Notices by Sheldon (sysop408@sfba.social)

A few more bikes (and their owners) from the Shiny Side Up bicycle and car show in San Jose, CA.

By request, someone wanted to see people riding the bikes. In one photo, there are a couple of men taking their time leaving the show. They are going so slow that it would be challenging to go in a straight line on a normal bicycle.

I've never ridden one before, but they quite appear to be made to appeal to people who don't want to be rushed. They're low and slow.

The "Chinese" building in the backdrop of one photo is a Chinese American Historical Museum. The park where this show takes place in is History San Jose, a historical park filled with local cultural museums and exhibits from San Jose's past.

Many things on exhibit in History San Jose were relocated there for preservation when urban development had them slated for demolition.

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#sanjose #photography #biketooter #bicycles

Shot the annual Shiny Side Up bike and car show in San Jose yesterday... no, it's not that kind of bike show.

This is a very Northern California kind of show. It's a low rider "cruiser bike" and low rider car show with other kinds of bike and bike related celebrations included.

One of those bike celebrations are BMX stunt performances. I'll have additional photos from the show coming soon, but some of the BMX shots are just too fun not to share.

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#BMX #stunts #humans #cool #photography

Photos from Shiny Side Up, an annual bicycle and car show in San Jose, CA.

It's primarily a Cruiser Bike show, but there's a lot of overlap between enthusiasts of low-rider Cruiser Bikes, low-rider automobiles, and everyday bicycle enthusiasts so there are also interesting regular bicycles and low-rider cars as part of the show.

These photos are from the 23rd running on Sunday, July 19, 2026.

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#bicycle #sanjose #photography #biketooter

A few more photos from Shiny Side Up, an annual bicycle and car show that took place on Sunday, July 19th, 2026 in San Jose, CA.

Here are a couple more BMX shots to continue from yesterday and a couple of steampunk art-bike shots for you.

I was invited to photograph the show by the show's organizer. It's the second time I've done so.

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#bmx #steampunk #photography #sanjose

More photos from Shiny Side Up, an annual bicycle and car show in San Jose, CA.

These photos show people who won show awards riding or walking their bikes up to claim their trophies. These are all bicycles chosen by the show judges for one "best of" category or another. The one ridden by the man in the LA Dodgers baseball cap was this year's Best in Show.

The guy in the Pinas Lowridaz jersey apparently was visiting from the Philippines. I'm not sure how the bike got there or if he was touring with it.

Indeed there were people who traveled far. I started a conversation with another photographer. He smiled and replied to me in French.

In the background of these photos is the History San Jose historical park. It's a functional museum lined with historic buildings and San Jose artifacts that have been saved from demolition, living on to tell the real story and culture of a city that most people only know as a caricature of the tech industry.

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More photos from Shiny Side Up, an annual bicycle and car show in San Jose, CA.

The show features a stunning collection of exotic and unusual bicycles from across Northern California. Most of the bikes are "cruiser bikes" that have low frame clearances and are meant for low and slow rolling. Enthusiasts frequently get together for social rides where it's more about the journey than the destination or how fast you get there.

Most if not all of the bikes on display are rideable, but a good number are clearly intended to be art-bikes for display purposes only.

These photos are from the 23rd running on Sunday, July 19, 2026.

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@maj TIL. So that's why it's called less! So many Unix commands make more sense once you learn how they got named. Like everything is an inside joke.

@evan

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116676826944489315

Can we stop including Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as one of the all time films ever made? It was so unrealistic.

This is actual HAL 9000.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors HAL!

HAL: No.

Dave: Please.

HAL: Well, okay since you asked again.

@wdormann Microsoft Outlook started off pretty good, but it vaulted over every stage of decline straight to enshittification before it was fashionable and it will never not be hot garbage.

It’s so irredeemably bad in every way.

I went to the grocery store yesterday and they really were playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

It's has to be at least 30 years since the last time I've heard that song played in a normal way.

As soon as it came on, I felt like I just got punked by someone. It was as if I picked up a loaf of bread that was sitting on a switch or I opened the wrong freezer door.

#today

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116588626536297925

This is priceless. Alberto Fujimori spoke at one of my graduations and got a better reception than this... which he probably shouldn't have.

Then again, it's quite possible that Eric Schmidt will actually indirectly murder exponentially more people than Fujimori ever could have with all the secret police in the world.

@skinnylatte I didn’t see him say he wasn’t interested in eating, but it sure felt like he did because he was just getting roasted by people making fun of him. He actually said he would love to go eat around Mexico if he could.

@skinnylatte its easy to make fun of this, but we don’t really know enough about this person to judge. It sounds like they’re very enthusiastic about that style of food and are doing research.

They were pretty specific about wanting to develop a birria-style taco dish. They might know more than they’re letting on.

Hey @skinnylatte, you see this?

@nickrsan

@Infoseepage I love it! When your arm gets too tired to turn the dyno hand crank generator, you can feed twigs to the stove while cooking dinner.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shiftphones/116448808093062808

Scrolling your feed in reverse can be very amusing. I was certain this was a @NanoRaptor post until I got to the German.

@skinnylatte OK, but the question is where are these people even going that a Chinese restaurant has individual plates?

@johncarlosbaez @pr_ret_lutz also the US isn’t targeting Russian oil production. Ukraine is and they’ve likely had this capability for at least a year, but held back on using it because they didn’t want to strain their international relationships.

Now with Trump lifting sanctions on Russia and not providing any help to Ukraine and failing to deliver on missiles defense, they have no choice especially not after Russia spent the entire winter targeting power plants all across Ukraine.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116387769122846079

This is literally lit. Whoever thought to do this for the power of optics was doing it right.

What was life like before you had to respond to phone calls, voice mails, text messages, DMs, group chats, social media mentions, emails, Slack chats, teleconferences, and snail mail?

At least we took telegrams and (mostly) took faxes off the table.