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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Tom Holub
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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
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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One useful thing Hollywood could do is to respond to this for real how it deserves but I don't think they will because they're rich and weak too
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One useful thing Hollywood could do is to respond to this for real how it deserves but I don't think they will because they're rich and weak too
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it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong
On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
@ebbp.bsky.social #bikeparty, Christmas K-Pop Demon Hunters. Includes requests from a friend's daughter in a Rumi wig.
open.spotify.com/playlist/7Bh...
Hits included Harder They Come, Elvis, Relax, What It Sounds Like, Golden, Psy, Tavares, and December 1963 (Best in set!).
open.spotify.com/playlist/7Bh...
Hits included Harder They Come, Elvis, Relax, What It Sounds Like, Golden, Psy, Tavares, and December 1963 (Best in set!).
Bike Party 2025-12 (Christmas K-Pop Demon Riders)
open.spotify.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@ebbp.bsky.social #bikeparty, Christmas K-Pop Demon Hunters. Includes requests from a friend's daughter in a Rumi wig.
open.spotify.com/playlist/7Bh...
Hits included Harder They Come, Elvis, Relax, What It Sounds Like, Golden, Psy, Tavares, and December 1963 (Best in set!).
open.spotify.com/playlist/7Bh...
Hits included Harder They Come, Elvis, Relax, What It Sounds Like, Golden, Psy, Tavares, and December 1963 (Best in set!).
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One thing this reporting confirms: the University of California President and high level administration leaders have done little to nothing to protect research funding at the UC. The fight is being brought – and won – by faculty, union workers, and students. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
How the government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One thing this reporting confirms: the University of California President and high level administration leaders have done little to nothing to protect research funding at the UC. The fight is being brought – and won – by faculty, union workers, and students. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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So this is pretty straightforward attempted murder, and I'd be very unsurprised if any of the ICE involved turned out to be familiar with the term "starlight tour":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So this is pretty straightforward attempted murder, and I'd be very unsurprised if any of the ICE involved turned out to be familiar with the term "starlight tour":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
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For local readers (and geologists who visit the Bay area), I lustily recommend this gift idea. <hint>Take 30 percent off with the promo code HEYDAY30</hint>
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City [Paperback] by Andrew Alden
Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicl...
www.heydaybooks.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
For local readers (and geologists who visit the Bay area), I lustily recommend this gift idea. <hint>Take 30 percent off with the promo code HEYDAY30</hint>
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when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it
Ok been thinking about this: Top 5 non-verbal vocalizations.
I’ll count Werewolves.
Busta Rhymes, “wrarr-wrarr”
Goo goo ga joob
Pretenders, “bwerr-neer”
Will think about a fifth. Gabba Gabba Hey a little too verbal. (Maybe I am the walrus too)
I’ll count Werewolves.
Busta Rhymes, “wrarr-wrarr”
Goo goo ga joob
Pretenders, “bwerr-neer”
Will think about a fifth. Gabba Gabba Hey a little too verbal. (Maybe I am the walrus too)
Werewolves of London is a great song on its own but the “AHOOOOO” is the stroke of musical genius that sends it into the stratosphere
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ok been thinking about this: Top 5 non-verbal vocalizations.
I’ll count Werewolves.
Busta Rhymes, “wrarr-wrarr”
Goo goo ga joob
Pretenders, “bwerr-neer”
Will think about a fifth. Gabba Gabba Hey a little too verbal. (Maybe I am the walrus too)
I’ll count Werewolves.
Busta Rhymes, “wrarr-wrarr”
Goo goo ga joob
Pretenders, “bwerr-neer”
Will think about a fifth. Gabba Gabba Hey a little too verbal. (Maybe I am the walrus too)
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I was rooting for the Sedimental Value headline! Still, I love this photo @amir.photo took of jazz singer Mechelle LaChaux in front of Oakland’s legendary Esther’s Orbit Room.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I was rooting for the Sedimental Value headline! Still, I love this photo @amir.photo took of jazz singer Mechelle LaChaux in front of Oakland’s legendary Esther’s Orbit Room.
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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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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.