Tom Holub
@bike-lab.org
@oaklandbikelab elsewhere. Bicyclist, unicyclist, mobility justice advocate. Generally unpopular opinions about urbanism, often including data.
Skepticism is my beat.
https://bike-lab.org/
https://bayareabikerides.net/
https://totallydoable.com/
Skepticism is my beat.
https://bike-lab.org/
https://bayareabikerides.net/
https://totallydoable.com/
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The Bike Lab visits Anacostia - Bike Lab
In my series on neighborhood change along streets named for MLK, Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood was identified as notable; between 2000 and 2017, Anacostia saw Black population increase, wh...
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The Bike Lab visited the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to follow up on some analysis I'd done in 2018. The bicycle is my data gathering tool, so I rode through to learn more. I found a community actively resisting gentrification and displacement.
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And here we are: Lake Temescal, its human story and its geological problems
Lake Temescal
I’ve written before about the rocks around Lake Temescal, but not about the lake — the reservoir — itself. It was the East Bay’s first meaningful impoundment of drinking wat…
oaklandgeology.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
And here we are: Lake Temescal, its human story and its geological problems
This makes sense when I think about it, but, damn.
~1/4 of all public transit trips in the US are on the NYC subway!
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This makes sense when I think about it, but, damn.
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Silence from the recall-adjacent and anti-Price media. Under Jones-Dickson, immigrant victims of crime are stone-walled with extra-legal requests for social security and tax info when they apply for victim's services. Jones Dickson has refused to respond
Víctimas de crímenes denuncian obstáculos para recibir ayuda económica en el condado Alameda
Santos Ruíz García recibió 7 impactos de bala durante un robo y hasta el momento, según él, no ha recibido la ayuda correspondiente.
www.telemundoareadelabahia.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Silence from the recall-adjacent and anti-Price media. Under Jones-Dickson, immigrant victims of crime are stone-walled with extra-legal requests for social security and tax info when they apply for victim's services. Jones Dickson has refused to respond
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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A lot of people need to read this.
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A lot of people need to read this.
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Bike Lab visited the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to follow up on some analysis I'd done in 2018. The bicycle is my data gathering tool, so I rode through to learn more. I found a community actively resisting gentrification and displacement.
bike-lab.org/2025/11/25/t...
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The Bike Lab visits Anacostia - Bike Lab
In my series on neighborhood change along streets named for MLK, Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood was identified as notable; between 2000 and 2017, Anacostia saw Black population increase, wh...
bike-lab.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Bike Lab visited the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to follow up on some analysis I'd done in 2018. The bicycle is my data gathering tool, so I rode through to learn more. I found a community actively resisting gentrification and displacement.
bike-lab.org/2025/11/25/t...
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bike-lab.org/2025/11/25/t...
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Note to Cal: Please don't hire the literal definition of a mediocre white guy (career coaching record 33-33) who also happens to be an anti-vaxxer and probable MAGA dude. #gobearsmaybe
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Note to Cal: Please don't hire the literal definition of a mediocre white guy (career coaching record 33-33) who also happens to be an anti-vaxxer and probable MAGA dude. #gobearsmaybe
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OAKLAND!!! ICE IS AT HOOVER ELEMENTARY NOW!!!
"ICE reported present outside Hoover elementary school, 890 Brockhurst Street in Oakland, rapid responders are at the school confirming and observing.
Need people there at 1PM."
Vetted by IndivisibleSF.org
#Oakland #HooverElementary #IceKidNapping
"ICE reported present outside Hoover elementary school, 890 Brockhurst Street in Oakland, rapid responders are at the school confirming and observing.
Need people there at 1PM."
Vetted by IndivisibleSF.org
#Oakland #HooverElementary #IceKidNapping
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
OAKLAND!!! ICE IS AT HOOVER ELEMENTARY NOW!!!
"ICE reported present outside Hoover elementary school, 890 Brockhurst Street in Oakland, rapid responders are at the school confirming and observing.
Need people there at 1PM."
Vetted by IndivisibleSF.org
#Oakland #HooverElementary #IceKidNapping
"ICE reported present outside Hoover elementary school, 890 Brockhurst Street in Oakland, rapid responders are at the school confirming and observing.
Need people there at 1PM."
