Mastodawn

I just got hit by a young white man on a bike while walking on the Lakeshore sidewalk at #LakeMerritt in #Oakland.

I wish I had the presence of mind to give him a good dressing down.

Something like "You could have paid a little bit more attention and prioritized your speed just a little bit less and none of this would have happened. Or you could use the bike lane"

He kept asking if I was all right, and my fight/flight/freeze/appease response was flipping between fight/appease so fast that all I wound up doing was telling him that there is a bike lane, and then yelling that at him repeatedly as he rode off.

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Mary Mazzocco Jan 9

@glasspusher That is TOTALLY #LakeMerritt

14mission Dec 18

I'm looking for info on #Oakland #CriticalMass, but not finding much online, and actually some of what I see is conflicting.
I *think* it happens on the first Friday of the month (most CM's happen on the last Friday, but making it a different day than @sfcriticalmass is cool so you can do both), and starts around #LakeMerritt (by the amphitheater?). Does anyone here know for sure?
Gonna add in a few more hashtags that might help this get seen: #OaklandCA #OaklandCriticalMass

Zee Oct 27

Gotta treasure the sun while it lasts

#LakeMerritt #Oakland #EastBay #SFBA #Outside #Comics #Lumberjanes

ithoughthecamewithyou.com Sep 29, 2025

Lake Merritt #hike #oakland #lakemerritt Hike around Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Around an hour, just under 4 miles.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/lake-merritt

Lake Merritt

Hike around Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Around an hour, just under 4 miles.

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Brent Sleeper Jul 9, 2025

Fairyland.

#Sign #Fairyland #ChildrensFairyland #LakeMerritt #Oakland

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Alex Spehr Feb 15, 2025

There's this great Alameda/Lake Merritt map overlay that
@enf made:

https://felt.com/map/san-antonio-creek-copy-duvCNo9BPSrW3RdosWtj2rC?loc=37.78249,-122.27477,12.24z

Everything north of Eagle Ave (so Jean Sweeny Park to the Estuary!) was marshland. (Modern day implications for building a swimming pool in a seasonal wetland...)

If the 1857 map can be believed, oak woodland went right up to the beach on the south!

Imagine if we planted even a small fraction of those oaks - our songbirds would be so happy!

#alameda #oakland #lakemerritt #estuary