Tom Holub

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/

RAGBRAI (The Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) is one of the most celebrated bike rides in the world.

This is literally Milo Minderbinder.

"Mostly you just have to choose which dog’s breakfast you’re going to chow down on. That’s how it is; that’s how they get you. But what it does mean is that the choice itself is often not harder than 'figure out who your enemy is and thwart them.'"

And in case this never makes it into a full fledged piece: the reason isn’t simple dehumanization but the articulation of a foe, a need to see us humiliated and destroyed, because we dared, despite the violence, to shine, to insist on our right to be here, to show what this country could be.

Bike Party! Webster Tube! Loose playlist. Best in set was Time Warp, dance circle with a costumed Tim Curry. Other hits included Sweet Transvestite, E-40, Dua Lipa, Fred Wesley, Ngantsie Soul, David Hillyard, Kool & the Gang, and FDT. #bikeparty @ebbp.bsky.social open.spotify.com/playlist/4jK...

I can’t stop laughing about this nothing screams “we are not at all salty about multiple award-winning journalists quitting their jobs at this paper to start a new thing” like not even naming a single one of them

I made another fun little @amtrak.com tool. This one shows you where along the long distance Amtrak routes it's daytime or nighttime, depending on the train and time of year! daynight.transittools.dev

I did this interview with Sight and Sound ahead of the I Love Boosters London Film Festival Gala Premiere on 9th of October and our international theatrical release which starts on 30th of October.

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

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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-...

That's some bullshit.

>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

"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

@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...

Over this period, the city added 50K people, and 75K housing units.

"It’s objectively embarrassing to be the target audience for a nostalgia tour"

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...

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.

"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."

This is the story of a petplay kink event with trial coverage wrapped around it.

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

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...

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.

My rep remains undefeated as the best in Congress.

Thinking about what Star Wars character matches Tr*mp and it has to be Jabba the Hut.

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...

SF Chronicle gets a leg up in the Worst Editorial Commentary competition.

Like the Segway, a stupid product hyped by out-of-touch billionaires will find a niche market in mall cops.

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

Apparently the job of bike infrastructure is to damage cars and injure drivers.

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

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