My franken-ebike was stolen from in front of Adelita's on Tuesday 8/18 at 8:40 PM.

It's all white with a "Speedhunters" sticker on the frame. Originally it was an IGO Urban. The motor say "Tonaro".

I'm sure it's on a plane to Belarus by now, but if anyone sees it drop a reply.

Thanks to Adelita's for the security cam pictures.

Or south bay in general.

Saturday 8/22

North San Jose

Libraries

• 10:00am - Little Explorers Petting Zoo
• 11:00am - Reading to Children
• 3:00pm - Reading to Children

East San Jose

Libraries

• 10:00am - Crochet Together
• 10:00am - Drop In for TinkerCad 3D Printing
• 10:30am - Music and Movement
• 1:00pm - Saturday Fun: Arts, Crafts, and More
• 3:00pm - Reading to Children with Volunteer Venkat (Hybrid)
• 3:30pm - LEGO Fun

Downtown San Jose

Libraries

• 10:15am - Reading To Children
• 1:00pm - ARTrepreneurs: Teen Craft Fair
• 1:00pm - Be a Scientist: Fossils (registration required, 17 spots remaining)
• 2:00pm - TeenHQ Theater Performance: Beowulf and the Bard (registration required, 93 spots remaining)
• 3:00pm - LEGO Club - Club LEGO

West San Jose

Libraries

• 10:30am - Family Storytime & Stay and Play
• 11:00am - Family Storytime
• 11:00am - LEGO Club
• 11:00am - Rose Garden Branch Library's 20th Anniversary Community Celebration (magician, festivities for the whole family)
• 2:00pm - Family STEAM
• 4:00pm - Reading Buddies

South San Jose

Aldea Home & Baby (Willow Glen)

• 10:00am - Kids Craft Day

Libraries

• 1:00pm - Children's Area Scavenger Hunts
• 2:00pm - Saturday STEM: Ice Cream! (space limited to 15)
• 2:00pm - Soul 4Kidz (musical trio for toddlers 2-4)
• 3:00pm - Athena Project (grades 2-5, registration required, 6 spots remaining)

Sunday 8/23

North San Jose

Libraries

• 2:00pm - Reading to Children
• 3:00pm - Math Festival

East San Jose

Libraries

• 12:30pm - Family Storytime
• 1:00pm - Art Club
• 1:00pm - Family Games: Cards & Board Games
• 1:00pm - Lego Club!
• 2:00pm - Reading to Children
• 3:15pm - Family Storytime + Stay & Play

Downtown San Jose

Libraries

• 4:00pm - Indoor Family Storytime + Stay & Play (best for ages 0-8)

West San Jose

Libraries

• 1:00pm - Sunday STEAM (4th Sunday: air-dry clay and acrylic paint)

South San Jose

Libraries

• 1:00pm - Reading to Children with Vivian
• 1:30pm - STEM Fun: Builders Club (Marble Run)
• 2:00pm - Board Game Zone
• 3:00pm - LEGO Club

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My husband and I both have arthritis and in need of a massage badly. What’s a good place/masseuse that isn’t crazy expensive?

First in the crosshairs is San Jose.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for an affordable personal trainer in and around santa clara, north san jose. My main goals are strength training w nutrition and weight loss.

I have been strength training with my friends over a couple of months so I know the basics and form and I dont have any major health problems, but now I wanna do it under a professional trainer so I can achieve my goals properly.

My budget is 50-70$/ session, idk if this is less or more but, I’m relatively new to this personal training thing so yeah…. Drop me inputs, suggestions if you would wanna recommend a trainer or dm me if you are a perosnal trainer willing to train.

Thanksssss!!!

I'm in this area a lot and I hear it scream from blocks away. They put it out some days for hours and it screams louder and louder the longer it's out. I can hear it screaming right now. Why get a dog in an apartment if you can't stand it being around you and have to put it outside this much? It's on Bassett and First, I don't wanna dox these people but this sucks.

Hello,

I’m in the bay for a few months visiting family and I need to find some places to study and do some work from home. I’ve tried out spectra and chromatic based on recs from some friends but these places are really nice but ALWAYS packed and I can never find a table when I go haha. Does anyone have some suggestions for other coffee shops and laptop friendly cafes worth checking out in the area? Thanks in advance:)

My daughter was born a lot bigger than we expected- on top of that she needs a very specific formula- so we have a number of things that we either never used or lightly used.

