Tweets of the week: 'Entering' the Marvel Universe the most Brooklyn way imaginable

Also, our complex emotions around gentrification, biking, pizza eating in Bay Ridge and the guy from 'The Bear'

Every week we at Brooklyn Magazine read the entire internet in order to curate (some of) our favorite tweets from the previous seven days. These are locally sourced, hand-crafted, organically grown, free range nuggets of wisdom and jest for the week ending July 8.

This week, we unpack a few justifiably complicated feelings about getting around the city — whether by Uber, Citibike or penny-farthing. You also had some nuanced observations about gentrification, John Travolta’s pizza-eating technique, finding a good dominatrix and ancient grains.

However you get around — and wherever you go — check out our list of things to do this weekend. And be good to each other, wherever you’re going. Except maybe for that one guy in the Vampire Weekend video below. He had his shot.

ubers from williamsburg to bedstuy were $90….i hopped on one of those electric citi bikes & did the same route for $4…like?????

— 🫧⛲️ luisa ⛲️🫧 (@delicate_freaky) July 5, 2022

“Why don’t you use Citibike to get to places?”

Here’s my answer for visual learners.

I’ve been waiting for a station in my part of Brooklyn for 9 years. pic.twitter.com/pdMQdrPnHP

— Gastor Almonte (@GastorAlmonte) July 5, 2022

I’m all set to be an asshole in Greenpoint Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/ZPgZe7oYeb

— Leslie Rising (@dangitleslie) July 7, 2022

Sometimes when my dominatrix isn’t around I go to a Brooklyn grocery store and tell them I didn’t bring my own bags

— Jonathan Tillson (@JonathanTillson) July 6, 2022

if you’re sexually active and living in brooklyn, I just learned that the Fort Greene sexual health clinic offers rapid HIV, 24 hour results for gonorrhea/chlamydia, 2-3 day results on syphilis. the clinic is completely free and the fastest I’ve heard of an nyc. #knowyourstatus

— Lexi (@lexicon91) July 6, 2022

this is how every woman in park slope dresses pic.twitter.com/LUcHX6yNpM

— dorth nakota (@orzoelso) July 2, 2022

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Heard A White Woman Walking Into A Crown Heights Luxury Apartment Building Say, “Deadass” To Her Friend On The Phone

— Lux “Ask Me About Self-Managed Abortion” Alptraum (@LuxAlptraum) July 5, 2022

Just saw Spider-Man fuck some ginger on the Brooklyn Bridge https://t.co/3G0bNecwOE

— Andrew Kent (@AndrewKent2003) July 6, 2022

Flatbush changed, goddamn

— Enrique “Mr. Algorand” Hernandez (@zkEnrique7) July 7, 2022

Bushwick is weird bc it’s really gentrified but it’s still like….not lmfaoo

— SOLAECLIPSE®️ (@DrinkSolaPop) July 7, 2022

bought my bushwick they them their heavn pic.twitter.com/BZcFcFCwVd

— choya (@mayonsounds) July 7, 2022

i know a nonbinary person with each of these names and they all live in Bushwick https://t.co/shvFTyFWhM

— extremely ugly guy (@WIFEMODER) July 7, 2022

Ancient grains are cool, but I prefer postmodern grains. If my grains aren’t wearing a fedora and reading poetry in Bushwick, I’m not interested.

— ☮️(((Michael Welch)))💙 (@MichaelWelchAct) July 7, 2022

the man every girl dated in bushwick in their 20s pic.twitter.com/VEpcjFBgpR

— ilana kaplan (@lanikaps) July 7, 2022

The real pro move everyone forgets is that he’s taking two slices to the head, powerful Bay Ridge energy https://t.co/CsjTeuCiCv

— steve buscemi fancam (@RonMexxxico1) July 6, 2022

Love #BayRidge pic.twitter.com/lfdfBOz2jt

— Aza Sydykov (@azasydykov) June 30, 2022

TBT to when then-longshot Mayoral candidate @BilldeBlasio bizarrely appeared in a Vampire Weekend x Steve Buscemi promo video at a Sunset Park bowling alley, where the band agreed to write the official song of New York City. We ever get a demo of this @timecrisis2000??? pic.twitter.com/LAY5Gt1WpI

— Sean Butler (@Sean_Butler1) July 7, 2022

Coney Island—the neighborhood of my birth—might be the best-preserved icon of the 20th-century Brooklyn that we all know of from books and movies. In 1965, Trump’s dad Fred tried to destroy it to replace it with luxury condos.

But Fred lost. Fred is dead.

Coney Island remains. pic.twitter.com/t5ebKqBge2

— Asad أسد 🗽🍎 (@DandiaAsad) July 5, 2022