Go go jumaane
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
DeBlasio of course grew up in Cambridge MA, assume that is well-known
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 13 June 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
As I understand it, this is a free country. A man can live where he wants.
― peace, man, Saturday, 13 June 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
and yet, poor de blasio remains trapped here, in a city which he holds in complete contempt :(
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
This is literally an argument for abolition. https://t.co/2GEqgniRoV— David Kaib (@DavidKaib) June 12, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/investigating-nypd-misconduct-during-protests-and-will-it-matter
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
separate voice of progressive hope here:https://www.bkreader.com/2020/06/10/state-lawmakers-repeal-50-a-pass-sweeping-police-reform
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
This is finehttps://gothamist.com/food/photos-pandemic-fatigued-new-yorkers-turn-nyc-into-bourbon-street
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
more empty apartments on the way!
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Dopey fucks
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
Cellino and Barnes have broken up. For real this time. https://t.co/ph6EAG5VN3— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) June 15, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Cellino and the Mad Dog
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-de-blasio-sick-coronavirus-test-no-covid19for fuck's sake man, just get tested! you see more people than anyone!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
it doesn't make sense. it takes 5 seconds.
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
what's up with the fireworks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
there are Theories, and i wouldn't even be surprised if they were correct
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
i am accustomed to my neighbors shooting off fireworks at unforeseen times but rarely for a straight week
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
and their fireworks usually make a few cool sounds. most of these are just really obnoxious boomings
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
my response to it (as with most things) is to crank the a/c
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
what are the Theories??
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 21 June 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
cops
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 05:56 (three years ago) link
Gentrification
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 June 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
people had more time to cultivate their fireworks during quarantine and they’re sprouting early
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Sunday, 21 June 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.firehouse.com/stations/video/21142776/video-fdny-firefighters-ignite-illegal-fireworks-at-station
A group of FDNY firefighters are accused of setting off illegal fireworks at a Brooklyn fire station.The pyrotechnic display was caught on video by a Crown Heights resident who was passing by Ladder 123 at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Post reports.The video shows firefighters at the station lighting a firework display that sparked.“I thought it was young kids lighting it. And there are. But then I see the firefighters doing it—they should know better,” the 33-year-old resident told the Post.
The pyrotechnic display was caught on video by a Crown Heights resident who was passing by Ladder 123 at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Post reports.The video shows firefighters at the station lighting a firework display that sparked.
“I thought it was young kids lighting it. And there are. But then I see the firefighters doing it—they should know better,” the 33-year-old resident told the Post.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
Have also seen somewhere that the type of fireworks being used cost about $250 per pop, so it doesn't seem likely that neighborhood teens have that kind of cash flow? Not knocking alternative explanations, but given the defund/abolish pressure and movement right know I would not put ANYTHING beyond the NYPD.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Some of the detonations I’ve heard in my neighborhood have surpassed anything I’ve learned to expect from m-80s, cherry bombs etc. deep, horizon filling booms
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
Ugh
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah I've seen that talked about, that the noises are more like munitions and not like "oooh, fireworks!" and it's setting the affected areas up as war zones.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
it has been fairly nonstop. finding boxes of spent fireworks on corners and on overpasses. I think it's mostly just kids tbh? There's a world of pent up energy and attitude that's gotta go somewhere. Though yes, i wouldn't put anything past nypd.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
It's very weird. I read this piece, which seemed to suggest that one theory was that it was white gentrifiers complaining more about something that happens every year
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/flatbush-brooklyn-fireworks-nypd-police-blm
Other people see it the other way around:
White people in Washington Heights: "It's like this every year."Black/Brown people in Washington Heights: "It has never been like this EVER before. This is some NEXT-LEVEL, scheduled, coordinated shit!"— Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.) (@SonofBaldwin) June 20, 2020
It literally sounded like a truckload of fireworks had gone off at once at one point in my street last night (I'm at the Crown Heights side of Prospect Lefferts Gardens. It doesn't bother me that much personally but it's just so weird, the number of them, like yeah, it must cost a fortune.
― Alba, Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
british kids set off fireworks for a good two weeks before guy fawkes day - so why not two weeks before july 4?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
well, this would be the first time i've ever experienced it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
i don't really buy that it's the cops but who knows
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
In a facebook group I'm in people have been reporting them everywhere from wealthy westchester county ny suburbs to charlottesville va, so I don't think it's some kind of terror campaign against black and brown communities, but who the fuck knows. One theory is just that people are bored and cooped up and there are already usually amateur fireworks this time of year, so there's just a lot more. Firework stores have reported upticks in sales.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
I certainly wouldn't rule out a more nefarious explanation, but social media has a tendency to need to give everything a nefarious explanation
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
there was one crazy night about a week ago I heard outside the hospital, but I don't know the norms for El Barrio
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
We’ve been hearing fireworks for about a couple weeks here in northwest DC. Big shows the night of juneteenth. I assume it’s neighborhood folks having fun with their stockpiles leading up to July 4, which isn’t uncommon.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
Tracer, having lived in inner London through many a Guy Fawkes season, this is of a different order of intensity.
― Alba, Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
I am hearing the munitions dump explosion ones here in LA too for the first time fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/everything-you-need-know-about-phase-2-reopening-nyc
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
*Boom* *pop*
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
what on earth
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbJHpw9XgAEilV4?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
fuck that sideways
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Are they going to raise the price of a slice of pizza to $9 too?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Just imagine how many cops they can pay overtime to for standing at the turnstiles to enforce the new fare.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
it's a nonstarter of an idea insofar as it would shut down every restaurant in the city.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
Just got offered my first fireworks in the street. Passed up the opportunity to ask him if he was being supplied by the Feds.
― Alba, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
you just became a real new yorker
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
wtf is with these people and blowing shit up
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/macys-fireworks-2020-nyc.html
As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio puts together an entire task force to crack down on the illegal fireworks bored kids have been setting off across the city, he’s also green-lighting a week of Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks shows across each of the five boroughs starting June 29. “In reimagining this year’s show, the idea of bringing elements to many parts of our hometown resonated with our team and partners in the City of New York,” Susan Tercero, executive producer of Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show, said in a statement to ABC 7. The fireworks will be set off at a “high elevation, unannounced” to prevent people from gathering to watch them. There will be five minutes of explosions, with no warning, each night leading up to July 4’s televised grand finale, which will feature the “best of” the previous five nights.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link