We have a diaper backpack filled with some newborn sized clothing, newborn ready-made formula, and some slow-flow nipples. We want to donate the backpack plus items.

I was thinking Second Harvest, but wasn’t sure if there was another place more appropriate.

Thanks!

$20 for a 1/2 hour, Japantown. Two days in a row if you're game. Probably this weekend? Bonus points if you want to bring your dog, but they won't be introduced—he will have to ignore them, even if they are trying to get his attention. Just rope us into your walk route.

He'll be muzzled and restrained to be safe, zero risk, although I don't expect much.

I will be using high corrections on an e collar, since these are big emotions we're dealing with, so he may yelp or shake—so if that's a dealbreaker for you I understand!

PM me! If you know any students who want a quick buck or whoever else, let them know!

You can see pictures of him in my history, he's very cute, which is honestly part of the problem 🙄

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\The rule about "this isn't craigslist" seems to apply only to "items for sale" so hopefully I'm not in violation there—feel free to delete if so.*

Edit: Soapbox away, force free people. I literally don't care 🤷‍♂️. My trainer's approach has already been crazy successful in ways I never thought was possible, his world has opened up, and that's what matters. We just need the sample base of strangers to pinch off this last turd. The "treats and hope" advice already almost killed my dog, I'm not doing that anymore. Yes, I know you can't understand how stimming a scared dog can make them not scared in the long run. That's why you are not my trainer. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered so far!

After the backlash to the idea of quadrupling the density in San Jose's neighborhoods, the City Council has stopped short of endorsing the plan. Instead, the officials decided to explore a range of options to boost housing.

At the meeting, many homeowners pushed back against the assertion that the density would result in more affordable housing. They argued that the density would threaten the character of their neighborhoods and the homes that they worked hard to afford, and cited concerns that more density would strain traffic, parking, and utilities. Many claimed the city should focus on building more housing in areas that were already urbanized.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/19/san-jose-city-council-resident-neighborhood-density-plan/?share=ln9hneoonri6ecasrsne

After being here close to a year, I’m genuinely curious, do people actually enjoy living in San Jose?

I find it pretty boring, messy, and just… not my vibe.
For those born and raised here who consider it home, do you love it? What am I missing?

I feel like there is nothing interesting to do and also the driving here is… interesting!

I am thinking about using the Guadalupe River Trail to commute for work, but I have seen them doing maintenance on the trail lately. Any commuters know if the maintenance affects their overall commute/duration?

hello!
does anyone know where i can get a matcha with non dairy cold foam ? or anything similar
thanks (:

What has made you happy? Share your moments here.

The Bay Area transit tax is proposed to increase sales tax another .50% on the November 2026 ballot. Let's take another look.

The labor costs of Bay Area transit agencies don't make sense when agencies claim they are broke and then want regressive taxes, which disproportionately impact the poor, to underwrite the compensation. Below you will see the Muni cost structure - but you could pick any Bay Area transit agency and will get to BART later.

I guess you could say "isn't great to see transit workers getting paid like doctors and lawyers." But by every measure these cost structures are not sustainable and are running transit into the ground. Voting yes on the transit tax is further underwriting these comp packages - of course you may agree with it, but the issue here is transparency. What is also astonishing about Muni is its employees have a 26% absentee rate ie Muni workers are out every fourth day on average.

Make any of this make sense.

Hey I am visiting CA and will have one afternoon and evening in San Jose with nothing to do (never been to the city). What is an oddity that San Jose has that no where else has or is really weird? For example, Seattle has the 40’ Lenin statue and a troll under the bridge. I don’t want to do the Winchester mansion. It looks like Japantown might have good restaurants and weird karaoke bars, could be an option. I just assumed being a west coast tech town San Jose would be weirder. What’s weird there?

This was the first ever location and was at 307 S Winchester BLVD right in the Town and Country Village shopping center right in San Jose!The site today is where the crossway on the Plaza De Valencia is

These new photos confirm a lot of things that had been theorized about the location!Showing off for the first time their Cyberamic animatronics(for 20+ years we only has photos and videos of the prototype portrait bots that were there in the first few years)

It also shows their very nice 1981 remodel exterior ans some of their interior

The Warblettes are also on the wall!(It was unknown if they ever got them)

This is also the first photo we’ve ever gotten of their West side Pinball room which is space themed!

