• Surprise! An umbrella-sharing startup in China, modeled on bike-sharing only with no way to track the umbrellas once they've been taken, ends in loss of 300,000 umbrellas. [SFGate]
  • Kendrick Lamar is opening a pop-up shop in SF on August 4 in the same place Kanye West had his pop-up shop last August. [CBS 5]
  • Yet another grass fire, this one in Richmond, forced some people out of their homes today as a precaution. [Chronicle]
  • Remember Swoops? A nasty, aggressive Brewer's blackbird has been attacking pedestrians at Church and Market, near the Safeway, in an effort to guard a nest. [Hoodline]
  • Here's what $6,500/mo rents you in SF these days. [Curbed]
  • San Francisco has a $5.8 billion pension liability and voter generosity is largely to blame. [Chronicle]
  • Yet another drag queen was denied a ride-hail ride, this time by Lyft, just because she was in drag Saturday. [SF Weekly]
  • The Oakland A's have deployed a "bird abatement kite" to scare seagulls away from the stadium. [ABC 7]
  • The SF Bicycle Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness have spoken out opposing a bill proposed by Sup. Sheehy cracking down on SF’s bicycle ‘chop shops,’ suggesting it will unfairly target the homeless population. [Examiner]
  • A 49-year-old Boy Scout leader and father of two boys died after taking boys out hiking on a Marin trail in 90-degree heat on Saturday. [CBS 5]