Affordable housing nerd. Oakland aficionado. All comments are personal opinions and do not represent the City of Oakland.
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First time at a Cricket match! Washington vs LA at the Major League Cricket final here in Oakland. Kind of fun, though a lot is going over my head!
I’m glad @CalFootball and @StanfordFball made this tribute at the Big Game earlier today. Meant a lot to us Oaklanders in attendance today.
Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather. Quirky British movie where, basically, the Grim Reaper needs his granddaughter to stop a plot to assassinate Santa Claus and the Reaper has to cover for Santa in the meanwhile. Heartwarming, frequently hilarious, and surprisingly profound at times
Happy 4th of July, everyone! Saw this great bit of sidewalk art earlier, and thought it appropriate!
Today’s the day, Oakland! If you haven’t already done so, please remember to vote in this important election!
Remember Oakland friends- Election Day is Tuesday, so please be sure to vote by then! We’ve got some important decisions on the ballot.
The first thing you might say is "wow, isn't that a lot of sales tax, Caleb!" And it is. But as SPUR noted in their excellent writeup on Measure A, over 90% of existing sales tax doesn't go to the City of Oakland! You can read their full piece here: spur.org/news/2025-03-18/yes…. (4/X)
It’s a good thread, but I just wanted to flag that there’s a lot of great public domain images related to the Kaiser shipyards you might consider using if you repeat this story in future, instead of AI images.
Certainly one of the more wry takes on politics I've seen in a while: youtube.com/watch?v=CvQhTbCY…
This whole saga puts me in mind of the Onion sketch about “Franz Kafka International Airport”: youtu.be/gEyFH-a-XoQ?si=zj3h…
I couldn't help but get a laugh out of Sunak scheduling the UK's #GeneralElection for July 4th, because we all know how well that day has gone for the conservative British establishment in history.
The chart you were looking at doesn’t define “General Government,” and you have to go all the way to page 216 of 218 in the PDF to get this FTE chart, which actually does provide a partial breakdown of what goes into the “General Government” bucket (2/X)
When he is done running for Mayor of London, I absolutely think we should bring @CountBinface in to run for Mayor of San Francisco this fall, lol: youtube.com/watch?v=IBM2gwJ4…
Lot of energy here at the #ReverseBoycott Constant chanting of “sell the team” and “stay in Oakland.” Some enterprising fans have put pictures of Dave Kaval’s face at the bottom of the urinals in the men’s room…
One small, small, subset of Oakland’s fireworks, as seen from my balcony. #oaklandfireworks #oakland