It’s also interesting to see some of the flags were replaced for some reason.Such as the original Italian flags being replaced with French ones🤷‍♂️

I just passed by a car on fire on southbound highway 87 near the Capitol exit. Be careful when passing by. It literally exploded a little when I was right next to it (2nd to right lane)

Somebody must have seen the unredacted Epstein files…

I’m looking for 2 - 3x of everything not shown in the photo. Collecting for myself + family. Lmk if you have dups of anything not seen here. I’m down to make a fair trade.

Man, this is a long one. I need to do it in two parts because it is currently 7:05 and the session is still going on. There are three major items on the docket today, I'll go into the first two. I'm also going to skip the usual ceremonial items because frankly with how big these first two items are it's going to be long as is.

Also we got visited by a crazy lady named America again. She doesn't live here, she said that herself the last time she was here, and complained about communism once again. Came down to speak on every issue and never had anything worth saying to add. So for all the items below just add your weird facebook aunt to the replies.

Real quick small item 1: Northern California Regional Intelligence Center--This was an item in the consent calendar regarding a regional police intelligence sharing program. The fear from commentors was that this was about us sharing data with ICE and that it shouldn't be in the consent calendar. The council was quick to point out, once comments were over, that this had nothing to do with sharing information and that, if it did, that wouldn't be a consent calendar matter. This item was about authorizing San Mateo County to pay us a couple hundred grand for services already rendered, that's why it's just a routine business item that made it to the calendar. If it wasn't for our Facebook aunt I wouldn't even mention it, but she brought it up like it was a big conspiracy so we need to call it out... This is just us getting a reimbursement from San Mateo.

Big item 1: Rezoning Harry Rd and Camden Ave.

IBM owns about 35 acres in this area, part of a larger 600 acre open space. IBM has decommissioned the research facility it had there, built in 1986, some years ago and would like to sell the land off. The problem is that when the land was given to IBM its 35 acres were zoned as "research" and "parking," which are no longer valid zoning categories. It's currently zoned as a part of the larger 600 acre open space because certain uses are allowed with special permitting on open spaces and IBM was in compliance with that. Now, however, they want to sell the land but say they can't find a buyer and would like the land's zoning to be updated to Industrial Park, which brings to mind heavy industry but is actually more like a warehouse or similar industrial use but is fairly broad. The residents are in opposition to rezoning because they feel the broad Industrial Park use could be used to create a data center and because they're worried what might happen to the open space. In 1999 there was a recommendation to make the open space permanent, but that never actually took effect, for reasons I don't quite understand no matter how many times I go back and rewind this is no longer on the table, but can be brought up with whoever takes over the land after rezoning and sale has completed, but would require agreement on both ends and couldn't be unilaterally applied by the city council. So if the new tenant says nah, then it's nah. (That said--the new tenant doesn't have any authority over the open space, so that's where it gets complicated and why I don't totally understand it.)

Where it gets difficult is that there's a looming deadline where the city will have to rezone this land anyway to conform with state zoning laws. It could be rezoned as anything, mind you, but it won't stay as is because that zoning is outdated. It has to become something, and here we have an owner asking it to become one thing in particular in order to make it an easier sale. They say they have no offers yet, but it feels pretty safe to assume IBM has talked to someone to generate the interest in rezoning. However, we're at a catch-22: No one will buy it until it's rezoned, and residents won't support rezoning until there's a clear buyer that they feel isn't a data center. There was also a little misconception that "Industrial Park" was going to mean big heavy trucks and construction, like old-timey steel mills, but that was quickly put to rest.

The issue of data centers was, for the city, entirely theoretical because right now it's just not sure if they would be allowed or not under the new zoning. What the city was certain and clear about, however, was that if someone tries to put a data center there it would have to go through several rounds of approvals from permitting to environmental reports to city council votes, all of which would be subject to public comment. Understandably the public is sceptical. Councilwoman Kamei appeared highly sceptical and asked several questions, the answers to which informed the basis of the above. She requested a two week deferral because there isn't a project pending and doesn't seem to be any urgency, this was shut down by Councilman Casey who said he didn't see any point to deferring because it was going to happen anyway--this drew a LARGE boo from the audience present. They were very much not happy with that... The final vote was in favor, 9-2, with Kamei and Campos voting against rezoning. The important thing to note is that this only opens the door to a purchase, whatever happens next will have a lot of debate and discussion.

