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Tom Holub

@bike-lab.org
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@oaklandbikelab elsewhere. Bicyclist, unicyclist, mobility justice advocate. Generally unpopular opinions about urbanism, often including data. Skepticism is my beat. bike-lab.org bayareabikerides.net totallydoable.com

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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 2026 @valencia4actransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Folks of Bluesky: election day is in 35 days and I'm trying to reach as many people as possible across Oakland, Alameda, and Piedmont. I'm running for @rideact.bsky.social board of directors on a platform of reliability, affordability, and agency transparency. I have two requests! 1/x
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 23/09/2026
Thanks to @oaklandreviewofbooks.org I learned about an amazing book signing at Pegasus in Berkeley: a graphic novel from Oaklander Frederick Noland, about Major Taylor, "the world's fastest man" around the turn of the 20th century. Check it out. drawnandquarterly.com/author/fred-...
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Frederick Noland – Drawn & Quarterly
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 21/09/2026
That's some bullshit.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 21/09/2026
>someone donates $5k to local homeless shelter >inefficient >could have funded 0.0000000000003% of an AI governance researcher >think of all the simulated people you just killed
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 19/09/2026
@ebbp.bsky.social, The Fire Ride. RIP Dolly. Love for Disco Inferno, Gwen McCrae, Pointer Sisters (Best in set!), the Temptations. Good timing on the 924 Gilman set, love for Rancid from the crowd. Skatalites, Ohio Players, Jungle Fire, BOC; great theme for music! open.spotify.com/playlist/7FL...
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2026-09 (The Fire Ride)
Beautiful night in Berkeley and Oakland. RIP Dolly. Great sound in the first set; love for Disco Inferno, Gwen McCrae, Pointer Sisters (Best in set!), the Temptations. Good timing on the 924 Gilman se...
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 14/09/2026
Over this period, the city added 50K people, and 75K housing units.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 12/09/2026
"It’s objectively embarrassing to be the target audience for a nostalgia tour"
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Talked to @wired.com about a bunch of things, including: r/bald, Bluesky, Elon ruining twitter, why I live the inbox zero life, LLMs, and more. Here it is: www.wired.com/story/user-b...
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Want to Get Off Your Phone? Mina Kimes Suggests Having a Baby
“I think that's been the most helpful thing,” says the ESPN journalist. “So there you go, Zoomers. There's a reason to have children.”
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bootsriley.bsky.social @bootsriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This location was written into the script & a photo of it sent around. This was the spot back in the day that we always went to after going to Eastmont Mall, or later when I worked at Eastmont Mall. Unfortunately, right before we shot there, some asshole went & covered up all the beautiful graffiti.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 04/09/2026
"No one doesn’t call it Frisco as much as someone who’s moved here in the last ten years and passionately longs to upzone the Outer Sunset."
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 30/08/2026
This is the story of a petplay kink event with trial coverage wrapped around it.
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The billionaires’ duel at the courthouse
Musk v. Altman v. Oakland.
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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 04/08/2026
I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev
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Amtrak Bicycle Access
Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 01/08/2026
With Ross Douthat leaving the Times, the SF Chronicle sees its opening to be named the worst editorial board in the US. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
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Endorsement: Ben Allen for California insurance commissioner
OPINION: In a race with no Republican, some California voters may see an opportunity to take a chance on a radical candidate for state insurance commissioner. That would be a terrible mistake.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
finally, the Democratic party has a plan.
An email from Democrats.org that just says, "we're getting hammered"
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 30/07/2026
My rep remains undefeated as the best in Congress.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 30/07/2026
Thinking about what Star Wars character matches Tr*mp and it has to be Jabba the Hut.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 29/07/2026
The first McDonalds in Oakland and the building Boots Riley used as Jackie's Chicken in *I Love Boosters*: "Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
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Dead at McDonald's
Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 29/07/2026
SF Chronicle gets a leg up in the Worst Editorial Commentary competition.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 27/07/2026
Like the Segway, a stupid product hyped by out-of-touch billionaires will find a niche market in mall cops.
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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the AC Transit Board Item #4 tonight at 5pm to accept a report so flatly undemocratic and likely illegal it boggles the mind. Follow the agenda link so you can dial into the Zoom and raise your hand to make a two-minute public comment, maybe 1 minute! actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=... 1/x
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 20/07/2026
My notes from Bike!Bike! West, a regional version of an international conference for community bicycle projects, organized here in Oakland this year by my colleague July. It was fun, and very relevant to my work with community-based bike orgs. bike-lab.org/2026/07/20/b... 1/
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Bike!Bike! West 2026 - Bike Lab
I had the pleasure of participating in Bike!Bike! West 2026, a conference of community-based and co-op bike organizations that I’d been unaware of until my friend and colleague July decided to take on...
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 20/07/2026
Apparently the job of bike infrastructure is to damage cars and injure drivers.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"meeting people where they are" means you have to accept that they sincerely believe what they believe. It does NOT mean that you have to pretend to agree with their beliefs. In fact, you must be honest when you don't. Grown ups have to deal with people who don't agree with them all of the time.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/07/2026
A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY
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What is there to say about Lindsay Graham?
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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
living through a period defined by the ability of Republicans to create their voters through sheer ideological coercion and then concluding this can only be explained by habitually drinking furniture polish
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2026
My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.
