Andrew Alden
@andrewalden.bsky.social
Oakland flâneur, fonefoto pleasure sharer, sidewalk geek (oaklandunderfoot.com), transit rider, WELL member, occasional geowriter (deepoakland.com). He/him/houyhnhnm Geology talk on my hardcore account geology.bsky.social
Hey @oaklandside.org , why can't you get email newsletter subscriptions working??
This review got us there today. What a wonderful experience.
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · last wk."If you take out the more ponderous historical flourishes, what’s left is a good-versus-evil quest in the shape of a superhero story. What genre better lends itself to comic deconstruction? Stickann thought of Ben Edlund’s parodic superhero the Tick..." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/when-opera-c...
Couple l33t bicyclists discussing how to crash against cars like skiers vs moguls. Cars suck for everybody.
Dems take note
Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti)@krveale.bsky.social · last wk.You know how I wasn't going into detail about how good the Greens political communication strategy has been and why? I CHANGED MY MIND. The umbrella under which everything else fits is that the Greens understand the mainstream media landscape is hostile to them, and act accordingly. 1/? #nzpol
the true protagonist of On the Calculation of Volume is the urban public transit system
Every time I buy a pair of walking shoes, the next day they've wandered off.
New bios for Gardner E. Marshall (oaklandunderfoot.com/2008/08/23/g...) and J. A. Marshall II (oaklandunderfoot.com/2010/04/25/j...)
Gardner E. Marshall
24 Eucalyptus Road This is one of the fancier stamps you’ll see. Gardner Elliot Marshall (1898-1975) was the son of concrete contractor John A. Marshall and brother of architect-contractor Jo…
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This week's net.wars, "How the other half scams", reads and reviews Soumya Goupta's new book probing India's scam economy, Bharat Bluff: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/07/17/h....
How the other half scams
Years ago, when landlines were still common and Internet shopping was not, I got a phone call from a policeman, who said he was in Selfridges and did I know whe
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Thank goodness they're all retired, but if not I'd just hang in there until the November election doing as little as possible.
Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w agoThought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?
TFW NIMBYs accidentally advocate for protected bike lanes
Opening July 18 at Gray Loft Gallery, Jingletown, Oakland, Surface Tension invites viewers to experience water in its many forms – serene and turbulent, reflective and mysterious, life-giving and transformative. I'll have two pieces there, including this one. www.grayloftgallery.com
Beginning Monday, July 20, BART will begin to run some longer trains on the Red, Yellow, Blue and Green lines during peak commute hours with some shorter trains running during non-peak hours and on the Orange Line.
Wrote up a quick anti-patriotic vibe report about seeing the USA lose to Mother Belgium yesterday: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/do-all-the-p...
Do all the places that show World Cup get their flag streamers at the same place?
At least they seem to at the humiliating defeat of the USA by Belgium at Mad Oak and Speisekammer, yesterday.
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Today is the 167th anniversary of the first sign that bankrupted businessman Joshua Norton had gone a bit funny – because he published in a San Francisco newspaper a 58-word manifesto for the United States, and then declared himself US Emperor two months later 🧵