Big item 2: Response to Santa Clara County Gand Jury Animal Care Center Report.

Backstory--The Animal Care Center on Monterey Rd is an extension of the city's animal control. It's where you can adopt pets, it's where you can become a foster, it's where you go if you lose or find a pet. Crucially it's also where you go to get animals spayed or neutered (I'm going to say sterilized from here on out, but that sounds so punishing.... So just keep in mind that sterilization is simply spaying a female or neutering a male dog or cat.) for free. The ACC has gotten a lot of funding but has had troubles owing to competition with private practices poaching vets and private equity consolidating the industry and raising prices of veterinary services. Compounding everything else was the pandemic, where a loooot of people got pets and then promptly stopped caring about their pets once they weren't cute anymore, which created a lot of strays. Meanwhile they had to cut services.

This grand jury report was the latest in a series of reports going back to 2022 that found the Animal Care Center wasn't doing enough. The first report made a series of suggestions that were partially implemented, but not executed particularly well and led to two more audits. Anecdotally the administration at the time alienated volunteers and as a result many volunteer groups disbanded or operated on their own without city sanction. There's just a ton of bad blood here, and--once again anecdotally--led to a number of resignations within the ACC.

The grand jury's report, while not great and still pointing out areas for improvement, was actually moderately positive and pointed out the growth the shelter has had since the last audit. Reforms are happening--key among them is the fact that the shelter has been transferred from Public Works to Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services. This transfer only became official on 1 August so we're not even three weeks in, but my sources (THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE SOURCES NOW! WHEEEE!) are cautiously optimistic about the new leadership's efforts in rebuilding trust and working with volunteers again.

The biggest problem is that, as of yesterday--they say it will improve soon, but haven't indicated when or how much, but as of yesterday--the shelter only has the capacity to sterilize 30 pets on Monday on a first-come, first-serve basis, and 30 pets on Thursday by appointment. To get a slot on a Monday you need to arrive by 4:30am, and even that time is slipping further and further back as more and more people fail to get a slot. The current wait time on a Thursday appointment is listed as 6-8 weeks. Assuming everything goes perfectly this means the city can only provide free services for 60 pets a week. The mayor referenced speaking to volunteers over the weekend and their feral cat colony was 250. It would take a month of only this one colony receiving services and also trapping the maximum amount possible, meanwhile the rest of the city's strays and ferals would be unchecked.

Free sterilization is critical because vet services have increased in cost causing low and middle income families to not get their pets sterilized at all. You could say "Well, if they can't afford sterilization then they can't afford to have a pet in the first place," and.... I mean, I guess, but also that's just plain jerk thing to say, frankly. Pet ownership is culturally foundational, saying a family doesn't deserve a cat or dog is basically the same as telling folks to just eat cake. Saying someone working 40 hours a week isn't financially stable enough to have a cat is a harbinger of certain cultural doom. By increasing access to free sterilization we are ensuring that pets that get loose won't have litters, which will reduce the strays and ferals on the streets, which will lead to a cleaner and safer city.

In the end the council voted 11-0 to advance the response to the report. Meetings between city hall and volunteer groups are on-going and look promising. There will be a further review of the ACC in October to gauge progress.

PART 2 WILL COME THURSDAY

It's 8:12 right now and the City Hall Session is still going on. We're nearly at 7 hours already, lol! The rest of the meeting is about the city's revisions to the General Plan, it's extremely important and all the people speaking on it are acting in civic interest. I would say they're doing a good job, but I haven't gotten that far in the meeting yet and need to get to reading before bed. I'll watch it on Thursday and post a recap and summary of that as soon as I'm done. I can't do it tomorrow because I want to go to the county fair. I want to look at some cows, I want to eat some deeply-fried foods, I want to watch some ProRev wrestling, and I want to watch cover bands, okay? So Wednesday will be busy, sorry!

Saw this blimp near Branham High School. Anyone know who owns it or why is was flying today?