta block out!

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 31/01/2026

The name “Madison” was not in the SSA top 1,000 names list for years. In 1984, the movie Splash came out and the mermaid main character named herself Madison after seeing the street sign. In 1985 the name was ranked 625 in popularity, 107 in 1992, 10 in 1997, and was top 10 through 2015 1/2

Bar chart showing popularity of the name, Madison and how it was not among the Social Security administration top 1000 names until 1986.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 25/01/2026

Careful if you're out on the road, North Carolina. #snOMG (FWIW, I haven't seen or heard a single car drive by my house in the 2+ hours I've been awake. Did see a jogger though?!)

Google Maps image of traffic conditions in the Raleigh/Durham are showing yellow on most interstates

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 23/01/2026

Awew, thanks @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, I know you mean it! (And thanks @glennf.com—book looks great!)

Photo of the signature page of tom tomorrow’s book “Our Long National Nightmare” with the note “To Geoff, my favorite reader! :) Tom Tomorrow” which I may have written.

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 21/01/2026

you don't see a couple hundred of these?

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