Racing Turtles

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i don't know the etiquette for posting other peoples tiktoks but the delivery of this punchline hit me like a FUCKING TRUCK please

NikhilClayton <- you should follow this guy on tiktok he's fucking hilarious

THIS IS HUGE!!!! Right outside of New York City, wow!!

Little baby sharks,,, hunting squids and fish,,,, basking in the warm water,,,

They all grow up in fucking Long Island?

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From saveweelaunee and stopcopcity on instagram

Hey New York people!

The city’s libraries have already had to cut Sunday service and limit hours. The new budget being put forward is even worse for libraries and may require the loss of another day of service.

Please contact City Council and the Mayor asking for budget restoration

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

Did you know that between 1939 and 1941 the NYC Tax Administration and the Works Progress Administration collaborated to take photographs of nearly every building in all 5 boroughs of New York City? And that you can see these photos today thanks to NYC Municipal archiving? This is, obviously, amazing for hundreds of reasons. For the purposes of this post, it's fantastic because this is a very real address:

And when I put that address into the photo locator map, I get this:

Going from there, we can walk around the surrounding blocks via photographs. And if we assume that Steve and Bucky's pre-war apartment was fairly close to the Barnes', then these photos from 1939 to 1941 are a historically accurate trip to their neighborhood.

So, let's explore some pre-war Brooklyn. For your fic inspiration needs, your feelings, the general Stucky vibes, or just because:

TFATWS Bucky who comes back to Brooklyn would see that his folk's old house is still there:

Look how much that tree has grown.

nothing wrong with me

Spending $150 MILLION to chase down $104K is a wicked level of class warfare.

Just letting fare jumpers go would save hundreds of millions. #ACAB

my coworker + i have been planning this mission to rikers island for weeks to visit a client, and today was finally [supposed to be] the day. i reviewed the visitor dress code policy, preparing myself for the eye-opening experience of a lifetime. of course, we get there, and long story short, a random dude in a bulletproof vest sitting in a shed on the outskirts of the premises had to call some lady on the phone and eventually, after struggling to understand what we were even doing there, told us we need “clearance,” despite my repeated insistence that i had examined the website several times and saw absolutely zero information about arrangements needing to be made beforehand.

so basically, after this 8-minute interaction, i can confidently confirm that rikers indeed must be shut down and obliterated into crumbs.

and the DOC phone tag has begun

Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

man why didn’t they just have this guy fight him off. dude’s huge

i wouldn't fight godzilla if i was this dude's size, for roughly the same reason i wouldn't fight a komodo dragon at the size i currently am

Not even to save New York?

what has new york ever done for me

I for one welcome our new strygine overlord. :)

Backstory: This gentleman escaped from Central Park Zoo in March after his enclosure there was vandalized, and there was a lot of concern over whether or not he could/would survive out of captivity. Unconcerned by this, Flaco settled himself in a particular area of Central Park and spent all the spring, summer, and most of the fall eating large numbers of rats, and genially allowing himself to be photographed by an ever-growing cadre of bird paparazzi.

Then a few weeks ago, possibly irked by repeated mobbing by assorted hawks and corvids, Flaco took off from his normal haunts and went on a brief tour of apartment-building courtyards on the Lower East Side. Now he's on the Upper West Side, within sight of Central Park (so food's no problem, should he feel like heading back that way to hunt), and shouting for everybody to hear that he owns the place. The image above shows him on the water tower of an apartment building at 86th and CPW.

If you look back through the Manhattan Bird Alert and Above 96th Twitter feeds, you'll see many splendid pictures of him. He's a handsome lad, and it's good to see him thriving.

What's in his future? Hard to tell. (Though some people on Twitter are suggesting he should run for mayor.) He may head upstate at some point. But he may decide he's quite happy to be a Manhattanite. As a fellow one, I wish him very well. :)

there's a video going around of a man harassing a halal cart owner in manhattan by saying things like "the egyptian mukhabarat will get you" and a lot of other vile islamaphobic things ("if we killed 4,000 palestinian kids, it wasn't enough"), and it turns out the man is stuart seldowitz, a former high level state department official, including on israel/palestine, an architect of the daytona agreements, and national security advisor to obama

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Happening right now in NYC - massive protest, hundreds of arrests at an emergency sit-in calling for an immediate ceasefire (10/27/23)

FYI: Allot of heating in NYC is done through steam-pipes which run underneath the city. You see steam coming out of manholes and the like all over NYC, and usually it's either controlled venting, water coming into contact with the pipes and turning into steam itself from the heat, or a leak.

Never heard of em making noise like this, tho, so maybe this IS a more serious malfunction.

America do this it would be really, really funny

#i thought this was a ttou map for a second#this happened before the collapse (to me)

I should write a world where every country is broken up into modified Australian states and see how long it takes readers to notice

The idea of a southern America distinct from South America is sending me.

I was like "they could call it the South US" but naming a state the South United States is way more confusing

we have a state named New Mexico made of land we stole from Mexico which Mexico stole from the indigenous people and which usa americans regularly assume is still some part of Regular Mexico because why would you call it that if it wasn't Actually Mexico, like how New York the City is the capital of New York the State.

the south united states state would be a significant step up in clarity.

you mean how New York the City ISNT the capital of New York the State.... its Albany.

yeah. but the kind of people who think new mexico is the capital of regular mexico don't accept this either.