Vetted by IndivisibleSF.org
#Oakland #HooverElementary #IceKidNapping
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ICE activity confirmed near Hoover Elementary in West Oakland. license plate looks like 304072. Stay safe #Oakland, and let's keep out communities safe #AbolishICE #NoICEInOakland
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ICE activity confirmed near Hoover Elementary in West Oakland. license plate looks like 304072. Stay safe #Oakland, and let's keep out communities safe #AbolishICE #NoICEInOakland
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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The fight for the release of the Epstein files is not just another political flashpoint. It is a reminder of how this country repeatedly fails women and girls who were harmed in plain sight. Republicans and Democrats alike must meet this moment with courage and longstanding commitments to do better.
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The fight for the release of the Epstein files is not just another political flashpoint. It is a reminder of how this country repeatedly fails women and girls who were harmed in plain sight. Republicans and Democrats alike must meet this moment with courage and longstanding commitments to do better.
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This is a lovely color tool: colorpalette.pro
…and also a reminder of the era—not that long ago!—when most software looked something like this. It was beautiful to behold and lovely to use. This was taken from us for entirely dubious reasons, but driven people like Ryan can still do it.
…and also a reminder of the era—not that long ago!—when most software looked something like this. It was beautiful to behold and lovely to use. This was taken from us for entirely dubious reasons, but driven people like Ryan can still do it.
Color Palette Pro — A Synthesizer for Color Palettes
Generate customizable color palettes in advanced color spaces that can be easily shared, downloaded, or exported.
colorpalette.pro
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is a lovely color tool: colorpalette.pro
…and also a reminder of the era—not that long ago!—when most software looked something like this. It was beautiful to behold and lovely to use. This was taken from us for entirely dubious reasons, but driven people like Ryan can still do it.
…and also a reminder of the era—not that long ago!—when most software looked something like this. It was beautiful to behold and lovely to use. This was taken from us for entirely dubious reasons, but driven people like Ryan can still do it.
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West limb of the Sun: magnetic loops, dancing filaments, M3.1 flare, brightening, post-eruptive arcades, coronal rain
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
West limb of the Sun: magnetic loops, dancing filaments, M3.1 flare, brightening, post-eruptive arcades, coronal rain
We rode the GAP/C&O Canal to DC, which was nice but not adventurous. So from there I decided to ride up to New York to visit family and friends. Solo trip with a mix of lodging and camping. inl.org/cycling/trip...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
We rode the GAP/C&O Canal to DC, which was nice but not adventurous. So from there I decided to ride up to New York to visit family and friends. Solo trip with a mix of lodging and camping. inl.org/cycling/trip...
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Just wondering, why Charlotte? Is he pissed at something BofA did to him?
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just wondering, why Charlotte? Is he pissed at something BofA did to him?
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
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New blog post on one of Oakland's (actually Piedmont's) more dramatic rock quarries
Life and afterlife of the Dimond Canyon quarry
Park Boulevard sweeps through steep, rocky Dimond Canyon with just one isolated, incongruous building along the way: a big church in a space carved out of the cliff. That hole in the wall is a form…
oaklandgeology.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
New blog post on one of Oakland's (actually Piedmont's) more dramatic rock quarries
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The sheer amount of organized labor backing for the Arms Embargo is impressive, airport workers, dock workers, service workers, nurses, professors. Media is going to have to start paying attention to this soon--and the Port will have to respond.
The Alameda Labor Council has endorsed the Oakland People's Arms Embargo at the Oakland airport!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The sheer amount of organized labor backing for the Arms Embargo is impressive, airport workers, dock workers, service workers, nurses, professors. Media is going to have to start paying attention to this soon--and the Port will have to respond.
"there's a simple, low-tech way to avoid the AV striking either the oncoming car or the cyclist. And that's removing the AV...from the equation entirely — by putting the cyclist in a protected lane."
"Protected" lanes provide zero protection when the cyclist is blowing a red light (this scenario).
"Protected" lanes provide zero protection when the cyclist is blowing a red light (this scenario).
Wrote about Waymo's co-CEO acknowledging that even she thinks traffic violence is inevitable, what's wrong with aiming for "fewer" road deaths rather than demanding zero, and the way automobility limits our imagination and our empathy.
The False 'Trolley Problem' At the Heart of the Autonomous Vehicle Debate — Streetsblog USA
Waymo said it has a "plan" for when one of the company's cars kills someone. But we should be planning for a world when no car kills anyone — autonomous or not.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
"there's a simple, low-tech way to avoid the AV striking either the oncoming car or the cyclist. And that's removing the AV...from the equation entirely — by putting the cyclist in a protected lane."
"Protected" lanes provide zero protection when the cyclist is blowing a red light (this scenario).
"Protected" lanes provide zero protection when the cyclist is blowing a red light (this scenario).
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...