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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/

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Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 2w ago

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...

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 · 3w ago

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/

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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Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 4w ago

"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.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last mo.

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

FIGURE 2 Open in figure viewer PowerPoint 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.
Andy Lee, PhD@andylee.bsky.social · last mo.

In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)

Tom Holub@bike-lab.org · last mo.

"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."

Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · last mo.

An Oakland schoolteacher on Mac Barnett's “Make Believe” and the good books her young readers deserve: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/mac-barnett-...

tschuy 🏳️‍🌈@tsch.uy · last mo.

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.

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.