damn

wtf

It's crow season! Hundreds at a time swooping and hollering over Lake Merritt on their way to big crow fests

same here

Sorry about the premature cutoff!

Seems like @cityofoakland.bsky.social could be more active here

Sure, Jesus touched lepers. But he was the Son of God while I'm just a guy leery of catching Covid-19.

Thank you. We will make that change.

Perfect.

The new data dashboard of public-transit users is interesting! It does NOT, however, Oaklandside, show that "people feel twice as safe on buses as BARTs." It shows two-thirds of riders on all transit modes, across the board, are fine with their perception of safety. oaklandside.org/2025/09/02/w...

I have a 2028 slogan ready. Civilization -- Advance or JDVance?

Grand/Brush

Working on a blog post has me fighting feelings

I am helping #OaklandAnimalServices, the local animal shelter. They have a charity called "Bad Art" where donors send in money and locals do drawings of their pets with the gamble being how good the drawing is. I've done four so far. This is last night's. Watercolor, Sharpie, marker, color pencil.

Today's monsoon sky

In 1908 progressive Oakland shamed its neighbors by dumping its garbage outside the Golden Gate, not in the Bay.

Does AC Transit make a point of serving voters as well as riders? Seems like a strategy.

Democratic analysts, accent on "anal," think testing messages is about reciting paragraph-long pitches at people, not bumper-sticker memes. bsky.app/profile/whst...

open every night but sunday

!!!

The Oaklandside's Jose Fermoso consistently calls freeways "the I-580," "the I-980" etc. This is blasphemy.

96 line now makes Brotzeit accessible; good day for a bretzel und radler

Is anyone in the Oakland, CA area looking for a sweet senior kitty? Ping me if you are.

Over 1000 dirtbikes-etc dominating Lakeshore in a major fuck-you pollution event

A note from my alter ego

The time has arrived. @rebeccaforec.bsky.social do you remember when you tried to help me allow us to publish videos of each BART line from the train operator point of view? We finally did it and plan to screen the video this Saturday at Concord Station.

Ice cream trucks don't play Turkey in the Straw any more. What's the new song, the one begins "Hello!"?

faces

big pelican feeding frenzy by the pergola

One of the first things that got me to first cut down and eventually orient my life where I could eliminate driving was recognizing I didn't like the version of my self I experienced behind the wheel. I could be a jerk so much easier because I was isolated in my car and so was everyone else around.

July 2/July 14

darn old scooters

Gerald Ford said "our national nightmare is over" this day 51 years ago. In fact it was only beginning.

Snow Park discard

Even a dyslexic can tell it's junk, Governor.

I'm leading a free one-way walk Saturday from Fruitvale BART to the Laurel Street Fair through some of East Oakland's interesting neighborhoods, three stream valleys and Oakland's newest parks. Still room for you!

Here in Oakland the American dream (owning a home) is a daydream

1934: Lead in your gasoline is great

Last House on Scott Street, circa 1962 Redevelopment had claimed every other home on Scott between Geary and O'Farrell, but the Lewis family still remained at 1419 Scott. #sfhistory (Cecil Hurd Photo, Courtesy of his grandson Tony)

Sheep coulda safely grazed

Resident's view of stressed and sick redwoods, planted in the wrong habitat 100 years ago on private land out of misguided pastoralism, outweighs all other considerations oaklandside.org/2025/07/30/s...

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