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Operational biological sex definitions applied to hummingbirds (Bleiweiss 1992; Bleiweiss 1999; Bleiweiss 2001; Diamant et al. 2021; Falk et al. 2022; Falk et al. 2021) where sex is operationally defined by binary plumage phenotypes in the field. Each row depicts a wild individual hummingbird with morphological traits (beak length, plumage coloration), behavioural traits (territoriality) and their unobserved gamete type. This example illustrates how the same individual can be operationally defined as one sex in the field (based on external phenotypes) but classified as a different sex based on their gametes (which cannot be easily observed in the field), highlighting how definitional choices shape scientific reporting of sex.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 10/07/2026
"We want kids to be able to read so that they too can get lost in a book like many of us once were, transformed by the characters and adventures they meet along the page. Learning to read can and should be fun, and we need books that let kids experience the beauty of that for themselves."
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 09/07/2026
Storm Large at her best. I was at this show; video recorded on an old-school hand cam. The brilliance of this is she gets the audience to sing all the bad lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGqY...
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Storm Large-"Total Eclipse of the Heart"+"More than a Feeling"(intro)-4/20/13-Mill Valley
YouTube video by Em Hiker Chick
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i can all but guarantee you there are other women out there who have been sick to their stomachs for 24 straight hours praying that this will be enough. hoping like hell they won't have to rustle up their own traumas for an angry, hateful audience
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 07/07/2026
Something optimistic for you today: An interview with Understory, a worker-owned restaurant in Oakland, on how they manage to survive a cutthroat industry with their values intact. www.coyotemedia.org/understory-o...
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How a Worker-Owned Restaurant Chose Each Other Over Everything Else
Oakland’s Understory wants you to come for the political mission AND the great food.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It wasn’t chess. It was common fucking sense! It was having values and sticking to them!
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Mair Dundon @quietaction.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Great @coyotemedia.org article today on the Oakland worker-owned restaurant Understory. A real world learning of collective creative organizing and business. Heartening! www.coyotemedia.org/understory-o...
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How a Worker-Owned Restaurant Chose Each Other Over Everything Else
Oakland’s Understory wants you to come for the political mission AND the great food.
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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 01/07/2026
Not every day that I get to see my own name appear in my inbox! This month's Cal-ITP Benefits newsletter highlighted my and @awalkerinla.bsky.social 's posts about the launch of tap-to-pay in LA, the context around it, and the lack of reduced-fare options in the major deployments.
Screenshot of Cal-ITP Benefits newsletter that mentions two posts
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 26/06/2026
Awesome that ORB covered Bike!Bike! West. I wasn't available to do this ride, unfortunately, but I've done similar urban geography tours in West Oakland.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What an honor! I don't have words.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/06/2026
The crowd in that room ROARED when he said "They are the same job."
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026
“anti-Western civilisation” is one hell of a tell if you ask me.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
yesterday, jonathan greenblatt of the ADL claimed 85% of jews support israel. it was a claim that was so obviously bogus on its face, but then completely blown out of the water when the most jewish district in the country picked a progressive jew over a pro-israel one. don’t tell us what we believe.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 23/06/2026
Expedition to Camp Tamarancho for a MUni training ride. Possibly the first unicycle descent of the new Caballo Rojo trail. #muni #unicycle #camptamarancho berkeleyunicycling.org/2026/06/23/n...
A mountain unicyclist rides through a redwood forest on a course with a tall berm. The unicyclist is speed-blurred as he rides high on the berm.
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PatsE @pkayecreative.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes!! Scraper bikes present Burning Man ethos in the so-called Default World, which everyone knows is in #Oakland. Debating whether to show this video to my nephews ahead of our bike decoration pre-party on the Fourth 🇺🇸
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The Original Scraper Bike Team @scraperbiketeam.com · 23/06/2026
Trunk Boiz back on the street! #oakland #hyphy oaklandside.org/2026/06/22/2...
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Nearly 20 years after 'Scraper Bike,' the Trunk Boiz are back
The legendary Oakland rap group has dropped a new album with rising local artist Seiji Oda. It’s a match made in hyphy heaven.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yes it IS embarrassing actually to be hard-wired to sexually desire your oppressor class! The solution isn’t to defend female heterosexuality, it’s to dismantle the patriarchy! Jesus christ!
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 19/06/2026
Announcement for those working in comms for small orgs and scheduling your email blasts for 10:00 AM on Tuesday: Apparently some comms consulting firm has determined that 4:00 PM on Thursday also works.
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 18/06/2026
A Piedmont-raised political activist is building a network of websites and AI-generated social media accounts blasting progressive politicians.
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Who’s behind the website targeting Oakland’s mayor
A Piedmont-raised political activist is building a network of websites and AI-generated social media accounts blasting progressive politicians.
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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am often referred to as a disability activist or advocate and despite years of telling people that I don’t consider myself either of those, the miscategorization/mischaracterization persists. So I figured it was time to suggest an alternative. open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...
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I am not a disability activist or advocate.
I am often referred to as a disability activist or advocate and despite years of telling people that I don’t consider myself either of those, the miscategorization/mischaracterization persists.
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 15/06/2026
Of interest to @tsch.uy: Crip-sourcing park access. "Paratransit will drop off passengers 0.7 miles from public transit stops, but only at established addresses. Paratransit riders also have to book by 5pm the day prior." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/crip-sourcin...
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Crip-sourcing park access
Masks, power chairs, maps, and organizing: Berkeley, May 6.
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